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| 1 An Instruction of Asaph. |
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| Give ear, O my people, to my law, Incline your ear to sayings of my mouth. |
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| 2 I open with a simile my mouth, I bring forth hidden things of old, |
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| 3 That we have heard and do know, And our fathers have recounted to us. |
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| 4 We do not hide from their sons, To a later generation recounting praises of Jehovah, And His strength, and His wonders that He hath done. |
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| 5 And He raiseth up a testimony in Jacob, And a law hath placed in Israel, That He commanded our fathers, To make them known to their sons. |
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| 6 So that a later generation doth know, Sons who are born, do rise and recount to their sons, |
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| 7 And place in God their confidence, And forget not the doings of God, But keep His commands. |
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| 8 And they are not like their fathers, A generation apostate and rebellious, A generation! it hath not prepared its heart, Nor stedfast with God [is] its spirit. |
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| 9 Sons of Ephraim armed bearers of bow, Have turned in a day of conflict. |
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| 10 They have not kept the covenant of God, And in His law they have refused to walk, |
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| 11 And they forget His doings, And His wonders that He shewed them. |
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| 12 Before their fathers He hath done wonders, In the land of Egypt the field of Zoan. |
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| 13 He cleft a sea, and causeth them to pass over, Yea, He causeth waters to stand as a heap. |
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| 14 And leadeth them with a cloud by day, And all the night with a light of fire. |
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| 15 He cleaveth rocks in a wilderness, And giveth drink as the great deep. |
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| 16 And bringeth out streams from a rock, And causeth waters to come down as rivers. |
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| 17 And they add still to sin against Him, To provoke the Most High in the dry place. |
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| 18 And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust. |
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| 19 And they speak against God they said: 'Is God able to array a table in a wilderness ' |
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| 20 Lo, He hath smitten a rock, And waters flow, yea, streams overflow. 'Also bread [is] He able to give Doth He prepare flesh for His people ' |
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| 21 Therefore hath Jehovah heard, And He sheweth Himself wroth, And fire hath been kindled against Jacob, And anger also hath gone up against Israel, |
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| 22 For they have not believed in God, Nor have they trusted in His salvation. |
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| 23 And He commandeth clouds from above, Yea, doors of the heavens He hath opened. |
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| 24 And He raineth on them manna to eat, Yea, corn of heaven He hath given to them. |
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| 25 Food of the mighty hath each eaten, Venison He sent to them to satiety. |
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| 26 He causeth an east wind to journey in the heavens, And leadeth by His strength a south wind, |
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| 27 And He raineth on them flesh as dust, And as sand of the seas winged fowl, |
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| 28 And causeth [it] to fall in the midst of His camp, Round about His tabernacles. |
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| 29 And they eat, and are greatly satisfied, And their desire He bringeth to them. |
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| 30 They have not been estranged from their desire, Yet [is] their food in their mouth, |
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| 31 And the anger of God hath gone up against them, And He slayeth among their fat ones, And youths of Israel He caused to bend. |
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| 32 With all this they have sinned again, And have not believed in His wonders. |
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| 33 And He consumeth in vanity their days, And their years in trouble. |
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| 34 If He slew them, then they sought Him, And turned back, and sought God earnestly, |
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| 35 And they remember that God [is] their rock, And God Most High their redeemer. |
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| 36 And they deceive Him with their mouth, And with their tongue do lie to Him, |
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| 37 And their heart hath not been right with Him, And they have not been stedfast in His covenant. |
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| 38 And He the Merciful One, Pardoneth iniquity, and destroyeth not, And hath often turned back His anger, And waketh not up all His fury. |
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| 39 And He remembereth that they [are] flesh, A wind going on and it returneth not. |
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| 40 How often do they provoke Him in the wilderness, Grieve Him in the desolate place |
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| 41 Yea, they turn back, and try God, And the Holy One of Israel have limited. |
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| 42 They have not remembered His hand The day He ransomed them from the adversary. |
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| 43 When He set His signs in Egypt, And His wonders in the field of Zoan, |
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| 44 And He turneth to blood their streams, And their floods they drink not. |
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| 45 He sendeth among them the beetle, and it consumeth them, And the frog, and it destroyeth them, |
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| 46 And giveth to the caterpillar their increase, And their labour to the locust. |
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| 47 He destroyeth with hail their vine, And their sycamores with frost, |
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| 48 And delivereth up to the hail their beasts, And their cattle to the burning flames. |
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| 49 He sendeth on them the fury of His anger, Wrath, and indignation, and distress A discharge of evil messengers.
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| 50 He pondereth a path for His anger, He kept not back their soul from death, Yea, their life to the pestilence He delivered up. |
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| 51 And He smiteth every first-born in Egypt, The first-fruit of the strong in tents of Ham. |
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| 52 And causeth His people to journey as a flock, And guideth them as a drove in a wilderness, |
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| 53 And He leadeth them confidently, And they have not been afraid, And their enemies hath the sea covered. |
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| 54 And He bringeth them in unto the border of His sanctuary, This mountain His right hand had got, |
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| 55 And casteth out nations from before them, And causeth them to fall in the line of inheritance, And causeth the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents, |
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| 56 And they tempt and provoke God Most High, And His testimonies have not kept. |
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| 57 And they turn back, And deal treacherously like their fathers, They have been turned like a deceitful bow, |
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| 58 And make Him angry with their high places, And with their graven images make Him zealous, |
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| 59 God hath heard, and sheweth Himself wroth. And kicketh exceedingly against Israel. |
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| 60 And He leaveth the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent He had placed among men, |
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| 61 And He giveth His strength to captivity, And His beauty into the hand of an adversary, |
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| 62 And delivereth up to the sword His people, And with His inheritance shewed Himself angry. |
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| 63 His young men hath fire consumed, And His virgins have not been praised. |
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| 64 His priests by the sword have fallen, And their widows weep not. |
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| 65 And the Lord waketh as a sleeper, As a mighty one crying aloud from wine. |
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| 66 And He smiteth His adversaries backward, A reproach age-during He hath put on them, |
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| 67 And He kicketh against the tent of Joseph, And on the tribe of Ephraim hath not fixed. |
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| 68 And He chooseth the tribe of Judah, With mount Zion that He loved, |
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| 69 And buildeth His sanctuary as a high place, Like the earth, He founded it to the age. |
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| 70 And He fixeth on David His servant, And taketh him from the folds of a flock, |
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| 71 From behind suckling ones He hath brought him in, To rule over Jacob His people, And over Israel His inheritance. |
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| 72 And he ruleth them according to the integrity of his heart, And by the skilfulness of his hands leadeth them! |
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