{"id":624,"date":"2011-02-13T10:32:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T10:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/tree\/?page_id=624"},"modified":"2024-09-20T16:41:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T16:41:57","slug":"psalm-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/tree\/psalm-78\/","title":{"rendered":"78"},"content":{"rendered":"

Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.<\/p>\n

I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,<\/a><\/p>\n

things that we have heard and known, that our ancestors have told us.<\/p>\n

We will not hide them from their children; we will tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done.<\/p>\n

He established a decree in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach to their children;<\/p>\n

that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and rise up and tell them to their children,<\/p>\n

so that they should set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;<\/p>\n

and that they should not be like their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.<\/p>\n

The Ephraimites, armed with the bow, turned back on the day of battle.<\/p>\n

They did not keep God\u2019s covenant, but refused to walk according to his law.<\/p>\n

They forgot what he had done, and the miracles that he had shown them.<\/p>\n

In the sight of their ancestors he worked marvels in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.<\/p>\n

He divided the sea and let them pass through it, and made the waters stand like a heap.<\/p>\n

In the daytime he led them with a cloud, and all night long with a fiery light.<\/a><\/p>\n

He split rocks open in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.<\/p>\n

He made streams come out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down like rivers.<\/p>\n

Yet they sinned still more against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.<\/p>\n

They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.<\/p>\n

They spoke against God, saying, \u201cCan God spread a table in the wilderness?<\/p>\n

Even though he struck the rock so that water gushed out and torrents overflowed, can he also give bread, or provide meat for his people?\u201d<\/p>\n

Therefore, when the Lord heard, he was full of rage; a fire was kindled against Jacob, his anger mounted against Israel,<\/p>\n

because they had no faith in God, and did not trust his saving power.<\/p>\n

Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven;<\/p>\n

he rained down on them manna to eat, and gave them the grain of heaven<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mortals ate of the bread of angels; he sent them food in abundance.<\/p>\n

He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens, and by his power he led out the south wind;<\/p>\n

he rained flesh upon them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas;<\/p>\n

he let them fall within their camp, all around their dwellings.<\/p>\n

And they ate and were well filled, for he gave them what they craved.<\/p>\n

But before they had satisfied their craving, while the food was still in their mouths,<\/p>\n

the anger of God rose against them and he killed the strongest of them, and laid low the flower of Israel.<\/p>\n

In spite of all this they still sinned; they did not believe in his wonders.<\/p>\n

So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror.<\/p>\n

When he killed them, they sought for him; they repented and sought God earnestly.<\/p>\n

They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their redeemer.<\/p>\n

But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.<\/p>\n

Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not true to his covenant.<\/p>\n

Yet he, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them; often he restrained his anger, and did not stir up all his wrath.<\/p>\n

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and does not come again.<\/p>\n

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!<\/p>\n

They tested God again and again, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.<\/p>\n

They did not keep in mind his power, or the day when he redeemed them from the foe;<\/p>\n

when he displayed his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the fields of Zoan.<\/p>\n

He turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their streams.<\/p>\n

He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.<\/p>\n

He gave their crops to the caterpillar, and the fruit of their labor to the locust.<\/p>\n

He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamores with frost.<\/p>\n

He gave over their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts.<\/p>\n

He let loose on them his fierce anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.<\/p>\n

He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.<\/p>\n

He struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the first issue of their strength in the tents of Ham.<\/p>\n

Then he led out his people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.<\/p>\n

He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.<\/p>\n

And he brought them to his holy hill, to the mountain that his right hand had won.<\/p>\n

He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.<\/p>\n

Yet they tested the Most High God, and rebelled against him. They did not observe his decrees,<\/p>\n

but turned away and were faithless like their ancestors; they twisted like a treacherous bow.<\/p>\n

For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their idols.<\/p>\n

When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.<\/p>\n

He abandoned his dwelling at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among mortals,<\/p>\n

and delivered his power to captivity, his glory to the hand of the foe.<\/p>\n

He gave his people to the sword, and vented his wrath on his heritage.<\/p>\n

Fire devoured their young men, and their girls had no marriage song.<\/p>\n

Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.<\/p>\n

Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a warrior shouting because of wine.<\/p>\n

He put his adversaries to rout; he put them to everlasting disgrace.<\/p>\n

He rejected the tent of Joseph, he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;<\/p>\n

but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loves.<\/p>\n

He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded forever.<\/p>\n

He chose his servant David, and took him from the sheepfolds;<\/p>\n

from tending the nursing ewes he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel, his inheritance.<\/p>\n

With upright heart he tended them, and guided them with skillful hand.<\/p>\n

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