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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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Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 (77-2) I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning.
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I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,
3 (77-3) How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
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things that we have heard and known, that our ancestors have told 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 them from their children; we will tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done.
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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He established a decree in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach 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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that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and rise up and tell them to their 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 that they should set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;
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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and that they should not be like their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful 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 Ephraimites, armed with the bow, turned back 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, but refused to walk according to his law.
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, and the miracles that 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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In the sight of their ancestors he worked marvels in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.
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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He divided the sea and let them pass through it, and made the waters stand like a heap.
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 with a cloud, and all night long with a fiery light.
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 rocks open in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
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 come out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down like rivers.
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 sinned still more 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 tested God in their heart by demanding the food 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 spoke against God, saying, "Can God spread a table 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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Even though he struck the rock so that water gushed out and torrents overflowed, can he also give bread, or provide meat for his people?"
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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Therefore, when the Lord heard, he was full of rage; a fire was kindled against Jacob, his anger mounted against Israel,
22 (77-22) Because they believed not in God: and trusted not in his salvation.
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because they had no faith in God, and did not trust his saving power.
23 (77-23) And he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of heaven.
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Yet he commanded the skies above, and 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 on them manna to eat, and gave them the grain of heaven.
25 (77-25) Man ate the bread of angels: he sent them provisions in abundance.
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Mortals ate of the bread of angels; he sent them food in abundance.
26 (77-26) He removed the south wind from heaven: and by his power brought in the southwest wind.
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He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens, and by his power he led out the south wind;
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 flesh upon them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas;
28 (77-28) And they fell in the midst of their camp, round about their pavilions.
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he let them fall within their camp, all around their dwellings.
29 (77-29) So they did eat, and were filled exceedingly, and he gave them their desire:
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And they ate and were well filled, for 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 had satisfied their craving, while the food was still 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 the strongest of them, and laid low the flower of Israel.
32 (77-32) In all these things they sinned still: and they behaved not for his wondrous works.
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In spite of all this they still sinned; they did not believe in his wonders.
33 (77-33) And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years in haste.
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So he made their days vanish like a breath, and 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 he killed them, they sought for him; they repented and sought God earnestly.
35 (77-35) And they remembered that God was their helper: and the most high God their redeemer.
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They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God 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 they flattered him with their mouths; 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 heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not true to 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, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them; often he restrained his anger, and did not stir up all his wrath.
39 (77-39) And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not.
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He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and does not come again.
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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How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!
41 (77-41) And they turned back and tempted God: and grieved the holy one of Israel.
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They tested God again and again, 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 keep in mind his power, or the day when he redeemed them from the foe;
43 (77-43) How he wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Tanis.
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when he displayed his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the fields of Zoan.
44 (77-44) And he turned their rivers into blood, and their showers that they might not drink.
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He turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their 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 among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed 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 the caterpillar, and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
47 (77-47) And he destroyed their vineyards with hail, and their mulberry trees with hoarfrost.
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He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamores with frost.
48 (77-48) And he gave up their cattle to the hail, and their stock to the fire.
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He gave over their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts.
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 let loose on them his fierce anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company 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 made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to 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 struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the first issue of their strength in the tents of Ham.
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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Then he led out his people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
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 led them in safety, so that they were not afraid; but the sea overwhelmed 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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And he brought them to his holy hill, to the mountain that his right hand had won.
55 (77-55) And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.
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He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
56 (77-56) Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God: and they kept not his testimonies.
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Yet they tested the Most High God, and rebelled against him. They did not observe his decrees,
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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but turned away and were faithless like their ancestors; they twisted like a treacherous 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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For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy 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, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.
60 (77-60) And he put away the tabernacle of Silo, his tabernacle where he dwelt among men.
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He abandoned his dwelling at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among mortals,
61 (77-61) And he delivered their strength into captivity: and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.
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and delivered his power to captivity, his glory to the hand of the foe.
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 to the sword, and vented his wrath on his heritage.
63 (77-63) Fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not lamented.
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Fire devoured their young men, and their girls had no marriage song.
64 (77-64) Their priests fell by the sword: and their widows did not mourn.
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Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.
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 awoke as from sleep, like a warrior shouting because of wine.
66 (77-66) And he smote his enemies on the hinder parts: he put them to an everlasting reproach.
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He put his adversaries to rout; he put them to everlasting disgrace.
67 (77-67) And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
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He rejected the tent of Joseph, 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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but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loves.
69 (77-69) And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns, in the land which he founded for ever.
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He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded forever.
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, and took him from the sheepfolds;
71 (77-71) To feed Jacob his servant and Israel his inheritance.
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from tending the nursing ewes he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel, his inheritance.
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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With upright heart he tended them, and guided them with skillful hand.
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