Douay Rheims Original ↷
Psalm 77 📜 📕 ↷
In the Day of Trouble I Sought the Lord
1 UNDERSTANDING to Asaph. My people attend ye to my law: incline your ear unto the words of my mouth.📜💬📚
2 I will open my mouth in parables: I will speak propositions from the beginning.📜💬📚
3 How great things have we heard and have known them, and our fathers have told us.📜💬📚
4 They were not hid from their children, in an other generation. Telling the praises of our Lord, and his powers, and his marvelous works which he hath done.📜💬📚
5 And he raised up a testimony in Jacob: and made a law in Israel. How great things he commanded our fathers, to make the same known to their children:📜💬📚
6 that an other generation may know. The children that shall be born, and shall rise up, and shall tell their children.📜💬📚
7 That they may put their hope in God, and may not forget the works of God: and may seek after his commandments.📜💬📚
8 That they become not as their fathers: a perverse generation and exasperating. A generation, that hath not directect their heart, their spirit hath not been faithful toward God.📜💬📚
9 The children of Ephrem bending, and shooting with bow: were turned in the day of battle.📜💬📚
10 They kept not the testament of God: and in his law they would not walk.📜💬📚
11 And they forgat his benefits, and his marvelous works, which he shewed them.📜💬📚
12 Before their fathers he did marvelous things in the land of AEgypt, in the field of Tanis.📜💬📚
13 He divided the sea & brought them through: and he made the waters to stand as in a bottle.📜💬📚
14 And he conducted them in a cloud by day: and all the night by light of fire.📜💬📚
15 He struck the rock in the desert: and gave them water to drink as in a great depth.📜💬📚
16 And he brought forth water out of the rock: and made waters run down as rivers.📜💬📚
17 And they added as yet to sin unto him: they provoked the Highest to wrath in the place without water.📜💬📚
18 And they tempted God in their hearts: so that they asked meats for their lives.📜💬📚
19 And they spake evil of God, they said: Can God prepare a table in the desert?📜💬📚
20 Because he struck the rock and waters ran, & torrents flowed: Can he also give bread, or prepare a table for his people?📜💬📚
21 Therefore our Lord heard, and made delay: and fire was kindled in Jacob, and wrath ascended upon Israel.📜💬📚
22 Because they believed not in God, nor hoped in his salvation.📜💬📚
23 And he commanded the clouds from above, and opened the gates of heaven.📜💬📚
24 And he rained them Manna to eat, and bread of heaven he gave to them.📜💬📚
25 Bread of Angels did man eat: he sent them victuals in aboundance.📜💬📚
26 He transported the South-wind from heaven: and in his power he brought in the South-west-wind.📜💬📚
27 And he rained upon them flesh as dust: and as the sand of the sea feathered fowls.📜💬📚
28 And they fell in the midst of their camp: about their tabernacles.📜💬📚
29 And they did eat and were filled exceedingly, and their desire he brought to them:📜💬📚
30 They were not defrauded of their desire. As yet their meats were in their mouth:📜💬📚
31 And the wrath of God ascended upon them. And he killed their fat ones, and the chosen of Israel he hindered.📜💬📚
32 In all these things they sinned as yet: and they believed not in his marvelous works.📜💬📚
33 And their days failed in vanity: and their years in haste.📜💬📚
34 When he slew them, they sought him: and they returned, and early they came to him.📜💬📚
35 And they remembered that God is their helper: and the high God is their redeemer.📜💬📚
36 And they loved him with their mouth, and with their tongue they did lie to him.📜💬📚
37 But their heart was not right with him: neither were they counted faithful in his testament.📜💬📚
38 But he is merciful, and will be propitious to their sins: and he will not destroy them. And he abounded to turn away his wrath: and he kindled not all his wrath.📜💬📚
39 And he remembered that they are flesh: spirit going, and not returning.📜💬📚
40 How often have they exasperated him in the desert: provoked him to wrath in the place without water.📜💬📚
41 And they returned, and tempted God: and the holy one of Israel they exasperated.📜💬📚
42 They did not remember his hand: in the day that he redeemed them from the hand of the afflicter.📜💬📚
43 As he put his signs in AEgypt, and his wonders in the field of Tanis.📜💬📚
44 And he turned their rivers into blood, & their showers that they might not drink.📜💬📚
45 He sent upon them a swarm of flies, and it eat them: and the frog, and it destroyed them.📜💬📚
46 And he gave their fruits to the blast, and their labours to the locust.📜💬📚
47 And he killed their vineyards with hail: and their mulberry trees with hoar-frost.📜💬📚
48 And he delivered their beast to hail: and their possession to fire.📜💬📚
49 He sent upon them the wrath of his indignation: indignation, & wrath, and tribulation: immissions by evil angels.📜💬📚
50 He made a way to the path of his wrath, he spared not their lives from death: and their cattle he shut up in death.📜💬📚
51 And he struck all the first-born in the land of AEgypt: the first fruits of all their labours in the tabernacles of Cham.📜💬📚
52 And he took away his people as sheep: and led them as a flock in the desert.📜💬📚
53 And he brought them forth in hope, and they feared not: and the sea covered their enemies.📜💬📚
54 And he brought them into the mount of his sanctification, the mount, which his right hand purchased. And he cast out the gentiles from their face: and by lot he divided the land of them in a cord of distribution:📜💬📚
55 And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.📜💬📚
56 And they tempted, and exasperated God the highest, and they kept not his testimonies.📜💬📚
57 And they turned away themselves, & kept not the covenant: even as their fathers, they were turned as a crooked bow.📜💬📚
58 They incensed him to wrath in their hills: and in their gravens they provoked him to emulation.📜💬📚
59 God heard, and contemned: and he brought Israel to nothing exceedingly📜💬📚
60 And he rejected the tabernacle of Silo, his tabernacle, where he dwelt among men.📜💬📚
61 And he delivered their force into captivity: and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.📜💬📚
62 And he shut up his people in the sword: and he despised his inheritance.📜💬📚
63 Fire devoured their young men: and their virgins were not lamented.📜💬📚
64 Their Priests fell by the sword: and their widows were not wept for.📜💬📚
65 And our Lord was raised up as one that sleepeth: as a mighty man having surfeited of wine.📜💬📚
66 And he struck his enemies on the hinder parts: an everlasting reproach he gave to them.📜💬📚
67 And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph: and the tribe of Ephraim he chose not.📜💬📚
68 But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved.📜💬📚
69 And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns in the land, which he hath founded for ever.📜💬📚
70 And he chose David his servant, and took him from the flocks of sheep: from after the ewes with young he took him.📜💬📚
71 To feed Jacob his servant, and Israel his inheritance.📜💬📚
72 And he fed them in the innocency of his heart: and in the understandings of his hands he conducted them.📜💬📚
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