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Psalm 78
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| 78:1
Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my
mouth. |
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| 78:2
I will open my mouth in a
parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: |
"I will open my mouth in a
parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us."
Misquoted in
Matthew.13:35 as "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things
which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world."
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| 78:3
Which we have heard and known,
and our fathers have told us.
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| 78:4
We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to
come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that
he hath done.
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| 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: |
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| 78:6
That the generation to come might know them, even the children which
should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: |
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| 78:7
That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God,
but keep his commandments: |
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| 78:8
And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a
generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not
stedfast with God. |
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| 78:9
The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in
the day of battle. |
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| 78:10
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; |
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| 78:11
And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them. |
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| 78:12
Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of
Egypt, in the field of Zoan. |
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| 78:13
He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the
waters to stand as an heap. |
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| 78:14
In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a
light of fire. |
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| 78:15
He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the
great depths. |
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He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down
like rivers. |
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And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the
wilderness. |
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| 78:18
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. |
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| 78:19
Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the
wilderness? |
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| 78:20
Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams
overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people? |
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| 78:21 Therefore the LORD heard this,
and was wroth: so a fire was kindled
against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel; |
"The LORD heard this."
"The LORD heard this" (he had his hearing aid on) and became angry, and burned people
"because they believed not in God."
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| 78:22
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
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| 78:23
Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of
heaven, |
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And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn
of heaven. |
"Man did eat angels' food."
 "And he rained on them flesh as dust,
and feathered fowls as the sand of the sea"
(Unknown, 12th Century)
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| 78:25
Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
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| 78:26
He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought
in the south wind.
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He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the
sand of the sea: |
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And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their
habitations. |
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So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; |
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They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in
their mouths, |
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| 78:31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote
down the chosen men of Israel. |
(78:31-34) "The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them."
God killed many of the Israelites for not believing in "his wondrous works."
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| 78:32 For all this they sinned still, and believed
not for his wondrous works.
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| 78:33 Therefore their days did he consume
in vanity, and their years in trouble.
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| 78:34
When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired
early after God. |
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| 78:35
And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their
redeemer. |
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Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him
with their tongues. |
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For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his
covenant. |
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But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed
them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all
his wrath. |
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For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and
cometh not again. |
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How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the
desert! |
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Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. |
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They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the
enemy. |
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How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of
Zoan. |
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And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could
not drink. |
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He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs,
which destroyed them. |
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He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto
the locust. |
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He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost. |
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He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot
thunderbolts. |
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He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and
trouble, by sending evil angels among them. |
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| 78:50
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave
their life over to the pestilence; |
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And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the
tabernacles of Ham: |
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But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the
wilderness like a flock. |
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And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea
overwhelmed their enemies. |
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And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain,
which his right hand had purchased. |
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| 78:55 He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance
by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. |
"He cast out the heathen also before them."
God "cast out the heathen" and gave their lands to the Israelites.
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Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his
testimonies: |
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But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were
turned aside like a deceitful bow. |
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For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to
jealousy with their graven images. |
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When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: |
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So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed
among men; |
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And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's
hand. |
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He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his
inheritance. |
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The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to
marriage. |
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Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation. |
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Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that
shouteth by reason of wine. |
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| 78:66
And he smote his
enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach. |
"And he [God] smote his enemies in the hinder parts.
(He kicked their ass -- or gave them hemorrhoids in their secret parts or something.)
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| 78:67
Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of
Ephraim: |
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But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. |
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And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath
established for ever. |
"The earth which he hath established for ever."
Will the earth last forever?
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He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds: |
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From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his
people, and Israel his inheritance. |
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So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by
the skilfulness of his hands.
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