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