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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Psalms 78
78
Psalm 78
A maskil#Title: Probably a literary or musical term of Asaph.
1My people, hear my teaching;
listen to the words of my mouth.
2I will open my mouth with a parable;
I will utter hidden things, things from of old—
3things we have heard and known,
things our ancestors have told us.
4We will not hide them from their descendants;
we will tell the next generation
the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord,
his power, and the wonders he has done.
5He decreed statutes for Jacob
and established the law in Israel,
which he commanded our ancestors
to teach their children,
6so the next generation would know them,
even the children yet to be born,
and they in turn would tell their children.
7Then they would put their trust in God
and would not forget his deeds
but would keep his commands.
8They would not be like their ancestors—
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
whose hearts were not loyal to God,
whose spirits were not faithful to him.
9The men of Ephraim, though armed with bows,
turned back on the day of battle;
10they did not keep God’s covenant
and refused to live by his law.
11They forgot what he had done,
the wonders he had shown them.
12He did miracles in the sight of their ancestors
in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
13He divided the sea and led them through;
he made the water stand up like a wall.
14He guided them with the cloud by day
and with light from the fire all night.
15He split the rocks in the wilderness
and gave them water as abundant as the seas;
16he brought streams out of a rocky crag
and made water flow down like rivers.
17But they continued to sin against him,
rebelling in the wilderness against the Most High.
18They willfully put God to the test
by demanding the food they craved.
19They spoke against God;
they said, “Can God really
spread a table in the wilderness?
20True, he struck the rock,
and water gushed out,
streams flowed abundantly,
but can he also give us bread?
Can he supply meat for his people?”
21When the Lord heard them, he was furious;
his fire broke out against Jacob,
and his wrath rose against Israel,
22for they did not believe in God
or trust in his deliverance.
23Yet he gave a command to the skies above
and opened the doors of the heavens;
24he rained down manna for the people to eat,
he gave them the grain of heaven.
25Human beings ate the bread of angels;
he sent them all the food they could eat.
26He let loose the east wind from the heavens
and by his power made the south wind blow.
27He rained meat down on them like dust,
birds like sand on the seashore.
28He made them come down inside their camp,
all around their tents.
29They ate till they were gorged—
he had given them what they craved.
30But before they turned from what they craved,
even while the food was still in their mouths,
31God’s anger rose against them;
he put to death the sturdiest among them,
cutting down the young men of Israel.
32In spite of all this, they kept on sinning;
in spite of his wonders, they did not believe.
33So he ended their days in futility
and their years in terror.
34Whenever God slew them, they would seek him;
they eagerly turned to him again.
35They remembered that God was their Rock,
that God Most High was their Redeemer.
36But then they would flatter him with their mouths,
lying to him with their tongues;
37their hearts were not loyal to him,
they were not faithful to his covenant.
38Yet he was merciful;
he forgave their iniquities
and did not destroy them.
Time after time he restrained his anger
and did not stir up his full wrath.
39He remembered that they were but flesh,
a passing breeze that does not return.
40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness
and grieved him in the wasteland!
41Again and again they put God to the test;
they vexed the Holy One of Israel.
42They did not remember his power—
the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,
43the day he displayed his signs in Egypt,
his wonders in the region of Zoan.
44He turned their river into blood;
they could not drink from their streams.
45He sent swarms of flies that devoured them,
and frogs that devastated them.
46He gave their crops to the grasshopper,
their produce to the locust.
47He destroyed their vines with hail
and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
48He gave over their cattle to the hail,
their livestock to bolts of lightning.
49He unleashed against them his hot anger,
his wrath, indignation and hostility—
a band of destroying angels.
50He prepared a path for his anger;
he did not spare them from death
but gave them over to the plague.
51He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt,
the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.
52But he brought his people out like a flock;
he led them like sheep through the wilderness.
53He guided them safely, so they were unafraid;
but the sea engulfed their enemies.
54And so he brought them to the border of his holy land,
to the hill country his right hand had taken.
55He drove out nations before them
and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance;
he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.
56But they put God to the test
and rebelled against the Most High;
they did not keep his statutes.
57Like their ancestors they were disloyal and faithless,
as unreliable as a faulty bow.
58They angered him with their high places;
they aroused his jealousy with their idols.
59When God heard them, he was furious;
he rejected Israel completely.
60He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh,
the tent he had set up among humans.
61He sent the ark of his might into captivity,
his splendor into the hands of the enemy.
62He gave his people over to the sword;
he was furious with his inheritance.
63Fire consumed their young men,
and their young women had no wedding songs;
64their priests were put to the sword,
and their widows could not weep.
65Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,
as a warrior wakes from the stupor of wine.
66He beat back his enemies;
he put them to everlasting shame.
67Then he rejected the tents of Joseph,
he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;
68but he chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which he loved.
69He built his sanctuary like the heights,
like the earth that he established forever.
70He chose David his servant
and took him from the sheep pens;
71from tending the sheep he brought him
to be the shepherd of his people Jacob,
of Israel his inheritance.
72And David shepherded them with integrity of heart;
with skillful hands he led them.
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