Hello, and welcome
to His Words Are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer, and today
we're going to be reading in
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the book of Psalms.
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I know sometimes, for
me and for many of us,
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we can become discouraged
thinking that we're basically
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standing alone; that
nobody really understands us,
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or cares, or notices.
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In the middle of the Psalm that
we were reading the last time,
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and we're going to pick up;
Psalm 73, David is experiencing
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some of those same sentiments.
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He's expressing how
he's surrounded by enemies,
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and he's feeling alone.
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We're going to pick up
his conclusion of the matter,
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but before we
start, let's pray together.
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Dear Lord, thank
You for these words.
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Thank You for the assurance
that we are never alone,
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in spite of how we feel.
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We love You, and
thank You for loving us.
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Amen.
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Picking up in
Psalm 73, verse 23.
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Nevertheless I am
continually with thee:
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thou hast held
me by my right hand.
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Thou shalt guide
me with thy counsel,
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and afterward
receive me to glory.
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Whom have I in heaven but thee?
and there is none upon earth
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that I desire beside thee.
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My flesh and my heart
faileth: but God is the strength
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of my heart, and
my portion for ever.
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For, lo, they that are
far from thee shall perish:
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thou hast destroyed all
them that go whoring from thee.
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But it is good for
me to draw near to God:
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I have put my trust in the
Lord God, that I may declare
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all thy works.
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Psalm 74.
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O God, why hast thou cast us off
for ever? why doth thine anger
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smoke against the
sheep of thy pasture?
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Remember thy congregation, which
thou hast purchased of old;
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the rod of thine inheritance,
which thou hast redeemed;
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this mount Zion,
wherein thou hast dwelt.
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Lift up thy feet unto
the perpetual desolations;
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even all that the enemy hath
done wickedly in the sanctuary.
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Thine enemies roar in the
midst of thy congregations;
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they set up their
ensigns for signs.
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A man was famous according
as he had lifted up axes
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upon the thick trees.
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But now they break down
the carved work thereof at once
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with axes and hammers.
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They have cast
fire into thy sanctuary,
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they have defiled by casting
down the dwelling place of
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thy name to the ground.
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They said in their hearts,
Let us destroy them together:
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they have burned up all the
synagogues of God in the land.
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We see not our signs:
there is no more any prophet:
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neither is there among us
any that knoweth how long.
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O God, how long shall
the adversary reproach?
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shall the enemy
blaspheme thy name for ever?
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Why withdrawest thou thy
hand, even thy right hand?
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pluck it out of thy bosom.
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For God is my King of old,
working salvation in the midst
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of the earth.
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Thou didst divide
the sea by thy strength:
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thou brakest the heads of
the dragons in the waters.
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Thou brakest the heads of
leviathan in pieces, and gavest
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him to be meat to the people
inhabiting the wilderness.
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Thou didst cleave the
fountain and the flood:
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thou driedst up mighty rivers.
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The day is thine,
the night also is thine:
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thou hast prepared
the light and the sun.
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Thou hast set all
the borders of the earth:
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thou hast made
summer and winter.
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Remember this, that the
enemy hath reproached, O Lord,
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and that the foolish
people have blasphemed thy name.
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O deliver not the soul of thy
turtledove unto the multitude
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of the wicked: forget
not the congregation of thy
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poor for ever.
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Have respect unto the covenant:
for the dark places of the earth
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are full of the
habitations of cruelty.
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O let not the
oppressed return ashamed:
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let the poor and
needy praise thy name.
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Arise, O God,
plead thine own cause:
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remember how the foolish
man reproacheth thee daily.
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Forget not the
voice of thine enemies:
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the tumult of those
that rise up against thee
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increaseth continually.
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Psalm 75; this is
the King James Version.
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Unto thee, O God,
do we give thanks,
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unto thee do we give thanks:
for that thy name is near
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thy wondrous works declare.
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When I shall
receive the congregation
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I will judge uprightly.
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The earth and all the
inhabitants thereof are
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dissolved: I bear
up the pillars of it.
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Selah.
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I said unto the fools, Deal not
foolishly: and to the wicked,
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Lift not up the horn:
lift not up your horn on high:
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speak not with a stiff neck.
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For promotion cometh neither
from the east, nor from the west
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nor from the south.
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But God is the
judge: he putteth down one,
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and setteth up another.
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For in the hand of
the Lord there is a cup,
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and the wine is red;
it is full of mixture;
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and he poureth out of the
same: but the dregs thereof,
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all the wicked of the
earth shall wring them out,
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and drink them.
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But I will declare for
ever; I will sing praises
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to the God of Jacob.
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All the horns of the
wicked also will I cut off;
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but the horns of the
righteous shall be exalted.
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Psalm 76.
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In Judah is God known:
his name is great in Israel.
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In Salem also is his tabernacle,
and his dwelling place in Zion.
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There brake he the arrows of the
bow, the shield, and the sword,
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and the battle.
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Selah.
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Thou art more
glorious and excellent
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than the mountains of prey.
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The stout-hearted are spoiled,
they have slept their sleep:
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and none of the men of
might have found their hands.
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At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob,
both the chariot and horse
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are cast into a dead sleep.
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Thou, even thou, art to
be feared: and who may stand
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in thy sight when
once thou art angry?
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Thou didst cause judgment
to be heard from heaven;
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the earth feared, and was still.
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When God arose to judgment, to
save all the meek of the earth.
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Selah.
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Surely the wrath of
man shall praise thee:
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the remainder of
wrath shalt thou restrain.
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Vow, and pay unto the Lord your
God: let all that be round about
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him bring presents unto
him that ought to be feared.
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He shall cut off
the spirit of princes:
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he is terrible to
the kings of the earth.
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Psalm 77.
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I cried unto God with my voice,
even unto God with my voice;
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and he gave ear unto me.
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In the day of my
trouble I sought the Lord:
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my sore ran in the
night, and ceased not:
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my soul refused to be comforted.
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I remembered God, and
was troubled: I complained,
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and my spirit was overwhelmed.
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Selah.
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Thou holdest mine eyes
waking: I am so troubled
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that I cannot speak.
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I have considered the days of
old, the years of ancient times.
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I call to remembrance
my song in the night:
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I commune with mine
own heart: and my spirit
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made diligent search.
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Will the Lord cast off for
ever? and will he be favorable
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no more?
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Is his mercy clean gone
for ever? doth his promise
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fail for evermore?
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Hath God forgotten to be
gracious? hath he in anger shut
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up his tender mercies?
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Selah.
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And I said, This is my
infirmity: but I will remember
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the years of the
right hand of the most High.
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I will remember the works of the
Lord: surely I will remember thy
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wonders of old.
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I will meditate also of all thy
work, and talk of thy doings.
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Thy way, O God,
is in the sanctuary:
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who is so great
a God as our God?
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Thou art the God
that doest wonders:
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thou hast declared thy
strength among the people.
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Thou hast with thine
arm redeemed thy people,
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the sons of Jacob and Joseph.
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Selah.
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the waters saw thee, O
God, the waters saw thee;
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they were afraid: the
depths also were troubled.
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The clouds poured out water:
the skies sent out a sound:
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thine arrows also went abroad.
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the voice of thy
thunder was in the heaven:
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the lightnings
lightened the world:
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the earth trembled and shook.
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Thy way is in the sea, and
thy path in the great waters,
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and thy
foot-steps are not known.
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Thou ledest thy people like
a flock by the hand of Moses
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and Aaron.
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Psalm 78.
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This is the King James Version.
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Give ear, O my
people, to my law:
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incline your ears to
the words of my mouth.
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I will open my mouth in a
parable: I will utter dark
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sayings of old: which
we have heard and known,
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and our fathers have told us.
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We will not hide
them from their children,
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showing to the generation to
come the praises of the Lord,
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and his strength,
and his wonderful works
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that he hath done.
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For he established
a testimony in Jacob,
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and appointed a law in Israel,
which he commanded our fathers,
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that they should make
them known to their children:
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that the generation
to come might know them,
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even the children which should
be born: who should arise and
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declare them to their children:
that they might set their hope
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in God, and not
forget the works of God,
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but keep his commandments:
and might not be as their
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fathers, a stubborn
and rebellious generation:
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a generation that set
not their heart aright,
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and whose spirit was
not steadfast with God.
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The children of Ephraim,
being armed, and carrying bows,
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turned back in
the day of battle.
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They kept not
the covenant of God,
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and refused to walk in his law.
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and forgot his works, and his
wonders that he had shown them.
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Marvelous things did he in
the sight of their fathers,
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in the land of
Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
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He divided the sea, and
caused them to pass through;
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and he made the
waters to stand as an heap.
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In the daytime also
he led them with a cloud,
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and all the night
with a light of fire.
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He clave the
rocks in the wilderness,
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and gave them drink as
out of the great depths.
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He brought streams
also out of the rock,
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and caused waters to
run down like rivers.
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And they sinned yet more against
him by provoking the most High
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in the wilderness.
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And they tempted God in
their heart by asking meat
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for their lust.
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Yea, they spake
against God; they said,
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Can God furnish a
table in the wilderness?
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Behold, he smote the rock,
that the waters gushed out,
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and the streams overflowed;
can he give bread also?
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can he provide
flesh for his people?
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Therefore the Lord
heard this, and was wroth:
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so a fire was kindled against
Jacob, and anger also came up
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against Israel; because
they believed not in God,
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and trusted not
in his salvation:
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though he had
commanded the clouds from above,
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and opened the doors of heaven,
and had rained down manna
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upon them to eat, and had given
them of the corn of heaven.
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Man did eat angels' food:
he sent them meat to the full.
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He caused an east
wind to blow in the heaven:
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and by his power he
brought in the south wind.
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He rained flesh
also upon them as dust,
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and feathered fowls
like as the sand of the sea:
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and he let it fall in
the midst of their camp,
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round about their habitations.
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So they did eat,
and were well filled:
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for he gave them
their own desire;
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they were not
estranged from their lust.
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But while their meat
was yet in their mouths,
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the wrath of God came upon them,
and slew the fattest of them,
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and smote down the
chosen men of Israel.
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For all this they
sinned still, and believed not
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for his wondrous works.
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Therefore their days
did he consume in vanity,
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and their years in trouble.
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When he slew them,
then they sought him:
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and they returned and
inquired early after God.
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And they remembered
that God was their rock,
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and the high God their redeemer.
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Nevertheless they did
flatter him with their mouth,
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and they lied unto
him with their tongues.
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For their heart
was not right with him,
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neither were they
steadfast in his covenant.
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But he, being
full of compassion,
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forgave their iniquity,
and destroyed them not:
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yea, many a time
turned he his anger away,
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and did not stir
up all his wrath.
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For he remembered
that they were but flesh;
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a wind that passeth
away, and cometh not again.
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How oft did they
provoke him in the wilderness,
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and grieve him in the desert!
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Yea, they turned
back and tempted God,
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and limited the
Holy One of Israel.
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They remembered not his hand,
nor the day when he delivered
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them from the enemy.
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How he had wrought
his signs in Egypt,
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and his wonders
in the field of Zoan:
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and had turned their rivers
into blood; and their floods,
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that they could not drink.
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Please join me again
next time to read the book
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of Psalms together.
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Goodbye.
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