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Themes in Psalm 78
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Themes in Psalm 78

Psalm 78:1

Give ear, O my people, to my law. Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

Psalm 78:2

I will open my mouth in parable{s (LXX/NT)}. I will utter dark sayings of old,

Psalm 78:3

which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

Psalm 78:4

We will not hide them from their sons, telling to the generation to come the praises of LORD, and his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.

Psalm 78:5

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their sons,

Psalm 78:6

that the generation to come might know, even the sons who should be born, who should arise and tell to their sons,

Psalm 78:7

that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,

Psalm 78:8

and might not be as their fathers: a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Psalm 78:9

The sons of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

Psalm 78:10

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

Psalm 78:11

And they forgot his doings, and his wondrous works that he had shown them.

Psalm 78:12

He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

Psalm 78:13

He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through. And he made the waters to stand as a heap.
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 78:14

In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.

Psalm 78:15

He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

Psalm 78:16

He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

Psalm 78:17

Yet they went on to still sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

Psalm 78:18

And they challenged God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

Psalm 78:19

Yea, they spoke against God. They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

Psalm 78:20

Behold, he smote the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?

Psalm 78:21

Therefore LORD heard, and was angry. And a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel,

Psalm 78:22

because they did not believe in God, and did not trust in his salvation.

Psalm 78:23

Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven,

Psalm 78:24

and he rained down manna upon them to eat, and gave them food from heaven.

Psalm 78:25

Man ate the bread of the mighty. He sent them food to the full.

Psalm 78:26

He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens, and by his power he guided the south wind.

Psalm 78:27

He also rained flesh upon them as the dust, and winged birds as the sand of the seas.

Psalm 78:28

And he let it fall in the midst of their camp round about their habitations.

Psalm 78:29

So they ate, and were well filled, and he gave them their own desire.

Psalm 78:30

They were not estranged from that which they desired. Their food was yet in their mouths

Psalm 78:31

when the anger of God went up against them, and killed of the fattest of them, and smote down the young men of Israel.

Psalm 78:32

For all this they still sinned, and did not believe in his wondrous works.

Psalm 78:33

Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

Psalm 78:34

When he killed them, then they inquired after him, and they returned and sought God earnestly.

Psalm 78:35

And they remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God their redeemer.

Psalm 78:36

But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

Psalm 78:37

For their heart was not right with him, nor were they faithful in his covenant.

Psalm 78:38

But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and destroyed not. Yea, many a time he turned his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

Psalm 78:39

And he remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and comes not again.

Psalm 78:40

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

Psalm 78:41

And they turned again and challenged God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 78:42

They did not remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary,

Psalm 78:43

how he set his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan,

Psalm 78:44

and turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.

Psalm 78:45

He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.

Psalm 78:46

He also gave their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

Psalm 78:47

He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost.

Psalm 78:48

He also gave over their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

Psalm 78:49

He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, a band of [heavenly] agents of evil.

Psalm 78:50

He made a path for his anger. He spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,

Psalm 78:51

and smote all the first-born in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.

Psalm 78:52

But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

Psalm 78:53

And he led them safely, so that they feared not, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

Psalm 78:54

And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had gotten.
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 78:55

He also drove out the nations before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

Psalm 78:56

Yet they challenged and rebelled against the Most High God, and kept not his testimonies,
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 78:57

but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

Psalm 78:58

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

Psalm 78:59

When God heard, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel,

Psalm 78:60

so that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men,

Psalm 78:61

and delivered their strength into captivity, and their glory into the adversary's hand.

Psalm 78:62

He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.

Psalm 78:63

Fire devoured their young men, and their virgins had no marriage-song.

Psalm 78:64

Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.

Psalm 78:65

Then LORD awoke as out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts because of wine.
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 78:66

And he smote his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.

Psalm 78:67

Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim,

Psalm 78:68

but chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 78:69

And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.

Psalm 78:70

He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds.

Psalm 78:71

He brought him from following the ewes that have their young, to be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

Psalm 78:72

So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
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