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+# Chapter 78
+1 O my people, listen to my instructions.
+    Open your ears to what I am saying,
+2 for I will speak to you in a parable.
+I will teach you hidden lessons from our past—
+3 stories we have heard and known,
+    stories our ancestors handed down to us.
+4 We will not hide these truths from our children;
+    we will tell the next generation
+about the glorious deeds of the Lord,
+    about his power and his mighty wonders.
+5 For he issued his laws to Jacob;
+    he gave his instructions to Israel.
+He commanded our ancestors
+    to teach them to their children,
+6 so the next generation might know them—
+    even the children not yet born—
+    and they in turn will teach their own children.
+7 So each generation should set its hope anew on God,
+    not forgetting his glorious miracles
+    and obeying his commands.
+8 Then they will not be like their ancestors—
+    stubborn, rebellious, and unfaithful,
+    refusing to give their hearts to God.
+9 The warriors of Ephraim, though armed with bows,
+    turned their backs and fled on the day of battle.
+10 They did not keep God’s covenant
+    and refused to live by his instructions.
+11 They forgot what he had done—
+    the great wonders he had shown them,
+12 the miracles he did for their ancestors
+    on the plain of Zoan in the land of Egypt.
+13 For he divided the sea and led them through,
+    making the water stand up like walls!
+14 In the daytime he led them by a cloud,
+    and all night by a pillar of fire.
+15 He split open the rocks in the wilderness
+    to give them water, as from a gushing spring.
+16 He made streams pour from the rock,
+    making the waters flow down like a river!
+17 Yet they kept on sinning against him,
+    rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
+18 They stubbornly tested God in their hearts,
+    demanding the foods they craved.
+19 They even spoke against God himself, saying,
+    “God can’t give us food in the wilderness.
+20 Yes, he can strike a rock so water gushes out,
+    but he can’t give his people bread and meat.”
+21 When the Lord heard them, he was furious.
+    The fire of his wrath burned against Jacob.
+    Yes, his anger rose against Israel,
+22 for they did not believe God
+    or trust him to care for them.
+23 But he commanded the skies to open;
+    he opened the doors of heaven.
+24 He rained down manna for them to eat;
+    he gave them bread from heaven.
+25 They ate the food of angels!
+    God gave them all they could hold.
+26 He released the east wind in the heavens
+    and guided the south wind by his mighty power.
+27 He rained down meat as thick as dust—
+    birds as plentiful as the sand on the seashore!
+28 He caused the birds to fall within their camp
+    and all around their tents.
+29 The people ate their fill.
+    He gave them what they craved.
+30 But before they satisfied their craving,
+    while the meat was yet in their mouths,
+31 the anger of God rose against them,
+    and he killed their strongest men.
+    He struck down the finest of Israel’s young men.
+32 But in spite of this, the people kept sinning.
+    Despite his wonders, they refused to trust him.
+33 So he ended their lives in failure,
+    their years in terror.
+34 When God began killing them,
+    they finally sought him.
+    They repented and took God seriously.
+35 Then they remembered that God was their rock,
+    that God Most High was their redeemer.
+36 But all they gave him was lip service;
+    they lied to him with their tongues.
+37 Their hearts were not loyal to him.
+    They did not keep his covenant.
+38 Yet he was merciful and forgave their sins
+    and did not destroy them all.
+Many times he held back his anger
+    and did not unleash his fury!
+39 For he remembered that they were merely mortal,
+    gone like a breath of wind that never returns.
+40 Oh, how often they rebelled against him in the wilderness
+    and grieved his heart in that dry wasteland.
+41 Again and again they tested God’s patience
+    and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
+42 They did not remember his power
+    and how he rescued them from their enemies.
+43 They did not remember his miraculous signs in Egypt,
+    his wonders on the plain of Zoan.
+44 For he turned their rivers into blood,
+    so no one could drink from the streams.
+45 He sent vast swarms of flies to consume them
+    and hordes of frogs to ruin them.
+46 He gave their crops to caterpillars;
+    their harvest was consumed by locusts.
+47 He destroyed their grapevines with hail
+    and shattered their sycamore-figs with sleet.
+48 He abandoned their cattle to the hail,
+    their livestock to bolts of lightning.
+49 He loosed on them his fierce anger—
+    all his fury, rage, and hostility.
+He dispatched against them
+    a band of destroying angels.
+50 He turned his anger against them;
+    he did not spare the Egyptians’ lives
+    but ravaged them with the plague.
+51 He killed the oldest son in each Egyptian family,
+    the flower of youth throughout the land of Egypt.
+52 But he led his own people like a flock of sheep,
+    guiding them safely through the wilderness.
+53 He kept them safe so they were not afraid;
+    but the sea covered their enemies.
+54 He brought them to the border of his holy land,
+    to this land of hills he had won for them.
+55 He drove out the nations before them;
+    he gave them their inheritance by lot.
+    He settled the tribes of Israel into their homes.
+56 But they kept testing and rebelling against God Most High.
+    They did not obey his laws.
+57 They turned back and were as faithless as their parents.
+    They were as undependable as a crooked bow.
+58 They angered God by building shrines to other gods;
+    they made him jealous with their idols.
+59 When God heard them, he was very angry,
+    and he completely rejected Israel.
+60 Then he abandoned his dwelling at Shiloh,
+    the Tabernacle where he had lived among the people.
+61 He allowed the Ark of his might to be captured;
+    he surrendered his glory into enemy hands.
+62 He gave his people over to be butchered by the sword,
+    because he was so angry with his own people—his special possession.
+63 Their young men were killed by fire;
+    their young women died before singing their wedding songs.
+64 Their priests were slaughtered,
+    and their widows could not mourn their deaths.
+65 Then the Lord rose up as though waking from sleep,
+    like a warrior aroused from a drunken stupor.
+66 He routed his enemies
+    and sent them to eternal shame.
+67 But he rejected Joseph’s descendants;
+    he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.
+68 He chose instead the tribe of Judah,
+    and Mount Zion, which he loved.
+69 There he built his sanctuary as high as the heavens,
+    as solid and enduring as the earth.
+70 He chose his servant David,
+    calling him from the sheep pens.
+71 He took David from tending the ewes and lambs
+    and made him the shepherd of Jacob’s descendants—
+    God’s own people, Israel.
+72 He cared for them with a true heart
+    and led them with skillful hands.