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Psalms 78:38-55
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Yet He was compassionate; He atoned for[a] [their] guilt[b] and did not destroy [them].[c] He often turned His anger aside and did not unleash[d] all His wrath.[e]
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They constantly tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
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They did not remember His power [shown] on the day He redeemed them from the foe,
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He killed their vines with hail and their sycamore-fig trees with a flood.
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He sent His burning anger against them: fury, indignation, and calamity- a band of deadly messengers.[n]
50
He cleared a path for His anger. He did not spare them from death, but delivered their lives to the plague.
52
He led His people out like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
Psalms 78:38-55 Meaning and Commentary
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Psalms 78:38-55 In-Context
36
But they deceived Him with their mouths, they lied to Him with their tongues,
37
their hearts were insincere toward Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.
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Yet He was compassionate; He atoned for [their] guilt and did not destroy [them]. He often turned His anger aside and did not unleash all His wrath.
39
He remembered that they were [only] flesh, a wind that passes and does not return.
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How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert.
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They constantly tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
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They did not remember His power [shown] on the day He redeemed them from the foe,
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when He performed His miraculous signs in Egypt and His marvels in the region of Zoan.
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He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams.
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He sent among them swarms of flies, which fed on them, and frogs, which devastated them.
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He gave their crops to the caterpillar and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
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He killed their vines with hail and their sycamore-fig trees with a flood.
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He handed over their livestock to hail and their cattle to lightning bolts.
49
He sent His burning anger against them: fury, indignation, and calamity- a band of deadly messengers.
50
He cleared a path for His anger. He did not spare them from death, but delivered their lives to the plague.
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He struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the first progeny of the tents of Ham.
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He led His people out like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
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He led them safely, and they were not afraid; but the sea covered their enemies.
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He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand acquired.
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He drove out nations before them. He apportioned their inheritance by lot and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
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But they rebelliously tested the Most High God, for they did not keep His decrees.
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They treacherously turned away like their fathers; they became warped like a faulty bow.
Footnotes 20
- [a]. Or He wiped out, or He forgave
- [b]. Pr 16:6; Isa 27:9; Dn 9:24
- [c]. Dt 4:31; 2 Ch 7:14
- [d]. Or stir up
- [e]. Isa 12:1
- [f]. Gn 6:3
- [g]. Nm 27:14; Dt 9:7,23-24; 31:27
- [h]. Dt 7:8; 15:15; Neh 1:10; Mc 6:4
- [i]. Ex 7:14-25
- [j]. Ps 105:31; Ex 8:17
- [k]. Ps 105:30; Ex 8:3-6
- [l]. Ps 105:34; Ex 10:14-15
- [m]. Ps 105:32; Ex 9:22-26
- [n]. Or angels
- [o]. Ham's descendants who settled in Egypt; Ps 105:23,27
- [p]. Ps 105:36; Ex 12:29; 13:15
- [q]. Ex 14; 15:19; Jos 24:7
- [r]. Ps 74:2; Ex 15:17
- [s]. Jos 1-12
- [t]. Jos 13-22
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