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aGive ear, O my people, to my
1instruction;
Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
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aI will open my mouth in a
bparable;
I will utter riddles from of old,
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Which we have heard and known,
And our fathers have related to us.
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We will not hide
them from their children,
But will relate to the generation to come
The praises of Jehovah and His strength
And His wondrous deeds that He has done.
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Indeed He has established a testimony in Jacob
And appointed a law in Israel,
Which He commanded our fathers
That they should make them known to their
achildren;
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That the generation to come,
The children to be born, may know
them,
Who should arise and relate
them to their children;
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That they might set their hope in God,
And not forget the deeds of God,
But observe His commandments;
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That they might not be like their fathers,
A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A
ageneration that did not set their
bheart right,
And whose spirit was not faithful to God.
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The children of Ephraim, armed archers with bows,
Turned back in the day of battle.
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They did not keep the covenant of God,
And they refused to walk in His law.
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And they forgot His doings
And His wondrous deeds that He had shown them.
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He did something
awonderful in the sight of their fathers
In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
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He adivided the sea and caused them to pass through,
And He made the water stand as a
bheap.
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And He led them with the
acloud by day
And all the night with a light of fire.
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He split
arocks in the wilderness
And gave
them abundant drink, as from the depths.
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He also brought forth streams from the rock
And made water run down like rivers.
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Yet they still continued to sin against Him,
To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
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And they put God to the
atest in their heart,
By asking for food according to their desire.
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They also spoke against God;
They said, Can God prepare a
atable in the
bwilderness?
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Behold, He struck the
arock,
And water gushed out,
And streams overflowed;
Can He also give
us bread,
Or provide meat for His people?
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Therefore Jehovah heard and was
aangry.
And a fire was kindled against Jacob,
And also anger went up against Israel;
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Because they did
anot believe in God,
And they did not trust in His salvation.
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Yet He commanded the skies above
And opened the doors of heaven;
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And He rained down upon them
amanna to eat
And gave them the
bfood of heaven.
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Man ate the bread of the mighty;
He sent them full provision.
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He made the east
awind blow in the heavens
And guided the south wind by His strength.
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And He rained upon them meat like dust,
And winged
abirds like the sand of the seas.
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And He made
it fall in the midst of their camp,
Around their habitations.
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So they ate and were well filled;
Indeed what they desired He brought to them.
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They were not estranged from what they desired;
Their food was still in their mouths
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When the
aanger of God went up against them
And slew
some of their fattest ones
And struck down the choice men of Israel.
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In spite of all this they still sinned
And did
anot believe in His wondrous deeds.
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Therefore He consumed their days with vanity,
And their years with terror.
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When He slew them, they
ainquired after Him,
And they returned and diligently sought God.
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And they remembered that God was their
arock,
And the Most High God, their Redeemer.
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But they flattered Him with their mouth
And lied to Him with their tongue.
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For their
aheart was not steadfast toward Him,
Nor were they faithful to His covenant.
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But He, being
amerciful, forgave
their iniquity
And did not destroy
them;
Indeed He turned back His anger many times
And did not stir up all His wrath.
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And He remembered that they were
aflesh,
A
1bwind that goes away and does not return.
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How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness
And
agrieved Him in the desert!
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And they repeatedly put God to the
atest And provoked the
bHoly One of Israel.
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They did not remember His hand,
The day when He ransomed them from the adversary;
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aWhen He set His signs in Egypt
And His wonders in the field of Zoan;
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And He turned their rivers into
ablood,
As well as their streams, so that they could not drink.
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He sent among them a swarm
of aflies, which devoured them;
And
bfrogs, which destroyed them.
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And He gave their increase to the consuming
alocust,
And their labor to the swarming locust.
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And He killed their vines with
ahail,
And their sycamores with ice stones.
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He gave over their
acattle also to the hail
And their herds to the lightning bolts.
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He sent among them the burning fierceness of His anger,
Overflowing wrath and indignation and trouble,
A mission of angels of evils.
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He leveled a path for His anger;
He did not spare their soul from death,
But gave their life over to the
apestilence.
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And He
astruck all the firstborn in Egypt,
The firstfruits of their vigor in the tents of Ham.
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But He set forth His people like sheep
And led them like a
aflock in the wilderness.
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And He led them to safety, so that they did not fear;
But the sea
acovered their enemies.
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And He brought them forth to His holy border,
The
amountain, which His right hand had acquired.
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And He
adrove out the nations before them
And allotted them as an
binheritance by line,
And He made the tribes of Israel dwell
there in their tents.
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Yet they put
Him to the test and rebelled against God the Most High,
And did not keep His testimonies.
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And they turned back and dealt treacherously, as their fathers
had done;
They turned aside like a deceitful bow.
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Indeed they provoked Him to anger with their
ahigh places
And made Him
bjealous with their graven images.
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God heard, and He was angered;
And He greatly abhorred Israel.
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Thus He forsook the tabernacle in
aShiloh,
The tent
in which He dwelt among men;
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And He gave over His
1aArk into captivity,
And His
2glory into the hand of the adversary.
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He also delivered His people to the sword
And was angry with His inheritance.
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Fire devoured their young men,
And their virgins had no marriage song.
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Their priests
afell by the sword,
And their widows did not lament.
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Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep,
Like a mighty man who shouts because of wine.
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And He struck His adversaries
and sent them back;
He put an everlasting reproach upon them.
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And He rejected the tent of Joseph,
And the tribe of Ephraim He did not choose.
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Rather He
achose the tribe of Judah,
Mount
bZion, which He loved.
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And He built His sanctuary like the heights,
Like the earth that He has founded forever.
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Moreover He chose David His servant
And took him from the
asheepfolds;
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From following after the ewes He brought him
To
1ashepherd Jacob His people
And Israel His inheritance.
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And he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart,
And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
