40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness ♦︎
and grieved him in the desert!
41 Again and again they tempted God ♦︎
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42 They did not remember his power ♦︎
in the day when he redeemed them from the enemy;
43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt ♦︎
and his wonders in the field of Zoan.
44 He turned their rivers into blood, ♦︎
so that they could not drink of their streams.
45 He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them, ♦︎
and frogs which brought them ruin.
46 He gave their produce to the caterpillar, ♦︎
the fruit of their toil to the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hailstones ♦︎
and their sycamore trees with the frost.
48 He delivered their cattle to hailstones ♦︎
and their flocks to thunderbolts.
49 He set loose on them his blazing anger: ♦︎
fury, displeasure and trouble,
a troop of destroying angels.
50 He made a way for his anger
and spared not their souls from death, ♦︎
but gave their life over to the pestilence.
51 He smote the firstborn of Egypt, ♦︎
the first fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham.
52 But he led out his people like sheep ♦︎
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53 He led them to safety and they were not afraid, ♦︎
but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54 He brought them to his holy place, ♦︎
the mountain which his right hand took in possession.
55 He drove out the nations before them
and shared out to them their inheritance; ♦︎
he settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
56 Yet still they tested God Most High
and rebelled against him, ♦︎
and would not keep his commandments.
57 They turned back and fell away like their forebears, ♦︎
starting aside like an unstrung bow.
58 They grieved him with their hill altars ♦︎
and provoked him to displeasure with their idols.
59 God heard and was greatly angered, ♦︎
and utterly rejected Israel.
60 He forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, ♦︎
the tent of his presence on earth.
61 He gave the ark of his strength into captivity, ♦︎
his splendour into the adversarys hand.
62 He delivered his people to the sword ♦︎
and raged against his inheritance.
63 The fire consumed their young men; ♦︎
there was no one to lament their maidens.
64 Their priests fell by the sword, ♦︎
and their widows made no lamentation.
65 Then the Lord woke as out of sleep, ♦︎
like a warrior who had been overcome with wine.
66 He struck his enemies from behind ♦︎
and put them to perpetual shame.
67 He rejected the tent of Joseph ♦︎
and chose not the tribe of Ephraim,
68 But he chose the tribe of Judah ♦︎
and the hill of Zion, which he loved.
69 And there he built his sanctuary like the heights of heaven, ♦︎
like the earth which he founded for ever.
70 He chose David also, his servant, ♦︎
and took him away from the sheepfolds.
71 From following the ewes with their lambs he took him, ♦︎
that he might shepherd Jacob his people
and Israel his inheritance.
72 So he shepherded them with a devoted heart ♦︎
and with skilful hands he guided them.
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8 Finally, all of you, have unity of spirit, sympathy, love for one another, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
9Do not repay evil for evil or abuse for abuse; but, on the contrary, repay with a blessing. It is for this that you were calledthat you might inherit a blessing.
10For
Those who desire life
and desire to see good days,
let them keep their tongues from evil
and their lips from speaking deceit;
11 let them turn away from evil and do good;
let them seek peace and pursue it.
12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
and his ears are open to their prayer.
But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.
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