Psalms 78
78
PSALM 78
Common Meter: 8,6,8,6
Maschil of Asaph.
1Attend, my people, to my law;
thereto give thou an ear;
The words that from my mouth proceed
attentively do hear.
2My mouth shall speak a parable,
and sayings dark of old;
3The same which we have heard and known,
and us our fathers told.
4We also will them not conceal
from their posterity;
Them to the generation
to come declare will we:
The praises of the Lord our God,
and his almighty strength,
The wondrous works that he hath done,
we will shew forth at length.
5His testimony and his law
in Isr'el he did place,
And charg'd our fathers it to show
to their succeeding race;
6That so the race which was to come
might well them learn and know;
And sons unborn, who should arise,
might to their sons them show:
7That they might set their hope in God,
and suffer not to fall
His mighty works out of their mind,
but keep his precepts all:
8And might not, like their fathers, be
a stiff rebellious race;
A race not right in heart; with God
whose sp'rit not stedfast was.
9The sons of Ephraim, who nor bows
nor other arms did lack,
When as the day of battle was,
they faintly turned back.
10They brake God's cov'nant,
and refus'd in his commands to go;
11His works and wonders they forgot,
which he to them did show.
12Things marvellous he brought to pass;
their fathers them beheld
Within the land of Egypt done,
yea, ev'n in Zoan's field.
13By him divided was the sea,
he caus'd them through to pass;
And made the waters so to stand,
as like an heap it was.
14With cloud by day, with light of fire
all night, he did them guide.
15In desert rocks he clave,
and drink, as from great depths, supply'd.
16He from the rock brought streams, like floods
made waters to run down.
17Yet sinning more, in desert they
provok'd the Highest One.
18For in their heart they tempted God,
and, speaking with mistrust,
They greedily did meat require
to satisfy their lust.
19Against the Lord himself they spake,
and, murmuring, said thus,
A table in the wilderness
can God prepare for us?
20Behold, he smote the rock, and thence
came streams and waters great;
But can he give his people bread?
and send them flesh to eat?
21The Lord did hear, and waxed wroth;
so kindled was a flame
'Gainst Jacob, and 'gainst Israel
up indignation came.
22For they believ'd not God, nor trust
in his salvation had;
23Though clouds above he did command,
and heav'n's doors open made,
24And manna rain'd on them,
and gave them corn of heav'n to eat.
25Man angels' food did eat; to them
he to the full sent meat.
26And in the heaven he did cause
an eastern wind to blow;
And by his power he let out
the southern wind to go.
27Then flesh as thick as dust he made
to rain down them among;
And feather'd fowls, like as the sand
which li'th the shore along.
28At his command amidst their camp
these show'rs of flesh down fell,
All round about the tabernacles
and tents where they did dwell.
29So they did eat abundantly,
and had of meat their fill;
For he did give to them what was
their own desire and will.
30They from their lust had not estrang'd
their heart and their desire;
But while the meat was in their mouths,
which they did so require,
31God's wrath upon them came,
and slew the fattest of them all;
So that the choice of Israel,
o'erthrown by death, did fall.
32Yet, notwithstanding of all this,
they sinned still the more;
And though he had great wonders wrought,
believ'd him not therefore:
33Wherefore their days in vanity
he did consume and waste;
And by his wrath their wretched years
away in trouble past.
34But when he slew them, then they did
to seek him shew desire;
Yea, they return'd, and after God
right early did enquire.
35And that the Lord had been their Rock,
they did remember then;
Ev'n that the high almighty God
had their Redeemer been.
36Yet with their mouth they flatter'd him,
and spake but feignedly;
And they unto the God of truth
with their false tongues did lie.
37For though their words were good, their heart
with him was not sincere;
Unstedfast and perfidious
they in his cov'nant were.
38But, full of pity, he forgave
their sin, them did not slay;
Nor stirr'd up all his wrath, but oft
his anger turn'd away.
39For that they were but fading flesh
to mind he did recall;
A wind that passeth soon away,
and not returns at all.
40How often did they him provoke
within the wilderness!
And in the desert did him grieve
with their rebelliousness!
41Yea, turning back, they tempted God,
and limits set upon
Him, who in midst of Isr'el is
the only Holy One.
42They did not call to mind his pow'r,
nor yet the day when he
Deliver'd them out of the hand
of their fierce enemy;
43Nor how great signs in Egypt land
he openly had wrought;
What miracles in Zoan's field
his hand to pass had brought.
44How lakes and rivers ev'ry where
he turned into blood;
So that nor man nor beast could drink
of standing lake or flood.
45He brought among them swarms of flies,
which did them sore annoy;
And divers kinds of filthy frogs
he sent them to destroy.
46He to the caterpillar gave
the fruits of all their soil;
Their labours he deliver'd up
unto the locusts' spoil.
47Their vines with hail, their sycamores
he with the frost did blast:
48Their beasts to hail he gave; their flocks
hot thunderbolts did waste.
49Fierce burning wrath he on them cast,
and indignation strong,
And troubles sore, by sending forth
ill angels them among.
50He to his wrath made way; their soul
from death he did not save;
But over to the pestilence
the lives of them he gave.
51In Egypt land the first-born all
he smote down ev'ry where;
Among the tents of Ham, ev'n these
chief of their strength that were.
52But his own people, like to sheep,
thence to go forth he made;
And he, amidst the wilderness,
them, as a flock, did lead.
53And he them safely on did lead,
so that they did not fear;
Whereas their en'mies by the sea
quite overwhelmed were.
54To borders of his sanctuary
the Lord his people led,
Ev'n to the mount which his right hand
for them had purchased.
55The nations of Canaan,
by his almighty hand,
Before their face he did expel
out of their native land;
Which for inheritance to them
by line he did divide,
And made the tribes of Israel
within their tents abide.
56Yet God most high they did provoke,
and tempted ever still;
And to observe his testimonies
did not incline their will:
57But, like their fathers, turned back,
and dealt unfaithfully:
Aside they turned, like a bow
that shoots deceitfully.
58For they to anger did provoke
him with their places high;
And with their graven images
mov'd him to jealousy.
59When God heard this, he waxed wroth,
and much loath'd Isr'el then:
60So Shiloh's tent he left, the tent
which he had plac'd with men.
61And he his strength delivered
into captivity;
He left his glory in the hand
of his proud enemy.
62His people also he gave o'er
unto the sword's fierce rage:
So sore his wrath inflamed was
against his heritage.
63The fire consum'd their choice young men;
their maids no marriage had;
64And when their priests fell by the sword,
their wives no mourning made.
65But then the Lord arose, as one
that doth from sleep awake;
And like a giant that, by wine
refresh'd, a shout doth make:
66Upon his en'mies' hinder parts
he made his stroke to fall;
And so upon them he did put
a shame perpetual.
67Moreover, he the tabernacle
of Joseph did refuse;
The mighty tribe of Ephraim
he would in no wise chuse:
68But he did chuse Jehudah's tribe
to be the rest above;
And of mount Sion he made choice,
which he so much did love.
69And he his sanctuary built
like to a palace high,
Like to the earth which he did found
to perpetuity.
70Of David, that his servant was,
he also choice did make,
And even from the folds of sheep
was pleased him to take:
71From waiting on the ewes with young,
he brought him forth to feed
Israel, his inheritance,
his people, Jacob's seed.
72So after the integrity
he of his heart them fed;
And by the good skill of his hands
them wisely governed.
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Tehillim 78
78
(Maskil of Asaph)
1Give ear, O my people, to my torah; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2I will open my mouth in a mashal; I will utter dark sayings from of old,
3Which we have heard and known, and Avoteinu have told us.
4We will not hide them from their banim, recounting to the dor acharon the tehillot Hashem, and His power, and His nifla'ot (wonderful works) that He hath done.
5For He established edut in Ya'akov, set torah in Yisroel, which He commanded Avoteinu, that they should make them known to their banim;
6So that the dor acharon might know them, even the banim which should be born; who should arise and recount them to their banim;
7That they might put their confidence in Elohim, and not forget the ma'allei El (works of G-d), but keep His mitzvot;
8And might not be as their Avot, a dor sorer u'moreh (stubborn and rebellious generation); a generation that set not its lev aright, and whose ruach was not faithful to G-d.
9The Bnei Ephrayim, being armed, and shooting keshet (the bows), turned back in the day of battle.
10They kept not the Brit Elohim, and refused to walk in His torah;
11And forgot His works, and His nifla'ot (wonders) that He had shown them.
12Peleh (marvellous things) did He in the sight of their avot, in Eretz Mitzrayim, in the sadeh (area) of Tzoan.
13He divided the yam, and caused them to pass through; and He made the mayim to stand like a heap.
14In the daytime also He led them with an anan, and all the lailah with an ohr of eish.
15He split the rocks in the midbar, and gave them drink as out of the great tehomot.
16He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused mayim to run down like rivers.
17And they sinned yet more against Him by provoking Elyon in the wilderness.
18And they tested G-d by their lev by demanding ochel for their lust.
19And they spoke against Elohim; they said, Can G-d spread a shulchan in the midbar?
20Behold, He struck the Tzur, that the mayim gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can He give lechem also? Can He provide meat for His people?
21Therefore Hashem heard this, and was in wrath; so an eish was kindled against Ya'akov, and anger also came up against Yisroel;
22Because they believed not in Elohim, and trusted not in His Yeshu'ah (salvation);
23Though He had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the daletei Shomayim (doors of heaven),
24And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the bread of Shomayim.#78:24 See Jn 6:31
25Ish did eat the bread of angels; He sent them lechem to the full.
26He caused an east wind to blow from Shomayim; and by His oz He brought in the south wind.
27He rained meat also upon them like aphar, and winged fowls like the chol (sand) of the sea;
28And He let it fall in the midst of their machaneh, all around their mishkenot (habitations).
29So they did eat, and were well filled; for He gave them their own ta'avah (evil desire).
30They were not estranged from their ta'avah. But while their food was yet in their mouths,
31The Af Elohim (wrath of G-d) came upon them, and slaughtered the stoutest of them, and cut down the bochurim of Yisroel.
32For all this they sinned still, and believed not in His nifla'ot (wondrous works).
33Therefore their yamim did He consume in hevel (futility, vanity) and their shanim in terror.
34When He slaughtered them, then they sought Him; and they returned and inquired diligently after G-d.
35And they remembered that Elohim was their Tzur, and the El Elyon their Go'el (Redeemer).
36Nevertheless they did flatter Him with their mouth, and they lied unto Him with their leshon.
37For their lev was not right with Him, neither were they faithful in His Brit.
38But He, being full of compassion, made kapporah for their avon and destroyed them not; and He many times turned His anger away, and did not stir up all His wrath.
39For He remembered that they were but basar; a ruach (wind) that passeth away, and cometh not again.
40How oft did they provoke Him in the midbar, and grieve Him in the desert!
41Again and again they turned back and tested G-d, and imposed limits on Kadosh Yisroel.
42They remembered not His Yad (Hand, Power), nor the yom (day) when He redeemed them from the enemy.
43How He had wrought His otot in Mitzrayim, and His mofetim in the area of Tzoan.
44And had turned their rivers into dahm; and their streams, that they could not drink.
45He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them; and tzfarde'a (frogs), which destroyed them.
46He gave also their crop unto the grasshopper, and their produce unto the arbeh (locust).
47He destroyed their gefen with barad (hail), and their fig trees with frost.
48He gave up their cattle also to the barad (hail), and their livestock herds to hot thunderbolts.
49He cast upon them His charon af, evrah (wrath), and za'am (indignation), and tzarah, by sending malachim ra'im among them.
50He made a way for His anger; He spared not their nefesh from mavet (death), but gave their beasts over to the dever (plague);
51And struck all the bechor in Mitzrayim; the reshit (first fruit) of their strength in the ohalim of Cham;
52But made His own people to go forth like tzon, and guided them in the midbar like an eder (flock).
53And He led them in safety, so that they had no terror; but the yam overwhelmed their oyevim.
54And He brought them to His gevul kadosh (His holy border), even to this Har, which His Yamin had purchased.
55He cast out the Goyim also before them, and divided by measure a nachalah for them, and made the Shivtei Yisroel to dwell in their ohalim.
56Yet they tested and provoked Elohim Elyon, and were not shomer over His edot;
57But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their avot; they turned like a treacherous keshet.
58For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their pesilim.
59When Elohim heard this, He was in wrath, and greatly abhorred Yisroel;
60So that He forsook the Mishkan of Shiloh, the Ohel which He placed among adam (men);
61And delivered His oz (strength) into captivity, and His tiferet into the hand of the enemy.
62He gave His people over also unto the cherev; and was in wrath with His nachalah.
63The eish consumed their bochurim; and their betulot had no wedding celebration.
64Their kohanim fell by the cherev; and their almanot made no lamentation.
65Then Adonoi awaked as one from sleep, and like a gibbor that shouteth from yayin.
66And He struck down His enemies behind; He put them to cherpat olam (perpetual reproach).
67Moreover He rejected the Ohel Yosef, and chose not the Shevet Ephrayim;
68But chose the Shevet Yehudah, Har Tziyon which He loved.
69And He built His Mikdash like heavenly heights, like Eretz which He hath established l'olam.
70He chose Dovid also His Eved, and took him from the mikhle'ot tzon (sheepfolds);
71From following the nursing ewes He brought him to shepherd Ya'akov His people, and Yisroel His nachalah.
72So he shepherded them according to the tohm (integrity, guilelessness) of his lev; and led them by the skillfulness of his hands.
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