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| 78:1 |
O my people, hear my teaching; listen to the words of my mouth.
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| 78:2 |
I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter hidden things, things from of old--
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| 78:3 |
what we have heard and known, what our fathers have told us.
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| 78:4 |
We will not hide them from their children; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD, his power, and the wonders he has done.
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| 78:5 |
He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children,
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| 78:6 |
so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children.
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| 78:7 |
Then they would put their trust in God and would not forget his deeds but would keep his commands.
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| 78:8 |
They would not be like their forefathers-- a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits were not faithful to him.
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| 78:9 |
The men of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned back on the day of battle;
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| 78:10 |
they did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by his law.
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| 78:11 |
They forgot what he had done, the wonders he had shown them.
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| 78:12 |
He did miracles in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
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| 78:13 |
He divided the sea and led them through; he made the water stand firm like a wall.
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| 78:14 |
He guided them with the cloud by day and with light from the fire all night.
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| 78:15 |
He split the rocks in the desert and gave them water as abundant as the seas;
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| 78:16 |
he brought streams out of a rocky crag and made water flow down like rivers.
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| 78:17 |
But they continued to sin against him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
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| 78:18 |
They willfully put God to the test by demanding the food they craved.
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| 78:19 |
They spoke against God, saying, "Can God spread a table in the desert?
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| 78:20 |
When he struck the rock, water gushed out, and streams flowed abundantly. But can he also give us food? Can he supply meat for his people?"
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| 78:21 |
When the LORD heard them, he was very angry; his fire broke out against Jacob, and his wrath rose against Israel,
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| 78:22 |
for they did not believe in God or trust in his deliverance.
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| 78:23 |
Yet he gave a command to the skies above and opened the doors of the heavens;
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| 78:24 |
he rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them the grain of heaven.
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| 78:25 |
Men ate the bread of angels; he sent them all the food they could eat.
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| 78:26 |
He let loose the east wind from the heavens and led forth the south wind by his power.
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| 78:27 |
He rained meat down on them like dust, flying birds like sand on the seashore.
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| 78:28 |
He made them come down inside their camp, all around their tents.
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| 78:29 |
They ate till they had more than enough, for he had given them what they craved.
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| 78:30 |
But before they turned from the food they craved, even while it was still in their mouths,
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| 78:31 |
God's anger rose against them; he put to death the sturdiest among them, cutting down the young men of Israel.
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| 78:32 |
In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; in spite of his wonders, they did not believe.
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| 78:33 |
So he ended their days in futility and their years in terror.
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| 78:34 |
Whenever God slew them, they would seek him; they eagerly turned to him again.
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| 78:35 |
They remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.
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| 78:36 |
But then they would flatter him with their mouths, lying to him with their tongues;
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| 78:37 |
their hearts were not loyal to him, they were not faithful to his covenant.
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| 78:38 |
Yet he was merciful; he forgave their iniquities and did not destroy them. Time after time he restrained his anger and did not stir up his full wrath.
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| 78:39 |
He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
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| 78:40 |
How often they rebelled against him in the desert and grieved him in the wasteland!
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| 78:41 |
Again and again they put God to the test; they vexed the Holy One of Israel.
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| 78:42 |
They did not remember his power-- the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,
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| 78:43 |
the day he displayed his miraculous signs in Egypt, his wonders in the region of Zoan.
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| 78:44 |
He turned their rivers to blood; they could not drink from their streams.
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| 78:45 |
He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
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| 78:46 |
He gave their crops to the grasshopper, their produce to the locust.
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| 78:47 |
He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
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| 78:48 |
He gave over their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.
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| 78:49 |
He unleashed against them his hot anger, his wrath, indignation and hostility-- a band of destroying angels.
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| 78:50 |
He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.
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| 78:51 |
He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt, the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.
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| 78:52 |
But he brought his people out like a flock; he led them like sheep through the desert.
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| 78:53 |
He guided them safely, so they were unafraid; but the sea engulfed their enemies.
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| 78:54 |
Thus he brought them to the border of his holy land, to the hill country his right hand had taken.
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| 78:55 |
He drove out nations before them and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance; he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.
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| 78:56 |
But they put God to the test and rebelled against the Most High; they did not keep his statutes.
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| 78:57 |
Like their fathers they were disloyal and faithless, as unreliable as a faulty bow.
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| 78:58 |
They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols.
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| 78:59 |
When God heard them, he was very angry; he rejected Israel completely.
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| 78:60 |
He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent he had set up among men.
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| 78:61 |
He sent the ark of his might into captivity, his splendor into the hands of the enemy.
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| 78:62 |
He gave his people over to the sword; he was very angry with his inheritance.
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| 78:63 |
Fire consumed their young men, and their maidens had no wedding songs;
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| 78:64 |
their priests were put to the sword, and their widows could not weep.
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| 78:65 |
Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, as a man wakes from the stupor of wine.
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| 78:66 |
He beat back his enemies; he put them to everlasting shame.
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| 78:67 |
Then he rejected the tents of Joseph, he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;
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| 78:68 |
but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved.
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| 78:69 |
He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever.
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| 78:70 |
He chose David his servant and took him from the sheep pens;
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| 78:71 |
from tending the sheep he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel his inheritance.
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| 78:72 |
And David shepherded them with integrity of heart; with skillful hands he led them.
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