English Bible Presentation Sharing - Psalms Book, chapter 78, verse 104 in Litv Version

Psalms 78 : 1 (LITV)

A Lesson of Asaph. O my people, listen to my law; bow your ears to the words of my mouth.

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I will open my mouth in a parable; I will pour forth dark sayings of old,

Psalms 78 : 3 (LITV)

those which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

Psalms 78 : 4 (LITV)

We will not hide them from their sons; to declare to the coming generation the praises of Jehovah; yea, His strength and His wonderful works that He has done.

Psalms 78 : 5 (LITV)

For He raised a Testimony in Jacob, and He set a Law in Israel; which He commanded our fathers to make them known to their sons;

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so that a coming generation may know; sons shall be born; they shall rise up and tell their sons,

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so that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments.

Psalms 78 : 8 (LITV)

And they shall not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not its heart; yea, whose spirit was not faithful with God.

Psalms 78 : 9 (LITV)

The sons of Ephraim, armed shooters of bows, turned back in the day of battle.

Psalms 78 : 10 (LITV)

They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to walk in His Law.

Psalms 78 : 11 (LITV)

And they forgot His works and His wonders which He had shown them;

Psalms 78 : 12 (LITV)

He did wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan.

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He divided the sea and passed them through; and He caused the waters to stand in a heap.

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And He led them by a cloud in the day, and all the night with a light of fire.

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He split the rocks in the wilderness and made them drink, as from great floods.

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And He brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to go down like rivers.

Psalms 78 : 17 (LITV)

Yet they sinned still more against Him, to provoke the Most High in the desert.

Psalms 78 : 18 (LITV)

And they tested God in their heart, by asking food for their souls.

Psalms 78 : 19 (LITV)

And they spoke against God, saying, Shall God be able to set a table in the wilderness?

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Behold! He struck the rock and the waters gushed out, and the torrents were overflowing. Can He also give bread? Will He provide flesh for His people?

Psalms 78 : 21 (LITV)

So Jehovah heard and He passed over, and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and also anger went up against Israel,

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because they did not believe in God and trusted not in His salvation.

Psalms 78 : 23 (LITV)

And He commanded the fine clouds above; and He opened the doors of the heavens;

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and He rained on them manna to eat; yea, He gave the grain of the heavens to them.

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Man ate the bread of the mighty; He sent them food to the full.

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He made an east wind blow in the heavens; and He led out the south wind by His power.

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Yea, He rained flesh on them like dust, and winged birds as the sand of the seas.

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And He made them fall amidst their camp, all around to their tents.

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They ate and were filled full; for their own lust He brought to them.

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They were not estranged from their lust; their food was still in their mouths,

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and God's wrath came on them and killed the fattest of them; and He struck down the choice ones of Israel.

Psalms 78 : 32 (LITV)

In all this they sinned still; and they did not believe in His wonderful works;

Psalms 78 : 33 (LITV)

and He ended their days in vanity, and their years in sudden terror.

Psalms 78 : 34 (LITV)

When He killed them, then they sought Him; and they turned and searched for God.

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So they remembered that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their Redeemer.

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But they flattered Him with their mouths, and with their tongues lied to Him.

Psalms 78 : 37 (LITV)

For their heart was not steadfast with Him; and they were not faithful in His covenant.

Psalms 78 : 38 (LITV)

But He being merciful, atoned for iniquity and did not destroy; and He added to turn away His anger, and did not stir up all his wrath.

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For He remembered that they were flesh, a breath passing away, and not returning.

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How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness, angering Him in the desert!

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Yea, they turned back and tested God, and pained the Holy One of Israel.

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They did not remember His hand, on the day He redeemed them from the enemy;

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who set His signs in Egypt, and His wonders in the field of Zoan.

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He turned their rivers into blood, also their streams that they might not drink.

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He sent swarms of flies against them, and they devoured them; also frogs, and they destroyed them.

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He also gave their crops to the stripping locust, and their labor to the locust.

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He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with sleet.

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He gave their cattle up to the hail, and their flocks to bolts of fire.

Psalms 78 : 49 (LITV)

He sent the heat of His anger on them, fury and indignation and distress, a sending of angels of evils.

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He leveled a path for His anger; He did not keep back their soul from death, but gave their life over to the plague.

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And he struck all the first-born in Egypt, the firstfruits of strength in the tents of Ham;

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and He led His people forth like sheep; and He led them like a flock in the wilderness.

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And he led them on safely, and they did not fear; but the sea flooded over their enemies.

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He brought them to the border of His holy place; this mountain that His right hand had gained.

Psalms 78 : 55 (LITV)

And He cast out the nations before them; and by a line He made a possession fall to them; and He made the tribes of Israel to live in their tents.

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Yet they tested and provoked the Most High God; and they did not keep His testimonies;

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but they turned back and betrayed, like their fathers; they veered aside like a deceitful bow.

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For they enraged Him with their high places; and they provoked Him to jealousy with their molten images.

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When God heard, and He passed over, and He utterly rejected Israel.

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And He left the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He dwelt in among men;

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and delivered His strength into captivity, and His glory into the enemy's hands.

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And He gave His people to the sword, and was angry with His inheritance.

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The fire burned up their young men; and their virgins were not praised.

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Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows were not able to weep.

Psalms 78 : 65 (LITV)

Then the Lord awoke, as one asleep, like a mighty man rejoicing with wine.

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And He drove His enemies backward; He put them to a never-ending shame.

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And He refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and He did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;

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but He elected the tribe of Judah, the Mount Zion which He loved.

Psalms 78 : 69 (LITV)

And He built His sanctuary like high places, like the earth He has founded forever.

Psalms 78 : 70 (LITV)

He also chose His servant David, and took him from the folds of the flock;

Psalms 78 : 71 (LITV)

He brought him in from the suckling ewes; He brought him to feed His people Jacob, and His inheritance, Israel.

Psalms 78 : 72 (LITV)

And he fed them in the integrity of his heart; and guided them in the skillfulness of his hands.