Propositions... Deep and mysterious sayings. By this it appears that the historical facts of ancient times, commemorated in this psalm, were deep and mysterious: as being figures of great truths appertaining to the time of the New Testament. 77:3. How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 77:4. They have not been hidden from their children, in another generation. Declaring the praises of the Lord, and his powers, and his wonders which he hath done. 77:5. And he set up a testimony in Jacob: and made a law in Israel. How great things he commanded our fathers, that they should make the same known to their children: 77:6. That another generation might know them. The children that should be born and should rise up, and declare them to their children. 77:7. That they may put their hope in God and may not forget the works of God: and may seek his commandments. 77:8. 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. 77:9. The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: they have turned back in the day of battle. 77:10. They kept not the covenant of God: and in his law they would not walk. 77:11. And they forgot his benefits, and his wonders that he had shewn them. 77:12. Wonderful things did he do in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Tanis. 77:13. He divided the sea and brought them through: and he made the waters to stand as in a vessel. 77:14. And he conducted them with a cloud by day: and all the night with a light of fire. 77:15. He struck the rock in the wilderness: and gave them to drink, as out of the great deep. 77:16. He brought forth water out of the rock: and made streams run down as rivers. 77:17. And they added yet more sin against him: they provoked the most High to wrath in the place without water. 77:18. And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their desires. 77:19. And they spoke ill of God: they said: Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? 77:20. Because he struck the rock, and the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed. Can he also give bread, or provide a table for his people? 77:21. Therefore the Lord heard, and was angry: and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel. 77:22. Because they believed not in God: and trusted not in his salvation. 77:23. And he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of heaven. 77:24. And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the bread of heaven. 77:25. Man ate the bread of angels: he sent them provisions in abundance. 77:26. He removed the south wind from heaven: and by his power brought in the southwest wind. 77:27. And he rained upon them flesh as dust: and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea. 77:28. And they fell in the midst of their camp, round about their pavilions.