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Psalm 78, Mascael of Asaph.

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Give ear, O my people, to my law.

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Incline your ears to the words of my
mouth.

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I will open my mouth in a parable.

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I will utter dark sayings of old,
which we have heard and known and our

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fathers have told us.

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We will not hide them from their children,
showing to the generation to come the

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praises of the Lord and His strength and
His wonderful works that He hath done.

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For He established a testimony in Jacob,
and appointed a law in Israel,

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which He commanded our fathers,
that they should make them known to their

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children.

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That the generation to come might know
them, even the children which should be

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born, who should arise and declare them to
their children, that they might set their

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hope in God, and not forget the works of
God, but keep His commandments,

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and might not be as their fathers,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,

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a generation that set not their heart
aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast

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with God.

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The children of Ephraim, being armed and
carrying bows, turned back in the day of

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battle.

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They kept not the covenant of God,
and refused to walk in His law,

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and forgot His works and His wonders that
He had showed them.

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Marvelous things did He in the sight of
their fathers in the land of Egypt,

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in the field of Zoan.

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He divided the sea and caused them to pass
through, and He made the waters to stand

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as an heap.

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In the daytime also He led them with a
cloud, and all the night with a light of

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fire.

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He claimed the rocks in the wilderness,
and gave them drink as out of the great

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depths.

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He brought streams also out of the rock,
and caused waters to run down like rivers.

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And they sinned yet more against Him by
provoking the Most High in the wilderness.

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And they tempted God in their heart by
asking meat for their lust.

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Yea, they spake against God.

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They said, Can God furnish a table in the
wilderness?

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Behold, He smote the rock that the waters
gushed out, and the streams overflowed.

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Can He give bread also?

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Can He provide flesh for His people?

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Therefore the Lord heard this,
and was wroth.

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So a fire was kindled against Jacob,
and anger also came up against Israel,

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because they believed not in God,
and trusted not in His salvation.

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Though He had commanded the clouds from
above, and opened the doors of heaven,

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and had rained down manna upon them to
eat, and had given them of the corn of

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heaven, man did eat angels' food.

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He sent them meat to the full.

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He caused an east wind to blow in the
heaven, and by His power He brought in the

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south wind.

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He rained flesh also upon them as dust,
and feathered fowls like as the sand of

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the sea.

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And He let it fall in the midst of their
camp, round about their habitations.

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So they did eat, and were well filled,
for He gave them their own desire.

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They were not estranged from their lust.

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But while their meat was yet in their
mouths, the wrath of God came upon them,

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and slew the fattest of them, and smote
down the chosen men of Israel.

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For all this they sinned still,
and believed not for His wondrous works.

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Therefore their days did He consume in
vanity, and their years in trouble.

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When He slew them, then they sought Him,
and they returned and inquired early after

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God.

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And they remembered that God was their
Rock, and the High God their Redeemer.

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Nevertheless they did flatter Him with
their mouth, and they lied unto Him with

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their tongues.

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For their heart was not right with Him,
neither were they steadfast in His

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covenant.

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But He, being full of compassion,
forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them

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not.

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Yea, many a time turned He His anger away,
and did not stir up all His wrath.

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For He remembered that they were but
flesh, a wind that passeth away,

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and cometh not again.

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How oft did they provoke Him in the
wilderness, and grieve Him in the desert.

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Yea, they turned back and tempted God,
and limited the Holy One of Israel.

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They remembered not His hand, nor the day
when He delivered them from the enemy.

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How He had wrought His signs in Egypt,
and His wonders in the field of Zoan,

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and had turned their rivers into blood,
and their floods that they could not

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drink.

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He sent diverse sorts of flies among them,
which devoured them, and frogs which

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destroyed them.

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He gave also their increase unto the
caterpillar, and their labor unto the

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locust.

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He destroyed their vines with hail,
and their sycamore trees with frost.

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He gave up their cattle also to the hail,
and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

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He cast upon them the fierceness of His
anger, wrath, and indignation,

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and trouble, by sending evil angels among
them.

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He made away to His anger.

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He spared not their soul from death,
but gave their life over to the

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pestilence, and smote all the firstborn in
Egypt, the chief of their strength in the

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tabernacles of Ham, but made His own
people to go forth like sheep,

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and guided them in the flock.

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And He led them on safely, so that they
feared not.

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But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

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And He brought them to the border of His
sanctuary, even to this mountain,

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which His right hand had purchased.

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He cast out the heathen also before them,
and divided them in inheritance by line,

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and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in
their tents.

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Yet they tempted and provoked the Most
High God, and kept not His testimonies,

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but turned back and dealt unfaithfully
like their fathers.

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They were turned aside like a deceitful
bow, for they provoked Him to anger with

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their high places, and moved Him to
jealousy with their graven images.

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When God heard this, He was wroth and
greatly abhorred Israel, so that He

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forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh,
the tent which He placed among men,

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and delivered His strength into captivity,
and His glory into the enemy's hand.

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He gave His people over also unto the
sword, and was wroth with His inheritance.

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The fire consumed their young men,
and their maidens were not given to

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marriage.

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Their priests fell by the sword,
and their widows made no lamentation.

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Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep,
and like a mighty man that shouteth by

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reason of wine, and He smote His enemies
in the hinder parts, He put them to a

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perpetual reproach.

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Moreover, He refused the tabernacle of
Joseph, and chose not the tribe of

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Ephraim, but chose the tribe of Judah,
the Mount Zion which He loved.

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And He built His sanctuary like high
palaces, like the earth which He hath

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established forever.

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He chose David, also His servant,
and took him from the sheepfolds.

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From following the youths great with
young, He brought Him to feed Jacob His

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people, and Israel His inheritance.

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So He fed them according to the integrity
of His heart, and guided them by the

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skillfulness of His hands.