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Psalms 78

78
A Contemplative Maskil of Asaph.
1Give ear, O my people, to my teaching;
incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2#Ps 63:1; 84:2 I will open my mouth in a parable;
I will utter insightful sayings of old,
3#Ps 79:10; 80:5 which we have heard and known,
what our fathers have told us.
4#Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8 We will not hide them from their children,
but will tell the coming generation
the praises of the Lord,
and His strength, and the wonderful works that He has done.
5#Ps 42:11; 43:5 For He established a rule in Jacob,
and appointed a law in Israel,
which He commanded our fathers
that they should make them known to their children,
6#2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8–9 that the generation to come might know them,
even the children who are not yet born,
who will arise and declare them to their children:
7#Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3 that they might set their hope in God
and not forget the works of God,
but keep His commandments,
8#Job 35:10; Ps 63:6 and they might not be as their fathers,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation that did not set their heart steadfast,
and whose spirit was not faithful to God.
9#Ps 38:6; 18:2 The people of Ephraim, being armed with bows,
turned back in the day of battle.
10#Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17 They did not keep the covenant of God
and refused to walk in His law;
11#Ps 42:5; 43:5 and they forgot His works
and the wonders that He had shown them.
12In the sight of their ancestors He did marvelous wonders
in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
13He divided the sea and caused them to pass through,
and He made the waters to stand as a heap.
14In the daytime He led them with a cloud,
and all the night with a light of fire.
15He split rocks in the wilderness
and gave them abundance to drink as out of the great depths.
16He brought streams out of the rock
and caused waters to run down like rivers.
17They sinned yet more against Him
by provoking the Most High in the wilderness.
18They tested God in their heart
by demanding the food that they craved.
19They spoke against God by saying,
“Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
20Behold, He struck the rock, so that the waters gushed out
and the streams overflowed.
Can He give bread
or provide meat for His people?”
21Therefore the Lord heard this and was full of wrath;
a fire was kindled against Jacob,
and anger also came up against Israel,
22because they did not believe in God
nor trust in His deliverance.
23Yet He had commanded the skies above
and opened the doors of heaven,
24and He rained down manna upon them to eat
and gave them the grain of heaven.
25Man ate the food of mighty angels;
He sent them bread in abundance.
26He caused an east wind to blow in the heavens,
and by His power He brought out a south wind.
27He rained meat on them as dust,
and winged birds as the sand of the sea;
28and He let them fall in the midst of their camp
all around their habitations.
29So they ate and were satisfied,
for He gave them their own desire;
30while they were not yet filled up,
and while the meat was still in their mouths,
31the wrath of God came upon them,
and He killed the strongest of them
and struck down the young men of Israel.
32For all this they sinned still,
and did not believe despite His wondrous works.
33Therefore He made their days vanish like a breath,
and their years in trouble.
34When He killed them, then they sought Him;
they turned back and longed for God.
35They remembered that God was their rock,
and the Most High God their redeemer.
36Nevertheless they flattered Him with their mouth,
and they lied to Him with their tongues;
37for their heart was not devoted to Him,
neither were they committed to His covenant.
38But He being full of compassion
forgave their iniquity
and did not destroy them.
He constantly restrained His anger,
and did not stir up all His wrath;
39for He remembered that they were but flesh,
like a wind that passes away and does not return.
40How often they provoked Him in the wilderness
and grieved Him in the desert!
41Yes, they tested God over and over,
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42They did not remember His power,
nor the day when He delivered them from the enemy,
43how He had performed His signs in Egypt
and His wonders in the fields of Zoan:
44and He turned their rivers into blood,
so that they could not drink from their streams.
45He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them,
and frogs, which destroyed them.
46He gave also their crops to the grasshopper
and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
47He destroyed their vines with hail
and their sycamore trees with frost.
48He gave up their cattle also to the hail
and their flocks to thunderbolts.
49He cast upon them the fierceness of His anger,
wrath, indignation, and trouble,
by sending angels bringing disaster.
50He made a path for His anger;
He did not spare them from death,
but gave their lives over to the plague,
51And struck down all the firstborn in Egypt,
the first fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham.
52Then He led out His own people like sheep
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock;
53He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid,
but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54He brought them to the border of His holy land,
to the mountain that His right hand had acquired.
55He cast out the nations also before them,
and divided for them their tribal allotments,
and made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.
56Yet they tested and provoked the Most High God,
and did not keep His commands,
57but turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers;
they turned aside like a deceitful bow.
58For they provoked Him to anger with their high places
and moved Him to jealousy with their graven images.
59When God heard this, He was full of wrath
and greatly rejected Israel
60so that He left the tabernacle at Shiloh,
the tent where He lived among people,
61and delivered His strength to captivity
and His glory into the enemy’s hand.
62He gave His people over also to the sword;
He was enraged with His inheritance.
63The fire consumed their young men,
and their maidens were not given to marriage in song.
64Their priests fell by the sword,
and their widows made no lamentation.
65Then the Lord awoke as one out of sleep,
and like a mighty man who shouts because of wine.
66He routed His enemies back,
and He made them a perpetual reproach.
67Moreover, He rejected the tent of Joseph,
and He did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
68but chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion which He loves.
69He built His sanctuary like the high heavens,
like the earth that He has established perpetually.
70He chose David His servant
and took him from the sheepfolds;
71from following the nursing ewes He brought him
to shepherd Jacob His people,
and Israel His inheritance.
72So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart
and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

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