God is SHE/God is THEY Psalms

Psalm 78

A maskil of Asaph.
1. Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2. I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
3. Which we have heard and known, and our ancestors have told us.
4. We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and Her strength, and Her wonderful works that She hath done.
5. For She established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which She commanded our ancestors, that they should make them known to their children:
6. That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
7. That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep Her commandments:
8. And might not be as their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
9. The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
10. They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in Her law;
11. And forgat Her works, and Her wonders that She had shewed them.
12. Marvellous things did She in the sight of their ancestors, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
13. She divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and She made the waters to stand as an heap.
14. In the daytime also She led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
15. She clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
16. She brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
17. And they sinned yet more against Her by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
18. And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
19. Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
20. Behold, She smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can She give bread also? can She provide flesh for Her people?
21. Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
22. Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in Her salvation:
23. Though She had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
24. And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
25. The people did eat angels' food: She sent them meat to the full.
26. She caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by Her power She brought in the south wind.
27. She rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
28. And She let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
29. So they did eat, and were well filled: for She gave them their own desire;
30. They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
31. The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen people of Israel.
32. For all this they sinned still, and believed not for Her wondrous works.
33. Therefore their days did She consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
34. When She slew them, then they sought Her: and they returned and enquired early after God.
35. And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
36. Nevertheless they did flatter Her with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
37. For their heart was not right with Her, neither were they stedfast in Her covenant.
38. But She, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned She Her anger away, and did not stir up all Her wrath.
39. For She remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
40. How oft did they provoke Her in the wilderness, and grieve Her in the desert!
41. Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
42. They remembered not Her hand, nor the day when She delivered them from the enemy.
43. How She had wrought Her signs in Egypt, and Her wonders in the field of Zoan.
44. And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
45. She sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
46. She gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
47. She destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
48. She gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
49. She cast upon them the fierceness of Her anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
50. She made a way to Her anger; She spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
51. And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
52. But made Her own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53. And She led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54. And She brought them to the border of Her sanctuary, even to this mountain, which Her right hand had purchased.
55. She cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
56. Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not Her testimonies:
57. But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their ancestors: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
58. For they provoked Her to anger with their high places, and moved Her to jealousy with their graven images.
59. When God heard this, She was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
60. So that She forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which She placed among Her people;
61. And delivered Hers strength into captivity, and Her glory into the enemy's hand.
62. She gave Her people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with Her inheritance.
63. The fire consumed their warriors; and their youth were not given to marriage.
64. Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
65. Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a warrior that shouteth by reason of wine.
66. And She smote Her enemies in the hinder parts: She put them to a perpetual reproach.
67. Moreover She refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
68. But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which She loved.
69. And She built Her sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which She hath established for ever.
70. She chose David also Her servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
71. From following the ewes great with young She brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
72. So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.