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psalms 78
1 - Hear my teaching, my people.Turn 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 fathers have told us.
4 - We will not hide them from their children,telling to the generation to come the praises of The LORD,his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.
5 - For he established a testimony in Jacob,and appointed a teaching in Israel,which he commanded our fathers,that they should make them known to their children;
6 - that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born;who should arise and tell their children,
7 - that they might set their hope in God,and not forget God's deeds,but keep his commandments,
8 - and might not be as their fathers,a stubborn and rebellious generation,a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal,whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
9 - The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows,turned back in the day of battle.
10 - They didn't keep God's covenant,and refused to walk in his law.
11 - They forgot his doings,his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.
12 - He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers,in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
13 - He split the sea, and caused them to pass through.He made the waters stand as a heap.
14 - In the daytime he also led them with a cloud,and all night with a light of fire.
15 - He split rocks in the wilderness,and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
16 - He brought streams also out of the rock,and caused waters to run down like rivers.
17 - Yet they still went on to sin against him,to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
18 - They tempted God in their heartby asking food according to their desire.
19 - Yes, they spoke against God.They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
20 - Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out,and streams overflowed.Can he give bread also?Will he provide meat for his people?"
21 - Therefore the LORD heard, and was angry.A fire was kindled against Jacob,anger also went up against Israel,
22 - because they didn't believe in God,and didn't trust in his salvation.
23 - Yet he commanded the skies above,and opened the doors of heaven.
24 - He rained down manna on them to eat,and gave them food from the sky.
25 - Man ate the bread of angels.He sent them food to the full.
26 - He caused the east wind to blow in the sky.By his power he guided the south wind.
27 - He rained also meat on them as the dust;winged birds as the sand of the seas.
28 - He let them fall in the middle of their camp,around their habitations.
29 - So they ate, and were well filled.He gave them their own desire.
30 - They didn't turn from their cravings.Their food was yet in their mouths,
31 - when the anger of God went up against them,killed some of their fattest,and struck down the young men of Israel.
32 - For all this they still sinned,and didn't believe in his wondrous works.
33 - Therefore he consumed their days in vanity,and their years in terror.
34 - When he killed them, then they inquired after him.They returned and sought God earnestly.
35 - They remembered that God was their rock,the Most High God, their redeemer.
36 - But they flattered him with their mouth,and lied to him with their tongue.
37 - For their heart was not right with him,neither were they faithful in his covenant.
38 - But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn't destroy them.Yes, many times he turned his anger away,and didn't stir up all his wrath.
39 - He remembered that they were but flesh,a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.
40 - How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness,and grieved him in the desert!
41 - They turned again and tempted God,and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42 - They didn't remember his hand,nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
43 - how he set his signs in Egypt,his wonders in the field of Zoan,
44 - he turned their rivers into blood,and their streams, so that they could not drink.
45 - He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them;and frogs, which destroyed them.
46 - He gave also their increase to the caterpillar,and their labor to the locust.
47 - He destroyed their vines with hail,their sycamore fig trees with frost.
48 - He gave over their livestock also to the hail,and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
49 - He threw on them the fierceness of his anger,wrath, indignation, and trouble,and a band of angels of evil.
50 - He made a path for his anger.He didn't spare their soul from death,but gave their life over to the pestilence,
51 - and struck all the firstborn in Egypt,the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
52 - But he led out his own people like sheep,and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53 - He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid,but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54 - He brought them to the border of his sanctuary,to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.
55 - He also drove out the nations before them,allotted them for an inheritance by line,and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
56 - Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God,and didn't keep his testimonies;
57 - but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers.They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
58 - For they provoked him to anger with their high places,and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
59 - When God heard this, he was angry,and greatly abhorred Israel;
60 - So that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh,the tent which he placed among men;
61 - and delivered his strength into captivity,his glory into the adversary's hand.
62 - He also gave his people over to the sword,and was angry with his inheritance.
63 - Fire devoured their young men.Their virgins had no wedding song.
64 - Their priests fell by the sword,and their widows couldn't weep.
65 - Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep,like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
66 - He struck his adversaries backward.He put them to a perpetual reproach.
67 - Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph,and didn't choose the tribe of Ephraim,
68 - But chose the tribe of Judah,Mount Zion which he loved.
69 - He built his sanctuary like the heights,like the earth which he has established forever.
70 - He also chose David his servant,and took him from the sheepfolds;
71 - from following the ewes that have their young,he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people,and Israel, his inheritance.
72 - So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart,and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
