Berean Standard Bible

Psalms 78:12-43

12He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.13He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.14He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.15He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.16He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.

17But they continued to sin against Him,rebelling in the desert against the Most High.18They willfully tested Godby demanding the food they craved.19They spoke against God, saying,“Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?20When He struck the rock, water gushed outand torrents raged.But can He also give breador supply His people with meat?”

21Therefore the LORD heardand was filled with wrath;so a fire was kindled against Jacob,and His anger flared against Israel,22because they did not believe Godor rely on His salvation.

23Yet He commanded the clouds aboveand opened the doors of the heavens.24He rained down manna for them to eat;He gave them grain from heaven.125Man ate the bread of angels;He sent them food in abundance.26He stirred the east wind from the heavensand drove the south wind by His might.27He rained meat on them like dust,and winged birds like the sand of the sea.28He felled them in the midst of their camp,all around their dwellings.29So they ate and were well filled,for He gave them what they craved.

30Yet before they had filled their desire,with the food still in their mouths,31God’s anger flared against them,and He put to death their strongestand subdued the young men of Israel.

32In spite of all this, they kept on sinning;despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.33So He ended their days in futility,2and their years in sudden terror.34When He slew them, they would seek Him;they repented and searched for God.35And they remembered that God was their Rock,that God Most High3 was their Redeemer.

36But they deceived Him with their mouths,and lied to Him with their tongues.37Their hearts were disloyal to Him,and they were unfaithful to His covenant.

38And yet He was compassionate;He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them.He often restrained His angerand did not unleash His full wrath.39He remembered that they were but flesh,a passing breeze that does not return.

40How often they disobeyed Him in the wildernessand grieved Him in the desert!41Again and again they tested Godand provoked the Holy One of Israel.42They did not remember His power4—the day He redeemed them from the adversary,43when He performed His signs in Egyptand His wonders in the fields of Zoan.

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Notes

1. Psalms 78:24 Cited in John 6:31 ↩
2. Psalms 78:33 Or in vapor ↩
3. Psalms 78:35 Hebrew El-Elyon ↩
4. Psalms 78:42 Or His hand ↩

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Commentaries on Psalms 78