rsv Psalms:78:36-
rsv@Psalms:78:36 @ They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their redeemer.
rsv@Psalms:78:37 @ But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.
rsv@Psalms:78:38 @ Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not true to his covenant.
rsv@Psalms:78:39 @ Yet he, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger often, and did not stir up all his wrath.
rsv@Psalms:78:40 @ He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again.
rsv@Psalms:78:41 @ How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!
rsv@Psalms:78:42 @ They tested him again and again, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
rsv@Psalms:78:43 @ They did not keep in mind his power, or the day when he redeemed them from the foe;
rsv@Psalms:78:44 @ when he wrought his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the fields of Zo'an.
rsv@Psalms:78:45 @ He turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their streams.
rsv@Psalms:78:46 @ He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
rsv@Psalms:78:47 @ He gave their crops to the caterpillar, and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
rsv@Psalms:78:48 @ He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamores with frost.
rsv@Psalms:78:49 @ He gave over their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts.
rsv@Psalms:78:50 @ He let loose on them his fierce anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.
rsv@Psalms:78:51 @ He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.
rsv@Psalms:78:52 @ He smote all the first-born in Egypt, the first issue of their strength in the tents of Ham.
rsv@Psalms:78:53 @ Then he led forth his people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
rsv@Psalms:78:54 @ He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
rsv@Psalms:78:55 @ And he brought them to his holy land, to the mountain which his right hand had won.
rsv@Psalms:78:56 @ He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
rsv@Psalms:78:57 @ Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God, and did not observe his testimonies,
rsv@Psalms:78:58 @ but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers; they twisted like a deceitful bow.
rsv@Psalms:78:59 @ For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
rsv@Psalms:78:60 @ When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.
rsv@Psalms:78:61 @ He forsook his dwelling at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among men,
rsv@Psalms:78:62 @ and delivered his power to captivity, his glory to the hand of the foe.
rsv@Psalms:78:63 @ He gave his people over to the sword, and vented his wrath on his heritage.
rsv@Psalms:78:64 @ Fire devoured their young men, and their maidens had no marriage song.
rsv@Psalms:78:65 @ Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.
rsv@Psalms:78:66 @ Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a strong man shouting because of wine.
rsv@Psalms:78:67 @ And he put his adversaries to rout; he put them to everlasting shame.
rsv@Psalms:78:68 @ He rejected the tent of Joseph, he did not choose the tribe of E'phraim;
rsv@Psalms:78:69 @ but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loves.
rsv@Psalms:78:70 @ He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded for ever.
rsv@Psalms:78:71 @ He chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
rsv@Psalms:78:72 @ from tending the ewes that had young he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob his people, of Israel his inheritance. [ (Psalms strkjv@78:73) With upright heart he tended them, and guided them with skilful hand. ]
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