1Understanding for Asaph. Attend, O my people, to…
2I will open my mouth in parables: I…
3How great things have we heard and known,…
4They have not been hidden from their children,…
5And he set up a testimony in Jacob:…
6That another generation might know them. The children…
7That they may put their hope in God…
8That they may not become like their fathers,…
9The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot…
10They kept not the covenant of God: and…
11And they forgot his benefits, and his wonders…
12Wonderful things did he do in the sight…
13He divided the sea and brought them through:…
14And he conducted them with a cloud by…
15He struck the rock in the wilderness: and…
16He brought forth water out of the rock:…
17And they added yet more sin against him:…
18And they tempted God in their hearts, by…
19And they spoke ill of God: they said:…
20Because he struck the rock, and the waters…
21Therefore the Lord heard, and was angry: and…
22Because they believed not in God: and trusted…
23And he had commanded the clouds from above,…
24And had rained down manna upon them to…
25Man ate the bread of angels: he sent…
26He removed the south wind from heaven: and…
27And he rained upon them flesh as dust:…
28And they fell in the midst of their…
29So they did eat, and were filled exceedingly,…
30They were not defrauded of that which they…
31And the wrath of God came upon them.…
32In all these things they sinned still: and…
33And their days were consumed in vanity, and…
34When he slew them, then they sought him:…
35And they remembered that God was their helper:…
36And they loved him with their mouth: and…
37But their heart was not right with him:…
38But he is merciful, and will forgive their…
39And he remembered that they are flesh: a…
40How often did they provoke him in the…
41And they turned back and tempted God: and…
42They remembered not his hand, in the day…
43How he wrought his signs in Egypt, and…
44And he turned their rivers into blood, and…
45He sent amongst them divers sores of flies,…
46And he gave up their fruits to the…
47And he destroyed their vineyards with hail, and…
48And he gave up their cattle to the…
49And he sent upon them the wrath of…
50He made a way for a path to…
51And he killed all the firstborn in the…
52And he took away his own people as…
53And he brought them out in hope, and…
54And he brought them into the mountain of…
55And he made the tribes of Israel to…
56Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high…
57And they turned away, and kept not the…
58They provoked him to anger on their hills:…
59God heard, and despised them, and he reduced…
60And he put away the tabernacle of Silo,…
61And he delivered their strength into captivity: and…
62And he shut up his people under the…
63Fire consumed their young men: and their maidens…
64Their priests fell by the sword: and their…
65And the Lord was awaked as one out…
66And he smote his enemies on the hinder…
67And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph: and…
68But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount…
69And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns,…
70And he chose his servant David, and took…
71To feed Jacob his servant, and Israel his…
72And he fed them in the innocence of…
