◄ Psalm 78 ►
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1[an error occurred while processing this directive]1A Maskil of Asaph. My people, hear my instruction; listen to what I say.
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 must not hide them from their children, but must tell a future generation the praises of the LORD, His might, and the wonderful 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 wonderful 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 region 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 His camp, all around His tent.
29[an error occurred while processing this directive]29They ate and were completely satisfied, for He gave them what they craved.
30[an error occurred while processing this directive]30Before they had satisfied their desire, 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 choice young men.
32[an error occurred while processing this directive]32Despite all this, they kept sinning and did not believe His wonderful 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 guilt 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 region 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 land, 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 men.
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, but the widows could not lament.
65[an error occurred while processing this directive]65Then the 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 shame.
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 sheepfolds;
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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