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Psalm 78

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Psalm 78 . 1

1 A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth.TOSKPsalm 78:1

Psalm 78 . 2

2 I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,IPPsalms 78:2TOSKPsalm 78:2

Psalm 78 . 3

3 that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.TOSKPsalm 78:3

Psalm 78 . 4

4 We will not hide them from their children, but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might, and the wonders He has performed.TOSKPsalm 78:4

Psalm 78 . 5

5 For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,TOSKPsalm 78:5

Psalm 78 . 6

6 that the coming generation would know them—even children yet to be born—to arise and tell their own childrenTOSKPsalm 78:6

Psalm 78 . 7

7 that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments.TOSKPsalm 78:7

Psalm 78 . 8

8 Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.TOSKPsalm 78:8

Psalm 78 . 9

9 The archers of Ephraim turned back on the day of battle.TOSKPsalm 78:9

Psalm 78 . 10

10 They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.TOSKPsalm 78:10

Psalm 78 . 11

11 They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.TOSKPsalm 78:11

Psalm 78 . 12

12 He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.TOSKPsalm 78:12

Psalm 78 . 13

13 He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.IPIsaiah 63:12TOSKPsalm 78:13

Psalm 78 . 14

14 He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.TOSKPsalm 78:14

Psalm 78 . 15

15 He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.TOSKPsalm 78:15

Psalm 78 . 16

16 He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.TOSKPsalm 78:16

Psalm 78 . 17

17 But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.TOSKPsalm 78:17

Psalm 78 . 18

18 They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.TOSKPsalm 78:18

Psalm 78 . 19

19 They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?TOSKPsalm 78:19

Psalm 78 . 20

20 When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”TOSKPsalm 78:20

Psalm 78 . 21

21 Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared against Israel,TOSKPsalm 78:21

Psalm 78 . 22

22 because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.TOSKPsalm 78:22

Psalm 78 . 23

23 Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.TOSKPsalm 78:23

Psalm 78 . 24

24 He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.IPPsalms 78:24TOSKPsalm 78:24

Psalm 78 . 25

25 Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.TOSKPsalm 78:25

Psalm 78 . 26

26 He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might.TOSKPsalm 78:26

Psalm 78 . 27

27 He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.TOSKPsalm 78:27

Psalm 78 . 28

28 He felled them in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.TOSKPsalm 78:28

Psalm 78 . 29

29 So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them what they craved.TOSKPsalm 78:29

Psalm 78 . 30

30 Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,TOSKPsalm 78:30

Psalm 78 . 31

31 God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel.TOSKPsalm 78:31

Psalm 78 . 32

32 In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.TOSKPsalm 78:32

Psalm 78 . 33

33 So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.TOSKPsalm 78:33

Psalm 78 . 34

34 When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.TOSKPsalm 78:34

Psalm 78 . 35

35 And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.TOSKPsalm 78:35

Psalm 78 . 36

36 But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.TOSKPsalm 78:36

Psalm 78 . 37

37 Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.TOSKPsalm 78:37

Psalm 78 . 38

38 And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.TOSKPsalm 78:38

Psalm 78 . 39

39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.TOSKPsalm 78:39

Psalm 78 . 40

40 How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!IPIsaiah 63:10TOSKPsalm 78:40

Psalm 78 . 41

41 Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.TOSKPsalm 78:41

Psalm 78 . 42

42 They did not remember His power—the day He redeemed them from the adversary,TOSKPsalm 78:42

Psalm 78 . 43

43 when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.TOSKPsalm 78:43

Psalm 78 . 44

44 He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.IPExodus 7 Exodus 7TOSKPsalm 78:44

Psalm 78 . 45

45 He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.IPExodus 7TOSKPsalm 78:45

Psalm 78 . 46

46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.IPExodus 7TOSKPsalm 78:46

Psalm 78 . 47

47 He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.IPExodus 7TOSKPsalm 78:47

Psalm 78 . 48

48 He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.IPExodus 7TOSKPsalm 78:48

Psalm 78 . 49

49 He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity—a band of destroying angels.IPExodus 7TOSKPsalm 78:49

Psalm 78 . 50

50 He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.IPExodus 7TOSKPsalm 78:50

Psalm 78 . 51

51 He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.IPExodus 7TOSKPsalm 78:51

Psalm 78 . 52

52 He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.IPIsaiah 63:14TOSKPsalm 78:52LTShepherd

Psalm 78 . 53

53 He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies.TOSKPsalm 78:53

Psalm 78 . 54

54 He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.IPExodus 15:17TOSKPsalm 78:54

Psalm 78 . 55

55 He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.TOSKPsalm 78:55

Psalm 78 . 56

56 But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.TOSKPsalm 78:56

Psalm 78 . 57

57 They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.TOSKPsalm 78:57

Psalm 78 . 58

58 They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.IPExodus 20:4 Exodus 20:4 Exodus 20:5 Exodus 20:5 Deuteronomy 5:8 Deuteronomy 5:8 Deuteronomy 5:9 Deuteronomy 5:9TOSKPsalm 78:58

Psalm 78 . 59

59 On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.IPExodus 20:4 Exodus 20:5 Deuteronomy 5:8 Deuteronomy 5:9TOSKPsalm 78:59

Psalm 78 . 60

60 He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.TOSKPsalm 78:60

Psalm 78 . 61

61 He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.TOSKPsalm 78:61

Psalm 78 . 62

62 He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage.TOSKPsalm 78:62

Psalm 78 . 63

63 Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.TOSKPsalm 78:63

Psalm 78 . 64

64 His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.TOSKPsalm 78:64

Psalm 78 . 65

65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.TOSKPsalm 78:65

Psalm 78 . 66

66 He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.TOSKPsalm 78:66

Psalm 78 . 67

67 He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.TOSKPsalm 78:67

Psalm 78 . 68

68 But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.IPExodus 15:17 Exodus 15:17 Psalms 78:68-69TOSKPsalm 78:68

Psalm 78 . 69

69 He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.IPExodus 15:17 Psalms 78:68-69TOSKPsalm 78:69

Psalm 78 . 70

70 He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;TOSKPsalm 78:70LTShepherd

Psalm 78 . 71

71 from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.TOSKPsalm 78:71

Psalm 78 . 72

72 So David shepherded them with integrity of heart and guided them with skillful hands.TOSKPsalm 78:72

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