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Psalms Chapter 78

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PSALMS

Psalms 78

1A Psalme to give instruction committed to Asaph. Heare my doctrine, O my people: incline your eares vnto the wordes of my mouth.
Isaiah 55:3, Isaiah 51:4, Isaiah 55:3, Isaiah 51:4, Psalms 49:1
2I will open my mouth in a parable: I will declare high sentences of olde.
Matthew 13:34, Matthew 13:35, Matthew 13:34, Matthew 13:35, Mark 4:34
3Which we haue heard and knowen, and our fathers haue tolde vs.
Psalms 44:1, Psalms 44:1, Psalms 48:8, Exodus 13:8, Exodus 13:14
4Wee will not hide them from their children but to the generation to come we wil shewe the praises of the Lord his power also, and his wonderful woorkes that he hath done:
Deuteronomy 11:19, Deuteronomy 11:19, Psalms 145:4, Psalms 145:6, Psalms 145:4
5How he established a testimonie in Iaakob, and ordeined a Law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they shoulde teache their children:
Deuteronomy 6:7, Deuteronomy 6:7, Ephesians 6:4, Ephesians 6:4, Psalms 81:5
6That the posteritie might knowe it, and the children, which should be borne, should stand vp, and declare it to their children:
Psalms 102:18, Psalms 102:18, Joel 1:3, Psalms 22:31, Psalms 145:4
7That they might set their hope on God, and not forget the workes of God but keepe his commandements:
Deuteronomy 5:29, Deuteronomy 5:29, Revelation 14:12, Revelation 14:12, 1 John 5:3
8And not to bee as their fathers, a disobedient and rebellious generation: a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirite was not faithfull vnto God.
Psalms 78:37, Psalms 78:37, Exodus 32:9, Exodus 32:9, 2 Kings 17:14
9The children of Ephraim being armed and shooting with the bowe, turned backe in the day of battell.
Deuteronomy 1:41, Deuteronomy 1:44, Joshua 17:16, Joshua 17:18, Deuteronomy 1:41
10They kept not the couenant of God, but refused to walke in his Lawe,
Judges 2:10, Judges 2:12, Nehemiah 9:26, Nehemiah 9:29, Deuteronomy 31:16
11And forgate his Actes, and his wonderfull woorkes that he had shewed them.
Psalms 106:13, Psalms 106:13, Psalms 78:7, Jeremiah 2:32, Deuteronomy 32:18
12Hee did marueilous thinges in the sight of their fathers in the lande of Egypt: euen in the fielde of Zoan.
Numbers 13:22, Numbers 13:22, Ezekiel 30:14, Isaiah 19:11, Ezekiel 30:14
13He deuided the Sea, and led them through: he made also the waters to stand as an heape.
Exodus 14:21, Exodus 14:21, Exodus 15:8, Exodus 15:8, Psalms 106:9
14In the day time also hee led them with a cloude, and all the night with a light of fire.
Psalms 105:39, Psalms 105:39, Exodus 13:21, Exodus 13:22, Exodus 14:24
15He claue the rockes in the wildernes, and gaue them drinke as of the great depths.
Psalms 105:41, Exodus 17:6, Numbers 20:11, Psalms 105:41, Exodus 17:6
16He brought floods also out of the stonie rocke; so that hee made the waters to descend like the riuers.
Deuteronomy 8:15, Numbers 20:10, Numbers 20:11, Numbers 20:8, Deuteronomy 8:15
17Yet they sinned stil against him, and prouoked the Highest in the wildernesse,
Isaiah 63:10, Isaiah 63:10, Deuteronomy 9:8, Psalms 106:13, Psalms 106:32
18And tempted God in their heartes in requiring meate for their lust.
Numbers 11:4, Deuteronomy 6:16, Numbers 11:4, Deuteronomy 6:16, 1 Corinthians 10:9
19They spake against God also, saying, Can God prepare a table in the wildernesse?
Numbers 21:5, Numbers 21:5, Numbers 11:4, Numbers 11:4, Exodus 16:3
20Behold, he smote the rocke, that the water gushed out, and the streames ouerflowed: can hee giue bread also? or prepare flesh for his people?
Numbers 20:11, Numbers 20:11, Genesis 18:12, Genesis 18:14, Genesis 18:12
21Therefore the Lord heard and was angrie, and the fire was kindled in Iaakob, and also wrath came vpon Israel,
Numbers 11:1, Numbers 11:3, Numbers 11:1, Numbers 11:3, Jude 1:5
22Because they beleeued not in God, and trusted not in his helpe.
Hebrews 3:18, Hebrews 3:19, Hebrews 3:18, Hebrews 3:19, Hebrews 11:6
23Yet he had comanded the clouds aboue, and had opened the doores of heauen,
Genesis 7:11, Genesis 7:11, Malachi 3:10, Malachi 3:10, 2 Kings 7:19
24And had rained downe MAN vpon them for to eate, and had giuen them of the wheate of heauen.
Exodus 16:4, Exodus 16:4, Psalms 105:40, Psalms 105:40, Exodus 16:14
25Man did eate the bread of Angels: hee sent them meate ynough.
Matthew 14:20, Matthew 15:37, Matthew 14:20, Matthew 15:37, Psalms 103:20
26He caused the Eastwinde to passe in the heauen, and through his power he brought in the Southwinde.
Numbers 11:31, Numbers 11:31, Psalms 135:7, Psalms 135:7
27Hee rained flesh also vpon them as dust, and feathered foule as the sand of the sea.
Exodus 16:12, Exodus 16:13, Exodus 16:12, Exodus 16:13, Numbers 11:18
28And hee made it fall in the middes of their campe euen round about their habitations.
29So they did eate and were well filled: for he gaue them their desire.
Psalms 106:15, Psalms 106:15, Numbers 11:19, Numbers 11:20, Numbers 11:19
30They were not turned from their lust, but the meate was yet in their mouthes,
Numbers 11:33, Numbers 11:34, Numbers 11:33, Numbers 11:34, Proverbs 1:32
31When the wrath of God came euen vpon them, and slew the strongest of them, and smote downe the chosen men in Israel.
Isaiah 10:16, Isaiah 10:16
32For all this, they sinned stil, and beleeued not his wonderous woorkes.
John 12:37, Psalms 78:22, John 12:37, Psalms 78:22, Numbers 14:1
33Therefore their daies did hee consume in vanitie, and their yeeres hastily.
Numbers 14:35, Numbers 14:29, Numbers 14:35, Numbers 14:29, Numbers 26:64
34And when hee slewe them, they sought him and they returned, and sought God earely.
Hosea 5:15, Hosea 5:15, Numbers 21:7, Judges 3:12, Judges 3:15
35And they remembred that God was their strength, and the most high God their redeemer.
Deuteronomy 32:4, Deuteronomy 32:4, Exodus 15:13, Isaiah 41:14, Exodus 15:13
36But they flattered him with their mouth, and dissembled with him with their tongue.
Ezekiel 33:31, Ezekiel 33:31, Isaiah 29:13, Isaiah 29:13, Psalms 18:44
37For their heart was not vpright with him: neither were they faithfull in his couenant.
Acts 8:21, Psalms 78:8, Acts 8:21, Psalms 78:8, Psalms 51:10
38Yet he being merciful forgaue their iniquitie, and destroied them not, but oft times called backe his anger, and did not stirre vp all his wrath.
Numbers 14:18, Numbers 14:20, Isaiah 48:9, Numbers 14:18, Numbers 14:20
39For he remembered that they were flesh: yea, a winde that passeth and commeth not againe.
Genesis 6:3, James 4:14, Job 7:7, Genesis 6:3, James 4:14
40How oft did they prouoke him in the wildernes? and grieue him in the desert?
Ephesians 4:30, Ephesians 4:30, Psalms 95:8, Psalms 95:10, Psalms 95:8
41Yea, they returned, and tempted God, and limited the Holie one of Israel.
Hebrews 3:8, Hebrews 3:11, Numbers 14:22, Hebrews 3:8, Hebrews 3:11
42They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he deliuered them from the enemie,
Exodus 14:12, Judges 8:34, Jeremiah 32:21, Exodus 14:12, Judges 8:34
43Nor him that set his signes in Egypt, and his wonders in the fielde of Zoan,
Deuteronomy 4:34, Deuteronomy 6:22, Psalms 135:9, Exodus 4:21, Psalms 105:27
44And turned their riuers into blood, and their floods, that they could not drinke.
Psalms 105:29, Psalms 105:29, Revelation 16:3, Revelation 16:6, Exodus 7:17
45Hee sent a swarme of flies among them, which deuoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
Exodus 8:21, Exodus 8:24, Psalms 105:30, Psalms 105:31, Exodus 8:21
46He gaue also their fruites vnto the caterpiller, and their labour vnto the grassehopper.
Psalms 105:34, Psalms 105:35, Exodus 10:12, Exodus 10:15, Psalms 105:34
47He destroied their vines with haile, and their wilde figge trees with the hailestone.
Psalms 105:32, Psalms 105:33, Exodus 9:18, Exodus 9:34, Psalms 105:32
48He gaue their cattell also to the haile, and their flockes to the thunderboltes.
Exodus 9:19, Exodus 9:28, Exodus 9:19, Exodus 9:28
49Hee cast vpon them the fiercenesse of his anger, indignation and wrath, and vexation by the sending out of euill Angels.
1 Kings 22:21, 1 Kings 22:22, Psalms 11:6, Exodus 12:13, Exodus 15:7
50He made a way to his anger: he spared not their soule from death, but gaue their life to the pestilence,
Ezekiel 7:4, Ezekiel 7:4, Romans 8:32, Ezekiel 8:18, 2 Peter 2:4
51And smote al the firstborne in Egypt, euen the beginning of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham.
Psalms 105:23, Psalms 105:23, Psalms 135:8, Psalms 106:22, Psalms 135:8
52But hee made his people to goe out like sheepe, and led them in the wildernes like a flocke.
Psalms 77:20, Psalms 77:20, Isaiah 63:11, Isaiah 63:14, Nehemiah 9:12
53Yea, he caried them out safely, and they feared not, and the Sea couered their enemies.
Exodus 14:19, Exodus 14:20, Exodus 14:19, Exodus 14:20, Exodus 15:10
54And he brought them vnto the borders of his Sanctuarie: euen to this Mountaine, which his right hand purchased.
Psalms 44:3, Psalms 44:3, Exodus 15:17, Exodus 15:17, Ephesians 1:14
55He cast out the heathe also before them, and caused them to fall to the lot of his inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.
Joshua 13:7, Psalms 44:2, Joshua 13:7, Psalms 44:2, Nehemiah 9:22
56Yet they tempted, and prouoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies,
Judges 2:11, Judges 2:12, Judges 2:11, Judges 2:12, 2 Kings 17:7
57But turned backe and delt falsely like their fathers: they turned like a deceitfull bowe.
Hosea 7:16, Hosea 7:16, Ezekiel 20:27, Ezekiel 20:28, Ezekiel 20:27
58And they prouoked him to anger with their high places, and mooued him to wrath with their grauen images.
Deuteronomy 32:21, Deuteronomy 32:21, Leviticus 26:30, Leviticus 26:30, Deuteronomy 12:2
59God heard this and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel,
Psalms 106:40, Psalms 106:40, Psalms 14:2, Psalms 14:5, Leviticus 26:44
60So that hee forsooke the habitation of Shilo, euen the Tabernacle where hee dwelt among men,
Joshua 18:1, Joshua 18:1, 1 Samuel 4:4, 1 Samuel 4:11, Jeremiah 26:6
61And deliuered his power into captiuitie, and his beautie into the enemies hand.
Psalms 132:8, Psalms 132:8, 1 Samuel 4:21, 1 Samuel 5:2, 1 Samuel 4:17
62And hee gaue vp his people to the sworde, and was angrie with his inheritance.
1 Samuel 4:2, 1 Samuel 4:10, 1 Samuel 4:11, Psalms 89:38, Isaiah 64:9
63The fire deuoured their chosen men, and their maides were not praised.
Jeremiah 7:34, Jeremiah 7:34, Jeremiah 16:9, Jeremiah 16:9, Psalms 78:21
64Their Priestes fell by the sworde, and their widowes lamented not.
1 Samuel 4:17, Job 27:15, 1 Samuel 4:17, Job 27:15, 1 Samuel 4:11
65But the Lord awaked as one out of sleepe, and as a strong man that after his wine crieth out,
Psalms 44:23, Psalms 44:23, Psalms 7:6, Isaiah 42:13, Isaiah 42:14
66And smote his enemies in the hinder parts, and put them to a perpetuall shame.
1 Samuel 5:6, 1 Samuel 5:6, Jeremiah 23:40, Job 40:12, Jeremiah 23:40
67Yet he refused the tabernacle of Ioseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
2 Samuel 6:17, 2 Samuel 6:2, 1 Samuel 6:21, 1 Samuel 7:1, 2 Samuel 6:17
68But chose the tribe of Iudah, and mount Zion which he loued.
Psalms 87:2, Psalms 87:2, Psalms 132:12, Psalms 132:14, Psalms 132:12
69And he built his Sanctuarie as an high palace, like the earth, which he stablished for euer.
1 Chronicles 29:1, 1 Chronicles 29:19, Revelation 20:11, 1 Samuel 2:8, Psalms 102:25
70He chose Dauid also his seruant, and tooke him from the shepefolds.
1 Samuel 16:11, 1 Samuel 16:12, 1 Samuel 16:11, 1 Samuel 16:12, Acts 13:22
71Euen from behinde the ewes with yong brought he him to feede his people in Iaakob, and his inheritance in Israel.
2 Samuel 5:2, 2 Samuel 5:2, 1 Chronicles 11:2, 1 Chronicles 11:2, 1 Samuel 2:7
72So he fed them according to the simplicitie of his heart, and guided them by the discretion of his hands.
1 Kings 9:4, 1 Kings 9:4, 2 Timothy 2:15, 2 Timothy 2:15, Isaiah 11:2

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