Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
78 1 He showeth how God of his mercy chose his Church of the posterity of Abraham, 8 Reproaching the stubborn rebellion of their fathers, that the children might not only understand. 11 That God of his free mercy made his Covenant with their ancestors, 17 But also seeing them so malicious and perverse, might be ashamed, and so turn wholly to God. In this Psalm the holy Ghost hath comprehended, as it were, the sum of all God’s benefits, to the intent the ignorant and gross people might see in few words the effect of the whole histories of the Bible.
A Psalm to give [a]instruction, committed to Asaph.
1 Hear my [b]doctrine, O my people: incline your ears unto the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will declare high sentences of old.
3 Which we have heard and known, and our [c]fathers have told us.
4 We will not hide them from their children, but to the generation to come we will show the praise of the Lord, his power also, and his wonderful works that he hath done:
52 But he made his people to go out like sheep, and led them in the wilderness like a flock.
53 Yea, he carried them out safely, and they [a]feared not, and the Sea covered their enemies.
54 And he brought them unto the borders of his [b]Sanctuary: even to this Mountain which his right hand purchased.
55 (A)He cast out the heathen also before them, and caused them to fall to the lot of his inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.
56 Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies,
57 But turned back, and dealt [c]falsely like their fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow.
58 And they [d]provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to wrath with their graven images.
59 God heard this and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel,
60 So that he [e]forsook the habitation of Shiloh, even the Tabernacle where he dwelt among men,
61 And delivered his [f]power into captivity, and his beauty into the enemy’s hand.
62 And he gave up his people to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.
63 The fire [g]devoured their chosen men, and their maids were not [h]praised.
64 Their Priests fell by the sword, and their [i]widows lamented not.
65 But the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and as a strong man that after his [j]wine crieth out,
66 And smote his enemies in the hinder parts, and put them to a perpetual shame.
67 Yet he refused the tabernacle of [k]Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
68 But chose the tribe of Judah, and mount Zion which he loved.
69 And he [l]built his Sanctuary as an high palace, like the earth, which he established forever.
70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds.
71 Even from behind the ewes with young, brought he him to feed his people in Jacob, and his inheritance in Israel.
72 So [m]he fed them according to the simplicity of his heart, and guided them by the discretion of his hands.
13 And so at even the (A)quails came and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.
14 (B)And when the dew that was fallen was ascended, behold, a small round thing was upon the face of the wilderness, small as the hoary frost upon the earth.
15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is [a]Manna, for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, (C)This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.
16 ¶ This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded: gather of it every man according to his eating, [b]an omer for [c]a man according to the number of your persons: every man shall take for them which are in his tent.
17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.
18 And when they did measure it with an omer, (D)he that had gathered much, had nothing over, and he that had gathered little, had no [d]lack: so every man gathered according to his eating.
19 Moses then said unto them, Let no man reserve thereof till morning.
20 Notwithstanding, they obeyed not Moses: but some of them reserved of it till morning, and it was full of worms, and [e]stank: therefore Moses was angry with them.
21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: for when the heat of the sun came, it was melted.
22 ¶ And the sixth day they gathered [f]twice so much bread, two omers for one man: then all the rulers of the Congregation came and told Moses.
23 And he answered them, This is that which the Lord hath said, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord: bake that today which ye will bake, and seethe that which ye will seethe, and all that remaineth, lay it up to be kept till the morning for you.
24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade, and it stank not, neither was there any worm therein.
25 Then Moses said, Eat that today: for today is the Sabbath unto the Lord: today ye shall not [g]find it in the field.
26 Six days shall ye gather it, but in the seventh day is the Sabbath: in it there shall be none.
19 [a]Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet complain? for who hath resisted his will?
20 [b]But, O man, who art thou which pleadest against God? [c]shall the (A)thing [d]formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 (B)[e]Hath not the potter power of the clay to make of the same lump one [f]vessel to [g]honor, and another unto [h]dishonor?
22 [i]What and if God would, to show his wrath, and to make his power known, suffer with long patience the [j]vessels of wrath, prepared to [k]destruction?
23 And that he might declare the [l]riches of his glory upon the vessels of mercy, which he hath prepared unto glory?
24 [m]Even us whom he hath called, not of the [n]Jews only, but also of the Gentiles.
25 [o]As he saith also in Hosea, (C)I will call them, My people, which were not my people: and her, Beloved, which was not beloved.
26 And it shall be in the place where it was said unto them, (D)Ye are not my people, that there they shall be called, The children of the living God.
27 [p]Also Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, (E)Though the number of the children of Israel were as the sand of the sea, yet shall but a remnant be saved.
28 For he will make his account, and gather it into a [q]short sum with righteousness: for the Lord will make a short count in the earth.
29 (F)And as Isaiah said before, Except the Lord of [r]hosts had left us a [s]seed, we had been made as Sodom, and had been like to Gomorrah.
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