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