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Psalms
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English: Webster's Bible |
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Psalms 78 [Context] [Commentary] [Map] 
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Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ear 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, showing 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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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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That the generation to come might know them, even the children who should be born; who should arise and declare them to 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 set not their heart aright, and 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 kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; |
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And forgot his works, and his wonders that he had shown them. |
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Marvelous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. |
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He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as a heap. |
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In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. |
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He cleaved 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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And they tempted God in their heart by asking food for their desire. |
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Yes, they spoke against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? |
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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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Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel; |
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Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation: |
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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. |
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Man ate angels' food: he sent them food to the full. |
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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, around their habitations. |
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So they ate, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; |
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They were not estranged from their desire: but while their meat was yet in their mouths, |
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The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel. |
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For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works. |
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Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble. |
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