Deuteronomy 4:32-38, Deuteronomy 29:2-4, Psalm 78:1-72, Psalm 105:1-45 - LSB - Legacy Standard Bible

Deuteronomy 4:32-38

32 “Indeed, ^aask now concerning the former days which were before you, since the ^bday that God created ¹man on the earth, and inquire ^cfrom one end of the heavens to the other. ^dHas anything been done like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it? 33 ^aHas any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and lived? 34 ^aOr has a god tried to go to take for himself a nation from within another nation ^bwith trials, with signs and wonders and with war and ^cwith a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with great terrors, ¹as Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35 To you it was shown that you might know that Yahweh, He is God; ^athere is no other besides Him. 36 ^aOut of the heavens He caused you to hear His voice ^bto discipline you; and on earth He caused you to see His great fire, and you heard His words from the midst of the fire. 37 ¹^aBecause He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their seed after them. And He ²^bpersonally brought you from Egypt by His great power, 38 dispossessing before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and ^ato give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 29:2-4

2 ¹And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “You have seen all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and all his servants and all his land; 3 ^athe great trials which your eyes have seen, those great signs and wonders. 4 Yet to this day ^aYahweh has not given you a heart to know, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear.

Psalm 78:1-72

That the Generation to Come Might Know

A ¹Maskil of Asaph.

^aGive ear, O my people, to my ²instruction;

^bIncline your ears to the words of my mouth.

I will ^aopen my mouth in a parable;

I will pour forth ^bdark sayings of old,

Which we have heard and known,

And ^aour fathers have recounted to us.

We will ^anot conceal them from their children,

But ^brecount to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh,

And His strength and His ^cwondrous deeds that He has done.

For He established a ^atestimony in Jacob

And set a ^blaw in Israel,

Which He ^ccommanded our fathers

That they should ¹^dteach them to their children,

^aThat the generation to come might know, even ^bthe children yet to be born,

That they may arise and ^crecount them to their children,

That they should set their confidence in God

And ^anot forget the deeds of God,

But ^bobserve His commandments,

And ^anot be like their fathers,

A ^bstubborn and rebellious generation,

A generation that ^cdid not ¹prepare its heart

And whose spirit was not ^dfaithful to God.

The sons of Ephraim ¹were ^aarchers equipped with bows,

Yet ^bthey turned back in the day of battle.

They ^adid not keep the covenant of God

And refused to ^bwalk in His law;

So they ^aforgot His acts

And His ¹wondrous deeds that He had shown them.

^aHe did wonders before their fathers

In the land of Egypt, in the ^bfield of Zoan.

He ^asplit the sea and caused them to pass through,

And He made the waters stand ^bup like a heap.

Then He led them with the cloud by ^aday

And all the night with a ^blight of fire.

He was ^asplitting the rocks in the wilderness

And so gave them abundant drink like the ocean depths.

He ^abrought forth streams also from the cliff face

And caused waters to run down like rivers.

Yet they still continued to sin against Him,

To ^arebel against the Most High in the desert.

And in their heart they ^aput God to the test

By asking for ^bfood according to their desire.

Then they spoke against God;

They said, “^aCan God prepare a table in the wilderness?

Behold, He ^astruck the rock so that waters gushed out,

And streams were overflowing;

Can He give bread also?

Will He prepare ¹^bmeat for His people?”

Therefore Yahweh heard and ¹was ^afull of wrath;

And a fire was kindled against Jacob

And anger also mounted against Israel,

Because they ^adid not believe in God

And did not trust in His salvation.

Yet He commanded the skies above

And ^aopened the doors of heaven;

He ^arained down manna upon them to eat

And gave them ^bgrain from heaven.

Man ate the bread of ¹angels;

He sent them provision ^ato satisfy.

He ^aled forth the east wind in the heavens

And by His strength He guided the south wind.

Then He rained ¹meat upon them like the dust,

Even ^awinged fowl like the sand of the seas,

He caused them to fall in the midst of His camp,

All around His dwelling places.

So they ^aate and were very satisfied,

And their desire He brought to them.

¹Before they had satisfied their desire,

^aWhile their food was in their mouths,

The ^aanger of God rose against them

And killed ¹some of their ^bstoutest ones,

And ²subdued the choice men of Israel.

In spite of all this they ^astill sinned

And ^bdid not believe in His wondrous deeds.

So He brought ^atheir days to an end in ¹futility

And their years in sudden terror.

When He killed them, then they ^asought Him,

And returned and sought ^bearnestly for God;

And they remembered that God was their ^arock,

And the Most High God their ^bRedeemer.

But they ^adeceived Him with their mouth

And ^blied to Him with their tongue.

For their heart was not ^aprepared to remain with Him,

Nor were they faithful in His covenant.

But He, being ^acompassionate, ^batoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them;

And He abounded in ^cturning back His anger

And did not arouse all His wrath.

Thus ^aHe remembered that they were but ^bflesh,

A ¹^cwind that goes and does not return.

How often they ^arebelled against Him in the wilderness

And ^bgrieved Him in the ^cwasteland!

Again and again they ¹^atested God,

And pained the ^bHoly One of Israel.

They ^adid not remember ^bHis ¹power,

The day when He ^credeemed them from the adversary,

When He performed His ^asigns in Egypt

And His ^bmiracles in the field of Zoan,

And ^aturned their rivers to blood,

And their streams, they could not drink.

He sent among them swarms of ^aflies which devoured them,

And ^bfrogs which destroyed them.

He gave also their crops to the ^agrasshopper

And the fruit of their labor to the ^blocust.

He killed their vines with ^ahailstones

And their sycamore trees with frost.

He gave over their ^acattle also to the hailstones

And their herds to bolts of lightning.

He ^asent upon them His burning anger,

Fury and indignation and ¹distress,

²A band of destroying angels.

He leveled a path for His anger;

He did not hold back their soul from death,

But ^agave over their life to the plague,

So He ^astruck all the firstborn in Egypt,

The ^bfirst of their vigor in the tents of ^cHam.

But He ^aled forth His own people like sheep

And guided them in the wilderness ^blike a flock;

He led them ^asafely, so that they did not fear;

But ^bthe sea covered their enemies.

So ^aHe brought them to His holy ¹land,

To this ²^bhill country ^cwhich His right hand had acquired.

He also ^adrove out the nations before them

And ^bapportioned them for an inheritance by measurement,

And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

Yet they ¹^atested and ^brebelled against the Most High God

And did not keep His testimonies,

But turned back and ^aacted treacherously like their fathers;

They ^bturned aside like a treacherous bow.

For they ^aprovoked Him with their ^bhigh places

And ^caroused His jealousy with their ^dgraven images.

God heard and ¹was filled with ^awrath

And greatly ^brejected Israel;

So that He ^aabandoned the ^bdwelling place at Shiloh,

The tent ¹which He caused to dwell among men,

And gave up His ^astrength to captivity

And His beauty ^binto the hand of the adversary.

He also ^agave over His people to the sword,

And ¹was filled with wrath at His inheritance.

^aFire devoured ¹His choice men,

And ¹His ^bvirgins had no wedding songs.

¹His ^apriests fell by the sword,

And ²His ^bwidows could not weep.

Then the Lord ^aawoke as if from sleep,

As if He were a ^bwarrior ¹overcome by wine.

He ^astruck His adversaries backward;

He put on them an everlasting reproach.

He also ^arejected the tent of Joseph,

And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,

But chose the tribe of Judah,

Mount ^aZion which He loved.

And He ^abuilt His sanctuary like the heights,

Like the earth which He has founded forever.

He also ^achose David His servant

And took him from the sheepfolds;

From ^afollowing the ¹^bnursing ewes He brought him

To ^cshepherd Jacob His people,

And Israel ^dHis inheritance.

So he shepherded them according to the ^aintegrity of his heart,

And led them with his skillful hands.

Psalm 105:1-45

Remember His Wondrous Deeds

Oh ^agive thanks to Yahweh, ^bcall upon His name;

^cMake known His acts among the peoples.

Sing to Him, ^asing praises to Him;

^bMuse on all His wondrous deeds.

Boast in His holy name;

Let the ^aheart of those who seek Yahweh be glad.

Inquire of Yahweh and ^aHis strength;

^bSeek His face continually.

Remember His ^awondrous deeds which He has done,

His miracles and the ^bjudgments ¹uttered by His mouth,

O seed of ^aAbraham, His servant,

O sons of ^bJacob, His ^cchosen ones!

He is Yahweh our God;

His ^ajudgments are in all the earth.

He has ^aremembered His covenant forever,

The word which He commanded for a ^bthousand generations,

^aWhich He cut with Abraham,

And His ^boath to Isaac.

Then He ^aconfirmed it to Jacob for a statute,

To Israel as an everlasting covenant,

Saying, “^aTo you I will give the land of Canaan

As the ¹^bportion of your inheritance,”

When they were only a ^afew men in number,

Of little account, and ^bsojourners in it.

And they wandered about from nation to nation,

From one kingdom to another people.

He ^apermitted no man to oppress them,

And He ^breproved kings for their sakes:

“^aDo not touch My anointed ones,

And to My prophets do no evil.”

And He ^acalled for a famine upon the land;

He ^bbroke the whole staff of bread.

He ^asent a man before them,

Joseph, who was ^bsold as a slave.

They afflicted his ^afeet with fetters,

¹He himself was laid in irons;

Until the time that his ^aword came to pass,

The word of Yahweh ^brefined him.

The ^aking sent and released him,

The ruler of peoples sent and set him free.

He ^aset him up as lord of his house

And ruler over all his possessions,

To ¹imprison his princes ²^aat will,

And that he might teach his elders wisdom.

^aThen Israel came to Egypt;

And Jacob ^bsojourned in the land of Ham.

And He ^acaused His people to be very fruitful,

And He caused them to be stronger than their adversaries.

He ^aturned their heart to hate His people,

To ^bdeal craftily with His slaves.

He ^asent Moses His servant,

And ^bAaron, whom He had chosen.

They ^aset forth the words of His signs among them,

And miracles in the land of Ham.

He ^asent darkness and made it dark;

And they did not ^brebel against His words.

He ^aturned their waters into blood

And caused their fish to die.

Their land swarmed with ^afrogs

Even in the ^bchambers of their kings.

He spoke, and there came a ^aswarm of flies

And ^bgnats in all their territory.

He ¹gave them ^ahail for rain,

And flaming fire in their land.

He also ^astruck down their vines and their fig trees,

And He shattered the trees of their territory.

He spoke, and ^alocusts came,

And creeping locusts, without number,

And ¹they ate up all vegetation in their land,

And ¹they ate up the fruit of their ground.

He also ^astruck down all the firstborn in their land,

The ^bfirst of all their vigor.

Then He brought them out with ^asilver and gold,

And there was none among His tribes who stumbled.

Egypt was ^aglad when they went out,

For the ^bdread of them had fallen upon them.

He spread a ^acloud for a ¹covering,

And ^bfire to give light by night.

¹They ^aasked, and He brought ^bquail,

And He satisfied them with the ²^cbread of heaven.

He opened the ¹rock and ^awater flowed out;

²It ran in the dry places like a river.

For He ^aremembered His holy word

With Abraham His servant;

And He brought His people out with joy,

His chosen ones with a shout of ^ajoy.

He ^agave them also the lands of the ¹nations,

That they ^bmight take possession of the fruit of the peoples’ labor,

So that they might ^akeep His statutes

And observe His laws,

¹Praise Yah!