Psalms 78:25-72

25Man ate angels’ food: he sent them food to the full.1 26He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.2 27He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:3 28And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, around their habitations. 29So they ate, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; 30They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths, 31The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.45 32For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works. 33Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble. 34When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God. 35And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer. 36Nevertheless they would flatter him with their mouth, and they lied to him with their tongues. 37For their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant. 38But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time he turned his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath. 39For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

40How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!6 41Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. 42They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.7 43How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:8 44And had turned their rivers into blood; and their streams, that they could not drink. 45He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. 46He gave also their increase to the caterpiller, and their labour to the locust. 47He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost.910 48He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.1112 49He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them . 50He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;1314 51And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham: 52But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. 53And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.15 54And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased. 55He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. 56Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: 57But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. 58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. 59When God heard this, he was filled with wrath, and greatly abhorred Israel: 60So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men; 61And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand. 62He gave over his people also to the sword; and was filled with wrath with his inheritance. 63The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.16 64Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation. 65Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. 66And he smote his enemies in the hinder part: he put them to a perpetual reproach. 67Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: 68But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. 69And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.17 70He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheep folds: 71From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.18 72So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.