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Themes in Psalm 78
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Themes in Psalm 78

Psalm 78:1

A Maskil of Asaph.My people, hear my instruction;
listen to what I say.

Psalm 78:2

I will declare wise sayings;
I will speak mysteries from the past—

Psalm 78:3

things we have heard and known
and that our fathers have passed down to us.

Psalm 78:4

We must not hide them from their children,
but must tell a future generation
the praises of the Lord,
His might, and the wonderful works
He has performed.

Psalm 78:5

He established a testimony in Jacob
and set up a law in Israel,
which He commanded our fathers
to teach to their children

Psalm 78:6

so that a future generation—
children yet to be born—might know.
They were to rise and tell their children

Psalm 78:7

so that they might put their confidence in God
and not forget God’s works,
but keep His commands.

Psalm 78:8

Then they would not be like their fathers,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation whose heart was not loyal
and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Psalm 78:9

The Ephraimite archers turned back
on the day of battle.

Psalm 78:10

They did not keep God’s covenant
and refused to live by His law.

Psalm 78:11

They forgot what He had done,
the wonderful works He had shown them.

Psalm 78:12

He worked wonders in the sight of their fathers
in the land of Egypt, the region of Zoan.

Psalm 78:13

He split the sea and brought them across;
the water stood firm like a wall.
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 78:14

He led them with a cloud by day
and with a fiery light throughout the night.

Psalm 78:15

He split rocks in the wilderness
and gave them drink as abundant as the depths.

Psalm 78:16

He brought streams out of the stone
and made water flow down like rivers.

Psalm 78:17

But they continued to sin against Him,
rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

Psalm 78:18

They deliberately tested God,
demanding the food they craved.

Psalm 78:19

They spoke against God, saying,
“Is God able to provide food in the wilderness?

Psalm 78:20

Look! He struck the rock and water gushed out;
torrents overflowed.
But can He also provide bread
or furnish meat for His people?”

Psalm 78:21

Therefore, the Lord heard and became furious;
then fire broke out against Jacob,
and anger flared up against Israel

Psalm 78:22

because they did not believe God
or rely on His salvation.

Psalm 78:23

He gave a command to the clouds above
and opened the doors of heaven.

Psalm 78:24

He rained manna for them to eat;
He gave them grain from heaven.

Psalm 78:25

People ate the bread of angels.
He sent them an abundant supply of food.

Psalm 78:26

He made the east wind blow in the skies
and drove the south wind by His might.

Psalm 78:27

He rained meat on them like dust,
and winged birds like the sand of the seas.

Psalm 78:28

He made them fall in His camp,
all around His tent.

Psalm 78:29

They ate and were completely satisfied,
for He gave them what they craved.

Psalm 78:30

Before they had satisfied their desire,
while the food was still in their mouths,

Psalm 78:31

God’s anger flared up against them,
and He killed some of their best men.
He struck down Israel’s choice young men.

Psalm 78:32

Despite all this, they kept sinning
and did not believe His wonderful works.

Psalm 78:33

He made their days end in futility,
their years in sudden disaster.

Psalm 78:34

When He killed some of them,
the rest began to seek Him;
they repented and searched for God.

Psalm 78:35

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

Psalm 78:36

But they deceived Him with their mouths,
they lied to Him with their tongues,

Psalm 78:37

their hearts were insincere toward Him,
and they were unfaithful to His covenant.

Psalm 78:38

Yet He was compassionate;
He atoned for their guilt
and did not destroy them.
He often turned His anger aside
and did not unleash all His wrath.

Psalm 78:39

He remembered that they were only flesh,
a wind that passes and does not return.

Psalm 78:40

How often they rebelled against Him
in the wilderness
and grieved Him in the desert.

Psalm 78:41

They constantly tested God
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 78:42

They did not remember His power shown
on the day He redeemed them from the foe,

Psalm 78:43

when He performed His miraculous signs in Egypt
and His wonders in the region of Zoan.

Psalm 78:44

He turned their rivers into blood,
and they could not drink from their streams.

Psalm 78:45

He sent among them swarms of flies,
which fed on them,
and frogs, which devastated them.

Psalm 78:46

He gave their crops to the caterpillar
and the fruit of their labor to the locust.

Psalm 78:47

He killed their vines with hail
and their sycamore fig trees with a flood.

Psalm 78:48

He handed over their livestock to hail
and their cattle to lightning bolts.

Psalm 78:49

He sent His burning anger against them:
fury, indignation, and calamity—
a band of deadly messengers.

Psalm 78:50

He cleared a path for His anger.
He did not spare them from death
but delivered their lives to the plague.

Psalm 78:51

He struck all the firstborn in Egypt,
the first progeny of the tents of Ham.

Psalm 78:52

He led His people out like sheep
and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

Psalm 78:53

He led them safely, and they were not afraid;
but the sea covered their enemies.

Psalm 78:54

He brought them to His holy land,
to the mountain His right hand acquired.
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 78:55

He drove out nations before them.
He apportioned their inheritance by lot
and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

Psalm 78:56

But they rebelliously tested the Most High God,
for they did not keep His decrees.
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 78:57

They treacherously turned away like their fathers;
they became warped like a faulty bow.

Psalm 78:58

They enraged Him with their high places
and provoked His jealousy with their carved images.

Psalm 78:59

God heard and became furious;
He completely rejected Israel.

Psalm 78:60

He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh,
the tent where He resided among men.

Psalm 78:61

He gave up His strength to captivity
and His splendor to the hand of a foe.

Psalm 78:62

He surrendered His people to the sword
because He was enraged with His heritage.

Psalm 78:63

Fire consumed His chosen young men,
and His young women had no wedding songs.

Psalm 78:64

His priests fell by the sword,
but the widows could not lament.

Psalm 78:65

Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep,
like a warrior from the effects of wine.
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 78:66

He beat back His foes;
He gave them lasting shame.

Psalm 78:67

He rejected the tent of Joseph
and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.

Psalm 78:68

He chose instead the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which He loved.
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 78:69

He built His sanctuary like the heights,
like the earth that He established forever.

Psalm 78:70

He chose David His servant
and took him from the sheepfolds;

Psalm 78:71

He brought him from tending ewes
to be shepherd over His people Jacob—
over Israel, His inheritance.

Psalm 78:72

He shepherded them with a pure heart
and guided them with his skillful hands.
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