Verse 12
Psalms 78:12
Free Bible Version
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He split the sea in two and led them through, making the water stand like walls on either side.
Original Language Text
hebrew
נֶ֣גֶד אֲ֭בוֹתָ/ם עָ֣שָׂה פֶ֑לֶא בְּ/אֶ֖רֶץ מִצְרַ֣יִם שְׂדֵה צֹֽעַן
English Translation
He performed wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
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Chapter 78 Context
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A psalm (maskil) of Asaph. Listen to what I have to teach you, my people; hear what I have to say.
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I will tell you wise sayings; I will explain mysteries from the past
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that we have heard before and reflected on; stories our forefathers passed down to us.
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We will not keep them from our children; we will tell the next generation about God (Elohim)'s marve...
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He gave his laws to the descendants of Jacob; his instructions to the people of Israel. He commanded...
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so that the next generation—children yet to be born—would understand and grow up to teach their chil...
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In this way they should place their trust in God (Elohim) and not forget what God (Elohim) has done,...
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Then they would not be like their forefathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation that was untrust...
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The soldiers of Ephraim, though armed with bows, ran away on the day of battle.
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They did not keep God (Elohim)'s agreement, and refused to follow his laws.
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They ignored what he had done, and the amazing things he had shown them—
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He split the sea in two and led them through, making the water stand like walls on either side.
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He led them with a cloud by day, and by night with a light of fire.
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He split open rocks in the desert to give his people plenty to drink, water as deep as the ocean.
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He made streams flow from the stone; water rushing down like rivers!
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But they repeatedly sinned against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
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They insulted God (Elohim) by saying, “Can God (Elohim) provide food here in the desert?
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Yes, he can strike a rock so that water gushes out like flowing rivers, but can he give us bread? Ca...
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When he heard this, the Lord became very angry, burning like fire against the descendants of Jacob,...
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Even so he commanded the skies above and the doors of heaven to open,
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and he made manna rain down on them to eat, giving them bread from heaven.
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Human beings ate the bread of angels; he sent them more than enough food.
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He sent the east wind blowing across the sky; by his power he drove the south wind.
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He rained down meat on them as plentiful as dust; birds as numerous as sand on a beach.
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He made them fall right in the middle of their camp, all around where they were living.
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They ate until they were full. He gave them the food they longed for.
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But before they satisfied their appetite, while the meat was still in their mouths,
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God (Elohim) became angry with them and he killed their strongest men, striking them down in the pri...
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Despite all this they went right on sinning. Despite the miracles, they refused to trust him.
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So he snuffed out their futile lives, bringing them to an end in terror.
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When he began killing them, the rest came back to God (Elohim) in repentance, praying to him.
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They remembered that God (Elohim) was their rock, that God (Elohim) Most High was their Savior.
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They flattered him by what they told him, but they were only lying.
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Deep down they were not sincere, and did not keep the agreement they had with him.
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But being compassionate he pardoned their guilt and did not destroy all of them. He often held back...
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He remembered their mortality—that they were like a puff of wind that would not return.
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How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, giving him grief in the desert!
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Again and again they provoked God (Elohim), causing pain to the Holy One of Israel.
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They did not remember his strength when he rescued them from their oppressors,
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performing miracles in Egypt, doing wonderful things on the plain of Zoan.
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He sent flies among them to destroy them, and frogs to ruin everything.
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He gave their crops to locusts; everything they worked had for was taken by locusts.
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He destroyed their vines with hail, and their fig trees with freezing rain.
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He poured out on them his fierce anger—rage and hostility and anguish—sending a band of destroying a...
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He sent his unrestrained anger against them; he did not spare them from death, handing them over to...
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He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt, the first to be conceived in the tents of Ham.
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But he led out his people like sheep, and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
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He led them to safety, and they were not afraid. He drowned their enemies in the sea.
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He brought them to the border of his holy land, to this mountainous land that he had conquered for t...
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He drove out the heathen nations before them. He divided up the land for them to own. He settled the...
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But they provoked God (Elohim) Most High, rebelling against him. They did not follow what he had tol...
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Just like their forefathers they turned away from God (Elohim) and were unfaithful to him, as twiste...
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They made him angry with their pagan high places of worship; they made him jealous with their idols.
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He abandoned his place at Shiloh, the Tabernacle where he lived among the people.
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He surrendered the Ark of his power, allowing it to be captured; handing it over into enemy hands.
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He handed over his people to be slaughtered by the sword; he was furious with his chosen people.
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Their young men were destroyed by fire; their young women had no wedding songs.
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Their priests were killed by the sword; their widows were unable to mourn.
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Then the Lord woke up as if from sleep, as a warrior sobering up from drinking wine.
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He defeated his enemies, striking them on the back, causing them everlasting shame.
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He rejected the descendants of Joseph, and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.
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Instead he chose the tribe of Judah, and Mount Zion which he loves.
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There he built his sanctuary, high like the heavens, on earth that he made to last forever.
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He chose his servant David, taking him from the sheep pens,
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taking him from caring for the sheep and lambs to be a shepherd to the descendants of Jacob—God (Elo...
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Like a shepherd, he took care of them with sincere devotion, leading them with skillful hands.
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- Chapter 78 (66 verses)
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