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1 A maskil of Asaf: Listen, my people, to my teaching; turn your ears to the words from my mouth.
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Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 I will speak to you in parables and explain mysteries from days of old.
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I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
3 The things which we have heard and known, and which our fathers told us
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Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
4 we will not hide from their descendants; we will tell the generation to come the praises of ADONAI and his strength, the wonders that he has performed.
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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.
5 He raised up a testimony in Ya'akov and established a Torah in Isra'el. He commanded our ancestors to make this known to their children,
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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 make them known to their children:
6 so that the next generation would know it, the children not yet born, who would themselves arise and tell their own children,
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That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
7 who could then put their confidence in God, not forgetting God's deeds, but obeying his mitzvot.
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That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
8 Then they would not be like their ancestors, a stubborn, rebellious generation, a generation with unprepared hearts, with spirits unfaithful to God.
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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.
9 The people of Efrayim, though armed with bows and arrows, turned their backs on the day of battle.
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The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
10 They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to live by his Torah.
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They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
11 They forgot what he had done, his wonders which he had shown them.
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And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
12 He had done wonderful things in the presence of their ancestors in the land of Egypt, in the region of Tzo'an.
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Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
13 He split the sea and made them pass through, he made the waters stand up like a wall.
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He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
14 He also led them by day with a cloud and all night long with light from a fire.
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In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
15 He broke apart the rocks in the desert and let them drink as if from boundless depths;
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He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
16 yes, he brought streams out of the rock, making the water flow down like rivers.
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He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
17 Yet they sinned still more against him, rebelling in the wilderness against the Most High;
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And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
18 in their hearts they tested God by demanding food that would satisfy their cravings.
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And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
19 Yes, they spoke against God by asking, "Can God spread a table in the desert?
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Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
20 True, he struck the rock, and water gushed out, until the vadis overflowed; but what about bread? Can he give that? Can he provide meat for his people?"
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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?
21 Therefore, when ADONAI heard, he was angry; fire blazed up against Ya'akov; his anger mounted against Isra'el;
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Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
22 because they had no faith in God, no trust in his power to save.
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Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
23 So he commanded the skies above and opened the doors of heaven.
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Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
24 He rained down man on them as food; he gave them grain from heaven -
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And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
25 mortals ate the bread of angels; he provided for them to the full.
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Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
26 He stirred up the east wind in heaven, brought on the south wind by his power,
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He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
27 and rained down meat on them like dust, birds flying thick as the sand on the seashore.
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He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
28 He let them fall in the middle of their camp, all around their tents.
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And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
29 So they ate till they were satisfied; he gave them what they craved.
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So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
30 They were still fulfilling their craving, the food was still in their mouths,
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They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
31 when the anger of God rose up against them and slaughtered their strongest men, laying low the young men of Isra'el.
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The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
32 Still, they kept on sinning and put no faith in his wonders.
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For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
33 Therefore, he ended their days in futility and their years in terror.
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Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
34 When he brought death among them, they would seek him; they would repent and seek God eagerly,
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When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
35 remembering that God was their Rock, El 'Elyon their Redeemer.
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And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
36 But they tried to deceive him with their words, they lied to him with their tongues;
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Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
37 for their hearts were not right with him, and they were unfaithful to his covenant.
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For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
38 Yet he, because he is full of compassion, forgave their sin and did not destroy; many times he turned away his anger and didn't rouse all his wrath.
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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.
39 So he remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that blows past and does not return.
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For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
40 How often they rebelled against him in the desert and grieved him in the wastelands!
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How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
41 Repeatedly they challenged God and pained the Holy One of Isra'el.
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Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
42 They didn't remember how he used his hand on the day he redeemed them from their enemy,
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They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
43 how he displayed his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the region of Tzo'an.
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How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
44 He turned their rivers into blood, so they couldn't drink from their streams.
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And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
45 He sent swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
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He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
46 He gave their harvest to shearer-worms, the fruit of their labor to locusts.
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He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
47 He destroyed their vineyards with hail and their sycamore-figs with frost.
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He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
48 Their cattle too he gave over to the hail and their flocks to lightning bolts.
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He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
49 He sent over them his fierce anger, fury, indignation and trouble, with a company of destroying angels
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He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
50 to clear a path for his wrath. He did not spare them from death, but gave them over to the plague,
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He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
51 striking all the firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of Ham.
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And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
52 But his own people he led out like sheep, guiding them like a flock in the desert.
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But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53 He led them safely, and they weren't afraid, even when the sea overwhelmed their foes.
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And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54 He brought them to his holy land, to the hill-country won by his right hand.
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And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
55 He expelled nations before them, apportioned them property to inherit and made Isra'el's tribes live in their tents.
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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.
56 Yet they tested El 'Elyon and rebelled against him, refusing to obey his instructions.
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Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
57 They turned away and were faithless, like their fathers; they were unreliable, like a bow without tension.
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But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
58 They provoked him with their high places and made him jealous with their idols.
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For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
59 God heard, and he was angry; he came to detest Isra'el completely.
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When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
60 He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent he had made where he could live among people.
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So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
61 He gave his strength into exile, his pride to the power of the foe.
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And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.
62 He gave his people over to the sword and grew angry with his own heritage.
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He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
63 Fire consumed their young men, their virgins had no wedding-song,
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The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
64 their cohanim fell by the sword, and their widows could not weep.
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Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
65 Then Adonai awoke, as if from sleep, like a warrior shouting for joy from wine.
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Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
66 He struck his foes, driving them back and putting them to perpetual shame.
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And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
67 Rejecting the tents of Yosef and passing over the tribe of Efrayim,
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Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
68 he chose the tribe of Y'hudah, Mount Tziyon, which he loved.
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But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
69 He built his sanctuary like the heights; like the earth, he made it to last forever.
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And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
70 He chose David to be his servant, taking him from the sheep-yards;
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He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
71 from tending nursing ewes he brought him to shepherd Ya'akov his people, Isra'el his heritage.
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From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
72 With upright heart he shepherded them and guided them with skillful hands.
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So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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