◄ Psalm 78 ►
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1[an error occurred while processing this directive]1A maskil of Asaph. My people, hear my teaching; listen to the words of my mouth.
2[an error occurred while processing this directive]2I will open my mouth with a parable; I will utter hidden things, things from of old--
3[an error occurred while processing this directive]3things we have heard and known, things our ancestors have told us.
4[an error occurred while processing this directive]4We will not hide them from their descendants; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD, his power, and the wonders he has done.
5[an error occurred while processing this directive]5He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach their children,
6[an error occurred while processing this directive]6so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children.
7[an error occurred while processing this directive]7Then they would put their trust in God and would not forget his deeds but would keep his commands.
8[an error occurred while processing this directive]8They would not be like their ancestors-- a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits were not faithful to him.
9[an error occurred while processing this directive]9The men of Ephraim, though armed with bows, 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 wonders he had shown them.
12[an error occurred while processing this directive]12He did miracles in the sight of their ancestors in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
13[an error occurred while processing this directive]13He divided the sea and led them through; he made the water stand up like a wall.
14[an error occurred while processing this directive]14He guided them with the cloud by day and with light from the fire all night.
15[an error occurred while processing this directive]15He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them water as abundant as the seas;
16[an error occurred while processing this directive]16he brought streams out of a rocky crag 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 wilderness against the Most High.
18[an error occurred while processing this directive]18They willfully put God to the test by demanding the food they craved.
19[an error occurred while processing this directive]19They spoke against God; they said, "Can God really spread a table in the wilderness?
20[an error occurred while processing this directive]20True, he struck the rock, and water gushed out, streams flowed abundantly, but can he also give us bread? Can he supply meat for his people?"
21[an error occurred while processing this directive]21When the LORD heard them, he was furious; his fire broke out against Jacob, and his wrath rose against Israel,
22[an error occurred while processing this directive]22for they did not believe in God or trust in his deliverance.
23[an error occurred while processing this directive]23Yet he gave a command to the skies above and opened the doors of the heavens;
24[an error occurred while processing this directive]24he rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them the grain of heaven.
25[an error occurred while processing this directive]25Human beings ate the bread of angels; he sent them all the food they could eat.
26[an error occurred while processing this directive]26He let loose the east wind from the heavens and by his power made the south wind blow.
27[an error occurred while processing this directive]27He rained meat down on them like dust, birds like sand on the seashore.
28[an error occurred while processing this directive]28He made them come down inside their camp, all around their tents.
29[an error occurred while processing this directive]29They ate till they were gorged-- he had given them what they craved.
30[an error occurred while processing this directive]30But before they turned from what they craved, even while the food was still in their mouths,
31[an error occurred while processing this directive]31God's anger rose against them; he put to death the sturdiest among them, cutting down the young men of Israel.
32[an error occurred while processing this directive]32In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; in spite of his wonders, they did not believe.
33[an error occurred while processing this directive]33So he ended their days in futility and their years in terror.
34[an error occurred while processing this directive]34Whenever God slew them, they would seek him; they eagerly turned to him again.
35[an error occurred while processing this directive]35They remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.
36[an error occurred while processing this directive]36But then they would flatter him with their mouths, lying to him with their tongues;
37[an error occurred while processing this directive]37their hearts were not loyal to him, they were not faithful to his covenant.
38[an error occurred while processing this directive]38Yet he was merciful; he forgave their iniquities and did not destroy them. Time after time he restrained his anger and did not stir up his full wrath.
39[an error occurred while processing this directive]39He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that 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 wasteland!
41[an error occurred while processing this directive]41Again and again they put God to the test; they vexed the Holy One of Israel.
42[an error occurred while processing this directive]42They did not remember his power-- the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,
43[an error occurred while processing this directive]43the day he displayed his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the region of Zoan.
44[an error occurred while processing this directive]44He turned their river into blood; they could not drink from their streams.
45[an error occurred while processing this directive]45He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
46[an error occurred while processing this directive]46He gave their crops to the grasshopper, their produce to the locust.
47[an error occurred while processing this directive]47He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
48[an error occurred while processing this directive]48He gave over their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.
49[an error occurred while processing this directive]49He unleashed against them his hot anger, his wrath, indignation and hostility-- a band of destroying angels.
50[an error occurred while processing this directive]50He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.
51[an error occurred while processing this directive]51He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt, the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.
52[an error occurred while processing this directive]52But he brought his people out like a flock; he led them like sheep through the wilderness.
53[an error occurred while processing this directive]53He guided them safely, so they were unafraid; but the sea engulfed their enemies.
54[an error occurred while processing this directive]54And so he brought them to the border of his holy land, to the hill country his right hand had taken.
55[an error occurred while processing this directive]55He drove out nations before them and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance; he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.
56[an error occurred while processing this directive]56But they put God to the test and rebelled against the Most High; they did not keep his statutes.
57[an error occurred while processing this directive]57Like their ancestors they were disloyal and faithless, as unreliable as a faulty bow.
58[an error occurred while processing this directive]58They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols.
59[an error occurred while processing this directive]59When God heard them, he was furious; he rejected Israel completely.
60[an error occurred while processing this directive]60He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent he had set up among humans.
61[an error occurred while processing this directive]61He sent the ark of his might into captivity, his splendor into the hands of the enemy.
62[an error occurred while processing this directive]62He gave his people over to the sword; he was furious with his inheritance.
63[an error occurred while processing this directive]63Fire consumed their young men, and their young women had no wedding songs;
64[an error occurred while processing this directive]64their priests were put to the sword, and their widows could not weep.
65[an error occurred while processing this directive]65Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, as a warrior wakes from the stupor of wine.
66[an error occurred while processing this directive]66He beat back his enemies; he put them to everlasting shame.
67[an error occurred while processing this directive]67Then he rejected the tents 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 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]71from tending the sheep he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel his inheritance.
72[an error occurred while processing this directive]72And David shepherded them with integrity of heart; with skillful hands he led them.
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