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Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. Explain This Verse
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I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: Explain This Verse
3.
Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. Explain This Verse
4.
We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. Explain This Verse
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For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: Explain This Verse
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That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: Explain This Verse
7.
That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: Explain This Verse
8.
And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. Explain This Verse
9.
The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. Explain This Verse
10.
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; Explain This Verse
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And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them. Explain This Verse
12.
Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. Explain This Verse
13.
He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap. Explain This Verse
14.
In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. Explain This Verse
15.
He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths. Explain This Verse
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He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. Explain This Verse
17.
And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness. Explain This Verse
18.
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. Explain This Verse
19.
Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? Explain This Verse
20.
Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people? Explain This Verse
21.
Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel; Explain This Verse
22.
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation: Explain This Verse
23.
Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven, Explain This Verse
24.
And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. Explain This Verse
25.
Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full. Explain This Verse
26.
He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind. Explain This Verse
27.
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: Explain This Verse
28.
And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations. Explain This Verse
29.
So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; Explain This Verse
30.
They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths, Explain This Verse
31.
The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel. Explain This Verse
32.
For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works. Explain This Verse
33.
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble. Explain This Verse
34.
When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God. Explain This Verse
35.
And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer. Explain This Verse
36.
Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues. Explain This Verse
37.
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant. Explain This Verse
38.
But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath. Explain This Verse
39.
For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. Explain This Verse
40.
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! Explain This Verse
41.
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. Explain This Verse
42.
They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. Explain This Verse
43.
How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: Explain This Verse
44.
And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. Explain This Verse
45.
He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. Explain This Verse
46.
He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust. Explain This Verse
47.
He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost. Explain This Verse
48.
He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. Explain This Verse
49.
He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. Explain This Verse
50.
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; Explain This Verse
51.
And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham: Explain This Verse
52.
But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. Explain This Verse
53.
And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. Explain This Verse
54.
And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased. Explain This Verse
55.
He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. Explain This Verse
56.
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: Explain This Verse
57.
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. Explain This Verse
58.
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. Explain This Verse
59.
When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: Explain This Verse
60.
So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men; Explain This Verse
61.
And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand. Explain This Verse
62.
He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance. Explain This Verse
63.
The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage. Explain This Verse
64.
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation. Explain This Verse
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Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. Explain This Verse
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And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach. Explain This Verse
67.
Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: Explain This Verse
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But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. Explain This Verse
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And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever. Explain This Verse
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He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds: Explain This Verse
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From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. Explain This Verse
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So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. Explain This Verse