- 1. <A contemplation by Asaph.><br>
Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth. - 2. I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,
- 3. Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
- 4. We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.
- 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;
- 6. that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,
- 7. that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,
- 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.
- 9. The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
- 10. They didn't keep God's covenant, and refused to walk in his law.
- 11. They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown them.
- 12. He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
- 13. He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.
- 14. In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.
- 15. He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
- 16. He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
- 17. Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
- 18. They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
- 19. Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
- 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?"
- 21. Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,
- 22. because they didn't believe in God, and didn't trust in his salvation.
- 23. Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.
- 24. He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.
- 25. Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.
- 26. He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.
- 27. He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.
- 28. He let them fall in the midst of their camp, around their habitations.
- 29. So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.
- 30. They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,
- 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.
- 32. For all this they still sinned, and didn't believe in his wondrous works.
- 33. Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
- 34. When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.
- 35. They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.
- 36. But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.
- 37. For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.
- 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.
- 39. He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.
- 40. How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!
- 41. They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
- 42. They didn't remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
- 43. how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,
- 44. he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.
- 45. He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
- 46. He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.
- 47. He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.
- 48. He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
- 49. He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.
- 50. He made a path for his anger. He didn't spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,
- 51. and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
- 52. But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
- 53. He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
- 54. He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.
- 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.
- 56. Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn't keep his testimonies;
- 57. but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
- 58. For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
- 59. When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;
- 60. So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
- 61. and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary's hand.
- 62. He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.
- 63. Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.
- 64. Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep.
- 65. Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
- 66. He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.
- 67. Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn't choose the tribe of Ephraim,
- 68. But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
- 69. He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.
- 70. He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
- 71. from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.
- 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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