{ "1": "Hear my teaching, my people,\n\\q listen to the words of my mouth.\n\\q", "2": "I will open my mouth in parables;\n\\q I will sing about hidden things about the past.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "3": "These are things that we have heard and learned,\n\\q things that our ancestors have told us.\n\\q", "4": "We will not keep them from their descendants.\n\\q We will tell the next generation about the praiseworthy deeds of Yahweh,\n\\q his strength, and the wonders that he has done.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "5": "For he established covenant decrees in Jacob\n\\q and appointed a law in Israel.\n\\q He commanded our ancestors\n\\q that they were to teach them to their children.\n\\q", "6": "He commanded this so that the generation to come might know his decrees, the children not yet born,\n\\q who should tell them in turn to their own children.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "7": "Then they would place their hope in God\n\\q and not forget his deeds\n\\q but keep his commandments.\n\\q", "8": "Then they would not be like their ancestors,\n\\q who were a stubborn and rebellious generation,\n\\q a generation whose hearts were not right,\n\\q and whose spirits were not committed and faithful to God.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "9": "The Ephraimites were armed with bows,\n\\q but they turned back on the day of battle.\n\\q", "10": "They did not keep the covenant with God,\n\\q and they refused to obey his law.\n\\q", "11": "They forgot his deeds,\n\\q the wonderful things that he had shown them.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "12": "They forgot the marvelous things he did in the sight of their ancestors\n\\q in the land of Egypt, in the land of Zoan.\n\\q", "13": "He divided the sea and led them across it;\n\\q he made the waters to stand like walls.\n\\q", "14": "In the daytime he led them with a cloud\n\\q and all the night with the light of fire.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "15": "He split the rocks in the wilderness,\n\\q and he gave them water abundantly, enough to fill the depths of the sea.\n\\q", "16": "He made streams flow out of the rock\n\\q and made the water flow like rivers.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "17": "Yet they continued to sin against him,\n\\q rebelling against the Most High in the wilderness.\n\\q", "18": "They challenged God in their hearts\n\\q by asking for food to satisfy their appetites.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "19": "They spoke against God;\n\\q they said, “Can God really lay out a table for us in the wilderness?\n\\q", "20": "See, when he struck the rock, waters gushed out\n\\q and streams overflowed.\n\\q But can he give bread also?\n\\q Will he provide meat for his people?”\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "21": "When Yahweh heard this, he was angry;\n\\q so his fire burned against Jacob,\n\\q and his anger attacked Israel,\n\\q", "22": "because they did not believe in God\n\\q and did not trust in his salvation.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "23": "Yet he commanded the skies above\n\\q and opened the doors of the sky.\n\\q", "24": "He rained down manna for them to eat,\n\\q and gave them the grain from heaven.\n\\q", "25": "People ate the bread of angels.\n\\q He sent them food in abundance.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "26": "He caused the east wind to blow in the sky,\n\\q and by his power he guided the south wind.\n\\q", "27": "He rained down meat on them like dust,\n\\q birds as numerous as the sands of the sea.\n\\q", "28": "They fell in the middle of their camp,\n\\q all around their tents.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "29": "So they ate and were full.\n\\q He gave them what they craved.\n\\q", "30": "But they had not yet filled up;\n\\q their food was still in their mouths.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "31": "Then God’s anger attacked them\n\\q and killed the strongest of them.\n\\q He brought down the young men of Israel.\n\\q", "32": "Despite this, they continued to sin\n\\q and did not believe his wonderful deeds.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "33": "Therefore God cut short their days;\n\\q their years were filled with terror.\n\\q", "34": "Whenever God afflicted them, they would start to seek him,\n\\q and they would return and look earnestly for him.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "35": "They would call to mind that God was their rock\n\\q and that the Most High God was their rescuer.\n\\q", "36": "But they would flatter him with their mouth\n\\q and lie to him with their words.\n\\q", "37": "For their hearts were not firmly fixed on him,\n\\q and they were not faithful to his covenant.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "38": "Yet he, being merciful, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them.\n\\q Yes, many times he held back his anger\n\\q and did not stir up all his wrath.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "39": "He called to mind that they were made of flesh,\n\\q a wind that passes away and does not return.\n\\q", "40": "How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness\n\\q and grieved him in the barren regions!\n\\q", "41": "Again and again they challenged God\n\\q and offended the Holy One of Israel.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "42": "They did not think about his power,\n\\q how he had rescued them from the enemy\n\\q", "43": "when he performed his terrifying signs in Egypt\n\\q and his wonders in the region of Zoan.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "44": "He turned the Egyptians’ rivers to blood\n\\q so that they could not drink from their streams.\n\\q", "45": "He sent swarms of flies that devoured them\n\\q and frogs that overran their land.\n\\q", "46": "He gave their crops to the grasshopper\n\\q and their labor to the locust.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "47": "He destroyed their vines with hail\n\\q and their sycamore trees with more hail.\n\\q", "48": "He rained hail on their cattle\n\\q and hurled lightning bolts at their livestock.\n\\q", "49": "The fierceness of his anger lashed out against them.\n\\q He sent wrath, fury, and trouble\n\\q like agents who bring disaster.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "50": "He leveled a path for his anger;\n\\q he did not spare them from death\n\\q but gave them over to the plague.\n\\q", "51": "He killed all the firstborn in Egypt,\n\\q the firstborn of their strength in the tents of Ham.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "52": "He led his own people out like sheep\n\\q and guided them through the wilderness like a flock.\n\\q", "53": "He led them secure and unafraid,\n\\q but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "54": "Then he brought them to the border of his holy land,\n\\q to this mountain that his right hand acquired.\n\\q", "55": "He drove out the nations from before them\n\\q and assigned them their inheritance.\n\\q He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "56": "Yet they challenged and defied the Most High God\n\\q and did not keep his solemn commands.\n\\q", "57": "They were unfaithful and acted treacherously like their fathers;\n\\q they were as undependable as a faulty bow.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "58": "For they made him angry with their high places\n\\q and provoked him to jealous anger with their idols.\n\\q", "59": "When God heard this, he was angry\n\\q and completely rejected Israel.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "60": "He abandoned the sanctuary of Shiloh,\n\\q the tent where he had lived among people.\n\\q", "61": "He allowed his strength to be captured\n\\q and gave his glory into the enemy’s hand.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "62": "He handed his people over to the sword,\n\\q and he was angry with his heritage.\n\\q", "63": "Fire devoured their young men,\n\\q and their young women had no wedding songs.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "64": "Their priests fell by the sword,\n\\q and their widows could not weep.\n\\q", "65": "Then the Lord awakened as one from sleep,\n\\q like a warrior who shouts because of wine.\n\\q", "66": "He drove his adversaries back;\n\\q he put them to everlasting shame.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "67": "He rejected the tent of Joseph,\n\\q and he did not chose the tribe of Ephraim.\n\\q", "68": "He chose the tribe of Judah\n\\q and Mount Zion that he loved.\n\\q", "69": "He built his sanctuary like the heavens,\n\\q like the earth that he has established forever.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "70": "He chose David, his servant,\n\\q and took him from the sheepfolds.\n\\q", "71": "He took him from following the ewes with their young, and he brought him\n\\q to be shepherd of Jacob, his people, and of Israel, his heritage.\n\\q", "72": "David shepherded them with the integrity of his heart,\n\\q and he guided them with the skill of his hands.\n\n\n\\s5", "front": "\\m\n\\d A maschil of Asaph.\n\\q" }