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- 1 Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth.
- 2 I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,
- 3 that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
- 4 We will not hide them from their children but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might and the wonders He has performed.
- 5 For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,
- 6 that the coming generation would know them— even children yet to be born— to arise and tell their own children
- 7 that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments.
- 8 Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
- 9 The archers of Ephraim turned back on the day of battle.
- 10 They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.
- 11 They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.
- 12 He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
- 13 He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.
- 14 He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
- 15 He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.
- 16 He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.
- 17 But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
- 18 They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.
- 19 They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?
- 20 When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”
- 21 Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared against Israel,
- 22 because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.
- 23 Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.
- 24 He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.
- 25 Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.
- 26 He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might.
- 27 He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.
- 28 He felled them in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.
- 29 So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them what they craved.
- 30 Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,
- 31 God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel.
- 32 In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.
- 33 So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.
- 34 When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.
- 35 And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.
- 36 But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.
- 37 Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.
- 38 And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.
- 39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
- 40 How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
- 41 Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
- 42 They did not remember His power— the day He redeemed them from the adversary,
- 43 when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.
- 44 He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.
- 45 He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
- 46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.
- 47 He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
- 48 He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.
- 49 He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity— a band of destroying angels.
- 50 He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.
- 51 He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.
- 52 He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
- 53 He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies.
- 54 He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.
- 55 He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
- 56 But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
- 57 They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.
- 58 They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
- 59 On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.
- 60 He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.
- 61 He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.
- 62 He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage.
- 63 Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.
- 64 His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.
- 65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.
- 66 He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.
- 67 He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.
- 68 But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
- 69 He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.
- 70 He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
- 71 from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.
- 72 So David shepherded them with integrity of heart and guided them with skillful hands.