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Psalms 78
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1A Psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; they have polluted thy holy temple; they have made Jerusalem a storehouse of fruits.
1Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2They have given the dead bodies of thy servants [to be] food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of thy holy ones for the wild beasts of the earth.
2I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
3They have shed their blood as water, round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury [them].
3Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
4We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them [that are] round about us.
4We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
5How long, O Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
5For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
6Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms which have not called upon thy name.
6That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
7For they have devoured Jacob, and laid his place waste.
7That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
8Remember not our old transgressions; let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us; for we are greatly impoverished.
8And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
9Help us, O God our Saviour; for the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us; and be merciful to our sins, for thy name's sake.
9The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
10Lest haply they should say among the heathen, Where is their God? and let the avenging of thy servants' blood that has been shed be known among the heathen before our eyes.
10They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
11Let the groaning of the prisoners come in before thee; according to the greatness of thine arm preserve the sons of the slain ones.
11And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
12Repay to our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, with which they have reproached thee, O Lord.
12Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
13For we are thy people and the sheep of thy pasture; we will give thee thanks for ever; we will declare thy praise throughout all generations.
13He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.