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