Day 16 of 30

Ps 75:1–78:72

75:1 We give thanks to you, God. We give thanks, for your Name is near. Men tell about your wondrous works.

75:2 When I choose the appointed time, I will judge blamelessly.

75:3 The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah.

75:4 I said to the arrogant, "Do not boast!" I said to the wicked, "Do not lift up the horn.

75:5 Do not lift up your horn on high. Do not speak with a stiff neck."

75:6 For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.

75:7 But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

75:8 For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.

75:9 But I will declare this forever: I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

75:10 I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.

76:1 In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel.

76:2 His tabernacle is also in Salem; His dwelling place in Zion.

76:3 There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.

76:4 Glorious are you, and excellent, more than mountains of game.

76:5 Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.

76:6 At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a deep sleep.

76:7 You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?

76:8 You pronounced judgment from heaven. The earth feared, and was silent,

76:9 when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones of the earth. Selah.

76:10 Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.

76:11 Make vows to the Lord your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.

76:12 He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the kings of the earth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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;

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

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

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

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

78:10 They did not keep God's covenant, and refused to walk by his Law.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?"

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

78:22 because they did not believe in God, and did not trust in his salvation.

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

78:24 He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them bread from heaven.

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

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

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

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

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

78:30 They did not turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

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.

78:32 For all this they still sinned, and did not believe in his wondrous works.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

78:42 They did not remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

78:56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and did not keep his testimonies;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

78:67 Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,

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

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

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

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.

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