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Psalms Chapter 78

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PSALMS

Psalms 78

1Give ear, O my people, to my law: Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Isaiah 55:3, Isaiah 51:4, Isaiah 55:3, Isaiah 51:4, Psalms 49:1
2I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,
Matthew 13:34, Matthew 13:35, Matthew 13:34, Matthew 13:35, Mark 4:34
3Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.
Psalms 44:1, Psalms 44:1, Psalms 48:8, Exodus 13:8, Exodus 13:14
4We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, And his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done.
Deuteronomy 11:19, Deuteronomy 11:19, Psalms 145:4, Psalms 145:6, Psalms 145:4
5For 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 children;
Deuteronomy 6:7, Deuteronomy 6:7, Ephesians 6:4, Ephesians 6:4, Psalms 81:5
6That the generation to come might knowthem, even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tellthemto their children,
Psalms 102:18, Psalms 102:18, Joel 1:3, Psalms 22:31, Psalms 145:4
7That they might set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep his commandments,
Deuteronomy 5:29, Deuteronomy 5:29, Revelation 14:12, Revelation 14:12, 1 John 5:3
8And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that set not their heart aright, And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
Psalms 78:37, Psalms 78:37, Exodus 32:9, Exodus 32:9, 2 Kings 17:14
9The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.
Deuteronomy 1:41, Deuteronomy 1:44, Joshua 17:16, Joshua 17:18, Deuteronomy 1:41
10They kept not the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law;
Judges 2:10, Judges 2:12, Nehemiah 9:26, Nehemiah 9:29, Deuteronomy 31:16
11And they forgat his doings, And his wondrous works that he had showed them.
Psalms 106:13, Psalms 106:13, Psalms 78:7, Jeremiah 2:32, Deuteronomy 32:18
12Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Numbers 13:22, Numbers 13:22, Ezekiel 30:14, Isaiah 19:11, Ezekiel 30:14
13He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to stand as a heap.
Exodus 14:21, Exodus 14:21, Exodus 15:8, Exodus 15:8, Psalms 106:9
14In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, And all the night with a light of fire.
Psalms 105:39, Psalms 105:39, Exodus 13:21, Exodus 13:22, Exodus 14:24
15He clave rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
Psalms 105:41, Exodus 17:6, Numbers 20:11, Psalms 105:41, Exodus 17:6
16He brought streams also out of the rock, And caused waters to run down like rivers.
Deuteronomy 8:15, Numbers 20:10, Numbers 20:11, Numbers 20:8, Deuteronomy 8:15
17Yet went they on still to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
Isaiah 63:10, Isaiah 63:10, Deuteronomy 9:8, Psalms 106:13, Psalms 106:32
18And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.
Numbers 11:4, Deuteronomy 6:16, Numbers 11:4, Deuteronomy 6:16, 1 Corinthians 10:9
19Yea, they spake against God; They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
Numbers 21:5, Numbers 21:5, Numbers 11:4, Numbers 11:4, Exodus 16:3
20Behold, he smote the rock, so that waters gushed out, And streams overflowed; Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?
Numbers 20:11, Numbers 20:11, Genesis 18:12, Genesis 18:14, Genesis 18:12
21Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; And a fire was kindled against Jacob, And anger also went up against Israel;
Numbers 11:1, Numbers 11:3, Numbers 11:1, Numbers 11:3, Jude 1:5
22Because they believed not in God, And trusted not in his salvation.
Hebrews 3:18, Hebrews 3:19, Hebrews 3:18, Hebrews 3:19, Hebrews 11:6
23Yet he commanded the skies above, And opened the doors of heaven;
Genesis 7:11, Genesis 7:11, Malachi 3:10, Malachi 3:10, 2 Kings 7:19
24And he rained down manna upon them to eat, And gave them food from heaven.
Exodus 16:4, Exodus 16:4, Psalms 105:40, Psalms 105:40, Exodus 16:14
25Man did eat the bread of the mighty: He sent them food to the full.
Matthew 14:20, Matthew 15:37, Matthew 14:20, Matthew 15:37, Psalms 103:20
26He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens; And by his power he guided the south wind.
Numbers 11:31, Numbers 11:31, Psalms 135:7, Psalms 135:7
27He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, And winged birds as the sand of the seas:
Exodus 16:12, Exodus 16:13, Exodus 16:12, Exodus 16:13, Numbers 11:18
28And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, Round about their habitations.
29So they did eat, and were well filled; And he gave them their own desire.
Psalms 106:15, Psalms 106:15, Numbers 11:19, Numbers 11:20, Numbers 11:19
30They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths,
Numbers 11:33, Numbers 11:34, Numbers 11:33, Numbers 11:34, Proverbs 1:32
31When the anger of God went up against them, And slew of the fattest of them, And smote down the young men of Israel.
Isaiah 10:16, Isaiah 10:16
32For all this they sinned still, And believed not in his wondrous works.
John 12:37, Psalms 78:22, John 12:37, Psalms 78:22, Numbers 14:1
33Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.
Numbers 14:35, Numbers 14:29, Numbers 14:35, Numbers 14:29, Numbers 26:64
34When he slew them, then they inquired after him; And they returned and sought God earnestly.
Hosea 5:15, Hosea 5:15, Numbers 21:7, Judges 3:12, Judges 3:15
35And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their redeemer.
Deuteronomy 32:4, Deuteronomy 32:4, Exodus 15:13, Isaiah 41:14, Exodus 15:13
36But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied unto him with their tongue.
Ezekiel 33:31, Ezekiel 33:31, Isaiah 29:13, Isaiah 29:13, Psalms 18:44
37For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant.
Acts 8:21, Psalms 78:8, Acts 8:21, Psalms 78:8, Psalms 51:10
38But he, being merciful, forgave theiriniquity, and destroyedthemnot: Yea, many a time turned he his anger away, And did not stir up all his wrath.
Numbers 14:18, Numbers 14:20, Isaiah 48:9, Numbers 14:18, Numbers 14:20
39And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
Genesis 6:3, James 4:14, Job 7:7, Genesis 6:3, James 4:14
40How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!
Ephesians 4:30, Ephesians 4:30, Psalms 95:8, Psalms 95:10, Psalms 95:8
41And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.
Hebrews 3:8, Hebrews 3:11, Numbers 14:22, Hebrews 3:8, Hebrews 3:11
42They remembered not his hand, Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
Exodus 14:12, Judges 8:34, Jeremiah 32:21, Exodus 14:12, Judges 8:34
43How he set his signs in Egypt, And his wonders in the field of Zoan,
Deuteronomy 4:34, Deuteronomy 6:22, Psalms 135:9, Exodus 4:21, Psalms 105:27
44And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink.
Psalms 105:29, Psalms 105:29, Revelation 16:3, Revelation 16:6, Exodus 7:17
45He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; And frogs, which destroyed them.
Exodus 8:21, Exodus 8:24, Psalms 105:30, Psalms 105:31, Exodus 8:21
46He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, And their labor unto the locust.
Psalms 105:34, Psalms 105:35, Exodus 10:12, Exodus 10:15, Psalms 105:34
47He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycomore-trees with frost.
Psalms 105:32, Psalms 105:33, Exodus 9:18, Exodus 9:34, Psalms 105:32
48He gave over their cattle also to the hail, And their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
Exodus 9:19, Exodus 9:28, Exodus 9:19, Exodus 9:28
49He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, and indignation, and trouble, A band of angels of evil.
1 Kings 22:21, 1 Kings 22:22, Psalms 11:6, Exodus 12:13, Exodus 15:7
50He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,
Ezekiel 7:4, Ezekiel 7:4, Romans 8:32, Ezekiel 8:18, 2 Peter 2:4
51And smote all the first-born in Egypt, The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
Psalms 105:23, Psalms 105:23, Psalms 135:8, Psalms 106:22, Psalms 135:8
52But he led forth his own people like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
Psalms 77:20, Psalms 77:20, Isaiah 63:11, Isaiah 63:14, Nehemiah 9:12
53And he led them safely, so that they feared not; But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
Exodus 14:19, Exodus 14:20, Exodus 14:19, Exodus 14:20, Exodus 15:10
54And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had gotten.
Psalms 44:3, Psalms 44:3, Exodus 15:17, Exodus 15:17, Ephesians 1:14
55He drove out the nations also before them, And allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
Joshua 13:7, Psalms 44:2, Joshua 13:7, Psalms 44:2, Nehemiah 9:22
56Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;
Judges 2:11, Judges 2:12, Judges 2:11, Judges 2:12, 2 Kings 17:7
57But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
Hosea 7:16, Hosea 7:16, Ezekiel 20:27, Ezekiel 20:28, Ezekiel 20:27
58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Deuteronomy 32:21, Deuteronomy 32:21, Leviticus 26:30, Leviticus 26:30, Deuteronomy 12:2
59When God heardthis, he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;
Psalms 106:40, Psalms 106:40, Psalms 14:2, Psalms 14:5, Leviticus 26:44
60So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent which he placed among men;
Joshua 18:1, Joshua 18:1, 1 Samuel 4:4, 1 Samuel 4:11, Jeremiah 26:6
61And delivered his strength into captivity, And his glory into the adversary’s hand.
Psalms 132:8, Psalms 132:8, 1 Samuel 4:21, 1 Samuel 5:2, 1 Samuel 4:17
62He gave his people over also unto the sword, And was wroth with his inheritance.
1 Samuel 4:2, 1 Samuel 4:10, 1 Samuel 4:11, Psalms 89:38, Isaiah 64:9
63Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song.
Jeremiah 7:34, Jeremiah 7:34, Jeremiah 16:9, Jeremiah 16:9, Psalms 78:21
64Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation.
1 Samuel 4:17, Job 27:15, 1 Samuel 4:17, Job 27:15, 1 Samuel 4:11
65Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
Psalms 44:23, Psalms 44:23, Psalms 7:6, Isaiah 42:13, Isaiah 42:14
66And he smote his adversaries backward: He put them to a perpetual reproach.
1 Samuel 5:6, 1 Samuel 5:6, Jeremiah 23:40, Job 40:12, Jeremiah 23:40
67Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph, And chose not the tribe of Ephraim,
2 Samuel 6:17, 2 Samuel 6:2, 1 Samuel 6:21, 1 Samuel 7:1, 2 Samuel 6:17
68But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he loved.
Psalms 87:2, Psalms 87:2, Psalms 132:12, Psalms 132:14, Psalms 132:12
69And he built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he hath established for ever.
1 Chronicles 29:1, 1 Chronicles 29:19, Revelation 20:11, 1 Samuel 2:8, Psalms 102:25
70He chose David also his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds:
1 Samuel 16:11, 1 Samuel 16:12, 1 Samuel 16:11, 1 Samuel 16:12, Acts 13:22
71From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
2 Samuel 5:2, 2 Samuel 5:2, 1 Chronicles 11:2, 1 Chronicles 11:2, 1 Samuel 2:7
72So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
1 Kings 9:4, 1 Kings 9:4, 2 Timothy 2:15, 2 Timothy 2:15, Isaiah 11:2

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