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Psalms 78:59 — Meaning and Application
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" When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: "
Psalms 78:59
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But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.
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Psalms 78:1
"[[Maschil of Asaph.]] Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth."
Psalms 78:2
"I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:"
Psalms 78:3
"Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told"
Psalms 78:4
"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 78:5
"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 78:6
"That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:"
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