Chapter 77

¹ [A Psalm] of instruction for Asaph.

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² I will open my mouth in parables:

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³ All which we have heard and known,

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⁴ They were not hidden from their children to a second generation;

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⁵ And he raised up a testimony in Jacob,

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⁶ That another generation might know,

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⁷ That they might set their hope on God,

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⁸ That they should not be as their fathers,

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⁹ The children of Ephraim, bending and shooting [with] the bow,

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¹⁰ They kept not the covenant of God,

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¹¹ And they forgot his benefits,

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¹² The miracles which he wrought before their fathers,

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¹³ He clove the sea, and led them through:

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¹⁴ And he guided them with a cloud by day,

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¹⁵ He clove a rock in the wilderness,

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¹⁶ And he brought water out of the rock,

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¹⁷ And they sinned yet more against him;

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¹⁸ And they tempted God in their hearts,

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¹⁹ They spoke also against God, and said,

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²⁰ Forasmuch as he smote the rock, and the waters flowed,

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²¹ Therefore the Lord heard, and was provoked:

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²² Because they believed not in God,

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²³ Yet he commanded the clouds from above,

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²⁴ And rained upon them manna to eat,

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²⁵ Man ate angels’ bread;

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²⁶ He removed the south wind from heaven;

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²⁷ And he rained upon them flesh like dust,

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²⁸ And they fell into the midst of their camp,

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²⁹ So they ate, and were completely filled;

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³⁰ They were not disappointed of their desire:

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³¹ Then the indignation of God rose up against them,

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³² In the midst of all this they sinned yet more,

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³³ And their days were consumed in vanity,

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³⁴ When he slew them, they sought him:

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³⁵ And they remembered that God was their helper,

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³⁶ Yet they loved him [only] with their mouth,

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³⁷ For their heart [was] not right with him,

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³⁸ But he is compassionate,

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³⁹ And he remembered that they are flesh;

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⁴⁰ How often did they provoke him in the wilderness,

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⁴¹ Yea, they turned back, and tempted God,

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⁴² They remembered not his hand,

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⁴³ How he had wrought his signs in Egypt,

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⁴⁴ And had changed their rivers into blood;

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⁴⁵ He sent against them the dog fly, and it devoured them;

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⁴⁶ And he gave their fruit to the canker worm,

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⁴⁷ He killed their vines with hail,

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⁴⁸ And he gave up their cattle to hail,

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⁴⁹ He sent out against them the fury of his anger,

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⁵⁰ He made a way for his wrath;

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⁵¹ And smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt;

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⁵² And he removed his people like sheep;

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⁵³ And he guided them with hope, and they feared not:

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⁵⁴ And he brought them in to the mountain of his sanctuary,

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⁵⁵ And he cast out the nations from before them,

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⁵⁶ Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God,

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⁵⁷ And they turned back, and broke covenant, even as also their fathers:

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⁵⁸ And they provoked him with their high places,

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⁵⁹ God heard and lightly regarded [them],

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⁶⁰ And he rejected the tabernacle of Shiloh,

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⁶¹ And he gave their strength into captivity,

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⁶² And he gave his people to the sword;

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⁶³ Fire devoured their young men;

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⁶⁴ Their priests fell by the sword;

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⁶⁵ So the Lord awoke as one out of sleep,

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⁶⁶ And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts:

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⁶⁷ And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph,

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⁶⁸ But chose the tribe of Judah,

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⁶⁹ And he built his sanctuary as [the place] of unicorns;

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⁷⁰ He chose David also his servant,

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⁷¹ He took him from following the ewes great with young,

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⁷² So he tended them in the innocency of his heart;

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