8.20-God can provide the water of life that allows us to live forever with Him.

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Revelation 22.
¹⁷ The Spirit and the bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wishes take the water of life without cost.
¹⁸ I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book; ¹⁹ and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and ^[i]from the holy city, which are written in this book.
²⁰ He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming quickly.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
²¹ The grace of the Lord Jesus be with ^[j]all. Amen.

Psalm 78.

78 Listen, O my people, to my ^[b]instruction;
Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
² I will open my mouth in a parable;
I will utter dark sayings of old,
³ Which we have heard and known,
And our fathers have told us.
⁴ We will not conceal them from their children,
But tell to the generation to come the praises of the Lord,
And His strength and His wondrous works that He has done.

⁵ For He established a testimony in Jacob
And appointed a law in Israel,
Which He commanded our fathers
That they should ^[c]teach them to their children,
⁶ That the generation to come might know, even the children yet to be born,
That they may arise and tell them to their children,
⁷ That they should put their confidence in God
And not forget the works of God,
But keep His commandments,
⁸ And not be like their fathers,
A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation that did not ^[d]prepare its heart
And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

⁹ The sons of Ephraim ^[e]were archers equipped with bows,
Yet they turned back in the day of battle.
¹⁰ They did not keep the covenant of God
And refused to walk in His law;
¹¹ They forgot His deeds
And His ^[f]miracles that He had shown them.
¹² He wrought wonders before their fathers
In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
¹³ He divided the sea and caused them to pass through,
And He made the waters stand up like a heap.
¹⁴ Then He led them with the cloud by day
And all the night with a light of fire.
¹⁵ He split the rocks in the wilderness
And gave them abundant drink like the ocean depths.
¹⁶ He brought forth streams also from the rock
And caused waters to run down like rivers.

¹⁷ Yet they still continued to sin against Him,
To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
¹⁸ And in their heart they put God to the test
By asking food according to their desire.
¹⁹ Then they spoke against God;
They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
²⁰ “Behold, He struck the rock so that waters gushed out,
And streams were overflowing;
Can He give bread also?
Will He provide ^[g]meat for His people?”

²¹ Therefore the Lord heard and ^[h]was full of wrath;
And a fire was kindled against Jacob
And anger also mounted against Israel,
²² Because they did not believe in God
And did not trust in His salvation.
²³ Yet He commanded the clouds above
And opened the doors of heaven;
²⁴ He rained down manna upon them to eat
And gave them ^[i]food from heaven.
²⁵ Man did eat the bread of ^[j]angels;
He sent them ^[k]food ^[l]in abundance.
²⁶ He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens
And by His ^[m]power He directed the south wind.
²⁷ When He rained ^[n]meat upon them like the dust,
Even winged fowl like the sand of the seas,
²⁸ Then He let them fall in the midst of ^[o]their camp,
Round about their dwellings.
²⁹ So they ate and were well filled,
And their desire He gave to them.
^30 [p]Before they had satisfied their desire,
While their food was in their mouths,
³¹ The anger of God rose against them
And killed ^[q]some of their stoutest ones,
And ^[r]subdued the choice men of Israel.
³² In spite of all this they still sinned
And did not believe in His wonderful works.
³³ So He brought their days to an end in ^[s]futility
And their years in sudden terror.

³⁴ When He killed them, then they sought Him,
And returned and searched diligently for God;
³⁵ And they remembered that God was their rock,
And the Most High God their Redeemer.
³⁶ But they deceived Him with their mouth
And lied to Him with their tongue.
³⁷ For their heart was not steadfast toward Him,
Nor were they faithful in His covenant.
³⁸ But He, being compassionate, ^[t]forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them;
And often He ^[u]restrained His anger
And did not arouse all His wrath.
³⁹ Thus He remembered that they were but flesh,
A ^[v]wind that passes and does not return.

⁴⁰ How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness
And grieved Him in the desert!
⁴¹ Again and again they ^[w]tempted God,
And pained the Holy One of Israel.
⁴² They did not remember His ^[x]power,
The day when He redeemed them from the adversary,
⁴³ When He performed His signs in Egypt
And His marvels in the field of Zoan,
⁴⁴ And turned their rivers to blood,
And their streams, they could not drink.
⁴⁵ He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them,
And frogs which destroyed them.
⁴⁶ He gave also their crops to the grasshopper
And the product of their labor to the locust.
⁴⁷ He ^[y]destroyed their vines with hailstones
And their sycamore trees with frost.
⁴⁸ He gave over their cattle also to the hailstones
And their herds to bolts of lightning.
⁴⁹ He sent upon them His burning anger,
Fury and indignation and trouble,
^[z]A band of destroying angels.
⁵⁰ He leveled a path for His anger;
He did not spare their soul from death,
But gave over their life to the plague,
⁵¹ And smote all the firstborn in Egypt,
The first issue of their virility in the tents of Ham.
⁵² But He led forth His own people like sheep
And guided them in the wilderness like a flock;
⁵³ He led them safely, so that they did not fear;
But the sea engulfed their enemies.

⁵⁴ So He brought them to His holy ^[aa]land,
To this ^[ab]hill country which His right hand had gained.
⁵⁵ He also drove out the nations before them
And apportioned them for an inheritance by measurement,
And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.
⁵⁶ Yet they ^[ac]tempted and rebelled against the Most High God
And did not keep His testimonies,
⁵⁷ But turned back and acted treacherously like their fathers;
They turned aside like a treacherous bow.
⁵⁸ For they provoked Him with their high places
And aroused His jealousy with their graven images.
⁵⁹ When God heard, He ^[ad]was filled with wrath
And greatly abhorred Israel;
⁶⁰ So that He abandoned the dwelling place at Shiloh,
The tent ^[ae]which He had pitched among men,
⁶¹ And gave up His strength to captivity
And His glory into the hand of the adversary.
⁶² He also delivered His people to the sword,
And ^[af]was filled with wrath at His inheritance.
⁶³ Fire devoured ^[ag]His young men,
And ^[ah]His virgins had no wedding songs.
^64 [ai]His priests fell by the sword,
And ^[aj]His widows could not weep.

⁶⁵ Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep,
Like a warrior ^[ak]overcome by wine.
⁶⁶ He ^[al]drove His adversaries backward;
He put on them an everlasting reproach.
⁶⁷ He also rejected the tent of Joseph,
And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
⁶⁸ But chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion which He loved.
⁶⁹ And He built His sanctuary like the heights,
Like the earth which He has founded forever.
⁷⁰ He also chose David His servant
And took him from the sheepfolds;
⁷¹ From ^[am]the care of the ^[an]ewes with suckling lambs He brought him
To shepherd Jacob His people,
And Israel His inheritance.
⁷² So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart,
And guided them with his skillful hands.