Part 43

19:078:001 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

19:078:002 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

19:078:003 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

19:078:004 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.

19:078:005 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:

19:078:006 That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

19:078:007 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

19:078:008 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.

19:078:009 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

19:078:010 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

19:078:011 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.

19:078:012 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

19:078:013 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.

19:078:014 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.

19:078:015 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

19:078:016 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

19:078:017 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.

19:078:018 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

19:078:019 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

19:078:020 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?

19:078:021 Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;

19:078:022 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

19:078:023 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

19:078:024 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.

19:078:025 Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.

19:078:026 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.

19:078:027 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:

19:078:028 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.