Verse 14
Psalms 78:14
English Revised Version
14
In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יַּנְחֵ֣/ם בֶּ/עָנָ֣ן יוֹמָ֑ם וְ/כָל הַ֝/לַּ֗יְלָה בְּ/א֣וֹר אֵֽשׁ
English Translation
And they were led by a cloud by day and all the night by the light of fire.
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Chapter 78 Context
1
Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law; incline 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 the LORD...
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For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathe...
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That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should aris...
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That they might set their hope in God (Elohim), and not forget the works of God (Elohim), but keep h...
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And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not t...
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9
The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
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10
They kept not the covenant of God (Elohim), and refused to walk in his law;
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And they forgat his doings, and his wondrous works that he had shewed them.
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Marvelous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
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He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
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In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
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He clave 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 went they on still to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
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Yea, they spake against God (Elohim); they said, Can God (Elohim) prepare a table in the wilderness?
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Behold, he smote the rock, that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; can he give bread also? w...
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Therefore the LORD heard, and was wroth: and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went u...
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Because they believed not in God (Elohim), and trusted not in his salvation.
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Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven;
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And he rained down manna upon them to eat, and gave them of the corn of heaven.
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Man did eat the bread of the mighty: he sent them meat to the full.
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He caused the east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he guided the south wind.
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He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, and winged fowl as the sand of the seas:
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And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
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So they did eat, and were well filled; and he gave them that they lusted after.
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They were not estranged from their lust, their meat was yet in their mouths,
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When the anger of God (Elohim) went up against them, and slew of the fattest of them, and smote down...
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For all this they sinned still, and believed not in his wondrous works.
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Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in terror.
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When he slew them, then they inquired after him: and they returned and sought God (Elohim) early.
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And they remembered that God (Elohim) was their rock, and the Most High God (Elohim) their redeemer.
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But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied unto 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 full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time t...
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And he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
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39
How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
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40
And they turned again and tempted God (Elohim), and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
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They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary.
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How he set his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan;
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And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, 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 unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
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He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
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He gave over their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
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He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, a band of angels...
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He made a path for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the p...
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And smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham:
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But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
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And he led them safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
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And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had purch...
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He drove out the nations also before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made th...
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Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God (Elohim), and kept not his testimonies;
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But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful...
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For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven i...
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When God (Elohim) heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
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So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
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And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the adversary’s hand.
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61
He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
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62
Fire devoured their young men; and their maidens had no marriage-song.
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63
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
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Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
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And he smote his adversaries backward: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
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Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim;
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But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
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And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
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He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
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From following the ewes that give suck he brought him, to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inhe...
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So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his ha...
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Verse Information
- Book
- Psalms
- Chapter
- Chapter 78 (71 verses)
- Version
- English Revised Version