Psalms 78 : 1 (HCSB)
*A Maskil of Asaph. My people, hear my instruction; listen to what I say.
Psalms 78 : 2 (HCSB)
I will declare wise sayings; I will speak mysteries from the past--
Psalms 78 : 3 (HCSB)
things we have heard and known and that our fathers have passed down to us.
Psalms 78 : 4 (HCSB)
We must not hide them from their children, but must tell a future generation the praises of the LORD, His might, and the wonderful works He has performed.
Psalms 78 : 5 (HCSB)
He established a testimony in Jacob and set up a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children
Psalms 78 : 6 (HCSB)
so that a future generation-- children yet to be born-- might know. They were to rise and tell their children
Psalms 78 : 7 (HCSB)
so that they might put their confidence in God and not forget God's works, but keep His commandments.
Psalms 78 : 8 (HCSB)
Then they would not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not loyal and whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Psalms 78 : 9 (HCSB)
The Ephraimite archers turned back on the day of battle.
Psalms 78 : 10 (HCSB)
They did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by His law.
Psalms 78 : 11 (HCSB)
They forgot what He had done, the wonderful works He had shown them.
Psalms 78 : 12 (HCSB)
He worked wonders in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, the region of Zoan.
Psalms 78 : 13 (HCSB)
He split the sea and brought them across; the water stood firm like a wall.
Psalms 78 : 14 (HCSB)
He led them with a cloud by day and with a fiery light throughout the night.
Psalms 78 : 15 (HCSB)
He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the depths.
Psalms 78 : 16 (HCSB)
He brought streams out of the stone and made water flow down like rivers.
Psalms 78 : 17 (HCSB)
But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
Psalms 78 : 18 (HCSB)
They deliberately tested God, demanding the food they craved.
Psalms 78 : 19 (HCSB)
They spoke against God, saying, "Is God able to provide food in the wilderness?
Psalms 78 : 20 (HCSB)
Look! He struck the rock and water gushed out; torrents overflowed. But can He also provide bread or furnish meat for His people?"
Psalms 78 : 21 (HCSB)
Therefore, the LORD heard and became furious; then fire broke out against Jacob, and anger flared up against Israel
Psalms 78 : 22 (HCSB)
because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.
Psalms 78 : 23 (HCSB)
He gave a command to the clouds above and opened the doors of heaven.
Psalms 78 : 24 (HCSB)
He rained manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.
Psalms 78 : 25 (HCSB)
People ate the bread of angels. He sent them an abundant supply of food.
Psalms 78 : 26 (HCSB)
He made the east wind blow in the skies and drove the south wind by His might.
Psalms 78 : 27 (HCSB)
He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the seas.
Psalms 78 : 28 (HCSB)
He made *them fall in His camp, all around His tent.
Psalms 78 : 29 (HCSB)
They ate and were completely satisfied, for He gave them what they craved.
Psalms 78 : 30 (HCSB)
Before they had satisfied their desire, while the food was still in their mouths,
Psalms 78 : 31 (HCSB)
God's anger flared up against them, and He killed some of their best men. He struck down Israel's choice young men.
Psalms 78 : 32 (HCSB)
Despite all this, they kept sinning and did not believe His wonderful works.
Psalms 78 : 33 (HCSB)
He made their days end in futility, their years in sudden disaster.
Psalms 78 : 34 (HCSB)
When He killed *some of them, the rest began to seek Him; they repented and searched for God.
Psalms 78 : 35 (HCSB)
They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their Redeemer.
Psalms 78 : 36 (HCSB)
But they deceived Him with their mouths, they lied to Him with their tongues,
Psalms 78 : 37 (HCSB)
their hearts were insincere toward Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.
Psalms 78 : 38 (HCSB)
Yet He was compassionate; He atoned for *their guilt and did not destroy them . He often turned His anger aside and did not unleash all His wrath.
Psalms 78 : 39 (HCSB)
He remembered that they were *only flesh, a wind that passes and does not return.
Psalms 78 : 40 (HCSB)
How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert.
Psalms 78 : 41 (HCSB)
They constantly tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
Psalms 78 : 42 (HCSB)
They did not remember His power *shown on the day He redeemed them from the foe,
Psalms 78 : 43 (HCSB)
when He performed His miraculous signs in Egypt and His marvels in the region of Zoan.
Psalms 78 : 44 (HCSB)
He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams.
Psalms 78 : 45 (HCSB)
He sent among them swarms of flies, which fed on them, and frogs, which devastated them.
Psalms 78 : 46 (HCSB)
He gave their crops to the caterpillar and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
Psalms 78 : 47 (HCSB)
He killed their vines with hail and their sycamore-fig trees with a flood.
Psalms 78 : 48 (HCSB)
He handed over their livestock to hail and their cattle to lightning bolts.
Psalms 78 : 49 (HCSB)
He sent His burning anger against them: fury, indignation, and calamity-- a band of deadly messengers.
Psalms 78 : 50 (HCSB)
He cleared a path for His anger. He did not spare them from death, but delivered their lives to the plague.
Psalms 78 : 51 (HCSB)
He struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the first progeny of the tents of Ham.
Psalms 78 : 52 (HCSB)
He led His people out like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
Psalms 78 : 53 (HCSB)
He led them safely, and they were not afraid; but the sea covered their enemies.
Psalms 78 : 54 (HCSB)
He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand acquired.
Psalms 78 : 55 (HCSB)
He drove out nations before them. He apportioned their inheritance by lot and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
Psalms 78 : 56 (HCSB)
But they rebelliously tested the Most High God, for they did not keep His decrees.
Psalms 78 : 57 (HCSB)
They treacherously turned away like their fathers; they became warped like a faulty bow.
Psalms 78 : 58 (HCSB)
They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their carved images.
Psalms 78 : 59 (HCSB)
God heard and became furious; He completely rejected Israel.
Psalms 78 : 60 (HCSB)
He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where He resided among men.
Psalms 78 : 61 (HCSB)
He gave up His strength to captivity and His splendor to the hand of a foe.
Psalms 78 : 62 (HCSB)
He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged with His heritage.
Psalms 78 : 63 (HCSB)
Fire consumed His chosen young men, and His young women had no wedding songs.
Psalms 78 : 64 (HCSB)
His priests fell by the sword, but the widows could not lament.
Psalms 78 : 65 (HCSB)
Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep, like a warrior from the effects of wine.
Psalms 78 : 66 (HCSB)
He beat back His foes; He gave them lasting shame.
Psalms 78 : 67 (HCSB)
He rejected the tent of Joseph and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.
Psalms 78 : 68 (HCSB)
He chose instead the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
Psalms 78 : 69 (HCSB)
He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that He established forever.
Psalms 78 : 70 (HCSB)
He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
Psalms 78 : 71 (HCSB)
He brought him from tending ewes to be shepherd over His people Jacob-- over Israel, His inheritance.
Psalms 78 : 72 (HCSB)
He shepherded them with a pure heart and guided them with his skillful hands.
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