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Psalms 77

Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible

77:1

[A Psalm] of instruction for Asaph. Give heed, O my people, to my law: incline your ear to the words of my mouth.

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77:2

I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter dark sayings [which have been] from the beginning.

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77:3

All which we have heard and known, and our fathers have declared to us.

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77:4

They were not hid from their children to a second generation; [the fathers] declaring the praises of the Lord, and his mighty acts, and his wonders which he wrought.

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77:5

And he raised up a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, to make it known to their children:

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that another generation might know, even the sons which should be born; and they should arise and declare them to their children.

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77:7

That they might set their hope on God, and not forget the works of God, but diligently seek his commandments.

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77:8

That they should not be as their fathers, a perverse and provoking generation; a generation which set not its heart aright, and its spirit was not steadfast with God.

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77:9

The children of Ephraim, bending and shooting [with] the bow, turned [back] in the day of battle.

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77:10

They kept not the covenant of God, and would not walk in his law.

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77:11

And they forgot his benefits, and his miracles which he [had] shewed them;

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77:12

the miracles which he wrought before their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the plain of Tanes.

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77:13

He clave the sea, and led them through: he made the waters to stand as [in] a bottle.

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77:14

And he guided them with a cloud by day, and all the night with a light of fire.

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77:15

He clave a rock in the wilderness, and made them drink as in a great deep.

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77:16

And he brought water out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down as rivers.

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77:17

And they sinned yet more against him; they provoked the Most High in the wilderness.

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77:18

And they tempted God in their hearts, in asking meat for [the desire of] their souls.

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77:19

They spoke also against God, and said, Will God be able to prepare a table in the wilderness?

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77:20

Forasmuch as he smote the rock, and the waters flowed, and the torrents ran abundantly; will he be able also to give bread, or prepare a table for his people?

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77:21

Therefore the Lord heard, and was provoked: and fire was kindled in Jacob, and wrath went up against Israel.

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77:22

Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation.

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77:23

Yet he commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

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77:24

and rained upon them manna to eat, and gave them the bread of heaven.

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77:25

Man ate angels' bread; he sent them provision to the full.

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77:26

He removed the south wind from heaven; and by his might he brought in the south-west wind.

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77:27

And he rained upon them flesh like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the seas.

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77:28

And they fell into the midst of their camp, round about their tents.

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77:29

So they ate, and were completely filled; and he gave them their desire.

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77:30

They were not disappointed of their desire: [but] when their food was yet in their mouth,

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77:31

then the indignation of God rose up against them, and slew the fattest of them, and overthrew the choice men of Israel.

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77:32

In the midst of all this they sinned yet more, and believed not his miracles.

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77:33

And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years with anxiety.

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77:34

When he slew them, they sought him: and they returned and called betimes upon God.

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77:35

And they remembered that God was their helper, and the most high God was their redeemer.

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Yet they loved him [only] with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

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77:37

For their heart [was] not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant.

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77:38

But he is compassionate, and will forgive their sins, and will not destroy [them]: yea, he will frequently turn away his wrath, and will not kindle all his anger.

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77:39

And he remembered that they are flesh; a wind that passes away, and returns not.

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77:40

How often did they provoke him in the wilderness, [and] anger him in a dry land!

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77:41

Yea, they turned back, and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

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77:42

They remembered not his hand, the day in which he delivered them from the hand of the oppressor.

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77:43

How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Tanes:

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77:44

and had changed their rivers into blood; and their streams, that they should not drink.

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77:45

He sent against them the dog-fly, and it devoured them; and the frog, and it spoiled them.

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77:46

And he gave their fruit to the canker worm, and their labours to the locust.

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77:47

He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamores with frost.

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77:48

And he gave up their cattle to hail, and their substance to the fire.

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77:49

He sent out against them the fury of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and affliction, a message by evil angels.

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77:50

He made a way for his wrath; he spared not their souls from death, but consigned their cattle to death;

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and smote every first-born in the land of Egypt; the first-fruits of their labours in the tents of Cham.

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77:52

And he removed his people like sheep; he led them as a flock in the wilderness.

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77:53

And he guided them with hope, and they feared not: but the sea covered their enemies.

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77:54

And he brought them in to the mountain of his sanctuary, this mountain which his right hand had purchased.

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77:55

And he cast out the nations from before them, and made them to inherit by a line of inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

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77:56

Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies.

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77:57

And they turned back, and broke covenant, even as also their fathers: they became like a crooked bow.

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77:58

And they provoked him with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

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77:59

God heard and lightly regarded [them], and greatly despised Israel.

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77:60

And he rejected the tabernacle of Selom, his tent where he dwelt among men.

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77:61

And he gave their strength into captivity, and their beauty into the enemy's hand.

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77:62

And he gave his people to the sword; and disdained his inheritance.

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77:63

Fire devoured their young men; and their virgins mourned not.

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77:64

Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows shall not be wept for.

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77:65

So the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, [and] as a mighty man who has been heated with wine.

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77:66

And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he brought on them a perpetual reproach.

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77:67

And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim;

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but chose the tribe of Juda, the mount Sion which he loved.

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77:69

And he built his sanctuary as [the place] of unicorns; he founded it for ever on the earth.

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77:70

He chose David also his servant, and took him up from the flocks of sheep.

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77:71

He took him from following the ewes great with young, to be the shepherd of Jacob his servant, and Israel his inheritance.

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77:72

So he tended them in the innocency of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

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