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            <div class="q1"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="PSA.78.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Yet he was merciful;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="PSA.78.38"><span class="content">he forgave their iniquities</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="PSA.78.38"><span class="content">and did not destroy them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="PSA.78.38"><span class="content">Time after time he restrained his anger</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="PSA.78.38"><span class="content">and did not stir up his full wrath.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="PSA.78.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="PSA.78.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">He remembered that they were but flesh,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="PSA.78.39"><span class="content">a passing breeze that does not return.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="PSA.78.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="PSA.78.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="PSA.78.40"><span class="content">and grieved him in the wasteland!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="PSA.78.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="PSA.78.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Again and again they put God to the test;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="PSA.78.41"><span class="content">they vexed the Holy One of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="PSA.78.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="PSA.78.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">They did not remember his power&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="PSA.78.42"><span class="content">the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="PSA.78.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="PSA.78.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">the day he displayed his signs in Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="PSA.78.43"><span class="content">his wonders in the region of Zoan.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="PSA.78.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="PSA.78.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">He turned their river into blood;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="PSA.78.44"><span class="content">they could not drink from their streams.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="PSA.78.44"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="PSA.78.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">He sent swarms of flies that devoured them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="PSA.78.45"><span class="content">and frogs that devastated them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="PSA.78.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="PSA.78.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">He gave their crops to the grasshopper,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="PSA.78.46"><span class="content">their produce to the locust.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="PSA.78.46"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="PSA.78.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">He destroyed their vines with hail</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="PSA.78.47"><span class="content">and their sycamore-figs with sleet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="PSA.78.47"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="PSA.78.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">He gave over their cattle to the hail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="PSA.78.48"><span class="content">their livestock to bolts of lightning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="PSA.78.48"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="PSA.78.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">He unleashed against them his hot anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="PSA.78.49"><span class="content">his wrath, indignation and hostility&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="PSA.78.49"><span class="content">a band of destroying angels.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="PSA.78.49"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="PSA.78.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">He prepared a path for his anger;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="PSA.78.50"><span class="content">he did not spare them from death</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="PSA.78.50"><span class="content">but gave them over to the plague.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="PSA.78.50"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="PSA.78.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="PSA.78.51"><span class="content">the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="PSA.78.51"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="PSA.78.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">But he brought his people out like a flock;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="PSA.78.52"><span class="content">he led them like sheep through the wilderness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="PSA.78.52"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="PSA.78.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">He guided them safely, so they were unafraid;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="PSA.78.53"><span class="content">but the sea engulfed their enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="PSA.78.53"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="PSA.78.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">And so he brought them to the border of his holy land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="PSA.78.54"><span class="content">to the hill country his right hand had taken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="PSA.78.54"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="PSA.78.55"><span class="label">55</span><span class="content">He drove out nations before them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="PSA.78.55"><span class="content">and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="PSA.78.55"><span class="content">he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="PSA.78.55"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="PSA.78.56"><span class="label">56</span><span class="content">But they put God to the test</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="PSA.78.56"><span class="content">and rebelled against the Most High;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="PSA.78.56"><span class="content">they did not keep his statutes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="PSA.78.56"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="PSA.78.57"><span class="label">57</span><span class="content">Like their ancestors they were disloyal and faithless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="PSA.78.57"><span class="content">as unreliable as a faulty bow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="PSA.78.57"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="PSA.78.58"><span class="label">58</span><span class="content">They angered him with their high places;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="PSA.78.58"><span class="content">they aroused his jealousy with their idols.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="PSA.78.58"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v59" data-usfm="PSA.78.59"><span class="label">59</span><span class="content">When God heard them, he was furious;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v59" data-usfm="PSA.78.59"><span class="content">he rejected Israel completely.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v59" data-usfm="PSA.78.59"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v60" data-usfm="PSA.78.60"><span class="label">60</span><span class="content">He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v60" data-usfm="PSA.78.60"><span class="content">the tent he had set up among humans.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v60" data-usfm="PSA.78.60"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v61" data-usfm="PSA.78.61"><span class="label">61</span><span class="content">He sent the ark of his might into captivity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v61" data-usfm="PSA.78.61"><span class="content">his splendor into the hands of the enemy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v61" data-usfm="PSA.78.61"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v62" data-usfm="PSA.78.62"><span class="label">62</span><span class="content">He gave his people over to the sword;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v62" data-usfm="PSA.78.62"><span class="content">he was furious with his inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v62" data-usfm="PSA.78.62"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v63" data-usfm="PSA.78.63"><span class="label">63</span><span class="content">Fire consumed their young men,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v63" data-usfm="PSA.78.63"><span class="content">and their young women had no wedding songs;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v63" data-usfm="PSA.78.63"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v64" data-usfm="PSA.78.64"><span class="label">64</span><span class="content">their priests were put to the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v64" data-usfm="PSA.78.64"><span class="content">and their widows could not weep.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v64" data-usfm="PSA.78.64"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v65" data-usfm="PSA.78.65"><span class="label">65</span><span class="content">Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v65" data-usfm="PSA.78.65"><span class="content">as a warrior wakes from the stupor of wine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v65" data-usfm="PSA.78.65"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v66" data-usfm="PSA.78.66"><span class="label">66</span><span class="content">He beat back his enemies;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v66" data-usfm="PSA.78.66"><span class="content">he put them to everlasting shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v66" data-usfm="PSA.78.66"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v67" data-usfm="PSA.78.67"><span class="label">67</span><span class="content">Then he rejected the tents of Joseph,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v67" data-usfm="PSA.78.67"><span class="content">he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v67" data-usfm="PSA.78.67"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v68" data-usfm="PSA.78.68"><span class="label">68</span><span class="content">but he chose the tribe of Judah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v68" data-usfm="PSA.78.68"><span class="content">Mount Zion, which he loved.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v68" data-usfm="PSA.78.68"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v69" data-usfm="PSA.78.69"><span class="label">69</span><span class="content">He built his sanctuary like the heights,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v69" data-usfm="PSA.78.69"><span class="content">like the earth that he established forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v69" data-usfm="PSA.78.69"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v70" data-usfm="PSA.78.70"><span class="label">70</span><span class="content">He chose David his servant</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v70" data-usfm="PSA.78.70"><span class="content">and took him from the sheep pens;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v70" data-usfm="PSA.78.70"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v71" data-usfm="PSA.78.71"><span class="label">71</span><span class="content">from tending the sheep he brought him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v71" data-usfm="PSA.78.71"><span class="content">to be the shepherd of his people Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v71" data-usfm="PSA.78.71"><span class="content">of Israel his inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v71" data-usfm="PSA.78.71"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v72" data-usfm="PSA.78.72"><span class="label">72</span><span class="content">And David shepherded them with integrity of heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v72" data-usfm="PSA.78.72"><span class="content">with skillful hands he led them.</span></span></div>
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