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Psalm_078 · Pastor John Piper's answers

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  Speaker 1: Psalm seventy eight, a contemplation by aesph. Hear my law,
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  Speaker 1: my people, turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
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  Speaker 1: I will open my mouth in a parable I will
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  Speaker 1: utter dark sayings of old, which we have heard and known,
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  Speaker 1: and our fathers have told us. We will not hide
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  Speaker 1: them from their children, telling to the generation to come
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  Speaker 1: the praises of Yahweh, his strength and his wondrous works
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  Speaker 1: that he has done for. He established a testimony in
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  Speaker 1: Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded
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  Speaker 1: our fathers that they should make them known to their children,
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  Speaker 1: that the generation to come might know, even the children
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  Speaker 1: who should be born, who should arise and tell their
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  Speaker 1: children that they might set their hope in God, and
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  Speaker 1: not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments,
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  Speaker 1: and might not be as their fathers. A stubborn and
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  Speaker 1: rebellious generation, a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal,
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  Speaker 1: whose spirit was not steadfast with God. The children of Ephraim,
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  Speaker 1: being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day
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  Speaker 1: of battle. They didn't keep God's covenant and refused to
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  Speaker 1: walk in his law. They forgot his doings, his wondrous
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  Speaker 1: works that he had shown them. He did marvelous things
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  Speaker 1: in the sight of their fathers. In the land of Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: in the field of Zone, he split the sea and
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  Speaker 1: caused them to pass through. He made the water stand
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  Speaker 1: as a heap. In the daytime, he also led them
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  Speaker 1: with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.
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  Speaker 1: He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink
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  Speaker 1: abundantly as out of the depths. He brought streams also
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  Speaker 1: out of the rock, and caused waters to run down
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  Speaker 1: like rivers. Yet they still went on to sin against him,
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  Speaker 1: to rebel against the most high. In the desert, they
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  Speaker 1: tempted God in their heart by asking food according to
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  Speaker 1: their desire. Yet they spoke against God. They said, can
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  Speaker 1: God prepare a table in the wilderness? Behold, he struck
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  Speaker 1: the rock so that waters gushed out, streams overflowed. Can
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  Speaker 1: He give bread? Also? Will he provide flesh for his people?
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  Speaker 1: Therefore Yahweh heard and was angry. A fire was kindled
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  Speaker 1: against Jacob. Anger also went up against Israel, because they
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  Speaker 1: didn't believe in God and didn't trust in his salvation.
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  Speaker 1: Yet he commanded the skies above and opened the doors
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  Speaker 1: of heaven. He rained down men on them to eat,
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  Speaker 1: and gave them food from the sky man ate the
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  Speaker 1: bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.
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  Speaker 1: He caused the east wind to blow in the sky.
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  Speaker 1: By his power he guided the south wind. He rained
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  Speaker 1: also flesh on them, as the dust winged birds, as
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  Speaker 1: the sand of the seas. He let them fall in
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  Speaker 1: the midst of their camp around their habitations, so they
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  Speaker 1: ate and were filled. He gave them their own desire.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet
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  Speaker 1: in their mouths. When the anger of God went up
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  Speaker 1: against them, killed some of the fattest of them, and
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  Speaker 1: struck down the young men of Israel. For all this
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  Speaker 1: they they still sinned and didn't believe in His wondrous works.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore he consumed their days in vanity and their years
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  Speaker 1: in terror. When he killed them, then they inquired after him.
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  Speaker 1: They returned and sought God earnestly. They remembered that God
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  Speaker 1: was their rock, the most high, their redeemer. But they
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  Speaker 1: flattered him with their mouth and lied to him with
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  Speaker 1: their tongue, for their heart was not right with him.
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  Speaker 1: Neither were they faithful in his covenant. But He, being merciful,
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  Speaker 1: forgave iniquity and didn't destroy them. Yes, many times he
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  Speaker 1: turned away his anger and didn't stir up all his wrath.
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  Speaker 1: He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that
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  Speaker 1: passes away and doesn't come again. How often they rebelled
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  Speaker 1: against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert,
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  Speaker 1: They turned again and tempted God and provoked the Holy
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  Speaker 1: One of Israel. They didn't remember his hand, nor the
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  Speaker 1: day when he redeemed them from the adversary. How he
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  Speaker 1: set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the fields
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  Speaker 1: of Zoon turned their rivers into blood, and their streams
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  Speaker 1: so that they could not drink. He sent among them
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  Speaker 1: swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
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  Speaker 1: He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their
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  Speaker 1: labor to the locust. He destroyed their vines with hail,
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  Speaker 1: their sycamore fig trees with frost. He gave over their
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  Speaker 1: cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
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  Speaker 1: He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation,
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  Speaker 1: and trouble, and a band of angels of evil. He
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  Speaker 1: made a path for his anger. He didn't spare their
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  Speaker 1: soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,
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  Speaker 1: and struck all the first born in Egypt, the chief
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  Speaker 1: of their strength and the tints of ham. But he
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  Speaker 1: led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them
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  Speaker 1: in the wilderness like a flock. He led them safely
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  Speaker 1: so that they weren't afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
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  Speaker 1: He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to
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  Speaker 1: this mountain which his right hand had taken. He also
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  Speaker 1: drove out the ne nations before them, allotted them for
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  Speaker 1: an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel
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  Speaker 1: to dwell in their tents. Yet they tempted and rebelled
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  Speaker 1: against the Most High God, and didn't keep his testimonies,
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  Speaker 1: but turned back and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They
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  Speaker 1: were turned aside like a deceitful bow, for they provoked
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  Speaker 1: him to anger with their high places and moved him
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  Speaker 1: to jealousy with their engraved images. When God heard this,
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  Speaker 1: he was angry and greatly abhorred Israel, so that he
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  Speaker 1: forsook the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed
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  Speaker 1: among men and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory
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  Speaker 1: into the adversary's hand. He also gave his people over
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  Speaker 1: to the sword and was angry with his inheritance. Fire
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  Speaker 1: devoured their young men, their virgins had no wedding song,
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  Speaker 1: their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like
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  Speaker 1: a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine. He
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  Speaker 1: struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach. Moreover,
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  Speaker 1: he rejected the ten of Joseph and didn't choose the
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  Speaker 1: tribe of Ephraim, but chose the tribe of Judah Mount Zion,
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  Speaker 1: which he loved. He built his sanctuary like the heights,
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  Speaker 1: like the earth, which he has established forever. He also
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  Speaker 1: chose David his servant, and took him from the sheep folds,
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  Speaker 1: from following the Ewes that have their young. He brought
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  Speaker 1: him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people in
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  Speaker 1: Israel his inheritance. So he was their shepherd according to
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  Speaker 1: the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the
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  Speaker 1: skillfulness of his hands.