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32 He gave them hailstones for rain: and flames of fire in their land.

33 He smote their vines also and fig-trees and destroyed the trees that were in their coasts.

34 He spake the word, and the grasshoppers came, and caterpillars innumerable: and did eat up all the grass in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground. 35 He smote all the first-born 136:10 in their land: even the chief of all their strength.

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36 He brought them forth also with silver and gold: there was not one feeble person among their tribes.

37 Egypt was glad at their departing for they were afraid of them.

38 He spread out a cloud to be a covering: and fire to give light in the night-season.

78:19,24, 39 At their desire he brought 25,28 quails: and he filled them with the bread of heaven.

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78:16,17, 40 He opened the rock of stone, and the waters flowed out : so that rivers ran in the dry places.

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41 For why? he remembered his holy promise: and Abraham his servant.

42 And he brought forth his people with joy and his chosen with gladness;

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22 the heathen: and they took the

32 See Ex. 9:17-35.

34 See Ex. 10:1-20. 35 See Ex. 12:29, 30. "A lamentable noise was carried abroad for children that were bewailed. The master and the servant were punished after one manner; and like as the king, so suffered the common person. So they all together had innumerable dead with one kind of death; neither were the living sufficient to bury them: for in one moment the noblest offspring of them was destroyed" Wisd. 18:10

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36 Lit. And there was no stumbling one among them. See Ex. 12:35:

37 For the fear of them fell upon them. See Ex. 12:33. God's miracles in the wilderness. vv. 38-40.

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38 Wisdom rendered to the righteous a reward of their labours, guided them in a marvellous way, and was unto them for a cover by day, and a light of stars in the night season "Wisd. 10:17.

39 The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

40 He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river. See Ex. 17:6; Is. 48:21. "When they were thirsty, they called upon thee, and water was given them out of the flinty rock, and their thirst was quenched out of the hard stone Wisd. 11:4.

God's purpose in His wonderful doings. VV. 41-44. 41 Verse 8.

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42 Lit. His chosen with a song of rejoicing. righteous spoiled the ungodly, and praised thy holy name, O Lord, and magnified with one accord thine hand, that fought for them" Wisd. 10:20. "The ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads " Is. 35:10.

43 Verse 11. See Josh. 24:13.

32 Seventh plague. 34 Eighth plague. Grasshoppers, K. J. locusts; caterpillars, a species of locust. 35 Tenth plague. 37 Departing; in Gk. version, "Exodus"

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labours of the people in possession;

44 That they might keep his statutes and observe his laws.

Rom., v. 1, Easter Mon. & Tues.; 19th Sun. af. Pent. N. In Temple, on First Day of Feast of Tabernacles.

PSALM CVI.

Confitemini Domino

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O GIVE thanks unto the LORD;

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2 Who can express the noble 44:1-9 acts of the LORD: or show forth all his praise?

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3 Blessed are they that alway 119:2 keep judgment: and do righteous

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4 Remember me, O LORD, ac119:132 cording to the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;

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5 That I may see the felicity 128:6,7 of thy chosen and rejoice in the gladness of thy people, and give thanks with thine inheritance.

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6 We have sinned with our 79:8 fathers: we have done amiss, and dealt wickedly.

78:12 7 Our fathers regarded not thy wonders in Egypt, neither kept they thy great goodness in remembrance: but were disobedient at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

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8 Nevertheless, he helped them for his Name's sake: that he

44 That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Hallelujah.

PSALM 106.

This psalm was probably written toward the close of the Babylonish Captivity.

God's mighty acts for His people made the burden of a Confession.

MAN'S DISOBEDIENCE, AND FORGETFULNESS OF CHRIST'S

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1 Hallelujah. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever. Verses 44, 46. "When ye glorify the Lord, exalt him as much as ye can; for even yet will he far exceed: and when ye exalt hím, put forth all your strength, and be not weary; for ye can never go far enough" Ecclus. 43:30.

3 Ps. 15. "Let us not be weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not" Gal, 6:9.

5 "He said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise" S. Lu. 23:42, 43.

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6 "Thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law" Neh. 9:33, 34We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments Dan. 9:5. "Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have s ain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it" Acts 7:51753

Events connected with the passage of the Red Sea. Ex. 14:11, 12, 28, 31. vv. 7-12.

7 They remembered not the multitude of thy mercies. Verse 22.

8 Verse 10. "For this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth" Ex. 9:16. See Ex. 14:18.

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Ps. CVI. Hallelujah, i. e. Praise ye Jah; see Ps. 105:44. The other psalms beginning with this word are 111-113, 117, 135, 146-150, in all of which the Prayer-Book version omits the word. With the exception of the Hallelujah this verse is identical with r Chr. 16:34. See Pss. 107:1; 118:1; 136:1. This ascription of praise is found in 2 Chr. 5:13; 7:3; 20:21; Ezra 3:11; Jer. 33:11; 1 Macc. 4:24. Comp. Ps. 136. 6 Done amiss; K. J. committed iniquity. 7 Were disobedient; lit. rebelled. 8 Helped, K. J. saved.

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18:15 9 He rebuked the Red Sea 78:14 also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the deep, as through a wilderness.

105:42 IO And he saved them from the adversary's hand and delivered them from the hand of the enemy.

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II As for those that troubled them, the waters overwhelmed them there was not one of them left.

12 Then believed they his words: and sang praise unto him 78:12,13, 13 But within a while they for57 gat his works: and would not abide his counsel.

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14 But lust came upon them in the wilderness: and they tempted God in the desert.

15 And he gave them their desire and sent leanness withal in

to their soul.

16 They angered Moses also in the tents: and Aaron the saint of the LORD.

17 So the earth opened, and swallowed up Dathan: and covered the congregation of Abiram. 18 And the fire was kindled in 21:9 503 their company: the flame burnt 97:3 up the ungodly.

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19 They made a calf in Horeb : and worshipped the molten image. 20 Thus they turned their glo ry into the similitude of a calf that eateth hay.

21 And they forgat God their

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