1Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

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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,

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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.

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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 the Lord, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.

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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 teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

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Deuteronomy 6:7, Deuteronomy 6:7, Ephesians 6:4, Ephesians 6:4, Psalms 81:5

6that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,

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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,

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

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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.

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Deuteronomy 1:41, Deuteronomy 1:44, Joshua 17:16, Joshua 17:18, Deuteronomy 1:41

10They did not keep God's covenant, and refused to walk by his Law.

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Judges 2:10, Judges 2:12, Nehemiah 9:26, Nehemiah 9:29, Deuteronomy 31:16

11They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown them.

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Psalms 106:13, Psalms 106:13, Psalms 78:7, Jeremiah 2:32, Deuteronomy 32:18

12He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

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Numbers 13:22, Numbers 13:22, Ezekiel 30:14, Isaiah 19:11, Ezekiel 30:14

13He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.

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Exodus 14:21, Exodus 14:21, Exodus 15:8, Exodus 15:8, Psalms 106:9

14In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.

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Psalms 105:39, Psalms 105:39, Exodus 13:21, Exodus 13:22, Exodus 14:24

15He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

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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.

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Deuteronomy 8:15, Numbers 20:10, Numbers 20:11, Numbers 20:8, Deuteronomy 8:15

17Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

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Isaiah 63:10, Isaiah 63:10, Deuteronomy 9:8, Psalms 106:13, Psalms 106:32

18They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

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Numbers 11:4, Deuteronomy 6:16, Numbers 11:4, Deuteronomy 6:16, 1 Corinthians 10:9

19Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

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Numbers 21:5, Numbers 21:5, Numbers 11:4, Numbers 11:4, Exodus 16:3

20Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?"

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Numbers 20:11, Numbers 20:11, Genesis 18:12, Genesis 18:14, Genesis 18:12

21Therefore the Lord heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,

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Numbers 11:1, Numbers 11:3, Numbers 11:1, Numbers 11:3, Jude 1:5

22because they did not believe in God, and did not trust in his salvation.

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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.

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Genesis 7:11, Genesis 7:11, Malachi 3:10, Malachi 3:10, 2 Kings 7:19

24He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them bread from heaven.

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Exodus 16:4, Exodus 16:4, Psalms 105:40, Psalms 105:40, Exodus 16:14

25Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.

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Matthew 14:20, Matthew 15:37, Matthew 14:20, Matthew 15:37, Psalms 103:20

26He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.

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Numbers 11:31, Numbers 11:31, Psalms 135:7, Psalms 135:7

27He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.

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Exodus 16:12, Exodus 16:13, Exodus 16:12, Exodus 16:13, Numbers 11:18

28He let them fall in the midst of their camp, around their habitations.

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29So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.

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Psalms 106:15, Psalms 106:15, Numbers 11:19, Numbers 11:20, Numbers 11:19

30They did not turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

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Numbers 11:33, Numbers 11:34, Numbers 11:33, Numbers 11:34, Proverbs 1:32

31when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of the fattest of them, and struck down the young men of Israel.

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Isaiah 10:16, Isaiah 10:16

32For all this they still sinned, and did not believe in his wondrous works.

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John 12:37, Psalms 78:22, John 12:37, Psalms 78:22, Numbers 14:1

33Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

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Numbers 14:35, Numbers 14:29, Numbers 14:35, Numbers 14:29, Numbers 26:64

34When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

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Hosea 5:15, Hosea 5:15, Numbers 21:7, Judges 3:12, Judges 3:15

35They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.

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Deuteronomy 32:4, Deuteronomy 32:4, Exodus 15:13, Isaiah 41:14, Exodus 15:13

36But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

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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.

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Acts 8:21, Psalms 78:8, Acts 8:21, Psalms 78:8, Psalms 51:10

38But 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.

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Numbers 14:18, Numbers 14:20, Isaiah 48:9, Numbers 14:18, Numbers 14:20

39He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.

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Genesis 6:3, James 4:14, Job 7:7, Genesis 6:3, James 4:14

40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

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Ephesians 4:30, Ephesians 4:30, Psalms 95:8, Psalms 95:10, Psalms 95:8

41They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

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Hebrews 3:8, Hebrews 3:11, Numbers 14:22, Hebrews 3:8, Hebrews 3:11

42They did not remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

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Exodus 14:12, Judges 8:34, Jeremiah 32:21, Exodus 14:12, Judges 8:34

43how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,

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Deuteronomy 4:34, Deuteronomy 6:22, Psalms 135:9, Exodus 4:21, Psalms 105:27

44he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.

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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.

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Exodus 8:21, Exodus 8:24, Psalms 105:30, Psalms 105:31, Exodus 8:21

46He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

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Psalms 105:34, Psalms 105:35, Exodus 10:12, Exodus 10:15, Psalms 105:34

47He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.

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Psalms 105:32, Psalms 105:33, Exodus 9:18, Exodus 9:34, Psalms 105:32

48He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

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Exodus 9:19, Exodus 9:28, Exodus 9:19, Exodus 9:28

49He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of destroying angels.

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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 did not spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,

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Ezekiel 7:4, Ezekiel 7:4, Romans 8:32, Ezekiel 8:18, 2 Peter 2:4

51and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.

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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.

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Psalms 77:20, Psalms 77:20, Isaiah 63:11, Isaiah 63:14, Nehemiah 9:12

53He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

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Exodus 14:19, Exodus 14:20, Exodus 14:19, Exodus 14:20, Exodus 15:10

54He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.

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Psalms 44:3, Psalms 44:3, Exodus 15:17, Exodus 15:17, Ephesians 1:14

55He 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.

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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 did not keep his testimonies;

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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.

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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 engraved images.

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Deuteronomy 32:21, Deuteronomy 32:21, Leviticus 26:30, Leviticus 26:30, Deuteronomy 12:2

59When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;

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Psalms 106:40, Psalms 106:40, Psalms 14:2, Psalms 14:5, Leviticus 26:44

60So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

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Joshua 18:1, Joshua 18:1, 1 Samuel 4:4, 1 Samuel 4:11, Jeremiah 26:6

61and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary's hand.

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Psalms 132:8, Psalms 132:8, 1 Samuel 4:21, 1 Samuel 5:2, 1 Samuel 4:17

62He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.

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1 Samuel 4:2, 1 Samuel 4:10, 1 Samuel 4:11, Psalms 89:38, Isaiah 64:9

63Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.

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Jeremiah 7:34, Jeremiah 7:34, Jeremiah 16:9, Jeremiah 16:9, Psalms 78:21

64Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep.

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1 Samuel 4:17, Job 27:15, 1 Samuel 4:17, Job 27:15, 1 Samuel 4:11

65Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

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Psalms 44:23, Psalms 44:23, Psalms 7:6, Isaiah 42:13, Isaiah 42:14

66He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.

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1 Samuel 5:6, 1 Samuel 5:6, Jeremiah 23:40, Job 40:12, Jeremiah 23:40

67Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,

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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, Mount Zion which he loved.

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Psalms 87:2, Psalms 87:2, Psalms 132:12, Psalms 132:14, Psalms 132:12

69He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.

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1 Chronicles 29:1, 1 Chronicles 29:19, Revelation 20:11, 1 Samuel 2:8, Psalms 102:25

70He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

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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.

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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 skillfulness of his hands.

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1 Kings 9:4, 1 Kings 9:4, 2 Timothy 2:15, 2 Timothy 2:15, Isaiah 11:2