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1 - Hear my teaching, my people. Turn 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 Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.

5 - For 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;

6 - that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell 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 that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

9 - The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

10 - They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law.

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

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

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

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

15 - He split 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 they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

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

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

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

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

22 - because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his salvation.

23 - Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.

24 - He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.

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

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

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

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

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

30 - They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

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

32 - For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.

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

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

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

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

37 - For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

38 - But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.

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

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

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

42 - They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

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

44 - he 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 to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

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

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

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

50 - He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,

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

52 - But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

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

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

55 - He 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.

56 - Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep 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 engraved images.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

67 - Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,

68 - But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.

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

70 - He also chose David 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 skillfulness of his hands.