Psalms 111:6

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Psalms 111:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

4 He has caused His wonders to be remembered; the LORD is gracious and compassionate.

5 He provides food for those who fear Him; He remembers His covenant forever.

6 He has shown His people the power of His works by giving them the inheritance of the nations.

7 The works of His hands are truth and justice; all His precepts are trustworthy.

8 They are upheld forever and ever, enacted in truth and uprightness.

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Psalms 78:12

He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.

Psalms 78:13

He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.

Psalms 78:14

He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.

Psalms 78:15

He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.

Psalms 78:16

He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.

Psalms 78:17

But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

Psalms 78:18

They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.

Psalms 78:19

They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?

Psalms 78:20

When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”

Psalms 78:21

Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared against Israel,

Psalms 78:22

because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.

Psalms 78:23

Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.

Psalms 78:24

He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.

Psalms 78:25

Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.

Psalms 78:26

He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might.

Psalms 78:27

He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.

Psalms 78:28

He felled them in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.

Psalms 78:29

So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them what they craved.

Psalms 78:30

Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,

Psalms 78:31

God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel.

Psalms 78:32

In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.

Psalms 78:33

So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

Psalms 78:34

When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.

Psalms 78:35

And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.

Psalms 78:36

But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.

Psalms 78:37

Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.

Psalms 78:38

And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.

Psalms 78:39

He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

Psalms 78:40

How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

Psalms 78:41

Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Psalms 78:42

They did not remember His power — the day He redeemed them from the adversary,

Psalms 78:43

when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.

Psalms 78:44

He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.

Psalms 78:45

He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.

Psalms 78:46

He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.

Psalms 78:47

He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

Psalms 78:48

He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.

Psalms 78:49

He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity— a band of destroying angels.

Psalms 78:50

He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.

Psalms 78:51

He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.

Psalms 78:52

He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

Psalms 78:53

He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies.

Psalms 78:54

He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.

Psalms 78:55

He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

Psalms 78:56

But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.

Psalms 78:57

They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.

Psalms 78:58

They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.

Psalms 78:59

On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.

Psalms 78:60

He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.

Psalms 78:61

He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.

Psalms 78:62

He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage.

Psalms 78:63

Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.

Psalms 78:64

His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.

Psalms 78:65

Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.

Psalms 78:66

He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.

Psalms 78:67

He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.

Psalms 78:68

But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.

Psalms 78:69

He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.

Psalms 78:70

He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;

Psalms 78:71

from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.

Psalms 78:72

So David shepherded them with integrity of heart and guided them with skillful hands.

Psalms 105:27

They performed His miraculous signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

Psalms 105:28

He sent darkness, and it became dark— yet they defied His words.

Psalms 105:29

He turned their waters to blood and caused their fish to die.

Psalms 105:30

Their land teemed with frogs, even in their royal chambers.

Psalms 105:31

He spoke, and insects swarmed— gnats throughout their country.

Psalms 105:32

He gave them hail for rain, with lightning throughout their land.

Psalms 105:33

He struck their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their country.

Psalms 105:34

He spoke, and the locusts came— young locusts without number.

Psalms 105:35

They devoured every plant in their land and consumed the produce of their soil.

Psalms 105:36

Then He struck all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their vigor.

Psalms 105:37

He brought Israel out with silver and gold, and none among His tribes stumbled.

Psalms 105:38

Egypt was glad when they departed, for the dread of Israel had fallen on them.

Psalms 105:39

He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.

Psalms 105:40

They asked, and He brought quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

Psalms 105:41

He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.

Psalms 105:42

For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.

Psalms 105:43

He brought forth His people with rejoicing, His chosen with shouts of joy.

Psalms 105:44

He gave them the lands of the nations, that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,

Psalms 105:45

that they might keep His statutes and obey His laws. Hallelujah!

Deuteronomy 4:32

Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?

Deuteronomy 4:33

Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?

Deuteronomy 4:34

Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?

Deuteronomy 4:35

You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.

Deuteronomy 4:36

He let you hear His voice from heaven to discipline you, and on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the fire.

Deuteronomy 4:37

Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,

Deuteronomy 4:38

to drive out before you nations greater and mightier than you, and to bring you into their land and give it to you for your inheritance, as it is this day.

Joshua 3:14

So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carried the ark of the covenant ahead of them.

Joshua 3:15

Now the Jordan overflows its banks throughout the harvest season. But as soon as the priests carrying the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water’s edge,

Joshua 3:16

the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea ) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.

Joshua 3:17

The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed over the dry ground, until the entire nation had crossed the Jordan.

Joshua 6:20

So when the rams’ horns sounded, the people shouted. When they heard the blast of the horn, the people gave a great shout, and the wall collapsed. Then all the people charged straight into the city and captured it.

Joshua 10:13

So the sun stood still and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance upon its enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? “So the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.”

Joshua 10:14

There has been no day like it before or since, when the LORD listened to the voice of a man, because the LORD fought for Israel.

Psalms 2:8

Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.

Psalms 44:2

With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.

Psalms 80:8

You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.