Top Verses from Psalms 78  

A maskil of Asaph. My people, hear my teaching; listen to the words of my mouth. (NIV)

A skillful song, or a didactic or reflective poem, of Asaph. GIVE EAR, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth. (AMP)

Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. (KJV)

I will open my mouth with a parable; I will teach you lessons from the past – (NIV)

I will open my mouth in a parable (in instruction by numerous examples); I will utter dark sayings of old [that hide important truth]--[Matt. 13:34, 35.] (AMP)

I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: (KJV)

We will not hide them from their descendants; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD, his power, and the wonders he has done. (NIV)

We will not hide them from their children, but we will tell to the generation to come the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, and His might, and the wonderful works that He has performed. (AMP)

We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. (KJV)

He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach their children (NIV)

For He established a testimony (an express precept) in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, commanding our fathers that they should make [the great facts of God's dealings with Israel] known to their children (AMP)

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: (KJV)

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the wasteland! (NIV)

How often they defied and rebelled against Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert! (AMP)

How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! (KJV)

He rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them the grain of heaven. (NIV)

And He rained down upon them manna to eat and gave them heaven's grain. [Exod. 16:14; John 6:31.] (AMP)

And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. (KJV)

He chose David his servant and took him from the sheep pens (NIV)

He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds; [I Sam. 16:11, 12.] (AMP)

He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds: (KJV)

And David shepherded them with integrity of heart; with skillful hands he led them. (NIV)

So [David] was their shepherd with an upright heart; he guided them by the discernment and skillfulness [which controlled] his hands. (AMP)

So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. (KJV)

He unleashed against them his hot anger, his wrath, indignation and hostility – a band of destroying angels. (NIV)

He let loose upon them the fierceness of His anger, His wrath and indignation and distress, by sending [a mission of] angels of calamity and woe among them. (AMP)

He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. (KJV)

Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, as a warrior wakes from the stupor of wine. (NIV)

Then the Lord awakened as from sleep, as a strong man whose consciousness of power is heightened by wine. (AMP)

Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. (KJV)