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CHAPTER 78

1
A Maskil
of Asaph.
Give ear,
O my people,
to my instruction;
listen
to the words
of my mouth.
2
I will open
my mouth
in parables;
I will utter
things hidden
from
of old,
3
that
we have heard
and known
and our fathers
have relayed
to us.
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.
5
For He established
a testimony
in Jacob
and appointed
a law
in Israel,
which
He commanded
our fathers
to teach
to their children,
6
that
the coming
generation
might know—
even children
yet to be born—
to arise
and tell
their children,
7
that they should put
their confidence
in God,
not
forgetting
His
works,
but keeping
His commandments.
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.
9
The archers
of Ephraim
turned back
on the day
of battle.
10
They did not
keep
God’s
covenant
and refused
to live
by His law.
11
They forgot
what He had done,
the wonders
He had shown them.
12
He worked
wonders
before
their fathers
in the land
of Egypt,
in the region
of Zoan.
13
He split
the sea
and brought them through;
He set
the waters upright
like
a wall.
14
He led
them with a cloud
by day
and with a light
of fire
all
night.
15
He split
the rocks
in the wilderness
and gave them drink
as abundant
as the seas.
16
He brought
streams
from the stone
and made water
flow down
like rivers.
17
But they continued
to sin against Him,
rebelling
in the desert
against the Most High.
18
They willfully
tested
God
by demanding
the food
they craved.
19
They spoke
against God,
saying,
“Can
God
really prepare
a table
in the wilderness?
20
When
He struck
the rock,
water
gushed out
and torrents
overflowed.
But can
He also
give
bread
or
supply
His people
with meat?”
21
Therefore
the LORD
heard
and was full of wrath;
so a fire
was kindled
against Jacob,
and
His anger
flared
against Israel
22
because
they did not
believe
God
or rely
on His salvation.
23
Yet He commanded
the clouds
above
and opened
the doors
of the heavens.
24
He rained down
manna
for them
to eat;
He gave
them
grain
from heaven.
25
Man
ate
the bread
of angels;
He sent
them
food
in abundance.
26
He stirred
the east wind
from the heavens
and drove
the south wind
by His might.
27
He rained
meat
on them
like dust,
and winged
birds
like the sand
of the sea.
28
He felled them
in the midst
of their camp,
all around
their dwellings.
29
So they ate
and were well
filled,
for He gave
them
what they craved.
30
Yet
before they had filled
their desire,
with the food
still
in their mouths,
31
God’s
anger
flared against them,
and He put to death
their strongest
and subdued
the young men
of Israel.
32
In spite of all
this,
they kept on sinning;
despite
His wonderful works,
they did not
believe.
33
So He ended
their days
in futility,
and their years
in sudden terror.
34
When
He slew them,
they would seek Him;
they repented
and searched for
God.
35
And they remembered
that
God
was their rock,
that God
Most High
was their Redeemer.
36
But they deceived
Him with their mouths,
and lied
to Him
with their tongues.
37
Their hearts
were disloyal
to Him,
and they were unfaithful
to His covenant.
38
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.
39
He remembered
that
they
were but flesh,
a passing
breeze
that does not
return.
40
How often
they disobeyed Him
in the wilderness
and grieved Him
in the desert.
41
Again and again
they tested
God
and provoked
the Holy
One of Israel.
42
They did not
remember
His power—
the day
He redeemed
them from
the adversary,
43
when
He performed
His signs
in Egypt
and His wonders
in the fields
of Zoan.
44
He turned
their rivers
to blood,
and from their streams
they could not
drink.
45
He sent
swarms of flies
that devoured them,
and frogs
that devastated them.
46
He gave
their crops
to the grasshopper,
the fruit of their labor
to the locust.
47
He killed
their vines
with hailstones
and their sycamore-figs
with sleet.
48
He abandoned
their cattle
to the hail
and their livestock
to bolts of lightning.
49
He unleashed
His fury
against them,
wrath,
indignation,
and calamity—
a band
of destroying
angels.
50
He cleared
a path
for His anger;
He did not
spare
them
from death
but delivered
their lives
to the plague.
51
He struck
all
the firstborn
of Egypt,
the virility
in the tents
of Ham.
52
He led out His people
like sheep
and guided
them like a flock
in the wilderness.
53
He led them
safely,
so they did not
fear,
but
the sea
engulfed
their enemies.
54
He brought
them to
His holy
land,
to the hill country
His right hand
had acquired.
55
He drove out
nations
before them
and apportioned
their inheritance;
He settled
the tribes
of Israel
in their tents.
56
But they tested
and disobeyed
God
Most High,
for they did not
keep
His decrees.
57
They turned back
and were faithless
like their fathers,
twisted
like a faulty
bow.
58
They enraged Him
with their high places
and provoked His jealousy
with their idols.
59
On hearing it,
God
was furious
and rejected
Israel
completely.
60
He abandoned
the tabernacle
of Shiloh,
the tent
He had pitched
among men.
61
He delivered
His strength
to captivity,
and His splendor
to the hand
of the adversary.
62
He surrendered
His people
to the sword
because He was enraged
by His heritage.
63
Fire
consumed
His young men,
and their maidens
were left without
wedding songs.
64
His priests
fell
by the sword,
but His widows
could not
lament.
65
Then the Lord
awoke
as from sleep,
like a warrior
overcome
by wine.
66
He beat
back
His foes;
He put them to
everlasting
shame.
67
He rejected
the tent
of Joseph
and refused
the tribe
of Ephraim.
68
But He chose
the tribe
of Judah,
Mount
Zion,
which
He loved.
69
He built
His sanctuary
like
the heights,
like the earth
He has established
forever.
70
He chose
David
His servant
and took him
from the sheepfolds;
71
from tending
the ewes
He brought him
to be shepherd
of His people
Jacob,
of Israel
His inheritance.
72
So David shepherded them
with integrity
of heart
and guided them
with skillful
hands.
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