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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, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful 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 know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to 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 forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed 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 divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
Exodus 14:21, Exodus 14:21, Exodus 15:8, Exodus 15:8, Psalms 106:9
14In the daytime 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 the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great 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
17And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
Isaiah 63:10, Isaiah 63:10, Deuteronomy 9:8, Psalms 106:13, Psalms 106:32
18And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
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 furnish 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, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
Numbers 20:11, Numbers 20:11, Genesis 18:12, Genesis 18:14, Genesis 18:12
21Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came 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
23Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
Genesis 7:11, Genesis 7:11, Malachi 3:10, Malachi 3:10, 2 Kings 7:19
24And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
Exodus 16:4, Exodus 16:4, Psalms 105:40, Psalms 105:40, Exodus 16:14
25Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.
Matthew 14:20, Matthew 15:37, Matthew 14:20, Matthew 15:37, Psalms 103:20
26He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
Numbers 11:31, Numbers 11:31, Psalms 135:7, Psalms 135:7
27He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
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: for 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 their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
Numbers 11:33, Numbers 11:34, Numbers 11:33, Numbers 11:34, Proverbs 1:32
31The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
Isaiah 10:16, Isaiah 10:16
32For all this they sinned still, and believed not for 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 trouble.
Numbers 14:35, Numbers 14:29, Numbers 14:35, Numbers 14:29, Numbers 26:64
34When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
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 high God their redeemer.
Deuteronomy 32:4, Deuteronomy 32:4, Exodus 15:13, Isaiah 41:14, Exodus 15:13
36Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
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 stedfast in his covenant.
Acts 8:21, Psalms 78:8, Acts 8:21, Psalms 78:8, Psalms 51:10
38But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: 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
39For 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 provoke 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
41Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited 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 delivered them from the enemy.
Exodus 14:12, Judges 8:34, Jeremiah 32:21, Exodus 14:12, Judges 8:34
43How he had wrought 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 had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
Psalms 105:29, Psalms 105:29, Revelation 16:3, Revelation 16:6, Exodus 7:17
45He sent divers sorts of flies among them, 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 caterpiller, and their labour 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 up 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, by sending evil angels among them.
1 Kings 22:21, 1 Kings 22:22, Psalms 11:6, Exodus 12:13, Exodus 15:7
50He made a way to 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 firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
Psalms 105:23, Psalms 105:23, Psalms 135:8, Psalms 106:22, Psalms 135:8
52But made his own people to go forth 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 on 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, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
Psalms 44:3, Psalms 44:3, Exodus 15:17, Exodus 15:17, Ephesians 1:14
55He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them 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 provoked 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 unfaithfully 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 heard this, 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 enemy’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
63The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
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, and 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 enemies in the hinder parts: 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 tabernacle 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 high palaces, 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 great with young he brought him to feed 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 fed them 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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