1« Maschil of Asaph.» Give ear, O my people, [to] my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 2I will open my mouth in a parable: I will declare high sentences of olde. 3Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 4Wee will not hide them from their children but to the generation to come we wil shewe the praises of the Lord his power also, & his wonderful woorkes that he hath done: 5For 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: 6That the generation to come might know [them, even] the children [which] should be born; [who] should arise and declare [them] to their children: 7That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: 8And 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. 9The children of Ephraim, [being] armed, [and] carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. 10They kept not the couenant of God, but refused to walke in his Lawe, 11And forgate his Actes, and his wonderfull woorkes that he had shewed them. 12Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, [in] the field of Zoan. 13He deuided the Sea, & led them through: he made also the waters to stand as an heape. 14In the day time also hee led them with a cloude, and all the night with a light of fire. 15He claue the rockes in the wildernes, and gaue them drinke as of the great depths. 16He brought floods also out of the stonie rocke; so that hee made the waters to descend like the riuers. 17And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness. 18And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. 19Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? 20Behold, he smote the rocke, that the water gushed out, and the streames ouerflowed: can hee giue bread also? or prepare flesh for his people? 21Therefore the Lord heard and was angrie, and the fire was kindled in Iaakob, & also wrath came vpon Israel, 22Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation: 23Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven, 24And had rained downe MAN vpon them for to eate, and had giuen them of the wheate of heauen. 25Man did eate the bread of Angels: hee sent them meate ynough. 26He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind. 27Hee rained flesh also vpon them as dust, and feathered foule as the sand of the sea. 28And hee made it fall in the middes of their campe euen round about their habitations. 29So they did eate and were well filled: for he gaue them their desire. 30They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat [was] yet in their mouths, 31The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen [men] of Israel. 32For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works. 33Therefore their daies did hee consume in vanitie, and their yeeres hastily. 34When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God. 35And they remembred that God was their strength, and the most high God their redeemer. 36But they flattered him with their mouth, and dissembled with him with their tongue. 37For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant. 38But he, [being] full of compassion, forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath. 39For he remebred that they were flesh: yea, a winde that passeth and commeth not againe. 40How oft did they prouoke him in the wildernes? and grieue him in the desert? 41Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. 42They remembered not his hand, [nor] the day when he delivered them from the enemy. 43Nor him that set his signes in Egypt, and his wonders in the fielde of Zoan, 44And turned their riuers into blood, & their floods, that they could not drinke. 45He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. 46He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust. 47He destroied their vines with haile, & their wilde figge trees with the hailestone. 48He gaue their cattell also to the haile, and their flockes to the thunderboltes. 49He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels [among them]. 50He made a way to his anger: he spared not their soule from death, but gaue their life to the pestilence, 51And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of [their] strength in the tabernacles of Ham: 52But hee made his people to goe out like sheepe, & led them in the wildernes like a flocke. 53And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. 54And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, [even to] this mountain, [which] his right hand had purchased. 55He cast out the heathe also before them, and caused them to fall to the lot of his inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles. 56Yet they tempted, and prouoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies, 57But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. 58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. 59God heard this and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel, 60So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent [which] he placed among men; 61And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand. 62And hee gaue vp his people to the sworde, and was angrie with his inheritance. 63The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage. 64Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation. 65Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, [and] like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. 66And smote his enemies in the hinder parts, and put them to a perpetuall shame. 67Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: 68But chose the tribe of Iudah, and mount Zion which he loued. 69And he built his sanctuary like high [palaces], like the earth which he hath established for ever. 70He chose Dauid also his seruant, and tooke him from the shepefolds. 71Euen from behinde the ewes with yong brought he him to feede his people in Iaakob, and his inheritance in Israel. 72So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.