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# Psalm 78 đź“–
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[[#đź“– Verse-by-Verse Commentary]]
[[#🧠Chapter Summary]]
[[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]]
[[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]]
> [[#🤔 Interesting Facts]]
[[#đź”— Related Passages/Cross Reference]]
[[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]]
## đź“ś Scripture Text (NET)
(The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005)
#### A well-written song by Asaph.
[[#Verse 01.]]Â Pay attention, my people, to my instruction.
Listen to the words I speak.
[[#Verse 02.]]Â I will sing a song that imparts wisdom;
I will make insightful observations about the past.
[[#Verse 03.]] What we have heard and learned—
that which our ancestors have told us—
[[#Verse 04.]] we will not hide from their descendants.
We will tell the next generation
about the Lord’s praiseworthy acts,
about his strength and the amazing things he has done.
[[#Verse 05.]] He established a rule in Jacob;
he set up a law in Israel.
He commanded our ancestors
to make his deeds known to their descendants,
[[#Verse 06.]]Â so that the next generation, children yet to be born,
might know about them.
They will grow up and tell their descendants about them.
[[#Verse 07.]]Â Then they will place their confidence in God.
They will not forget the works of God,
and they will obey his commands.
[[#Verse 08.]]Â Then they will not be like their ancestors,
who were a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation that was not committed
and faithful to God.
[[#Verse 09.]] The Ephraimites were armed with bows,
but they retreated in the day of battle.
[[#Verse 10.]]Â They did not keep their covenant with God,
and they refused to obey his law.
[[#Verse 11.]]Â They forgot what he had done,
the amazing things he had shown them.
[[#Verse 12.]]Â He did amazing things in the sight of their ancestors,
in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
[[#Verse 13.]]Â He divided the sea and led them across it;
he made the water stand in a heap.
[[#Verse 14.]]Â He led them with a cloud by day,
and with the light of a fire all night long.
[[#Verse 15.]]Â He broke open rocks in the wilderness,
and gave them enough water to fill the depths of the sea.
[[#Verse 16.]]Â He caused streams to flow from the rock,
and made the water flow like rivers.
[[#Verse 17.]]Â Yet they continued to sin against him,
and rebelled against the Most High in the desert.
[[#Verse 18.]]Â They willfully challenged God
by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.
[[#Verse 19.]]Â They insulted God, saying,
“Is God really able to give us food in the wilderness?
[[#Verse 20.]] Yes, he struck a rock and water flowed out;
streams gushed forth.
But can he also give us food?
Will he provide meat for his people?”
[[#Verse 21.]] When the Lord heard this, he was furious.
A fire broke out against Jacob,
and his anger flared up against Israel,
[[#Verse 22.]]Â because they did not have faith in God,
and did not trust his ability to deliver them.
[[#Verse 23.]]Â He gave a command to the clouds above,
and opened the doors in the sky.
[[#Verse 24.]]Â He rained down manna for them to eat;
he gave them the grain of heaven.
[[#Verse 25.]]Â Man ate the food of the mighty ones.
He sent them more than enough to eat.
[[#Verse 26.]]Â He brought the east wind through the sky,
and by his strength led forth the south wind.
[[#Verse 27.]]Â He rained down meat on them like dust,
birds as numerous as the sand on the seashores.
[[#Verse 28.]]Â He caused them to fall right in the middle of their camp,
all around their homes.
[[#Verse 29.]]Â They ate until they were beyond full;
he gave them what they desired.
[[#Verse 30.]]Â They were not yet filled up;
their food was still in their mouths,
[[#Verse 31.]]Â when the anger of God flared up against them.
He killed some of the strongest of them;
he brought the young men of Israel to their knees.
[[#Verse 32.]]Â Despite all this, they continued to sin,
and did not trust him to do amazing things.
[[#Verse 33.]]Â So he caused them to die unsatisfied
and filled with terror.
[[#Verse 34.]] When he struck them down, they sought his favor;
they turned back and longed for God.
[[#Verse 35.]]Â They remembered that God was their protector,
and that God Most High was their deliverer.
[[#Verse 36.]]Â But they deceived him with their words,
and lied to him.
[[#Verse 37.]]Â They were not really committed to him,
and they were unfaithful to his covenant.
[[#Verse 38.]]Â Yet he is compassionate.
He forgives sin and does not destroy.
He often holds back his anger,
and does not stir up his fury.
[[#Verse 39.]] He remembered that they were made of flesh,
and were like a wind that blows past and does not return.
[[#Verse 40.]]Â How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness,
and insulted him in the wastelands.
[[#Verse 41.]]Â They again challenged God,
and offended the Holy One of Israel.
[[#Verse 42.]]Â They did not remember what he had done,
how he delivered them from the enemy,
[[#Verse 43.]] when he performed his awesome deeds in Egypt,
and his acts of judgment in the region of Zoan.
[[#Verse 44.]]Â He turned their rivers into blood,
and they could not drink from their streams.
[[#Verse 45.]]Â He sent swarms of biting insects against them,
as well as frogs that overran their land.
[[#Verse 46.]]Â He gave their crops to the grasshopper,
the fruit of their labor to the locust.
[[#Verse 47.]]Â He destroyed their vines with hail,
and their sycamore-fig trees with driving rain.
[[#Verse 48.]]Â He rained hail down on their cattle,
and hurled lightning bolts down on their livestock.
[[#Verse 49.]] Â His raging anger lashed out against them.
He sent fury, rage, and trouble
as messengers who bring disaster.
[[#Verse 50.]]Â He sent his anger in full force.
He did not spare them from death;
he handed their lives over to destruction.
[[#Verse 51]]Â He struck down all the firstborn in Egypt,
the firstfruits of their reproductive power in the tents of Ham.
[[#Verse 52]]Â Yet he brought out his people like sheep;
he led them through the wilderness like a flock.
[[#Verse 53]]Â He guided them safely along, and they were not afraid;
but the sea covered their enemies.
[[#Verse 54.]]Â He brought them to the border of his holy land,
to this mountainous land that his right hand acquired.
[[#Verse 55.]]Â He drove the nations out from before them;
he assigned them their tribal allotments
and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down.
[[#Verse 56.]] Yet they challenged and defied God Most High,
and did not obey his commands.
[[#Verse 57.]] They were unfaithful and acted as treacherously as their ancestors;
they were as unreliable as a malfunctioning bow.
[[#Verse 58.]]Â They made him angry with their pagan shrines,
and made him jealous with their idols.
[[#Verse 59.]]Â God heard and was angry;
he completely rejected Israel.
[[#Verse 60.]] He abandoned the sanctuary at Shiloh,
the tent where he lived among men.
[[#Verse 61.]]Â He allowed the symbol of his strong presence to be captured;
he gave the symbol of his splendor into the hand of the enemy.
[[#Verse 62.]]Â He delivered his people over to the sword,
and was angry with his chosen nation.
[[#Verse 63.]] Fire consumed their young men,
and their virgins remained unmarried.
[[#Verse 64.]] Their priests fell by the sword,
but their widows did not weep.
[[#Verse 65.]]Â But then the Lord awoke from his sleep;
he was like a warrior in a drunken rage.
[[#Verse 66.]]Â He drove his enemies back;
he made them a permanent target for insults.
[[#Verse 67.]]Â He rejected the tent of Joseph;
he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.
[[#Verse 68.]]Â He chose the tribe of Judah
and Mount Zion, which he loves.
[[#Verse 69.]]Â He made his sanctuary as enduring as the heavens above,
as secure as the earth, which he established permanently.
[[#Verse 70.]]Â He chose David, his servant,
and took him from the sheepfolds.
[[#Verse 71.]]Â He took him away from following the mother sheep,
and made him the shepherd of Jacob, his people,
and of Israel, his chosen nation.
[[#Verse 72.]] David cared for them with pure motives;
he led them with skill.
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## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application
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#### Today, I can apply this chapter by:
- âś… Application 1
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- "Trust God's timing in an uncertain situation."
- "Speak truth even when it’s unpopular."
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- What do we learn about God here?
- What do we learn about people?
- Are there promises, commands, or warnings?
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## 🙏 Devotional Reflection
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