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Psalms 77; Psalms 78; Romans 10

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Psalms 77

1 I cry out loud to God— out loud to God so that he can hear me!
2 During the day when I'm in trouble I look for my Lord. At night my hands are still outstretched and don't grow numb; my whole being refuses to be comforted.
3 I remember God and I moan. I complain, and my spirit grows tired. Selah
4 You've kept my eyelids from closing. I'm so upset I can't even speak.
5 I think about days long past; I remember years that seem an eternity in the past.
6 I meditate with my heart at night; I complain, and my spirit keeps searching:
7 "Will my Lord reject me forever? Will he never be pleased again?
8 Has his faithful love come to a complete end? Is his promise over for future generations?
9 Has God forgotten how to be gracious? Has he angrily stopped up his compassion?" Selah
10 It's my misfortune, I thought, that the strong hand of the Most High is different now.
11 But I will remember the LORD's deeds; yes, I will remember your wondrous acts from times long past.
12 I will meditate on all your works; I will ponder your deeds.
13 God, your way is holiness! Who is as great a god as you, God?
14 You are the God who works wonders; you have demonstrated your strength among all peoples.
15 With your mighty arm you redeemed your people; redeemed the children of Jacob and Joseph. Selah
16 The waters saw you, God— the waters saw you and reeled! Even the deep depths shook!
17 The clouds poured water, the skies cracked thunder; your arrows were flying all around!
18 The crash of your thunder was in the swirling storm; lightning lit up the whole world; the earth shook and quaked.
19 Your way went straight through the sea; your pathways went right through the mighty waters. But your footprints left no trace!
20 You led your people like sheep under the care of Moses and Aaron.
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Psalms 78

1 Listen, my people, to my teaching; tilt your ears toward the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth with a proverb. I'll declare riddles from days long gone—
3 ones that we've heard and learned about, ones that our ancestors told us.
4 We won't hide them from their descendants; we'll tell the next generation all about the praise due the LORD and his strength— the wondrous works God has done.
5 He established a law for Jacob and set up Instruction for Israel, ordering our ancestors to teach them to their children.
6 This is so that the next generation and children not yet born will know these things, and so they can rise up and tell their children
7 to put their hope in God— never forgetting God's deeds, but keeping God's commandments—
8 and so that they won't become like their ancestors: a rebellious, stubborn generation, a generation whose heart wasn't set firm and whose spirit wasn't faithful to God.
9 The children of Ephraim, armed with bows, retreated on the day of battle.
10 They didn't keep God's covenant; they refused to walk in his Instruction.
11 They forgot God's deeds as well as the wondrous works he showed them.
12 But God performed wonders in their ancestors' presence— in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
13 God split the sea and led them through, making the waters stand up like a wall.
14 God led them with the cloud by day; by the lightning all through the night.
15 God split rocks open in the wilderness, gave them plenty to drink— as if from the deep itself!
16 God made streams flow from the rock, made water run like rivers.
17 But they continued to sin against God, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
18 They tested God in their hearts, demanded food for their stomachs.
19 They spoke against God! "Can God set a dinner table in the wilderness?" they asked.
20 "True, God struck the rock and water gushed and streams flowed, but can he give bread too? Can he provide meat for his people?"
21 When the LORD heard this, he became furious. A fire was ignited against Jacob; wrath also burned against Israel
22 because they had no faith in God, because they didn't trust his saving power.
23 God gave orders to the skies above, opened heaven's doors,
24 and rained manna on them so they could eat. He gave them the very grain of heaven!
25 Each person ate the bread of the powerful ones; God sent provisions to satisfy them.
26 God set the east wind moving across the skies and drove the south wind by his strength.
27 He rained meat on them as if it were dust in the air; he rained as many birds as the sand on the seashore!
28 God brought the birds down in the center of their camp, all around their dwellings.
29 So they ate and were completely satisfied; God gave them exactly what they had craved.
30 But they didn't stop craving— even with the food still in their mouths!
31 So God's anger came up against them: he killed the most hearty of them; he cut down Israel's youth in their prime.
32 But in spite of all that, they kept sinning and had no faith in God's wondrous works.
33 So God brought their days to an end, like a puff of air, and their years in total ruin.
34 But whenever God killed them, they went after him! They would turn and earnestly search for God.
35 They would remember that God was their rock, that the Most High was their redeemer.
36 But they were just flattering him with lip service. They were lying to him with their tongues.
37 Their hearts weren't firmly set on him; they weren't faithful to his covenant.
38 But God, being compassionate, kept forgiving their sins, kept avoiding destruction; he took back his anger so many times, wouldn't stir up all his wrath!
39 God kept remembering that they were just flesh, just breath that passes and doesn't come back.
40 How often they rebelled against God in the wilderness and distressed him in the desert!
41 Time and time again they tested God, provoking the holy one of Israel.
42 They didn't remember God's power— the day when he saved them from the enemy;
43 how God performed his signs in Egypt, his marvelous works in the field of Zoan.
44 God turned their rivers into blood; they couldn't drink from their own streams.
45 God sent swarms against them to eat them up, frogs to destroy them.
46 God handed over their crops to caterpillars, their land's produce to locusts.
47 God killed their vines with hail, their sycamore trees with frost.
48 God delivered their cattle over to disease, their herds to plagues.
49 God unleashed his burning anger against them— fury, indignation, distress, a troop of evil messengers.
50 God blazed a path for his wrath. He didn't save them from death, but delivered their lives over to disease.
51 God struck down all of Egypt's oldest males; in Ham's tents, he struck their pride and joy.
52 God led his own people out like sheep, guiding them like a flock in the wilderness.
53 God led them in safety—they were not afraid! But the sea engulfed their enemies!
54 God brought them to his holy territory, to the mountain that his own strong hand had acquired.
55 God drove out the nations before them and apportioned property for them; he settled Israel's tribes in their tents.
56 But they tested and defied the Most High God; they didn't pay attention to his warnings.
57 They turned away, became faithless just like their ancestors; they twisted away like a defective bow.
58 They angered God with their many shrines; they angered him with their idols.
59 God heard and became enraged; he rejected Israel utterly.
60 God abandoned the sanctuary at Shiloh, the tent where he had lived with humans.
61 God let his power be held captive, let his glory go to the enemy's hand.
62 God delivered his people up to the sword; he was enraged at his own possession.
63 Fire devoured his young men, and his young women had no wedding songs.
64 God's priests were killed by the sword, and his widows couldn't even cry.
65 But then my Lord woke up— as if he'd been sleeping! Like a warrior shaking off wine,
66 God beat back his foes; he made them an everlasting disgrace.
67 God rejected the tent of Joseph and didn't choose the tribe of Ephraim.
68 Instead, he chose the tribe of Judah, the mountain of Zion, which he loves.
69 God built his sanctuary like the highest heaven and like the earth, which he established forever.
70 And God chose David, his servant, taking him from the sheepfolds.
71 God brought him from shepherding nursing ewes to shepherd his people Jacob, to shepherd his inheritance, Israel.
72 David shepherded them with a heart of integrity; he led them with the skill of his hands.
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Romans 10

1 Brothers and sisters, my heart's desire is for Israel's salvation. That's my prayer to God for them.
2 I can vouch for them: they are enthusiastic about God. However, it isn't informed by knowledge.
3 They don't submit to God's righteousness because they don't understand his righteousness, and they try to establish their own righteousness.
4 Christ is the goal of the Law, which leads to righteousness for all who have faith in God.
5 Moses writes about the righteousness that comes from the Law: The person who does these things will live by them.
6 But the righteousness that comes from faith talks like this: Don't say in your heart, "Who will go up into heaven?" (that is, to bring Christ down)
7 or "Who will go down into the region below?" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).
8 But what does it say? The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart (that is, the message of faith that we preach).
9 Because if you confess with your mouth "Jesus is Lord" and in your heart you have faith that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 Trusting with the heart leads to righteousness, and confessing with the mouth leads to salvation.
11 The scripture says, All who have faith in him won't be put to shame.
12 There is no distinction between Jew and Greek, because the same Lord is Lord of all, who gives richly to all who call on him.
13 All who call on the Lord's name will be saved.
14 So how can they call on someone they don't have faith in? And how can they have faith in someone they haven't heard of? And how can they hear without a preacher?
15 And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those who announce the good news.
16 But everyone hasn't obeyed the good news. As Isaiah says, Lord, who has had faith in our message?
17 So, faith comes from listening, but it's listening by means of Christ's message.
18 But I ask you, didn't they hear it? Definitely! Their voice has gone out into the entire earth, and their message has gone out to the corners of the inhabited world.
19 But I ask you again, didn't Israel understand? First, Moses says, I will make you jealous of those who aren't a people, of a people without understanding.
20 And Isaiah even dares to say, I was found by those who didn't look for me; I revealed myself to those who didn't ask for me.
21 But he says about Israel, All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.
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