Psalms 78
78
Psalm 78
A maskil by Asaph.
1Open your ears to my teachings, my people.
Turn your ears to the words from my mouth.
2I will open my mouth to illustrate points.
I will explain what has been hidden long ago,
3things that we have heard and known about,
things that our parents have told us.
4We will not hide them from our children.
We will tell the next generation
about the Lord’s power and great deeds
and the miraculous things he has done.
5He established written instructions for Jacob’s people.
He gave his teachings to Israel.
He commanded our ancestors to make them known to their children
6so that the next generation would know them.
Children yet to be born ⌞would learn them⌟.
They will grow up and tell their children
7to trust God, to remember what he has done,
and to obey his commands.
8Then they will not be like their ancestors,
a stubborn and rebellious generation.
Their hearts were not loyal.
Their spirits were not faithful to God.
9The men of Ephraim, well-equipped with bows ⌞and arrows⌟,
turned ⌞and ran⌟ on the day of battle.
10They had not been faithful to God’s promise.#78:10 Or “covenant.”
They refused to follow his teachings.
11They forgot what he had done—
the miracles that he had shown them.
12In front of their ancestors he performed miracles
in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.
13He divided the sea and led them through it.
He made the waters stand up like a wall.
14He guided them by a cloud during the day
and by a fiery light throughout the night.
15He split rocks in the desert.
He gave them plenty to drink, an ocean of water.
16He made streams come out of a rock.
He made the water flow like rivers.
17They continued to sin against him,
to rebel in the desert against the Most High.
18They deliberately tested God by demanding the food they craved.
19They spoke against God by saying,
“Can God prepare a banquet in the desert?
20True, he did strike a rock,
and water did gush out,
and the streams did overflow.
But can he also give us bread or provide us, his people, with meat?”
21When the Lord heard this, he became furious.
His fire burned against Jacob
and his anger flared up at Israel
22because they did not believe God
or trust him to save them.
23In spite of that, he commanded the clouds above
and opened the doors of heaven.
24He rained manna down on them to eat
and gave them grain from heaven.
25Humans ate the bread of the mighty ones,
and God sent them plenty of food.
26He made the east wind blow in the heavens
and guided the south wind with his might.
27He rained meat down on them like dust,
birds like the sand on the seashore.
28He made the birds fall in the middle of his camp,
all around his dwelling place.
29They ate more than enough.
He gave them what they wanted,
30but they still wanted more.
While the food was still in their mouths,
31the anger of God flared up against them.
He killed their strongest men and slaughtered the best young men in Israel.
32In spite of all this, they continued to sin,
and they no longer believed in his miracles.
33He brought their days to an end like a whisper in the wind.
He brought their years to an end in terror.
34When he killed ⌞some of⌟ them, ⌞the rest⌟ searched for him.
They turned from their sins and eagerly looked for God.
35They remembered that God was their rock,
that the Most High was their defender.
36They flattered him with their mouths
and lied to him with their tongues.
37Their hearts were not loyal to him.
They were not faithful to his promise.
38But he is compassionate.
He forgave their sin.
He did not destroy them.
He restrained his anger many times.
He did not display all of his fury.
39He remembered that they were only flesh and blood,
a breeze that blows and does not return.
40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness!
How often they caused him grief in the desert!
41Again and again they tested God,
and they pushed the Holy One of Israel to the limit.
42They did not remember his power—
the day he freed them from their oppressor,
43when he performed his miraculous signs in Egypt,
his wonders in the fields of Zoan.
44He turned their rivers into blood
so that they could not drink from their streams.
45He sent a swarm of flies that bit them
and frogs that ruined them.
46He gave their crops to grasshoppers
and their produce to locusts.
47He killed their vines with hail
and their fig trees with frost.
48He let the hail strike their cattle
and bolts of lightning strike their livestock.
49He sent his burning anger, rage, fury, and hostility against them.
He sent an army of destroying angels.
50He cleared a path for his anger.
He did not spare them.
He let the plague take their lives.
51He slaughtered every firstborn in Egypt,
the ones born in the tents of Ham when their fathers were young.
52But he led his own people out like sheep
and guided them like a flock through the wilderness.
53He led them safely.
They had no fear while the sea covered their enemies.
54He brought them into his holy land,
to this mountain that his power had won.
55He forced nations out of their way
and gave them the land of the nations as their inheritance.
He settled the tribes of Israel in their own tents.
56They tested God Most High and rebelled against him.
They did not obey his written instructions.
57They were disloyal and treacherous like their ancestors.
They were like arrows shot from a defective bow.
58They made him angry because of their illegal worship sites.
They made him furious because they worshiped idols.
59When God heard, he became furious.
He completely rejected Israel.
60He abandoned his dwelling place in Shiloh,
the tent where he had lived among humans.
61He allowed his power to be taken captive
and handed his glory over to an oppressor.
62He let swords kill his people.
He was furious with those who belonged to him.
63Fire consumed his best young men,
so his virgins heard no wedding songs.
64His priests were cut down with swords.
The widows ⌞of his priests⌟ could not even weep ⌞for them⌟.
65Then the Lord woke up like one who had been sleeping,
like a warrior sobering up from ⌞too much⌟ wine.
66He struck his enemies from behind
and disgraced them forever.
67He rejected the tent 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 holy place to be like the high heavens,
like the earth which he made to last for a long time.
70He chose his servant David.
He took him from the sheep pens.
71He brought him from tending the ewes that had lambs
so that David could be the shepherd of the people of Jacob,
of Israel, the people who belonged to the Lord.
72With unselfish devotion David became their shepherd.
With skill he guided them.
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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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