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Psalms
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English: World English Bible |
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Psalms 78 [Context] [Commentary] [Map] 
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Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth. |
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I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old, |
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Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. |
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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. |
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For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children; |
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that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children, |
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that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments, |
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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. |
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The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. |
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They didn't keep God's covenant, and refused to walk in his law. |
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They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown them. |
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He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. |
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He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap. |
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In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire. |
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He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the 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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Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert. |
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They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire. |
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Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? |
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Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?" |
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Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel, |
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because they didn't believe in God, and didn't trust in his salvation. |
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Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven. |
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He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky. |
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Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full. |
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He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind. |
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He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas. |
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He let them fall in the midst of their camp, around their habitations. |
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So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire. |
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They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths, |
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when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of the fattest of them, and struck down the young men of Israel. |
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For all this they still sinned, and didn't believe in his wondrous works. |
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Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror. |
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