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Themes in Psalm 78
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Themes in Psalm 78

Psalm 78:1

Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

Psalm 78:2

I will open my mouth in a parable. 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 children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.

Psalm 78:5

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

Psalm 78:6

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

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 did not make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Psalm 78:9

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

Psalm 78:10

They did not keep God's covenant, and refused to walk by his Law.

Psalm 78:11

They forgot his doings, 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 split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 78:14

In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all 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 still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

Psalm 78:18

They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

Psalm 78:19

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

Psalm 78:20

Behold, he struck 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 the LORD heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, 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

He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them bread from heaven.

Psalm 78:25

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

Psalm 78:26

He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.

Psalm 78:27

He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.

Psalm 78:28

He let them fall in the midst of their camp, around their habitations.

Psalm 78:29

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

Psalm 78:30

They did not turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

Psalm 78:31

when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of the fattest of them, and struck 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. They returned and sought God earnestly.

Psalm 78:35

They remembered that God was their rock, 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, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

Psalm 78:38

But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and did not destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

Psalm 78:39

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.

Psalm 78:40

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

Psalm 78:41

They turned again and tempted God, and gave pain to 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, his wonders in the field of Zoan,

Psalm 78:44

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

Psalm 78:47

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

Psalm 78:48

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

Psalm 78:49

He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of destroying angels.

Psalm 78:50

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

Psalm 78:51

and struck all the firstborn 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

He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

Psalm 78:54

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

Psalm 78:55

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

Psalm 78:56

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and did not keep 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 engraved images.

Psalm 78:59

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

Psalm 78:60

So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

Psalm 78:61

and delivered his strength into captivity, his 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. Their virgins had no wedding song.

Psalm 78:64

Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep.

Psalm 78:65

Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 78:66

He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.

Psalm 78:67

Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,

Psalm 78:68

But chose 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 which he has established forever.

Psalm 78:70

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

Psalm 78:71

from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him 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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