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Psalms 78
Psalms 78
English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)
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O my people, listen to my teaching. Open your ears to what I am saying.
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For I will show you lessons from our
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history, stories handed down to us from former generations.
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I will reveal these truths to you so that you can describe these glorious deeds of Jehovah to your children and tell them about the mighty miracles he did.
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For he gave his laws to Israel and commanded our fathers to teach them to their children,
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so that they in turn could teach their children too. Thus his laws pass down from generation to generation.
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In this way each generation has been able to obey his laws and to set its hope anew on God and not forget his glorious miracles.
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Thus they did not need to be as their fathers were—stubborn, rebellious, unfaithful, refusing to give their hearts to God.
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The people of Ephraim, though fully armed, turned their backs and fled when the day of battle came
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because they didn't obey his laws. They refused to follow his ways.
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And they forgot about the wonderful miracles God had
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done for them and for their fathers in Egypt.
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For he divided the sea before them and led them through! The water stood banked up along both sides of them!
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In the daytime he led them by a cloud, and at night by a pillar of fire.
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He split open the rocks in the wilderness to give them plenty of water, as though gushing from a spring.
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Streams poured from the rock, flowing like a river!
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Yet they kept on with their rebellion, sinning against the God who is above all gods.
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They murmured and complained, demanding other food than God was giving them.
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They even spoke against God himself.
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“Why can't he give us decent food as well as water?“ they grumbled.
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Jehovah heard them and was angry; the fire of his wrath burned against Israel
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because they didn't believe in God or trust in him to care for them,
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even though he commanded the skies to open—he opened the windows of heaven—
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and rained down manna for their food. He gave them bread from heaven!
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They ate angels' food! He gave them all they could hold.
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And he led forth the east wind and guided the south wind by his mighty power.
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He rained down birds as thick as dust, clouds of them like sands along the shore!
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He caused the birds to fall to the ground among the tents.
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The people ate their fill. He gave them what they asked for.
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But they had hardly finished eating, and the meat was yet in their mouths,
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when the anger of the Lord rose against them and killed the finest of Israel's young men.
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Yet even so the people kept on sinning and refused to believe in miracles.
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So he cut their lives short and gave them years of terror and disaster.
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Then at last, when he had ruined them, they walked awhile behind him; how earnestly they turned around and followed him!
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Then they remembered that God was their Rock—that their Savior was the God above all gods.
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But it was only with their words they followed him, not with their hearts;
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their hearts were far away. They did not keep their promises.
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Yet he was merciful and forgave their sins and didn't destroy them all. Many and many a time he held back his anger.
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For he remembered that they were merely mortal men, gone in a moment like a breath of wind.
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Oh, how often they rebelled against him in those desert years and grieved his heart.
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Again and again they turned away and tempted God to kill them, and limited the Holy One of Israel from giving them his blessings.
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They forgot his power and love and how he had rescued them from their enemies;
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they forgot the plagues he sent upon the Egyptians in Tanis—
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how he turned their rivers into blood so that no one could drink,
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how he sent vast swarms of flies to fill the land, and how the frogs had covered all of Egypt!
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He gave their crops to caterpillars. Their harvest was consumed by locusts.
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He destroyed their grapevines and their sycamores with hail.
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Their cattle died in the fields, mortally wounded by huge hailstones from heaven. Their sheep were killed by lightning.
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He loosed on them the fierceness of his anger, sending sorrow and trouble. He dispatched against them a band of destroying angels.
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He gave free course to his anger and did not spare the Egyptians' lives, but handed them over to plagues and sickness.
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Then he killed the eldest son in each Egyptian family—he who was the beginning of its strength and joy.
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But he led forth his own people like a flock, guiding them safely through the wilderness.
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He kept them safe, so they were not afraid. But the sea closed in upon their enemies and overwhelmed them.
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He brought them to the border of his land of blessing, to this land of hills he made for them.
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He drove out the nations occupying the land and gave each tribe of Israel its apportioned place as its home.
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Yet though he did all this for them, they still rebelled against the God above all gods and refused to follow his commands.
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They turned back from entering the Promised Land and disobeyed as their fathers had. Like a crooked arrow, they missed the target of God's will.
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They made him angry by erecting idols and altars to other gods.
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When God saw their deeds, his wrath was strong and he despised his people.
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Then he abandoned his Tabernacle at Shiloh, where he had lived among mankind,
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and allowed his Ark to be captured; he surrendered his glory into enemy hands.
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He caused his people to be butchered because his anger was intense.
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Their young men were killed by fire, and their girls died before they were old enough to sing their wedding songs.
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The priests were slaughtered, and their widows died before they could even begin their lament.
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Then the Lord rose up as though awakening from sleep, and like a mighty man aroused by wine,
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he routed his enemies; he drove them back and sent them to eternal shame.
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But he rejected Joseph's family, the tribe of Ephraim,
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and chose the tribe of Judah—and Mount Zion, which he loved.
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There he built his towering temple, solid and enduring as the heavens and the earth.
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He chose his servant David, taking him from feeding sheep
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and from following the ewes with lambs; God presented David to his people as their shepherd,
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and he cared for them with a true heart and skillful hands.
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