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| 78:1 |
Listen, O my people, to my instruction; Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
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| 78:2 |
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,
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| 78:3 |
Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.
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| 78:4 |
We will not conceal them from their children, But tell to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, And His strength and His wondrous works that He has done.
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| 78:5 |
For He established a testimony in Jacob And appointed a law in Israel, Which He commanded our fathers That they should teach them to their children,
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| 78:6 |
That the generation to come might know, even the children yet to be born, That they may arise and tell them to their children,
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| 78:7 |
That they should put their confidence in God And not forget the works of God, But keep His commandments,
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| 78:8 |
And not be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that did not prepare its heart And whose spirit was not faithful to God.
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| 78:9 |
The sons of Ephraim were archers equipped with bows, Yet they turned back in the day of battle.
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| 78:10 |
They did not keep the covenant of God And refused to walk in His law;
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| 78:11 |
They forgot His deeds And His miracles that He had shown them.
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| 78:12 |
He wrought wonders before their fathers In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
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| 78:13 |
He divided the sea and caused them to pass through, And He made the waters stand up like a heap.
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| 78:14 |
Then He led them with the cloud by day And all the night with a light of fire.
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| 78:15 |
He split the rocks in the wilderness And gave them abundant drink like the ocean depths.
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| 78:16 |
He brought forth streams also from the rock And caused waters to run down like rivers.
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| 78:17 |
Yet they still continued to sin against Him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
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| 78:18 |
And in their heart they put God to the test By asking food according to their desire.
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| 78:19 |
Then they spoke against God; They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
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| 78:20 |
"Behold, He struck the rock so that waters gushed out, And streams were overflowing; Can He give bread also? Will He provide meat for His people?"
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| 78:21 |
Therefore the Lord heard and was full of wrath; And a fire was kindled against Jacob And anger also mounted against Israel,
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| 78:22 |
Because they did not believe in God And did not trust in His salvation.
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| 78:23 |
Yet He commanded the clouds above And opened the doors of heaven;
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| 78:24 |
He rained down manna upon them to eat And gave them food from heaven.
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| 78:25 |
Man did eat the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.
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| 78:26 |
He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens And by His power He directed the south wind.
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| 78:27 |
When He rained meat upon them like the dust, Even winged fowl like the sand of the seas,
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| 78:28 |
Then He let them fall in the midst of their camp, Round about their dwellings.
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| 78:29 |
So they ate and were well filled, And their desire He gave to them.
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| 78:30 |
Before they had satisfied their desire, While their food was in their mouths,
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| 78:31 |
The anger of God rose against them And killed some of their stoutest ones, And subdued the choice men of Israel.
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| 78:32 |
In spite of all this they still sinned And did not believe in His wonderful works.
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| 78:33 |
So He brought their days to an end in futility And their years in sudden terror.
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| 78:34 |
When He killed them, then they sought Him, And returned and searched diligently for God;
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| 78:35 |
And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their Redeemer.
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| 78:36 |
But they deceived Him with their mouth And lied to Him with their tongue.
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| 78:37 |
For their heart was not steadfast toward Him, Nor were they faithful in His covenant.
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| 78:38 |
But He, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them; And often He restrained His anger And did not arouse all His wrath.
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| 78:39 |
Thus He remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passes and does not return.
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| 78:40 |
How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness And grieved Him in the desert!
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| 78:41 |
Again and again they tempted God, And pained the Holy One of Israel.
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| 78:42 |
They did not remember His power, The day when He redeemed them from the adversary,
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| 78:43 |
When He performed His signs in Egypt And His marvels in the field of Zoan,
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And turned their rivers to blood, And their streams, they could not drink.
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He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them, And frogs which destroyed them.
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He gave also their crops to the grasshopper And the product of their labor to the locust.
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He destroyed their vines with hailstones And their sycamore trees with frost.
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He gave over their cattle also to the hailstones And their herds to bolts of lightning.
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| 78:49 |
He sent upon them His burning anger, Fury and indignation and trouble, A band of destroying angels.
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| 78:50 |
He leveled a path for His anger; He did not spare their soul from death, But gave over their life to the plague,
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| 78:51 |
And smote all the firstborn in Egypt, The first issue of their virility in the tents of Ham.
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| 78:52 |
But He led forth His own people like sheep And guided them in the wilderness like a flock;
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| 78:53 |
He led them safely, so that they did not fear; But the sea engulfed their enemies.
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| 78:54 |
So He brought them to His holy land, To this hill country which His right hand had gained.
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| 78:55 |
He also drove out the nations before them And apportioned them for an inheritance by measurement, And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.
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| 78:56 |
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God And did not keep His testimonies,
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| 78:57 |
But turned back and acted treacherously like their fathers; They turned aside like a treacherous bow.
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| 78:58 |
For they provoked Him with their high places And aroused His jealousy with their graven images.
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| 78:59 |
When God heard, He was filled with wrath And greatly abhorred Israel;
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| 78:60 |
So that He abandoned the dwelling place at Shiloh, The tent which He had pitched among men,
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| 78:61 |
And gave up His strength to captivity And His glory into the hand of the adversary.
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| 78:62 |
He also delivered His people to the sword, And was filled with wrath at His inheritance.
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| 78:63 |
Fire devoured His young men, And His virgins had no wedding songs.
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| 78:64 |
His priests fell by the sword, And His widows could not weep.
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| 78:65 |
Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep, Like a warrior overcome by wine.
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| 78:66 |
He drove His adversaries backward; He put on them an everlasting reproach.
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| 78:67 |
He also rejected the tent of Joseph, And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
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| 78:68 |
But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which He loved.
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| 78:69 |
And He built His sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which He has founded forever.
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| 78:70 |
He also chose David His servant And took him from the sheepfolds;
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| 78:71 |
From the care of the ewes with suckling lambs He brought him To shepherd Jacob His people, And Israel His inheritance.
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| 78:72 |
So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them with his skillful hands. Help.
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