God

Thou art terrible, and who shall resist thee? from that time thy wrath.

Thou hast caused judgment to be heard from heaven: the earth trembled and was still,

Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of Asaph.

I cried to the Lord with my voice; to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me.

In the days of my trouble I sought God, with my hands lifted up to him in the night, and I was not deceived. My soul refused to be comforted:

I thought upon the days of old: and I had in my mind the eternal years.

And I meditated in the night with my own heart: and I was exercised and I swept my spirit.

Or will he cut off his mercy for ever, from generation to generation?

Or will God forget to shew mercy? or will he in his anger shut up his mercies?

And I said, Now have I begun: this is the change of the right hand of the most High.

I remembered the works of the Lord: for I will be mindful of thy wonders from the beginning.

Understanding for Asaph. Attend, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning.

How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

That they may put their hope in God and may not forget the works of God: and may seek his commandments.

That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: they have turned back in the day of battle.

They kept not the covenant of God: and in his law they would not walk.

And they forgot his benefits, and his wonders that he had shewn them.

Wonderful things did he do in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Tanis.

He divided the sea and brought them through: and he made the waters to stand as in a vessel.

And he conducted them with a cloud by day: and all the night with a light of fire.

He struck the rock in the wilderness: and gave them to drink, as out of the great deep.

He brought forth water out of the rock: and made streams run down as rivers.

And they added yet more sin against him: they provoked the most High to wrath in the place without water.