The Psalms, starting at chapter 76
Psalm 76
For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm by Asaph. A
song.
{76:1} In Judah, God is known.
His name is great in Israel.
{76:2} His tent is also in Salem;
His dwelling place in Zion.
{76:3} There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow,
the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war.
Selah.
{76:4} Glorious are you, and excellent,
more than mountains of game.
{76:5} Valiant men lie plundered,
they have slept their last sleep.
None of the men of war can lift their hands.
{76:6} At your rebuke, God of Jacob,
both chariot and horse are cast into a deep sleep.
{76:7} You, even you, are to be feared.
Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?
{76:8} You pronounced judgment from heaven.
The earth feared, and was silent,
{76:9} when God arose to judgment,
to save all the afflicted ones of the earth.
Selah.
{76:10} Surely the wrath of man praises you.
The survivors of your wrath are restrained.
{76:11} Make vows to the LORD your God, and fulfill them!
Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.
{76:12} He will cut off the spirit of princes.
He is feared by the kings of the earth.
Psalm 77
For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by Asaph.
{77:1} My cry goes to God!
Indeed, I cry to God for help,
and for him to listen to me.
{77:2} In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord.
My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired.
My soul refused to be comforted.
{77:3} I remember God, and I groan.
I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed.
Selah.
{77:4} You hold my eyelids open.
I am so troubled that I can't speak.
{77:5} I have considered the days of old,
the years of ancient times.
{77:6} I remember my song in the night.
I consider in my own heart;
my spirit diligently inquires:
{77:7} "Will the Lord reject us forever?
Will he be favorable no more?
{77:8} Has his loving kindness vanished forever?
Does his promise fail for generations?
{77:9} Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?"
Selah.
{77:10} Then I thought, "I will appeal to this:
the years of the right hand of the Most High."
{77:11} I will remember the LORD's deeds;
for I will remember your wonders of old.
{77:12} I will also meditate on all your work,
and consider your doings.
{77:13} Your way, God, is in the sanctuary.
What god is great like God?
{77:14} You are the God who does wonders.
You have made your strength known among the peoples.
{77:15} You have redeemed your people with your arm,
the sons of Jacob and Joseph.
Selah.
{77:16} The waters saw you, God.
The waters saw you, and they writhed.
The depths also convulsed.
{77:17} The clouds poured out water.
The skies resounded with thunder.
Your arrows also flashed around.
{77:18} The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind.
The lightnings lit up the world.
The earth trembled and shook.
{77:19} Your way was through the sea;
your paths through the great waters.
Your footsteps were not known.
{77:20} You led your people like a flock,
by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Psalm 78
A contemplation by Asaph.
{78:1} Hear my teaching, my people.
Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
{78:2} I will open my mouth in a parable.
I will utter dark sayings of old,
{78:3} Which we have heard and known,
and our fathers have told us.
{78:4} We will not hide them from their children,
telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD,
his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.
{78:5} For he established a testimony in Jacob,
and appointed a teaching in Israel,
which he commanded our fathers,
that they should make them known to their children;
{78:6} that the generation to come might know, even the children who
should be born;
who should arise and tell their children,
{78:7} that they might set their hope in God,
and not forget the works of God,
but keep his commandments,
{78:8} and might not be as their fathers,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal,
whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
{78:9} The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows,
turned back in the day of battle.
{78:10} They didn't keep God's covenant,
and refused to walk by his Torah.
{78:11} They forgot his doings,
his wondrous works that he had shown them.
{78:12} He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers,
in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
{78:13} He split the sea, and caused them to pass through.
He made the waters stand as a heap.
{78:14} In the daytime he also led them with a cloud,
and all night with a light of fire.
{78:15} He split rocks in the wilderness,
and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
{78:16} He brought streams also out of the rock,
and caused waters to run down like rivers.
{78:17} Yet they still went on to sin against him,
to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
{78:18} They tempted God in their heart
by asking food according to their desire.
{78:19} Yes, they spoke against God.
They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
{78:20} Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out,
and streams overflowed.
Can he give bread also?
Will he provide flesh for his people?"
{78:21} Therefore the LORD heard, and was angry.
A fire was kindled against Jacob,
anger also went up against Israel,
{78:22} because they didn't believe in God,
and didn't trust in his salvation [yeshuat].
{78:23} Yet he commanded the skies above,
and opened the doors of heaven.
{78:24} He rained down manna on them to eat,
and gave them food from the sky.
{78:25} Man ate the bread of angels.
He sent them food to the full.
{78:26} He caused the east wind to blow in the sky.
By his power he guided the south wind.
{78:27} He rained also flesh on them as the dust;
winged birds as the sand of the seas.
{78:28} He let them fall in the midst of their camp,
around their habitations.
{78:29} So they ate, and were well filled.
He gave them their own desire.
{78:30} They didn't turn from their cravings.
Their food was yet in their mouths,
{78:31} when the anger of God went up against them,
killed some of the fattest of them,
and struck down the young men of Israel.
{78:32} For all this they still sinned,
and didn't believe in his wondrous works.
{78:33} Therefore he consumed their days in vanity,
and their years in terror.
{78:34} When he killed them, then they inquired after him.
They returned and sought God earnestly.
{78:35} They remembered that God was their rock,
the Most High God, their redeemer.
{78:36} But they flattered him with their mouth,
and lied to him with their tongue.
{78:37} For their heart was not right with him,
neither were they faithful in his covenant.
{78:38} But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn't destroy
them.
Yes, many times he turned his anger away,
and didn't stir up all his wrath.
{78:39} He remembered that they were but flesh,
a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.
{78:40} How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness,
and grieved him in the desert!
{78:41} They turned again and tempted God,
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
{78:42} They didn't remember his hand,
nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
{78:43} how he set his signs in Egypt,
his wonders in the field of Zoan,
{78:44} he turned their rivers into blood,
and their streams, so that they could not drink.
{78:45} He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them;
and frogs, which destroyed them.
{78:46} He gave also their increase to the caterpillar,
and their labor to the locust.
{78:47} He destroyed their vines with hail,
their sycamore fig trees with frost.
{78:48} He gave over their livestock also to the hail,
and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
{78:49} He threw on them the fierceness of his anger,
wrath, indignation, and trouble,
and a band of angels of evil.
{78:50} He made a path for his anger.
He didn't spare their soul from death,
but gave their life over to the pestilence,
{78:51} and struck all the firstborn in Egypt,
the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
{78:52} But he led forth his own people like sheep,
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
{78:53} He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid,
but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
{78:54} He brought them to the border of his sanctuary,
to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.
{78:55} He also drove out the nations before them,
allotted them for an inheritance by line,
and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
{78:56} Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God,
and didn't keep his testimonies;
{78:57} but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers.
They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
{78:58} For they provoked him to anger with their high places,
and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
{78:59} When God heard this, he was angry,
and greatly abhorred Israel;
{78:60} So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh,
the tent which he placed among men;
{78:61} and delivered his strength into captivity,
his glory into the adversary's hand.
{78:62} He also gave his people over to the sword,
and was angry with his inheritance.
{78:63} Fire devoured their young men.
Their virgins had no wedding song.
{78:64} Their priests fell by the sword,
and their widows couldn't weep.
{78:65} Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep,
like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
{78:66} He struck his adversaries backward.
He put them to a perpetual reproach.
{78:67} Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph,
and didn't choose the tribe of Ephraim,
{78:68} But chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion which he loved.
{78:69} He built his sanctuary like the heights,
like the earth which he has established forever.
{78:70} He also chose David his servant,
and took him from the sheepfolds;
{78:71} from following the ewes that have their young,
he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people,
and Israel, his inheritance.
{78:72} So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his
heart,
and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
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