Psalm 111:6
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6 He has shown his people the power of his works,
in giving them the heritage of the nations.
Psalm 80:8
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8 You brought a vine out of Egypt;
you drove out the nations and planted it.(A)
Psalm 78:12-72
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12 In the sight of their ancestors he worked marvels
in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.(A)
13 He divided the sea and let them pass through it
and made the waters stand like a heap.(B)
14 In the daytime he led them with a cloud
and all night long with a fiery light.(C)
15 He split rocks open in the wilderness
and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.(D)
16 He made streams come out of the rock
and caused waters to flow down like rivers.
17 Yet they sinned still more against him,
rebelling against the Most High in the desert.(E)
18 They tested God in their heart
by demanding the food they craved.(F)
19 They spoke against God, saying,
“Can God spread a table in the wilderness?(G)
20 Even though he struck the rock so that water gushed out
and torrents overflowed,
can he also give bread
or provide meat for his people?”(H)
21 Therefore, when the Lord heard, he was full of rage;
a fire was kindled against Jacob,
his anger mounted against Israel,(I)
22 because they had no faith in God
and did not trust his saving power.(J)
23 Yet he commanded the skies above
and opened the doors of heaven;(K)
24 he rained down on them manna to eat
and gave them the grain of heaven.(L)
25 Mortals ate of the bread of angels;
he sent them food in abundance.
26 He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens,
and by his power he led out the south wind;(M)
27 he rained flesh upon them like dust,
winged birds like the sand of the seas;(N)
28 he let them fall within their camp,
all around their dwellings.
29 And they ate and were well filled,
for he gave them what they craved.(O)
30 But before they had satisfied their craving,
while the food was still in their mouths,
31 the anger of God rose against them,
and he killed the strongest of them
and laid low the flower of Israel.(P)
32 In spite of all this they still sinned;
they did not believe in his wonders.(Q)
33 So he made their days vanish like a breath
and their years in terror.(R)
34 When he killed them, they searched for him;
they repented and sought God earnestly.(S)
35 They remembered that God was their rock,
the Most High God their redeemer.(T)
36 But they flattered him with their mouths;
they lied to him with their tongues.(U)
37 Their heart was not steadfast toward him;
they were not true to his covenant.
38 Yet he, being compassionate,
forgave their iniquity
and did not destroy them;
often he restrained his anger
and did not stir up all his wrath.(V)
39 He remembered that they were but flesh,
a wind that passes and does not come again.(W)
40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness
and grieved him in the desert!(X)
41 They tested God again and again
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.(Y)
42 They did not keep in mind his power
or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,
43 when he displayed his signs in Egypt
and his miracles in the fields of Zoan.
44 He turned their rivers to blood,
so that they could not drink of their streams.(Z)
45 He sent among them swarms of flies that devoured them
and frogs that destroyed them.(AA)
46 He gave their crops to the caterpillar
and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail
and their sycamores with frost.(AB)
48 He gave over their cattle to the hail
and their flocks to thunderbolts.(AC)
49 He let loose on them his fierce anger,
wrath, indignation, and distress,
a company of destroying angels.(AD)
50 He made a path for his anger;
he did not spare them from death
but gave their lives over to the plague.
51 He struck all the firstborn in Egypt,
the first issue of their strength in the tents of Ham.(AE)
52 Then he led out his people like sheep
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.(AF)
53 He led them in safety so that they were not afraid,
but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.(AG)
54 And he brought them to his holy hill,
to the mountain that his right hand had won.(AH)
55 He drove out nations before them;
he apportioned them for a possession
and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.(AI)
56 Yet they tested the Most High God
and rebelled against him.
They did not observe his decrees(AJ)
57 but turned away and were faithless like their ancestors;
they twisted like a treacherous bow.(AK)
58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places;
they moved him to jealousy with their idols.(AL)
59 When God heard, he was full of wrath,
and he utterly rejected Israel.
60 He abandoned his dwelling at Shiloh,
the tent where he dwelt among mortals,(AM)
61 and delivered his power to captivity,
his glory to the hand of the foe.(AN)
62 He gave his people to the sword
and vented his wrath on his heritage.(AO)
63 Fire devoured their young men,
and their young women had no marriage song.(AP)
64 Their priests fell by the sword,
and their widows made no lamentation.(AQ)
65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,
like a warrior shouting because of wine.(AR)
66 He put his adversaries to rout;
he put them to everlasting disgrace.(AS)
67 He rejected the tent of Joseph;
he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
68 but he chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which he loves.(AT)
69 He built his sanctuary like the high heavens,
like the earth, which he has founded forever.(AU)
70 He chose his servant David
and took him from the sheepfolds;(AV)
71 from tending the nursing ewes he brought him
to be the shepherd of his people Jacob,
of Israel, his inheritance.(AW)
72 With upright heart he tended them
and guided them with skillful hand.(AX)
Psalm 44:2
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2 you with your own hand drove out the nations,
but them you planted;
you afflicted the peoples,
but them you set free;(A)
Psalm 2:8
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8 Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage
and the ends of the earth your possession.(A)
Joshua 10:13-14
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13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped
until the nation took vengeance on their enemies.
Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in midheaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day.(A) 14 There has been no day like it before or since, when the Lord heeded a human voice, for the Lord fought for Israel.(B)
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Joshua 6:20
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20 So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpets, they raised a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so the people charged straight ahead into the city and captured it.(A)
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Joshua 3:14-17
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14 When the people set out from their tents to cross over the Jordan, the priests bearing the ark of the covenant were in front of the people. 15 Now the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest. So when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in the edge of the water,(A) 16 the waters flowing from above stood still, rising up in a single heap far off at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, while those flowing toward the sea of the Arabah, the Dead Sea,[a] were wholly cut off. Then the people crossed over opposite Jericho.(B) 17 While all Israel were crossing over on dry ground, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firmly on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, until the entire nation finished crossing over the Jordan.(C)
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Psalm 105:27-45
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27 They performed his signs among them
and miracles in the land of Ham.(A)
28 He sent darkness and made the land dark;
they rebelled[a] against his words.(B)
29 He turned their waters into blood
and caused their fish to die.(C)
30 Their land swarmed with frogs,
even in the chambers of their kings.(D)
31 He spoke, and there came swarms of flies
and gnats throughout their country.(E)
32 He gave them hail for rain
and lightning that flashed through their land.(F)
33 He struck their vines and fig trees
and shattered the trees of their country.
34 He spoke, and the locusts came,
and young locusts without number;(G)
35 they devoured all the vegetation in their land
and ate up the fruit of their ground.
36 He struck down all the firstborn in their land,
the first issue of all their strength.(H)
37 Then he brought Israel[b] out with silver and gold,
and there was no one among their tribes who stumbled.(I)
38 Egypt was glad when they departed,
for dread of them had fallen upon it.(J)
39 He spread a cloud for a covering
and fire to give light by night.(K)
40 They asked, and he brought quails
and gave them food from heaven in abundance.(L)
41 He opened the rock, and water gushed out;
it flowed through the desert like a river.(M)
42 For he remembered his holy promise
and Abraham, his servant.(N)
43 So he brought his people out with joy,
his chosen ones with singing.
44 He gave them the lands of the nations,
and they took possession of the wealth of the peoples,(O)
45 that they might keep his statutes
and observe his laws.
Praise the Lord!(P)
Deuteronomy 4:32-38
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32 “For ask now about former ages, long before your own, ever since the day that God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of heaven to the other: Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has its like ever been heard of?(A) 33 Has any people ever heard the voice of a god speaking out of a fire, as you have heard, and lived?(B) 34 Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by terrifying displays of power, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?(C) 35 To you it was shown so that you would acknowledge that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him.(D) 36 From heaven he made you hear his voice to discipline you. On earth he showed you his great fire, while you heard his words coming out of the fire.(E) 37 And because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants after them. He brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power,(F) 38 driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, giving you their land for a possession, as it is still today.(G)
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