Psalms 78
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Lutheran reading notes
In Psalms chapter 78, the wisdom literature continues to explore prayer, worship, lament, praise, and trust in God. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes humanity’s limitations and the need to rely on God's grace and promises. The chapter highlights the contrast between human striving and the faithfulness of God.
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[Maschil of Asaph.] Give ear, O my people, {to} my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. {Maschil...: or, A Psalm for Asaph to give instruction}
Psalms 78:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
Psalms 78:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
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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.
Psalms 78:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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:
Psalms 78:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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That the generation to come might know {them, even} the children {which} should be born; {who} should arise and declare {them} to their children:
Psalms 78:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
Psalms 78:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {that...: Heb. that prepared not their heart}
Psalms 78:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The children of Ephraim, {being} armed, {and} carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. {carrying: Heb. throwing forth}
Psalms 78:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
Psalms 78:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
Psalms 78:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, {in} the field of Zoan.
Psalms 78:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
Psalms 78:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
Psalms 78:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave {them} drink as {out of} the great depths.
Psalms 78:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
Psalms 78:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
Psalms 78:17 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
Psalms 78:18 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? {furnish: Heb. order}
Psalms 78:19 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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?
Psalms 78:20 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore the LORD heard {this}, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
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Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
Psalms 78:22 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
Psalms 78:23 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And had rained down manna 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. {Man...: or, Every one did eat the bread of the mighty}
Psalms 78:25 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind. {to blow: Heb. to go}
Psalms 78:26 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: {feathered...: Heb. fowl of wing}
Psalms 78:27 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And he let {it} fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
Psalms 78:28 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
Psalms 78:29 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat {was} yet in their mouths,
Psalms 78:30 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen {men} of Israel. {smote...: Heb. made to bow} {Chosen...: or, young men}
Psalms 78:31 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
Psalms 78:32 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
Psalms 78:33 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
Psalms 78:34 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And they remembered that God {was} their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
Psalms 78:35 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
Psalms 78:36 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
Psalms 78:37 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Psalms 78:38 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For he remembered that they {were but} flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
Psalms 78:39 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, {and} grieve him in the desert! {provoke: or, rebel against}
Psalms 78:40 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
Psalms 78:41 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They remembered not his hand, {nor} the day when he delivered them from the enemy. {from...: or, from affliction}
Psalms 78:42 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: {wrought: Heb. set}
Psalms 78:43 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
Psalms 78:44 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
Psalms 78:45 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
Psalms 78:46 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost. {destroyed: Heb. killed} {frost: or, great hailstones}
Psalms 78:47 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. {gave...: Heb. shut up} {hot...: or, lightnings}
Psalms 78:48 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels {among them}.
Psalms 78:49 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; {He made...: Heb. He weighed a path} {life...: or, beasts to the murrain}
Psalms 78:50 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of {their} strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
Psalms 78:51 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
Psalms 78:52 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. {overwhelmed: Heb. covered}
Psalms 78:53 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, {even to} this mountain, {which} his right hand had purchased.
Psalms 78:54 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Psalms 78:55 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
Psalms 78:56 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
Psalms 78:57 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Psalms 78:58 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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When God heard {this}, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
Psalms 78:59 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent {which} he placed among men;
Psalms 78:60 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.
Psalms 78:61 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
Psalms 78:62 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage. {given...: Heb. praised}
Psalms 78:63 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
Psalms 78:64 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, {and} like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
Psalms 78:65 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
Psalms 78:66 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
Psalms 78:67 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
Psalms 78:68 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And he built his sanctuary like high {palaces}, like the earth which he hath established for ever. {established: Heb. founded}
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He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
Psalms 78:70 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. {following: Heb. after}
Psalms 78:71 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
Psalms 78:72 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.