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God's Guidance of His People in Spite of Their Unfaithfulness.
A Maskil of Asaph. |
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| Psalm 78:1 |
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Listen, O my people, to my instruction; Incline
your ears to the words of my mouth. |
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| 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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| Psalm 78:3 |
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Which we have heard and known, And our fathers
have told us. |
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| Psalm 78:4 |
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We will not conceal them from their children,
But tell to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, And His strength and
His wondrous works that He has done. |
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| 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 teach
them to their children, |
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| Psalm 78:6 |
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That the generation to come might know, even
the children yet to be born, That they may arise and tell them to their children, |
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| Psalm 78:7 |
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That they should put their confidence in God
And not forget the works of God, But keep His commandments, |
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| Psalm 78:8 |
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And not be like their fathers, A stubborn and
rebellious generation, A generation that did not prepare its heart And whose spirit
was not faithful to God. |
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| Psalm 78:9 |
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The sons of Ephraim were archers equipped with
bows, Yet they turned back in the day of battle. |
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| Psalm 78:10 |
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They did not keep the covenant of God And refused
to walk in His law; |
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| Psalm 78:11 |
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They forgot His deeds And His miracles that
He had shown them. |
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| Psalm 78:12 |
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He wrought wonders before their fathers In the
land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. |
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| Psalm 78:13 |
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He divided the sea and caused them to pass through,
And He made the waters stand up like a heap. |
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| Psalm 78:14 |
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Then He led them with the cloud by day And all
the night with a light of fire. |
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| Psalm 78:15 |
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He split the rocks in the wilderness And gave
them abundant drink like the ocean depths. |
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| Psalm 78:16 |
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He brought forth streams also from the rock
And caused waters to run down like rivers. |
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| Psalm 78:17 |
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Yet they still continued to sin against Him,
To rebel against the Most High in the desert. |
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| Psalm 78:18 |
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And in their heart they put God to the test
By asking food according to their desire. |
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| Psalm 78:19 |
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Then they spoke against God; They said, "Can
God prepare a table in the wilderness? |
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| Psalm 78:20 |
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"Behold, He struck the rock so that waters gushed
out, And streams were overflowing; Can He give bread also? Will He provide meat
for His people?" |
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| Psalm 78:21 |
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Therefore the LORD heard and was full of wrath;
And a fire was kindled against Jacob And anger also mounted against Israel, |
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| Psalm 78:22 |
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Because they did not believe in God And did
not trust in His salvation. |
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| Psalm 78:23 |
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Yet He commanded the clouds above And opened
the doors of heaven; |
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| Psalm 78:24 |
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He rained down manna upon them to eat And gave
them food from heaven. |
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| Psalm 78:25 |
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Man did eat the bread of angels; He sent them
food in abundance. |
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| Psalm 78:26 |
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He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens
And by His power He directed the south wind. |
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| Psalm 78:27 |
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When He rained meat upon them like the dust,
Even winged fowl like the sand of the seas, |
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| Psalm 78:28 |
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Then He let them fall in the midst of their
camp, Round about their dwellings. |
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| Psalm 78:29 |
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So they ate and were well filled, And their
desire He gave to them. |
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| Psalm 78:30 |
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Before they had satisfied their desire, While
their food was in their mouths, |
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| Psalm 78:31 |
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The anger of God rose against them And killed
some of their stoutest ones, And subdued the choice men of Israel. |
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| Psalm 78:32 |
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In spite of all this they still sinned And did
not believe in His wonderful works. |
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| Psalm 78:33 |
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So He brought their days to an end in futility
And their years in sudden terror. |
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| Psalm 78:34 |
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When He killed them, then they sought Him, And
returned and searched diligently for God; |
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| Psalm 78:35 |
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And they remembered that God was their rock,
And the Most High God their Redeemer. |
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| Psalm 78:36 |
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But they deceived Him with their mouth And lied
to Him with their tongue. |
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| Psalm 78:37 |
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For their heart was not steadfast toward Him,
Nor were they faithful in His covenant. |
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| Psalm 78:38 |
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But He, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity
and did not destroy them; And often He restrained His anger And did not arouse
all His wrath. |
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| Psalm 78:39 |
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Thus He remembered that they were but flesh,
A wind that passes and does not return. |
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| Psalm 78:40 |
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How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness
And grieved Him in the desert! |
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| Psalm 78:41 |
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Again and again they tempted God, And pained
the Holy One of Israel. |
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| Psalm 78:42 |
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They did not remember His power, The day when
He redeemed them from the adversary, |
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| Psalm 78:43 |
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When He performed His signs in Egypt And His
marvels in the field of Zoan, |
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| Psalm 78:44 |
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And turned their rivers to blood, And their
streams, they could not drink. |
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| Psalm 78:45 |
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He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured
them, And frogs which destroyed them. |
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| Psalm 78:46 |
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He gave also their crops to the grasshopper
And the product of their labor to the locust. |
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| Psalm 78:47 |
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He destroyed their vines with hailstones And
their sycamore trees with frost. |
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| Psalm 78:48 |
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He gave over their cattle also to the hailstones
And their herds to bolts of lightning. |
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| Psalm 78:49 |
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He sent upon them His burning anger, Fury and
indignation and trouble, A band of destroying angels. |
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| Psalm 78:50 |
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He leveled a path for His anger; He did not
spare their soul from death, But gave over their life to the plague, |
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| Psalm 78:51 |
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And smote all the firstborn in Egypt, The first
issue of their virility in the tents of Ham. |
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| Psalm 78:52 |
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But He led forth His own people like sheep And
guided them in the wilderness like a flock; |
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| Psalm 78:53 |
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He led them safely, so that they did not fear;
But the sea engulfed their enemies. |
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| Psalm 78:54 |
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So He brought them to His holy land, To this
hill country which His right hand had gained. |
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| Psalm 78:55 |
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He also drove out the nations before them And
apportioned them for an inheritance by measurement, And made the tribes of Israel
dwell in their tents. |
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| Psalm 78:56 |
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Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most
High God And did not keep His testimonies, |
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| Psalm 78:57 |
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But turned back and acted treacherously like
their fathers; They turned aside like a treacherous bow. |
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| Psalm 78:58 |
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For they provoked Him with their high places
And aroused His jealousy with their graven images. |
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| Psalm 78:59 |
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When God heard, He was filled with wrath And
greatly abhorred Israel; |
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| Psalm 78:60 |
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So that He abandoned the dwelling place at Shiloh,
The tent which He had pitched among men, |
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| Psalm 78:61 |
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And gave up His strength to captivity And His
glory into the hand of the adversary. |
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| Psalm 78:62 |
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He also delivered His people to the sword, And
was filled with wrath at His inheritance. |
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| Psalm 78:63 |
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Fire devoured His young men, And His virgins
had no wedding songs. |
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| Psalm 78:64 |
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His priests fell by the sword, And His widows
could not weep. |
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| Psalm 78:65 |
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Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep, Like a
warrior overcome by wine. |
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| Psalm 78:66 |
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He drove His adversaries backward; He put on
them an everlasting reproach. |
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| Psalm 78:67 |
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He also rejected the tent of Joseph, And did
not choose the tribe of Ephraim, |
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| Psalm 78:68 |
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But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which
He loved. |
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| Psalm 78:69 |
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And He built His sanctuary like the heights,
Like the earth which He has founded forever. |
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| Psalm 78:70 |
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He also chose David His servant And took him
from the sheepfolds; |
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| Psalm 78:71 |
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From the care of the ewes with suckling lambs
He brought him To shepherd Jacob His people, And Israel His inheritance. |
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| Psalm 78:72 |
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So he shepherded them according to the integrity
of his heart, And guided them with his skillful hands. |
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