Psalms 77; Psalms 78; Romans 10

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Psalms 77

1 I cry aloud to God; I cry aloud, and he hears me.

2 In times of trouble I pray to the Lord; all night long I lift my hands in prayer, but I cannot find comfort.

3 When I think of God, I sigh; when I meditate, I feel discouraged.

4 He keeps me awake all night; I am so worried that I cannot speak.

5 I think of days gone by and remember years of long ago.

6 I spend the night in deep thought; I meditate, and this is what I ask myself:

7 "Will the Lord always reject us? Will he never again be pleased with us?

8 Has he stopped loving us? Does his promise no longer stand?

9 Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has anger taken the place of his compassion?"

10 Then I said, "What hurts me most is this - that God is no longer powerful."

11 I will remember your great deeds, Lord; I will recall the wonders you did in the past.

12 I will think about all that you have done; I will meditate on all your mighty acts.

13 Everything you do, O God, is holy. No god is as great as you.

14 You are the God who works miracles; you showed your might among the nations.

15 By your power you saved your people, the descendants of Jacob and of Joseph.

16 When the waters saw you, O God, they were afraid, and the depths of the sea trembled.

17 The clouds poured down rain; thunder crashed from the sky, and lightning flashed in all directions.

18 The crash of your thunder rolled out, and flashes of lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.

19 You walked through the waves; you crossed the deep sea, but your footprints could not be seen.

20 You led your people like a shepherd, with Moses and Aaron in charge.

Psalms 78

1 Listen, my people, to my teaching, and pay attention to what I say.

2 I am going to use wise sayings and explain mysteries from the past,

3 things we have heard and known, things that our ancestors told us.

4 We will not keep them from our children; we will tell the next generation about the Lord's power and his great deeds and the wonderful things he has done.

5 He gave laws to the people of Israel and commandments to the descendants of Jacob. He instructed our ancestors to teach his laws to their children,

6 so that the next generation might learn them and in turn should tell their children.

7 In this way they also will put their trust in God and not forget what he has done, but always obey his commandments.

8 They will not be like their ancestors, a rebellious and disobedient people, whose trust in God was never firm and who did not remain faithful to him.

9 The Ephraimites, armed with bows and arrows, ran away on the day of battle.

10 They did not keep their covenant with God; they refused to obey his law.

11 They forgot what he had done, the miracles they had seen him perform.

12 While their ancestors watched, God performed miracles in the plain of Zoan in the land of Egypt.

13 He divided the sea and took them through it; he made the waters stand like walls.

14 By day he led them with a cloud and all night long with the light of a fire.

15 He split rocks open in the desert and gave them water from the depths.

16 He caused a stream to come out of the rock and made water flow like a river.

17 But they continued to sin against God, and in the desert they rebelled against the Most High.

18 They deliberately put God to the test by demanding the food they wanted.

19 They spoke against God and said, "Can God supply food in the desert?

20 It is true that he struck the rock, and water flowed out in a torrent; but can he also provide us with bread and give his people meat?"

21 And so the Lord was angry when he heard them; he attacked his people with fire, and his anger against them grew,

22 because they had no faith in him and did not believe that he would save them.

23 But he spoke to the sky above and commanded its doors to open;

24 he gave them grain from heaven, by sending down manna for them to eat.

25 So they ate the food of angels, and God gave them all they wanted.

26 He also caused the east wind to blow, and by his power he stirred up the south wind;

27 and to his people he sent down birds, as many as the grains of sand on the shore;

28 they fell in the middle of the camp all around the tents.

29 So the people ate and were satisfied; God gave them what they wanted.

30 But they had not yet satisfied their craving and were still eating,

31 when God became angry with them and killed their strongest men, the best young men of Israel.

32 In spite of all this the people kept sinning; in spite of his miracles they did not trust him.

33 So he ended their days like a breath and their lives with sudden disaster.

34 Whenever he killed some of them, the rest would turn to him; they would repent and pray earnestly to him.

35 They remembered that God was their protector, that the Almighty came to their aid.

36 But their words were all lies; nothing they said was sincere.

37 They were not loyal to him; they were not faithful to their covenant with him.

38 But God was merciful to his people. He forgave their sin and did not destroy them. Many times he held back his anger and restrained his fury.

39 He remembered that they were only mortal beings, like a wind that blows by and is gone.

40 How often they rebelled against him in the desert; how many times they made him sad!

41 Again and again they put God to the test and brought pain to the Holy God of Israel.

42 They forgot his great power and the day when he saved them from their enemies

43 and performed his mighty acts and miracles in the plain of Zoan in the land of Egypt.

44 He turned the rivers into blood, and the Egyptians had no water to drink.

45 He sent flies among them, that tormented them, and frogs that ruined their land.

46 He sent locusts to eat their crops and to destroy their fields.

47 He killed their grapevines with hail and their fig trees with frost.

48 He killed their cattle with hail and their flocks with lightning.

49 He caused them great distress by pouring out his anger and fierce rage, which came as messengers of death.

50 He did not restrain his anger or spare their lives, but killed them with a plague.

51 He killed the first-born sons of all the families of Egypt.

52 Then he led his people out like a shepherd and guided them through the desert.

53 He led them safely, and they were not afraid; but the sea came rolling over their enemies.

54 He brought them to his holy land, to the mountains which he himself conquered.

55 He drove out the inhabitants as his people advanced; he divided their land among the tribes of Israel and gave their homes to his people.

56 But they rebelled against Almighty God and put him to the test. They did not obey his commandments,

57 but were rebellious and disloyal like their ancestors, unreliable as a crooked arrow.

58 They angered him with their heathen places of worship, and with their idols they made him furious.

59 God was angry when he saw it, so he rejected his people completely.

60 He abandoned his tent in Shiloh, the home where he had lived among us.

61 He allowed our enemies to capture the Covenant Box, the symbol of his power and glory.

62 He was angry with his own people and let them be killed by their enemies.

63 Young men were killed in war, and young women had no one to marry.

64 Priests died by violence, and their widows were not allowed to mourn.

65 At last the Lord woke up as though from sleep; he was like a strong man excited by wine.

66 He drove his enemies back in lasting and shameful defeat.

67 But he rejected the descendants of Joseph; he did not select the tribe of Ephraim.

68 Instead he chose the tribe of Judah and Mount Zion, which he dearly loves.

69 There he built his Temple like his home in heaven; he made it firm like the earth itself, secure for all time.

70 He chose his servant David; he took him from the pastures,

71 where he looked after his flocks, and he made him king of Israel, the shepherd of the people of God.

72 David took care of them with unselfish devotion and led them with skill.

Romans 10

1 My friends, how I wish with all my heart that my own people might be saved! How I pray to God for them!

2 I can assure you that they are deeply devoted to God; but their devotion is not based on true knowledge.

3 They have not known the way in which God puts people right with himself, and instead, they have tried to set up their own way; and so they did not submit themselves to God's way of putting people right.

4 For Christ has brought the Law to an end, so that everyone who believes is put right with God.

5 Moses wrote this about being put right with God by obeying the Law: "Whoever obeys the commands of the Law will live."

6 But what the scripture says about being put right with God through faith is this: "You are not to ask yourself, Who will go up into heaven?" (that is, to bring Christ down).

7 "Nor are you to ask, Who will go down into the world below?" (that is, to bring Christ up from death).

8 What it says is this: "God's message is near you, on your lips and in your heart" - that is, the message of faith that we preach.

9 If you confess that Jesus is Lord and believe that God raised him from death, you will be saved.

10 For it is by our faith that we are put right with God; it is by our confession that we are saved.

11 The scripture says, "Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed."

12 This includes everyone, because there is no difference between Jews and Gentiles; God is the same Lord of all and richly blesses all who call to him.

13 As the scripture says, "Everyone who calls out to the Lord for help will be saved."

14 But how can they call to him for help if they have not believed? And how can they believe if they have not heard the message? And how can they hear if the message is not proclaimed?

15 And how can the message be proclaimed if the messengers are not sent out? As the scripture says, "How wonderful is the coming of messengers who bring good news!"

16 But not all have accepted the Good News. Isaiah himself said, "Lord, who believed our message?"

17 So then, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message comes through preaching Christ.

18 But I ask: Is it true that they did not hear the message? Of course they did - for as the scripture says: "The sound of their voice went out to all the world; their words reached the ends of the earth."

19 Again I ask: Did the people of Israel not understand? Moses himself is the first one to answer: "I will use a so-called nation to make my people jealous; and by means of a nation of fools I will make my people angry."

20 And Isaiah is even bolder when he says, "I was found by those who were not looking for me; I appeared to those who were not asking for me."

21 But concerning Israel he says, "All day long I held out my hands to welcome a disobedient and rebellious people."

Psalms 77; Psalms 78; Romans 10

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