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Psalms 78

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1 Listen, dear friends, to God's truth, bend your ears to what I tell you.
1 My people, hear my teaching; listen to the words of my mouth.
2 I'm chewing on the morsel of a proverb; I'll let you in on the sweet old truths,
2 I will open my mouth with a parable; I will utter hidden things, things from of old—
3 Stories we heard from our fathers, counsel we learned at our mother's knee.
3 things we have heard and known, things our ancestors have told us.
4 We're not keeping this to ourselves, we're passing it along to the next generation - God's fame and fortune, the marvelous things he has done.
4 We will not hide them from their descendants; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD, his power, and the wonders he has done.
5 He planted a witness in Jacob, set his Word firmly in Israel, Then commanded our parents to teach it to their children
5 He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach their children,
6 So the next generation would know, and all the generations to come - Know the truth and tell the stories
6 so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children.
7 can trust in God, Never forget the works of God but keep his commands to the letter.
7 Then they would put their trust in God and would not forget his deeds but would keep his commands.
8 Heaven forbid they should be like their parents, bullheaded and bad, A fickle and faithless bunch who never stayed true to God.
8 They would not be like their ancestors— a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits were not faithful to him.
9 The Ephraimites, armed to the teeth, ran off when the battle began.
9 The men of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned back on the day of battle;
10 They were cowards to God's Covenant, refused to walk by his Word.
10 they did not keep God’s covenant and refused to live by his law.
11 They forgot what he had done - marvels he'd done right before their eyes.
11 They forgot what he had done, the wonders he had shown them.
12 He performed miracles in plain sight of their parents in Egypt, out on the fields of Zoan.
12 He did miracles in the sight of their ancestors in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
13 He split the Sea and they walked right through it; he piled the waters to the right and the left.
13 He divided the sea and led them through; he made the water stand up like a wall.
14 He led them by day with a cloud, led them all the night long with a fiery torch.
14 He guided them with the cloud by day and with light from the fire all night.
15 He split rocks in the wilderness, gave them all they could drink from underground springs;
15 He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them water as abundant as the seas;
16 He made creeks flow out from sheer rock, and water pour out like a river.
16 he brought streams out of a rocky crag and made water flow down like rivers.
17 All they did was sin even more, rebel in the desert against the High God.
17 But they continued to sin against him, rebelling in the wilderness against the Most High.
18 They tried to get their own way with God, clamored for favors, for special attention.
18 They willfully put God to the test by demanding the food they craved.
19 They whined like spoiled children, "Why can't God give us a decent meal in this desert?
19 They spoke against God; they said, “Can God really spread a table in the wilderness?
20 Sure, he struck the rock and the water flowed, creeks cascaded from the rock. But how about some fresh-baked bread? How about a nice cut of meat?"
20 True, he struck the rock, and water gushed out, streams flowed abundantly, but can he also give us bread? Can he supply meat for his people?”
21 When God heard that, he was furious - his anger flared against Jacob, he lost his temper with Israel.
21 When the LORD heard them, he was furious; his fire broke out against Jacob, and his wrath rose against Israel,
22 It was clear they didn't believe God, had no intention of trusting in his help.
22 for they did not believe in God or trust in his deliverance.
23 But God helped them anyway, commanded the clouds and gave orders that opened the gates of heaven.
23 Yet he gave a command to the skies above and opened the doors of the heavens;
24 He rained down showers of manna to eat, he gave them the Bread of Heaven.
24 he rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them the grain of heaven.
25 They ate the bread of the mighty angels; he sent them all the food they could eat.
25 Human beings ate the bread of angels; he sent them all the food they could eat.
26 He let East Wind break loose from the skies, gave a strong push to South Wind.
26 He let loose the east wind from the heavens and by his power made the south wind blow.
27 This time it was birds that rained down - succulent birds, an abundance of birds.
27 He rained meat down on them like dust, birds like sand on the seashore.
28 He aimed them right for the center of their camp; all round their tents there were birds.
28 He made them come down inside their camp, all around their tents.
29 They ate and had their fill; he handed them everything they craved on a platter.
29 They ate till they were gorged— he had given them what they craved.
30 But their greed knew no bounds; they stuffed their mouths with more and more.
30 But before they turned from what they craved, even while the food was still in their mouths,
31 Finally, God was fed up, his anger erupted - he cut down their brightest and best, he laid low Israel's finest young men.
31 God’s anger rose against them; he put to death the sturdiest among them, cutting down the young men of Israel.
32 And - can you believe it? - they kept right on sinning; all those wonders and they still wouldn't believe!
32 In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; in spite of his wonders, they did not believe.
33 So their lives dribbled off to nothing - nothing to show for their lives but a ghost town.
33 So he ended their days in futility and their years in terror.
34 When he cut them down, they came running for help; they turned and pled for mercy.
34 Whenever God slew them, they would seek him; they eagerly turned to him again.
35 They gave witness that God was their rock, that High God was their redeemer,
35 They remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.
36 But they didn't mean a word of it; they lied through their teeth the whole time.
36 But then they would flatter him with their mouths, lying to him with their tongues;
37 They could not have cared less about him, wanted nothing to do with his Covenant.
37 their hearts were not loyal to him, they were not faithful to his covenant.
38 And God? Compassionate! Forgave the sin! Didn't destroy! Over and over he reined in his anger, restrained his considerable wrath.
38 Yet he was merciful; he forgave their iniquities and did not destroy them. Time after time he restrained his anger and did not stir up his full wrath.
39 He knew what they were made of; he knew there wasn't much to them,
39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
40 How often in the desert they had spurned him, tried his patience in those wilderness years.
40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the wasteland!
41 Time and again they pushed him to the limit, provoked Israel's Holy God.
41 Again and again they put God to the test; they vexed the Holy One of Israel.
42 How quickly they forgot what he'd done, forgot their day of rescue from the enemy,
42 They did not remember his power— the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,
43 When he did miracles in Egypt, wonders on the plain of Zoan.
43 the day he displayed his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the region of Zoan.
44 He turned the River and its streams to blood - not a drop of water fit to drink.
44 He turned their river into blood; they could not drink from their streams.
45 He sent flies, which ate them alive, and frogs, which bedeviled them.
45 He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
46 He turned their harvest over to caterpillars, everything they had worked for to the locusts.
46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper, their produce to the locust.
47 He flattened their grapevines with hail; a killing frost ruined their orchards.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
48 He pounded their cattle with hail, let thunderbolts loose on their herds.
48 He gave over their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.
49 His anger flared, a wild firestorm of havoc, An advance guard of disease-carrying angels
49 He unleashed against them his hot anger, his wrath, indignation and hostility— a band of destroying angels.
50 to clear the ground, preparing the way before him. He didn't spare those people, he let the plague rage through their lives.
50 He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.
51 He killed all the Egyptian firstborns, lusty infants, offspring of Ham's virility.
51 He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt, the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.
52 Then he led his people out like sheep, took his flock safely through the wilderness.
52 But he brought his people out like a flock; he led them like sheep through the wilderness.
53 He took good care of them; they had nothing to fear. The Sea took care of their enemies for good.
53 He guided them safely, so they were unafraid; but the sea engulfed their enemies.
54 He brought them into his holy land, this mountain he claimed for his own.
54 And so he brought them to the border of his holy land, to the hill country his right hand had taken.
55 He scattered everyone who got in their way; he staked out an inheritance for them - the tribes of Israel all had their own places.
55 He drove out nations before them and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance; he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.
56 But they kept on giving him a hard time, rebelled against God, the High God, refused to do anything he told them.
56 But they put God to the test and rebelled against the Most High; they did not keep his statutes.
57 They were worse, if that's possible, than their parents: traitors - crooked as a corkscrew.
57 Like their ancestors they were disloyal and faithless, as unreliable as a faulty bow.
58 Their pagan orgies provoked God's anger, their obscene idolatries broke his heart.
58 They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols.
59 When God heard their carryings-on, he was furious; he posted a huge No over Israel.
59 When God heard them, he was furious; he rejected Israel completely.
60 He walked off and left Shiloh empty, abandoned the shrine where he had met with Israel.
60 He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent he had set up among humans.
61 He let his pride and joy go to the dogs, turned his back on the pride of his life.
61 He sent the ark of his might into captivity, his splendor into the hands of the enemy.
62 He turned them loose on fields of battle; angry, he let them fend for themselves.
62 He gave his people over to the sword; he was furious with his inheritance.
63 Their young men went to war and never came back; their young women waited in vain.
63 Fire consumed their young men, and their young women had no wedding songs;
64 Their priests were massacred, and their widows never shed a tear.
64 their priests were put to the sword, and their widows could not weep.
65 Suddenly the Lord was up on his feet like someone roused from deep sleep, shouting like a drunken warrior.
65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, as a warrior wakes from the stupor of wine.
66 He hit his enemies hard, sent them running, yelping, not daring to look back.
66 He beat back his enemies; he put them to everlasting shame.
67 He disqualified Joseph as leader, told Ephraim he didn't have what it takes,
67 Then he rejected the tents of Joseph, he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;
68 And chose the Tribe of Judah instead, Mount Zion, which he loves so much.
68 but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved.
69 He built his sanctuary there, resplendent, solid and lasting as the earth itself.
69 He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever.
70 Then he chose David, his servant, handpicked him from his work in the sheep pens.
70 He chose David his servant and took him from the sheep pens;
71 One day he was caring for the ewes and their lambs, the next day God had him shepherding Jacob, his people Israel, his prize possession.
71 from tending the sheep he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel his inheritance.
72 His good heart made him a good shepherd; he guided the people wisely and well.
72 And David shepherded them with integrity of heart; with skillful hands he led them.
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