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UST PSA Chapter 78

◄ PSA 78 ► ║ ═ ©

A song of Asaph.

My friends, listen to what I am going to teach you;

pay careful attention to what I will say.

2 I am going to give you some sayings that wise people have said.

They will be sayings about things that happened long ago,

things that were difficult to understand.

3 These are things that we have heard and known previously,

things that our parents and grandparents told us.

4 We will tell these things to our children,

but we will also tell our grandchildren to praise Yahweh

for his power and the glorious things that he has done.

5 He gave requirements and instructions to the Israelites,

those who are descended from Jacob,

and he told our ancestors to teach them to their children.

6 He commanded this so that their children would also know them

and so that they would teach them to their own children.

7 In that way, they also would trust in God

and would not forget the things that he has done;

instead, they would obey his commandments.

8 They would not be like their ancestors,

who were very stubborn and kept rebelling against God;

they did not continue firmly trusting in God,

and they did not worship him alone.

9 The soldiers of the tribe of Ephraim had bows and arrows,

but they ran away from their enemies on the day that they fought with their enemies.

10 They did not do what they had agreed with God that they would do;

they refused to obey his laws.

11 They forgot what he had done;

they forgot about the miracles that they had seen him perform.

12 While our ancestors were watching,

God performed miracles in the area around the city of Zoan in Egypt.

13 Then he caused the Sea of Reeds to divide,

causing the water on each side to pile up like a wall,

with the result that our ancestors walked through it on dry ground.

14 He led them by a bright cloud during the day

and by a fiery light during the night.

15 He split rocks open in the wilderness

and gave to our ancestors plenty of water from deep inside the earth.

16 He caused a stream of water to flow from the rock;

the water flowed like a river.

17 But our ancestors continued to sin against God;

in the desert they rebelled against the one who is greater than any other spirit being.

18 By demanding that God give them the food that they desired,

they tried to find out if he would always do what they requested him to do.

19 They insulted God by saying,

“God surely cannot supply food for us here in this desert.

20 It is surely true that Moses struck the rock,

and God made a huge amount of water gush out,

but we, his people, doubt that he can also provide bread and meat for us.”

21 So when Yahweh heard that, he became very angry,

and he sent a fire to burn up some of his Israelite people.

22 He did that because they did not trust in him,

and they did not believe that he would rescue them.

23 But God spoke to the sky above them

and commanded it to open like a door,

24 and then food fell down like rain,

food that they named “manna.”

God gave them grain from heaven.

25 So the people ate the food that angels eat.

God gave to them all the manna that they wanted.

26 Later, he caused the wind to blow from the east,

and by his power he also sent wind from the south.

27 The wind brought birds to eat which fell like rain.

They were as uncountable as the grains of sand on the seashore.

28 God caused those birds to fall in the middle of their camp.

There were birds all around their tents.

29 So the people cooked the birds and ate the meat; their stomachs were full

because God had given them what they wanted.

30 But they had not yet eaten all that they wanted,

31 when God angrily killed some of their strongest men.

He even sent young Israelite men to their graves.

32 In spite of all this, the people continued to sin;

in spite of all the miracles that God had performed,

they still did not trust that he would take care of them.

33 So he shortened their lives so they seemed to only be a few days or like they were gone as quickly as a breath of air,

and he terrified them during even those few years.

34 Whenever God caused some of the Israelites to die,

the others would repent;

they would be sorry and seriously ask God to save them.

35 They would remember that God was like a huge rock on which they would be safe,

and that he, who was greater than any other spirit being, was the one who would buy them back.

36 But they tried to trick God by lying to him.

37 They were not loyal to him;

they did not keep the promises between God and them.

38 But God acted mercifully toward his people.

He forgave them for having sinned

and did not get rid of them.

Many times he decided not to become angry with them

and did not furiously punish them.

39 He remembered that they were only humans who die,

humans who disappear as quickly as a wind that blows by and then is gone.

40 Many times our ancestors rebelled against God in the wilderness

and made him very sad.

41 Many times they did evil things to find out if they could do those things without God punishing them.

They frequently caused the holy God whom the Israelites worship to become sad.

42 They did not remember how powerfully he had acted,

and they forgot about the time when he rescued them from their enemies.

43 They forgot about all the wonderfully powerful things he did near Zoan in Egypt.

44 He turned the rivers of Egypt to blood,

so that the people could not drink their streams.

45 He sent swarms of flies among the people of Egypt that bit them,

and he sent frogs that destroyed everything.

46 He gave their crops to the locusts.

He let swarming locusts eat everything they had worked for.

47 He killed their grape vines with hail,

and killed their sycamore trees with frost.

48 He sent a terrible thunderstorm with hail to kill all their domestic animals.

49 Because God was fiercely angry with the people of Egypt,

he caused them to be very distressed.

The disasters that struck them were like a group of angels that destroyed everything.

50 He let himself be angry with them,

and he did not prevent them from dying;

he sent a serious illness that killed many of them.

51 In that plague he caused all the firstborn sons of the people of Egypt to die.

52 Then he led his people out of Egypt like a shepherd leads his sheep,

and he guided them like a flock in the desert.

53 He led them safely, and they were not afraid,

but their enemies drowned in the sea.

54 Later God used his power to bring the Israelite people to the land he had set apart,

to this hill country that he had taken for himself.

55 He drove out the people groups as the Israelites advanced;

he distributed the land for each tribe to possess as their own,

and he settled the tribes of Israel in the homes of those peoples.

56 But the Israelites defied the God who is greater than all other spirit beings and disobeyed him to see what he would do.

They did not obey what he had required them to do.

57 They turned away and were unfaithful, just as their ancestors had been;

they were as unreliable as a bow that does not shoot straight.

58 They made God angry by worshiping at shrines on the hilltops,

and they made him jealous by worshiping carved idols.

59 When God saw what they were doing, he became very angry

and completely rejected the Israelite people.

60 He stopped living at Shiloh,

the place where he had set up his tent and lived among people.

61 He let enemies capture the sacred chest which showed how strong and glorious he was.

62 He let enemies kill his people in battle,

because he was very angry with the people who belonged to him.

63 Fire destroyed the young men,

and no one sang wedding songs for the young women.

64 Enemies killed the priests in battle,

and the wives they left behind were not able to mourn for them.

65 Then the Lord acted as though he had been sleeping and had woken up,

like a warrior who becomes alert after drinking wine.

66 He drove his enemies back

and disgraced them forever.

67 He did not choose the descendants of Joseph to be the leading tribe,

and he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.

68 Instead he chose the tribe of Judah

whose capital is on Mount Zion, which he loves.

69 He had them build his temple there, high up like the heavens,

and he established it to last as long as the earth.

70 He chose David, who served him,

and took him away from tending the sheep.

71 He took David from caring for the mother sheep and their lambs

and appointed him to lead the people of Israel, the people who belonged to God.

72 David led them with a sincere and devoted heart,

and he guided them with great skill.