781An Instruction of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law, Incline your ear to sayings of my mouth.+2I open with a simile my mouth, I bring forth hidden things of old,+3That we have heard and do know, And our fathers have recounted to us.+4We do not hide from their sons, To a later generation recounting praises of Jehovah, And His strength, and His wonders that He hath done.+5And He raiseth up a testimony in Jacob, And a law hath placed in Israel, That He commanded our fathers, To make them known to their sons.+6So that a later generation doth know, Sons who are born, do rise and recount to their sons,+7And place in God their confidence, And forget not the doings of God, But keep His commands.+8And they are not like their fathers, A generation apostate and rebellious, A generation! it hath not prepared its heart, Nor stedfast with God is its spirit.+9Sons of Ephraim--armed bearers of bow, Have turned in a day of conflict.+10They have not kept the covenant of God, And in His law they have refused to walk,+11And they forget His doings, And His wonders that He shewed them.+12Before their fathers He hath done wonders, In the land of Egypt--the field of Zoan.+13He cleft a sea, and causeth them to pass over, Yea, He causeth waters to stand as a heap.+14And leadeth them with a cloud by day, And all the night with a light of fire.+15He cleaveth rocks in a wilderness, And giveth drink--as the great deep.+16And bringeth out streams from a rock, And causeth waters to come down as rivers.+17And they add still to sin against Him, To provoke the Most High in the dry place.+18And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust.+19And they speak against God--they said: `Is God able to array a table in a wilderness?'+20Lo, He hath smitten a rock, And waters flow, yea, streams overflow. `Also--bread is He able to give? Doth He prepare flesh for His people?'+21Therefore hath Jehovah heard, And He sheweth Himself wroth, And fire hath been kindled against Jacob, And anger also hath gone up against Israel,+22For they have not believed in God, Nor have they trusted in His salvation.+23And He commandeth clouds from above, Yea, doors of the heavens He hath opened.+24And He raineth on them manna to eat, Yea, corn of heaven He hath given to them.+25Food of the mighty hath each eaten, Venison He sent to them to satiety.+26He causeth an east wind to journey in the heavens, And leadeth by His strength a south wind,+27And He raineth on them flesh as dust, And as sand of the seas--winged fowl,+28And causeth it to fall in the midst of His camp, Round about His tabernacles.+29And they eat, and are greatly satisfied, And their desire He bringeth to them.+30They have not been estranged from their desire, Yet is their food in their mouth,+31And the anger of God hath gone up against them, And He slayeth among their fat ones, And youths of Israel He caused to bend.+32With all this they have sinned again, And have not believed in His wonders.+33And He consumeth in vanity their days, And their years in trouble.+34If He slew them, then they sought Him, And turned back, and sought God earnestly,+35And they remember that God is their rock, And God Most High their redeemer.+36And--they deceive Him with their mouth, And with their tongue do lie to Him,+37And their heart hath not been right with Him, And they have not been stedfast in His covenant.+38And He--the Merciful One, Pardoneth iniquity, and destroyeth not, And hath often turned back His anger, And waketh not up all His fury.+39And He remembereth that they are flesh, A wind going on--and it returneth not.+40How often do they provoke Him in the wilderness, Grieve Him in the desolate place?+41Yea, they turn back, and try God, And the Holy One of Israel have limited.+42They have not remembered His hand The day He ransomed them from the adversary.+43When He set His signs in Egypt, And His wonders in the field of Zoan,+44And He turneth to blood their streams, And their floods they drink not.+45He sendeth among them the beetle, and it consumeth them, And the frog, and it destroyeth them,+46And giveth to the caterpillar their increase, And their labour to the locust.+47He destroyeth with hail their vine, And their sycamores with frost,+48And delivereth up to the hail their beasts, And their cattle to the burning flames.+49He sendeth on them the fury of His anger, Wrath, and indignation, and distress--A discharge of evil messengers.+50He pondereth a path for His anger, He kept not back their soul from death, Yea, their life to the pestilence He delivered up.+51And He smiteth every first-born in Egypt, The first-fruit of the strong in tents of Ham.+52And causeth His people to journey as a flock, And guideth them as a drove in a wilderness,+53And He leadeth them confidently, And they have not been afraid, And their enemies hath the sea covered.+54And He bringeth them in unto the border of His sanctuary, This mountain His right hand had got,+55And casteth out nations from before them, And causeth them to fall in the line of inheritance, And causeth the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents,+56And they tempt and provoke God Most High, And His testimonies have not kept.+57And they turn back, And deal treacherously like their fathers, They have been turned like a deceitful bow,+58And make Him angry with their high places, And with their graven images make Him zealous,+59God hath heard, and sheweth Himself wroth. And kicketh exceedingly against Israel.+60And He leaveth the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent He had placed among men,+61And He giveth His strength to captivity, And His beauty into the hand of an adversary,+62And delivereth up to the sword His people, And with His inheritance shewed Himself angry.+63His young men hath fire consumed, And His virgins have not been praised.+64His priests by the sword have fallen, And their widows weep not.+65And the Lord waketh as a sleeper, As a mighty one crying aloud from wine.+66And He smiteth His adversaries backward, A reproach age-during He hath put on them,+67And He kicketh against the tent of Joseph, And on the tribe of Ephraim hath not fixed.+68And He chooseth the tribe of Judah, With mount Zion that He loved,+69And buildeth His sanctuary as a high place, Like the earth, He founded it to the age.+70And He fixeth on David His servant, And taketh him from the folds of a flock,+71From behind suckling ones He hath brought him in, To rule over Jacob His people, And over Israel His inheritance.+72And he ruleth them according to the integrity of his heart, And by the skilfulness of his hands leadeth them!+
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