Leia em Bíblia Online o Livro de Salmos 78, na versão NVI (Nova Versão Internacional), e medite na palavra de Deus.
We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, And his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done.
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;
That the generation to come might know [them], even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tell [them] to their children,
That they might set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep his commandments,
And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that set not their heart aright, And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Behold, he smote the rock, so that waters gushed out, And streams overflowed; Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?
Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; And a fire was kindled against Jacob, And anger also went up against Israel;
When the anger of God went up against them, And slew of the fattest of them, And smote down the young men of Israel.
But he, being merciful, forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: Yea, many a time turned he his anger away, And did not stir up all his wrath.
He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, and indignation, and trouble, A band of angels of evil.
He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,
And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had gotten.
He drove out the nations also before them, And allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.