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Psalms 78

A  aMaskil of Asaph.

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 aListen, O my people, to my  1instruction;  bIncline your ears to the words of my mouth.

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I will  aopen my mouth in a parable; I will utter  bdark sayings of old,

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Which we have heard and known, And  aour fathers have told us.

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We will  anot conceal them from their children, But  btell to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, And His strength and His  cwondrous works that He has done.

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For He established a  atestimony in Jacob And appointed a  blaw in Israel, Which He  ccommanded our fathers That they should  1 dteach them to their children,

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 aThat the generation to come might know, even  bthe children yet to be born, That they may arise and  ctell them to their children,

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That they should put their confidence in God And  anot forget the works of God, But  bkeep His commandments,

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And  anot be like their fathers, A  bstubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that  cdid not  1prepare its heart And whose spirit was not  dfaithful to God.

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The sons of Ephraim  1were  aarchers equipped with bows, Yet  bthey turned back in the day of battle.

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They  adid not keep the covenant of God And refused to  bwalk in His law;

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They  aforgot His deeds And His  1miracles that He had shown them.

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 aHe wrought wonders before their fathers In the land of Egypt, in the  bfield of Zoan.

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He  adivided the sea and caused them to pass through, And He made the waters stand  bup like a heap.

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Then He led them with the cloud by  aday And all the night with a  blight of fire.

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He  asplit the rocks in the wilderness And gave them abundant drink like the ocean depths.

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He  abrought forth streams also from the rock And caused waters to run down like rivers.

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Yet they still continued to sin against Him, To  arebel against the Most High in the desert.

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And in their heart they  aput God to the test By asking  bfood according to their desire.

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Then they spoke against God; They said, " aCan God prepare a table in the wilderness?

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"Behold, He  astruck the rock so that waters gushed out, And streams were overflowing; Can He give bread also? Will He provide  1 bmeat for His people?"

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Therefore the LORD heard and  1was  afull of wrath; And a fire was kindled against Jacob And anger also mounted against Israel,

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Because they  adid not believe in God And did not trust in His salvation.

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Yet He commanded the clouds above And  aopened the doors of heaven;

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He  arained down manna upon them to eat And gave them  1 bfood from heaven.

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Man did eat the bread of  1angels; He sent them  2food  3 ain abundance.

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He  acaused the east wind to blow in the heavens And by His  1power He directed the south wind.

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When He rained  1meat upon them like the dust, Even  awinged fowl like the sand of the seas,

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Then He let them fall in the midst of  1their camp, Round about their dwellings.

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So they  aate and were well filled, And their desire He gave to them.

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 1Before they had satisfied their desire,  aWhile their food was in their mouths,

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The  aanger of God rose against them And killed  1some of their  bstoutest ones, And  2subdued the choice men of Israel.

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In spite of all this they  astill sinned And  bdid not believe in His wonderful works.

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So He brought  atheir days to an end in  1futility And their years in sudden terror.

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When He killed them, then they  asought Him, And returned and searched  bdiligently for God;

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And they remembered that God was their  arock, And the Most High God their  bRedeemer.

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But they  adeceived Him with their mouth And  blied to Him with their tongue.

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For their heart was not  asteadfast toward Him, Nor were they faithful in His covenant.

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But He, being  acompassionate,  1 bforgave their iniquity and did not destroy them; And often He  2 crestrained His anger And did not arouse all His wrath.

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Thus  aHe remembered that they were but  bflesh, A  1 cwind that passes and does not return.

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How often they  arebelled against Him in the wilderness And  bgrieved Him in the  cdesert!

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Again and again they  1 atempted God, And pained the  bHoly One of Israel.

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They  adid not remember  bHis  1power, The day when He  credeemed them from the adversary,

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When He performed His  asigns in Egypt And His  bmarvels in the field of Zoan,

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And  aturned their rivers to blood, And their streams, they could not drink.

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He sent among them swarms of  aflies which devoured them, And  bfrogs which destroyed them.

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He gave also their crops to the  agrasshopper And the product of their labor to the  blocust.

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He  1destroyed their vines with  ahailstones And their sycamore trees with frost.

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He gave over their  acattle also to the hailstones And their herds to bolts of lightning.

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He  asent upon them His burning anger, Fury and indignation and trouble,  1A band of destroying angels.

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He leveled a path for His anger; He did not spare their soul from death, But  agave over their life to the plague,

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And  asmote all the firstborn in Egypt, The  bfirst issue of their virility in the tents of  cHam.

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But He  aled forth His own people like sheep And guided them in the wilderness  blike a flock;

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He led them  asafely, so that they did not fear; But  bthe sea engulfed their enemies.

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So  aHe brought them to His holy  1land, To this  2 bhill country  cwhich His right hand had gained.

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He also  adrove out the nations before them And  bapportioned them for an inheritance by measurement, And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

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Yet they  1 atempted and  brebelled against the Most High God And did not keep His testimonies,

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But turned back and  aacted treacherously like their fathers; They  bturned aside like a treacherous bow.

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For they  aprovoked Him with their  bhigh places And  caroused His jealousy with their  dgraven images.

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When God heard, He  1was filled with  awrath And greatly  babhorred Israel;

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So that He  aabandoned the  bdwelling place at Shiloh, The tent  1which He had pitched among men,

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And gave up His  astrength to captivity And His glory  binto the hand of the adversary.

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He also  adelivered His people to the sword, And  1was filled with wrath at His inheritance.

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 aFire devoured  1His young men, And  1His  bvirgins had no wedding songs.

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 1His  apriests fell by the sword, And  1His  bwidows could not weep.

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Then the Lord  aawoke as if from sleep, Like a  bwarrior  1overcome by wine.

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He  1 adrove His adversaries backward; He put on them an everlasting reproach.

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He also  arejected the tent of Joseph, And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,

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But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount  aZion which He loved.

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And He  abuilt His sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which He has founded forever.

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He also  achose David His servant And took him from the sheepfolds;

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From  1 athe care of the  2ewes  bwith suckling lambs He brought him To  cshepherd Jacob His people, And Israel  dHis inheritance.

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So he shepherded them according to the  aintegrity of his heart, And guided them with his skillful hands.



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