Psalms 78:9-41

9 The Ephraimites, armed with
Hebrew  armed and shooting
the bow,
bturned back on the day of battle.
10They cdid not keep God’s covenant,
but refused to walk according to his law.
11They dforgot his works
and ethe wonders that he had shown them.
12In the sight of their fathers fhe performed wonders
in the land of Egypt, in gthe fields of Zoan.
13He hdivided the sea and let them pass through it,
and made the waters istand like a heap.
14 jIn the daytime he led them with a cloud,
and all the night with a fiery light.
15He ksplit rocks in the wilderness
and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
16He made streams come out of lthe rock
and caused waters to flow down like rivers.
17 Yet they sinned still more against him,
mrebelling against the Most High in the desert.
18They ntested God in their heart
by demanding the food they craved.
19They spoke against God, saying,
oCan God pspread a table in the wilderness?
20 qHe struck the rock so that water gushed out
and streams overflowed.
Can he also give bread
or provide meat for his people?”
21 Therefore, when the Lord heard, he was full of wrath;
ra fire was kindled against Jacob;
his anger rose against Israel,
22because they sdid not believe in God
and did not trust his saving power.
23Yet he commanded the skies above
and topened the doors of heaven,
24and he urained down on them manna to eat
and gave them vthe grain of heaven.
25Man ate of the bread of wthe angels;
he sent them food xin abundance.
26He ycaused the east wind to blow in the heavens,
and by his power he led out the south wind;
27he rained meat on them like zdust,
winged birds like aathe sand of the seas;
28he ablet them fall in the midst of their camp,
all around their dwellings.
29And they acate and were well filled,
for he gave them what they adcraved.
30But before they had satisfied their craving,
aewhile the food was still in their mouths,
31the anger of God rose against them,
and he killed afthe strongest of them
and laid low agthe young men of Israel.
32 In spite of all this, they ahstill sinned;
aidespite his wonders, they did not believe.
33So he made ajtheir days akvanish like
Hebrew in
a breath,
Or vapor

and their years in terror.
34When he killed them, they ansought him;
they repented and sought God earnestly.
35They remembered that God was their aorock,
the Most High God their apredeemer.
36But they aqflattered him with their mouths;
they arlied to him with their tongues.
37Their asheart was not atsteadfast toward him;
they were not faithful to his covenant.
38Yet he, being aucompassionate,
avatoned for their iniquity
and did not destroy them;
he restrained his anger often
and did not stir up all his wrath.
39He awremembered that they were but axflesh,
aya wind that passes and comes not again.
40How often they azrebelled against him in the wilderness
and bagrieved him in bbthe desert!
41They bctested God again and again
and provoked bdthe Holy One of Israel.
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