Psalm 78, sung word for word in more than 20 music styles, with the words on screen. Free. Choose a style and a voice to play it.
1 -[A Maskil of Asaph.] Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth.
2 -I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,
3 -that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
4 -We will not hide them from their children, but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might, and the wonders He has performed.
5 -For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,
6 -that the coming generation would know them—even children yet to be born—to arise and tell their own children
7 -that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments.
8 -Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
9 -The archers of Ephraim turned back on the day of battle.
10 -They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.
11 -They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.
12 -He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
13 -He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.
14 -He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
15 -He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.
16 -He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.
17 -But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
18 -They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.
19 -They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?
20 -When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”
21 -Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared against Israel,
22 -because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.
23 -Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.
24 -He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.
25 -Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.
26 -He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might.
27 -He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.
28 -He felled them in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.
29 -So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them what they craved.
30 -Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,
31 -God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel.
32 -In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.
33 -So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.
34 -When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.
35 -And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.
36 -But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.
37 -Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.
38 -And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.
39 -He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
40 -How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
41 -Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42 -They did not remember His power—the day He redeemed them from the adversary,
43 -when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.
44 -He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.
45 -He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
46 -He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.
47 -He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
48 -He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.
49 -He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity—a band of destroying angels.
50 -He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.
51 -He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.
52 -He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
53 -He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies.
54 -He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.
55 -He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
56 -But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
57 -They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.
58 -They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
59 -On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.
60 -He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.
61 -He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.
62 -He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage.
63 -Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.
64 -His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.
65 -Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.
66 -He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.
67 -He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.
68 -But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
69 -He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.
70 -He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
71 -from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.
72 -So David shepherded them with integrity of heart and guided them with skillful hands.
(Berean Standard Bible)
