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Bible study · Psalm 78:1-72

Psalm 78: I will open my mouth in a parable

Read Psalm 78:1-72 before you meet.

In a few lines

Psalm 78 tells Israel's story in 72 verses and never names Moses; every act is God's, and the one leader it names is David, taken "from the sheepfolds" (78:70). In between, the people forget and remember, and God "remembered that they were but flesh" (78:39). And its opening, "I will open my mouth in a parable" (78:2), is the line Matthew gives for Jesus' parables (Matthew 13:35).

The verse to carry

“that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God’s deeds, but keep his commandments,”

Psalm 78:7

To talk about

  1. 1. The psalm is told "to the generation to come" (78:4). What has God done in your life, or in your family's, that you would want someone younger to know?

  2. 2. "They remembered that God was their rock" (78:35), and then "they flattered him with their mouth" (78:36). When is it hardest for you to mean what you say to God?

  3. 3. "He remembered that they were but flesh" (78:39). How does it change the way you pray, to know that God remembers what you are?

Prayer requests