◄ Psalm 78 ►
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1[an error occurred while processing this directive]1My people, hear my instruction; listen to the words from my mouth.
2[an error occurred while processing this directive]2I will declare wise sayings; I will speak mysteries from the past--
3[an error occurred while processing this directive]3things we have heard and known and that our fathers have passed down to us.
4[an error occurred while processing this directive]4We will not hide them from their children, but will tell a future generation the praiseworthy acts of the LORD, his might, and the wondrous works he has performed.
5[an error occurred while processing this directive]5He established a testimony in Jacob and set up a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children
6[an error occurred while processing this directive]6so that a future generation--children yet to be born--might know. They were to rise and tell their children
7[an error occurred while processing this directive]7so that they might put their confidence in God and not forget God's works, but keep his commands.
8[an error occurred while processing this directive]8Then they would not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not loyal and whose spirit was not faithful to God.
9[an error occurred while processing this directive]9The Ephraimite archers turned back on the day of battle.
10[an error occurred while processing this directive]10They did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by his law.
11[an error occurred while processing this directive]11They forgot what he had done, the wondrous works he had shown them.
12[an error occurred while processing this directive]12He worked wonders in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt, the territory of Zoan.
13[an error occurred while processing this directive]13He split the sea and brought them across; the water stood firm like a wall.
14[an error occurred while processing this directive]14He led them with a cloud by day and with a fiery light throughout the night.
15[an error occurred while processing this directive]15He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the depths.
16[an error occurred while processing this directive]16He brought streams out of the stone and made water flow down like rivers.
17[an error occurred while processing this directive]17But they continued to sin against him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
18[an error occurred while processing this directive]18They deliberately tested God, demanding the food they craved.
19[an error occurred while processing this directive]19They spoke against God, saying, "Is God able to provide food in the wilderness?
20[an error occurred while processing this directive]20Look! He struck the rock and water gushed out; torrents overflowed. But can he also provide bread or furnish meat for his people?"
21[an error occurred while processing this directive]21Therefore, the LORD heard and became furious; then fire broke out against Jacob, and anger flared up against Israel
22[an error occurred while processing this directive]22because they did not believe God or rely on his salvation.
23[an error occurred while processing this directive]23He gave a command to the clouds above and opened the doors of heaven.
24[an error occurred while processing this directive]24He rained manna for them to eat; he gave them grain from heaven.
25[an error occurred while processing this directive]25People ate the bread of angels. He sent them an abundant supply of food.
26[an error occurred while processing this directive]26He made the east wind blow in the skies and drove the south wind by his might.
27[an error occurred while processing this directive]27He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the seas.
28[an error occurred while processing this directive]28He made them fall in the camp, all around the tents.
29[an error occurred while processing this directive]29The people ate and were completely satisfied, for he gave them what they craved.
30[an error occurred while processing this directive]30Before they had turned from what they craved, while the food was still in their mouths,
31[an error occurred while processing this directive]31God's anger flared up against them, and he killed some of their best men. He struck down Israel's fit young men.
32[an error occurred while processing this directive]32Despite all this, they kept sinning and did not believe his wondrous works.
33[an error occurred while processing this directive]33He made their days end in futility, their years in sudden disaster.
34[an error occurred while processing this directive]34When he killed some of them, the rest began to seek him; they repented and searched for God.
35[an error occurred while processing this directive]35They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their Redeemer.
36[an error occurred while processing this directive]36But they deceived him with their mouths, they lied to him with their tongues,
37[an error occurred while processing this directive]37their hearts were insincere toward him, and they were unfaithful to his covenant.
38[an error occurred while processing this directive]38Yet he was compassionate; he atoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often turned his anger aside and did not unleash all his wrath.
39[an error occurred while processing this directive]39He remembered that they were only flesh, a wind that passes and does not return.
40[an error occurred while processing this directive]40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert.
41[an error occurred while processing this directive]41They constantly tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42[an error occurred while processing this directive]42They did not remember his power shown on the day he redeemed them from the foe,
43[an error occurred while processing this directive]43when he performed his miraculous signs in Egypt and his wonders in the territory of Zoan.
44[an error occurred while processing this directive]44He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams.
45[an error occurred while processing this directive]45He sent among them swarms of flies, which fed on them, and frogs, which devastated them.
46[an error occurred while processing this directive]46He gave their crops to the caterpillar and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
47[an error occurred while processing this directive]47He killed their vines with hail and their sycamore fig trees with a flood.
48[an error occurred while processing this directive]48He handed over their livestock to hail and their cattle to lightning bolts.
49[an error occurred while processing this directive]49He sent his burning anger against them: fury, indignation, and calamity--a band of deadly messengers.
50[an error occurred while processing this directive]50He cleared a path for his anger. He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.
51[an error occurred while processing this directive]51He struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the first progeny of the tents of Ham.
52[an error occurred while processing this directive]52He led his people out like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
53[an error occurred while processing this directive]53He led them safely, and they were not afraid; but the sea covered their enemies.
54[an error occurred while processing this directive]54He brought them to his holy territory, to the mountain his right hand acquired.
55[an error occurred while processing this directive]55He drove out nations before them. He apportioned their inheritance by lot and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
56[an error occurred while processing this directive]56But they rebelliously tested the Most High God, for they did not keep his decrees.
57[an error occurred while processing this directive]57They treacherously turned away like their fathers; they became warped like a faulty bow.
58[an error occurred while processing this directive]58They enraged him with their high places and provoked his jealousy with their carved images.
59[an error occurred while processing this directive]59God heard and became furious; he completely rejected Israel.
60[an error occurred while processing this directive]60He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he resided among mankind.
61[an error occurred while processing this directive]61He gave up his strength to captivity and his splendor to the hand of a foe.
62[an error occurred while processing this directive]62He surrendered his people to the sword because he was enraged with his heritage.
63[an error occurred while processing this directive]63Fire consumed his chosen young men, and his young women had no wedding songs.
64[an error occurred while processing this directive]64His priests fell by the sword, and the widows could not lament.
65[an error occurred while processing this directive]65The Lord awoke as if from sleep, like a warrior from the effects of wine.
66[an error occurred while processing this directive]66He beat back his foes; he gave them lasting disgrace.
67[an error occurred while processing this directive]67He rejected the tent of Joseph and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.
68[an error occurred while processing this directive]68He chose instead the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved.
69[an error occurred while processing this directive]69He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever.
70[an error occurred while processing this directive]70He chose David his servant and took him from the sheep pens;
71[an error occurred while processing this directive]71he brought him from tending ewes to be shepherd over his people Jacob--over Israel, his inheritance.
72[an error occurred while processing this directive]72He shepherded them with a pure heart and guided them with his skillful hands.
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Psalm 77
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