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Psalm 76
Psa 76:1; In Judah God is known;
his name is great in Israel.
Psa 76:2; His tent is in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion.
Psa 76:3; There he broke the flashing arrows, the shields and the swords, the weapons of war. Selah
Psa 76:4; You are resplendent with light, more majestic than mountains rich with game.
Psa 76:5; Valiant men lie plundered,
they sleep their last sleep; not one of the warriors can lift his hands.
Psa 76:6; At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both horse and chariot lie still.
Psa 76:7; You alone are to be feared.
Who can stand before you when you are angry?
Psa 76:8; From heaven you pronounced judgment, and the land feared and was quiet—
Psa 76:9; when you, O God, rose up to judge, to save all the afflicted of the land. Selah
Psa 76:10; Surely your wrath against men brings you praise, and the survivors of your wrath are restrained.
Psa 76:11; Make vows to the LORD your God and fulfill them; let all the neighboring lands bring gifts to the One to be feared.
Psa 76:12; He breaks the spirit of rulers; he is feared by the kings of the earth.
Psa 77:1; I cried out to God for help; I cried out to God to hear me.
Psa 77:2; When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; at night I stretched out untiring hands and my soul refused to be comforted.
Psa 77:3; I remembered you, O God, and I groaned; I mused, and my spirit grew faint. Selah
Psa 77:4; You kept my eyes from closing; I was too troubled to speak.
Psa 77:5; I thought about the former days, the years of long ago;
Psa 77:6; I remembered my songs in the night. My heart mused and my spirit inquired:
Psa 77:7; “Will the Lord reject forever? Will he never show his favor again?
Psa 77:8; Has his unfailing love vanished forever? Has his promise failed for all time?
Psa 77:9; Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has he in anger withheld his compassion?” Selah
Psa 77:10; Then I thought, “To this I will appeal: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
Psa 77:11; I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago.
Psa 77:12; I will meditate on all your works and consider all your mighty deeds.
Psa 77:13; Your ways, O God, are holy.
What god is so great as our God?
Psa 77:14; You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples.
Psa 77:15; With your mighty arm you redeemed your people, the descendants of Jacob and Joseph. Selah
Psa 77:16; The waters saw you, O God,
the waters saw you and writhed; the very depths were convulsed.
Psa 77:17; The clouds poured down water, the skies resounded with thunder; your arrows flashed back and forth.
Psa 77:18; Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind, your lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.
Psa 77:19; Your path led through the sea, your way through the mighty waters, though your footprints were not seen.
Psa 77:20; You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Psa 78:1; O my people, hear my teaching;
listen to the words of my mouth.
Psa 78:2; I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter hidden things, things from of old—
Psa 78:3; what we have heard and known,
what our fathers have told us.
Psa 78:4; We will not hide them from their children; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD, his power, and the wonders he has done.
Psa 78:5; He decreed statutes for Jacob
and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our forefathers
to teach their children,
Psa 78:6; so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children.
Psa 78:7; Then they would put their trust in God and would not forget his deeds but would keep his commands.
Psa 78:8; They would not be like their forefathers— a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits were not faithful to him.
Psa 78:9; The men of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned back on the day of battle;
Psa 78:19; they did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by his law.
Psa 78:11; They forgot what he had done, the wonders he had shown them.
Psa 78:12; He did miracles in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
Psa 78:13; He divided the sea and led them through; he made the water stand firm like a wall.
Psa 78:14; He guided them with the cloud by day and with light from the fire all night.
Psa 78:15; He split the rocks in the desert and gave them water as abundant as the seas&359;
Psa 78:16; he brought streams out of a rocky crag and made water flow down like rivers.
Psa 78:17; But they continued to sin against him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
Psa 78:18; They willfully put God to the test by demanding the food they craved.
Psa 78:19; They spoke against God, saying, “Can God spread a table in the desert?
Psa 78:20; When he struck the rock, water gushed out, and streams flowed abundantly. But can he also give us food? Can he supply meat for his people?”
Psa 78:21; When the LORD heard them, he was very angry; his fire broke out against Jacob, and his wrath rose against Israel,
Psa 78:22; for they did not believe in God or trust in his deliverance.
Psa 78:23; Yet he gave a command to the skies above and opened the doors of the heavens;
Psa 78:24; he rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them the grain of heaven.
Psa 78:25; Men ate the bread of angels; he sent them all the food they could eat.
Psa 78:26; He let loose the east wind from the heavens and led forth the south wind by his power.
Psa 78:27; He rained meat down on them like dust, flying birds like sand on the seashore.
Psa 78:28; He made them come down inside their camp, all around their tents.
Psa 78:29; They ate till they had more than enough, for he had given them what they craved.
Psa 78:30; But before they turned from the food they craved, even while it was still in their mouths,
Psa 78:31; God's anger rose against them; he put to death the sturdiest among them, cutting down the young men of Israel.
Psa 78:32; In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; in spite of his wonders, they did not believe.
Psa 78:33; So he ended their days in futility and their years in terror.
Psa 78:34; Whenever God slew them, they would seek him; they eagerly turned to him again.
Psa 78:35; They remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.
Psa 78:36; But then they would flatter him with their mouths, lying to him with their tongues;
Psa 78:37; their hearts were not loyal to him, they were not faithful to his covenant.
Psa 78:38; Yet he was merciful;
he forgave their iniquities and did not destroy them. Time after time he restrained his anger and did not stir up his full wrath.
Psa 78:39; He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
Psa 78:40; How often they rebelled against him in the desert and grieved him in the wasteland!
Psa 78:41; Again and again they put God to the test; they vexed the Holy One of Israel.
Psa 78:42; They did not remember his power— the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,
Psa 78:43; the day he displayed his miraculous signs in Egypt, his wonders in the region of Zoan.
Psa 78:44; He turned their rivers to blood; they could not drink from their streams.
Psa 78:45; He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
Psa 78:46; He gave their crops to the grasshopper, their produce to the locust.
Psa 78:47; He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
Psa 78:48; He gave over their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.
Psa 78:49; He unleashed against them his hot anger, his wrath, indignation and hostility— a band of destroying angels.
Psa 78:50; He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.
Psa 78:51; He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt, the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.
Psa 78:52; But he brought his people out like a flock; he led them like sheep through the desert.
Psa 78:53; He guided them safely, so they were unafraid; but the sea engulfed their enemies.
Psa 78:54; Thus he brought them to the border of his holy land, to the hill country his right hand had taken.
Psa 78:55; He drove out nations before them and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance; he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.
Psa 78:56; But they put God to the test
and rebelled against the Most High; they did not keep his statutes.
Psa 78:57; Like their fathers they were disloyal and faithless, as unreliable as a faulty bow.
Psa 78:58; They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols.
Psa 78:59; When God heard them, he was very angry; he rejected Israel completely.
Psa 78:60; He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent he had set up among men.
Psa 78:61; He sent the ark of his might into captivity, his splendor into the hands of the enemy.
Psa 78:62; He gave his people over to the sword; he was very angry with his inheritance.
Psa 78:63; Fire consumed their young men, and their maidens had no wedding songs;
Psa 78:64; their priests were put to the sword, and their widows could not weep.
Psa 78:65; Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, as a man wakes from the stupor of wine.
Psa 78:66; He beat back his enemies; he put them to everlasting shame.
Psa 78:67; Then he rejected the tents of Joseph, he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;
Psa 78:68; but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved.
Psa 78:69; He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever.
Psa 78:70; He chose David his servant
and took him from the sheep pens;
Psa 78:71; from tending the sheep he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel his inheritance.
Psa 78:72; And David shepherded them with integrity of heart; with skillful hands he led them.
Psa 79:1; O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple, they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
Psa 79:2; They have given the dead bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.
Psa 79:3; They have poured out blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.
Psa 79:4; We are objects of reproach to our neighbors, of scorn and derision to those around us.
Psa 79:5; How long, O LORD? Will you be angry forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire?
Psa 79:6; Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the kingdoms that do not call on your name;
Psa 79:7; for they have devoured Jacob
and destroyed his homeland.
Psa 79:8; Do not hold against us the sins of the fathers; may your mercy come quickly to meet us, for we are in desperate need.
Psa 79:9; Help us, O God our Savior, for the glory of your name; deliver us and forgive our sins for your name's sake.
Psa 79:10; Why should the nations say,
“Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations that you avenge the outpoured blood of your servants.
Psa 79:11; May the groans of the prisoners come before you; by the strength of your arm
preserve those condemned to die.
Psa 79:12; Pay back into the laps of our neighbors seven times the reproach they have hurled at you, O Lord.
Psa 79:13; Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will praise you forever; from generation to generation we will recount your praise.
Psa 80:1; Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel,
you who lead Joseph like a flock; you who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth
Psa 80:2; before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh. Awaken your might; come and save us.
Psa 80:3; Restore us, O God; make your face shine upon us, that we may be saved.
Psa 80:4; O LORD God Almighty, how long will your anger smolder against the prayers of your people?
Psa 80:5; You have fed them with the bread of tears; you have made them drink tears by the bowlful.
Psa 80:6; You have made us a source of contention to our neighbors, and our enemies mock us.
Psa 80:7; Restore us, O God Almighty; make your face shine upon us, that we may be saved.
Psa 80:8; You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.
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