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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 78: 49 He sent forth upon them the fierceness of His anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, a sending of messengers of evil.
Psalms 78: 50 He levelled a path for His anger; He spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
Psalms 78: 51 And smote all the first-born in Egypt, the first-fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham;
Psalms 78: 52 But He made His own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
Psalms 78: 53 And He led them safely, and they feared not; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
Psalms 78: 54 And He brought them to His holy border, to the mountain, which His right hand had gotten.
Psalms 78: 55 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.
Psalms 78: 56 Yet they tried and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not His testimonies;
Psalms 78: 57 But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers; they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
Psalms 78: 58 For they provoked Him with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their graven images.
Psalms 78: 59 God heard, and was wroth, and He greatly abhorred Israel;
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