{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Daily Psalms - Classical Psalms Every Day","title":"Psalm Chapter 78","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/e0d6ef3b\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":523,"description":"Psalm 78: The Long Memory of GracePsalm 78 is the longest classroom in the Psalter — a vast, sprawling history lesson that Asaph opens with a curious word: \"I will open my mouth in a parable.\" But this is no fable. It is the true story of a people who were given everything and forgot everything, and of a God who, against all reasonable expectation, kept giving. The fathers saw the sea split and the rock pour water and the sky rain bread, and they responded by asking, with breathtaking insolence, \"Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?\" They had just eaten at that table. The pattern repeats with the relentless rhythm of waves against a cliff: God delivers, the people forget, God judges, the people repent, God relents. And yet the psalm does not end in judgment but in a sheepfold, where a young shepherd named David is plucked from following the ewes to feed an entire nation. The God of this psalm is not the God of tidy lessons but of stubborn, inexplicable, almost reckless mercy — the kind that remembers we are but flesh, a wind that passes away and does not return.00:00 A Parable of Old01:00 The Testimony Passed Down02:00 Wonders in Egypt03:00 Manna and Rebellion04:00 Compassion Despite Faithlessness05:00 The Plagues Remembered06:00 Led Like a Flock07:00 The Tabernacle Forsaken08:00 David Chosen from the Sheepfolds","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/C2WseAXS5mwLSdrov_M_2jK4yq73Ie3qsXM5YHymD9c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zYTI4/MzVhZWJjYTI1MDMy/ODg4MTI5NzlhMDg5/NmY2ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}