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The Book of Psalms 78
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Psalms 78:1	Hear my law, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
Psalms 78:2	I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,
Psalms 78:3	Which we have heard and known, Our fathers have told us.
Psalms 78:4	We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, His strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.
Psalms 78:5	For he established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which he commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children;
Psalms 78:6	That the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; Who should arise and tell their children,
Psalms 78:7	That they might set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep his commandments,
Psalms 78:8	And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, Whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
Psalms 78:9	The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.
Psalms 78:10	They didn't keep the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law.
Psalms 78:11	They forgot his doings, His wondrous works that he had showed them.
Psalms 78:12	Marvelous things did he in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Psalms 78:13	He split the sea, and caused them to pass through; He made the waters stand as a heap.
Psalms 78:14	In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, All the night with a light of fire.
Psalms 78:15	He split rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
Psalms 78:16	He brought streams also out of the rock, And caused waters to run down like rivers.
Psalms 78:17	Yet they still went on to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
Psalms 78:18	They tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.
Psalms 78:19	Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
Psalms 78:20	Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, Streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?"
Psalms 78:21	Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, Anger also went up against Israel,
Psalms 78:22	Because they didn't believe in God, And didn't trust in his salvation.
Psalms 78:23	Yet he commanded the skies above, And opened the doors of heaven.
Psalms 78:24	He rained down manna on them to eat, And gave them food from the sky.
Psalms 78:25	Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.
Psalms 78:26	He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.
Psalms 78:27	He rained also flesh on them as the dust; Winged birds as the sand of the seas.
Psalms 78:28	He let them fall in the midst of their camp, Around their habitations.
Psalms 78:29	So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.
Psalms 78:30	They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,
Psalms 78:31	When the anger of God went up against them, And killed some of the fattest of them, And struck down the young men of Israel.
Psalms 78:32	For all this they still sinned, And didn't believe in his wondrous works.
Psalms 78:33	Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, And their years in terror.
Psalms 78:34	When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.
Psalms 78:35	They remembered that God was their rock, The Most High God their redeemer.
Psalms 78:36	But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied to him with their tongue.
Psalms 78:37	For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant.
Psalms 78:38	But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn't destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, And didn't stir up all his wrath.
Psalms 78:39	He remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.
Psalms 78:40	How often did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!
Psalms 78:41	They turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.
Psalms 78:42	They didn't remember his hand, Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
Psalms 78:43	How he set his signs in Egypt, His wonders in the field of Zoan,
Psalms 78:44	Turned their rivers into blood, Their streams, so that they could not drink.
Psalms 78:45	He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; Frogs, which destroyed them.
Psalms 78:46	He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, Their labor to the locust.
Psalms 78:47	He destroyed their vines with hail, Their sycamore-fig trees with frost.
Psalms 78:48	He gave over their cattle also to the hail, And their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
Psalms 78:49	He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, indignation, and trouble, And a band of angels of evil.
Psalms 78:50	He made a path for his anger. He didn't spare their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,
Psalms 78:51	And struck all the firstborn in Egypt, The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
Psalms 78:52	But he led forth his own people like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
Psalms 78:53	He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
Psalms 78:54	He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had taken.
Psalms 78:55	He also drove out the nations before them, Allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
Psalms 78:56	Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And didn't keep his testimonies;
Psalms 78:57	But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
Psalms 78:58	For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
Psalms 78:59	When God heard this, he was angry, And greatly abhorred Israel;
Psalms 78:60	So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh, The tent which he placed among men;
Psalms 78:61	And delivered his strength into captivity, His glory into the adversary's hand.
Psalms 78:62	He also gave his people over to the sword, And was angry with his inheritance.
Psalms 78:63	Fire devoured their young men; Their virgins had no wedding song.
Psalms 78:64	Their priests fell by the sword; Their widows made no lamentation.
Psalms 78:65	Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
Psalms 78:66	He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.
Psalms 78:67	Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, And didn't choose the tribe of Ephraim,
Psalms 78:68	But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
Psalms 78:69	He built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he has established forever.
Psalms 78:70	He also chose David his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds;
Psalms 78:71	From following the ewes that have their young he brought him To be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.
Psalms 78:72	So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands. Psalm 79 A Psalm by Asaph.