Psa 73:2 But as for me, my feet came close to stumbling, My steps had almost slipped.

Psa 73:3 For I was envious of the arrogant As I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Psa 73:4 For there are no pains in their death, And their body is fat.

Psa 73:5 They are not in trouble as other men, Nor are they plagued like mankind.

Psa 73:6 Therefore pride is their necklace; The garment of violence covers them.

Psa 73:7 Their eye bulges from fatness; The imaginations of their heart run riot.

Psa 73:8 They mock and wickedly speak of oppression; They speak from on high.

Psa 73:9 They have set their mouth against the heavens, And their tongue parades through the earth.

Psa 73:10 Therefore his people return to this place, And waters of abundance are drunk by them.

Psa 73:11 They say, "How does God know? And is there knowledge with the Most High?"

Psa 73:12 Behold, these are the wicked; And always at ease, they have increased in wealth.

Psa 73:13 Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure And washed my hands in innocence;

Psa 73:14 For I have been stricken all day long And chastened every morning.

Psa 73:15 If I had said, "I will speak thus," Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.

Psa 73:16 When I pondered to understand this, It was troublesome in my sight

Psa 73:17 Until I came into the sanctuary of God; Then I perceived their end.

Psa 73:18 Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down to destruction.

Psa 73:19 How they are destroyed in a moment! They are utterly swept away by sudden terrors!

Psa 73:20 Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when aroused, You will despise their form.

Psa 73:21 When my heart was embittered And I was pierced within,

Psa 73:22 Then I was senseless and ignorant; I was like a beast before You.

Psa 73:23 Nevertheless I am continually with You; You have taken hold of my right hand.

Psa 73:24 With Your counsel You will guide me, And afterward receive me to glory.

Psa 73:25 Whom have I in heaven but You? And besides You, I desire nothing on earth.

Psa 73:26 My flesh and my heart may fail, But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Psa 73:27 For, behold, those who are far from You will perish; You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to You.

Psa 73:28 But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord God my refuge, That I may tell of all Your works.

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Psa 77:1 My voice rises to God, and I will cry aloud; My voice rises to God, and He will hear me.

Psa 77:2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; In the night my hand was stretched out without weariness; My soul refused to be comforted.

Psa 77:3 When I remember God, then I am disturbed; When I sigh, then my spirit grows faint. Selah.

Psa 77:4 You have held my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

Psa 77:5 I have considered the days of old, The years of long ago.

Psa 77:6 I will remember my song in the night; I will meditate with my heart, And my spirit ponders:

Psa 77:7 Will the Lord reject forever? And will He never be favorable again?

Psa 77:8 Has His lovingkindness ceased forever? Has His promise come to an end forever?

Psa 77:9 Has God forgotten to be gracious, Or has He in anger withdrawn His compassion? Selah.

Psa 77:10 Then I said, "It is my grief, That the right hand of the Most High has changed."

Psa 77:11 I shall remember the deeds of the Lord; Surely I will remember Your wonders of old.

Psa 77:12 I will meditate on all Your work And muse on Your deeds.

Psa 77:13 Your way, O God, is holy; What god is great like our God?

Psa 77:14 You are the God who works wonders; You have made known Your strength among the peoples.

Psa 77:15 You have by Your power redeemed Your people, The sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

Psa 77:16 The waters saw You, O God; The waters saw You, they were in anguish; The deeps also trembled.

Psa 77:17 The clouds poured out water; The skies gave forth a sound; Your arrows flashed here and there.

Psa 77:18 The sound of Your thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lit up the world; The earth trembled and shook.

Psa 77:19 Your way was in the sea And Your paths in the mighty waters, And Your footprints may not be known.

Psa 77:20 You led Your people like a flock By the hand of Moses and Aaron.

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Psa 78:1 Listen, O my people, to my instruction; Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

Psa 78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,

Psa 78:3 Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.

Psa 78:4 We will not conceal them from their children, But tell to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, And His strength and His wondrous works that He has done.

Psa 78:5 For He established a testimony in Jacob And appointed a law in Israel, Which He commanded our fathers That they should teach them to their children,

Psa 78:6 That the generation to come might know, even the children yet to be born, That they may arise and tell them to their children,

Psa 78:7 That they should put their confidence in God And not forget the works of God, But keep His commandments,

Psa 78:8 And not be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that did not prepare its heart And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Psa 78:9 The sons of Ephraim were archers equipped with bows, Yet they turned back in the day of battle.

Psa 78:10 They did not keep the covenant of God And refused to walk in His law;

Psa 78:11 They forgot His deeds And His miracles that He had shown them.

Psa 78:12 He wrought wonders before their fathers In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

Psa 78:13 He divided the sea and caused them to pass through, And He made the waters stand up like a heap.

Psa 78:14 Then He led them with the cloud by day And all the night with a light of fire.

Psa 78:15 He split the rocks in the wilderness And gave them abundant drink like the ocean depths.

Psa 78:16 He brought forth streams also from the rock And caused waters to run down like rivers.

Psa 78:17 Yet they still continued to sin against Him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.

Psa 78:18 And in their heart they put God to the test By asking food according to their desire.

Psa 78:19 Then they spoke against God; They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

Psa 78:20 "Behold, He struck the rock so that waters gushed out, And streams were overflowing; Can He give bread also? Will He provide meat for His people?"

Psa 78:21 Therefore the Lord heard and was full of wrath; And a fire was kindled against Jacob And anger also mounted against Israel,

Psa 78:22 Because they did not believe in God And did not trust in His salvation.

Psa 78:23 Yet He commanded the clouds above And opened the doors of heaven;

Psa 78:24 He rained down manna upon them to eat And gave them food from heaven.

Psa 78:25 Man did eat the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.

Psa 78:26 He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens And by His power He directed the south wind.

Psa 78:27 When He rained meat upon them like the dust, Even winged fowl like the sand of the seas,

Psa 78:28 Then He let them fall in the midst of their camp, Round about their dwellings.

Psa 78:29 So they ate and were well filled, And their desire He gave to them.

Psa 78:30 Before they had satisfied their desire, While their food was in their mouths,

Psa 78:31 The anger of God rose against them And killed some of their stoutest ones, And subdued the choice men of Israel.

Psa 78:32 In spite of all this they still sinned And did not believe in His wonderful works.

Psa 78:33 So He brought their days to an end in futility And their years in sudden terror.

Psa 78:34 When He killed them, then they sought Him, And returned and searched diligently for God;

Psa 78:35 And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their Redeemer.

Psa 78:36 But they deceived Him with their mouth And lied to Him with their tongue.

Psa 78:37 For their heart was not steadfast toward Him, Nor were they faithful in His covenant.

Psa 78:38 But He, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them; And often He restrained His anger And did not arouse all His wrath.

Psa 78:39 Thus He remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passes and does not return.

Psa 78:40 How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness And grieved Him in the desert!

Psa 78:41 Again and again they tempted God, And pained the Holy One of Israel.

Psa 78:42 They did not remember His power, The day when He redeemed them from the adversary,

Psa 78:43 When He performed His signs in Egypt And His marvels in the field of Zoan,

Psa 78:44 And turned their rivers to blood, And their streams, they could not drink.

Psa 78:45 He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them, And frogs which destroyed them.

Psa 78:46 He gave also their crops to the grasshopper And the product of their labor to the locust.

Psa 78:47 He destroyed their vines with hailstones And their sycamore trees with frost.

Psa 78:48 He gave over their cattle also to the hailstones And their herds to bolts of lightning.

Psa 78:49 He sent upon them His burning anger, Fury and indignation and trouble, A band of destroying angels.

Psa 78:50 He leveled a path for His anger; He did not spare their soul from death, But gave over their life to the plague,

Psa 78:51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt, The first issue of their virility in the tents of Ham.

Psa 78:52 But He led forth His own people like sheep And guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

Psa 78:53 He led them safely, so that they did not fear; But the sea engulfed their enemies.

Psa 78:54 So He brought them to His holy land, To this hill country which His right hand had gained.

Psa 78:55 He also drove out the nations before them And apportioned them for an inheritance by measurement, And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

Psa 78:56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God And did not keep His testimonies,

Psa 78:57 But turned back and acted treacherously like their fathers; They turned aside like a treacherous bow.

Psa 78:58 For they provoked Him with their high places And aroused His jealousy with their graven images.

Psa 78:59 When God heard, He was filled with wrath And greatly abhorred Israel;

Psa 78:60 So that He abandoned the dwelling place at Shiloh, The tent which He had pitched among men,

Psa 78:61 And gave up His strength to captivity And His glory into the hand of the adversary.

Psa 78:62 He also delivered His people to the sword, And was filled with wrath at His inheritance.

Psa 78:63 Fire devoured His young men, And His virgins had no wedding songs.

Psa 78:64 His priests fell by the sword, And His widows could not weep.

Psa 78:65 Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep, Like a warrior overcome by wine.

Psa 78:66 He drove His adversaries backward; He put on them an everlasting reproach.

Psa 78:67 He also rejected the tent of Joseph, And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,

Psa 78:68 But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which He loved.

Psa 78:69 And He built His sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which He has founded forever.

Psa 78:70 He also chose David His servant And took him from the sheepfolds;

Psa 78:71 From the care of the ewes with suckling lambs He brought him To shepherd Jacob His people, And Israel His inheritance.

Psa 78:72 So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them with his skillful hands.