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Psalms 111:4
He has caused His wonderful works to be remembered. The Lord is gracious and compassionate.
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Isaiah 42:9
The past events have indeed happened. Now I declare new events; I announce them to you before they occur.”
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Deuteronomy 33:26
There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, the clouds in His majesty.
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Daniel 9:6-15
We have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, leaders, fathers, and all the people of the land.Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but this day public shame belongs to us: the men of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, and all Israel— those who are near and those who are far, in all the countries where You have dispersed them because of the disloyalty they have shown toward You.Lord, public shame belongs to us, our kings, our leaders, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.Compassion and forgiveness belong to the Lord our God, though we have rebelled against Himand have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by following His instructions that He set before us through His servants the prophets.All Israel has broken Your law and turned away, refusing to obey You. The promised curse written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, has been poured out on us because we have sinned against Him.He has carried out His words that He spoke against us and against our rulers by bringing on us so great a disaster that nothing like what has been done to Jerusalem has ever been done under all of heaven.Just as it is written in the law of Moses, all this disaster has come on us, yet we have not appeased the Lord our God by turning from our iniquities and paying attention to Your truth.So the Lord kept the disaster in mind and brought it on us, for the Lord our God is righteous in all He has done. But we have not obeyed Him.Now, Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and made Your name renowned as it is this day, we have sinned, we have acted wickedly.
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Psalms 78:1-72
My people, hear my instruction; listen to what I say.I will declare wise sayings; I will speak mysteries from the past—things we have heard and known and that our fathers have passed down to us.We must not hide them from their children, but must tell a future generation the praises of the Lord, His might, and the wonderful works He has performed.He established a testimony in Jacob and set up a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their childrenso that a future generation— children yet to be born— might know. They were to rise and tell their childrenso that they might put their confidence in God and not forget God’s works, but keep His commands.Then they would not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not loyal and whose spirit was not faithful to God.The Ephraimite archers turned back on the day of battle.They did not keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.They forgot what He had done, the wonderful works He had shown them.He worked wonders in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt, the region of Zoan.He split the sea and brought them across; the water stood firm like a wall.He led them with a cloud by day and with a fiery light throughout the night.He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the depths.He brought streams out of the stone and made water flow down like rivers.But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.They deliberately tested God, demanding the food they craved.They spoke against God, saying,“ Is God able to provide food in the wilderness?Look! He struck the rock and water gushed out; torrents overflowed. But can He also provide bread or furnish meat for His people?”Therefore, the Lord heard and became furious; then fire broke out against Jacob, and anger flared up against Israelbecause they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.He gave a command to the clouds above and opened the doors of heaven.He rained manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.People ate the bread of angels. He sent them an abundant supply of food.He made the east wind blow in the skies and drove the south wind by His might.He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the seas.He made them fall in His camp, all around His tent.They ate and were completely satisfied, for He gave them what they craved.Before they had satisfied their desire, while the food was still in their mouths,God’s anger flared up against them, and He killed some of their best men. He struck down Israel’s choice young men.Despite all this, they kept sinning and did not believe His wonderful works.He made their days end in futility, their years in sudden disaster.When He killed some of them, the rest began to seek Him; they repented and searched for God.They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their Redeemer.But they deceived Him with their mouths, they lied to Him with their tongues,their hearts were insincere toward Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.Yet He was compassionate; He atoned for their guilt and did not destroy them. He often turned His anger aside and did not unleash all His wrath.He remembered that they were only flesh, a wind that passes and does not return.How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert.They constantly tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.They did not remember His power shown on the day He redeemed them from the foe,when He performed His miraculous signs in Egypt and His wonders in the region of Zoan.He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams.He sent among them swarms of flies, which fed on them, and frogs, which devastated them.He gave their crops to the caterpillar and the fruit of their labor to the locust.He killed their vines with hail and their sycamore fig trees with a flood.He handed over their livestock to hail and their cattle to lightning bolts.He sent His burning anger against them: fury, indignation, and calamity— a band of deadly messengers.He cleared a path for His anger. He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.He struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the first progeny of the tents of Ham.He led His people out like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.He led them safely, and they were not afraid; but the sea covered their enemies.He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand acquired.He drove out nations before them. He apportioned their inheritance by lot and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.But they rebelliously tested the Most High God, for they did not keep His decrees.They treacherously turned away like their fathers; they became warped like a faulty bow.They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their carved images.God heard and became furious; He completely rejected Israel.He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where He resided among men.He gave up His strength to captivity and His splendor to the hand of a foe.He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged with His heritage.Fire consumed His chosen young men, and His young women had no wedding songs.His priests fell by the sword, but the widows could not lament.Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep, like a warrior from the effects of wine.He beat back His foes; He gave them lasting shame.He rejected the tent of Joseph and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.He chose instead the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that He established forever.He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;He brought him from tending ewes to be shepherd over His people Jacob— over Israel, His inheritance.He shepherded them with a pure heart and guided them with his skillful hands.
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Isaiah 65:17
“ For I will create a new heaven and a new earth; the past events will not be remembered or come to mind.
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Deuteronomy 32:7
Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will teach you.
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Isaiah 46:5
“ Who will you compare Me or make Me equal to? Who will you measure Me with, so that we should be like each other?
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Isaiah 45:5-6
I am Yahweh, and there is no other; there is no God but Me. I will strengthen you, though you do not know Me,so that all may know from the rising of the sun to its setting that there is no one but Me. I am Yahweh, and there is no other.
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Nehemiah 9:7-37
You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans, and changed his name to Abraham.You found his heart faithful in Your sight, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and Girgashites— to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, for You are righteous.You saw the oppression of our ancestors in Egypt and heard their cry at the Red Sea.You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the people of his land, for You knew how arrogantly they treated our ancestors. You made a name for Yourself that endures to this day.You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into churning waters.You led them with a pillar of cloud by day, and with a pillar of fire by night, to illuminate the way they should go.You came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke to them from heaven. You gave them impartial ordinances, reliable instructions, and good statutes and commands.You revealed Your holy Sabbath to them, and gave them commands, statutes, and instruction through Your servant Moses.You provided bread from heaven for their hunger; You brought them water from the rock for their thirst. You told them to go in and possess the land You had sworn to give them.But our ancestors acted arrogantly; they became stiff-necked and did not listen to Your commands.They refused to listen and did not remember Your wonders You performed among them. They became stiff-necked and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in faithful love, and You did not abandon them.Even after they had cast an image of a calf for themselves and said,“ This is your God who brought you out of Egypt,” and they had committed terrible blasphemies,You did not abandon them in the wilderness because of Your great compassion. During the day the pillar of cloud never turned away from them, guiding them on their journey. And during the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.You sent Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.You provided for them in the wilderness 40 years and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.You gave them kingdoms and peoples and assigned them to be a boundary. They took possession of the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of the land of Og king of Bashan.You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You told their ancestors to go in and take possession of it.So their descendants went in and possessed the land: You subdued the Canaanites who inhabited the land before them and handed their kings and the surrounding peoples over to them, to do as they pleased with them.They captured fortified cities and fertile land and took possession of well-supplied houses, cisterns cut out of rock, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. They ate, were filled, became prosperous, and delighted in Your great goodness.But they were disobedient and rebelled against You. They flung Your law behind their backs and killed Your prophets who warned them in order to turn them back to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.So You handed them over to their enemies, who oppressed them. In their time of distress, they cried out to You, and You heard from heaven. In Your abundant compassion You gave them deliverers, who rescued them from the power of their enemies.But as soon as they had relief, they again did what was evil in Your sight. So You abandoned them to the power of their enemies, who dominated them. When they cried out to You again, You heard from heaven and rescued them many times in Your compassion.You warned them to turn back to Your law, but they acted arrogantly and would not obey Your commands. They sinned against Your ordinances, which a person will live by if he does them. They stubbornly resisted, stiffened their necks, and would not obey.You were patient with them for many years, and Your Spirit warned them through Your prophets, but they would not listen. Therefore, You handed them over to the surrounding peoples.However, in Your abundant compassion, You did not destroy them or abandon them, for You are a gracious and compassionate God.So now, our God— the great, mighty, and awe-inspiring God who keeps His gracious covenant— do not view lightly all the hardships that have afflicted us, our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the Assyrian kings until today.You are righteous concerning all that has come on us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.Our kings, leaders, priests, and ancestors did not obey Your law or listen to Your commands and warnings You gave them.When they were in their kingdom, with Your abundant goodness that You gave them, and in the spacious and fertile land You set before them, they would not serve You or turn from their wicked ways.Here we are today, slaves in the land You gave our ancestors so that they could enjoy its fruit and its goodness. Here we are— slaves in it!Its abundant harvest goes to the kings You have set over us, because of our sins. They rule over our bodies and our livestock as they please. We are in great distress.
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Isaiah 45:21-22
Speak up and present your case— yes, let them take counsel together. Who predicted this long ago? Who announced it from ancient times? Was it not I, Yahweh? There is no other God but Me, a righteous God and Savior; there is no one except Me.Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth. For I am God, and there is no other.
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Psalms 105:1-45
Give thanks to Yahweh, call on His name; proclaim His deeds among the peoples.Sing to Him, sing praise to Him; tell about all His wonderful works!Honor His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.Search for the Lord and for His strength; seek His face always.Remember the wonderful works He has done, His wonders, and the judgments He has pronounced,you offspring of Abraham His servant, Jacob’s descendants— His chosen ones.He is the Lord our God; His judgments govern the whole earth.He remembers His covenant forever, the promise He ordained for a thousand generations—the covenant He made with Abraham, swore to Isaac,and confirmed to Jacob as a decree and to Israel as an everlasting covenant:“ I will give the land of Canaan to you as your inherited portion.”When they were few in number, very few indeed, and temporary residents in Canaan,wandering from nation to nation and from one kingdom to another,He allowed no one to oppress them; He rebuked kings on their behalf:“ Do not touch My anointed ones, or harm My prophets.”He called down famine against the land and destroyed the entire food supply.He had sent a man ahead of them— Joseph, who was sold as a slave.They hurt his feet with shackles; his neck was put in an iron collar.Until the time his prediction came true, the word of the Lord tested him.The king sent for him and released him; the ruler of peoples set him free.He made him master of his household, ruler over all his possessions—binding his officials at will and instructing his elders.Then Israel went to Egypt; Jacob lived as a foreigner in the land of Ham.The Lord made His people very fruitful; He made them more numerous than their foes,whose hearts He turned to hate His people and to deal deceptively with His servants.He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron, whom He had chosen.They performed His miraculous signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.He sent darkness, and it became dark— for did they not defy His commands?He turned their water into blood and caused their fish to die.Their land was overrun with frogs, even in their royal chambers.He spoke, and insects came— gnats throughout their country.He gave them hail for rain, and lightning throughout their land.He struck their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their territory.He spoke, and locusts came— young locusts without number.They devoured all the vegetation in their land and consumed the produce of their land.He struck all the firstborn in their land, all their first progeny.Then He brought Israel out with silver and gold, and no one among His tribes stumbled.Egypt was glad when they left, for the dread of Israel had fallen on them.He spread a cloud as a covering and gave a fire to light up the night.They asked, and He brought quail and satisfied them with bread from heaven.He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a stream in the desert.For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.He brought His people out with rejoicing, His chosen ones with shouts of joy.He gave them the lands of the nations, and they inherited what other peoples had worked for.All this happened so that they might keep His statutes and obey His instructions. Hallelujah!
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Isaiah 45:14
This is what the Lord says: The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush and the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you and will be yours; they will follow you, they will come over in chains and bow down to you. They will confess to you: God is indeed with you, and there is no other; there is no other God.
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Isaiah 45:18
For this is what the Lord says— God is the Creator of the heavens. He formed the earth and made it. He established it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited—“ I am Yahweh, and there is no other.
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Jeremiah 23:7-8
“ The days are coming”— the Lord’s declaration—“ when it will no longer be said,‘ As the Lord lives who brought the Israelites from the land of Egypt,’but,‘ As the Lord lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the land of the north and from all the other countries where I had banished them.’ They will dwell once more in their own land.”
