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A maskil of Asaph. Give ear, my people, to my teaching, turn your ear to what I say.

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I will expound a theme, hold forth on the lessons of the pastu2014

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things we have heard and known, that our ancestors have told us.

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We will not withhold them from their children, telling the coming generation the praises of GOD and of divine might, and the wonders performed.

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[God] established a decree in Jacob, ordained a teaching in Israel, charging our ancestors to make them known to their children,

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that a future generation might knowu2014 children yet to be bornu2014 and in turn tell their children

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that they might put their confidence in God, and not forget Godu2019s great deeds, but observe the commandments,

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and not be like their ancestors, a wayward and defiant generation, a generation whose heart was inconstant, whose spirit was not true to God.

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Like the Ephraimite archers who played false in the day of battle,

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they did not keep Godu2019s covenant, they refused to follow divine instruction;

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they forgot what was done for them and the wonders they were shown.

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[God] performed marvels in the sight of their ancestors, in the land of Egypt, the plain of Zoan.

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[God] split the sea and took them through itu2014 making the waters stand like a wall.

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[God] led them with a cloud by day, and throughout the night by the light of fire.

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[God] split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as if from the great deep.

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[God] brought forth streams from a rock and made them flow down like a river.

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But they went on sinning, defying the Most High in the parched land.

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To test God was in their mind when they demanded food for themselves.

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They spoke against God, saying, u201cCan God spread a feast in the wilderness?

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True, [God] struck the rock and waters flowed, streams gushed forth; but can [God] provide bread and supply meat for this people?u201d

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GOD heard and then raged; fire broke out against Jacob, anger flared up at Israel,

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because they did not put their trust in God, did not rely on divine deliverance.

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So [God] commanded the skies above, opened the doors of heaven

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and rained manna upon them for food, giving them heavenly grain.

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Each person ate a herou2019s meal; they were sent provision in plenty.

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[God] set the east wind moving in heaven, and drove the south wind mightily.

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[God] rained meat on them like dust, winged birds like the sands of the sea,

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making them come down inside Godu2019s camp, around the divine dwelling-place.

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They ate till they were sated; they were given what they craved.

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They had not yet wearied of what they craved, the food was still in their mouths

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when Godu2019s anger flared up at them. [God] slew their sturdiest, struck down the youth of Israel.

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Nonetheless, they went on sinning and had no faith in Godu2019s wonders.

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Their days were made to end in futility, their years in sudden death.

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When stricken, they returned, and sought God once again.

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They remembered that God was their rock, God Most High, their Redeemer.

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Yet they deceived [God] with their speech, and lied with their words.

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Their hearts were inconstant; they were untrue to the covenant.

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But [God], being merciful, forgave iniquity and would not destroyu2014 restraining wrath time and again and not giving full vent to such furyu2014

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remembering that they were but flesh, a passing breath that does not return.

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How often did they act defiantly in the wilderness, then cause grief in the wasteland!

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Again and again they tested God, vexed the Holy One of Israel.

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They did not remember Godu2019s strength, or the day they were redeemed from the foe;

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how [God] displayed signs in Egypt, and wonders in the plain of Zoan.

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[God first] turned their rivers into bloodu2014 making their waters undrinkable;

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then inflicted upon them swarms of insects to devour them, frogs to destroy them;

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then gave their crops over to grubs, their produce to locusts;

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then killed their vines with hail, their sycamores with frost;

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then gave their beasts over to hail, their cattle to lightning bolts;

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and inflicted a burning anger upon themu2014 wrath, indignation, trouble, a band of deadly messengers.

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[God] cleared a path for that anger, and did not stop short of slaying them, but gave them over to pestilence.

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[God] struck every [male] first-born in Egypt, the first fruits of their vigor in the tents of Ham.

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Godu2019s own people were set moving like sheep, driven like a flock in the wilderness.

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[God] led them in safety; they were unafraid; as for their enemies, the sea covered them.

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[God] brought them to the holy realm, the mountain Godu2019s right hand had acquired.

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[God] expelled nations before them, settled the tribes of Israel in their tents, allotting them their portion by the line.

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Yet they defiantly tested God Most High, and did not observe divine decrees.

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They fell away, disloyal like their ancestors; they played false like a treacherous bow.

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They provoked anger with their high places; they kindled wrath with their idols.

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God heard it and was enragedu2014 utterly rejecting Israel.

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[God] forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent that had been set among mortals.

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Godu2019s might was allowed to go into captivity, that glory into the hands of the foe.

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This people was given over to the sword; Godu2019s very own the object of rage.

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Fire consumed their young men, and their maidens remained unwed.

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Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows could not weep.

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The Sovereign awoke as from sleepu2014 like a warrior shaking off wineu2014

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and beat back all foes, dealing them lasting disgrace.

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[God] rejected the clan of Joseph and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.

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[God] did choose the tribe of Judahu2014 Mount Zion, which was belovedu2014

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building the Sanctuary like the heavens, like the earth that [God] established forever.

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David, Godu2019s servant, was chosen, and taken from the sheepfolds.

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He was brought from minding the nursing ewes to tend the people of Jacob, Israel, Godu2019s very own.

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He tended them with blameless heart; with skillful hands he led them.