Sept. 17 Psalms 77-79

Sept. 17

Psalms 77-79

Psa 77:1 My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me.

Psa 77:2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

Psa 77:3 I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.

Psa 77:4 You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can't speak.

Psa 77:5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

Psa 77:6 I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

Psa 77:7 "Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?

Psa 77:8 Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?

Psa 77:9 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?" Selah.

Psa 77:10 Then I thought, "I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High."

Psa 77:11 I will remember Yah's deeds; for I will remember your wonders of old.

Psa 77:12 I will also meditate on all your work, and consider your doings.

Psa 77:13 Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like God?

Psa 77:14 You are the God who does wonders. You have made your strength known among the peoples.

Psa 77:15 You have redeemed your people with your arm, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

Psa 77:16 The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed. The depths also convulsed.

Psa 77:17 The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around.

Psa 77:18 The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.

Psa 77:19 Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

Psa 77:20 You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Psa 78:1 Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

Psa 78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

Psa 78:3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

Psa 78:4 We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.

Psa 78:5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

Psa 78:6 that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,

Psa 78:7 that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,

Psa 78:8 and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Psa 78:9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

Psa 78:10 They didn't keep God's covenant, and refused to walk in his law.

Psa 78:11 They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown them.

Psa 78:12 He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

Psa 78:13 He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.

Psa 78:14 In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.

Psa 78:15 He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

Psa 78:16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

Psa 78:17 Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

Psa 78:18 They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

Psa 78:19 Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

Psa 78:20 Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?"

Psa 78:21 Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,

Psa 78:22 because they didn't believe in God, and didn't trust in his salvation.

Psa 78:23 Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.

Psa 78:24 He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.

Psa 78:25 Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.

Psa 78:26 He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.

Psa 78:27 He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.

Psa 78:28 He let them fall in the midst of their camp, around their habitations.

Psa 78:29 So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.

Psa 78:30 They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

Psa 78:31 when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of the fattest of them, and struck down the young men of Israel.

Psa 78:32 For all this they still sinned, and didn't believe in his wondrous works.

Psa 78:33 Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

Psa 78:34 When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

Psa 78:35 They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.

Psa 78:36 But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

Psa 78:37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

Psa 78:38 But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn't destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn't stir up all his wrath.

Psa 78:39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.

Psa 78:40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

Psa 78:41 They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Psa 78:42 They didn't remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

Psa 78:43 how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,

Psa 78:44 he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.

Psa 78:45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

Psa 78:46 He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

Psa 78:47 He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.

Psa 78:48 He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

Psa 78:49 He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.

Psa 78:50 He made a path for his anger. He didn't spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,

Psa 78:51 and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.

Psa 78:52 But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

Psa 78:53 He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

Psa 78:54 He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.

Psa 78:55 He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

Psa 78:56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn't keep his testimonies;

Psa 78:57 but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

Psa 78:58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.

Psa 78:59 When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;

Psa 78:60 So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

Psa 78:61 and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary's hand.

Psa 78:62 He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.

Psa 78:63 Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.

Psa 78:64 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep.

Psa 78:65 Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

Psa 78:66 He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.

Psa 78:67 Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn't choose the tribe of Ephraim,

Psa 78:68 But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.

Psa 78:69 He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.

Psa 78:70 He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

Psa 78:71 from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.

Psa 78:72 So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

Psa 79:1 God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

Psa 79:2 They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.

Psa 79:3 Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

Psa 79:4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

Psa 79:5 How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

Psa 79:6 Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you; on the kingdoms that don't call on your name;

Psa 79:7 For they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.

Psa 79:8 Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

Psa 79:9 Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name's sake.

Psa 79:10 Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants' blood is being poured out.

Psa 79:11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

Psa 79:12 Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

Psa 79:13 So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.