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1 (77-1) <Understanding for Asaph.> Attend, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
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O my people, listen to my instructions. Open your ears to what I am saying,
2 (77-2) I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning.
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for I will speak to you in a parable. I will teach you hidden lessons from our past—
3 (77-3) How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
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stories we have heard and known, stories our ancestors handed down to us.
4 (77-4) They have not been hidden from their children, in another generation. Declaring the praises of the Lord, and his powers, and his wonders which he hath done.
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We will not hide these truths from our children; we will tell the next generation about the glorious deeds of the LORD, about his power and his mighty wonders.
5 (77-5) And he set up a testimony in Jacob: and made a law in Israel. How great things he commanded our fathers, that they should make the same known to their children:
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For he issued his laws to Jacob; he gave his instructions to Israel. He commanded our ancestors to teach them to their children,
6 (77-6) That another generation might know them. The children that should be born and should rise up, and declare them to their children.
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so the next generation might know them— even the children not yet born— and they in turn will teach their own children.
7 (77-7) That they may put their hope in God and may not forget the works of God: and may seek his commandments.
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So each generation should set its hope anew on God, not forgetting his glorious miracles and obeying his commands.
8 (77-8) That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not faithful to God.
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Then they will not be like their ancestors— stubborn, rebellious, and unfaithful, refusing to give their hearts to God.
9 (77-9) The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: they have turned back in the day of battle.
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The warriors of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned their backs and fled on the day of battle.
10 (77-10) They kept not the covenant of God: and in his law they would not walk.
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They did not keep God’s covenant and refused to live by his instructions.
11 (77-11) And they forgot his benefits, and his wonders that he had shewn them.
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They forgot what he had done— the great wonders he had shown them,
12 (77-12) Wonderful things did he do in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Tanis.
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the miracles he did for their ancestors on the plain of Zoan in the land of Egypt.
13 (77-13) He divided the sea and brought them through: and he made the waters to stand as in a vessel.
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For he divided the sea and led them through, making the water stand up like walls!
14 (77-14) And he conducted them with a cloud by day: and all the night with a light of fire.
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In the daytime he led them by a cloud, and all night by a pillar of fire.
15 (77-15) He struck the rock in the wilderness: and gave them to drink, as out of the great deep.
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He split open the rocks in the wilderness to give them water, as from a gushing spring.
16 (77-16) He brought forth water out of the rock: and made streams run down as rivers.
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He made streams pour from the rock, making the waters flow down like a river!
17 (77-17) And they added yet more sin against him: they provoked the most High to wrath in the place without water.
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Yet they kept on sinning against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
18 (77-18) And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their desires.
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They stubbornly tested God in their hearts, demanding the foods they craved.
19 (77-19) And they spoke ill of God: they said: Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
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They even spoke against God himself, saying, “God can’t give us food in the wilderness.
20 (77-20) Because he struck the rock, and the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed. Can he also give bread, or provide a table for his people?
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Yes, he can strike a rock so water gushes out, but he can’t give his people bread and meat.”
21 (77-21) Therefore the Lord heard, and was angry: and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel.
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When the LORD heard them, he was furious. The fire of his wrath burned against Jacob. Yes, his anger rose against Israel,
22 (77-22) Because they believed not in God: and trusted not in his salvation.
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for they did not believe God or trust him to care for them.
23 (77-23) And he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of heaven.
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But he commanded the skies to open; he opened the doors of heaven.
24 (77-24) And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the bread of heaven.
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He rained down manna for them to eat; he gave them bread from heaven.
25 (77-25) Man ate the bread of angels: he sent them provisions in abundance.
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They ate the food of angels! God gave them all they could hold.
26 (77-26) He removed the south wind from heaven: and by his power brought in the southwest wind.
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He released the east wind in the heavens and guided the south wind by his mighty power.
27 (77-27) And he rained upon them flesh as dust: and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea.
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He rained down meat as thick as dust— birds as plentiful as the sand on the seashore!
28 (77-28) And they fell in the midst of their camp, round about their pavilions.
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He caused the birds to fall within their camp and all around their tents.
29 (77-29) So they did eat, and were filled exceedingly, and he gave them their desire:
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The people ate their fill. He gave them what they craved.
30 (77-30) they were not defrauded of that which they craved. As yet their meat was in their mouth:
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But before they satisfied their craving, while the meat was yet in their mouths,
31 (77-31) And the wrath of God came upon them. And he slew the fat ones amongst them, and brought down the chosen men of Israel.
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the anger of God rose against them, and he killed their strongest men. He struck down the finest of Israel’s young men.
32 (77-32) In all these things they sinned still: and they behaved not for his wondrous works.
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But in spite of this, the people kept sinning. Despite his wonders, they refused to trust him.
33 (77-33) And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years in haste.
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So he ended their lives in failure, their years in terror.
34 (77-34) When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and came to him early in the morning.
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When God began killing them, they finally sought him. They repented and took God seriously.
35 (77-35) And they remembered that God was their helper: and the most high God their redeemer.
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Then they remembered that God was their rock, that God Most High was their redeemer.
36 (77-36) And they loved him with their mouth: and with their tongue they lied unto him:
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But all they gave him was lip service; they lied to him with their tongues.
37 (77-37) But their heart was not right with him: nor were they counted faithful in his covenant.
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Their hearts were not loyal to him. They did not keep his covenant.
38 (77-38) But he is merciful, and will forgive their sins: and will not destroy them. And many a time did he turn away his anger: and did not kindle all his wrath.
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Yet he was merciful and forgave their sins and did not destroy them all. Many times he held back his anger and did not unleash his fury!
39 (77-39) And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not.
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For he remembered that they were merely mortal, gone like a breath of wind that never returns.
40 (77-40) How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water?
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Oh, how often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved his heart in that dry wasteland.
41 (77-41) And they turned back and tempted God: and grieved the holy one of Israel.
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Again and again they tested God’s patience and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42 (77-42) They remembered not his hand, in the day that he redeemed them from the hand of him that afflicted them:
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They did not remember his power and how he rescued them from their enemies.
43 (77-43) How he wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Tanis.
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They did not remember his miraculous signs in Egypt, his wonders on the plain of Zoan.
44 (77-44) And he turned their rivers into blood, and their showers that they might not drink.
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For he turned their rivers into blood, so no one could drink from the streams.
45 (77-45) He sent amongst them divers sorts of flies, which devoured them: and frogs which destroyed them.
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He sent vast swarms of flies to consume them and hordes of frogs to ruin them.
46 (77-46) And he gave up their fruits to the blast, and their labours to the locust.
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He gave their crops to caterpillars; their harvest was consumed by locusts.
47 (77-47) And he destroyed their vineyards with hail, and their mulberry trees with hoarfrost.
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He destroyed their grapevines with hail and shattered their sycamore-figs with sleet.
48 (77-48) And he gave up their cattle to the hail, and their stock to the fire.
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He abandoned their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.
49 (77-49) And he sent upon them the wrath of his indignation: indignation and wrath and trouble, which he sent by evil angels.
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He loosed on them his fierce anger— all his fury, rage, and hostility. He dispatched against them a band of destroying angels.
50 (77-50) He made a way for a path to his anger: he spared not their souls from death, and their cattle he shut up in death.
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He turned his anger against them; he did not spare the Egyptians’ lives but ravaged them with the plague.
51 (77-51) And he killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: the firstfruits of all their labour in the tabernacles of Cham.
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He killed the oldest son in each Egyptian family, the flower of youth throughout the land of Egypt.
52 (77-52) And he took away his own people as sheep: and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
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But he led his own people like a flock of sheep, guiding them safely through the wilderness.
53 (77-53) And he brought them out in hope and they feared not: and the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
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He kept them safe so they were not afraid; but the sea covered their enemies.
54 (77-54) And he brought them into the mountain of his sanctuary: the mountain which his right hand had purchased. And he cast out the Gentiles before them: and by lot divided to them their land by a line of distribution.
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He brought them to the border of his holy land, to this land of hills he had won for them.
55 (77-55) And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.
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He drove out the nations before them; he gave them their inheritance by lot. He settled the tribes of Israel into their homes.
56 (77-56) Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God: and they kept not his testimonies.
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But they kept testing and rebelling against God Most High. They did not obey his laws.
57 (77-57) And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow.
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They turned back and were as faithless as their parents. They were as undependable as a crooked bow.
58 (77-58) They provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to jealousy with their graven things.
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They angered God by building shrines to other gods; they made him jealous with their idols.
59 (77-59) God heard, and despised them, and he reduced Israel exceedingly as it were to nothing.
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When God heard them, he was very angry, and he completely rejected Israel.
60 (77-60) And he put away the tabernacle of Silo, his tabernacle where he dwelt among men.
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Then he abandoned his dwelling at Shiloh, the Tabernacle where he had lived among the people.
61 (77-61) And he delivered their strength into captivity: and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.
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He allowed the Ark of his might to be captured; he surrendered his glory into enemy hands.
62 (77-62) And he shut up his people under the sword: and he despised his inheritance.
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He gave his people over to be butchered by the sword, because he was so angry with his own people—his special possession.
63 (77-63) Fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not lamented.
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Their young men were killed by fire; their young women died before singing their wedding songs.
64 (77-64) Their priests fell by the sword: and their widows did not mourn.
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Their priests were slaughtered, and their widows could not mourn their deaths.
65 (77-65) And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that hath been surfeited with wine.
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Then the Lord rose up as though waking from sleep, like a warrior aroused from a drunken stupor.
66 (77-66) And he smote his enemies on the hinder parts: he put them to an everlasting reproach.
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He routed his enemies and sent them to eternal shame.
67 (77-67) And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
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But he rejected Joseph’s descendants; he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.
68 (77-68) But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved.
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He chose instead the tribe of Judah, and Mount Zion, which he loved.
69 (77-69) And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns, in the land which he founded for ever.
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There he built his sanctuary as high as the heavens, as solid and enduring as the earth.
70 (77-70) And he chose his servant David, and took him from the flocks of sheep: he brought him from following the ewes great with young,
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He chose his servant David, calling him from the sheep pens.
71 (77-71) To feed Jacob his servant and Israel his inheritance.
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He took David from tending the ewes and lambs and made him the shepherd of Jacob’s descendants— God’s own people, Israel.
72 (77-72) And he fed them in the innocence of his heart: and conducted them by the skilfulness of his hands.
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He cared for them with a true heart and led them with skillful hands.