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1 ; ears to the words of mouth.
2 open mouth in a parable; utter dark sayings of old,
3 which have heard and known, and fathers have told .
4 hide them from children, but to the generation to come praises, strength, and works that have done.
5 For established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a in Israel, which commanded fathers, that they should make them known to their children;
6 that , the generation to come, might know them, even the children to be born; who arise and children,
7 that they might set their hope in , and not forget works, but keep commandments,
8 and might not be like their , a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not , and whose spirit was not steadfast with .
9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
10 They did not keep covenant, and refused to walk in law.
11 They forgot , that had shown them.
12 did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
13 the sea, and caused them to pass through; and made the waters stand like a heap.
14 In the daytime also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.
15 rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
16 brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
17 Yet they still went on to sin against the Most High in the .
18 They tempted , God, in their heart by asking for their .
19 Yes, they spoke against ; they asked, Can prepare a table in the wilderness?
20 Behold, struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; can give bread also? provide flesh for people?
21 Therefore heard and angry; fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also up against Israel,
22 because they did not believe in , and did not trust in salvation;
23 commanded the above, and opened the doors of heaven;
24 rained down manna on them to eat, and them the .
25 Man ate the of angels; sent them to the full.
26 caused the east wind to blow in the ; by power the south wind.
27 rained also flesh on them as the dust; as the sand of the seas.
28 let them fall in the midst of their camp, around their habitations.
29 So they ate and were well filled; gave them their own desire.
30 They . Their was yet in their mouths,
31 when anger them, killed some of the fattest of them, and struck down the men of Israel.
32 For all this they still sinned, and did not believe in wondrous works.
33 Therefore consumed their days in vanity, and their years in .
34 When killed them, then they ; they returned and earnestly.
35 They remembered that , God, rock, the Most High God, redeemer.
36 But they flattered with their mouth, and lied to with their tongue.
37 For their heart was not right with , neither were they in covenant.
38 But , being , forgave iniquity, and did not destroy them. Yes, many times turned anger away, and did not stir up all wrath.
39 remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and does not come again.
40 How often they in the wilderness, and grieved in the desert!
41 They turned and tempted , and the Holy One of Israel.
42 They did not remember hand, nor the day when them from the ;
43 how signs in Egypt, wonders in the field of Zoan:
44 turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.
45 sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
46 gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.
47 destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.
48 gave over their also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
49 them the fierceness of anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, .
50 made a path for anger; did not spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,
51 and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the of Ham.
52 But led forth own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53 led them safely, so that they , but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54 brought them to the border of sanctuary, this mountain, which right hand had .
55 also out the before them, them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
56 Yet they tempted and , the Most High God, and did not keep testimonies;
57 but turned back, and dealt like their fathers; they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
58 For they provoked to anger with their high places, and moved to jealousy with their images.
59 When heard this, was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;
60 so that forsook the tent of Shiloh, the tent which placed among men;
61 and delivered strength into captivity, glory into the adversary’s hand.
62 also gave people over to the sword, and was angry with inheritance.
63 devoured their young men; and their .
64 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows .
65 Then awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
66 ; put them to a perpetual reproach.
67 Moreover the of Joseph, and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
68 but chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which loved.
69 built sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which have established forever.
70 also chose David servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
71 from following the ewes that have their young, brought him to Jacob, people, and Israel, inheritance.
72 So according to the integrity of heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of hands.