PREVIOUS CHAPTER - NEXT CHAPTER - HELP - GR VIDEOS - GR YOUTUBE - TWITTER - SD1 YOUTUBE 78:1 Hear my law, 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, 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 law 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 the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law. 78:11 They forgot his doings, His wondrous works that he had showed them. 78:12 Marvelous things did he 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, All the 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, 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, And 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 did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve 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 Turned their rivers into blood, Their streams, so that they could not drink. 78:45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; Frogs, which destroyed them. 78:46 He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, 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 cattle 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; Their widows made no lamentation. 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. Psalm 79 A Psalm by Asaph. GOTO NEXT CHAPTER - web.htm">WEB INDEX & SEARCH
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