Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
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World English Bible
A
Maskil
of
Asaph.
Give
ear,
O
my people
, to
my instruction;
listen
to the words of my mouth.
>
Hear
my law
, my people.
Turn
your
ears
to the words of my mouth.
I will open my mouth in parables;
I will utter things
hidden
from
the
beginning
,
I will open my mouth in a
parable.
I will utter dark
sayings
of
old
,
that
we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed
to
us.
Which
we have heard and known ,
And our fathers have told
us.
We will not hide them from their children, but
will
declare
to the next
generation the praises of the
LORD
and
His might
, and the
wonders
He has performed
.
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
.
For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to
teach
to their children ,
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 ;
that the coming
generation would
know them—
even children yet
to
be born —
to
arise and tell their own
children
That the generation to
come
might
know ,
even the
children who
should
be born ;
Who
should
arise and tell their children ,
that they should
put
their confidence
in God, not forgetting
His
works, but keeping
His commandments .
That they might
set
their hope
in God, And
not forget
the
works of
God
, But keep
his commandments ,
Then
they
will
not be like
their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose
heart
was
not
loyal, whose spirit was not faithful
to
God.
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.
The archers
of Ephraim turned back on
the day of battle.
The children
of Ephraim ,
being
armed
and
carrying
bows,
Turned back in
the day of battle.
They failed
to
keep God’s
covenant and refused to live
by
His law.
They didn't
keep God's
covenant ,
And refused to walk
in
his law.
They forgot what
He
had
done
, the
wonders
He had shown them.
They forgot his
doings
, His
wondrous
works
that
he had shown them.
He worked
wonders
before
their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region
of Zoan.
He did
marvelous
things
in
the
sight
of
their fathers ,
In the land of Egypt, in the field
of Zoan.
He split the sea and brought
them through; He set
the waters upright
like
a wall
.
He split the sea ,
and caused
them to
pass
through; He made
the waters stand
as
a heap
.
He led them with a cloud by
day
and with a light of fire all
night
.
In
the
daytime
he also
led them with a cloud ,
And all
night
with a light of fire.
He split the
rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as
abundant
as the seas
.
He split rocks in the wilderness ,
And gave them drink abundantly
as out
of
the depths
.
He brought streams from
the stone
and made
water
flow
down like rivers.
He brought streams also
out
of
the rock,
And caused
waters
to
run
down like rivers.
But
they continued
to sin against Him, rebelling
in
the
desert
against the Most High.
Yet
they still
went
on
to sin against him, To
rebel
against the Most High in
the
desert
.
They willfully
tested
God by demanding
the
food they
craved
.
They tempted
God in
their
heart
By asking
food according
to
their
desire
.
They spoke against God ,
saying
, “
Can God really
prepare a table in the wilderness?
Yes,
they spoke against God .
They
said
, "
Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
When
He struck the rock, water
gushed out and
torrents
raged
. But
can He also
give bread or
supply
His people with
meat
? ”
Behold,
he struck the rock, so
that
waters
gushed out ,
Streams
overflowed
. Can he give bread also?
Will
he
provide
flesh
for
his people? "
Therefore the
LORD
heard and was filled
with
wrath;
so
a fire was kindled against Jacob, and
His
anger flared
against Israel,
Therefore Yahweh
heard ,
and was angry.
A fire was kindled against Jacob, Anger also
went
up
against Israel,
because they did
not
believe God or
rely
on
His salvation.
Because they didn't
believe in
God ,
And
didn't
trust
in
his salvation.
Yet He commanded the clouds
above and opened the doors of the
heavens
.
Yet he commanded the skies
above ,
And opened the doors of heaven
.
He rained down manna for
them to eat ;
He
gave them grain
from heaven
.
He rained down manna on
them to eat ,
And
gave them food
from the
sky
.
Man ate the bread of angels ;
He sent them food in
abundance
.
Man ate the bread of angels .
He sent them food to
the
full
.
He stirred
the east wind from
the heavens
and
drove
the south wind by
His
might
.
He caused
the east wind to
blow
in
the sky.
By
his
power
he
guided
the south wind.
He rained meat
on them like
dust ,
and
winged birds like
the sand of the sea
.
He rained also
flesh
on them as
the
dust ;
Winged birds as
the sand of the seas
.
He felled
them in the midst of their camp, all
around their dwellings
.
He let
them fall
in the midst of their camp, Around their habitations
.
So they ate and were well filled ,
for
He gave them what
they
craved
.
So they ate ,
and were well filled .
He gave them their
own
desire
.
Yet
before
they had
filled
their desire,
with
the
food still
in their mouths,
They didn't
turn
from
their cravings.
Their
food was
yet
in their mouths,
God’s
anger flared
against them, and
He
put
to
death
their
strongest
and subdued
the young men of Israel.
When
the
anger of
God
went
up
against them, Killed
some
of
the
fattest
of
them,
And struck
down
the young men of Israel.
In
spite
of
all this ,
they kept
on
sinning;
despite
His
wonderful
works
, they
did
not
believe.
For
all this they still
sinned
, And
didn't
believe in
his
wondrous
works
.
So
He ended
their days in futility
, and their years in sudden
terror.
Therefore
he consumed
their days in vanity
, And their years in terror.
When He slew
them, they would
seek
Him ;
they repented
and searched
for
God.
When he killed
them, then
they inquired
after
him .
They returned
and sought
God earnestly
.
And
they remembered that God was their Rock, that
God
Most High was
their Redeemer.
They remembered that God was their rock, The
Most High God
their redeemer.
But they deceived
Him with their mouths
, and lied to Him with their tongues
.
But they flattered
him with their mouth
, And lied to him with their tongue
.
Their hearts
were
disloyal
to
Him, and
they
were unfaithful
to
His covenant.
For
their heart
was
not
right
with
him, Neither
were they
faithful
in
his covenant.
And
yet
He
was
compassionate;
He forgave their
iniquity and did
not
destroy them. He often
restrained
His anger and did
not
unleash
His full
wrath.
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.
He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing
breeze
that does
not
return
.
He remembered that they were but flesh, A wind
that passes
away,
and
doesn't
come
again
.
How often they disobeyed
Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
How often they rebelled
against
him in the wilderness ,
And grieved him in the desert!
Again and again
they
tested
God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
They
turned
again and tempted
God ,
And provoked the Holy One of Israel.
They did
not
remember His power
—
the day He redeemed them from the adversary ,
They didn't
remember his hand,
Nor
the day when
he redeemed them from the adversary ;
when
He performed
His signs in Egypt and
His wonders in the fields
of Zoan .
How
he set
his signs in Egypt ,
His wonders in the field
of Zoan ,
He
turned their rivers to
blood, and from
their streams they could not drink.
Turned their rivers into
blood, And their streams ,
so
that
they could not drink.
He sent swarms of flies that
devoured them ,
and frogs that
devastated
them.
He sent among
them
swarms of flies ,
which
devoured them ;
And frogs ,
which
destroyed
them.
He gave their crops
to the grasshopper
, the
fruit
of
their labor to the locust.
He gave also
their increase
to the caterpillar
, And
their labor to the locust.
He killed
their vines with hailstones
and
their sycamore- figs
with sleet
.
He destroyed
their vines with hail,
Their sycamore- fig
trees
with frost
.
He abandoned
their cattle to the hail and their livestock
to bolts
of
lightning
.
He gave
over
their cattle also
to the hail ,
And their flocks
to hot
thunderbolts
.
He unleashed
His
fury
against
them, wrath, indignation, and calamity—
a band of destroying
angels.
He threw
on
them the
fierceness
of
his
anger
, Wrath, indignation, and trouble,
And
a band of angels of
evil
.
He cleared
a path for His anger ;
He did
not
spare them
from death but delivered
their lives
to the plague.
He made
a path for his anger .
He didn't
spare their
soul
from death ,
But gave
their life
over
to the pestilence,
He
struck all the firstborn of
Egypt, the virility
in the tents of Ham.
And
struck all the firstborn in
Egypt, The chief
of
their
strength
in the tents of Ham.
He led out
His people like sheep and guided them like
a
flock
in the wilderness.
But
he led forth
his own
people like sheep ,
And guided them in the wilderness like
a
flock
.
He led them safely, so they did
not
fear
, but the sea engulfed
their enemies.
He led them safely, so that
they weren't
afraid
, But the sea overwhelmed
their enemies.
He brought them to His holy
land
, to the
mountain His right hand had acquired
.
He brought them to the
border
of
his sanctuary
, To this
mountain ,
which
his right hand had taken
.
He drove out nations before them and
apportioned
their
inheritance ;
He
settled
the tribes of Israel in their tents.
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.
But
they tested
and disobeyed
God
Most High, for
they
did
not
keep His decrees.
Yet
they tempted
and rebelled
against
the
Most High God
, And
didn't
keep his testimonies;
They
turned back and were
faithless
like their fathers ,
twisted
like a faulty
bow.
But
turned back ,
and dealt
treacherously
like their fathers .
They
were
turned
aside
like a deceitful
bow.
They enraged
Him with their high places and provoked
His
jealousy with their idols
.
For
they provoked
him to
anger
with their high places ,
And moved
him
to
jealousy with their engraved
images
.
On
hearing
it,
God was furious
and rejected
Israel completely.
When
God heard
this,
he
was angry,
And greatly
abhorred
Israel ;
He abandoned
the tabernacle
of Shiloh, the tent He had
pitched
among men .
So
that
he forsook
the tent
of Shiloh, The tent which
he placed
among men ;
He
delivered His strength to
captivity, and
His splendor
to
the hand of
the
adversary
.
And
delivered his strength into
captivity, His glory
into
the adversary's
hand.
He surrendered
His people to the sword because
He
was enraged
by
His heritage
.
He also
gave
his people over
to the sword ,
And
was angry
with
his inheritance
.
Fire consumed
His
young men ,
and
their maidens
were
left
without
wedding songs
.
Fire devoured
their
young men ;
Their virgins
had
no
wedding song
.
His
priests fell by the sword, but
their widows could
not
lament
.
Their
priests fell by the sword, And
their widows couldn't
weep
.
Then the Lord awoke
as from
sleep, like a mighty warrior
overcome
by wine.
Then the Lord awakened
as one
out
of
sleep, Like a mighty man
who
shouts
by reason
of
wine.
He beat
back
His foes;
He put them to everlasting
shame
.
He struck
his adversaries
backward.
He put them to a
perpetual
reproach
.
He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused
the tribe of Ephraim .
Moreover
he rejected the tent of Joseph ,
And didn't
choose
the tribe of Ephraim ,
But He
chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion ,
which He loved.
But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.
He built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which
he has established forever.
He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
He also
chose David his servant ,
And took him from the sheepfolds;
from tending
the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob
, of
Israel His inheritance.
From following
the ewes that
have
their
young,
He brought him to be the
shepherd of Jacob,
his people, And
Israel ,
his inheritance.
So David
shepherded
them
with
integrity of heart and guided them with
skillful
hands.
So he
was
their
shepherd
according
to
the
integrity of his
heart ,
And guided them by
the
skillfulness
of
his
hands.
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