1Give ear, O my people, to my law:
2I will open my mouth in a parable:
3Which we have heard and known,
4We will not hide them from their children,
5For he established a testimony in Jacob,
6That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born;
7That they might set their hope in God,
8And might not be as their fathers,
9The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows,
10They kept not the covenant of God,
11And forgat his works,
12Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers,
13He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through;
14In the daytime also he led them with a cloud,
15He clave the rocks in the wilderness,
16He brought streams also out of the rock,
17And they sinned yet more against him
18And they tempted God in their heart
19Yea, they spake against God; they said,
20Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out,
21Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth:
22Because they believed not in God,
23Though he had commanded the clouds from above,
24And had rained down manna upon them to eat,
25Man did eat angels’ food:
26He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven:
27He rained flesh also upon them as dust,
28And he let it fall in the midst of their camp,
29So they did eat, and were well filled:
30They were not estranged from their lust.
31The wrath of God came upon them,
32For all this they sinned still,
33Therefore their days did he consume in vanity,
34When he slew them, then they sought him:
35And they remembered that God was their rock,
36Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth,
37For their heart was not right with him,
38But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not:
39For he remembered that they were but flesh;
40How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness,
41Yea, they turned back and tempted God,
42They remembered not his hand:
43How he had wrought his signs in Egypt,
44And had turned their rivers into blood;
45He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them;
46He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar,
47He destroyed their vines with hail,
48He gave up their cattle also to the hail,
49He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger,
50He made a way to his anger;
51And smote all the firstborn in Egypt;
52But made his own people to go forth like sheep,
53And he led them on safely, so that they feared not:
54And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary,
55He cast out the heathen also before them,
56Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God,
57But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers:
58For they provoked him to anger with their high places,
59When God heard this, he was wroth,
60So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh,
61And delivered his strength into captivity,
62He gave his people over also unto the sword;
63The fire consumed their young men;
64Their priests fell by the sword;
65Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep,
66And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts:
67Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph,
68But chose the tribe of Judah,
69And he built his sanctuary like high palaces,
70He chose David also his servant,
71From following the ewes great with young he brought him
72So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart;