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Psalms 78
Psalms 78
English God's Word - GW 1995
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A maskil by Asaph. Open your ears to my teachings, my people. Turn your ears to the words from my mouth.
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I will open my mouth to illustrate points. I will explain what has been hidden long ago,
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things that we have heard and known about, things that our parents have told us.
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We will not hide them from our children. We will tell the next generation about the Lord's power and great deeds and the miraculous things he has done.
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He established written instructions for Jacob's people. He gave his teachings to Israel. He commanded our ancestors to make them known to their children
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so that the next generation would know them. Children yet to be born {would learn them}. They will grow up and tell their children
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to trust God, to remember what he has done, and to obey his commands.
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Then they will not be like their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation. Their hearts were not loyal. Their spirits were not faithful to God.
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The men of Ephraim, well-equipped with bows {and arrows}, turned {and ran} on the day of battle.
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They had not been faithful to God's promise. They refused to follow his teachings.
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They forgot what he had done— the miracles that he had shown them.
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In front of their ancestors he performed miracles in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.
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He divided the sea and led them through it. He made the waters stand up like a wall.
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He guided them by a cloud during the day and by a fiery light throughout the night.
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He split rocks in the desert. He gave them plenty to drink, an ocean of water.
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He made streams come out of a rock. He made the water flow like rivers.
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They continued to sin against him, to rebel in the desert against the Most High.
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They deliberately tested God by demanding the food they craved.
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They spoke against God by saying, "Can God prepare a banquet in the desert?
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True, he did strike a rock, and water did gush out, and the streams did overflow. But can he also give us bread or provide us, his people, with meat?"
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When the Lord heard this, he became furious. His fire burned against Jacob and his anger flared up at Israel
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because they did not believe God or trust him to save them.
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In spite of that, he commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of heaven.
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He rained manna down on them to eat and gave them grain from heaven.
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Humans ate the bread of the mighty ones, and God sent them plenty of food.
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He made the east wind blow in the heavens and guided the south wind with his might.
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He rained meat down on them like dust, birds like the sand on the seashore.
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He made the birds fall in the middle of his camp, all around his dwelling place.
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They ate more than enough. He gave them what they wanted,
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but they still wanted more. While the food was still in their mouths,
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the anger of God flared up against them. He killed their strongest men and slaughtered the best young men in Israel.
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In spite of all this, they continued to sin, and they no longer believed in his miracles.
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He brought their days to an end like a whisper in the wind. He brought their years to an end in terror.
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When he killed {some of} them, {the rest} searched for him. They turned from their sins and eagerly looked for God.
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They remembered that God was their rock, that the Most High was their defender.
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They flattered him with their mouths and lied to him with their tongues.
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Their hearts were not loyal to him. They were not faithful to his promise.
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But he is compassionate. He forgave their sin. He did not destroy them. He restrained his anger many times. He did not display all of his fury.
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He remembered that they were only flesh and blood, a breeze that blows and does not return.
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How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness! How often they caused him grief in the desert!
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Again and again they tested God, and they pushed the Holy One of Israel to the limit.
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They did not remember his power— the day he freed them from their oppressor,
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when he performed his miraculous signs in Egypt, his wonders in the fields of Zoan.
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He turned their rivers into blood so that they could not drink from their streams.
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He sent a swarm of flies that bit them and frogs that ruined them.
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He gave their crops to grasshoppers and their produce to locusts.
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He killed their vines with hail and their fig trees with frost.
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He let the hail strike their cattle and bolts of lightning strike their livestock.
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He sent his burning anger, rage, fury, and hostility against them. He sent an army of destroying angels.
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He cleared a path for his anger. He did not spare them. He let the plague take their lives.
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He slaughtered every firstborn in Egypt, the ones born in the tents of Ham when their fathers were young.
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But he led his own people out like sheep and guided them like a flock through the wilderness.
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He led them safely. They had no fear while the sea covered their enemies.
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He brought them into his holy land, to this mountain that his power had won.
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He forced nations out of their way and gave them the land of the nations as their inheritance. He settled the tribes of Israel in their own tents.
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They tested God Most High and rebelled against him. They did not obey his written instructions.
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They were disloyal and treacherous like their ancestors. They were like arrows shot from a defective bow.
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They made him angry because of their illegal worship sites. They made him furious because they worshiped idols.
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When God heard, he became furious. He completely rejected Israel.
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He abandoned his dwelling place in Shiloh, the tent where he had lived among humans.
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He allowed his power to be taken captive and handed his glory over to an oppressor.
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He let swords kill his people. He was furious with those who belonged to him.
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Fire consumed his best young men, so his virgins heard no wedding songs.
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His priests were cut down with swords. The widows {of his priests} could not even weep {for them}.
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Then the Lord woke up like one who had been sleeping, like a warrior sobering up from {too much} wine.
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He struck his enemies from behind and disgraced them forever.
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He rejected the tent of Joseph. He did not choose 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 holy place to be like the high heavens, like the earth which he made to last for a long time.
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He chose his servant David. He took him from the sheep pens.
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He brought him from tending the ewes that had lambs so that David could be the shepherd of the people of Jacob, of Israel, the people who belonged to the Lord.
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With unselfish devotion David became their shepherd. With skill he guided them.
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