Maschil of Asaph.
Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 1 Isa 51:4Isa 55:32Ch 15:1-16Jdg 5:3Pro 8:4-6Psa 49:1-3Psa 50:7Psa 74:1
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: Mat 13:34-35Mat 13:11-13Mrk 4:34Psa 49:4Pro 1:6
Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. Psa 44:1Exo 12:26-27Exo 13:14-15Exo 13:8Psa 48:8
We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. Deu 11:19Deu 4:9Jol 1:3Psa 145:4-6Deu 6:7Psa 71:17-18Psa 10:1-5Jos 4:6-7
For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: Eph 6:4Deu 4:45Deu 6:7Gen 18:19Psa 81:5Deu 11:19Isa 38:19Isa 8:20
That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: Jol 1:3Psa 102:18Deu 4:10Est 9:28Psa 145:4Psa 22:31Psa 90:16Jos 22:24-25
That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: Deu 5:29Rev 14:121Jn 5:3Deu 4:9Jhn 14:21-241Jn 3:22-24Jer 17:7-8Deu 8:11
And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. 2 Psa 78:37Exo 32:92Ki 17:14Ezk 20:18Deu 31:27Act 7:512Ch 30:7Deu 9:13
The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. 3 1Sa 31:1Deu 1:41-44Jos 17:16-18Psa 78:571Sa 4:10Jdg 20:39Jdg 9:281Ch 12:2
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; Deu 31:20Deu 31:16Jdg 2:10-12Neh 9:26-292Ki 17:14-15Jer 31:32
And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them. Psa 106:13Deu 32:18Jer 2:32Psa 106:21-22Psa 78:7
Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. Num 13:22Ezk 30:14Isa 19:11Deu 6:22Exo 7:1Isa 19:13Psa 135:9Deu 4:34
He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap. Exo 14:21Exo 15:8Jos 3:16Psa 106:9-10Psa 136:13-15Psa 66:61Co 10:2-3Hab 3:15
In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. Psa 105:39Exo 13:21-22Exo 14:24Exo 40:35-38Neh 9:12Neh 9:19
He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths. Exo 17:6Num 20:11Psa 105:411Co 10:4Psa 114:8Isa 41:18Isa 43:20Isa 48:21
He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. Num 20:10-11Deu 8:15Num 20:8Psa 105:41Deu 9:21
And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness. Isa 63:10Deu 9:8Heb 3:16-19Deu 9:12-22Psa 106:13-32Psa 95:8-10Psa 78:32
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. Num 11:4Deu 6:161Co 10:9Psa 106:14-151Co 10:6Exo 16:2-3Jas 4:2-3Psa 95:9
Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? 4 Num 21:5Num 11:4Exo 16:3Exo 16:8-10Psa 23:5Num 11:13Num 20:3Job 34:37
Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people? Num 20:11Num 11:21-23Gen 18:12-14Num 11:18Psa 78:41Exo 17:6-7
Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel; 1Co 10:11Jud 1:5Num 11:1-3Heb 12:29Num 11:101Co 10:5Deu 32:22Psa 78:31
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation: Heb 3:18-19Jud 1:5Deu 1:32Heb 11:6Heb 3:121Jn 5:10Isa 7:9Psa 106:24
Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven, Gen 7:11Mal 3:102Ki 7:19Psa 33:92Ki 7:2Isa 5:6
And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. Exo 16:4Psa 105:40Deu 8:3Jhn 6:31-71Exo 16:14Neh 9:15Neh 9:20Psa 68:9
Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full. 5 Exo 16:8Mat 14:20Mat 15:37Psa 103:20
He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind. 6 Num 11:31Psa 135:7
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: 7 Exo 16:12-13Num 11:18-19Num 11:32
And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; Num 11:19-20Psa 106:15
They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths, Num 11:33-34Luk 16:19-23Num 22:20-22Pro 1:32
The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel. 8 9 Isa 10:16
For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works. Jhn 12:37Ezk 20:13Luk 16:31Psa 78:22Num 14:1-45Psa 78:11Num 16:1-17Num 21:1-6
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble. Num 14:35Num 14:29Num 26:64-65Deu 2:14-16Ecc 12:13-14Ecc 1:13-14Ecc 1:2Ecc 12:8
When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God. Hos 5:15Num 21:7Jdg 3:12-15Hos 7:14Isa 26:6Jdg 10:7-10Jdg 3:8-9Jdg 4:3
And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer. Deu 32:4Isa 41:14Exo 15:13Tit 2:14Deu 32:15Deu 7:8Isa 48:17Deu 15:15
Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues. Ezk 33:31Isa 29:13Deu 5:28-29Hos 11:12Isa 57:11Psa 106:12-13Psa 18:44
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant. Act 8:21Psa 78:8Psa 51:10Deu 31:20Hos 10:2Hos 7:14Hos 7:16Psa 119:80
But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath. Ezk 20:17Isa 48:9Num 14:18-202Ki 21:20Exo 34:6-9Ezk 20:13-14Ezk 20:21-22Isa 44:21-22
For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. Gen 6:3Jas 4:14Job 7:7Job 7:16Job 10:9Psa 103:14-16Jhn 3:6
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! 10 Eph 4:30Psa 95:8-10Heb 3:15-17Isa 63:10Num 14:11Deu 9:21-22Isa 7:13Psa 106:14-33
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. Num 14:22Heb 3:8-11Act 7:39Deu 6:162Pe 2:21-22Num 14:4Psa 78:19-202Ki 19:22
They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. 11 Jdg 8:34Jer 32:21Exo 14:12Psa 78:11Psa 106:7-10Psa 136:10-15Exo 13:9Isa 11:11
How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: 12 Exo 4:21Deu 6:22Exo 3:19-20Deu 4:34Exo 7:3Neh 9:10Psa 105:27-38Psa 135:9
And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. Psa 105:29Exo 7:17-21Rev 16:3-6
He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. Exo 8:21-24Exo 8:2-15Psa 105:30-31Rev 16:3
He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust. Exo 10:12-15Psa 105:34-35Amo 7:1-2Jol 1:4-7Jol 2:25Rev 9:2-11
He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost. 13 14 Exo 9:18-34Psa 105:32-33
He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. 15 16 Exo 9:19Exo 9:28
He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. 1Ki 22:21-222Sa 24:16Exo 12:13Exo 15:7Lam 4:11Psa 11:6Isa 42:25Job 1:12
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; 17 18 Ezk 7:42Pe 2:4-5Exo 9:3-6Ezk 8:18Ezk 9:10Rom 8:32Ezk 5:11Ezk 7:9
And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham: Psa 105:23Psa 106:22Psa 135:8Psa 105:36Psa 136:10Exo 12:29-30Exo 13:15Exo 12:12
But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. Neh 9:12Psa 77:20Isa 63:11-14Jhn 10:11-42Isa 40:11Luk 15:4-6Psa 100:3Psa 105:37
And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. 19 Exo 14:19-20Exo 15:10Exo 14:27-28Exo 14:15Heb 11:29Psa 136:15
And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased. Exo 15:17Psa 44:3Dan 11:45Dan 9:16-20Eph 1:14Exo 15:13Isa 11:9Psa 68:16
He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. Jos 13:7Psa 44:2Neh 9:22-25Deu 6:10-12Jos 6:1-21Num 33:54Psa 105:44-45Psa 136:18-22
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: Jdg 2:11-122Ki 17:7-23Deu 31:16-20Deu 32:15-21Ezk 16:15-26Neh 9:25-26Psa 78:40-41
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. Hos 7:16Ezk 20:27-28Jdg 3:5-7Psa 78:8Jdg 3:12Psa 78:10-37Psa 78:41
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. Deu 32:21Lev 26:301Co 10:221Ki 12:311Ki 11:7Deu 12:2Deu 32:16-17Exo 20:4-5
When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: Psa 106:40Lam 2:7Deu 32:19Gen 18:20-21Lev 20:23Lev 26:44Psa 11:4Psa 14:2-5
So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men; Jos 18:11Sa 4:4-11Jer 26:6-91Sa 1:3Jer 7:12-14
And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand. Psa 132:81Sa 4:171Sa 4:21Jdg 18:302Ch 6:41Exo 40:34Psa 24:7Psa 63:2
He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance. 1Sa 4:2Psa 89:381Sa 4:10-11Isa 64:9
The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage. 20 Jer 7:34Jer 16:9Num 11:1Deu 29:20Deu 32:22Isa 4:1Jer 25:10Psa 78:21
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation. 1Sa 4:17Job 27:151Sa 22:18-191Sa 4:11Ezk 24:231Sa 2:33-341Sa 4:19-20
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. Psa 44:23Isa 51:9Psa 7:6Isa 42:13-14Psa 73:20
And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach. 1Sa 5:6Jer 23:40Job 40:121Sa 6:4
Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: 1Sa 6:212Sa 6:172Sa 6:2
But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. Psa 87:2Gen 49:8-10Psa 132:12-141Sa 16:12Ch 6:6Rut 4:17-22
And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever. 21 1Ki 6:1-38Isa 51:61Ch 29:11Ch 29:191Ki 9:81Sa 2:82Ch 2:92Ch 3:4
He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds: 1Sa 16:11-12Act 13:221Ki 19:19-201Sa 17:15-542Sa 3:182Sa 6:212Sa 7:8Amo 7:14-15
From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. 22 2Sa 5:21Ch 11:21Pe 5:21Sa 10:11Sa 2:7-8Ezk 34:23-24Gen 33:13Isa 40:11
So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. 1Ki 9:42Ti 2:15Isa 11:2-41Ki 15:5Act 13:22Psa 101:1-81Ki 3:281Ki 3:6-9