1  The learning of Asaph. My people, perceive ye my law; bow your ear into the words of my mouth.

2 I shall open my mouth in parables; I shall speak perfect reasons [or propositions] from the beginning.

3 How great things have we heard, and we have known those [or them]; and our fathers told to us.

4 Those [or They] be not hid from the sons of them; in another generation. And they told the praisings of the Lord, and the virtues of him; and his marvels, which he did.

5 And he raised witnessing in Jacob; and he setted law in Israel. How great things commanded he to our fathers, to make those known to their sons;

6 that another generation know. Sons, that shall be born, and shall rise up; shall tell out to their sons.

7 That they set [or put] their hope in God, and forget not the works of God; and that they seek or search his commandments.

8 Lest they be made a shrewd generation; and stirring to wrath, as the fathers of them. A generation that dressed not his heart; and his spirit was not believed with God.

9 The sons of Ephraim, bending a bow, and sending arrows; were turned in the day of battle.

10 They kept not the testament of God; and they would not go in his law.

11 And they forgat his benificences [or benefits]; and his marvels, which he showed to them.

12 He did marvels before the fathers of them, in the land of Egypt; in the field of Tanis.

13 He brake the sea, and led them through it; and he ordained the waters as in a bouget [or bottle].

14 And he led them forth in a cloud of the day; and all night in the lightening of fire.

15 He brake a stone in desert; and he gave water to them as in a much depth.

16 And he led water out of the stone; and he led forth waters as floods.

17 And they putted yet to do sin against him; they excited the high God into ire, in a place without water.

18 And they tempted God in their hearts; that they asked meats to their lives.

19 And they spake evil of God; they said, Whether God may make ready a board in desert?

20 For he smote a stone, and waters flowed; and streams went out in abundance. Whether also he may give bread; either make ready a board to his people?

21 Therefore the Lord heard, and delayed; and fire was kindled in Jacob, and the ire of God ascended [or went up] on Israel.

22 For they believed not in God; neither hoped in his health.

23 And he commanded to the clouds above; and he opened the gates of heaven.

24 And he rained to them manna for to eat; and he gave to them bread of heaven.

25 Man ate the bread of angels; he sent to them meats in abundance.

26 He turned over the south wind from heaven; and he brought in by his virtue the west wind.

27 And he rained fleshes as dust on them; and also volatiles feathered, as the gravel of the sea.

28 And those felled in the midst of their castles [or they fell in the middle of the tents of them]; about the taber-nacles of them.

29 And they ate, and were filled greatly, and he brought their desire to them;

30 they were not defrauded of their desire. Yet their meats were in their mouth;

31 and the wrath of God ascended [or went up] on them. And he killed the fat men of them; and he hindered the chosen men of Israel.

32 In all these things they sinned yet; and believed not in the marvels of God.

33 And the days of them failed in vanity; and the years of them failed with haste.

34 When he killed them, they sought him; and they turned again, and early they came to him.

35 And they bethought, that God is the helper of them; and the high God is the again-buyer of them.

36 And they loved him in their mouth; and with their tongue they lied to him.

37 Forsooth the heart of them was not rightful [or right] with him; neither they were had faithful in his testament.

38 But he is merciful, and he shall be made merciful to the sins of them; and he shall not destroy them. And he did greatly, to turn away his ire; and he kindled not all his ire.

39 And he bethought, that they be flesh; a spirit going, and not turning again.

40 How oft made they him wroth in desert; they stirred him into ire in a place without water.

41 And they were turned, and tempted God; and they wrathed the Holy of Israel.

42 They bethought not on his hand; in the day in which he again-bought them from the hand of the troubler.

43 As he setted [or put] his signs in Egypt; and his great wonders in the field of Tanis.

44 And he turned the floods of them, and the rains of them, into blood; that they should not drink.

45 He sent a flesh fly [or hound flea] into them, and it ate them; and he sent a paddock [or frog], and it lost them.

46 And he gave the fruits of them to rust; and he gave the travails of them to locusts.

47 And he killed the vines of them with hail; and the sycamore trees of them with frost.

48 And he betook the beasts of them to hail; and the possessions of them to fire.

49 He sent into them the ire of his indignation; indignation, and ire, and tribulation, sendings-in by evil angels.

50 He made a way to the path of his ire, and he spared not from the death of their lives; and he enclosed alto-gether in death the beasts of them.

51 And he smote all the first engen-dered things [or first begotten] in the land of Egypt; the first fruits of all the travail of them in the tabernacles of Ham.

52 And he took away his people as sheep; and he led them forth as a flock in desert.

53 And he led them forth in hope, and they dreaded not; and the sea covered the enemies of them.

54 And he brought them into the hill of his hallowing; into the hill which his right hand gat.

55 And he casted out heathen men from the face of them; and by lot he parted to them the land in a cord of dealing. And he made the lineages of Israel to dwell in the tabernacles of them.

56 And they tempted, and wrathed the high God; and they kept not his witnessings.

57 And they turned away themselves, and they kept not covenant; as their fathers they were turned into a shrewd bow.

58 They stirred him into ire in their little hills; and they stirred him to indignation in their graven images.

59 God heard, and forsook; and brought to nought Israel greatly.

60 And he putted [or put] away the tabernacle of Shiloh; his tabernacle in which he dwelled among men.

61 And he betook the virtue of them into captivity; and the fairness of them into the hands of the enemy.

62 And he enclosed altogether his people in sword; and he despised his heritage.

63 Fire ate the young men of them; and the virgins of them were not bewailed or bewept.

64 The priests of them fell down by sword; and the widows of them were not bewept.

65 And the Lord was raised, as sleeping; as mighty greatly filled [or drunk] of wine.

66 And he smote his enemies on the hinder parts; he gave to them ever-lasting shame.

67 And he putted [or put] away the tabernacle of Joseph; and he chose not the lineage of Ephraim.

68 But he chose the lineage of Judah; he chose the hill of Zion, which he loved.

69 And he as an unicorn builded his holy place; in the land, which he founded into worlds.

70 And he chose David his servant, and took him up from the flocks of sheep;

71 he took him from behind sheep with lambs. To feed Jacob his servant; and Israel his heritage.

72 And he fed them in the inno-cence of his heart; and he led them forth in the understandings of his hands.