اَلْمَزَامِيرُ 78
| قَصِيدَةٌ لِآسَافَ اِصْغَ يَا شَعْبِي إِلَى شَرِيعَتِي. أَمِيلُوا آذَانَكُمْ إِلَى كَلَامِ فَمِي. | ١ 1 |
A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth.
| أَفْتَحُ بِمَثَلٍ فَمِي. أُذِيعُ أَلْغَازًا مُنْذُ ٱلْقِدَمِ. | ٢ 2 |
I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,
| ٱلَّتِي سَمِعْنَاهَا وَعَرَفْنَاهَا وَآبَاؤُنَا أَخْبَرُونَا. | ٣ 3 |
that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to 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, but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might, and the wonders He has performed.
| أَقَامَ شَهَادَةً فِي يَعْقُوبَ، وَوَضَعَ شَرِيعَةً فِي إِسْرَائِيلَ، ٱلَّتِي أَوْصَى آبَاءَنَا أَنْ يُعَرِّفُوا بِهَا أَبْنَاءَهُمْ، | ٥ 5 |
For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,
| لِكَيْ يَعْلَمَ ٱلْجِيلُ ٱلْآخِرُ. بَنُونَ يُولَدُونَ فَيَقُومُونَ وَيُخْبِرُونَ أَبْنَاءَهُمْ، | ٦ 6 |
that the coming generation would know them— even children yet to be born— to arise and tell their own children
| فَيَجْعَلُونَ عَلَى ٱللهِ ٱعْتِمَادَهُمْ، وَلَا يَنْسَوْنَ أَعْمَالَ ٱللهِ، بَلْ يَحْفَظُونَ وَصَايَاهُ. | ٧ 7 |
that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments.
| وَلَا يَكُونُونَ مِثْلَ آبَائِهِمْ، جِيلًا زَائِغًا وَمَارِدًا، جِيلًا لَمْ يُثَبِّتْ قَلْبَهُ وَلَمْ تَكُنْ رُوحُهُ أَمِينَةً لِلهِ. | ٨ 8 |
Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
| بَنُو أَفْرَايِمَ ٱلنَّازِعُونَ فِي ٱلْقَوْسِ، ٱلرَّامُونَ، ٱنْقَلَبُوا فِي يَوْمِ ٱلْحَرْبِ. | ٩ 9 |
The archers of Ephraim turned back on the day of battle.
| لَمْ يَحْفَظُوا عَهْدَ ٱللهِ، وَأَبَوْا ٱلسُّلُوكَ فِي شَرِيعَتِهِ، | ١٠ 10 |
They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.
| وَنَسُوا أَفْعَالَهُ وَعَجَائِبَهُ ٱلَّتِي أَرَاهُمْ. | ١١ 11 |
They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.
| قُدَّامَ آبَائِهِمْ صَنَعَ أُعْجُوبَةً فِي أَرْضِ مِصْرَ، بِلَادِ صُوعَنَ. | ١٢ 12 |
He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
| شَقَّ ٱلْبَحْرَ فَعَبَّرَهُمْ، وَنَصَبَ ٱلْمِيَاهَ كَنَدٍّ. | ١٣ 13 |
He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.
| وَهَدَاهُمْ بِٱلسَّحَابِ نَهَارًا، وَٱللَّيْلَ كُلَّهُ بِنُورِ نَارٍ. | ١٤ 14 |
He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
| شَقَّ صُخُورًا فِي ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ، وَسَقَاهُمْ كَأَنَّهُ مِنْ لُجَجٍ عَظِيمَةٍ. | ١٥ 15 |
He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.
| أَخْرَجَ مَجَارِيَ مِنْ صَخْرَةٍ، وَأَجْرَى مِيَاهًا كَٱلْأَنْهَارِ. | ١٦ 16 |
He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.
| ثُمَّ عَادُوا أَيْضًا لِيُخْطِئُوا إِلَيْهِ، لِعِصْيَانِ ٱلْعَلِيِّ فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ ٱلنَّاشِفَةِ. | ١٧ 17 |
But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
| وَجَرَّبُوا ٱللهَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ، بِسُؤَالِهِمْ طَعَامًا لِشَهْوَتِهِمْ. | ١٨ 18 |
They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.
| فَوَقَعُوا فِي ٱللهِ. قَالُوا: «هَلْ يَقْدِرُ ٱللهُ أَنْ يُرَتِّبَ مَائِدَةً فِي ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ؟ | ١٩ 19 |
They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really 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 |
When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”
| لِذَلِكَ سَمِعَ ٱلرَّبُّ فَغَضِبَ، وَٱشْتَعَلَتْ نَارٌ فِي يَعْقُوبَ، وَسَخَطٌ أَيْضًا صَعِدَ عَلَى إِسْرَائِيلَ، | ٢١ 21 |
Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared against Israel,
| لِأَنَّهُمْ لَمْ يُؤْمِنُوا بِٱللهِ وَلَمْ يَتَّكِلُوا عَلَى خَلَاصِهِ. | ٢٢ 22 |
because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.
| فَأَمَرَ ٱلسَّحَابَ مِنْ فَوْقُ، وَفَتَحَ مَصَارِيعَ ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ. | ٢٣ 23 |
Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.
| وَأَمْطَرَ عَلَيْهِمْ مَنًّا لِلْأَكْلِ، وَبُرَّ ٱلسَّمَاءِ أَعْطَاهُمْ. | ٢٤ 24 |
He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.
| أَكَلَ ٱلْإِنْسَانُ خُبْزَ ٱلْمَلَائِكَةِ. أَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ زَادًا لِلشِّبَعِ. | ٢٥ 25 |
Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.
| أَهَاجَ شَرْقِيَّةً فِي ٱلسَّمَاءِ، وَسَاقَ بِقُوَّتِهِ جَنُوبِيَّةً. | ٢٦ 26 |
He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might.
| وَأَمْطَرَ عَلَيْهِمْ لَحْمًا مِثْلَ ٱلتُّرَابِ، وَكَرَمْلِ ٱلْبَحْرِ طُيُورًا ذَوَاتِ أَجْنِحَةٍ. | ٢٧ 27 |
He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.
| وَأَسْقَطَهَا فِي وَسَطِ مَحَلَّتِهِمْ حَوَالَيْ مَسَاكِنِهِمْ. | ٢٨ 28 |
He felled them in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.
| فَأَكَلُوا وَشَبِعُوا جِدًّا، وَأَتَاهُمْ بِشَهْوَتِهِمْ. | ٢٩ 29 |
So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them what they craved.
| لَمْ يَزُوغُوا عَنْ شَهْوَتِهِمْ. طَعَامُهُمْ بَعْدُ فِي أَفْوَاهِهِمْ، | ٣٠ 30 |
Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,
| فَصَعِدَ عَلَيْهِمْ غَضَبُ ٱللهِ، وَقَتَلَ مِنْ أَسْمَنِهِمْ، وَصَرَعَ مُخْتَارِي إِسْرَائِيلَ. | ٣١ 31 |
God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel.
| فِي هَذَا كُلِّهِ أَخْطَأُوا بَعْدُ، وَلَمْ يُؤْمِنُوا بِعَجَائِبِهِ. | ٣٢ 32 |
In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.
| فَأَفْنَى أَيَّامَهُمْ بِٱلْبَاطِلِ وَسِنِيهِمْ بِٱلرُّعْبِ. | ٣٣ 33 |
So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.
| إِذْ قَتَلَهُمْ طَلَبُوهُ، وَرَجَعُوا وَبَكَّرُوا إِلَى ٱللهِ، | ٣٤ 34 |
When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.
| وَذَكَرُوا أَنَّ ٱللهَ صَخْرَتُهُمْ، وَٱللهَ ٱلْعَلِيَّ وَلِيُّهُمْ. | ٣٥ 35 |
And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.
| فَخَادَعُوهُ بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ، وَكَذَبُوا عَلَيْهِ بِأَلْسِنَتِهِمْ. | ٣٦ 36 |
But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.
| أَمَّا قُلُوبُهُمْ فَلَمْ تُثَبَّتْ مَعَهُ، وَلَمْ يَكُونُوا أُمَنَاءَ فِي عَهْدِهِ. | ٣٧ 37 |
Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.
| أَمَّا هُوَ فَرَؤُوفٌ، يَغْفِرُ ٱلْإِثْمَ وَلَا يُهْلِكُ. وَكَثِيرًا مَا رَدَّ غَضَبَهُ، وَلَمْ يُشْعِلْ كُلَّ سَخَطِهِ. | ٣٨ 38 |
And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.
| ذَكَرَ أَنَّهُمْ بَشَرٌ. رِيحٌ تَذْهَبُ وَلَا تَعُودُ. | ٣٩ 39 |
He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
| كَمْ عَصَوْهُ فِي ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ وَأَحْزَنُوهُ فِي ٱلْقَفْرِ! | ٤٠ 40 |
How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
| رَجَعُوا وَجَرَّبُوا ٱللهَ وَعَنَّوْا قُدُّوسَ إِسْرَائِيلَ. | ٤١ 41 |
Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
| لَمْ يَذْكُرُوا يَدَهُ يَوْمَ فَدَاهُمْ مِنَ ٱلْعَدُوِّ، | ٤٢ 42 |
They did not remember His power — the day He redeemed them from the adversary,
| حَيْثُ جَعَلَ فِي مِصْرَ آيَاتِهِ، وَعَجَائِبَهُ فِي بِلَادِ صُوعَنَ. | ٤٣ 43 |
when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.
| إِذْ حَوَّلَ خُلْجَانَهُمْ إِلَى دَمٍ، وَمَجَارِيَهُمْ لِكَيْ لَا يَشْرَبُوا. | ٤٤ 44 |
He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.
| أَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ بَعُوضًا فَأَكَلَهُمْ، وَضَفَادِعَ فَأَفْسَدَتْهُمْ. | ٤٥ 45 |
He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
| أَسْلَمَ لِلْجَرْدَمِ غَلَّتَهُمْ، وَتَعَبَهُمْ لِلْجَرَادِ. | ٤٦ 46 |
He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.
| أَهْلَكَ بِٱلْبَرَدِ كُرُومَهُمْ، وَجُمَّيْزَهُمْ بِٱلصَّقِيعِ. | ٤٧ 47 |
He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
| وَدَفَعَ إِلَى ٱلْبَرَدِ بَهَائِمَهُمْ، وَمَوَاشِيَهُمْ لِلْبُرُوقِ. | ٤٨ 48 |
He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.
| أَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ حُمُوَّ غَضَبِهِ، سَخَطًا وَرِجْزًا وَضِيْقًا، جَيْشَ مَلَائِكَةٍ أَشْرَارٍ. | ٤٩ 49 |
He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity— a band of destroying angels.
| مَهَّدَ سَبِيلًا لِغَضَبِهِ. لَمْ يَمْنَعْ مِنَ ٱلْمَوْتِ أَنْفُسَهُمْ، بَلْ دَفَعَ حَيَاتَهُمْ لِلْوَبَإِ. | ٥٠ 50 |
He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.
| وَضَرَبَ كُلَّ بِكْرٍ فِي مِصْرَ. أَوَائِلَ ٱلْقُدْرَةِ فِي خِيَامِ حَامٍ. | ٥١ 51 |
He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.
| وَسَاقَ مِثْلَ ٱلْغَنَمِ شَعْبَهُ، وَقَادَهُمْ مِثْلَ قَطِيعٍ فِي ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ. | ٥٢ 52 |
He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
| وَهَدَاهُمْ آمِنِينَ فَلَمْ يَجْزَعُوا. أَمَّا أَعْدَاؤُهُمْ فَغَمَرَهُمُ ٱلْبَحْرُ. | ٥٣ 53 |
He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies.
| وَأَدْخَلَهُمْ فِي تُخُومِ قُدْسِهِ، هَذَا ٱلْجَبَلِ ٱلَّذِي ٱقْتَنَتْهُ يَمِينُهُ. | ٥٤ 54 |
He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.
| وَطَرَدَ ٱلْأُمَمَ مِنْ قُدَّامِهِمْ وَقَسَمَهُمْ بِٱلْحَبْلِ مِيرَاثًا، وَأَسْكَنَ فِي خِيَامِهِمْ أَسْبَاطَ إِسْرَائِيلَ. | ٥٥ 55 |
He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
| فَجَرَّبُوا وَعَصَوْا ٱللهَ ٱلْعَلِيَّ، وَشَهَادَاتِهِ لَمْ يَحْفَظُوا، | ٥٦ 56 |
But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
| بَلِ ٱرْتَدُّوا وَغَدَرُوا مِثْلَ آبَائِهِمْ. ٱنْحَرَفُوا كَقَوْسٍ مُخْطِئَةٍ. | ٥٧ 57 |
They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.
| أَغَاظُوهُ بِمُرْتَفَعَاتِهِمْ، وَأَغَارُوهُ بِتَمَاثِيلِهِمْ. | ٥٨ 58 |
They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
| سَمِعَ ٱللهُ فَغَضِبَ، وَرَذَلَ إِسْرَائِيلَ جِدًّا، | ٥٩ 59 |
On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.
| وَرَفَضَ مَسْكِنَ شِيلُوِ، ٱلْخَيْمَةَ ٱلَّتِي نَصَبَهَا بَيْنَ ٱلنَّاسِ. | ٦٠ 60 |
He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.
| وَسَلَّمَ لِلسَّبْيِ عِزَّهُ، وَجَلَالَهُ لِيَدِ ٱلْعَدُوِّ. | ٦١ 61 |
He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.
| وَدَفَعَ إِلَى ٱلسَّيْفِ شَعْبَهُ، وَغَضِبَ عَلَى مِيرَاثِهِ. | ٦٢ 62 |
He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage.
| مُخْتَارُوهُ أَكَلَتْهُمُ ٱلنَّارُ، وَعَذَارَاهُ لَمْ يُحْمَدْنَ. | ٦٣ 63 |
Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.
| كَهَنَتُهُ سَقَطُوا بِٱلسَّيْفِ، وَأَرَامِلُهُ لَمْ يَبْكِينَ. | ٦٤ 64 |
His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.
| فَٱسْتَيْقَظَ ٱلرَّبُّ كَنَائِمٍ، كَجَبَّارٍ مُعَيِّطٍ مِنَ ٱلْخَمْرِ. | ٦٥ 65 |
Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.
| فَضَرَبَ أَعْدَاءَهُ إِلَى ٱلْوَرَاءِ. جَعَلَهُمْ عَارًا أَبَدِيًّا. | ٦٦ 66 |
He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.
| وَرَفَضَ خَيْمَةَ يُوسُفَ، وَلَمْ يَخْتَرْ سِبْطَ أَفْرَايِمَ. | ٦٧ 67 |
He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.
| بَلِ ٱخْتَارَ سِبْطَ يَهُوذَا، جَبَلَ صِهْيَوْنَ ٱلَّذِي أَحَبَّهُ. | ٦٨ 68 |
But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
| وَبَنَى مِثْلَ مُرْتَفَعَاتٍ مَقْدِسَهُ، كَٱلْأَرْضِ ٱلَّتِي أَسَّسَهَا إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ. | ٦٩ 69 |
He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.
| وَٱخْتَارَ دَاوُدَ عَبْدَهُ، وَأَخَذَهُ مِنْ حَظَائِرِ ٱلْغَنَمِ. | ٧٠ 70 |
He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
| مِنْ خَلْفِ ٱلْمُرْضِعَاتِ أَتَى بِهِ، لِيَرْعَى يَعْقُوبَ شَعْبَهُ، وَإِسْرَائِيلَ مِيرَاثَهُ. | ٧١ 71 |
from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.
| فَرَعَاهُمْ حَسَبَ كَمَالِ قَلْبِهِ، وَبِمَهَارَةِ يَدَيْهِ هَدَاهُمْ. | ٧٢ 72 |
So David shepherded them with integrity of heart and guided them with skillful hands.
