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Ferrar Fentons 'Holy Bible in Modern English. All spelling, punctuation and formatting maintained through-out. Verse ordering follows the King James version for clarity and necessary organization of the verses.

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RF PSA 78:1 A Meditation by Asaph.
STANZA 1.
My people attend to My law,
Bend your ear to the word of My mouth
RF PSA 78:2 On Maxims I open My lips,
I utter some thoughts of the past,
RF PSA 78:3 Which we formerly heard of and learnt,
And our fathers recorded for us,—
RF PSA 78:4 Nor hid from their sons and successors,
Recording the praise of the LORD,
His power and the wonders He did,
RF PSA 78:5 When in Jacob He set up the Witness,
And in Israel settled the law,
Which He had commanded our fathers,
To teach to the people, their sons;
RF PSA 78:6 So they taught the next generation,
Of the children whom they had begot,
To relate to the sons of themselves,
RF PSA 78:7 Who should settle their trust upon GOD,
And not to abandon GOD'S paths,
And thus they have kept His commands.
RF PSA 78:8 For they were not, as their fathers were,
A stubborn and mutinous race,
A race that would not fix its heart,
Whose spirit was not true to GOD,—
RF PSA 78:9 Like Ephraim's sons, armed and with bows,
Who turned back in the day of the fight,
RF PSA 78:10 Nor regarded their bond with their GOD,
And in His laws who would not walk.
RF PSA 78:11 And remembered not His mighty acts,
And wonders they had themselves seen!—
RF PSA 78:12 The wonders for their fathers done,
In Mitzer's land,—on Tzoan's plains!
RF PSA 78:13 STANZA 2.
How He cleft the Sea,—and passed o'er,—
Yes! the quivering Sea like a plain!
RF PSA 78:14 And led them by day with a Cloud,
And at, night by the glittering fire!
RF PSA 78:15 He split in the Desert the rocks,
And quenched their thirst with rushing streams,
RF PSA 78:16 From crags in the cliffs brought out springs,
That as watery rivers flowed on!
RF PSA 78:17 But still they continued offence,
To grieve the MOST HIGH in the Waste;
RF PSA 78:18 Revolting in heart from their GOD,
By asking a food to their wish.
RF PSA 78:19 They sneered at their GOD, and they said—
"Can GOD in the Desert spread feasts?
RF PSA 78:20 He struck Rock, and Water sprang out,
And torrents in rivers rushed on;—
But how can He give to us bread?
Or make here for His People a feast?"
RF PSA 78:21 STANZA 3.
This the LORD heard, and was wroth,
And kindled in Jacob a fire,
And anger on Israel came.
RF PSA 78:22 So they had no faith in their GOD,
Nor placed in His Salvation trust!
RF PSA 78:23 So He made black clouds from above,
And Heaven's doors wide open sprung!—
RF PSA 78:24 And rained on them Mana for food,
Providing their corn from the skies!
RF PSA 78:25 Men ate of the supernal bread,—
For He sent to them victuals enough,
RF PSA 78:26 STANZA 4.
He raised the East Winds in the Sky,
With power He drove on the South,
RF PSA 78:27 And rained flesh upon them like dust,
And flights of wings like the sea sand,
RF PSA 78:28 Which fell in the midst of the Camp,
And were piled all in circles around!
RF PSA 78:29 Then they ate, and they gorged to excess,
For what they had wished for had come;
RF PSA 78:30 And they did not hold back from their greed.—
But while the food was in their mouths,
RF PSA 78:31 GOD'S anger rose against them!
And their mightiest captains He slew,
And crippled in Israel youths.
RF PSA 78:32 STANZA 5.
For all this they sinned more!
Believed not in His powers;
RF PSA 78:33 So their days failed, exhausted,
And their years in distress.
RF PSA 78:34 If He slew; then they sought Him;
Turned at morn to their GOD,
RF PSA 78:35 Thought that GOD was their rock,
The HIGH GOD, who redeemed,—
RF PSA 78:36 And served with their mouth,—
Lied to Him with their tongues,
RF PSA 78:37 While their heart held Him not,
Nor was true to His Bond.
RF PSA 78:38 STANZA 6.
Yet He kindly pardoned their sin Destroyed not,—
but oft turned His wrath; Nor roused up all His rage.—
RF PSA 78:39 Thought that they were but flesh,—
Breath that went, nor came back!
RF PSA 78:40 Thus they vexed in the Desert,—
Grieved Him in the Waste;
RF PSA 78:41 Turned from GOD and deserted,
And grieved Israel's HOLY.
RF PSA 78:42 They thought not of His hand,
When He freed them from grief;
RF PSA 78:43 Or His wonders in Mitzer
And proofs on Tzoan's field!—
RF PSA 78:44 STANZA 7.
How He turned all their brooks into blood,
And their streams so that they could not drink.
RF PSA 78:45 And sent locusts on them, to devour,
And defiled them by means of the frogs.
RF PSA 78:46 And gave up to vermin their produce,
And their gardens to grasshoppers gave,
RF PSA 78:47 Their vines He destroyed by the hail,
And their fig-trees, by sharp-cutting frost.
RF PSA 78:48 And He shut up their towns by the hail,
And their ware-rooms, by lightning's bright flash,
RF PSA 78:49 And sent them His furious wrath,
Indignation, and rage, and distress,
The troops of the agents of woe!
RF PSA 78:50 He leveled a path for His wrath,
Nor protected their souls from the death,
But delivered their lives to the plague.
RF PSA 78:51 And in Mitzer struck all the first-born,—
The first of their love in Ham's Halls!
RF PSA 78:52 But marched out His People like sheep,
And led like a flock in the Waste.
RF PSA 78:53 He led them without fear and secure—
Tho' covered their foes with the Sea,—
RF PSA 78:54 And brought to the district, He chose,
This Hill His right hand had acquired.
RF PSA 78:55 And He drove out the Heathen before,
And allotted their holdings by rule,
And put Israel's Tribes in their homes.
RF PSA 78:56 STANZA 8.
Yet they tried, and rebelled from HIGH GOD,
And regarded not what He decreed,
RF PSA 78:57 But they tricked and betrayed, like their fathers—
Like a broken bow jumping aside,
RF PSA 78:58 And insulted by raising up mounds,
And provoked by the Idols they made.
RF PSA 78:59 But GOD heard, and indignant He was,
And at Israel felt great disgust.
RF PSA 78:60 And abandoned His dwelling in Shilo;—
The First, where He dwelt among men.
RF PSA 78:61 And He gave up to slavery their strong,
And their fair girls, to Tyranny's hand;
RF PSA 78:62 And His people resigned to the Sword,
His Inheritance to the Destroyer;
RF PSA 78:63 Their Youths were by fire consumed,
And their Maidens not sung to as Brides.
RF PSA 78:64 And their Priests were struck down by the sword,
And their Widows forbid to lament!
RF PSA 78:65 STANZA 9.
Then the LORD woke, as if from a sleep,
Like a hero refreshed with his wine.
RF PSA 78:66 And their tyrants He struck on the back,
And gave them perpetual shame;
RF PSA 78:67 But abandoned His dwelling with Joseph,
And chose not the Tribe of Ephraim,
RF PSA 78:68 But it was Judah's Tribe He selected,
Zion's Hill as the spot which He loved,
RF PSA 78:69 And built there His Great Holy Fane,
As He had built the Earth for all Time!
RF PSA 78:70 And He, for His Servant, chose David,
Took him from the care of a flock,
RF PSA 78:71 And He afterwards raised and appointed,
To shepherd His people of Jacob,
And Israel, whom He possessed,—
RF PSA 78:72 Who pastured them by His right heart,
And led by the skill of His hands.




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AKJV ROM 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?



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