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Psalm 78

Psalm 78:1-72

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Chapter 78
A maskil of Asaph. Give ear, my people, to my teaching; incline your ear to the sayings of my mouth. 1 A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, my people, to my Torah; incline your ear to the sayings of my mouth. I will open with a proverb; I will declare riddles from antiquity. 2 which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 3 which we have heard and known, and our fathers have recounted to us— 4 He established a testimony in Jacob and a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to make known to their children. 5 For the sake of a later generation, sons being born will arise and tell their sons. 6 that they might know God as their confidence and not forget the deeds of God and his commandments they would keep. 7 They will set their hope in God, and they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set its heart right and whose spirit was not faithful to God. 8 They will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set its heart right and whose spirit was not faithful to God. 9 They did not keep the covenant of God, and in his Torah they refused to walk. 10 They forgot his deeds and wonders that he showed them. 11 And they forgot his wondrous deeds and his divine wonders that he had shown their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 12 In the presence of their fathers he did a wonder in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. He split the Sea and caused them to pass through, and he stood the waters like a heap. 13 And he led them by a cloud by day and all the night in a light of fire. 14 He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as from great abysses. 15 And he split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as from great primordial deeps. 16 And he brought forth streams from the rock and brought waters down like rivers. 17 And they continued still to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the drought. 18 And they tested God in the wilderness, saying, "Can God set a table in the wilderness?" 19 Behold, he struck the rock, and waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he even give bread? Will he prepare a table in the wilderness? 20 So the LORD heard and was angry; fire was kindled in Jacob, and anger also rose up in Israel. 21 They did not believe in God and did not trust in his salvation. 22 For they did not believe in God and did not trust in his salvation. 23 He commanded the heavens above, and he opened the doors of the heavens. 24 He caused the bread of the mighty ones to rain upon them—manna to eat—and he gave them grain of the heavens for satisfaction. 25 Man ate the bread of the mighty ones; he sent them provision and satisfied them. 26 And he caused winged fowl to rain upon them like dust and like the sand of the seas. 27 He rained meat on them like dust, wings of birds like the sand of the seas. 28 And they ate and were very satisfied, and he brought their desire to them. 29 And they ate and were greatly filled, and their desire came to them. 30 And God even rose up in them, and he struck down their fat ones, and he caused the choice ones of Israel to bow down. 31 In all this they still sinned and did not believe in his wonders. 32 And they finished their days in their vanity, and their years in terror. 33 And he finished them in their vanity in their days and their years in terror. 34 And they remembered that God was their rock and the Most High God their redeemer. 35 And they remembered that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their Redeemer. 36 But their heart was not upright with him, and they were not faithful to his covenant. 37 But their heart was not established with him, and they were not faithful in his covenant. 38 But he, being compassionate, would atone for iniquity and not destroy. He multiplied his resolve to return his anger and did not stir up all his wrath. 39 He remembered that they are flesh, a wind that passes and does not return. 40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert! 41 They turned back and tested the Holy One of Israel. They did not remember his hand, the day when he redeemed them from the foe. 42 They did not remember his hand, the day he redeemed them from distress, which they set in Egypt, his signs and his wonders in the field of Zoan. 43 He turned their Nile to blood; they will not drink their streams. 44 He sent swarms against them and they ate them up, and frogs and they destroyed them. 45 He sent swarms among them and frogs, and they destroyed them. 46 He gave their produce to the locust and their labor to the swarm-locust. 47 He killed their vines and fig trees with hail and frost. 48 He sent among them the heat of his anger, wrath and fury and distress, a delegation of messengers of evil. 49 He sent among them the burning of his anger, wrath and indignation, and distress—a commissioned band of evil angels. 50 And he made level a path for his anger; he did not darken their life force with death, their life to the word he delivered. 51 And he struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the first of their strength, in the tents of Ham. 52 And he led his people like a flock and guided them like a herd in the wilderness. 53 And he brought them to the border of his holy place, this mountain which his right hand had acquired. 54 And he brought them to the territorial boundary of his consecration/holiness, this cosmic mountain that his right side in rituals acquired/bought. And he drove out nations from before them and cast them in the cords of inheritance and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents. 55 He drove nations out from before them, cast them down in their allotted inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents. 56 They tested and rebelled against God Most High; they did not keep his testimonies. 57 They provoked him with their high places, and enraged him with their idols. 58 God heard and was angry, and he greatly rejected Israel. 59 God heard and was exceedingly angry, and he very much rejected Israel. He abandoned his dwelling place, the tent of his dwelling in man. 60 He abandoned his tabernacle, the tent where he dwelt in Adam. 61 He gave his strength and his glory into captivity in the hand of the adversary. 62 Fire devoured his chosen ones, and his virgins were not praised. 63 His priests fell by the sword, and his virgins were not hymned. 64 His priests fell by the sword, and his widows did not weep. 65 And he awoke as from sleep, the Lord as a mighty man who shouts triumphantly from wine. 66 And he struck his adversaries backward; he gave them reproach as an eternal possession. 67 And he rejected the tent of Joseph, and he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim. He chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. 68 And he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved. And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth he founded it forever. 69 And he built his sanctuary like the heights; he founded the earth forever. 70 And he chose his servant David and took him from the pens of the flock. 71 From following the ascent he brought them to shepherd in Jacob his people and in Israel his inheritance.