Psalm 78:9-39

⁹ The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle. ¹⁰ They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; ¹¹ And forgot his doings, and his marvellous works which he had shewn them. ¹² In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan. ¹³ He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and made the waters to stand as a heap; ¹⁴ And he led them with a cloud in the daytime, and all the night with the light of fire. ¹⁵ He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as out of the depths, abundantly; ¹⁶ And he brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. ¹⁷ Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert; ¹⁸ And they tempted God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust; ¹⁹ And they spoke against God: they said, Is God able to prepare a table in the wilderness? ²⁰ Behold, he smote the rock, and waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; is he able to give bread also, or provide flesh for his people? ²¹ Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; and fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel: ²² Because they believed not in God, and confided not in his salvation; ²³ Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of the heavens, ²⁴ And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the corn of the heavens. ²⁵ Man did eat the bread of the mighty; he sent them provision to the full. ²⁶ He caused the east wind to rise in the heavens, and by his strength he brought the south wind; ²⁷ And he rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowl as the sand of the seas, ²⁸ And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations: ²⁹ And they did eat, and were well filled; for that they lusted after, he brought to them. ³⁰ They were not alienated from their lust, their meat was yet in their mouths, ³¹ When the anger of God went up against them; and he slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel. ³² For all this, they sinned still, and believed not in his marvellous works; ³³ And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror. ³⁴ When he slew them, then they sought him, and returned and sought early after God; ³⁵ And they remembered that God was their rock, and God, the Most High, their redeemer. ³⁶ But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied unto him with their tongue; ³⁷ For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant. ³⁸ But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed [them] not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury: ³⁹ And he remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passeth away and cometh not again.