1 | Give
ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. |
2 | I will open my mouth in a
parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: Mt 13:35 |
3 | Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told
us. |
4 | We 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. |
5 | For 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: |
6 | That the generation to come might know them, even the
children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their
children: |
7 | That they
might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his
commandments: |
8 | And 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. |
9 | The children of
Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. |
10 | They kept not the
covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; |
11 | And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had
shewed them. |
12 |
Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt,
in the field of Zoan. |
13 |
He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to
stand as an heap. |
14 | In
the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of
fire. |
15 | He clave the
rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths. |
16 | He brought streams also
out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. |
17 | And they sinned yet more against him
by provoking the most High in the wilderness. |
18 | And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for
their lust. |
19 | Yea, they
spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? |
20 | Behold, he smote the
rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread
also? can he provide flesh for his people? |
21 | Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire
was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel; |
22 | Because they believed not in God,
and trusted not in his salvation: |
23 | Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the
doors of heaven, |
24 | And
had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of
heaven.
John 6:31
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25 | Man did eat
angels' food: he sent them meat to the full. |
26 | He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by
his power he brought in the south wind. |
27 | He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered
fowls like as the sand of the sea: |
28 | And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their
habitations. |
29 | So they
did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; |
30 | They were not estranged from their
lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths, |
31 | The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the
fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel. |
32 | For all this they sinned still, and
believed not for his wondrous works. |
33 | Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years
in trouble. |
34 | When he
slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after
God. |
35 | And they
remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer. |
36 | Nevertheless they did flatter
him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues. |
37 | For their heart was not right with
him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant. |
38 | But he, being full of compassion, forgave their
iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away,
and did not stir up all his wrath. |
39 | For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth
away, and cometh not again. |
40
| How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the
desert! |
41 | Yea, they
turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. |
42 | They remembered not his hand, nor
the day when he delivered them from the enemy. |
43 | How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his
wonders in the field of Zoan. |
44
| And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they
could not drink. |
45 | He
sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which
destroyed them. |
46 | He
gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the
locust. |
47 | He destroyed
their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost. |
48 | He gave up their cattle also to the
hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. |
49 | He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath,
and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. |
50 | He made a way to his anger; he
spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the
pestilence; |
51 | And smote
all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of
Ham: |
52 | But made his own
people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a
flock. |
53 | And he led
them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their
enemies. |
54 | And he
brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his
right hand had purchased. |
55 |
He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance
by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. |
56 | Yet they tempted and provoked the
most high God, and kept not his testimonies: |
57 | But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their
fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. |
58 | For they provoked him to anger with
their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. |
59 | When God heard this, he was
wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: |
60 | So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he
placed among men; |
61 | And
delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand. |
62 | He gave his people over
also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance. |
63 | The fire consumed their young men; and
their maidens were not given to marriage. |
64 | Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made
no lamentation. |
65 | Then
the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by
reason of wine. |
66 | And
he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual
reproach. |
67 | Moreover he
refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: |
68 | But chose the tribe of Judah,
the mount Zion which he loved. |
69
| And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he
hath established for ever. |
70
| He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds: |
71 | From following the ewes
great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his
inheritance. |
72 | So he
fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the
skilfulness of his hands. |