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Psalms 78

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1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
1 My people, hear my teaching; listen to the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
2 I will open my mouth with a parable; I will utter hidden things, things from of old—
3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
3 things we have heard and known, things our ancestors have told us.
4 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.
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 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:
5 He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach their children,
6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
6 so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children.
7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
7 Then they would put their trust in God and would not forget his deeds but would keep his commands.
8 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.
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 children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
9 The men of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned back on the day of battle;
10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
10 they did not keep God’s covenant and refused to live by his law.
11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
11 They forgot what he had done, the wonders he had shown them.
12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
12 He did miracles in the sight of their ancestors in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
13 He divided the sea and led them through; he made the water stand up like a wall.
14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
14 He guided them with the cloud by day and with light from the fire all night.
15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
15 He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them water as abundant as the seas;
16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
16 he brought streams out of a rocky crag and made water flow down like rivers.
17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
17 But they continued to sin against him, rebelling in the wilderness against the Most High.
18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
18 They willfully put God to the test by demanding the food they craved.
19 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
19 They spoke against God; they said, “Can God really spread a table in the wilderness?
20 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?
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 Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
21 When the LORD heard them, he was furious; his fire broke out against Jacob, and his wrath rose against Israel,
22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
22 for they did not believe in God or trust in his deliverance.
23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
23 Yet he gave a command to the skies above and opened the doors of the heavens;
24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
24 he rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them the grain of heaven.
25 Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
25 Human beings ate the bread of angels; he sent them all the food they could eat.
26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
26 He let loose the east wind from the heavens and by his power made the south wind blow.
27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
27 He rained meat down on them like dust, birds like sand on the seashore.
28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
28 He made them come down inside their camp, all around their tents.
29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
29 They ate till they were gorged— he had given them what they craved.
30 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
30 But before they turned from what they craved, even while the food was still in their mouths,
31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
31 God’s anger rose against them; he put to death the sturdiest among them, cutting down the young men of Israel.
32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
32 In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; in spite of his wonders, they did not believe.
33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
33 So he ended their days in futility and their years in terror.
34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
34 Whenever God slew them, they would seek him; they eagerly turned to him again.
35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
35 They remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.
36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
36 But then they would flatter him with their mouths, lying to him with their tongues;
37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
37 their hearts were not loyal to him, they were not faithful to his covenant.
38 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.
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 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the wasteland!
41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
41 Again and again they put God to the test; they vexed the Holy One of Israel.
42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
42 They did not remember his power— the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,
43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
43 the day he displayed his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the region of Zoan.
44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
44 He turned their river into blood; they could not drink from their streams.
45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
45 He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper, their produce to the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
48 He gave over their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.
49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
49 He unleashed against them his hot anger, his wrath, indignation and hostility— a band of destroying angels.
50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
50 He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.
51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
51 He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt, the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.
52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
52 But he brought his people out like a flock; he led them like sheep through the wilderness.
53 And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
53 He guided them safely, so they were unafraid; but the sea engulfed their enemies.
54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
54 And so he brought them to the border of his holy land, to the hill country his right hand had taken.
55 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.
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 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
56 But they put God to the test and rebelled against the Most High; they did not keep his statutes.
57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
57 Like their ancestors they were disloyal and faithless, as unreliable as a faulty bow.
58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
58 They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols.
59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
59 When God heard them, he was furious; he rejected Israel completely.
60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
60 He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent he had set up among humans.
61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.
61 He sent the ark of his might into captivity, his splendor into the hands of the enemy.
62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
62 He gave his people over to the sword; he was furious with his inheritance.
63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
63 Fire consumed their young men, and their young women had no wedding songs;
64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
64 their priests were put to the sword, and their widows could not weep.
65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, as a warrior wakes from the stupor of wine.
66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
66 He beat back his enemies; he put them to everlasting shame.
67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
67 Then he rejected the tents of Joseph, he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;
68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
68 but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved.
69 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
69 He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever.
70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
70 He chose David his servant and took him from the sheep pens;
71 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
71 from tending the sheep he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel his inheritance.
72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
72 And David shepherded them with integrity of heart; with skillful hands he led them.
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