Verse 67
Psalms 78:67
GOD'S WORD Translation
67
Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph,
and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ֭/יִּמְאַס בְּ/אֹ֣הֶל יוֹסֵ֑ף וּֽ/בְ/שֵׁ֥בֶט אֶ֝פְרַ֗יִם לֹ֣א בָחָֽר
English Translation
And He rejected the tent of Joseph and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.
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Chapter 78 Context
1
Hear my teaching, my people.
Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
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I will open my mouth in a parable.
I will utter dark sayings of old,
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Which we have heard and known,
and our fathers have told us.
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We will not hide them from their children,
telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh,...
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For he established a testimony in Jacob,
and appointed a teaching in Israel,
which he commanded our...
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that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born;
who should arise and t...
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that they might set their hope in God (Elohim),
and not forget God (Elohim)’s deeds,
but keep his co...
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and might not be as their fathers,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation that didn’t ma...
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The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows,
turned back in the day of battle.
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They didn’t keep God (Elohim)’s covenant,
and refused to walk in his law.
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They forgot his doings,
his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.
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He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers,
in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
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13
He split the sea, and caused them to pass through.
He made the waters stand as a heap.
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In the daytime he also led them with a cloud,
and all night with a light of fire.
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He split rocks in the wilderness,
and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
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He brought streams also out of the rock,
and caused waters to run down like rivers.
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Yet they still went on to sin against him,
to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
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They tempted God (Elohim) in their heart
by asking food according to their desire.
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Yes, they spoke against God (Elohim).
They said, “Can God (Elohim) prepare a table in the wilderness...
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Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out,
and streams overflowed.
Can he give bread als...
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Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry.
A fire was kindled against Jacob,
anger also went up against...
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because they didn’t believe in God (Elohim),
and didn’t trust in his salvation.
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Yet he commanded the skies above,
and opened the doors of heaven.
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He rained down manna on them to eat,
and gave them food from the sky.
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Man ate the bread of angels.
He sent them food to the full.
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He caused the east wind to blow in the sky.
By his power he guided the south wind.
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He rained also meat on them as the dust;
winged birds as the sand of the seas.
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He let them fall in the middle of their camp,
around their habitations.
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So they ate, and were well filled.
He gave them their own desire.
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They didn’t turn from their cravings.
Their food was yet in their mouths,
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when the anger of God (Elohim) went up against them,
killed some of their fattest,
and struck down t...
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For all this they still sinned,
and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.
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Therefore he consumed their days in vanity,
and their years in terror.
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When he killed them, then they inquired after him.
They returned and sought God (Elohim) earnestly.
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They remembered that God (Elohim) was their rock,
the Most High God (Elohim), their redeemer.
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But they flattered him with their mouth,
and lied to him with their tongue.
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For their heart was not right with him,
neither were they faithful in his covenant.
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But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them.
Yes, many times he turned his ang...
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He remembered that they were but flesh,
a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.
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How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness,
and grieved him in the desert!
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They turned again and tempted God (Elohim),
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
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They didn’t remember his hand,
nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
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how he set his signs in Egypt,
his wonders in the field of Zoan,
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he turned their rivers into blood,
and their streams, so that they could not drink.
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He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them;
and frogs, which destroyed them.
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He gave also their increase to the caterpillar,
and their labor to the locust.
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He destroyed their vines with hail,
their sycamore fig trees with frost.
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He gave over their livestock also to the hail,
and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
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He threw on them the fierceness of his anger,
wrath, indignation, and trouble,
and a band of angels...
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He made a path for his anger.
He didn’t spare their soul from death,
but gave their life over to the...
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and struck all the firstborn in Egypt,
the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
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But he led out his own people like sheep,
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
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He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid,
but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
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He brought them to the border of his sanctuary,
to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.
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He also drove out the nations before them,
allotted them for an inheritance by line,
and made the tr...
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Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God (Elohim),
and didn’t keep his testimonies;
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but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers.
They were twisted like a deceitful bow....
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For they provoked him to anger with their high places,
and moved him to jealousy with their engraved...
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When God (Elohim) heard this, he was angry,
and greatly abhorred Israel;
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So that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh,
the tent which he placed among men;
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and delivered his strength into captivity,
his glory into the adversary’s hand.
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He also gave his people over to the sword,
and was angry with his inheritance.
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Fire devoured their young men.
Their virgins had no wedding song.
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Their priests fell by the sword,
and their widows couldn’t weep.
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Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep,
like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
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He struck his adversaries backward.
He put them to a perpetual reproach.
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Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph,
and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,
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But chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion which he loved.
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He built his sanctuary like the heights,
like the earth which he has established forever.
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He also chose David his servant,
and took him from the sheepfolds;
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from following the ewes that have their young,
he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his peopl...
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So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart,
and guided them by the skillfulnes...
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- Chapter 78 (72 verses)
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