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Psalms 78
Book of Psalms
Psalms 78:1 Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my
law: incline 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, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD,
and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
5 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:
6 That the generation to
come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise
and declare them to 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 set not
their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
9 The children of
Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
10 They kept not the
covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
11 And forgat his works,
and his wonders that he had shewed them.
12 Marvellous things did
he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
13 He divided the sea,
and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
14 In the daytime also
he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
15 He clave the rocks in
the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
16 He brought streams
also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
17 And they sinned yet
more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
18 And they tempted God
in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
19 Yea, they spake
against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
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?
21 Therefore the LORD
heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also
came up against Israel;
22 Because they believed
not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
23 Though he had
commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
24 And had rained down
manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
25 Man did eat angels'
food: he sent them meat to the full.
26 He caused an east
wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
27 He rained flesh also
upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
28 And he let it fall in
the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
29 So they did eat, and
were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
30 They were not
estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
31 The wrath of God came
upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of
Israel.
32 For all this they
sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
33 Therefore their days
did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
34 When he slew them,
then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God.
35 And they remembered
that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
36 Nevertheless they did
flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
37 For their heart was
not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
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.
39 For he remembered
that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
40 How oft did they
provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
41 Yea, they turned back
and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
42 They remembered not
his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
43 How he had wrought
his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
44 And had turned their
rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
45 He sent divers sorts
of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
46 He gave also their
increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
47 He destroyed their
vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
48 He gave up their
cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
49 He cast upon them the
fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil
angels among them.
50 He made a way to his
anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the
pestilence;
51 And smote all the
firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
52 But made his own
people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53 And he led them on
safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54 And he brought them
to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had
purchased.
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.
56 Yet they tempted and
provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
57 But turned back, and
dealt unfaithfully 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 graven
images.
59 When God heard this,
he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
60 So that he forsook
the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
61 And delivered his
strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.
62 He gave his people
over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
63 The fire consumed
their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
64 Their priests fell by
the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
65 Then the Lord awaked
as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
66 And he smote his
enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
67 Moreover he refused
the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
68 But chose the tribe
of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
69 And he built his
sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
70 He chose David also
his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
71 From following the
ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his
inheritance.
72 So he fed them
according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of
his hands.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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