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Psalms 78:5

How long, O Lord? wilt thou be angry forever? 1 Shall thy jealousy burn like fire? 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

In Context

4We are become a reproach to our neighbors, 1 A scorn and derision to them that are round about us. 1

6Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, 1 And upon the kingdoms which have not called upon thy name. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 12:27that ye shall say to them, This Passover is a sacrifice to the Lord, as he defended the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, but delivered our houses.

Exodus 25:21And thou shalt set the propitiatory on the ark above, and thou shalt put into the ark the testimonies which I shall give thee.

Exodus 40:20And he took the testimonies, and put them into the ark; and he put the staffs by the sides of the ark.

Deuteronomy 6:7And thou shalt teach them to thy children, and thou shalt speak of them sitting in the house, and walking by the way, and lying down, and rising up.

Deuteronomy 31:13And their sons who have not known shall hear, and shall learn to fear the Lord thy God all the days that they live upon the land, into which ye go over Jordan to inherit it.

Psalms 19:7Now I know that the Lord has saved his Christ: 1 He shall hear him from his holy heaven: 1 The salvation of his right hand is mighty. 1

Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:2-9

The Importance of Religious Instruction. 1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: 3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord , and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. 5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our… Read the whole commentary →

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