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Psalm 77

¹I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.
²In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
³I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
⁴Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
⁵I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
⁶I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
⁷Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
⁸Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?
⁹Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
¹⁰And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
¹¹I will remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.
¹²I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
¹³Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?
¹⁴Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.
¹⁵Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
¹⁶The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
¹⁷The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.
¹⁸The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
¹⁹Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
²⁰Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

24And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
¹⁰And David’s heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the Lord, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O Lord, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
¹¹For when David was up in the morning, the word of the Lord came unto the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,
¹²Go and say unto David, Thus saith the Lord, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
¹³So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days’ pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
¹⁴And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
¹⁵So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
¹⁶And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
¹⁷And David spake unto the Lord when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father’s house.
¹⁸And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the Lord in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.
¹⁹And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the Lord commanded.
²⁰And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground.
²¹And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the Lord, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
²²And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood.
²³All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The Lord thy God accept thee.
²⁴And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the Lord my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
²⁵And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the Lord was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.

¹⁶I say again, let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
¹⁷That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
¹⁸Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
¹⁹For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
²⁰For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
²¹I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
²²Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
²³Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
²⁴Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
²⁵Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
²⁶In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
²⁷In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
²⁸Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
²⁹Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
³⁰If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
³¹The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
³²In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
³³And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.