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<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/78-71.htm" target="_top"><b>71</b></a></span>From the care of the ewes with suckling lambs He brought him<br>         To shepherd Jacob His people,<br>         And Israel His inheritance. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/78-72.htm" target="_top"><b>72</b></a></span>So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart,<br>         And guided them with his skillful hands.<p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/psalms/78.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />He chose David also his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/psalms/78.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And he chose his servant David, and took him from the hocks of sheep: he brought him from following the ewes great with young, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/psalms/78.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And he chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/psalms/78.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/psalms/78.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheep-folds:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/psalms/78.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/psalms/78.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And He fixeth on David His servant, And taketh him from the folds of a flock,<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_j/memory_hope_and_effort.htm">Memory, Hope, and Effort</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments.'--PSALM lxxviii. 7. In its original application this verse is simply a statement of God's purpose in giving to Israel the Law, and such a history of deliverance. The intention was that all future generations might remember what He had done, and be encouraged by the remembrance to hope in Him for the future; and by both memory and hope, be impelled to the discharge of present duty. So, then, the words <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_j/memory_hope_and_effort.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_12_1866/turning_back_in_the_day.htm">Turning Back in the Day of Battle</a><br></span><span class="snippet">I. We will first consider for a little while WHAT THESE MEN DID. They turned their backs. When the time for fighting came they ought to have shown their fronts. Like bold men they should have kept their face to the foe and their breast against the adversary, but they dishonorably turned their backs and fled. This, I am sorry to say, is not an unusual thing amongst professing Christians. They turn back; they turn back in the day of battle. Some do this at the first appearance of difficulty. "There <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_12_1866/turning_back_in_the_day.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 12: 1866</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_5_1859/limiting_god.htm">Limiting God</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Among such sins of the first table is that described in our text. It is consequently one of the masterpieces of iniquity, and we shall do well to purge ourselves of it. It is full of evil to ourselves, and is calculated to dishonor both God and man, therefore let us be in earnest to cut it up both root and branch. I think we have all been guilty of this in our measure; and we are not free from it even to this day. Whether we be saints or sinners, we may stand here and make our humble confession that <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_5_1859/limiting_god.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 5: 1859</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/the_ministry_of_intercession/fifteenth_day_for_schools_and.htm">Fifteenth Day for Schools and Colleges</a><br></span><span class="snippet">WHAT TO PRAY.--For Schools and Colleges "As for Me, this is My covenant with them, saith the Lord: My Spirit that is upon thee, and My words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LoThe future of the Church and the world depends, to an extent we little conceive, on the education of the day. The Church may be seeking to evangelise the heathen, and be giving up her own children to secular <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/the_ministry_of_intercession/fifteenth_day_for_schools_and.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Andrew Murray—</span><span class="citation2">The Ministry of Intercession</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/the_ministry_of_intercession/fourteenth_day_for_the_church.htm">Fourteenth Day for the Church of the Future</a><br></span><span class="snippet">WHAT TO PRAY.--For the Church of the Future "That the children might not be as their fathers, a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God."--PS. lxxviii. 8. "I will pour My Spirit upon thy seed, and My blessing upon thy offspring."--ISA. xliv. 3. Pray for the rising generation, who are to come after us. Think of the young men and young women and children of this age, and pray for all the agencies at work among them; that in association and societies <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/the_ministry_of_intercession/fourteenth_day_for_the_church.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Andrew Murray—</span><span class="citation2">The Ministry of Intercession</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/various/the_sermons_and_addresses_at_the_seabury_centenary/centenary_commemoration_2.htm">Centenary Commemoration</a><br></span><span class="snippet">OF THE RETURN OF BISHOP SEABURY. 1885 THE RT. REV. SAMUEL SEABURY, D.D. FIRST BISHOP OF CONNECTICUT, HELD HIS FIRST ORDINATION AT MIDDLETOWN, AUGUST 3, 1785. On the ninth day of June, 1885, the Diocesan Convention met in Hartford. Morning Prayer was read in Christ Church at 9 o'clock by the Rev. W. E. Vibbert, D.D., Rector of St. James's Church, Fair Haven, and the Rev. J. E. Heald, Rector of Trinity Church, Tariffville. The Holy Communion was celebrated in St. John's Church, the service beginning <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/various/the_sermons_and_addresses_at_the_seabury_centenary/centenary_commemoration_2.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Various—</span><span class="citation2">The Sermons And Addresses At The Seabury Centenary</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/a_treatise_on_good_works/thou_shalt_honor_thy_father.htm">"Thou Shalt Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother. "</a><br></span><span class="snippet">From this Commandment we learn that after the excellent works of the first three Commandments there are no better works than to obey and serve all those who are set over us as superiors. For this reason also disobedience is a greater sin than murder, unchastity, theft and dishonesty, and all that these may include. For we can in no better way learn how to distinguish between greater and lesser sins than by noting the order of the Commandments of God, although there are distinctions also within the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/a_treatise_on_good_works/thou_shalt_honor_thy_father.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Dr. Martin Luther—</span><span class="citation2">A Treatise on Good Works</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/dods/how_to_become_like_christ/indiscreet_importunity.htm">Indiscreet Importunity. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"I gave thee a king in mine anger." HOSEA xiii. 11. "Ye know not what ye ask." MATTHEW xx. 22. PSALM lxxviii. 27-31. That God sometimes suffers men to destroy themselves, giving them their own way, although He knows it is ruinous, and even putting into their hands the scorpion they have mistaken for a fish, is an indubitable and alarming fact. Perhaps no form of ruin covers a man with such shame or sinks him to such hopelessness as when he finds that what he has persistently clamoured for and refused <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/dods/how_to_become_like_christ/indiscreet_importunity.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Marcus Dods—</span><span class="citation2">How to become like Christ</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mede/a_key_to_the_apocalypse/the_mystery_2.htm">The Mystery</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Of the Woman dwelling in the Wilderness. The woman delivered of a child, when the dragon was overcome, from thenceforth dwelt in the wilderness, by which is figured the state of the Church, liberated from Pagan tyranny, to the time of the seventh trumpet, and the second Advent of Christ, by the type, not of a latent, invisible, but, as it were, an intermediate condition, like that of the lsraelitish Church journeying in the wilderness, from its departure from Egypt, to its entrance into the land <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mede/a_key_to_the_apocalypse/the_mystery_2.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Joseph Mede—</span><span class="citation2">A Key to the Apocalypse</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/yeardley/memoir_and_diary_of_john_yeardley_minister_of_the_gospel/chapter_viii_the_second_continental.htm">The Second Continental Journey. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">1827-28. PART I.--GERMANY. After John and Martha Yeardley had visited their friends at home, their minds were directed to the work which they had left uncompleted on the continent of Europe; and, on their return from the Yearly Meeting, they opened this prospect of service before the assembled church to which they belonged. (Diary) 6 mo. 18.--Were at the Monthly Meeting at Highflatts, where we laid our concern before our friends to revisit some parts of Germany and Switzerland, and to visit <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/yeardley/memoir_and_diary_of_john_yeardley_minister_of_the_gospel/chapter_viii_the_second_continental.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Yeardley—</span><span class="citation2">Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_d/the_worlds_bread.htm">The World's Bread</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told Him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught. 31. And He said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat. 32. And they departed into a desert place by ship privately. 33. And the people saw them departing, and many knew Him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_d/the_worlds_bread.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/psalms/78-70.htm">Psalm 78:70 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/psalms/78-70.htm">Psalm 78:70 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/psalms/78-70.htm">Psalm 78:70 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/psalms/78-70.htm">Psalm 78:70 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/psalms/78-70.htm">Psalm 78:70 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/psalms/78-70.htm">Psalm 78:70 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/psalms/78-70.htm">Psalm 78:70 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../psalms/78-69.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 78:69"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 78:69" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../psalms/78-71.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 78:71"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 78:71" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/psalms/78-70.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>