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How he had worked his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
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And had turned their rivers into blood; and their streams, that they could not drink.
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He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
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He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labor unto the locust.
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He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost.
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He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to fiery thunderbolts.
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He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending avenging angels among them.
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He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
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And struck down all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
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But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
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And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
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And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
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He cast out the nations also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
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Yet they tested and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
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But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully 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 graven images.
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When God heard this, he was full of anger, and greatly abhorred Israel:
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So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
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And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.
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He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was angry with his inheritance.
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The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
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Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
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Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouts by reason of wine.
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And he struck his enemies and beat them back: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
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Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
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But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
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And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he has established forever.
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He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
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From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
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So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
