Psalm 78:1-Psalm 79:1 - Lessons From Israel's Past
1 A Maskil of Asaph.
listen to what I say.
I will speak mysteries from the past
and that our fathers have passed down to us.
but must tell a future generation
the praises of the Lord,
His might, and the wonderful works
He has performed.
and set up a law in Israel,
which He commanded our fathers
to teach to their children
children yet to be born—might know.
They were to rise and tell their children
and not forget God’s works,
but keep His commands.
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation whose heart was not loyal
and whose spirit was not faithful to God.
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on the day of battle.
and refused to live by His law.
the wonderful works He had shown them.
in the land of Egypt, the region of Zoan.
the water stood firm like a wall.
and with a fiery light throughout the night.
and gave them drink as abundant as the depths.
and made water flow down like rivers.
rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
demanding the food they craved.
“Is God able to provide food in the wilderness?
torrents overflowed.
But can He also provide bread
or furnish meat for His people?”
then fire broke out against Jacob,
and anger flared up against Israel
or rely on His salvation.
and opened the doors of heaven.
He gave them grain from heaven.
He sent them an abundant supply of food.
and drove the south wind by His might.
and winged birds like the sand of the seas.
all around His tent.
for He gave them what they craved.
while the food was still in their mouths,
and He killed some of their best men.
He struck down Israel’s choice young men.
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and did not believe His wonderful works.
their years in sudden disaster.
the rest began to seek Him;
they repented and searched for God.
the Most High God, their Redeemer.
they lied to Him with their tongues,
and they were unfaithful to His covenant.
He atoned for
and did not destroy them.
He often turned His anger aside
and did not unleash
a wind that passes and does not return.
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in the wilderness
and grieved Him in the desert.
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
on the day He redeemed them from the foe,
and His wonders in the region of Zoan.
and they could not drink from their streams.
which fed on them,
and frogs, which devastated them.
and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
and their sycamore fig trees with a flood.
and their cattle to lightning bolts.
fury, indignation, and calamity—
a band of deadly messengers.
He did not spare them from death
but delivered their lives to the plague.
the first progeny of the tents of Ham.
and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
but the sea covered their enemies.
to the mountain His right hand acquired.
He apportioned their inheritance by lot
and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
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for they did not keep His decrees.
they became warped like a faulty bow.
and provoked His jealousy with their carved images.
He completely rejected Israel.
the tent where He resided among men.
and His splendor to the hand of a foe.
because He was enraged with His heritage.
and His young women had no wedding songs.
but the
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like a warrior from the effects of wine.
He gave them lasting shame.
and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.
Mount Zion, which He loved.
like the earth that He established forever.
and took him from the sheepfolds;
to be shepherd over His people Jacob—
over Israel, His inheritance.
and guided them with his skillful hands.
1 A psalm of Asaph.
desecrated Your holy temple,
and turned Jerusalem into ruins.