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The Book of Psalms

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- Chapter 78 -

I will open my mouth in parables

(Matthew 13:34-35)
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A Psalme to give instruction committed to Asaph. Heare my doctrine, O my people: incline your eares vnto the wordes of my mouth.
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I will open my mouth in a parable: I will declare high sentences of olde.
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Which we haue heard and knowen, and our fathers haue tolde vs.
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Wee will not hide them from their children but to the generation to come we wil shewe the praises of the Lord his power also, and his wonderful woorkes that he hath done:
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How he established a testimonie in Iaakob, and ordeined a Law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they shoulde teache their children:
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That the posteritie might knowe it, and the children, which should be borne, should stand vp, and declare it to their children:
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That they might set their hope on God, and not forget the workes of God but keepe his commandements:
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And not to bee as their fathers, a disobedient and rebellious generation: a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirite was not faithfull vnto God.
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The children of Ephraim being armed and shooting with the bowe, turned backe in the day of battell.
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They kept not the couenant of God, but refused to walke in his Lawe,
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And forgate his Actes, and his wonderfull woorkes that he had shewed them.
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Hee did marueilous thinges in the sight of their fathers in the lande of Egypt: euen in the fielde of Zoan.
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He deuided the Sea, and led them through: he made also the waters to stand as an heape.
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In the day time also hee led them with a cloude, and all the night with a light of fire.
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He claue the rockes in the wildernes, and gaue them drinke as of the great depths.
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He brought floods also out of the stonie rocke; so that hee made the waters to descend like the riuers.
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Yet they sinned stil against him, and prouoked the Highest in the wildernesse,
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And tempted God in their heartes in requiring meate for their lust.
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They spake against God also, saying, Can God prepare a table in the wildernesse?
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Behold, he smote the rocke, that the water gushed out, and the streames ouerflowed: can hee giue bread also? or prepare flesh for his people?
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Therefore the Lord heard and was angrie, and the fire was kindled in Iaakob, and also wrath came vpon Israel,
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Because they beleeued not in God, and trusted not in his helpe.
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Yet he had comanded the clouds aboue, and had opened the doores of heauen,
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And had rained downe MAN vpon them for to eate, and had giuen them of the wheate of heauen.
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Man did eate the bread of Angels: hee sent them meate ynough.
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He caused the Eastwinde to passe in the heauen, and through his power he brought in the Southwinde.
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Hee rained flesh also vpon them as dust, and feathered foule as the sand of the sea.
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And hee made it fall in the middes of their campe euen round about their habitations.
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So they did eate and were well filled: for he gaue them their desire.
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They were not turned from their lust, but the meate was yet in their mouthes,
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When the wrath of God came euen vpon them, and slew the strongest of them, and smote downe the chosen men in Israel.
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For all this, they sinned stil, and beleeued not his wonderous woorkes.
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Therefore their daies did hee consume in vanitie, and their yeeres hastily.
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And when hee slewe them, they sought him and they returned, and sought God earely.
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And they remembred that God was their strength, and the most high God their redeemer.
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But they flattered him with their mouth, and dissembled with him with their tongue.
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For their heart was not vpright with him: neither were they faithfull in his couenant.
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Yet he being merciful forgaue their iniquitie, and destroied them not, but oft times called backe his anger, and did not stirre vp all his wrath.
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For he remembered that they were flesh: yea, a winde that passeth and commeth not againe.
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How oft did they prouoke him in the wildernes? and grieue him in the desert?
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Yea, they returned, and tempted God, and limited the Holie one of Israel.
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They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he deliuered them from the enemie,
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Nor him that set his signes in Egypt, and his wonders in the fielde of Zoan,
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And turned their riuers into blood, and their floods, that they could not drinke.
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Hee sent a swarme of flies among them, which deuoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
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He gaue also their fruites vnto the caterpiller, and their labour vnto the grassehopper.
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He destroied their vines with haile, and their wilde figge trees with the hailestone.
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He gaue their cattell also to the haile, and their flockes to the thunderboltes.
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Hee cast vpon them the fiercenesse of his anger, indignation and wrath, and vexation by the sending out of euill Angels.
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He made a way to his anger: he spared not their soule from death, but gaue their life to the pestilence,
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And smote al the firstborne in Egypt, euen the beginning of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham.
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But hee made his people to goe out like sheepe, and led them in the wildernes like a flocke.
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Yea, he caried them out safely, and they feared not, and the Sea couered their enemies.
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And he brought them vnto the borders of his Sanctuarie: euen to this Mountaine, which his right hand purchased.
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He cast out the heathe 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.
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Yet they tempted, and prouoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies,
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But turned backe and delt falsely like their fathers: they turned like a deceitfull bowe.
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And they prouoked him to anger with their high places, and mooued him to wrath with their grauen images.
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God heard this and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel,
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So that hee forsooke the habitation of Shilo, euen the Tabernacle where hee dwelt among men,
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And deliuered his power into captiuitie, and his beautie into the enemies hand.
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And hee gaue vp his people to the sworde, and was angrie with his inheritance.
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The fire deuoured their chosen men, and their maides were not praised.
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Their Priestes fell by the sworde, and their widowes lamented not.
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But the Lord awaked as one out of sleepe, and as a strong man that after his wine crieth out,
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And smote his enemies in the hinder parts, and put them to a perpetuall shame.
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Yet he refused the tabernacle of Ioseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
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But chose the tribe of Iudah, and mount Zion which he loued.
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And he built his Sanctuarie as an high palace, like the earth, which he stablished for euer.
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He chose Dauid also his seruant, and tooke him from the shepefolds.
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Euen from behinde the ewes with yong brought he him to feede his people in Iaakob, and his inheritance in Israel.
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So he fed them according to the simplicitie of his heart, and guided them by the discretion of his hands.

I will open my mouth in parables

(Matthew 13:34-35)
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Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
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I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,
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which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
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We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.
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For he established a covenant in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;
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that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,
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that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God’s deeds, but keep his commandments,
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and might not be as their fathers— a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
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The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
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They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law.
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They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.
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He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
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He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.
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In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.
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He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
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He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
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Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
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They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
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Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
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Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide meat for his people?”
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Therefore the LORD heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,
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because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his salvation.
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Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.
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He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.
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Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.
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He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.
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He also rained meat on them as the dust, winged birds as the sand of the seas.
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He let them fall in the middle of their camp, around their habitations.
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So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.
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They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,
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when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their strongest, and struck down the young men of Israel.
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For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.
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Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
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When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.
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They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.
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But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.
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For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.
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But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.
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He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.
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How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!
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They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
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They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
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how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,
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he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.
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He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
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He also gave their increase to the caterpillar, and 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 also gave over their livestock 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 out 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 twisted 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 abandoned 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, and their widows couldn’t weep.
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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.