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40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!
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How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the wasteland!
41 They tested God again and again and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
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Again and again they put God to the test; they vexed the Holy One of Israel.
42 They did not remember his power or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,
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They did not remember his power— the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,
43 when he performed his signs in Egypt and his marvels in the fields of Zoan.
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the day he displayed his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the region of Zoan.
44 He turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their streams.
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He turned their river into blood; they could not drink from their streams.
45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
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He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
46 He gave their crops to the destroying locust and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
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He gave their crops to the grasshopper, their produce to the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamores with frost.
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He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
48 He gave over their cattle to the hail and their flocks to thunderbolts.
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He gave over their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.
49 He let loose on them his burning anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.
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He unleashed against them his hot anger, his wrath, indignation and hostility— a band of destroying angels.
50 He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.
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He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.
51 He struck down every firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of Ham.
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He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt, the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.
52 Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
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But he brought his people out like a flock; he led them like sheep through the wilderness.
53 He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
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He guided them safely, so they were unafraid; but the sea engulfed their enemies.
54 And he brought them to his holy land, to the mountain which his right hand had won.
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And so he brought them to the border of his holy land, to the hill country his right hand had taken.
55 He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
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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 tested and rebelled against the Most High God and did not keep his testimonies,
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But they put God to the test and rebelled against the Most High; they did not keep his statutes.
57 but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers; they twisted like a deceitful bow.
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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; they moved him to jealousy with their idols.
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They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols.
59 When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.
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When God heard them, he was furious; he rejected Israel completely.
60 He forsook his dwelling at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among mankind,
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He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent he had set up among humans.
61 and delivered his power to captivity, his glory to the hand of the foe.
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He sent the ark of his might into captivity, his splendor into the hands of the enemy.
62 He gave his people over to the sword and vented his wrath on his heritage.
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He gave his people over to the sword; he was furious with his inheritance.
63 Fire devoured their young men, and their young women had no marriage song.
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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.
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their priests were put to the sword, and their widows could not weep.
65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a strong man shouting because of wine.
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Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, as a warrior wakes from the stupor of wine.
66 And he put his adversaries to rout; he put them to everlasting shame.
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He beat back his enemies; he put them to everlasting shame.
67 He rejected the tent of Joseph; he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
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Then he rejected the tents of Joseph, he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;
68 but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loves.
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but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved.
69 He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded forever.
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He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever.
70 He chose David his servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
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He chose David his servant and took him from the sheep pens;
71 from following the nursing ewes he brought him to shepherd Jacob his people, Israel his inheritance.
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from tending the sheep he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel his inheritance.
72 With upright heart he shepherded them and guided them with his skillful hand.
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And David shepherded them with integrity of heart; with skillful hands he led them.
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