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78 : 1 - |
Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. |
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78 : 2 - |
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: |
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78 : 3 - |
Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. |
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78 : 4 - |
We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. |
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78 : 5 - |
For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: |
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78 : 6 - |
That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: |
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78 : 7 - |
That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: |
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78 : 8 - |
And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. |
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78 : 9 - |
The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. |
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78 : 10 - |
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; |
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78 : 11 - |
And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them. |
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78 : 12 - |
Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. |
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78 : 13 - |
He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap. |
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78 : 14 - |
In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. |
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78 : 15 - |
He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths. |
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78 : 16 - |
He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. |
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78 : 17 - |
And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness. |
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78 : 18 - |
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. |
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78 : 19 - |
Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? |
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78 : 20 - |
Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people? |
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78 : 21 - |
Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel; |
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78 : 22 - |
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation: |
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78 : 23 - |
Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven, |
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78 : 24 - |
And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. |
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78 : 25 - |
Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full. |
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78 : 26 - |
He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind. |
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78 : 27 - |
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: |
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78 : 28 - |
And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations. |
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78 : 29 - |
So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; |
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78 : 30 - |
They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths, |
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78 : 31 - |
The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel. |
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78 : 32 - |
For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works. |
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78 : 33 - |
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble. |
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78 : 34 - |
When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God. |
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78 : 35 - |
And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer. |
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78 : 36 - |
Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues. |
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78 : 37 - |
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant. |
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78 : 38 - |
But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath. |
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78 : 39 - |
For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. |
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78 : 40 - |
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! |
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78 : 41 - |
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. |
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78 : 42 - |
They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. |
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78 : 43 - |
How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: |
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78 : 44 - |
And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. |
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78 : 45 - |
He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. |
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78 : 46 - |
He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust. |
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78 : 47 - |
He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost. |
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78 : 48 - |
He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. |
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78 : 49 - |
He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. |
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78 : 50 - |
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; |
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78 : 51 - |
And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham: |
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78 : 52 - |
But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. |
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78 : 53 - |
And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. |
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78 : 54 - |
And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased. |
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78 : 55 - |
He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. |
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78 : 56 - |
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: |
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78 : 57 - |
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. |
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78 : 58 - |
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. |
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78 : 59 - |
When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: |
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78 : 60 - |
So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men; |
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78 : 61 - |
And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand. |
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78 : 62 - |
He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance. |
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78 : 63 - |
The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage. |
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78 : 64 - |
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation. |
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78 : 65 - |
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. |
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78 : 66 - |
And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach. |
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78 : 67 - |
Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: |
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78 : 68 - |
But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. |
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78 : 69 - |
And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever. |
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78 : 70 - |
He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds: |
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78 : 71 - |
From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. |
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78 : 72 - |
So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. |
