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6.8 KiB
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241 lines
6.8 KiB
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Tell the Coming Generation
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# Chapter 78
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1. Give ear, O my people, to my teaching;
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incline your ears to the words of my mouth!
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2. I will open my mouth in a parable;
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I will utter dark sayings from of old,
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3. things that we have heard and known,
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that our fathers have told us.
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4. We will not hide them from their children,
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but tell to the coming generation
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the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might,
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and the wonders that he has done.
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5. He established a testimony in Jacob
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and appointed a law in Israel,
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which he commanded our fathers
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to teach to their children,
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6. that the next generation might know them,
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the children yet unborn,
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and arise and tell them to their children,
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7. so that they should set their hope in God
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and not forget the works of God,
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but keep his commandments;
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8. and that they should not be like their fathers,
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a stubborn and rebellious generation,
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a generation whose heart was not steadfast,
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whose spirit was not faithful to God.
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9. The Ephraimites, armed with the bow,
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turned back on the day of battle.
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10. They did not keep God's covenant,
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but refused to walk according to his law.
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11. They forgot his works
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and the wonders that he had shown them.
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12. In the sight of their fathers he performed wonders
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in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.
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13. He divided the sea and let them pass through it,
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and made the waters stand like a heap.
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14. In the daytime he led them with a cloud,
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and all the night with a fiery light.
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15. He split rocks in the wilderness
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and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
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16. He made streams come out of the rock
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and caused waters to flow down like rivers.
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17. Yet they sinned still more against him,
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rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
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18. They tested God in their heart
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by demanding the food they craved.
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19. They spoke against God, saying,
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"Can God spread a table in the wilderness?
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20. He struck the rock so that water gushed out
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and streams overflowed.
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Can he also give bread
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or provide meat for his people?"
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21. Therefore, when the LORD heard, he was full of wrath;
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a fire was kindled against Jacob;
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his anger rose against Israel,
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22. because they did not believe in God
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and did not trust his saving power.
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23. Yet he commanded the skies above
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and opened the doors of heaven,
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24. and he rained down on them manna to eat
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and gave them the grain of heaven.
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25. Man ate of the bread of the angels;
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he sent them food in abundance.
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26. He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens,
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and by his power he led out the south wind;
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27. he rained meat on them like dust,
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winged birds like the sand of the seas;
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28. he let them fall in the midst of their camp,
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all around their dwellings.
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29. And they ate and were well filled,
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for he gave them what they craved.
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30. But before they had satisfied their craving,
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while the food was still in their mouths,
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31. the anger of God rose against them,
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and he killed the strongest of them
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and laid low the young men of Israel.
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32. In spite of all this, they still sinned;
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despite his wonders, they did not believe.
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33. So he made their days vanish like a breath,
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and their years in terror.
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34. When he killed them, they sought him;
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they repented and sought God earnestly.
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35. They remembered that God was their rock,
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the Most High God their redeemer.
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36. But they flattered him with their mouths;
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they lied to him with their tongues.
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37. Their heart was not steadfast toward him;
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they were not faithful to his covenant.
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38. Yet he, being compassionate,
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atoned for their iniquity
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and did not destroy them;
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he restrained his anger often
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and did not stir up all his wrath.
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39. He remembered that they were but flesh,
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a wind that passes and comes not again.
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40. How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness
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and grieved him in the desert!
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41. They tested God again and again
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and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
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42. They did not remember his power
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or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,
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43. when he performed his signs in Egypt
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and his marvels in the fields of Zoan.
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44. He turned their rivers to blood,
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so that they could not drink of their streams.
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45. He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them,
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and frogs, which destroyed them.
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46. He gave their crops to the destroying locust
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and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
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47. He destroyed their vines with hail
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and their sycamores with frost.
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48. He gave over their cattle to the hail
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and their flocks to thunderbolts.
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49. He let loose on them his burning anger,
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wrath, indignation, and distress,
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a company of destroying angels.
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50. He made a path for his anger;
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he did not spare them from death,
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but gave their lives over to the plague.
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51. He struck down every firstborn in Egypt,
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the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of Ham.
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52. Then he led out his people like sheep
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and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
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53. He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid,
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but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
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54. And he brought them to his holy land,
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to the mountain which his right hand had won.
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55. He drove out nations before them;
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he apportioned them for a possession
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and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
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56. Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God
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and did not keep his testimonies,
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57. but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers;
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they twisted like a deceitful bow.
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58. For they provoked him to anger with their high places;
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they moved him to jealousy with their idols.
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59. When God heard, he was full of wrath,
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and he utterly rejected Israel.
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60. He forsook his dwelling at Shiloh,
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the tent where he dwelt among mankind,
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61. and delivered his power to captivity,
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his glory to the hand of the foe.
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62. He gave his people over to the sword
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and vented his wrath on his heritage.
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63. Fire devoured their young men,
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and their young women had no marriage song.
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64. Their priests fell by the sword,
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and their widows made no lamentation.
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65. Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,
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like a strong man shouting because of wine.
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66. And he put his adversaries to rout;
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he put them to everlasting shame.
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67. He rejected the tent of Joseph;
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he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
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68. but he chose the tribe of Judah,
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Mount Zion, which he loves.
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69. He built his sanctuary like the high heavens,
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like the earth, which he has founded forever.
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70. He chose David his servant
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and took him from the sheepfolds;
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71. from following the nursing ewes he brought him
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to shepherd Jacob his people,
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Israel his inheritance.
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72. With upright heart he shepherded them
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and guided them with his skillful hand.
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