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| 78:1 |
Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; 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 from of old,
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| 78:3 |
things that we have heard and known, that our ancestors have told us.
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| 78:4 |
We will not hide them from their children; we will tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders that he has done.
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| 78:5 |
He established a decree in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach to their children;
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| 78:6 |
that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and rise up and tell them to their children,
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| 78:7 |
so that they should set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;
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| 78:8 |
and that they should not be like their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
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| 78:9 |
The Ephraimites, armed with the bow, turned back on the day of battle.
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| 78:10 |
They did not keep God's covenant, but refused to walk according to his law.
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| 78:11 |
They forgot what he had done, and the miracles that he had shown them.
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| 78:12 |
In the sight of their ancestors he worked marvels in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.
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| 78:13 |
He divided the sea and let them pass through it, and made the waters stand like a heap.
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| 78:14 |
In the daytime he led them with a cloud, and all night long with a fiery light.
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| 78:15 |
He split rocks open in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
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| 78:16 |
He made streams come out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down like rivers.
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| 78:17 |
Yet they sinned still more against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
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| 78:18 |
They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.
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| 78:19 |
They spoke against God, saying, "Can God spread a table in the wilderness?
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| 78:20 |
Even though he struck the rock so that water gushed out and torrents overflowed, can he also give bread, or provide meat for his people?"
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| 78:21 |
Therefore, when the LORD heard, he was full of rage; a fire was kindled against Jacob, his anger mounted against Israel,
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| 78:22 |
because they had no faith in God, and did not trust his saving power.
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| 78:23 |
Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven;
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| 78:24 |
he rained down on them manna to eat, and gave them the grain of heaven.
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| 78:25 |
Mortals ate of 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 led out the south wind;
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| 78:27 |
he rained flesh upon them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas;
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| 78:28 |
he let them fall within their camp, all around their dwellings.
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| 78:29 |
And they ate and were well filled, for he gave them what they craved.
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| 78:30 |
But before they had satisfied their craving, while the food was still in their mouths,
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| 78:31 |
the anger of God rose against them and he killed the strongest of them, and laid low the flower of Israel.
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| 78:32 |
In spite of all this they still sinned; they did not believe in his wonders.
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| 78:33 |
So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror.
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| 78:34 |
When he killed them, they sought for him; they repented and sought God earnestly.
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| 78:35 |
They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their redeemer.
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| 78:36 |
But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.
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| 78:37 |
Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not true to his covenant.
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| 78:38 |
Yet he, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them; often he restrained his anger, and did not stir up all his wrath.
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| 78:39 |
He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and does not come again.
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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 |
They tested God again and again, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
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| 78:42 |
They did not keep in mind his power, or the day when he redeemed them from the foe;
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| 78:43 |
when he displayed his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the fields of Zoan.
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| 78:44 |
He turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their streams.
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| 78:45 |
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
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| 78:46 |
He gave their crops to the caterpillar, and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
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| 78:47 |
He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamores with frost.
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| 78:48 |
He gave over their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts.
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| 78:49 |
He let loose on them his fierce anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.
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| 78:50 |
He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.
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| 78:51 |
He struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the first issue of their strength in the tents of Ham.
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| 78:52 |
Then he led out his people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
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| 78:53 |
He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
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| 78:54 |
And he brought them to his holy hill, to the mountain that his right hand had won.
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| 78:55 |
He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
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| 78:56 |
Yet they tested the Most High God, and rebelled against him. They did not observe his decrees,
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| 78:57 |
but turned away and were faithless like their ancestors; they twisted like a treacherous bow.
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| 78:58 |
For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their idols.
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| 78:59 |
When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.
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| 78:60 |
He abandoned his dwelling at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among mortals,
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| 78:61 |
and delivered his power to captivity, his glory to the hand of the foe.
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| 78:62 |
He gave his people to the sword, and vented his wrath on his heritage.
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| 78:63 |
Fire devoured their young men, and their girls had no marriage song.
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| 78:64 |
Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.
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| 78:65 |
Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a warrior shouting because of wine.
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| 78:66 |
He put his adversaries to rout; he put them to everlasting disgrace.
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| 78:67 |
He rejected the tent 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 loves.
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| 78:69 |
He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded forever.
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| 78:70 |
He chose his servant David, and took him from the sheepfolds;
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| 78:71 |
from tending the nursing ewes he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel, his inheritance.
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| 78:72 |
With upright heart he tended them, and guided them with skillful hand.
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