Verse 55

Psalms 78:55

New Living Translation

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55 He drove out the nations before them; he gave them their inheritance by lot. He settled the tribes of Israel into their homes.

Original Language Text

hebrew

וַ/יְגָ֤רֶשׁ מִ/פְּנֵי/הֶ֨ם גּוֹיִ֗ם וַֽ֭/יַּפִּילֵ/ם בְּ/חֶ֣בֶל נַחֲלָ֑ה וַ/יַּשְׁכֵּ֥ן בְּ֝/אָהֳלֵי/הֶ֗ם שִׁבְטֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל

English Translation

And He drove out the nations before them and allotted them as a heritage with a rope, and He dwelled in their tents the tribes of Israel.

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Chapter 78 Context

1 O my people, listen to my instructions. Open your ears to what I am saying, Focus ↗

2 for I will speak to you in a parable. I will teach you hidden lessons from our past — Focus ↗

3 stories we have heard and known, stories our ancestors handed down to us. Focus ↗

4 We will not hide these truths from our children; we will tell the next generation about the gl... Focus ↗

5 For he issued his laws to Jacob; he gave his instructions to Israel. He commanded our ancestor... Focus ↗

6 so the next generation might know them — even the children not yet born — and they in turn wil... Focus ↗

7 So each generation should set its hope anew on God (Elohim), not forgetting his glorious miracles... Focus ↗

8 Then they will not be like their ancestors — stubborn, rebellious, and unfaithful, refusing to... Focus ↗

9 The warriors of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned their backs and fled on the day of battle... Focus ↗

10 They did not keep God (Elohim)’s covenant and refused to live by his instructions. Focus ↗

11 They forgot what he had done — the great wonders he had shown them, Focus ↗

12 the miracles he did for their ancestors on the plain of Zoan in the land of Egypt. Focus ↗

13 For he divided the sea and led them through, making the water stand up like walls! Focus ↗

14 In the daytime he led them by a cloud, and all night by a pillar of fire. Focus ↗

15 He split open the rocks in the wilderness to give them water, as from a gushing spring. Focus ↗

16 He made streams pour from the rock, making the waters flow down like a river! Focus ↗

17 Yet they kept on sinning against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert. Focus ↗

18 They stubbornly tested God (Elohim) in their hearts, demanding the foods they craved. Focus ↗

19 They even spoke against God (Elohim) himself, saying, “God (Elohim) can’t give us food in the wil... Focus ↗

20 Yes, he can strike a rock so water gushes out, but he can’t give his people bread and meat.” Focus ↗

21 When the LORD heard them, he was furious. The fire of his wrath burned against Jacob. Yes, his... Focus ↗

22 for they did not believe God (Elohim) or trust him to care for them. Focus ↗

23 But he commanded the skies to open; he opened the doors of heaven. Focus ↗

24 He rained down manna for them to eat; he gave them bread from heaven. Focus ↗

25 They ate the food of angels! God (Elohim) gave them all they could hold. Focus ↗

26 He released the east wind in the heavens and guided the south wind by his mighty power. Focus ↗

27 He rained down meat as thick as dust — birds as plentiful as the sand on the seashore! Focus ↗

28 He caused the birds to fall within their camp and all around their tents. Focus ↗

29 The people ate their fill. He gave them what they craved. Focus ↗

30 But before they satisfied their craving, while the meat was yet in their mouths, Focus ↗

31 the anger of God (Elohim) rose against them, and he killed their strongest men. He struck down... Focus ↗

32 But in spite of this, the people kept sinning. Despite his wonders, they refused to trust him.<br... Focus ↗

33 So he ended their lives in failure, their years in terror. Focus ↗

34 When God (Elohim) began killing them, they finally sought him. They repented and took God (Elo... Focus ↗

35 Then they remembered that God (Elohim) was their rock, that God (Elohim) Most High was their rede... Focus ↗

36 But all they gave him was lip service; they lied to him with their tongues. Focus ↗

37 Their hearts were not loyal to him. They did not keep his covenant. Focus ↗

38 Yet he was merciful and forgave their sins and did not destroy them all. Many times he held ba... Focus ↗

39 For he remembered that they were merely mortal, gone like a breath of wind that never returns.<br... Focus ↗

40 Oh, how often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved his heart in that dry waste... Focus ↗

41 Again and again they tested God (Elohim)’s patience and provoked the Holy One of Israel. Focus ↗

42 They did not remember his power and how he rescued them from their enemies. Focus ↗

43 They did not remember his miraculous signs in Egypt, his wonders on the plain of Zoan. Focus ↗

44 For he turned their rivers into blood, so no one could drink from the streams. Focus ↗

45 He sent vast swarms of flies to consume them and hordes of frogs to ruin them. Focus ↗

46 He gave their crops to caterpillars; their harvest was consumed by locusts. Focus ↗

47 He destroyed their grapevines with hail and shattered their sycamore-figs with sleet. Focus ↗

48 He abandoned their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning. Focus ↗

49 He loosed on them his fierce anger — all his fury, rage, and hostility. He dispatched against... Focus ↗

50 He turned his anger against them; he did not spare the Egyptians’ lives but ravaged them with... Focus ↗

51 He killed the oldest son in each Egyptian family, the flower of youth throughout the land of Egyp... Focus ↗

52 But he led his own people like a flock of sheep, guiding them safely through the wilderness. Focus ↗

53 He kept them safe so they were not afraid; but the sea covered their enemies. Focus ↗

54 He brought them to the border of his holy land, to this land of hills he had won for them. Focus ↗

55 He drove out the nations before them; he gave them their inheritance by lot. He settled the tr...

56 But they kept testing and rebelling against God (Elohim) Most High. They did not obey his laws.<b... Focus ↗

57 They turned back and were as faithless as their parents. They were as undependable as a crooked b... Focus ↗

58 They angered God (Elohim) by building shrines to other gods; they made him jealous with their ido... Focus ↗

59 When God (Elohim) heard them, he was very angry, and he completely rejected Israel. Focus ↗

60 Then he abandoned his dwelling at Shiloh, the Tabernacle where he had lived among the people. Focus ↗

61 He allowed the Ark of his might to be captured; he surrendered his glory into enemy hands. Focus ↗

62 He gave his people over to be butchered by the sword, because he was so angry with his own people... Focus ↗

63 Their young men were killed by fire; their young women died before singing their wedding songs.<b... Focus ↗

64 Their priests were slaughtered, and their widows could not mourn their deaths. Focus ↗

65 Then the Lord rose up as though waking from sleep, like a warrior aroused from a drunken stupor.<... Focus ↗

66 He routed his enemies and sent them to eternal shame. Focus ↗

67 But he rejected Joseph’s descendants; he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim. Focus ↗

68 He chose instead the tribe of Judah, and Mount Zion, which he loved. Focus ↗

69 There he built his sanctuary as high as the heavens, as solid and enduring as the earth. Focus ↗

70 He chose his servant David, calling him from the sheep pens. Focus ↗

71 He took David from tending the ewes and lambs and made him the shepherd of Jacob’s descendants —<... Focus ↗

72 He cared for them with a true heart and led them with skillful hands. Focus ↗

Verse Information

Book: Psalms
Chapter: Chapter 78 (72 verses)
Version: New Living Translation

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