1A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my…
2I will open my mouth in parables; I…
3that we have heard and known and our…
4We will not hide them from their children…
5For He established a testimony in Jacob and…
6that the coming generation would know them—even children…
7that they should put their confidence in God,…
8Then they will not be like their fathers,…
9The archers of Ephraim turned back on the…
10They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused…
11They forgot what He had done, the wonders…
12He worked wonders before their fathers in the…
13He split the sea and brought them through;…
14He led them with a cloud by day…
15He split the rocks in the wilderness and…
16He brought streams from the stone and made…
17But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling…
18They willfully tested God by demanding the food…
19They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really…
20When He struck the rock, water gushed out…
21Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with…
22because they did not believe God or rely…
23Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened…
24He rained down manna for them to eat;…
25Man ate the bread of angels; He sent…
26He stirred the east wind from the heavens…
27He rained meat on them like dust, and…
28He felled them in the midst of their…
29So they ate and were well filled, for…
30Yet before they had filled their desire, with…
31God’s anger flared against them, and He put…
32In spite of all this, they kept on…
33So He ended their days in futility, and…
34When He slew them, they would seek Him;…
35And they remembered that God was their Rock,…
36But they deceived Him with their mouths, and…
37Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they…
38And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their…
39He remembered that they were but flesh, a…
40How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness…
41Again and again they tested God and provoked…
42They did not remember His power—the day He…
43when He performed His signs in Egypt and…
44He turned their rivers to blood, and from…
45He sent swarms of flies that devoured them,…
46He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the…
47He killed their vines with hailstones and their…
48He abandoned their cattle to the hail and…
49He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation,…
50He cleared a path for His anger; He…
51He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the…
52He led out His people like sheep and…
53He led them safely, so they did not…
54He brought them to His holy land, to…
55He drove out nations before them and apportioned…
56But they tested and disobeyed God Most High,…
57They turned back and were faithless like their…
58They enraged Him with their high places and…
59On hearing it, God was furious and rejected…
60He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent…
61He delivered His strength to captivity, and His…
62He surrendered His people to the sword because…
63Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens…
64His priests fell by the sword, but their…
65Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like…
66He beat back His foes; He put them…
67He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused…
68But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount…
69He built His sanctuary like the heights, like…
70He chose David His servant and took him…
71from tending the ewes He brought him to…
72So David shepherded them with integrity of heart…
