# Psalm 78 ## Psalm 78:1 - [KJV] Give ear, O my people, *to* my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. - [ASV] Give ear, O my people, to my law: Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. - [YLT] Give ear, O my people, to my law, Incline your ear to sayings of my mouth. ### Notes on Psalm 78:1 - ## Psalm 78:2 - [KJV] I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: - [ASV] I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old, - [YLT] I open with a simile my mouth, I bring forth hidden things of old, ### Notes on Psalm 78:2 - ## Psalm 78:3 - [KJV] Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. - [ASV] Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us. - [YLT] That we have heard and do know, And our fathers have recounted to us. ### Notes on Psalm 78:3 - ## Psalm 78:4 - [KJV] 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. - [ASV] We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, And his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done. - [YLT] We do not hide from their sons, To a later generation recounting praises of Jehovah, And His strength, and His wonders that He hath done. ### Notes on Psalm 78:4 - ## Psalm 78:5 - [KJV] 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: - [ASV] 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; - [YLT] And He raiseth up a testimony in Jacob, And a law hath placed in Israel, That He commanded our fathers, To make them known to their sons. ### Notes on Psalm 78:5 - ## Psalm 78:6 - [KJV] That the generation to come might know *them, even* the children *which* should be born; *who* should arise and declare *them* to their children: - [ASV] That the generation to come might know *them*, even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tell *them* to their children, - [YLT] So that a later generation doth know, Sons who are born, do rise and recount to their sons, ### Notes on Psalm 78:6 - ## Psalm 78:7 - [KJV] That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: - [ASV] That they might set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep his commandments, - [YLT] And place in God their confidence, And forget not the doings of God, But keep His commands. ### Notes on Psalm 78:7 - ## Psalm 78:8 - [KJV] 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. - [ASV] 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. - [YLT] And they are not like their fathers, A generation apostate and rebellious, A generation! it hath not prepared its heart, Nor stedfast with God *is* its spirit. ### Notes on Psalm 78:8 - ## Psalm 78:9 - [KJV] The children of Ephraim, *being* armed, *and* carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. - [ASV] The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle. - [YLT] Sons of Ephraim -- armed bearers of bow, Have turned in a day of conflict. ### Notes on Psalm 78:9 - ## Psalm 78:10 - [KJV] They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; - [ASV] They kept not the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law; - [YLT] They have not kept the covenant of God, And in His law they have refused to walk, ### Notes on Psalm 78:10 - ## Psalm 78:11 - [KJV] And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them. - [ASV] And they forgat his doings, And his wondrous works that he had showed them. - [YLT] And they forget His doings, And His wonders that He shewed them. ### Notes on Psalm 78:11 - ## Psalm 78:12 - [KJV] Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, *in* the field of Zoan. - [ASV] Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. - [YLT] Before their fathers He hath done wonders, In the land of Egypt -- the field of Zoan. ### Notes on Psalm 78:12 - ## Psalm 78:13 - [KJV] He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap. - [ASV] He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to stand as a heap. - [YLT] He cleft a sea, and causeth them to pass over, Yea, He causeth waters to stand as a heap. ### Notes on Psalm 78:13 - ## Psalm 78:14 - [KJV] In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. - [ASV] In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, And all the night with a light of fire. - [YLT] And leadeth them with a cloud by day, And all the night with a light of fire. ### Notes on Psalm 78:14 - ## Psalm 78:15 - [KJV] He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave *them* drink as *out of* the great depths. - [ASV] He clave rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths. - [YLT] He cleaveth rocks in a wilderness, And giveth drink -- as the great deep. ### Notes on Psalm 78:15 - ## Psalm 78:16 - [KJV] He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. - [ASV] He brought streams also out of the rock, And caused waters to run down like rivers. - [YLT] And bringeth out streams from a rock, And causeth waters to come down as rivers. ### Notes on Psalm 78:16 - ## Psalm 78:17 - [KJV] And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness. - [ASV] Yet went they on still to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert. - [YLT] And they add still to sin against Him, To provoke the Most High in the dry place. ### Notes on Psalm 78:17 - ## Psalm 78:18 - [KJV] And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. - [ASV] And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire. - [YLT] And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust. ### Notes on Psalm 78:18 - ## Psalm 78:19 - [KJV] Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? - [ASV] Yea, they spake against God; They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? - [YLT] And they speak against God -- they said: 'Is God able to array a table in a wilderness?' ### Notes on Psalm 78:19 - ## Psalm 78:20 - [KJV] 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? - [ASV] Behold, he smote the rock, so that waters gushed out, And streams overflowed; Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people? - [YLT] Lo, He hath smitten a rock, And waters flow, yea, streams overflow. 'Also -- bread *is* He able to give? Doth He prepare flesh for His people?' ### Notes on Psalm 78:20 - ## Psalm 78:21 - [KJV] Therefore the LORD heard *this*, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel; - [ASV] Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; And a fire was kindled against Jacob, And anger also went up against Israel; - [YLT] Therefore hath Jehovah heard, And He sheweth Himself wroth, And fire hath been kindled against Jacob, And anger also hath gone up against Israel, ### Notes on Psalm 78:21 - ## Psalm 78:22 - [KJV] Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation: - [ASV] Because they believed not in God, And trusted not in his salvation. - [YLT] For they have not believed in God, Nor have they trusted in His salvation. ### Notes on Psalm 78:22 - ## Psalm 78:23 - [KJV] Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven, - [ASV] Yet he commanded the skies above, And opened the doors of heaven; - [YLT] And He commandeth clouds from above, Yea, doors of the heavens He hath opened. ### Notes on Psalm 78:23 - ## Psalm 78:24 - [KJV] And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. - [ASV] And he rained down manna upon them to eat, And gave them food from heaven. - [YLT] And He raineth on them manna to eat, Yea, corn of heaven He hath given to them. ### Notes on Psalm 78:24 - ## Psalm 78:25 - [KJV] Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full. - [ASV] Man did eat the bread of the mighty: He sent them food to the full. - [YLT] Food of the mighty hath each eaten, Venison He sent to them to satiety. ### Notes on Psalm 78:25 - ## Psalm 78:26 - [KJV] He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind. - [ASV] He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens; And by his power he guided the south wind. - [YLT] He causeth an east wind to journey in the heavens, And leadeth by His strength a south wind, ### Notes on Psalm 78:26 - ## Psalm 78:27 - [KJV] He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: - [ASV] He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, And winged birds as the sand of the seas: - [YLT] And He raineth on them flesh as dust, And as sand of the seas -- winged fowl, ### Notes on Psalm 78:27 - ## Psalm 78:28 - [KJV] And he let *it* fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations. - [ASV] And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, Round about their habitations. - [YLT] And causeth *it* to fall in the midst of His camp, Round about His tabernacles. ### Notes on Psalm 78:28 - ## Psalm 78:29 - [KJV] So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; - [ASV] So they did eat, and were well filled; And he gave them their own desire. - [YLT] And they eat, and are greatly satisfied, And their desire He bringeth to them. ### Notes on Psalm 78:29 - ## Psalm 78:30 - [KJV] They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat *was* yet in their mouths, - [ASV] They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths, - [YLT] They have not been estranged from their desire, Yet *is* their food in their mouth, ### Notes on Psalm 78:30 - ## Psalm 78:31 - [KJV] The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen *men* of Israel. - [ASV] When the anger of God went up against them, And slew of the fattest of them, And smote down the young men of Israel. - [YLT] And the anger of God hath gone up against them, And He slayeth among their fat ones, And youths of Israel He caused to bend. ### Notes on Psalm 78:31 - ## Psalm 78:32 - [KJV] For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works. - [ASV] For all this they sinned still, And believed not in his wondrous works. - [YLT] With all this they have sinned again, And have not believed in His wonders. ### Notes on Psalm 78:32 - ## Psalm 78:33 - [KJV] Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble. - [ASV] Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror. - [YLT] And He consumeth in vanity their days, And their years in trouble. ### Notes on Psalm 78:33 - ## Psalm 78:34 - [KJV] When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God. - [ASV] When he slew them, then they inquired after him; And they returned and sought God earnestly. - [YLT] If He slew them, then they sought Him, And turned back, and sought God earnestly, ### Notes on Psalm 78:34 - ## Psalm 78:35 - [KJV] And they remembered that God *was* their rock, and the high God their redeemer. - [ASV] And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their redeemer. - [YLT] And they remember that God *is* their rock, And God Most High their redeemer. ### Notes on Psalm 78:35 - ## Psalm 78:36 - [KJV] Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues. - [ASV] But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied unto him with their tongue. - [YLT] And -- they deceive Him with their mouth, And with their tongue do lie to Him, ### Notes on Psalm 78:36 - ## Psalm 78:37 - [KJV] For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant. - [ASV] For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant. - [YLT] And their heart hath not been right with Him, And they have not been stedfast in His covenant. ### Notes on Psalm 78:37 - ## Psalm 78:38 - [KJV] 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. - [ASV] But he, being merciful, forgave *their* iniquity, and destroyed *them* not: Yea, many a time turned he his anger away, And did not stir up all his wrath. - [YLT] And He -- the Merciful One, Pardoneth iniquity, and destroyeth not, And hath often turned back His anger, And waketh not up all His fury. ### Notes on Psalm 78:38 - ## Psalm 78:39 - [KJV] For he remembered that they *were but* flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. - [ASV] And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. - [YLT] And He remembereth that they *are* flesh, A wind going on -- and it returneth not. ### Notes on Psalm 78:39 - ## Psalm 78:40 - [KJV] How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, *and* grieve him in the desert! - [ASV] How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert! - [YLT] How often do they provoke Him in the wilderness, Grieve Him in the desolate place? ### Notes on Psalm 78:40 - ## Psalm 78:41 - [KJV] Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. - [ASV] And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel. - [YLT] Yea, they turn back, and try God, And the Holy One of Israel have limited. ### Notes on Psalm 78:41 - ## Psalm 78:42 - [KJV] They remembered not his hand, *nor* the day when he delivered them from the enemy. - [ASV] They remember not his hand, Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary; - [YLT] They have not remembered His hand The day He ransomed them from the adversary. ### Notes on Psalm 78:42 - ## Psalm 78:43 - [KJV] How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: - [ASV] How he set his signs in Egypt, And his wonders in the field of Zoan, - [YLT] When He set His signs in Egypt, And His wonders in the field of Zoan, ### Notes on Psalm 78:43 - ## Psalm 78:44 - [KJV] And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. - [ASV] And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink. - [YLT] And He turneth to blood their streams, And their floods they drink not. ### Notes on Psalm 78:44 - ## Psalm 78:45 - [KJV] He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. - [ASV] He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; And frogs, which destroyed them. - [YLT] He sendeth among them the beetle, and it consumeth them, And the frog, and it destroyeth them, ### Notes on Psalm 78:45 - ## Psalm 78:46 - [KJV] He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust. - [ASV] He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, And their labor unto the locust. - [YLT] And giveth to the caterpillar their increase, And their labour to the locust. ### Notes on Psalm 78:46 - ## Psalm 78:47 - [KJV] He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost. - [ASV] He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycomore-trees with frost. - [YLT] He destroyeth with hail their vine, And their sycamores with frost, ### Notes on Psalm 78:47 - ## Psalm 78:48 - [KJV] He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. - [ASV] He gave over their cattle also to the hail, And their flocks to hot thunderbolts. - [YLT] And delivereth up to the hail their beasts, And their cattle to the burning flames. ### Notes on Psalm 78:48 - ## Psalm 78:49 - [KJV] He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels *among them*. - [ASV] He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, and indignation, and trouble, A band of angels of evil. - [YLT] He sendeth on them the fury of His anger, Wrath, and indignation, and distress -- A discharge of evil messengers. ### Notes on Psalm 78:49 - ## Psalm 78:50 - [KJV] He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; - [ASV] He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence, - [YLT] He pondereth a path for His anger, He kept not back their soul from death, Yea, their life to the pestilence He delivered up. ### Notes on Psalm 78:50 - ## Psalm 78:51 - [KJV] And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of *their* strength in the tabernacles of Ham: - [ASV] And smote all the first-born in Egypt, The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham. - [YLT] And He smiteth every first-born in Egypt, The first-fruit of the strong in tents of Ham. ### Notes on Psalm 78:51 - ## Psalm 78:52 - [KJV] But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. - [ASV] But he led forth his own people like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock. - [YLT] And causeth His people to journey as a flock, And guideth them as a drove in a wilderness, ### Notes on Psalm 78:52 - ## Psalm 78:53 - [KJV] And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. - [ASV] And he led them safely, so that they feared not; But the sea overwhelmed their enemies. - [YLT] And He leadeth them confidently, And they have not been afraid, And their enemies hath the sea covered. ### Notes on Psalm 78:53 - ## Psalm 78:54 - [KJV] And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, *even to* this mountain, *which* his right hand had purchased. - [ASV] And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had gotten. - [YLT] And He bringeth them in unto the border of His sanctuary, This mountain His right hand had got, ### Notes on Psalm 78:54 - ## Psalm 78:55 - [KJV] 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. - [ASV] He drove out the nations also before them, And allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. - [YLT] And casteth out nations from before them, And causeth them to fall in the line of inheritance, And causeth the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents, ### Notes on Psalm 78:55 - ## Psalm 78:56 - [KJV] Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: - [ASV] Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies; - [YLT] And they tempt and provoke God Most High, And His testimonies have not kept. ### Notes on Psalm 78:56 - ## Psalm 78:57 - [KJV] But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. - [ASV] But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow. - [YLT] And they turn back, And deal treacherously like their fathers, They have been turned like a deceitful bow, ### Notes on Psalm 78:57 - ## Psalm 78:58 - [KJV] For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. - [ASV] For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images. - [YLT] And make Him angry with their high places, And with their graven images make Him zealous, ### Notes on Psalm 78:58 - ## Psalm 78:59 - [KJV] When God heard *this*, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: - [ASV] When God heard *this*, he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel; - [YLT] God hath heard, and sheweth Himself wroth. And kicketh exceedingly against Israel. ### Notes on Psalm 78:59 - ## Psalm 78:60 - [KJV] So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent *which* he placed among men; - [ASV] So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent which he placed among men; - [YLT] And He leaveth the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent He had placed among men, ### Notes on Psalm 78:60 - ## Psalm 78:61 - [KJV] And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand. - [ASV] And delivered his strength into captivity, And his glory into the adversary's hand. - [YLT] And He giveth His strength to captivity, And His beauty into the hand of an adversary, ### Notes on Psalm 78:61 - ## Psalm 78:62 - [KJV] He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance. - [ASV] He gave his people over also unto the sword, And was wroth with his inheritance. - [YLT] And delivereth up to the sword His people, And with His inheritance shewed Himself angry. ### Notes on Psalm 78:62 - ## Psalm 78:63 - [KJV] The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage. - [ASV] Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song. - [YLT] His young men hath fire consumed, And His virgins have not been praised. ### Notes on Psalm 78:63 - ## Psalm 78:64 - [KJV] Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation. - [ASV] Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation. - [YLT] His priests by the sword have fallen, And their widows weep not. ### Notes on Psalm 78:64 - ## Psalm 78:65 - [KJV] Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, *and* like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. - [ASV] Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. - [YLT] And the Lord waketh as a sleeper, As a mighty one crying aloud from wine. ### Notes on Psalm 78:65 - ## Psalm 78:66 - [KJV] And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach. - [ASV] And he smote his adversaries backward: He put them to a perpetual reproach. - [YLT] And He smiteth His adversaries backward, A reproach age-during He hath put on them, ### Notes on Psalm 78:66 - ## Psalm 78:67 - [KJV] Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: - [ASV] Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph, And chose not the tribe of Ephraim, - [YLT] And He kicketh against the tent of Joseph, And on the tribe of Ephraim hath not fixed. ### Notes on Psalm 78:67 - ## Psalm 78:68 - [KJV] But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. - [ASV] But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he loved. - [YLT] And He chooseth the tribe of Judah, With mount Zion that He loved, ### Notes on Psalm 78:68 - ## Psalm 78:69 - [KJV] And he built his sanctuary like high *palaces*, like the earth which he hath established for ever. - [ASV] And he built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he hath established for ever. - [YLT] And buildeth His sanctuary as a high place, Like the earth, He founded it to the age. ### Notes on Psalm 78:69 - ## Psalm 78:70 - [KJV] He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds: - [ASV] He chose David also his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds: - [YLT] And He fixeth on David His servant, And taketh him from the folds of a flock, ### Notes on Psalm 78:70 - ## Psalm 78:71 - [KJV] From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. - [ASV] From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. - [YLT] From behind suckling ones He hath brought him in, To rule over Jacob His people, And over Israel His inheritance. ### Notes on Psalm 78:71 - ## Psalm 78:72 - [KJV] So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. - [ASV] So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. - [YLT] And he ruleth them according to the integrity of his heart, And by the skilfulness of his hands leadeth them! ### Notes on Psalm 78:72 -