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.
Psalms
Psalm 78:40
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
Psalm 78:41
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
Psalm 78:42
They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
Psalm 78:43
How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
Psalm 78:44
And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
Psalm 78:45
He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
Psalm 78:46
He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
Psalm 78:47
He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
Psalm 78:48
He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
Psalm 78:49
He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
Psalm 78:5
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:
Psalm 78:50
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
Psalm 78:51
And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
Psalm 78:52
But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
Psalm 78:53
And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
Psalm 78:54
And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
Psalm 78:55
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.
Psalm 78:56
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
Psalm 78:57
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
Psalm 78:58
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Psalm 78:59
When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
Psalm 78:6
That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
Psalm 78:60
So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
Psalm 78:61
And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand.
Psalm 78:62
He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
Psalm 78:63
The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
Psalm 78:64
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
Psalm 78:65
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
Psalm 78:66
And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.