Verse-Reference
Reference-Verse
Abbreviate Books
Quotes around Verses      |
 Psa 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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Psa 78:2 |
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old, |
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Psa 78:3 |
Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us. |
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Psa 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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Psa 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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Psa 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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Psa 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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Psa 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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Psa 78:9 |
The children of Ephraim, [being] armed [and] carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle. |
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Psa 78:10 |
They did not keep the covenant of God; They refused to walk in His law, |
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Psa 78:11 |
And forgot His works And His wonders that He had shown them. |
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Psa 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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Psa 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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Psa 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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Psa 78:15 |
He split the rocks in the wilderness, And gave [them] drink in abundance like the depths. |
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Psa 78:16 |
He also brought streams out of the rock, And caused waters to run down like rivers. |
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Psa 78:17 |
But they sinned even more against Him By rebelling against the Most High in the wilderness. |
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Psa 78:18 |
And they tested God in their heart By asking for the food of their fancy. |
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Psa 78:19 |
Yes, they spoke against God: They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? |
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Psa 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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Psa 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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Psa 78:22 |
Because they did not believe in God, And did not trust in His salvation. |
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Psa 78:23 |
Yet He had commanded the clouds above, And opened the doors of heaven, |
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Psa 78:24 |
Had rained down manna on them to eat, And given them of the bread of heaven. |
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Psa 78:25 |
Men ate angels' food; He sent them food to the full. |
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Psa 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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Psa 78:27 |
He also rained meat on them like the dust, Feathered fowl like the sand of the seas; |
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Psa 78:28 |
And He let [them] fall in the midst of their camp, All around their dwellings. |
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Psa 78:29 |
So they ate and were well filled, For He gave them their own desire. |
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Psa 78:30 |
They were not deprived of their craving; But while their food [was] still in their mouths, |
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Psa 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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Psa 78:32 |
In spite of this they still sinned, And did not believe in His wondrous works. |
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Psa 78:33 |
Therefore their days He consumed in futility, And their years in fear. |
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Psa 78:34 |
When He slew them, then they sought Him; And they returned and sought earnestly for God. |
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Psa 78:35 |
Then they remembered that God [was] their rock, And the Most High God their Redeemer. |
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Psa 78:36 |
Nevertheless they flattered Him with their mouth, And they lied to Him with their tongue; |
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Psa 78:37 |
For their heart was not steadfast with Him, Nor were they faithful in His covenant. |
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Psa 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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Psa 78:39 |
For He remembered that they [were but] flesh, A breath that passes away and does not come again. |
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Psa 78:40 |
How often they provoked Him in the wilderness, [And] grieved Him in the desert! |
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Psa 78:41 |
Yes, again and again they tempted God, And limited the Holy One of Israel. |
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Psa 78:42 |
They did not remember His power: The day when He redeemed them from the enemy, |
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Psa 78:43 |
When He worked His signs in Egypt, And His wonders in the field of Zoan; |
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Psa 78:44 |
Turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, that they could not drink. |
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Psa 78:45 |
He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them, And frogs, which destroyed them. |
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Psa 78:46 |
He also gave their crops to the caterpillar, And their labor to the locust. |
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Psa 78:47 |
He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycamore trees with frost. |
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Psa 78:48 |
He also gave up their cattle to the hail, And their flocks to fiery lightning. |
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Psa 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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Psa 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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Psa 78:51 |
And destroyed all the firstborn in Egypt, The first of [their] strength in the tents of Ham. |
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Psa 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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Psa 78:53 |
And He led them on safely, so that they did not fear; But the sea overwhelmed their enemies. |
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Psa 78:54 |
And He brought them to His holy border, This mountain [which] His right hand had acquired. |
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Psa 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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Psa 78:56 |
Yet they tested and provoked the Most High God, And did not keep His testimonies, |
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Psa 78:57 |
But turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers; They were turned aside like a deceitful bow. |
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Psa 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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Psa 78:59 |
When God heard [this], He was furious, And greatly abhorred Israel, |
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Psa 78:60 |
So that He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent He had placed among men, |
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Psa 78:61 |
And delivered His strength into captivity, And His glory into the enemy's hand. |
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Psa 78:62 |
He also gave His people over to the sword, And was furious with His inheritance. |
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Psa 78:63 |
The fire consumed their young men, And their maidens were not given in marriage. |
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Psa 78:64 |
Their priests fell by the sword, And their widows made no lamentation. |
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Psa 78:65 |
Then the Lord awoke as [from] sleep, Like a mighty man who shouts because of wine. |
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Psa 78:66 |
And He beat back His enemies; He put them to a perpetual reproach. |
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Psa 78:67 |
Moreover He rejected the tent of Joseph, And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim, |
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Psa 78:68 |
But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which He loved. |
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Psa 78:69 |
And He built His sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which He has established forever. |
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Psa 78:70 |
He also chose David His servant, And took him from the sheepfolds; |
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Psa 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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Psa 78:72 |
So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands. |
NKJV Footnotes:
- (78:1) Hebrew Maschil
