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Psalms 78
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God and His People[f]

78Listen, my people, to my teaching, and pay attention to what I say.H4905H623H238H5971H8451H5186H241H561H6310
2I am going to use wise sayings and explain mysteries from the past,H6605H6310H4912H5042H2420H6924
3things we have heard and known, things that our ancestors told us.H8085H3045H1H5608
4We will not keep them from our children; we will tell the next generation about the LORD's power and his great deeds and the wonderful things he has done.H3582H1121H5608H1755H314H8416H3068H5807H6381H6213
5He gave laws to the people of Israel and commandments to the descendants of Jacob. He instructed our ancestors to teach his laws to their children,H6965H5715H3290H7760H8451H3478H6680H1H3045H1121
6so that the next generation might learn them and in turn should tell their children.H1755H314H3045H1121H3205H6965H5608H1121
7In this way they also will put their trust in God and not forget what he has done, but always obey his commandments.H7760H3689H430H7911H4611H410H5341H4687
8They will not be like their ancestors, a rebellious and disobedient people, whose trust in God was never firm and who did not remain faithful to him.H1H5637H4784H1755H1755H3559H3820H3559H7307H539H410
9The Ephraimites, armed with bows and arrows, ran away on the day of battle.H1121H669H5401H7411H7198H2015H3117H7128
10They did not keep their covenant with God; they refused to obey his law.H8104H1285H430H3985H3212H8451
11They forgot what he had done, the miracles they had seen him perform.H7911H5949H6381H7200
12While their ancestors watched, God performed miracles in the plain of Zoan in the land of Egypt.H6382H6213H5048H1H776H4714H7704H6814
13He divided the sea and took them through it; he made the waters stand like walls.H1234H3220H5674H4325H5324H5067
14By day he led them with a cloud and all night long with the light of a fire.H3119H5148H6051H3915H216H784
15He split rocks open in the desert and gave them water from the depths.H1234H6697H4057H8248H7227H8415
16He caused a stream to come out of the rock and made water flow like a river.H3318H5140H5553H4325H3381H5104
17But they continued to sin against God, and in the desert they rebelled against the Most High.H2398H3254H4784H5945H6723
18They deliberately put God to the test by demanding the food they wanted.H5254H410H3824H7592H400H5315
19They spoke against God and said, "Can God supply food in the desert?H1696H430H559H3201H410H6186H7979H4057
20It is true that he struck the rock, and water flowed out in a torrent; but can he also provide us with bread and give his people meat?"H5221H6697H4325H2100H5158H7857H3201H5414H3899H3201H3559H7607H5971
21And so the LORD was angry when he heard them; he attacked his people with fire, and his anger against them grew,H3068H8085H5674H784H5400H3290H639H5927H3478
22because they had no faith in him and did not believe that he would save them.H539H430H982H3444
23But he spoke to the sky above and commanded its doors to open;H6680H7834H4605H6605H1817H8064
24he gave them grain from heaven, by sending down manna for them to eat.H4305H4478H398H5414H1715H8064
25So they ate the food of angels, and God gave them all they wanted.H376H398H47H3899H7971H6720H7648
26He also caused the east wind to blow, and by his power he stirred up the south wind;H6921H5265H8064H5797H5090H8486
27and to his people he sent down birds, as many as the grains of sand on the shore;H4305H7607H6083H3671H5775H2344H3220
28they fell in the middle of the camp all around the tents.H5307H7130H4264H5439H4908
29So the people ate and were satisfied; God gave them what they wanted.H398H3966H7646H935H8378
30But they had not yet satisfied their craving and were still eating,H2114H8378H400H6310
31when God became angry with them and killed their strongest men, the best young men of Israel.H639H430H5927H2026H4924H3766H970H3478
32In spite of all this the people kept sinning; in spite of his miracles they did not trust him.H2398H539H6381
33So he ended their days like a breath and their lives with sudden disaster.H3117H3615H1892H8141H928
34Whenever he killed some of them, the rest would turn to him; they would repent and pray earnestly to him.H2026H1875H7725H7836H410
35They remembered that God was their protector, that the Almighty came to their aid.H2142H430H6697H5945H410H1350
36But their words were all lies; nothing they said was sincere.H6601H6310H3576H3956
37They were not loyal to him; they were not faithful to their covenant with him.H3820H3559H539H1285
38But God was merciful to his people. He forgave their sin and did not destroy them. Many times he held back his anger and restrained his fury.H7349H3722H5771H7843H7235H7725H639H7725H5782H2534
39He remembered that they were only mortal beings, like a wind that blows by and is gone.H2142H1320H7307H1980H7725
40How often they rebelled against him in the desert; how many times they made him sad!H4100H4784H4057H6087H3452
41Again and again they put God to the test and brought pain to the Holy God of Israel.H7725H5254H410H8428H6918H3478
42They forgot his great power and the day when he saved them from their enemiesH2142H3027H3117H6299H6862
43and performed his mighty acts and miracles in the plain of Zoan in the land of Egypt.H7760H226H4714H4159H7704H6814
44He turned the rivers into blood, and the Egyptians had no water to drink.H2015H2975H1818H5140H8354
45He sent flies among them, that tormented them, and frogs that ruined their land.H7971H6157H398H6854H7843
46He sent locusts to eat their crops and to destroy their fields.H5414H2981H2625H3018H697
47He killed their grapevines with hail and their fig trees with frost.H2026H1612H1259H8256H2602
48He killed their cattle with hail and their flocks with lightning.H5462H1165H1259H4735H7565
49He caused them great distress by pouring out his anger and fierce rage, which came as messengers of death.H7971H2740H639H5678H2195H6869H4917H7451H4397
50He did not restrain his anger or spare their lives, but killed them with a plague.H6424H5410H639H2820H5315H4194H5462H2416H5462H1698
51He killed the first-born sons of all the families of Egypt.H5221H1060H4714H7225H202H168H2526
52Then he led his people out like a shepherd and guided them through the desert.H5971H5265H6629H5090H4057H5739
53He led them safely, and they were not afraid; but the sea came rolling over their enemies.H5148H983H6342H3220H3680H341
54He brought them to his holy land, to the mountains which he himself conquered.H935H1366H6944H2022H3225H7069
55He drove out the inhabitants as his people advanced; he divided their land among the tribes of Israel and gave their homes to his people.H1644H1471H6440H5307H5159H2256H7626H3478H7931H168
56But they rebelled against Almighty God and put him to the test. They did not obey his commandments,H5254H4784H5945H430H8104H5713
57but were rebellious and disloyal like their ancestors, unreliable as a crooked arrow.H5472H898H1H2015H7423H7198
58They angered him with their heathen places of worship, and with their idols they made him furious.H3707H1116H7065H6456
59God was angry when he saw it, so he rejected his people completely.H430H8085H5674H3966H3988H3478
60He abandoned his tent in Shiloh, the home where he had lived among us.H5203H4908H7887H168H7931H120
61He allowed our enemies to capture the Covenant Box, the symbol of his power and glory.H5414H5797H7628H8597H6862H3027
62He was angry with his own people and let them be killed by their enemies.H5462H5971H5462H2719H5674H5159
63Young men were killed in war, and young women had no one to marry.H784H398H970H1330H1984
64Priests died by violence, and their widows were not allowed to mourn.H3548H5307H2719H490H1058
65At last the Lord woke up as though from sleep; he was like a strong man excited by wine.H136H3364H3463H1368H7442H3196
66He drove his enemies back in lasting and shameful defeat.H5221H6862H268H5414H5769H2781
67But he rejected the descendants of Joseph; he did not select the tribe of Ephraim.H3988H168H3130H977H7626H669
68Instead he chose the tribe of Judah and Mount Zion, which he dearly loves.H977H7626H3063H2022H6726H157
69There he built his Temple like his home in heaven; he made it firm like the earth itself, secure for all time.H1129H4720H7311H776H3245H5769
70He chose his servant David; he took him from the pastures,H977H1732H5650H3947H4356H6629
71where he looked after his flocks, and he made him king of Israel, the shepherd of the people of God.H310H5763H935H7462H3290H5971H3478H5159
72David took care of them with unselfish devotion and led them with skill.H7462H8537H3824H5148H8394H3709


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