Psalm 76-80

New King James Version

⁴ You are more glorious and excellent
^(B)Than the mountains of prey.
^5 (C)The stouthearted were plundered;
^(D)They ^[c]have sunk into their sleep;
And none of the mighty men have found the use of their hands.
^6 (E)At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob,
Both the chariot and horse were cast into a dead sleep.

⁷ You, Yourself, are to be feared;
And ^(F)who may stand in Your presence
When once You are angry?
^8 (G)You caused judgment to be heard from heaven;
^(H)The earth feared and was still,
⁹ When God ^(I)arose to judgment,
To deliver all the oppressed of the earth. Selah

^10 (J)Surely the wrath of man shall praise You;
With the remainder of wrath You shall gird Yourself.

^11 (K)Make vows to the Lord your God, and pay them;
^(L)Let all who are around Him bring presents to Him who ought to be feared.
¹² He shall cut off the spirit of princes;
^(M)He is awesome to the kings of the earth.

⁴ You hold my eyelids open;
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
⁵ I have considered the days of old,
The years of ancient times.
⁶ I call to remembrance my song in the night;
I meditate within my heart,
And my spirit ^[d]makes diligent search.

⁷ Will the Lord cast off forever?
And will He be favorable no more?
⁸ Has His mercy ceased forever?
Has His ^(O)promise failed ^[e]forevermore?
⁹ Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Has He in anger shut up His tender mercies? Selah

¹⁰ And I said, “This is my ^[f]anguish;
But I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
¹¹ I will remember the works of the Lord;
Surely I will remember Your wonders of old.
¹² I will also meditate on all Your work,
And talk of Your deeds.
¹³ Your way, O God, is in ^[g]the ^(P)sanctuary;
Who is so great a God as our God?
¹⁴ You are the God who does wonders;
You have declared Your strength among the peoples.
¹⁵ You have with Your arm redeemed Your people,
The sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah

¹⁶ The waters saw You, O God;
The waters saw You, they were ^(Q)afraid;
The depths also trembled.
¹⁷ The clouds poured out water;
The skies sent out a sound;
Your arrows also flashed about.
¹⁸ The voice of Your thunder was in the whirlwind;
The lightnings lit up the world;
The earth trembled and shook.
¹⁹ Your way was in the sea,
Your path in the great waters,
And Your footsteps were not known.
²⁰ You led Your people like a flock
By the hand of Moses and Aaron.

⁵ For ^(V)He established a testimony in Jacob,
And appointed a law in Israel,
Which He commanded our fathers,
That ^(W)they should make them known to their children;
^6 (X)That the generation to come might know them,
The children who would be born,
That they may arise and declare them to their children,
⁷ That they may set their hope in God,
And not forget the works of God,
But keep His commandments;
⁸ And ^(Y)may not be like their fathers,
^(Z)A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation ^(AA)that did not ^[j]set its heart aright,
And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

⁹ The children of Ephraim, being armed and ^[k]carrying bows,
Turned back in the day of battle.
^10 (AB)They did not keep the covenant of God;
They refused to walk in His law,
¹¹ And ^(AC)forgot His works
And His wonders that He had shown them.

^12 (AD)Marvelous things He did in the sight of their fathers,
In the land of Egypt, ^(AE)in the field of Zoan.
^13 (AF)He divided the sea and caused them to pass through;
And ^(AG)He made the waters stand up like a heap.
^14 (AH)In the daytime also He led them with the cloud,
And all the night with a light of fire.
^15 (AI)He split the rocks in the wilderness,
And gave them drink in abundance like the depths.
¹⁶ He also brought ^(AJ)streams out of the rock,
And caused waters to run down like rivers.

¹⁷ But they sinned even more against Him
By ^(AK)rebelling against the Most High in the wilderness.
¹⁸ And ^(AL)they tested God in their heart
By asking for the food of their fancy.
^19 (AM)Yes, they spoke against God:
They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
^20 (AN)Behold, He struck the rock,
So that the waters gushed out,
And the streams overflowed.
Can He give bread also?
Can He provide meat for His people?”

²¹ Therefore the Lord heard this and ^(AO)was furious;
So a fire was kindled against Jacob,
And anger also came up against Israel,
²² Because they ^(AP)did not believe in God,
And did not trust in His salvation.
²³ Yet He had commanded the clouds above,
^(AQ)And opened the doors of heaven,
^24 (AR)Had rained down manna on them to eat,
And given them of the ^[l]bread of ^(AS)heaven.
²⁵ Men ate angels’ food;
He sent them food to ^[m]the full.

^26 (AT)He caused an east wind to blow in the heavens;
And by His power He brought in the south wind.
²⁷ He also rained meat on them like the dust,
Feathered fowl like the sand of the seas;
²⁸ And He let them fall in the midst of their camp,
All around their dwellings.
^29 (AU)So they ate and were well filled,
For He gave them their own desire.
³⁰ They were not ^[n]deprived of their craving;
But ^(AV)while their food was still in their mouths,
³¹ The wrath of God came against them,
And slew the stoutest of them,
And struck down the choice men of Israel.

³² In spite of this ^(AW)they still sinned,
And ^(AX)did not believe in His wondrous works.
^33 (AY)Therefore their days He consumed in futility,
And their years in fear.

^34 (AZ)When He slew them, then they sought Him;
And they returned and sought earnestly for God.
³⁵ Then they remembered that ^(BA)God was their rock,
And the Most High God ^(BB)their Redeemer.
³⁶ Nevertheless they ^(BC)flattered Him with their mouth,
And they lied to Him with their tongue;
³⁷ For their heart was not steadfast with Him,
Nor were they faithful in His covenant.
^38 (BD)But He, being full of ^(BE)compassion, forgave their iniquity,
And did not destroy them.
Yes, many a time ^(BF)He turned His anger away,
And ^(BG)did not stir up all His wrath;
³⁹ For ^(BH)He remembered ^(BI)that they were but flesh,
^(BJ)A breath that passes away and does not come again.

⁴⁰ How often they ^(BK)provoked^[o] Him in the wilderness,
And grieved Him in the desert!
⁴¹ Yes, ^(BL)again and again they tempted God,
And limited the Holy One of Israel.
⁴² They did not remember His ^[p]power:
The day when He redeemed them from the enemy,
⁴³ When He worked His signs in Egypt,
And His wonders in the field of Zoan;
^44 (BM)Turned their rivers into blood,
And their streams, that they could not drink.
^45 (BN)He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them,
And ^(BO)frogs, which destroyed them.
⁴⁶ He also gave their crops to the caterpillar,
And their labor to the ^(BP)locust.
^47 (BQ)He destroyed their vines with hail,
And their sycamore trees with frost.
⁴⁸ He also gave up their ^(BR)cattle to the hail,
And their flocks to fiery ^[q]lightning.
⁴⁹ He cast on them the fierceness of His anger,
Wrath, indignation, and trouble,
By sending angels of destruction among them.
⁵⁰ He made a path for His anger;
He did not spare their soul from death,
But gave ^[r]their life over to the plague,
⁵¹ And destroyed all the ^(BS)firstborn in Egypt,
The first of their strength in the tents of Ham.
⁵² But He ^(BT)made His own people go forth like sheep,
And guided them in the wilderness like a flock;
⁵³ And He ^(BU)led them on safely, so that they did not fear;
But the sea ^(BV)overwhelmed their enemies.
⁵⁴ And He brought them to His ^(BW)holy border,
This mountain ^(BX)which His right hand had acquired.
^55 (BY)He also drove out the nations before them,
^(BZ)Allotted them an inheritance by ^[s]survey,
And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

^56 (CA)Yet they tested and provoked the Most High God,
And did not keep His testimonies,
⁵⁷ But ^(CB)turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers;
They were turned aside ^(CC)like a deceitful bow.
^58 (CD)For they provoked Him to anger with their ^(CE)high places,
And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.
⁵⁹ When God heard this, He was furious,
And greatly abhorred Israel,
^60 (CF)So that He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh,
The tent He had placed among men,
^61 (CG)And delivered His strength into captivity,
And His glory into the enemy’s hand.
^62 (CH)He also gave His people over to the sword,
And was furious with His inheritance.
⁶³ The fire consumed their young men,
And ^(CI)their maidens were not given in marriage.
^64 (CJ)Their priests fell by the sword,
And ^(CK)their widows made no lamentation.

⁶⁵ Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,
^(CL)Like a mighty man who shouts because of wine.
⁶⁶ And ^(CM)He beat back His enemies;
He put them to a perpetual reproach.

⁶⁷ Moreover He rejected the tent of Joseph,
And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
⁶⁸ But chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion ^(CN)which He loved.
⁶⁹ And He built His ^(CO)sanctuary like the heights,
Like the earth which He has established forever.
^70 (CP)He also chose David His servant,
And took him from the sheepfolds;
⁷¹ From following ^(CQ)the ewes that had young He brought him,
^(CR)To shepherd Jacob His people,
And Israel His inheritance.
⁷² So he shepherded them according to the ^(CS)integrity of his heart,
And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

^5 (CX)How long, Lord?
Will You be angry forever?
Will Your ^(CY)jealousy burn like fire?
^6 (CZ)Pour out Your wrath on the ^[v]nations that ^(DA)do not know You,
And on the kingdoms that ^(DB)do not call on Your name.
⁷ For they have devoured Jacob,
And laid waste his dwelling place.

^8 (DC)Oh, do not remember ^[w]former iniquities against us!
Let Your tender mercies come speedily to meet us,
For we have been brought very low.
⁹ Help us, O God of our salvation,
For the glory of Your name;
And deliver us, and provide atonement for our sins,
^(DD)For Your name’s sake!
^10 (DE)Why should the ^[x]nations say,
“Where is their God?”
Let there be known among the nations in our sight
The avenging of the blood of Your servants which has been shed.

¹¹ Let ^(DF)the groaning of the prisoner come before You;
According to the greatness of Your ^[y]power
Preserve those who are appointed to die;
¹² And return to our neighbors ^(DG)sevenfold into their bosom
^(DH)Their reproach with which they have reproached You, O Lord.

¹³ So ^(DI)we, Your people and sheep of Your pasture,
Will give You thanks forever;
^(DJ)We will show forth Your praise to all generations.

^3 (DP)Restore us, O God;
^(DQ)Cause Your face to shine,
And we shall be saved!

⁴ O Lord God of hosts,
^(DR)How long will You be angry
Against the prayer of Your people?
^5 (DS)You have fed them with the bread of tears,
And given them tears to drink in great measure.
⁶ You have made us a strife to our neighbors,
And our enemies laugh among themselves.

⁷ Restore us, O God of hosts;
Cause Your face to shine,
And we shall be saved!

⁸ You have brought ^(DT)a vine out of Egypt;
^(DU)You have cast out the ^[ab]nations, and planted it.
⁹ You prepared room for it,
And caused it to take deep root,
And it filled the land.
¹⁰ The hills were covered with its shadow,
And the ^[ac]mighty cedars with its ^(DV)boughs.
¹¹ She sent out her boughs to ^[ad]the Sea,
And her branches to ^[ae]the River.

¹² Why have You ^(DW)broken down her ^[af]hedges,
So that all who pass by the way pluck her fruit?
¹³ The boar out of the woods uproots it,
And the wild beast of the field devours it.

¹⁴ Return, we beseech You, O God of hosts;
^(DX)Look down from heaven and see,
And visit this vine
¹⁵ And the vineyard which Your right hand has planted,
And the branch that You made strong ^(DY)for Yourself.
¹⁶ It is burned with fire, it is cut down;
^(DZ)They perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.
^17 (EA)Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand,
Upon the son of man whom You made strong for Yourself.
¹⁸ Then we will not turn back from You;
Revive us, and we will call upon Your name.

¹⁹ Restore us, O Lord God of hosts;
Cause Your face to shine,
And we shall be saved!