< اَلْمَزَامِيرُ 78 >
قَصِيدَةٌ لِآسَافَ اِصْغَ يَا شَعْبِي إِلَى شَرِيعَتِي. أَمِيلُوا آذَانَكُمْ إِلَى كَلَامِ فَمِي. | ١ 1 |
Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
أَفْتَحُ بِمَثَلٍ فَمِي. أُذِيعُ أَلْغَازًا مُنْذُ ٱلْقِدَمِ. | ٢ 2 |
I will open my mouth in a parable. I will explain mysteries from days of old,
ٱلَّتِي سَمِعْنَاهَا وَعَرَفْنَاهَا وَآبَاؤُنَا أَخْبَرُونَا. | ٣ 3 |
Which we have sh'ma ·heard obeyed· and known, and our fathers have told us.
لَا نُخْفِي عَنْ بَنِيهِمْ إِلَى ٱلْجِيلِ ٱلْآخِرِ، مُخْبِرِينَ بِتَسَابِيحِ ٱلرَّبِّ وَقُوَّتِهِ وَعَجَائِبِهِ ٱلَّتِي صَنَعَ. | ٤ 4 |
We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the tehilahot ·praise songs· of Adonai, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.
أَقَامَ شَهَادَةً فِي يَعْقُوبَ، وَوَضَعَ شَرِيعَةً فِي إِسْرَائِيلَ، ٱلَّتِي أَوْصَى آبَاءَنَا أَنْ يُعَرِّفُوا بِهَا أَبْنَاءَهُمْ، | ٥ 5 |
For he established a testimony in Jacob [Supplanter], and appointed a teaching in Israel [God prevails], which he enjoined our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;
لِكَيْ يَعْلَمَ ٱلْجِيلُ ٱلْآخِرُ. بَنُونَ يُولَدُونَ فَيَقُومُونَ وَيُخْبِرُونَ أَبْنَاءَهُمْ، | ٦ 6 |
that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,
فَيَجْعَلُونَ عَلَى ٱللهِ ٱعْتِمَادَهُمْ، وَلَا يَنْسَوْنَ أَعْمَالَ ٱللهِ، بَلْ يَحْفَظُونَ وَصَايَاهُ. | ٧ 7 |
that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God’s deeds, but keep his mitzvot ·instructions·,
وَلَا يَكُونُونَ مِثْلَ آبَائِهِمْ، جِيلًا زَائِغًا وَمَارِدًا، جِيلًا لَمْ يُثَبِّتْ قَلْبَهُ وَلَمْ تَكُنْ رُوحُهُ أَمِينَةً لِلهِ. | ٨ 8 |
and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
بَنُو أَفْرَايِمَ ٱلنَّازِعُونَ فِي ٱلْقَوْسِ، ٱلرَّامُونَ، ٱنْقَلَبُوا فِي يَوْمِ ٱلْحَرْبِ. | ٩ 9 |
The children of Ephraim [Fruit], being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
لَمْ يَحْفَظُوا عَهْدَ ٱللهِ، وَأَبَوْا ٱلسُّلُوكَ فِي شَرِيعَتِهِ، | ١٠ 10 |
They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his torot ·teachings·.
وَنَسُوا أَفْعَالَهُ وَعَجَائِبَهُ ٱلَّتِي أَرَاهُمْ. | ١١ 11 |
They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.
قُدَّامَ آبَائِهِمْ صَنَعَ أُعْجُوبَةً فِي أَرْضِ مِصْرَ، بِلَادِ صُوعَنَ. | ١٢ 12 |
He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery], in the field of Zoan.
شَقَّ ٱلْبَحْرَ فَعَبَّرَهُمْ، وَنَصَبَ ٱلْمِيَاهَ كَنَدٍّ. | ١٣ 13 |
He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.
وَهَدَاهُمْ بِٱلسَّحَابِ نَهَارًا، وَٱللَّيْلَ كُلَّهُ بِنُورِ نَارٍ. | ١٤ 14 |
In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.
شَقَّ صُخُورًا فِي ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ، وَسَقَاهُمْ كَأَنَّهُ مِنْ لُجَجٍ عَظِيمَةٍ. | ١٥ 15 |
He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
أَخْرَجَ مَجَارِيَ مِنْ صَخْرَةٍ، وَأَجْرَى مِيَاهًا كَٱلْأَنْهَارِ. | ١٦ 16 |
He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
ثُمَّ عَادُوا أَيْضًا لِيُخْطِئُوا إِلَيْهِ، لِعِصْيَانِ ٱلْعَلِيِّ فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ ٱلنَّاشِفَةِ. | ١٧ 17 |
Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against haElyon [the Most High] in the desert.
وَجَرَّبُوا ٱللهَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ، بِسُؤَالِهِمْ طَعَامًا لِشَهْوَتِهِمْ. | ١٨ 18 |
They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
فَوَقَعُوا فِي ٱللهِ. قَالُوا: «هَلْ يَقْدِرُ ٱللهُ أَنْ يُرَتِّبَ مَائِدَةً فِي ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ؟ | ١٩ 19 |
Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
هُوَذَا ضَرَبَ ٱلصَّخْرَةَ فَجَرَتِ ٱلْمِيَاهُ وَفَاضَتِ ٱلْأَوْدِيَةُ. هَلْ يَقْدِرُ أَيْضًا أَنْ يُعْطِيَ خُبْزًا، أَوْ يُهَيِّئَ لَحْمًا لِشَعْبِهِ؟». | ٢٠ 20 |
Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide meat for his people?”
لِذَلِكَ سَمِعَ ٱلرَّبُّ فَغَضِبَ، وَٱشْتَعَلَتْ نَارٌ فِي يَعْقُوبَ، وَسَخَطٌ أَيْضًا صَعِدَ عَلَى إِسْرَائِيلَ، | ٢١ 21 |
Therefore Adonai sh'ma ·heard obeyed·, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob [Supplanter], anger also went up against Israel [God prevails],
لِأَنَّهُمْ لَمْ يُؤْمِنُوا بِٱللهِ وَلَمْ يَتَّكِلُوا عَلَى خَلَاصِهِ. | ٢٢ 22 |
because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his yishu'ah ·salvation·.
فَأَمَرَ ٱلسَّحَابَ مِنْ فَوْقُ، وَفَتَحَ مَصَارِيعَ ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ. | ٢٣ 23 |
Yet he enjoined the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.
وَأَمْطَرَ عَلَيْهِمْ مَنًّا لِلْأَكْلِ، وَبُرَّ ٱلسَّمَاءِ أَعْطَاهُمْ. | ٢٤ 24 |
He rained down manna ·what is it· on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.
أَكَلَ ٱلْإِنْسَانُ خُبْزَ ٱلْمَلَائِكَةِ. أَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ زَادًا لِلشِّبَعِ. | ٢٥ 25 |
Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.
أَهَاجَ شَرْقِيَّةً فِي ٱلسَّمَاءِ، وَسَاقَ بِقُوَّتِهِ جَنُوبِيَّةً. | ٢٦ 26 |
He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.
وَأَمْطَرَ عَلَيْهِمْ لَحْمًا مِثْلَ ٱلتُّرَابِ، وَكَرَمْلِ ٱلْبَحْرِ طُيُورًا ذَوَاتِ أَجْنِحَةٍ. | ٢٧ 27 |
He rained also meat on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.
وَأَسْقَطَهَا فِي وَسَطِ مَحَلَّتِهِمْ حَوَالَيْ مَسَاكِنِهِمْ. | ٢٨ 28 |
He let them fall in the middle of their camp, around their habitations.
فَأَكَلُوا وَشَبِعُوا جِدًّا، وَأَتَاهُمْ بِشَهْوَتِهِمْ. | ٢٩ 29 |
So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.
لَمْ يَزُوغُوا عَنْ شَهْوَتِهِمْ. طَعَامُهُمْ بَعْدُ فِي أَفْوَاهِهِمْ، | ٣٠ 30 |
They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,
فَصَعِدَ عَلَيْهِمْ غَضَبُ ٱللهِ، وَقَتَلَ مِنْ أَسْمَنِهِمْ، وَصَرَعَ مُخْتَارِي إِسْرَائِيلَ. | ٣١ 31 |
when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their fattest, and struck down the young men of Israel [God prevails].
فِي هَذَا كُلِّهِ أَخْطَأُوا بَعْدُ، وَلَمْ يُؤْمِنُوا بِعَجَائِبِهِ. | ٣٢ 32 |
For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.
فَأَفْنَى أَيَّامَهُمْ بِٱلْبَاطِلِ وَسِنِيهِمْ بِٱلرُّعْبِ. | ٣٣ 33 |
Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
إِذْ قَتَلَهُمْ طَلَبُوهُ، وَرَجَعُوا وَبَكَّرُوا إِلَى ٱللهِ، | ٣٤ 34 |
When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They made teshuvah ·complete return· and sought God earnestly.
وَذَكَرُوا أَنَّ ٱللهَ صَخْرَتُهُمْ، وَٱللهَ ٱلْعَلِيَّ وَلِيُّهُمْ. | ٣٥ 35 |
They remembered that God was their rock, haElyon [the Most High] God, their redeemer.
فَخَادَعُوهُ بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ، وَكَذَبُوا عَلَيْهِ بِأَلْسِنَتِهِمْ. | ٣٦ 36 |
But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.
أَمَّا قُلُوبُهُمْ فَلَمْ تُثَبَّتْ مَعَهُ، وَلَمْ يَكُونُوا أُمَنَاءَ فِي عَهْدِهِ. | ٣٧ 37 |
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.
أَمَّا هُوَ فَرَؤُوفٌ، يَغْفِرُ ٱلْإِثْمَ وَلَا يُهْلِكُ. وَكَثِيرًا مَا رَدَّ غَضَبَهُ، وَلَمْ يُشْعِلْ كُلَّ سَخَطِهِ. | ٣٨ 38 |
But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.
ذَكَرَ أَنَّهُمْ بَشَرٌ. رِيحٌ تَذْهَبُ وَلَا تَعُودُ. | ٣٩ 39 |
He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and does not come again.
كَمْ عَصَوْهُ فِي ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ وَأَحْزَنُوهُ فِي ٱلْقَفْرِ! | ٤٠ 40 |
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!
رَجَعُوا وَجَرَّبُوا ٱللهَ وَعَنَّوْا قُدُّوسَ إِسْرَائِيلَ. | ٤١ 41 |
They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the haKadosh Isra'el [the Holy One of God prevails].
لَمْ يَذْكُرُوا يَدَهُ يَوْمَ فَدَاهُمْ مِنَ ٱلْعَدُوِّ، | ٤٢ 42 |
They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
حَيْثُ جَعَلَ فِي مِصْرَ آيَاتِهِ، وَعَجَائِبَهُ فِي بِلَادِ صُوعَنَ. | ٤٣ 43 |
how he set his signs in Egypt [Abode of slavery], his wonders in the field of Zoan,
إِذْ حَوَّلَ خُلْجَانَهُمْ إِلَى دَمٍ، وَمَجَارِيَهُمْ لِكَيْ لَا يَشْرَبُوا. | ٤٤ 44 |
he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.
أَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ بَعُوضًا فَأَكَلَهُمْ، وَضَفَادِعَ فَأَفْسَدَتْهُمْ. | ٤٥ 45 |
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
أَسْلَمَ لِلْجَرْدَمِ غَلَّتَهُمْ، وَتَعَبَهُمْ لِلْجَرَادِ. | ٤٦ 46 |
He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.
أَهْلَكَ بِٱلْبَرَدِ كُرُومَهُمْ، وَجُمَّيْزَهُمْ بِٱلصَّقِيعِ. | ٤٧ 47 |
He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.
وَدَفَعَ إِلَى ٱلْبَرَدِ بَهَائِمَهُمْ، وَمَوَاشِيَهُمْ لِلْبُرُوقِ. | ٤٨ 48 |
He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
أَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ حُمُوَّ غَضَبِهِ، سَخَطًا وَرِجْزًا وَضِيْقًا، جَيْشَ مَلَائِكَةٍ أَشْرَارٍ. | ٤٩ 49 |
He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.
مَهَّدَ سَبِيلًا لِغَضَبِهِ. لَمْ يَمْنَعْ مِنَ ٱلْمَوْتِ أَنْفُسَهُمْ، بَلْ دَفَعَ حَيَاتَهُمْ لِلْوَبَإِ. | ٥٠ 50 |
He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,
وَضَرَبَ كُلَّ بِكْرٍ فِي مِصْرَ. أَوَائِلَ ٱلْقُدْرَةِ فِي خِيَامِ حَامٍ. | ٥١ 51 |
and struck all the firstborn in Egypt [Abode of slavery], the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham [Hot, Intensity, Passion].
وَسَاقَ مِثْلَ ٱلْغَنَمِ شَعْبَهُ، وَقَادَهُمْ مِثْلَ قَطِيعٍ فِي ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ. | ٥٢ 52 |
But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
وَهَدَاهُمْ آمِنِينَ فَلَمْ يَجْزَعُوا. أَمَّا أَعْدَاؤُهُمْ فَغَمَرَهُمُ ٱلْبَحْرُ. | ٥٣ 53 |
He led them safely, so that they were not afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
وَأَدْخَلَهُمْ فِي تُخُومِ قُدْسِهِ، هَذَا ٱلْجَبَلِ ٱلَّذِي ٱقْتَنَتْهُ يَمِينُهُ. | ٥٤ 54 |
He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.
وَطَرَدَ ٱلْأُمَمَ مِنْ قُدَّامِهِمْ وَقَسَمَهُمْ بِٱلْحَبْلِ مِيرَاثًا، وَأَسْكَنَ فِي خِيَامِهِمْ أَسْبَاطَ إِسْرَائِيلَ. | ٥٥ 55 |
He also divorced and drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel [God prevails] to dwell in their tents.
فَجَرَّبُوا وَعَصَوْا ٱللهَ ٱلْعَلِيَّ، وَشَهَادَاتِهِ لَمْ يَحْفَظُوا، | ٥٦ 56 |
Yet they tempted and rebelled against haElyon [the Most High] God, and didn’t keep his testimonies;
بَلِ ٱرْتَدُّوا وَغَدَرُوا مِثْلَ آبَائِهِمْ. ٱنْحَرَفُوا كَقَوْسٍ مُخْطِئَةٍ. | ٥٧ 57 |
but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
أَغَاظُوهُ بِمُرْتَفَعَاتِهِمْ، وَأَغَارُوهُ بِتَمَاثِيلِهِمْ. | ٥٨ 58 |
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
سَمِعَ ٱللهُ فَغَضِبَ، وَرَذَلَ إِسْرَائِيلَ جِدًّا، | ٥٩ 59 |
When God sh'ma ·heard obeyed· this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel [God prevails];
وَرَفَضَ مَسْكِنَ شِيلُوِ، ٱلْخَيْمَةَ ٱلَّتِي نَصَبَهَا بَيْنَ ٱلنَّاسِ. | ٦٠ 60 |
So that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
وَسَلَّمَ لِلسَّبْيِ عِزَّهُ، وَجَلَالَهُ لِيَدِ ٱلْعَدُوِّ. | ٦١ 61 |
and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand.
وَدَفَعَ إِلَى ٱلسَّيْفِ شَعْبَهُ، وَغَضِبَ عَلَى مِيرَاثِهِ. | ٦٢ 62 |
He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.
مُخْتَارُوهُ أَكَلَتْهُمُ ٱلنَّارُ، وَعَذَارَاهُ لَمْ يُحْمَدْنَ. | ٦٣ 63 |
Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.
كَهَنَتُهُ سَقَطُوا بِٱلسَّيْفِ، وَأَرَامِلُهُ لَمْ يَبْكِينَ. | ٦٤ 64 |
Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep.
فَٱسْتَيْقَظَ ٱلرَّبُّ كَنَائِمٍ، كَجَبَّارٍ مُعَيِّطٍ مِنَ ٱلْخَمْرِ. | ٦٥ 65 |
Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
فَضَرَبَ أَعْدَاءَهُ إِلَى ٱلْوَرَاءِ. جَعَلَهُمْ عَارًا أَبَدِيًّا. | ٦٦ 66 |
He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.
وَرَفَضَ خَيْمَةَ يُوسُفَ، وَلَمْ يَخْتَرْ سِبْطَ أَفْرَايِمَ. | ٦٧ 67 |
Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph [May he add], and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim [Fruit],
بَلِ ٱخْتَارَ سِبْطَ يَهُوذَا، جَبَلَ صِهْيَوْنَ ٱلَّذِي أَحَبَّهُ. | ٦٨ 68 |
But chose the tribe of Judah [Praised], Mount Zion [Mountain ridge, Marking] which he 'ahav ·affectionately loved·.
وَبَنَى مِثْلَ مُرْتَفَعَاتٍ مَقْدِسَهُ، كَٱلْأَرْضِ ٱلَّتِي أَسَّسَهَا إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ. | ٦٩ 69 |
He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.
وَٱخْتَارَ دَاوُدَ عَبْدَهُ، وَأَخَذَهُ مِنْ حَظَائِرِ ٱلْغَنَمِ. | ٧٠ 70 |
He also chose David [Beloved] his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
مِنْ خَلْفِ ٱلْمُرْضِعَاتِ أَتَى بِهِ، لِيَرْعَى يَعْقُوبَ شَعْبَهُ، وَإِسْرَائِيلَ مِيرَاثَهُ. | ٧١ 71 |
from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob [Supplanter], his people, and Israel [God prevails], his inheritance.
فَرَعَاهُمْ حَسَبَ كَمَالِ قَلْبِهِ، وَبِمَهَارَةِ يَدَيْهِ هَدَاهُمْ. | ٧٢ 72 |
So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.