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Write these things for the future so that people who are not yet born will praise the Lord .

So I said, "My God, do not take me in the middle of my life. Your years go on and on.

As high as the sky is above the earth, so great is his love for those who respect him.

You built the earth on its foundations so it can never be moved.

You set borders for the seas that they cannot cross, so water will never cover the earth again.

Look at the sea, so big and wide, with creatures large and small that cannot be counted.

So he changed their water into blood and made their fish die.

So God brought his people out with joy, his chosen ones with singing.

He gave them lands of other nations, so they received what others had worked for.

This was so they would keep his orders and obey his teachings. Praise the Lord !

Our ancestors in Egypt did not learn from your miracles. They did not remember all your kindnesses, so they turned against you at the Red Sea.

So he gave them what they wanted, but he also sent a terrible disease among them.

So God said he would destroy them. But Moses, his chosen one, stood before him and stopped God's anger from destroying them.

So he swore to them that they would die in the desert.

They made the Lord angry by what they did, so many people became sick with a terrible disease.

The people turned against the Spirit of God, so Moses spoke without stopping to think.

They killed innocent people, their own sons and daughters, as sacrifices to the idols of Canaan. So the land was made unholy by their blood.

So the Lord became angry with his people and hated his own children.

The Lord saved his people many times, but they continued to turn against him. So they became even more wicked.

So he broke their pride by hard work. They stumbled, and no one helped.