New American Standard Bible 2020

Psalms 78:38-64

38But He, being 1compassionate, 2 3forgave their wrongdoing and did not destroy them; And often He 4 5restrained His anger And did not stir up all His wrath.39So 6He remembered that they were only 7flesh, A 8 9wind that passes and does not return.

40How often they 10rebelled against Him in the wilderness And 11grieved Him in the 12desert!41Again and again they 13 14tempted God, And pained the 15Holy One of Israel.42They 16did not remember 17His 18power, The day when He 19redeemed them from the enemy,43When He performed His 20signs in Egypt And His 21marvels in the field of Zoan,44And 22turned their rivers to blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink.45He sent swarms of 23flies among them that devoured them, And 24frogs that destroyed them.46He also gave their crops to the 25grasshopper And the product of their labor to the 26locust.47He 27destroyed their vines with 28hailstones And their sycamore trees with frost.48He also turned their 29cattle over to the hailstones, And their herds to bolts of lightning.49He 30sent His burning anger upon them, Fury and indignation and trouble, A band of 31destroying angels.50He leveled a path for His anger; He did not spare their souls from death, But 32turned their lives over to the plague,51And 33struck all the firstborn in Egypt, The 34first and best of their vigor in the tents of 35Ham.52But He 36led His own people out like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness 37like a flock;53He led them 38safely, so that they did not fear; But 39the sea engulfed their enemies.

54So 40He brought them to His holy 41land, To this 42 43hill country 44which His right hand had gained.55He also 45drove out the nations from them And 46apportioned them as an inheritance by measurement, And had the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.56Yet they 47 48tempted and 49rebelled against the Most High God And did not keep His testimonies,57But turned back and 50acted treacherously like their fathers; They 51turned aside like a treacherous bow.58For they 52provoked Him with their 53high places And 54moved Him to jealousy with their 55carved images.59When God heard them, He 56was filled with 57wrath And He utterly 58rejected Israel;60So that He 59abandoned the 60dwelling place at Shiloh, The tent 61which He had pitched among people,61And He gave up His 62strength to captivity And His glory 63into the hand of the enemy.62He also 64turned His people over to the sword, And 65was filled with wrath at His inheritance.63 66Fire devoured 67His young men, And 68His 69virgins had no wedding songs.64 70His 71priests fell by the sword, And 72His 73widows could not weep.

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Notes

1. Psalms 78:38 Ex 34:6 ↩
2. Psalms 78:38 Lit covered over, atoned for ↩
3. Psalms 78:38 Num 14:18-20 ↩
4. Psalms 78:38 Lit turned away ↩
5. Psalms 78:38 Is 48:9 ↩
6. Psalms 78:39 Job 10:9; Ps 103:14 ↩
7. Psalms 78:39 Gen 6:3 ↩
8. Psalms 78:39 Or breath ↩
9. Psalms 78:39 Job 7:7, 16; Ps 103:14; James 4:14 ↩
10. Psalms 78:40 Ps 95:8, 9; 106:43; 107:11; Heb 3:16 ↩
11. Psalms 78:40 Ps 95:10; Is 63:10; Eph 4:30 ↩
12. Psalms 78:40 Ps 106:14 ↩
13. Psalms 78:41 Or put God to the test ↩
14. Psalms 78:41 Num 14:22 ↩
15. Psalms 78:41 2 Kin 19:22; Ps 89:18 ↩
16. Psalms 78:42 Judg 8:34 ↩
17. Psalms 78:42 Ps 44:3 ↩
18. Psalms 78:42 Lit hand ↩
19. Psalms 78:42 Ps 106:10 ↩
20. Psalms 78:43 Ps 105:27 ↩
21. Psalms 78:43 Ex 4:21; 7:3 ↩
22. Psalms 78:44 Ex 7:20; Ps 105:29 ↩
23. Psalms 78:45 Ex 8:24; Ps 105:31 ↩
24. Psalms 78:45 Ex 8:6; Ps 105:30 ↩
25. Psalms 78:46 1 Kin 8:37; Ps 105:34 ↩
26. Psalms 78:46 Ex 10:14 ↩
27. Psalms 78:47 Lit was killing ↩
28. Psalms 78:47 Ex 9:23-25; Ps 105:32 ↩
29. Psalms 78:48 Ex 9:19 ↩
30. Psalms 78:49 Ex 15:7 ↩
31. Psalms 78:49 Lit angels of evil ones; another reading is evil angels ↩
32. Psalms 78:50 Ex 12:29, 30 ↩
33. Psalms 78:51 Ex 12:29; Ps 105:36; 135:8; 136:10 ↩
34. Psalms 78:51 Gen 49:3 ↩
35. Psalms 78:51 Ps 105:23, 27; 106:22 ↩
36. Psalms 78:52 Ex 15:22 ↩
37. Psalms 78:52 Ps 77:20 ↩
38. Psalms 78:53 Ex 14:19, 20 ↩
39. Psalms 78:53 Ex 14:27, 28; Ps 106:11 ↩
40. Psalms 78:54 Ex 15:17 ↩
41. Psalms 78:54 Lit border, territory ↩
42. Psalms 78:54 Or mountain ↩
43. Psalms 78:54 Ps 68:16; Is 11:9 ↩
44. Psalms 78:54 Ps 44:3 ↩
45. Psalms 78:55 Josh 11:16-23; Ps 44:2 ↩
46. Psalms 78:55 Josh 13:7; 23:4; Ps 105:11; 135:12 ↩
47. Psalms 78:56 Or put to the test ↩
48. Psalms 78:56 Ps 78:18 ↩
49. Psalms 78:56 Judg 2:11-13; Ps 78:40 ↩
50. Psalms 78:57 Ezek 20:27, 28 ↩
51. Psalms 78:57 Hos 7:16 ↩
52. Psalms 78:58 Deut 4:25; Judg 2:12; 1 Kin 14:9; Is 65:3 ↩
53. Psalms 78:58 Lev 26:30; 1 Kin 3:2; 2 Kin 16:4; Jer 17:3 ↩
54. Psalms 78:58 Deut 32:16, 21; 1 Kin 14:22 ↩
55. Psalms 78:58 Ex 20:4; Lev 26:1; Deut 4:25 ↩
56. Psalms 78:59 Or became infuriated ↩
57. Psalms 78:59 Deut 1:34; 9:19; Ps 106:40 ↩
58. Psalms 78:59 Lev 26:30; Deut 32:19; Amos 6:8 ↩
59. Psalms 78:60 1 Sam 4:11; Ps 78:67; Jer 7:12, 14; 26:6 ↩
60. Psalms 78:60 Josh 18:1 ↩
61. Psalms 78:60 Some ancient versions where He dwelt ↩
62. Psalms 78:61 Ps 63:2; 132:8 ↩
63. Psalms 78:61 1 Sam 4:17 ↩
64. Psalms 78:62 Judg 20:21; 1 Sam 4:10 ↩
65. Psalms 78:62 Or became infuriated ↩
66. Psalms 78:63 Num 11:1; 21:28; Is 26:11; Jer 48:45 ↩
67. Psalms 78:63 Or their ↩
68. Psalms 78:63 Or their ↩
69. Psalms 78:63 Jer 7:34; 16:9; Lam 2:21 ↩
70. Psalms 78:64 Or their ↩
71. Psalms 78:64 1 Sam 4:17; 22:18 ↩
72. Psalms 78:64 Or their ↩
73. Psalms 78:64 Job 27:15; Ezek 24:23 ↩

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