1A contemplation by Asaph. 2I will open my mouth in a parable. 3which we have heard and known, 4We will not hide them from their children, 5For he established a testimony in Jacob, 6that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; 7that they might set their hope in God, 8and might not be as their fathers, 9The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, 10They did not keep God's covenant, 11They forgot his doings, 12He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, 13He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. 14In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, 15He split rocks in the wilderness, 16He brought streams also out of the rock, 17Yet they still went on to sin against him, 18They tempted God in their heart 19Yes, they spoke against God. 20Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, 21Therefore JEHOVAH heard, and was angry. 22because they did not believe in God, 23Yet he commanded the skies above, 24He rained down manna on them to eat, 25Man ate the bread of angels. 26He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. 27He rained also flesh on them as the dust; 28He let them fall in the midst of their camp, 29So they ate, and were well filled. 30They did not turn from their cravings. 31when the anger of God went up against them, 32For all this they still sinned, 33Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, 34When he killed them, then they inquired after him. 35They remembered that God was their rock, 36But they flattered him with their mouth, 37For their heart was not right with him, 38But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and did not destroy them. 39He remembered that they were but flesh, 40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, 41They turned again and tempted God, 42They did not remember his hand, 43how he set his signs in Egypt, 44he turned their rivers into blood, 45He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; 46He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, 47He destroyed their vines with hail, 48He gave over their livestock also to the hail, 49He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, 50He made a path for his anger. 51and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, 52But he led forth his own people like sheep, 53He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, 54He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, 55He also drove out the nations before them, 56Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, 57but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. 58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, 59When God heard this, he was angry, 60So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh, 61and delivered his strength into captivity, 62He also gave his people over to the sword, 63Fire devoured their young men. 64Their priests fell by the sword, 65Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, 66He struck his adversaries backward. 67Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, 68But chose the tribe of Judah, 69He built his sanctuary like the heights, 70He also chose David his servant, 71from following the ewes that have their young, 72So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart,