◄ Psalm 78 ►
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1[an error occurred while processing this directive]1Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth!
2[an error occurred while processing this directive]2I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,
3[an error occurred while processing this directive]3things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us.
4[an error occurred while processing this directive]4We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders that he has done.
5[an error occurred while processing this directive]5He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children,
6[an error occurred while processing this directive]6that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children,
7[an error occurred while processing this directive]7so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;
8[an error occurred while processing this directive]8and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
9[an error occurred while processing this directive]9The Ephraimites, armed with the bow, turned back on the day of battle.
10[an error occurred while processing this directive]10They did not keep God’s covenant, but refused to walk according to his law.
11[an error occurred while processing this directive]11They forgot his works and the wonders that he had shown them.
12[an error occurred while processing this directive]12In the sight of their fathers he performed wonders in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.
13[an error occurred while processing this directive]13He divided the sea and let them pass through it, and made the waters stand like a heap.
14[an error occurred while processing this directive]14In the daytime he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a fiery light.
15[an error occurred while processing this directive]15He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
16[an error occurred while processing this directive]16He made streams come out of the rock and caused waters to flow down like rivers.
17[an error occurred while processing this directive]17Yet they sinned still more against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
18[an error occurred while processing this directive]18They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.
19[an error occurred while processing this directive]19They spoke against God, saying, “Can God spread a table in the wilderness?
20[an error occurred while processing this directive]20He struck the rock so that water gushed out and streams overflowed. Can he also give bread or provide meat for his people?”
21[an error occurred while processing this directive]21Therefore, when the LORD heard, he was full of wrath; a fire was kindled against Jacob; his anger rose against Israel,
22[an error occurred while processing this directive]22because they did not believe in God and did not trust his saving power.
23[an error occurred while processing this directive]23Yet he commanded the skies above and opened the doors of heaven,
24[an error occurred while processing this directive]24and he rained down on them manna to eat and gave them the grain of heaven.
25[an error occurred while processing this directive]25Man ate of the bread of the angels; he sent them food in abundance.
26[an error occurred while processing this directive]26He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens, and by his power he led out the south wind;
27[an error occurred while processing this directive]27he rained meat on them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas;
28[an error occurred while processing this directive]28he let them fall in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.
29[an error occurred while processing this directive]29And they ate and were well filled, for he gave them what they craved.
30[an error occurred while processing this directive]30But before they had satisfied their craving, while the food was still in their mouths,
31[an error occurred while processing this directive]31the anger of God rose against them, and he killed the strongest of them and laid low the young men of Israel.
32[an error occurred while processing this directive]32In spite of all this, they still sinned; despite his wonders, they did not believe.
33[an error occurred while processing this directive]33So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror.
34[an error occurred while processing this directive]34When he killed them, they sought him; they repented and sought God earnestly.
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 flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.
37[an error occurred while processing this directive]37Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not faithful to his covenant.
38[an error occurred while processing this directive]38Yet he, being compassionate, atoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger often and did not stir up all his wrath.
39[an error occurred while processing this directive]39He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again.
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 tested God again and again and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42[an error occurred while processing this directive]42They did not remember his power or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,
43[an error occurred while processing this directive]43when he performed his signs in Egypt and his marvels in the fields of Zoan.
44[an error occurred while processing this directive]44He turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their streams.
45[an error occurred while processing this directive]45He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
46[an error occurred while processing this directive]46He gave their crops to the destroying locust and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
47[an error occurred while processing this directive]47He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamores with frost.
48[an error occurred while processing this directive]48He gave over their cattle to the hail and their flocks to thunderbolts.
49[an error occurred while processing this directive]49He let loose on them his burning anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.
50[an error occurred while processing this directive]50He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.
51[an error occurred while processing this directive]51He struck down every firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of Ham.
52[an error occurred while processing this directive]52Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53[an error occurred while processing this directive]53He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54[an error occurred while processing this directive]54And he brought them to his holy land, to the mountain which his right hand had won.
55[an error occurred while processing this directive]55He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
56[an error occurred while processing this directive]56Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God and did not keep his testimonies,
57[an error occurred while processing this directive]57but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers; they twisted like a deceitful bow.
58[an error occurred while processing this directive]58For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their idols.
59[an error occurred while processing this directive]59When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.
60[an error occurred while processing this directive]60He forsook his dwelling at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among mankind,
61[an error occurred while processing this directive]61and delivered his power to captivity, his glory to the hand of the foe.
62[an error occurred while processing this directive]62He gave his people over to the sword and vented his wrath on his heritage.
63[an error occurred while processing this directive]63Fire devoured their young men, and their young women had no marriage song.
64[an error occurred while processing this directive]64Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.
65[an error occurred while processing this directive]65Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a strong man shouting because of wine.
66[an error occurred while processing this directive]66And he put his adversaries to rout; he put them to everlasting shame.
67[an error occurred while processing this directive]67He rejected the tent of Joseph; he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
68[an error occurred while processing this directive]68but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loves.
69[an error occurred while processing this directive]69He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded forever.
70[an error occurred while processing this directive]70He chose David his servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
71[an error occurred while processing this directive]71from following the nursing ewes he brought him to shepherd Jacob his people, Israel his inheritance.
72[an error occurred while processing this directive]72With upright heart he shepherded them and guided them with his skillful hand.
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