1A contemplation by Asaph. Hear my teaching, my…
2I will open my mouth in a parable.…
3which we have heard and known, and our…
4We will not hide them from their children,…
5For he established a covenant in Jacob, and…
6that the generation to come might know, even…
7that they might set their hope in God,…
8and might not be as their fathers— a…
9The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying…
10They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to…
11They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that…
12He did marvelous things in the sight of…
13He split the sea, and caused them to…
14In the daytime he also led them with…
15He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave…
16He brought streams also out of the rock,…
17Yet they still went on to sin against…
18They tempted God in their heart by asking…
19Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can…
20Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters…
21Therefore the LORD heard, and was angry. A…
22because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t…
23Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened…
24He rained down manna on them to eat,…
25Man ate the bread of angels. He sent…
26He caused the east wind to blow in…
27He also rained meat on them as the…
28He let them fall in the middle of…
29So they ate, and were well filled. He…
30They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food…
31when the anger of God went up against…
32For all this they still sinned, and didn’t…
33Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and…
34When he killed them, then they inquired after…
35They remembered that God was their rock, the…
36But they flattered him with their mouth, and…
37For their heart was not right with him,…
38But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t…
39He remembered that they were but flesh, a…
40How often they rebelled against him in the…
41They turned again and tempted God, and provoked…
42They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day…
43how he set his signs in Egypt, his…
44he turned their rivers into blood, and their…
45He sent among them swarms of flies, which…
46He also gave their increase to the caterpillar,…
47He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore…
48He also gave over their livestock to the…
49He threw on them the fierceness of his…
50He made a path for his anger. He…
51and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the…
52But he led out his own people like…
53He led them safely, so that they weren’t…
54He brought them to the border of his…
55He also drove out the nations before them,…
56Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most…
57but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their…
58For they provoked him to anger with their…
59When God heard this, he was angry, and…
60so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh,…
61and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory…
62He also gave his people over to the…
63Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had…
64Their priests fell by the sword, and their…
65Then the Lord awakened as one out of…
66He struck his adversaries backward. He put them…
67Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and…
68But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion…
69He built his sanctuary like the heights, like…
70He also chose David his servant, and took…
71from following the ewes that have their young,…
72So he was their shepherd according to the…
