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Psalm 78 :: Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

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Lessons from Israel’s Past

A Maskil of Asaph.

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My people, hear my instruction;

listen to the words from my mouth.

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I will declare wise sayings;

I will speak mysteries from the past —

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things we have heard and known

and that our ancestors have passed down to us.

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We will not hide them from their children,

but will tell a future generation

the praiseworthy acts of the LORD,

his might, and the wondrous works

he has performed.

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He established a testimony in Jacob

and set up a law in Israel,

which he commanded our ancestors

to teach to their children

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so that a future generation —

children yet to be born ​— ​might know.

They were to rise and tell their children

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so that they might put their confidence in God

and not forget God’s works,

but keep his commands.

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Then they would not be like their ancestors,

a stubborn and rebellious generation,

a generation whose heart was not loyal

and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

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The Ephraimite archers turned back

on the day of battle.

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They did not keep God’s covenant

and refused to live by his law.

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They forgot what he had done,

the wondrous works he had shown them.

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He worked wonders in the sight of their ancestors

in the land of Egypt, the territory of Zoan.

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He split the sea and brought them across;

the water stood firm like a wall.

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He led them with a cloud by day

and with a fiery light throughout the night.

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He split rocks in the wilderness

and gave them drink as abundant as the depths.

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He brought streams out of the stone

and made water flow down like rivers.

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But they continued to sin against him,

rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

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They deliberately[fn] tested God,

demanding the food they craved.

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They spoke against God, saying,

“Is God able to provide food in the wilderness?

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“Look! He struck the rock and water gushed out;

torrents overflowed.

But can he also provide bread

or furnish meat for his people? ”

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Therefore, the LORD heard and became furious;

then fire broke out against Jacob,

and anger flared up against Israel

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because they did not believe God

or rely on his salvation.

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He gave a command to the clouds above

and opened the doors of heaven.

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He rained manna for them to eat;

he gave them grain from heaven.

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People[fn] ate the bread of angels.[fn]

He sent them an abundant supply of food.

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He made the east wind blow in the skies

and drove the south wind by his might.

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He rained meat on them like dust,

and winged birds like the sand of the seas.

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He made them fall in the camp,

all around the tents.

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The people ate and were completely satisfied,

for he gave them what they craved.

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Before they had turned from what they craved,

while the food was still in their mouths,

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God’s anger flared up against them,

and he killed some of their best men.

He struck down Israel’s fit young men.

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Despite all this, they kept sinning

and did not believe his wondrous works.

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He made their days end in futility,

their years in sudden disaster.

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When he killed some of them,

the rest began to seek him;

they repented and searched for God.

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They remembered that God was their rock,

the Most High God, their Redeemer.

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But they deceived him with their mouths,

they lied to him with their tongues,

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their hearts were insincere toward him,

and they were unfaithful to his covenant.

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Yet he was compassionate;

he atoned for their iniquity

and did not destroy them.

He often turned his anger aside

and did not unleash[fn] all his wrath.

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He remembered that they were only flesh,

a wind that passes and does not return.

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How often they rebelled against him

in the wilderness

and grieved him in the desert.

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They constantly tested God

and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

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They did not remember his power shown

on the day he redeemed them from the foe,

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when he performed his miraculous signs in Egypt

and his wonders in the territory of Zoan.

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He turned their rivers into blood,

and they could not drink from their streams.

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He sent among them swarms of flies,

which fed on them,

and frogs, which devastated them.

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He gave their crops to the caterpillar

and the fruit of their labor to the locust.

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He killed their vines with hail

and their sycamore fig trees with a flood.

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He handed over their livestock to hail

and their cattle to lightning bolts.

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He sent his burning anger against them:

fury, indignation, and calamity —

a band of deadly messengers.[fn]

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He cleared a path for his anger.

He did not spare them from death

but delivered their lives to the plague.

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He struck all the firstborn in Egypt,

the first progeny of the tents of Ham.

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He led his people out like sheep

and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

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He led them safely, and they were not afraid;

but the sea covered their enemies.

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He brought them to his holy territory,

to the mountain his right hand acquired.

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He drove out nations before them.

He apportioned their inheritance by lot

and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

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But they rebelliously tested the Most High God,

for they did not keep his decrees.

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They treacherously turned away like their ancestors;

they became warped like a faulty bow.

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They enraged him with their high places

and provoked his jealousy with their carved images.

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God heard and became furious;

he completely rejected Israel.

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He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh,

the tent where he resided among mankind.

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He gave up his strength to captivity

and his splendor to the hand of a foe.

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He surrendered his people to the sword

because he was enraged with his heritage.

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Fire consumed his chosen young men,

and his young women had no wedding songs.[fn]

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His priests fell by the sword,

and the widows could not lament.

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The Lord awoke as if from sleep,

like a warrior from the effects of wine.

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He beat back his foes;

he gave them lasting disgrace.

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He rejected the tent of Joseph

and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.

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He chose instead the tribe of Judah,

Mount Zion, which he loved.

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He built his sanctuary like the heights,

like the earth that he established forever.

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He chose David his servant

and took him from the sheep pens;

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he brought him from tending ewes

to be shepherd over his people Jacob —

over Israel, his inheritance.

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He shepherded them with a pure heart

and guided them with his skillful hands.

CSB Footnotes
Lit in their heart
Lit Man
Lit mighty ones
Or stir up
Or angels
Lit virgins were not praised
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