◄ Psalm 78 ►
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1[an error occurred while processing this directive]1O my people, listen to my instructions. Open your ears to what I am saying,
2[an error occurred while processing this directive]2for I will speak to you in a parable. I will teach you hidden lessons from our past—
3[an error occurred while processing this directive]3stories we have heard and known, stories our ancestors handed down to us.
4[an error occurred while processing this directive]4We will not hide these truths from our children; we will tell the next generation about the glorious deeds of the LORD, about his power and his mighty wonders.
5[an error occurred while processing this directive]5For he issued his laws to Jacob; he gave his instructions to Israel. He commanded our ancestors to teach them to their children,
6[an error occurred while processing this directive]6so the next generation might know them— even the children not yet born— and they in turn will teach their own children.
7[an error occurred while processing this directive]7So each generation should set its hope anew on God, not forgetting his glorious miracles and obeying his commands.
8[an error occurred while processing this directive]8Then they will not be like their ancestors— stubborn, rebellious, and unfaithful, refusing to give their hearts to God.
9[an error occurred while processing this directive]9The warriors of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned their backs and fled 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 instructions.
11[an error occurred while processing this directive]11They forgot what he had done— the great wonders he had shown them,
12[an error occurred while processing this directive]12the miracles he did for their ancestors on the plain of Zoan in the land of Egypt.
13[an error occurred while processing this directive]13For he divided the sea and led them through, making the water stand up like walls!
14[an error occurred while processing this directive]14In the daytime he led them by a cloud, and all night by a pillar of fire.
15[an error occurred while processing this directive]15He split open the rocks in the wilderness to give them water, as from a gushing spring.
16[an error occurred while processing this directive]16He made streams pour from the rock, making the waters flow down like a river!
17[an error occurred while processing this directive]17Yet they kept on sinning against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
18[an error occurred while processing this directive]18They stubbornly tested God in their hearts, demanding the foods they craved.
19[an error occurred while processing this directive]19They even spoke against God himself, saying, “God can’t give us food in the wilderness.
20[an error occurred while processing this directive]20Yes, he can strike a rock so water gushes out, but he can’t give his people bread and meat.”
21[an error occurred while processing this directive]21When the LORD heard them, he was furious. The fire of his wrath burned against Jacob. Yes, his anger rose against Israel,
22[an error occurred while processing this directive]22for they did not believe God or trust him to care for them.
23[an error occurred while processing this directive]23But he commanded the skies to open; he opened the doors of heaven.
24[an error occurred while processing this directive]24He rained down manna for them to eat; he gave them bread from heaven.
25[an error occurred while processing this directive]25They ate the food of angels! God gave them all they could hold.
26[an error occurred while processing this directive]26He released the east wind in the heavens and guided the south wind by his mighty power.
27[an error occurred while processing this directive]27He rained down meat as thick as dust— birds as plentiful as the sand on the seashore!
28[an error occurred while processing this directive]28He caused the birds to fall within their camp and all around their tents.
29[an error occurred while processing this directive]29The people ate their fill. He gave them what they craved.
30[an error occurred while processing this directive]30But before they satisfied their craving, while the meat was yet in their mouths,
31[an error occurred while processing this directive]31the anger of God rose against them, and he killed their strongest men. He struck down the finest of Israel’s young men.
32[an error occurred while processing this directive]32But in spite of this, the people kept sinning. Despite his wonders, they refused to trust him.
33[an error occurred while processing this directive]33So he ended their lives in failure, their years in terror.
34[an error occurred while processing this directive]34When God began killing them, they finally sought him. They repented and took God seriously.
35[an error occurred while processing this directive]35Then they remembered that God was their rock, that God Most High was their redeemer.
36[an error occurred while processing this directive]36But all they gave him was lip service; they lied to him with their tongues.
37[an error occurred while processing this directive]37Their hearts were not loyal to him. They did not keep his covenant.
38[an error occurred while processing this directive]38Yet he was merciful and forgave their sins and did not destroy them all. Many times he held back his anger and did not unleash his fury!
39[an error occurred while processing this directive]39For he remembered that they were merely mortal, gone like a breath of wind that never returns.
40[an error occurred while processing this directive]40Oh, how often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved his heart in that dry wasteland.
41[an error occurred while processing this directive]41Again and again they tested God’s patience and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42[an error occurred while processing this directive]42They did not remember his power and how he rescued them from their enemies.
43[an error occurred while processing this directive]43They did not remember his miraculous signs in Egypt, his wonders on the plain of Zoan.
44[an error occurred while processing this directive]44For he turned their rivers into blood, so no one could drink from the streams.
45[an error occurred while processing this directive]45He sent vast swarms of flies to consume them and hordes of frogs to ruin them.
46[an error occurred while processing this directive]46He gave their crops to caterpillars; their harvest was consumed by locusts.
47[an error occurred while processing this directive]47He destroyed their grapevines with hail and shattered their sycamore-figs with sleet.
48[an error occurred while processing this directive]48He abandoned their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.
49[an error occurred while processing this directive]49He loosed on them his fierce anger— all his fury, rage, and hostility. He dispatched against them a band of destroying angels.
50[an error occurred while processing this directive]50He turned his anger against them; he did not spare the Egyptians’ lives but ravaged them with the plague.
51[an error occurred while processing this directive]51He killed the oldest son in each Egyptian family, the flower of youth throughout the land of Egypt.
52[an error occurred while processing this directive]52But he led his own people like a flock of sheep, guiding them safely through the wilderness.
53[an error occurred while processing this directive]53He kept them safe so they were not afraid; but the sea covered their enemies.
54[an error occurred while processing this directive]54He brought them to the border of his holy land, to this land of hills he had won for them.
55[an error occurred while processing this directive]55He drove out the nations before them; he gave them their inheritance by lot. He settled the tribes of Israel into their homes.
56[an error occurred while processing this directive]56But they kept testing and rebelling against God Most High. They did not obey his laws.
57[an error occurred while processing this directive]57They turned back and were as faithless as their parents. They were as undependable as a crooked bow.
58[an error occurred while processing this directive]58They angered God by building shrines to other gods; they made him jealous with their idols.
59[an error occurred while processing this directive]59When God heard them, he was very angry, and he completely rejected Israel.
60[an error occurred while processing this directive]60Then he abandoned his dwelling at Shiloh, the Tabernacle where he had lived among the people.
61[an error occurred while processing this directive]61He allowed the Ark of his might to be captured; he surrendered his glory into enemy hands.
62[an error occurred while processing this directive]62He gave his people over to be butchered by the sword, because he was so angry with his own people—his special possession.
63[an error occurred while processing this directive]63Their young men were killed by fire; their young women died before singing their wedding songs.
64[an error occurred while processing this directive]64Their priests were slaughtered, and their widows could not mourn their deaths.
65[an error occurred while processing this directive]65Then the Lord rose up as though waking from sleep, like a warrior aroused from a drunken stupor.
66[an error occurred while processing this directive]66He routed his enemies and sent them to eternal shame.
67[an error occurred while processing this directive]67But he rejected Joseph’s descendants; he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.
68[an error occurred while processing this directive]68He chose instead the tribe of Judah, and Mount Zion, which he loved.
69[an error occurred while processing this directive]69There he built his sanctuary as high as the heavens, as solid and enduring as the earth.
70[an error occurred while processing this directive]70He chose his servant David, calling him from the sheep pens.
71[an error occurred while processing this directive]71He took David from tending the ewes and lambs and made him the shepherd of Jacob’s descendants— God’s own people, Israel.
72[an error occurred while processing this directive]72He cared for them with a true heart and led them with skillful hands.
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