Bible Reading Plan

Chapter 78

²⁵ Man ate the bread of ^(F1)angels;
He sent them ^(F2)food ^(F3)(C1)in abundance.

²⁶ He ^(C1)made the east wind blow in the sky
And by His ^(F1)power He directed the south wind.

²⁷ When He rained meat upon them like the dust,
Even ^(C1)winged fowl like the sand of the seas,

²⁸ He let them fall in the midst of ^(F1)their camp,
All around their dwellings.

²⁹ So they ^(C1)ate and were well filled,
And He ^(F1)satisfied their longing.

^30 (F1)Yet before they had abandoned their longing,
^(C1)While their food was in their mouths,

³¹ The ^(C1)anger of God rose against them
And killed ^(F1)some of their ^(C2)strongest ones,
And ^(F2)subdued the choice men of Israel.

³² In spite of all this they still sinned
And ^(C2)did not believe in His wonderful works.

³³ So He brought ^(C1)their days to an end in futility,
And their years to an end in sudden terror.

³⁴ When He killed them, then they ^(C1)sought Him,
And they returned and searched ^(C2)diligently for God;

³⁵ And they remembered that God was their ^(C1)rock,
And the Most High God their ^(C2)Redeemer.

³⁶ But they ^(C1)flattered Him with their mouth
And ^(C2)lied to Him with their tongue.

³⁷ For their heart was not ^(C1)steadfast toward Him,
Nor were they faithful with His covenant.

³⁸ But He, being ^(C1)compassionate, ^(F1)(C2)forgave their wrongdoing and did not destroy them;
And often He ^(F2)(C3)restrained His anger
And did not stir up all His wrath.

³⁹ So ^(C1)He remembered that they were only ^(C2)flesh,
A ^(F1)(C3)wind that passes and does not return.

⁴⁰ How often they ^(C1)rebelled against Him in the wilderness
And ^(C2)grieved Him in the ^(C3)desert!

⁴¹ Again and again they ^(F1)(C1)tempted God,
And pained the ^(C2)Holy One of Israel.

⁴² They ^(C1)did not remember ^(C2)His ^(F1)power,
The day when He ^(C3)redeemed them from the enemy,

⁴³ When He performed His ^(C1)signs in Egypt
And His ^(C2)marvels in the field of Zoan,

⁴⁴ And ^(C1)turned their rivers to blood,
And their streams, so that they could not drink.

⁴⁵ He sent swarms of ^(C1)flies among them that devoured them,
And ^(C2)frogs that destroyed them.

⁴⁶ He also gave their crops to the ^(C1)grasshopper
And the product of their labor to the ^(C2)locust.

⁴⁷ He ^(F1)destroyed their vines with ^(C1)hailstones
And their sycamore trees with frost.

⁴⁸ He also turned their ^(C1)cattle over to the hailstones,
And their herds to bolts of lightning.

⁴⁹ He ^(C1)sent His burning anger upon them,
Fury and indignation and trouble,
A band of ^(F1)destroying angels.

⁵⁰ He leveled a path for His anger;
He did not spare their souls from death,
But ^(C1)turned their lives over to the plague,

⁵¹ And ^(C1)struck all the firstborn in Egypt,
The ^(C2)first and best of their vigor in the tents of ^(C3)Ham.

⁵² But He ^(C1)led His own people out like sheep,
And guided them in the wilderness ^(C2)like a flock;

⁵³ He led them ^(C1)safely, so that they did not fear;
But ^(C2)the sea engulfed their enemies.

⁵⁴ So ^(C1)He brought them to His holy ^(F1)land,
To this ^(F2)(C2)hill country ^(C3)which His right hand had gained.

⁵⁵ He also ^(C1)drove out the nations from them
And ^(C2)apportioned them as an inheritance by measurement,
And had the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

⁵⁶ Yet they ^(F1)(C1)tempted and ^(C2)rebelled against the Most High God
And did not keep His testimonies,

⁵⁷ But turned back and ^(C1)acted treacherously like their fathers;
They ^(C2)turned aside like a treacherous bow.

⁵⁸ For they ^(C1)provoked Him with their ^(C2)high places
And ^(C3)moved Him to jealousy with their ^(C4)carved images.

⁵⁹ When God heard them, He ^(F1)was filled with ^(C1)wrath
And He utterly ^(C2)rejected Israel;

⁶⁰ So that He ^(C1)abandoned the ^(C2)dwelling place at Shiloh,
The tent ^(F1)which He had pitched among people,

⁶¹ And He gave up His ^(C1)strength to captivity
And His glory ^(C2)into the hand of the enemy.

⁶² He also ^(C1)turned His people over to the sword,
And ^(F1)was filled with wrath at His inheritance.

^63 (C1)Fire devoured ^(F1)His young men,
And ^(F1)His ^(C2)virgins had no wedding songs.

^64 (F1)His ^(C1)priests fell by the sword,
And ^(F1)His ^(C2)widows could not weep.

⁶⁵ Then the Lord ^(C1)awoke as if from sleep,
Like a ^(C2)warrior ^(F1)overcome by wine.

⁶⁶ He ^(F1)(C1)drove His adversaries backward;
He put on them an everlasting disgrace.

⁶⁷ He also ^(C1)rejected the tent of Joseph,
And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,

⁶⁸ But chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount ^(C1)Zion, which He loved.

⁶⁹ And He ^(C1)built His sanctuary like the heights,
Like the earth which He has established forever.

⁷⁰ He also ^(C1)chose His servant David
And took him from the sheepfolds;

⁷¹ From ^(F1)(C1)the care of the ^(F2)ewes ^(C2)with nursing lambs He brought him
To ^(C3)shepherd Jacob His people,
And Israel ^(C4)His inheritance.

⁷² So he shepherded them according to the ^(C1)integrity of his heart,
And guided them with his skillful hands.