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 (Psalms) 78
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1My people, give ear to my Torah, Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2I open my mouth in a parable; I utter riddles of old,
3Which we have heard and known, For our fathers have related them to us.
4We do not hide them from their children, Relating to the generation to come the praises of יהוה, And His strength and His wonders which He has done.
5For He raised a witness in Ya‛aqoḇ, And set a Torah in Yisra’ĕl, Which He commanded our fathers, To teach them to their children;
6That it might be known to a generation to come, To children who would be born, To rise up and relate them to their children,
7And place their trust in Elohim, And not forget the works of Ěl, But watch over His commands,
8And not be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation which did not prepare its heart, Whose spirit was not steadfast to Ěl.
9The children of Ephrayim, armed bowmen, Turned back in the day of battle.
10They did not guard the covenant of Elohim, And they refused to walk in His Torah,
11And they forgot His deeds And His wonders which He had shown them.
12He did wonders in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Mitsrayim, in the field of Tso‛an.
13He split the sea and caused them to pass through, And He made the waters stand up like a heap,
14And led them with the cloud by day, And all the night with a light of fire.
15He split the rocks in the wilderness, And made them drink, as from the great depths,
16And brought forth streams from the rock, And caused waters to come down as rivers.
17Yet they sinned still more against Him To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
18And they tried Ěl in their heart By asking food according to their desire.
19And they spoke against Elohim. They said, “Is Ěl able to set a table in the wilderness?
20Look, He struck the rock, So that the waters gushed out, And the streams overflowed. Is He able to give bread also? Would He provide meat for His people?
21Therefore יהוה heard, and He was wroth; So a fire was kindled against Ya‛aqoḇ, And displeasure also came up against Yisra’ĕl,
22Because they did not believe in Elohim, Neither did they trust in His deliverance.
23Yet He had commanded the clouds above, And opened the doors of the heavens,
24And He rained down manna on them to eat, And He gave them the grain of the heavens.
25Men ate bread of the mighty; He sent them provisions to satisfaction.
26He made an east wind blow in the heavens; And by His power He brought in the south wind.
27And He rained meat on them like the dust, And winged birds like the sand of the seas,
28And let them fall in the midst of His camp, All around His Dwelling Place.
29So they ate and were completely satisfied, For He brought them what they desired.
30They had not turned away from their desire, Their food was still in their mouths,
31When the wrath of Elohim came against them, And He killed among their fat ones, And He struck down the choice ones of Yisra’ĕl.
32In spite of all this they still sinned, And did not believe in His wonders.
33So He ended their days in a breath, And their years in trouble.
34When He killed them, then they sought Him, And they returned and did earnestly seek Ěl.
35And they remembered that Elohim was their rock, And the Most High Ěl their redeemer.
36But they flattered Him with their mouth, And they lied to Him with their tongue,
37For their heart was not steadfast with Him, And they were not true to His covenant.
38But He, the Compassionate One, Pardoned crookedness, And did not destroy them. And many a time He turned His displeasure away, And did not stir up all His wrath.
39For He remembered that they were but flesh, A passing breath that does not return.
40How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness, And grieved Him in the desert!
41And again and again they tried Ěl, And provoked the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl.
42They did not remember His hand, The day when He redeemed them from the adversary,
43How He worked His signs in Mitsrayim, And His wonders in the field of Tso‛an.
44He turned their rivers into blood, And they could not drink their streams.
45He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them, And frogs which destroyed them,
46And gave their crops to the caterpillar, And their labour to the locust.
47He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycamore trees with frost,
48And gave their beasts over to the hail, And their livestock to bolts of fire.
49He sent on them the burning of His displeasure, Wrath, and rage, and distress, A deputation of messengers of evils.
50He made a path for His displeasure; He did not spare their being from death, But gave their life over to the plague.
51And He struck all the first-born in Mitsrayim, The first-fruits of strength in the tents of Ḥam,
52Then made His own people go forth like sheep, And led them in the wilderness like a flock.
53And He led them on safely, And they did not fear, But the sea covered their enemies.
54And He brought them to the border of His set-apart place, This mountain which His right hand had gained,
55And drove out nations before them, And allotted them a measured inheritance, And made the tribes of Yisra’ĕl dwell in their tents.
56Yet they tried and rebelled Against the Most High Elohim, And did not guard His witnesses,
57But they turned back And acted treacherously like their fathers; They twisted like a treacherous bow.
58For they enraged Him with their high places, And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.
59When Elohim heard this, He was wroth, And greatly despised Yisra’ĕl,
60And He left the Dwelling Place of Shiloh, The Tent which He had set up among men.
61And He gave His strength into captivity, And His comeliness into the hand of the adversary.
62And He gave His people over to the sword, And He was wroth with His inheritance.
63His young men were consumed by fire, And His maidens were not praised.
64His priests fell by the sword, And their widows could not weep.
65Then יהוה awoke as one asleep, As a mighty man who shouts because of wine.
66And He struck His adversaries backward, He put them to an everlasting reproach.
67Then He rejected the tent of Yosĕph, And did not choose the tribe of Ephrayim,
68But chose the tribe of Yehuḏah, Mount Tsiyon, which He loved.
69And He built His set-apart place like the heights, Like the earth He founded it forever.
70And He chose Dawiḏ His servant, And took him from the sheepfolds;
71He brought him in from tending the ewes, To shepherd Ya‛aqoḇ His people, And Yisra’ĕl His inheritance.
72And he shepherded them According to the integrity of his heart, And led them by the skill of his hands.
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