WEBVTT 00:08.170 --> 00:13.630 Listen, listen, listen, O my people. 00:15.970 --> 00:18.570 Listen, my people, to instruction. 00:19.390 --> 00:22.010 Give ear to the words of my mouth. 00:22.670 --> 00:28.810 I will open my mouth in a parable, and utter dark sayings of old, 00:29.310 --> 00:32.210 which we have heard and known. 00:32.750 --> 00:40.310 Our fathers passed on to us, not hiding them from their children, but telling 00:40.310 --> 00:42.050 generations to come. 00:42.810 --> 00:48.970 The praise of the Lord and His strength, the wonderful works He has done. 00:49.570 --> 00:55.610 He established a witness in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, 00:56.090 --> 01:04.650 which He commanded our fathers to teach them to their children, that ages to come 01:04.650 --> 01:08.730 I'd know, even children yet to be born. 01:09.930 --> 01:15.950 Listen, listen, listen, O my people. 01:18.250 --> 01:26.310 They'd rise to tell their children to fix their hearts upon God, and not to forget 01:26.310 --> 01:34.230 the works of God, but keep all His commands, and not be like their fathers. 01:34.990 --> 01:43.110 A stubborn, rebellious age would not prepare its heart with spirit unfaithful 01:43.110 --> 01:44.130 to God. 01:44.730 --> 01:50.810 Ephraim's sons were archers with bows, but left in the day of battle, 01:51.210 --> 02:00.310 not keeping God's covenant, refusing to walk in His law, forgetting about His 02:00.310 --> 02:08.910 deeds, His miracles that He showed them, His wonders before their fathers in Egypt 02:08.910 --> 02:10.850 and Zohan's field. 02:11.730 --> 02:17.590 Listen, listen, listen, O my people. 02:19.930 --> 02:26.290 Dividing the sea so they pass through, making the water stand up in a heap, 02:27.010 --> 02:32.650 leading with cloud by day, with the light of fire by night. 02:32.970 --> 02:39.550 He split the rocks in the wilderness, gave drink in full like the ocean depths. 02:39.850 --> 02:45.870 He brought a stream from the rock, made waters run down like rivers. 02:46.610 --> 02:53.730 Yet they persisted in sin, in the desert against the Most High, in their heart 02:53.730 --> 02:58.850 putting God to the test, by asking for food they desired. 02:59.450 --> 03:05.390 Against their God they grumbled, in deserts will God set table. 03:06.170 --> 03:12.230 He struck the rock so that waters gushed, just like flowing streams. 03:13.350 --> 03:19.050 Listen, listen, listen, O my people. 03:21.270 --> 03:24.470 Then can He also give bread to us? 03:25.070 --> 03:27.330 Can He give meat for His people? 03:28.530 --> 03:34.290 Therefore the Lord God heard them, and then He was full of wrath. 03:35.090 --> 03:42.430 A fire was kindled in Jacob, and anger then burned against Israel, for they did 03:42.430 --> 03:47.410 not have faith in God, refusing to trust His salvation. 03:48.270 --> 03:53.890 Yet He called the clouds above, and opened the doors of heaven, 03:54.790 --> 04:00.590 rained manna for them to eat, and gave them food from heaven. 04:01.230 --> 04:06.970 Man ate the bread of angels, He sent them food in abundance. 04:07.850 --> 04:13.670 The east winds blew in the heavens, and with power He called the south wind. 04:14.930 --> 04:20.590 Listen, listen, listen, O my people. 04:22.550 --> 04:28.790 Like dust He rained down meat, winged fowl like sands of the sea. 04:29.770 --> 04:35.790 Within their camp He let them fall round about all their dwellings. 04:36.190 --> 04:38.790 They ate and were well filled. 04:39.630 --> 04:47.190 He gave to them their desire, but before their longing was filled, all the food was 04:47.190 --> 04:48.750 still in their mouths. 04:49.450 --> 04:55.590 God's anger rose up against them, killing the strong and the choice ones. 04:56.010 --> 05:01.830 Yet still they remained in their sin, disbelieving His wonderful works. 05:02.630 --> 05:08.370 Their days He ended in vanity, their years in sudden terror. 05:09.110 --> 05:14.970 But when He struck, they sought Him, they returned to seek after God. 05:16.190 --> 05:21.710 Listen, listen, listen, O my people. 05:24.030 --> 05:30.130 Then they remembered their Rock was God, the Most High God, their Redeemer. 05:30.850 --> 05:36.650 But they deceived with their mouth, they lied to Him with their tongue. 05:37.530 --> 05:43.330 Their heart was never steadfast to Him, nor would they be faithful in covenant. 05:44.070 --> 05:49.690 But He, in loving compassion, forgave and did not destroy. 05:50.490 --> 05:57.930 He often restrained His anger, His wrath He did not arouse, remembering 05:57.930 --> 06:02.790 they were but flesh, fleeting wind that does not return. 06:03.590 --> 06:09.630 They often rebelled in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert. 06:10.310 --> 06:16.290 Again and again they tested God, grieving the Holy One of Israel. 06:17.390 --> 06:23.010 Listen, listen, listen, O my people. 06:28.410 --> 06:35.010 They did not remember His power the day when He saved from their enemies. 06:35.570 --> 06:41.390 In Egypt He showed His miracles, His signs in the field of Zoan. 06:41.850 --> 06:48.150 He turned their rivers to blood so they could not drink of their streams, 06:48.530 --> 06:54.230 sending out flies that devoured and frogs that brought on corruption. 06:55.270 --> 07:00.950 He gave their crops to locusts, the fruit of their toil to swarms, 07:01.590 --> 07:07.550 destroying their vines with His hail, their sycamores all with His frost. 07:08.130 --> 07:13.910 He gave their cattle to hailstones, their herds to bolts of lightning. 07:14.710 --> 07:20.830 He loosed His burning anger with fury and rage and anguish. 07:21.830 --> 07:27.550 Listen, listen, listen, O my people. 07:32.490 --> 07:39.050 With a band of destroying angels, He leveled a path for His anger. 07:39.690 --> 07:46.470 He did not spare their soul from death, but gave their life to the plague and 07:46.470 --> 07:46.990 smoke. 07:47.130 --> 07:53.590 The firstborn in Egypt, the firstborn of strength in the tents of Ham, like sheep 07:53.590 --> 07:55.290 He led His own people. 07:56.150 --> 07:58.610 A flock He led through the wilderness. 07:59.190 --> 08:05.430 In safety He led without fear, as waters then cover their foes. 08:05.650 --> 08:11.750 He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had gained. 08:12.590 --> 08:15.570 Expelling the nations, He split the land. 08:15.930 --> 08:21.690 The tribes of Israel lived in their tents, but grumbling and testing the Most High 08:21.690 --> 08:24.950 God, they would not keep His witness. 08:25.970 --> 08:32.090 Listen, listen, listen, O my people. 08:34.030 --> 08:40.130 Just like their fathers turned traitor, they turned like a treacherous foe, 08:41.090 --> 08:47.090 provoking Him with their high places, His jealousy with graven idols. 08:47.550 --> 08:53.710 When God heard this, He was filled with wrath, and greatly detested Israel. 08:54.330 --> 09:00.230 He abandoned His dwelling at Shiloh, the tent which He pitched among men. 09:01.070 --> 09:06.690 He gave His strength to captivity, His glory to the hand of the enemy, 09:07.550 --> 09:09.990 His people He gave to the sword. 09:10.790 --> 09:13.650 His wrath burned against His inheritance. 09:14.150 --> 09:16.890 Fire devoured His young men. 09:17.430 --> 09:20.230 His virgins had no wedding songs. 09:20.570 --> 09:26.310 His priests then fell by the sword, and His widows could not even weep. 09:27.470 --> 09:33.130 Listen, listen, listen, O my people. 09:38.170 --> 09:44.810 The Lord then awoke from His slumber, like a warrior rejoicing from wine. 09:45.330 --> 09:47.870 He drove away all His enemies. 09:48.610 --> 09:51.290 He heaped on lasting reproach. 09:51.870 --> 10:03.730 He left the tents of Joseph, not choosing the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which He 10:03.730 --> 10:04.410 loved. 10:05.030 --> 10:08.130 He built on high His holy place. 10:08.530 --> 10:10.790 On earth was founded forever. 10:11.530 --> 10:17.950 He chose David His servant, taking him from the sheepfolds. 10:18.270 --> 10:24.170 From ewes and lambs He brought him to shepherd His people and heritage. 10:24.650 --> 10:30.510 He shepherded with deep integrity, and led with skillful hands. 10:30.530 --> 10:37.390 Listen, listen, listen, O my people.