# Psalm 78

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/psalm/78

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. Hear my instruction, my people; incline your ears to the sayings of my mouth.
2. I will open my mouth with a parable; I will pour out riddles from ancient times.
3. which we have heard and known, and our fathers have recounted to us.
4. We will not hide them from their children, telling the following generation the praises of Yahweh, his might, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.
5. He established a testimony in Jacob and set a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to make known to their children.
6. so that the coming generation might know, children who will be born—who will arise and tell their children.
7. that they might place their confidence in God, and not forget the deeds of God, but keep his commandments.
8. and not be like their fathers—a rebellious and defiant generation, a generation that did not direct its heart and whose spirit was not faithful toward God.
9. The sons of Ephraim, armed and drawing bows, turned back on the day of battle.
10. They did not heed God's covenant, and refused to walk in his instruction.
11. They forgot his deeds and his marvels that he had shown them.
12. He performed wonders before their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the plain of Zoan.
13. He parted the sea and brought them through; he stood the waters like a heap.
14. He led them with a cloud by day, and all night with a fiery light.
15. He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink like the great depths.
16. He brought flowing streams out from the rock and brought waters down like rivers.
17. Yet they continued to sin against him by rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
18. They tested God in their hearts by asking for food to satisfy their appetites.
19. They spoke against God, saying, "Can God set a table in the wilderness?"
20. Behold, he struck the rock, waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Can he prepare flesh for his people?
21. Therefore Yahweh heard and was enraged; fire broke out against Jacob, and anger also rose against Israel.
22. because they neither believed in God nor trusted in his salvation.
23. He commanded the skies above and opened the doors of heaven.
24. He rained manna on them to eat, and gave them grain from heaven.
25. Man ate angels' bread; he sent them provisions to the full.
26. He brought the east wind through the heavens and led the south wind by his might.
27. He rained flesh upon them like dust, and winged fowl like the sand of the seas.
28. He let them fall amid their camp, all around their dwellings.
29. They ate and were filled to the full, and he brought their desire to them.
30. They did not turn away from their desire. Their food was still in their mouths.
31. God's anger rose against them, and he slaughtered their stoutest while laying low Israel's chosen youths.
32. Despite all this they still sinned and did not believe his miracles.
33. He consumed their days in vanity and their years in terror.
34. When he killed them, they sought him, returned, and diligently sought God.
35. They remembered that God was their rock, and El Most High their redeemer.
36. They deceived him with their mouths and lied to him with their tongues.
37. Their heart was not steadfast with him, nor were they faithful in his covenant.
38. Yet he, compassionate, covered iniquity and did not destroy; many times he turned back his anger and did not rouse all his wrath.
39. He remembered that they were flesh, a wind passing by that does not return.
40. How many times did they rebel against him in the wilderness and distress him in the wasteland!
41. They turned back and tested God, limiting the Holy One of Israel.
42. They did not remember his hand or the day when he redeemed them from the adversary.
43. how he placed his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan.
44. He changed their rivers into blood, and their streams, so they could not drink.
45. He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
46. He gave their yield to the caterpillar and their toil to the locust.
47. He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamores with frost.
48. He delivered their livestock to the hail, and their flocks to fiery coals.
49. He sent among them the fury of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble—a band of evil angels.
50. He prepared a path for his anger; he did not hold back their soul from death, but delivered their life to the pestilence.
51. He struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the first of their strength in the tents of Ham.
52. He led his people forth like sheep and drove them in the wilderness like a flock.
53. He guided them securely, and they did not fear, while the sea covered their enemies.
54. He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, this mountain his right hand had acquired.
55. He drove out the nations before them, cast them down by measuring line for an inheritance, and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
56. They tested and rebelled against the Most High God, and did not keep his testimonies.
57. But they backslid and betrayed like their fathers; they twisted like a treacherous bow.
58. They angered him with their high places and stirred his jealousy with their carved images.
59. God heard and was enraged, and utterly rejected Israel.
60. He abandoned Shiloh's tabernacle, the tent he established among mankind.
61. He gave his strength into captivity, his glory into the hand of the adversary.
62. He delivered his people to the sword and raged against his heritage.
63. Fire consumed his young men, and his virgins were not praised.
64. His priests fell by the sword, and his widows did not weep.
65. The Lord awoke like a sleeper, like a champion shouting from wine.
66. He beat his adversaries back and gave them perpetual reproach.
67. He rejected Joseph's tent and did not choose Ephraim's tribe.
68. He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
69. He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth he established forever.
70. He chose his servant David and took him from the sheepfolds of the flock.
71. From following the ewes with young he brought him to shepherd Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
72. He shepherded them with the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

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