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Psalm 78 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:1

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

O my people, listen to my instructions.
Open your ears to what I am saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:2 - for I will speak to you in a parable.
I will teach you hidden lessons from our past—

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:3 - stories we have heard and known,
stories our ancestors handed down to us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:4 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:5 - For he issued his laws to Jacob;
he gave his instructions to Israel.
He commanded our ancestors
to teach them to their children,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:6 - so the next generation might know them—
even the children not yet born—
and they in turn will teach their own children.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:7 - So each generation should set its hope anew on God,
not forgetting his glorious miracles
and obeying his commands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:8 - Then they will not be like their ancestors—
stubborn, rebellious, and unfaithful,
refusing to give their hearts to God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:9 - The warriors of Ephraim, though armed with bows,
turned their backs and fled on the day of battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:10 - They did not keep God’s covenant
and refused to live by his instructions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:11 - They forgot what he had done—
the great wonders he had shown them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:12 - the miracles he did for their ancestors
on the plain of Zoan in the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:13 - For he divided the sea and led them through,
making the water stand up like walls!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:14 - In the daytime he led them by a cloud,
and all night by a pillar of fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:15 - He split open the rocks in the wilderness
to give them water, as from a gushing spring.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:16 - He made streams pour from the rock,
making the waters flow down like a river!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:17 - Yet they kept on sinning against him,
rebelling against the Most High in the desert.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:18 - They stubbornly tested God in their hearts,
demanding the foods they craved.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:19 - They even spoke against God himself, saying,
“God can’t give us food in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:20 - Yes, he can strike a rock so water gushes out,
but he can’t give his people bread and meat.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:21 - When the LORD heard them, he was furious.
The fire of his wrath burned against Jacob.
Yes, his anger rose against Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:22 - for they did not believe God
or trust him to care for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:23 - But he commanded the skies to open;
he opened the doors of heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:24 - He rained down manna for them to eat;
he gave them bread from heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:25 - They ate the food of angels!
God gave them all they could hold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:26 - He released the east wind in the heavens
and guided the south wind by his mighty power.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:27 - He rained down meat as thick as dust—
birds as plentiful as the sand on the seashore!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:28 - He caused the birds to fall within their camp
and all around their tents.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:29 - The people ate their fill.
He gave them what they craved.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:30 - But before they satisfied their craving,
while the meat was yet in their mouths,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:31 - the anger of God rose against them,
and he killed their strongest men.
He struck down the finest of Israel’s young men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:32

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:32 - But in spite of this, the people kept sinning.
Despite his wonders, they refused to trust him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:33 - So he ended their lives in failure,
their years in terror.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:34

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:34 - When God began killing them,
they finally sought him.
They repented and took God seriously.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:35

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:35 - Then they remembered that God was their rock,
that God Most High[fn] was their redeemer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:36 - But all they gave him was lip service;
they lied to him with their tongues.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:37 - Their hearts were not loyal to him.
They did not keep his covenant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:38 - 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!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:39 - For he remembered that they were merely mortal,
gone like a breath of wind that never returns.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:40

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:40 - Oh, how often they rebelled against him in the wilderness
and grieved his heart in that dry wasteland.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:41

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:41 - Again and again they tested God’s patience
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:42 - They did not remember his power
and how he rescued them from their enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:43 - They did not remember his miraculous signs in Egypt,
his wonders on the plain of Zoan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:44 - For he turned their rivers into blood,
so no one could drink from the streams.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:45 - He sent vast swarms of flies to consume them
and hordes of frogs to ruin them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:46 - He gave their crops to caterpillars;
their harvest was consumed by locusts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:47 - He destroyed their grapevines with hail
and shattered their sycamore-figs with sleet.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:48

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:48 - He abandoned their cattle to the hail,
their livestock to bolts of lightning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:49

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:49 - He loosed on them his fierce anger—
all his fury, rage, and hostility.
He dispatched against them
a band of destroying angels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:50 - He turned his anger against them;
he did not spare the Egyptians’ lives
but ravaged them with the plague.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:51 - He killed the oldest son in each Egyptian family,
the flower of youth throughout the land of Egypt.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:52 - But he led his own people like a flock of sheep,
guiding them safely through the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:53

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:53 - He kept them safe so they were not afraid;
but the sea covered their enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:54 - He brought them to the border of his holy land,
to this land of hills he had won for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:55

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:55 - He drove out the nations before them;
he gave them their inheritance by lot.
He settled the tribes of Israel into their homes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:56

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:56 - But they kept testing and rebelling against God Most High.
They did not obey his laws.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:57

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:57 - They turned back and were as faithless as their parents.
They were as undependable as a crooked bow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:58 - They angered God by building shrines to other gods;
they made him jealous with their idols.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:59 - When God heard them, he was very angry,
and he completely rejected Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:60

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:60 - Then he abandoned his dwelling at Shiloh,
the Tabernacle where he had lived among the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:61 - He allowed the Ark of his might to be captured;
he surrendered his glory into enemy hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:62

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:62 - He gave his people over to be butchered by the sword,
because he was so angry with his own people—his special possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:63

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:63 - Their young men were killed by fire;
their young women died before singing their wedding songs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:64

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:64 - Their priests were slaughtered,
and their widows could not mourn their deaths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:65

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:65 - Then the Lord rose up as though waking from sleep,
like a warrior aroused from a drunken stupor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:66

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:66 - He routed his enemies
and sent them to eternal shame.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:67

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:67 - But he rejected Joseph’s descendants;
he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:68

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:69

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:69 - There he built his sanctuary as high as the heavens,
as solid and enduring as the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:70

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:70 - He chose his servant David,
calling him from the sheep pens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:71

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:71 - He took David from tending the ewes and lambs
and made him the shepherd of Jacob’s descendants—
God’s own people, Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:72

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:72 - He cared for them with a true heart
and led them with skillful hands.
See the NLT Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NLT Footnotes
Hebrew maskil. This may be a literary or musical term.
Hebrew El-Elyon.
Hebrew in the tents of Ham.
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