Psalm 77:1-78:53

English Standard Version

⁴ You hold my eyelids open;
    I am so ^(I)troubled that I cannot speak.
⁵ I consider ^(J)the days of old,
    the years long ago.
⁶ I said,^[a] “Let me remember my ^(K)song in the night;
    let me ^(L)meditate in my heart.”
    Then my spirit made a diligent search:
⁷ “Will the Lord ^(M)spurn forever,
    and never again ^(N)be favorable?
⁸ Has his steadfast love forever ceased?
    Are his ^(O)promises at an end for all time?
^9 (P)Has God forgotten to be gracious?
    ^(Q)Has he in anger shut up his compassion?” Selah

¹⁰ Then I said, “I will appeal to this,
    to the years of the ^(R)right hand of the Most High.”^[b]

¹¹ I will remember the deeds of the Lord;
    yes, I will ^(S)remember your wonders of old.
¹² I will ponder all your ^(T)work,
    and meditate on your ^(U)mighty deeds.
¹³ Your way, O God, is ^(V)holy.
    ^(W)What god is great like our God?
¹⁴ You are the God who ^(X)works wonders;
    you have ^(Y)made known your might among the peoples.
¹⁵ You ^(Z)with your arm redeemed your people,
    the children of Jacob and Joseph. Selah

¹⁶ When ^(AA)the waters saw you, O God,
    when the waters saw you, they were afraid;
    indeed, the deep trembled.
¹⁷ The clouds poured out water;
    the skies ^(AB)gave forth thunder;
    your ^(AC)arrows flashed on every side.
^18 (AD)The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind;
    ^(AE)your lightnings lighted up the world;
    the earth ^(AF)trembled and shook.
¹⁹ Your ^(AG)way was through the sea,
    your path through the great waters;
    yet your footprints ^(AH)were unseen.^[c]
20 You ^(AI)led your people like a flock
    by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

⁵ He established ^(AR)a testimony in ^(AS)Jacob
    and appointed a law in ^(AT)Israel,
which he commanded our fathers
    to teach to their children,
⁶ that ^(AU)the next generation might know them,
    the children yet unborn,
and arise and tell them to their children,
⁷     so that they should set their hope in God
and not forget ^(AV)the works of God,
    but ^(AW)keep his commandments;
⁸ and that they should not be ^(AX)like their fathers,
    ^(AY)a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation ^(AZ)whose heart was not steadfast,
    whose spirit was not faithful to God.

⁹ The Ephraimites, armed with^[e] the bow,
    ^(BA)turned back on the day of battle.
¹⁰ They ^(BB)did not keep God's covenant,
    but refused to walk according to his law.
¹¹ They ^(BC)forgot his works
    and ^(BD)the wonders that he had shown them.
¹² In the sight of their fathers ^(BE)he performed wonders
    in the land of Egypt, in ^(BF)the fields of Zoan.
¹³ He ^(BG)divided the sea and let them pass through it,
    and made the waters ^(BH)stand like a heap.
^14 (BI)In the daytime he led them with a cloud,
    and all the night with a fiery light.
¹⁵ He ^(BJ)split rocks in the wilderness
    and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
¹⁶ He made streams come out of ^(BK)the rock
    and caused waters to flow down like rivers.

¹⁷ Yet they sinned still more against him,
    ^(BL)rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
¹⁸ They ^(BM)tested God in their heart
    by demanding the food they craved.
¹⁹ They spoke against God, saying,
    ^(BN)“Can God ^(BO)spread a table in the wilderness?
^20 (BP)He struck the rock so that water gushed out
    and streams overflowed.
Can he also give bread
    or provide meat for his people?”

²¹ Therefore, when the Lord heard, he was full of wrath;
    ^(BQ)a fire was kindled against Jacob;
    his anger rose against Israel,
²² because they ^(BR)did not believe in God
    and did not trust his saving power.
²³ Yet he commanded the skies above
    and ^(BS)opened the doors of heaven,
²⁴ and he ^(BT)rained down on them manna to eat
    and gave them ^(BU)the grain of heaven.
²⁵ Man ate of the bread of ^(BV)the angels;
    he sent them food ^(BW)in abundance.
²⁶ He ^(BX)caused the east wind to blow in the heavens,
    and by his power he led out the south wind;
²⁷ he rained meat on them like ^(BY)dust,
    winged birds like ^(BZ)the sand of the seas;
²⁸ he ^(CA)let them fall in the midst of their camp,
    all around their dwellings.
²⁹ And they ^(CB)ate and were well filled,
    for he gave them what they ^(CC)craved.
³⁰ But before they had satisfied their craving,
    ^(CD)while the food was still in their mouths,
³¹ the anger of God rose against them,
    and he killed ^(CE)the strongest of them
    and laid low ^(CF)the young men of Israel.

³² In spite of all this, they ^(CG)still sinned;
    ^(CH)despite his wonders, they did not believe.
³³ So he made ^(CI)their days ^(CJ)vanish like^[f] a breath,^[g]
    and their years in terror.
³⁴ When he killed them, they ^(CK)sought him;
    they repented and sought God earnestly.
³⁵ They remembered that God was their ^(CL)rock,
    the Most High God their ^(CM)redeemer.
³⁶ But they ^(CN)flattered him with their mouths;
    they ^(CO)lied to him with their tongues.
³⁷ Their ^(CP)heart was not ^(CQ)steadfast toward him;
    they were not faithful to his covenant.
³⁸ Yet he, being ^(CR)compassionate,
    ^(CS)atoned for their iniquity
    and did not destroy them;
he restrained his anger often
    and did not stir up all his wrath.
³⁹ He ^(CT)remembered that they were but ^(CU)flesh,
    ^(CV)a wind that passes and comes not again.
⁴⁰ How often they ^(CW)rebelled against him in the wilderness
    and ^(CX)grieved him in ^(CY)the desert!
⁴¹ They ^(CZ)tested God again and again
    and provoked ^(DA)the Holy One of Israel.
⁴² They ^(DB)did not remember his power^[h]
    or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,
^43 (DC)when he performed his ^(DD)signs in Egypt
    and his ^(DE)marvels in ^(DF)the fields of Zoan.
⁴⁴ He ^(DG)turned their rivers to blood,
    so that they could not drink of their streams.
⁴⁵ He sent among them swarms of ^(DH)flies, which devoured them,
    and ^(DI)frogs, which destroyed them.
⁴⁶ He gave their crops to ^(DJ)the destroying locust
    and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
⁴⁷ He destroyed their vines with ^(DK)hail
    and their sycamores with frost.
⁴⁸ He gave over their ^(DL)cattle to the hail
    and their flocks to thunderbolts.
⁴⁹ He let loose on them his burning anger,
    wrath, indignation, and distress,
    a company of ^(DM)destroying angels.
⁵⁰ He made a path for his anger;
    he did not spare them from death,
    but gave their lives over to the plague.
⁵¹ He struck down every ^(DN)firstborn in Egypt,
    the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of ^(DO)Ham.
⁵² Then he led out his people ^(DP)like sheep
    and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
^53 (DQ)He led them in safety, so that they ^(DR)were not afraid,
    but ^(DS)the sea overwhelmed their enemies.