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Psalm 78 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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God’s Kindness to Rebellious Israel

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:1 - A Contemplation[fn] of Asaph.

Give ear, O my people, to my law;
Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:2 - I will open my mouth in a parable;
I will utter dark sayings of old,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:3 - Which we have heard and known,
And our fathers have told us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:4 - We will not hide them from their children,
Telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD,
And His strength and His wonderful works that He has done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 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;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:6 - That the generation to come might know them,
The children who would be born,
That they may arise and declare them to their children,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:7 - That they may set their hope in God,
And not forget the works of God,
But keep His commandments;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:8 - And may not be like their fathers,
A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation that did not set its heart aright,
And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:9 - The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows,
Turned back in the day of battle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:10 - They did not keep the covenant of God;
They refused to walk in His law,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:11 - And forgot His works
And His wonders that He had shown them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:12 - Marvelous things He did in the sight of their fathers,
In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:13 - He divided the sea and caused them to pass through;
And He made the waters stand up like a heap.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:14 - In the daytime also He led them with the cloud,
And all the night with a light of fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:15 - He split the rocks in the wilderness,
And gave them drink in abundance like the depths.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:16 - He also brought streams out of the rock,
And caused waters to run down like rivers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:17 - But they sinned even more against Him
By rebelling against the Most High in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:18 - And they tested God in their heart
By asking for the food of their fancy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:19 - Yes, they spoke against God:
They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:20 - Behold, He struck the rock,
So that the waters gushed out,
And the streams overflowed.
Can He give bread also?
Can He provide meat for His people?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:21 - Therefore the LORD heard this and was furious;
So a fire was kindled against Jacob,
And anger also came up against Israel,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:22 - Because they did not believe in God,
And did not trust in His salvation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:23 - Yet He had commanded the clouds above,
And opened the doors of heaven,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:24 - Had rained down manna on them to eat,
And given them of the bread of heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:25 - Men ate angels’ food;
He sent them food to the full.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:26 - He caused an east wind to blow in the heavens;
And by His power He brought in the south wind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:27 - He also rained meat on them like the dust,
Feathered fowl like the sand of the seas;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:28 - And He let them fall in the midst of their camp,
All around their dwellings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:29 - So they ate and were well filled,
For He gave them their own desire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:30 - They were not deprived of their craving;
But while their food was still in their mouths,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:31 - The wrath of God came against them,
And slew the stoutest of them,
And struck down the choice men of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:32 - In spite of this they still sinned,
And did not believe in His wondrous works.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:33 - Therefore their days He consumed in futility,
And their years in fear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:34 - When He slew them, then they sought Him;
And they returned and sought earnestly for God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:35 - Then they remembered that God was their rock,
And the Most High God their Redeemer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:36 - Nevertheless they flattered Him with their mouth,
And they lied to Him with their tongue;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:37 - For their heart was not steadfast with Him,
Nor were they faithful in His covenant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:38 - But He, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity,
And did not destroy them.
Yes, many a time He turned His anger away,
And did not stir up all His wrath;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:39 - For He remembered that they were but flesh,
A breath that passes away and does not come again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:40 - How often they provoked Him in the wilderness,
And grieved Him in the desert!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:41 - Yes, again and again they tempted God,
And limited the Holy One of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:42 - They did not remember His power:
The day when He redeemed them from the enemy,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:43 - When He worked His signs in Egypt,
And His wonders in the field of Zoan;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:44 - Turned their rivers into blood,
And their streams, that they could not drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:45 - He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them,
And frogs, which destroyed them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:46 - He also gave their crops to the caterpillar,
And their labor to the locust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:47 - He destroyed their vines with hail,
And their sycamore trees with frost.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:48 - He also gave up their cattle to the hail,
And their flocks to fiery lightning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:49 - He cast on them the fierceness of His anger,
Wrath, indignation, and trouble,
By sending angels of destruction among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:50 - He made a path for His anger;
He did not spare their soul from death,
But gave their life over to the plague,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:51 - And destroyed all the firstborn in Egypt,
The first of their strength in the tents of Ham.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:52 - But He made His own people go forth like sheep,
And guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:53 - And He led them on safely, so that they did not fear;
But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:54 - And He brought them to His holy border,
This mountain which His right hand had acquired.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:55 - He also drove out the nations before them,
Allotted them an inheritance by survey,
And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:56 - Yet they tested and provoked the Most High God,
And did not keep His testimonies,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:57 - But turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers;
They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:58 - For they provoked Him to anger with their high places,
And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:59 - When God heard this, He was furious,
And greatly abhorred Israel,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:60 - So that He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh,
The tent He had placed among men,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:61 - And delivered His strength into captivity,
And His glory into the enemy’s hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:62 - He also gave His people over to the sword,
And was furious with His inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:63 - The fire consumed their young men,
And their maidens were not given in marriage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:64 - Their priests fell by the sword,
And their widows made no lamentation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:65 - Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,
Like a mighty man who shouts because of wine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:66 - And He beat back His enemies;
He put them to a perpetual reproach.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:67 - Moreover He rejected the tent of Joseph,
And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:68 - But chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion which He loved.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:69 - And He built His sanctuary like the heights,
Like the earth which He has established forever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:70 - He also chose David His servant,
And took him from the sheepfolds;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:71 - From following the ewes that had young He brought him,
To shepherd Jacob His people,
And Israel His inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:72 - So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart,
And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
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