A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear , O my people , to my instruction ; listen ... to the words of my mouth.
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I will open my mouth in parables ; I will utter things hidden from the beginning ,
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that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed
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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.
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For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel , which He commanded - our fathers to teach to their children ,
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that the coming generation would know them — even children yet to be born — to arise and tell their (own) children
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that they should put their confidence in God , not forgetting (His) works , but keeping His commandments.
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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.
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The archers ... ... vvv of Ephraim turned back on the day of battle.
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They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.
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They forgot what He had done , the wonders - He had shown them.
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He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt , in the region of Zoan.
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He split the sea and brought them through ; He set the waters {upright} like a wall.
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He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
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He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave (them) drink as abundant as the seas.
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He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.
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But they continued ... to sin rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
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They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.
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They spoke against God , saying , “ Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness ?
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When He struck the rock , water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat ? ”
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Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath ; so a fire was kindled against Jacob , and His anger flared against Israel ,
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because they did not believe God ... or rely on His salvation.
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Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.
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He rained down manna for them to eat ; He gave grain from heaven.
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Man ate the bread of angels ; He sent food in abundance.
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He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might.
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He rained meat on them like dust , and winged birds like the sand of the sea.
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He felled them in the midst of their camp , all around their dwellings.
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So they ate and were well filled , for He gave what they craved.
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Yet before they had filled their desire , with the food still in their mouths ,
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God’s anger flared and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel.
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In spite of all this , they kept on sinning ; despite His wonderful works , they did not believe.
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So He ended their days in futility , and their years in sudden terror.
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When He slew them , they would seek Him ; they repented and searched for God.
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And they remembered that God was their Rock , that God Most High was their Redeemer.
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But they deceived Him with their mouths , and lied with their tongues.
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Their hearts were disloyal ... to Him , and they were unfaithful ... to His covenant.
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And yet He was compassionate ; He forgave (their) iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger ... and did not unleash vvv His full wrath.
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He remembered that they were but flesh , a passing breeze that does not return.
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How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert !
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Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
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They did not remember - His power — the day - He redeemed them from the adversary ,
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when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.
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He turned their rivers to blood , and from their streams they could not drink.
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He sent swarms of flies that devoured them , and frogs that devastated them.
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He gave their crops to the grasshopper , the fruit of their labor to the locust.
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He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
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He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.
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He unleashed His fury ... wrath , indignation , and calamity — a band of destroying angels.
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He cleared a path for His anger ; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.
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He struck all the firstborn of Egypt , vvv the virility in the tents of Ham.
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He led out His people ... like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
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He led them safely , so they did not fear , but the sea engulfed their enemies.
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He brought them to His holy land , to the mountain ... His right hand had acquired.
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He drove out nations before them and apportioned ... their inheritance ; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
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But they tested and disobeyed - God Most High , for they did not keep His decrees.
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They turned back and were faithless like their fathers , twisted like a faulty bow.
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They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
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On hearing it , God was furious and rejected Israel completely.
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He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh , the tent He had pitched among men.
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He delivered His strength to captivity , and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.
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He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage.
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Fire consumed His young men , and their maidens were left without wedding songs.
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His priests fell by the sword , but their widows could not lament.
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Then the Lord awoke as from sleep , like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.
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He beat back His foes ; He put them to everlasting shame.
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He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused ... the tribe of Ephraim.
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But He chose - the tribe of Judah , - Mount Zion , which He loved.
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He built His sanctuary like the heights , like the earth He has established forever.
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He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds ... ;
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from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob , of Israel His inheritance.
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So (David) shepherded them with integrity of heart and guided them with skillful hands.
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