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How he set his signs in Egypt, His wonders in the field of Zoan,
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Turned their rivers into blood, Their streams, so that they could not drink.
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He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; Frogs, which destroyed them.
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He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, Their labor to the locust.
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He destroyed their vines with hail, Their sycamore-fig trees with frost.
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He gave over their cattle also to the hail, And their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
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He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, indignation, and trouble, And a band of angels of evil.
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He made a path for his anger. He didn`t spare their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,
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And struck all the firstborn in Egypt, The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
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But he led forth his own people like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
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He led them safely, so that they weren`t afraid, But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
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He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had taken.
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He also drove out the nations before them, Allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
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Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And didn`t keep his testimonies;
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But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
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For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
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When God heard this, he was angry, And greatly abhorred Israel;
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So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh, The tent which he placed among men;
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And delivered his strength into captivity, His glory into the adversary`s hand.
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He also gave his people over to the sword, And was angry with his inheritance.
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Fire devoured their young men; Their virgins had no wedding song.
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Their priests fell by the sword; Their widows made no lamentation.
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Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
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He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.
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Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, And didn`t choose the tribe of Ephraim,
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But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
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He built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he has established forever.
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He also chose David his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds;
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From following the ewes that have their young he brought him To be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.
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So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands. Psalm 79 A Psalm by Asaph.