{"id":561,"date":"2014-06-01T21:08:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T21:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themessianicprophecies.com\/?page_id=561"},"modified":"2014-06-08T11:21:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T11:21:21","slug":"46-context-psalm-78","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.themessianicprophecies.com\/?page_id=561","title":{"rendered":"46. context – Psalm 78"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MASCHIL<\/strong><\/p>\n

OF ASAPH.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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GIVE EAR,<\/strong><\/p>\n

O MY PEOPLE,<\/strong><\/p>\n

TO MY LAW:<\/strong><\/p>\n

INCLINE YOUR EARS<\/strong><\/p>\n

TO THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I will open my mouth in a parable:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I will utter dark sayings of old:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Which we have heard and known,<\/p>\n

and our fathers have told us.<\/p>\n

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We will not hide them from their children,<\/p>\n

shewing to the generation to come<\/p>\n

the praises of the LORD,<\/p>\n

and his strength,<\/p>\n

and his wonderful works that he hath done.<\/p>\n

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For he established a testimony in Jacob,<\/p>\n

and appointed a law in Israel,<\/p>\n

which he commanded our fathers,<\/p>\n

that they should make them known to their children:<\/p>\n

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That the generation to come might know them,<\/p>\n

even the children which should be born;<\/p>\n

who should arise and declare them to their children:<\/p>\n

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That they might set their hope in God,<\/p>\n

and not forget the works of God,<\/p>\n

but keep his commandments:<\/p>\n

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And might not be as their fathers,<\/p>\n

a stubborn and rebellious generation;<\/p>\n

a generation that set not their heart aright,<\/p>\n

and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.<\/p>\n

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The children of Ephraim,<\/p>\n

being armed,<\/p>\n

and carrying bows,<\/p>\n

turned back in the day of battle.<\/p>\n

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They kept not the covenant of God,<\/p>\n

and refused to walk in his law;<\/p>\n

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And forgat his works,<\/p>\n

and his wonders that he had shewed them.<\/p>\n

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Marvellous things did he<\/p>\n

in the sight of their fathers,<\/p>\n

in the land of Egypt,<\/p>\n

in the field of Zoan.<\/p>\n

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He divided the sea,<\/p>\n

and caused them to pass through;<\/p>\n

and he made the waters to stand as an heap.<\/p>\n

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In the daytime also he led them with a cloud,<\/p>\n

and all the light with a light of fire.<\/p>\n

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He clave the rocks in the wilderness,<\/p>\n

and gave them drink as out of the great depths.<\/p>\n

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He brought streams also out of the rock,<\/p>\n

and caused waters to run down like rivers.<\/p>\n

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And they sinned yet more against him<\/p>\n

by provoking the most High in the wilderness.<\/p>\n

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And they tempted God in their heart<\/p>\n

by asking meat for their lust.<\/p>\n

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Yea,<\/p>\n

they spake against God;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

they said,<\/p>\n

Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Behold,<\/p>\n

he smote the rock,<\/p>\n

that the waters gushed out,<\/p>\n

and the streams overflowed;<\/p>\n

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can he give bread also?<\/p>\n

can he provide flesh for his people?<\/p>\n

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Therefore the LORD heard this,<\/p>\n

and was wroth:<\/p>\n

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so a fire was kindled against Jacob,<\/p>\n

and anger also came up against Israel;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Because they believed not in God,<\/p>\n

and trusted not in his salvation:<\/p>\n

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Though he had commanded the clouds from above,<\/p>\n

and opened the doors of heaven,<\/p>\n

And had rained down manna upon them to eat,<\/p>\n

and had given them of the corn of heaven.<\/p>\n

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Man did eat angels’ food:<\/p>\n

he sent them meat to the full.<\/p>\n

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He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven:<\/p>\n

and by his power he brought in the south wind.<\/p>\n

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He rained flesh also upon them as dust,<\/p>\n

and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:<\/p>\n

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And he let it fall in the midst of their camp,<\/p>\n

round about their habitations.<\/p>\n

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So they did eat,<\/p>\n

and were well filled:<\/p>\n

for he gave them their own desire;<\/p>\n

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They were not estranged from their lust.<\/p>\n

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But while their meat was yet in their mouths,<\/p>\n

The wrath of God came upon them,<\/p>\n

and slew the fattest of them,<\/p>\n

and smote down the chosen men of Israel.<\/p>\n

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For all this they sinned still,<\/p>\n

and believed not for his wondrous works.<\/p>\n

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Therefore their days did he consume in vanity,<\/p>\n

and their years in trouble.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

When he slew them,<\/p>\n

then they sought him:<\/p>\n

and they returned and enquired early after God.<\/p>\n

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And they remembered that God was their rock,<\/p>\n

and the high God their redeemer.<\/p>\n

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Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth,<\/p>\n

and they lied unto him with their tongues.<\/p>\n

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For their heart was not right with him,<\/p>\n

neither were they stedfast in his covenant.<\/p>\n

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But he,<\/p>\n

being full of compassion,<\/p>\n

forgave their iniquity,<\/p>\n

and destroyed them not:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

yea,<\/p>\n

many a time turned he his anger away,<\/p>\n

and did not stir up all his wrath.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For he remembered that they were but flesh;<\/p>\n

a wind that passeth away,<\/p>\n

and cometh not again.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness,<\/p>\n

and grieve him in the desert!<\/p>\n

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Yea,<\/p>\n

they turned back and tempted God,<\/p>\n

and limited the Holy One of Israel.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

They remembered not his hand,<\/p>\n

nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

How he had wrought his signs in Egypt,<\/p>\n

and his wonders in the field of Zoan:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And had turned their rivers into blood;<\/p>\n

and their floods,<\/p>\n

that they could not drink.<\/p>\n

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He sent divers sorts of flies among them,<\/p>\n

which devoured them;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and frogs,<\/p>\n

which destroyed them.<\/p>\n

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He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller,<\/p>\n

and their labour unto the locust.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He destroyed their vines with hail,<\/p>\n

and their sycomore trees with frost.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He gave up their cattle also to the hail,<\/p>\n

and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger,<\/p>\n

wrath,<\/p>\n

and indignation,<\/p>\n

and trouble,<\/p>\n

by sending evil angels among them.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He made a way to his anger;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

he spared not their soul from death,<\/p>\n

but gave their life over to the pestilence;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And smote all the firstborn in Egypt;<\/p>\n

the chief of their strength<\/p>\n

in the tabernacles of Ham:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But made his own people to go forth like sheep,<\/p>\n

and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And he led them on safely,<\/p>\n

so that they feared not:<\/p>\n

but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary,<\/p>\n

even to this mountain,<\/p>\n

which his right hand had purchased.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He cast out the heathen also before them,<\/p>\n

and divided them an inheritance by line,<\/p>\n

and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God,<\/p>\n

and kept not his testimonies:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But turned back,<\/p>\n

and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers:<\/p>\n

they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For they provoked him to anger<\/p>\n

with their high places,<\/p>\n

and moved him to jealousy<\/p>\n

with their graven images.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

When God heard this,<\/p>\n

he was wroth,<\/p>\n

and greatly abhorred Israel:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh,<\/p>\n

the tent which he placed among men;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And delivered his strength into captivity,<\/p>\n

and his glory into the enemy’s hand.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He gave his people over also unto the sword;<\/p>\n

and was wroth with his inheritance.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The fire consumed their young men;<\/p>\n

and their maidens were not given to marriage.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Their priests fell by the sword;<\/p>\n

and their widows made no lamentation.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep,<\/p>\n

and like a mighty man<\/p>\n

that shouteth by reason of wine.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts:<\/p>\n

he put them to a perpetual reproach.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph,<\/p>\n

and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But chose the tribe of Judah,<\/p>\n

the mount Zion which he loved.<\/p>\n

And he built his sanctuary like high palaces,<\/p>\n

like the earth which he hath established for ever.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He chose David also his servant,<\/p>\n

and took him from the sheepfolds:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

From following the ewes great with young<\/p>\n

he brought him to feed Jacob his people,<\/p>\n

and Israel his inheritance.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

So he fed them<\/p>\n

according to the integrity of his heart;<\/p>\n

and guided them<\/p>\n

by the skilfulness of his hands.<\/p>\n

Psalm 78<\/em><\/h6>\n

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