Psalms 77; Psalms 78; Romans 10

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Psalms 77

1 I cry out to God; I call to God, and he will hear me.

2 I look for the Lord on the day of trouble. All night long I reach out my hands, but I cannot be comforted.

3 When I remember God, I become upset; when I think, I become afraid.Selah

4 You keep my eyes from closing. I am too upset to say anything.

5 I keep thinking about the old days, the years of long ago.

6 At night I remember my songs. I think and I ask myself:

7 "Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he never be kind to us again?

8 Is his love gone forever? Has he stopped speaking for all time?

9 Has God forgotten mercy? Is he too angry to pity us?"Selah

10 Then I say "This is what makes me sad: For years the power of God Most High was with us."

11 I remember what the Lord did; I remember the miracles you did long ago.

12 I think about all the things you did and consider your deeds.

13 God, your ways are holy. No god is as great as our God.

14 You are the God who does miracles; you have shown people your power.

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

16 God, the waters saw you; they saw you and became afraid; the deep waters shook with fear.

17 The clouds poured down their rain. The sky thundered. Your lightning flashed back and forth like arrows.

18 Your thunder sounded in the whirlwind. Lightning lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.

19 You made a way through the sea and paths through the deep waters, but your footprints were not seen.

20 You led your people like a flock by using Moses and Aaron. A maskil of Asaph.

Psalms 78

1 My people, listen to my teaching; listen to what I say.

2 I will speak using stories; I will tell secret things from long ago.

3 We have heard them and known them by what our ancestors have told us.

4 We will not keep them from our children; we will tell those who come later about the praises of the Lord. We will tell about his power and the miracles he has done.

5 The Lord made an agreement with Jacob and gave the teachings to Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach to their children.

6 Then their children would know them, even their children not yet born. And they would tell their children.

7 So they would all trust God and would not forget what he had done but would obey his commands.

8 They would not be like their ancestors who were stubborn and disobedient. Their hearts were not loyal to God, and they were not true to him.

9 The men of Ephraim had bows for weapons, but they ran away on the day of battle.

10 They didn't keep their agreement with God and refused to live by his teachings.

11 They forgot what he had done and the miracles he had shown them.

12 He did miracles while their ancestors watched, in the fields of Zoan in Egypt.

13 He divided the Red Sea and led them through. He made the water stand up like a wall.

14 He led them with a cloud by day and by the light of a fire by night.

15 He split the rocks in the desert and gave them more than enough water, as if from the deep ocean.

16 He brought streams out of the rock and caused water to flow down like rivers.

17 But the people continued to sin against him; in the desert they turned against God Most High.

18 They decided to test God by asking for the food they wanted.

19 Then they spoke against God, saying, "Can God prepare food in the desert?

20 When he hit the rock, water poured out and rivers flowed down. But can he give us bread also? Will he provide his people with meat?"

21 When the Lord heard them, he was very angry. His anger was like fire to the people of Jacob; his anger grew against the people of Israel.

22 They had not believed God and had not trusted him to save them.

23 But he gave a command to the clouds above and opened the doors of heaven.

24 He rained manna down on them to eat; he gave them grain from heaven.

25 So they ate the bread of angels. He sent them all the food they could eat.

26 He sent the east wind from heaven and led the south wind by his power.

27 He rained meat on them like dust. The birds were as many as the sand of the sea.

28 He made the birds fall inside the camp, all around the tents.

29 So the people ate and became very full. God had given them what they wanted.

30 While they were still eating, and while the food was still in their mouths,

31 God became angry with them. He killed some of the healthiest of them; he struck down the best young men of Israel.

32 But they kept on sinning; they did not believe even with the miracles.

33 So he ended their days without meaning and their years in terror.

34 Anytime he killed them, they would look to him for help; they would come back to God and follow him.

35 They would remember that God was their Rock, that God Most High had saved them.

36 But their words were false, and their tongues lied to him.

37 Their hearts were not really loyal to God; they did not keep his agreement.

38 Still God was merciful. He forgave their sins and did not destroy them. Many times he held back his anger and did not stir up all his anger.

39 He remembered that they were only human, like a wind that blows and does not come back.

40 They turned against God so often in the desert and grieved him there.

41 Again and again they tested God and brought pain to the Holy One of Israel.

42 They did not remember his power or the time he saved them from the enemy.

43 They forgot the signs he did in Egypt and his wonders in the fields of Zoan.

44 He turned their rivers to blood so no one could drink the water.

45 He sent flies that bit the people. He sent frogs that destroyed them.

46 He gave their crops to grasshoppers and what they worked for to locusts.

47 He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore trees with sleet.

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

49 He showed them his hot anger. He sent his strong anger against them, his destroying angels.

50 He found a way to show his anger. He did not keep them from dying but let them die by a terrible disease.

51 God killed all the firstborn sons in Egypt, the oldest son of each family of Ham.

52 But God led his people out like sheep and he guided them like a flock through the desert.

53 He led them to safety so they had nothing to fear, but their enemies drowned in the sea.

54 So God brought them to his holy land, to the mountain country he took with his own power.

55 He forced out the other nations, and he had his people inherit the land. He let the tribes of Israel settle there in tents.

56 But they tested God and turned against God Most High; they did not keep his rules.

57 They turned away and were disloyal just like their ancestors. They were like a crooked bow that does not shoot straight.

58 They made God angry by building places to worship gods; they made him jealous with their idols.

59 When God heard them, he became very angry and rejected the people of Israel completely.

60 He left his dwelling at Shiloh, the Tent where he lived among the people.

61 He let the Ark, his power, be captured; he let the Ark, his glory, be taken by enemies.

62 He let his people be killed; he was very angry with his children.

63 The young men died by fire, and the young women had no one to marry.

64 Their priests fell by the sword, but their widows were not allowed to cry.

65 Then the Lord got up as if he had been asleep; he awoke like a man who had been drunk with wine.

66 He struck down his enemies and disgraced them forever.

67 But God rejected the family of Joseph; he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.

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

69 And he built his Temple high like the mountains. Like the earth, he built it to last forever.

70 He chose David to be his servant and took him from the sheep pens.

71 He brought him from tending the sheep so he could lead the flock, the people of Jacob, his own people, the people of Israel.

72 And David led them with an innocent heart and guided them with skillful hands. A psalm of Asaph.

Romans 10

1 Brothers and sisters, the thing I want most is for all the Jews to be saved. That is my prayer to God.

2 I can say this about them: They really try to follow God, but they do not know the right way.

3 Because they did not know the way that God makes people right with him, they tried to make themselves right in their own way. So they did not accept God's way of making people right.

4 Christ ended the law so that everyone who believes in him may be right with God.

5 Moses writes about being made right by following the law. He says, "A person who obeys these things will live because of them."

6 But this is what the Scripture says about being made right through faith: "Don't say to yourself, 'Who will go up into heaven?' " (That means, "Who will go up to heaven and bring Christ down to earth?")

7 "And do not say, 'Who will go down into the world below?' " (That means, "Who will go down and bring Christ up from the dead?")

8 This is what the Scripture says: "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart." That is the teaching of faith that we are telling.

9 If you use your mouth to say, "Jesus is Lord," and if you believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, you will be saved.

10 We believe with our hearts, and so we are made right with God. And we use our mouths to say that we believe, and so we are saved.

11 As the Scripture says, "Anyone who trusts in him will never be disappointed."

12 That Scripture says "anyone" because there is no difference between those who are Jews and those who are not. The same Lord is the Lord of all and gives many blessings to all who trust in him,

13 as the Scripture says, "Anyone who calls on the Lord will be saved."

14 But before people can ask the Lord for help, they must believe in him; and before they can believe in him, they must hear about him; and for them to hear about the Lord, someone must tell them;

15 and before someone can go and tell them, that person must be sent. It is written, "How beautiful is the person who comes to bring good news."

16 But not all the Jews accepted the good news. Isaiah said, "Lord, who believed what we told them?"

17 So faith comes from hearing the Good News, and people hear the Good News when someone tells them about Christ.

18 But I ask: Didn't people hear the Good News? Yes, they heard -- as the Scripture says: "Their message went out through all the world; their words go everywhere on earth."

19 Again I ask: Didn't the people of Israel understand? Yes, they did understand. First, Moses says: "I will use those who are not a nation to make you jealous. I will use a nation that does not understand to make you angry." Deuteronomy

20 Then Isaiah is bold enough to say: "I was found by those who were not asking me for help. I made myself known to people who were not looking for me."

21 But about Israel God says, "All day long I stood ready to accept people who disobey and are stubborn."

Psalms 77; Psalms 78; Romans 10

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