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Psalms 78:1-72 — God's Faithfulness to Israel
Ps.78.1-72
1A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, my people, to my instruction; incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 2I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter riddles from of old, 3things that we have heard and known, and that our fathers have told us. 4We will not hide them from their children, but will tell the next generation the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and the wonders he has done. 5For he established a testimony in Jacob and set instruction in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to make known to their children, 6so that the next generation might know them, children yet to be born, who would arise and tell them to their children, 7so that they might set their confidence in God and not forget the deeds of God, but keep his commandments, 8and not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast and whose spirit was not faithful to God. 9The sons of Ephraim, armed with bows, turned back on the day of battle. 10They did not keep the covenant of God, and they refused to walk in his instruction. 11They forgot his deeds and the wonders he had shown them. 12Before their fathers he did wonders in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan. 13He split the sea and brought them through; he made the waters stand like a heap. 14He led them with a cloud by day, and all night with the light of fire. 15He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink abundantly, as from great depths. 16He brought streams out of the rock and made waters run down like rivers. 17Yet they continued to sin against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert. 18They tested God in their heart by asking for food according to their craving. 19They spoke against God and said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?” 20“Look, he struck the rock so that waters gushed out and streams overflowed. Can he also give bread? Can he provide meat for his people?” 21Therefore Yahweh heard and was enraged; fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also rose against Israel, 22because they did not believe in God and did not trust in his salvation. 23Yet he commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of heaven. 24He rained down manna on them to eat and gave them the grain of heaven. 25Each one ate the bread of angels; he sent them food to the full. 26He stirred up the east wind in the heavens, and by his strength he guided the south wind. 27He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the seas. 28He let them fall in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings. 29They ate and were filled to the full, for he brought them what they desired. 30Before they had turned from their craving, while their food was still in their mouths, 31the anger of God rose against them; he killed their strongest men and struck down the young men of Israel. 32In spite of all this, they still sinned and did not believe in his wonders. 33So he ended their days in futility and their years in terror. 34When he killed them, they sought him; they returned and sought God earnestly. 35They remembered that God was their rock, and God Most High was their redeemer. 36But they deceived him with their mouth, and with their tongue they lied to him. 37For their heart was not steadfast with him, and they were not faithful to his covenant. 38But he, being compassionate, forgave iniquity and did not destroy; many times he held back his anger and did not stir up all his wrath. 39He remembered that they were flesh, a passing wind that does not return. 40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert! 41Again and again they turned back and tested God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel. 42They did not remember his hand, the day when he redeemed them from the foe, 43when he set his signs in Egypt and his wonders in the fields of Zoan. 44He turned their rivers to blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink. 45He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which ruined them. 46He gave their produce to the caterpillar and their labor to the locust. 47He killed their vines with hail and their sycamore trees with frost. 48He gave over their cattle to the hail and their livestock to lightning bolts. 49He sent upon them his burning anger, fury and indignation and distress, a company of messengers of disaster. 50He made a path for his anger; he did not spare their life from death, but gave them over to plague. 51He struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the first fruits of strength in the tents of Ham . 52Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness. 53He led them safely, and they were not afraid, but the sea covered their enemies. 54He brought them to his holy territory, to this mountain that his right hand acquired. 55He drove out nations before them and apportioned them by line as an inheritance; he settled the tribes of Israel in their tents. 56But they tested and rebelled against God Most High, and they did not keep his testimonies. 57They turned back and acted treacherously like their fathers; they twisted like a deceitful bow. 58They provoked him with their high places, and with their carved images they stirred his jealousy. 59God heard and was enraged, and he utterly rejected Israel. 60He forsook the dwelling of Shiloh, the tent where he had dwelt among humankind. 61He gave his strength to captivity and his splendor into the hand of the foe. 62He gave his people over to the sword, and he was enraged against his inheritance. 63Fire consumed his young men, and his young women had no wedding songs. 64His priests fell by the sword, and his widows could not weep. 65Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a warrior shouting because of wine. 66He struck his foes back; he put them to everlasting shame. 67He rejected the tent of Joseph, and he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim. 68But he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved. 69He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he has founded forever. 70He chose David his servant and took him from the sheepfolds. 71From following the nursing ewes he brought him to shepherd Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. 72So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, and with the discernment of his hands he guided them.
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4/11/2026
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