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Book of Psalms, No. 78

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No. 78 of the Psalms—American Standard Version (ASV)

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

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Or, teaching
  2. ^ Or, that prepared not their heart
  3. ^ Or, a dry land
  4. ^ Or, for themselves
  5. ^ Hebrew grain.
  6. ^ Or, Every one
  7. ^ Hebrew led forth the east wind.
  8. ^ Or, stedfast
  9. ^ Or, limited
  10. ^ Hebrew killed.
  11. ^ Or, great hailstones
  12. ^ Hebrew A sending.
  13. ^ Hebrew levelled.
  14. ^ Or, their beasts to the murrain
  15. ^ Hebrew beginning. See Dt. 21:17.
  16. ^ Or, his holy border
  17. ^ Or, mountain land

REFERENCES

  1. ^ De 21:17

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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