---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Psalms from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 78
verse_count: 72
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Psalms, chap. 78, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Psalms 78

*An exhortation to learn, and teach the law of God God's wrath against the disobedient. Maschil of Asaph.*

**1** Give ear, O my people, to my law; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
**2** I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old;
**3** Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
**4** We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
**5** 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;
**6** That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children;
**7** That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;
**8** 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 steadfast with God.
**9** The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
**10** They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
**11** And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had showed them.
**12** Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
**13** He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as a heap.
**14** In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
**15** He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
**16** He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
**17** And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the Most High in the wilderness.
**18** And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
**19** Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
**20** 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?
**21** Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
**22** Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation;
**23** Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
**24** And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
**25** Man did eat angels' food; he sent them meat to the full.
**26** He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven; and by his power he brought in the south wind.
**27** He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea;
**28** And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
**29** So they did eat, and were well filled; for he gave them their own desire;
**30** They were not estranged from their lust; but while their meat was yet in their mouths,
**31** The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
**32** For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
**33** Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
**34** When he slew them, then they sought him; and they returned and inquired early after God.
**35** And they remembered that God was their Rock, and the high God their Redeemer.
**36** Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
**37** For their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant.
**38** But 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.
**39** For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
**40** How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
**41** Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
**42** They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy;
**43** How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan;
**44** And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
**45** He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
**46** He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust.
**47** He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost.
**48** He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
**49** He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
**50** He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
**51** And smote all the first-born in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham;
**52** But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
**53** And he led them on safely, so that they feared not; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
**54** And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
**55** He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
**56** Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not testimonies;
**57** But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers; they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
**58** For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
**59** When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel.
**60** So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
**61** And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.
**62** He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
**63** The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
**64** Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
**65** Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
**66** And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts; he put them to a perpetual reproach.
**67** Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim;
**68** But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
**69** And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
**70** He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
**71** From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
**72** So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.