Verse 19
Psalms 78:19
Geneva Bible
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They spake against God (Elohim) also, saying, Can God (Elohim) prepare a table in the wildernesse?
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַֽ/יְדַבְּר֗וּ בֵּֽ/אלֹ֫הִ֥ים אָ֭מְרוּ הֲ/י֣וּכַל אֵ֑ל לַ/עֲרֹ֥ךְ שֻׁ֝לְחָ֗ן בַּ/מִּדְבָּֽר
English Translation
And they spoke to God, saying, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?"
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Chapter 78 Context
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A Psalme to give instruction committed to Asaph. Heare my doctrine, O my people: incline your eares...
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I will open my mouth in a parable: I will declare high sentences of olde.
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Which we haue heard and knowen, and our fathers haue tolde vs.
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Wee will not hide them from their children but to the generation to come we wil shewe the praises of...
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How he established a testimonie in Iaakob, and ordeined a Law in Israel, which he commanded our fath...
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That the posteritie might knowe it, and the children, which should be borne, should stand vp, and de...
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That they might set their hope on God (Elohim), and not forget the workes of God (Elohim) but keepe...
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And not to bee as their fathers, a disobedient and rebellious generation: a generation that set not...
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The children of Ephraim being armed and shooting with the bowe, turned backe in the day of battell.
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They kept not the couenant of God (Elohim), but refused to walke in his Lawe,
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And forgate his Actes, and his wonderfull woorkes that he had shewed them.
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Hee did marueilous thinges in the sight of their fathers in the lande of Egypt: euen in the fielde o...
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He deuided the Sea, and led them through: he made also the waters to stand as an heape.
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In the day time also hee led them with a cloude, and all the night with a light of fire.
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He claue the rockes in the wildernes, and gaue them drinke as of the great depths.
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He brought floods also out of the stonie rocke; so that hee made the waters to descend like the riue...
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Yet they sinned stil against him, and prouoked the Highest in the wildernesse,
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And tempted God (Elohim) in their heartes in requiring meate for their lust.
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They spake against God (Elohim) also, saying, Can God (Elohim) prepare a table in the wildernesse?
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Behold, he smote the rocke, that the water gushed out, and the streames ouerflowed: can hee giue bre...
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Therefore the Lord heard and was angrie, and the fire was kindled in Iaakob, and also wrath came vpo...
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Because they beleeued not in God (Elohim), and trusted not in his helpe.
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Yet he had comanded the clouds aboue, and had opened the doores of heauen,
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And had rained downe MAN vpon them for to eate, and had giuen them of the wheate of heauen.
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Man did eate the bread of Angels: hee sent them meate ynough.
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He caused the Eastwinde to passe in the heauen, and through his power he brought in the Southwinde.
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Hee rained flesh also vpon them as dust, and feathered foule as the sand of the sea.
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And hee made it fall in the middes of their campe euen round about their habitations.
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So they did eate and were well filled: for he gaue them their desire.
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They were not turned from their lust, but the meate was yet in their mouthes,
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When the wrath of God (Elohim) came euen vpon them, and slew the strongest of them, and smote downe...
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For all this, they sinned stil, and beleeued not his wonderous woorkes.
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Therefore their daies did hee consume in vanitie, and their yeeres hastily.
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And when hee slewe them, they sought him and they returned, and sought God (Elohim) earely.
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And they remembred that God (Elohim) was their strength, and the most high God (Elohim) their redeem...
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But they flattered him with their mouth, and dissembled with him with their tongue.
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For their heart was not vpright with him: neither were they faithfull in his couenant.
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Yet he being merciful forgaue their iniquitie, and destroied them not, but oft times called backe hi...
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For he remembered that they were flesh: yea, a winde that passeth and commeth not againe.
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How oft did they prouoke him in the wildernes? and grieue him in the desert?
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Yea, they returned, and tempted God (Elohim), and limited the Holie one of Israel.
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They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he deliuered them from the enemie,
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Nor him that set his signes in Egypt, and his wonders in the fielde of Zoan,
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And turned their riuers into blood, and their floods, that they could not drinke.
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Hee sent a swarme of flies among them, which deuoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
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He gaue also their fruites vnto the caterpiller, and their labour vnto the grassehopper.
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He destroied their vines with haile, and their wilde figge trees with the hailestone.
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He gaue their cattell also to the haile, and their flockes to the thunderboltes.
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Hee cast vpon them the fiercenesse of his anger, indignation and wrath, and vexation by the sending...
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He made a way to his anger: he spared not their soule from death, but gaue their life to the pestile...
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And smote al the firstborne in Egypt, euen the beginning of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham...
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But hee made his people to goe out like sheepe, and led them in the wildernes like a flocke.
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Yea, he caried them out safely, and they feared not, and the Sea couered their enemies.
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And he brought them vnto the borders of his Sanctuarie: euen to this Mountaine, which his right hand...
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He cast out the heathe also before them, and caused them to fall to the lot of his inheritance, and...
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Yet they tempted, and prouoked the most high God (Elohim), and kept not his testimonies,
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But turned backe and delt falsely like their fathers: they turned like a deceitfull bowe.
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And they prouoked him to anger with their high places, and mooued him to wrath with their grauen ima...
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God (Elohim) heard this and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel,
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So that hee forsooke the habitation of Shilo, euen the Tabernacle where hee dwelt among men,
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And deliuered his power into captiuitie, and his beautie into the enemies hand.
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And hee gaue vp his people to the sworde, and was angrie with his inheritance.
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The fire deuoured their chosen men, and their maides were not praised.
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Their Priestes fell by the sworde, and their widowes lamented not.
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But the Lord awaked as one out of sleepe, and as a strong man that after his wine crieth out,
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And smote his enemies in the hinder parts, and put them to a perpetuall shame.
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Yet he refused the tabernacle of Ioseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
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But chose the tribe of Iudah, and mount Zion which he loued.
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And he built his Sanctuarie as an high palace, like the earth, which he stablished for euer.
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He chose Dauid also his seruant, and tooke him from the shepefolds.
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Euen from behinde the ewes with yong brought he him to feede his people in Iaakob, and his inheritan...
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So he fed them according to the simplicitie of his heart, and guided them by the discretion of his h...
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- Psalms
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- Chapter 78 (72 verses)
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