Psalms 78
1 Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
| משכיל לאסף האזינה עמי תורתי הטו אזנכם לאמרי פי׃ |
2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old:
| אפתחה במשל פי אביעה חידות מני קדם׃ |
3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
| אשר שמענו ונדעם ואבותינו ספרו לנו׃ |
4 We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done.
| לא נכחד מבניהם לדור אחרון מספרים תהלות יהוה ועזוזו ונפלאותיו אשר עשה׃ |
5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
| ויקם עדות ביעקב ותורה שם בישראל אשר צוה את אבותינו להודיעם לבניהם׃ |
6 That the generation to come might know [them], even the children which should be born; who should arise and tell [them] to their children:
| למען ידעו דור אחרון בנים יולדו יקמו ויספרו לבניהם׃ |
7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
| וישימו באלהים כסלם ולא ישכחו מעללי אל ומצותיו ינצרו׃ |
8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
| ולא יהיו כאבותם דור סורר ומרה דור לא הכין לבו ולא נאמנה את אל רוחו׃ |
9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
| בני אפרים נושקי רומי קשת הפכו ביום קרב׃ |
10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
| לא שמרו ברית אלהים ובתורתו מאנו ללכת׃ |
11 And they forgat his doings, and his wondrous works that he had shewed them.
| וישכחו עלילותיו ונפלאותיו אשר הראם׃ |
12 Marvelous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
| נגד אבותם עשה פלא בארץ מצרים שדה צען׃ |
13 He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
| בקע ים ויעבירם ויצב מים כמו נד׃ |
14 In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
| וינחם בענן יומם וכל הלילה באור אש׃ |
15 He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
| יבקע צרים במדבר וישק כתהמות רבה׃ |
16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
| ויוצא נוזלים מסלע ויורד כנהרות מים׃ |
17 Yet went they on still to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
| ויוסיפו עוד לחטא לו למרות עליון בציה׃ |
18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
| וינסו אל בלבבם לשאל אכל לנפשם׃ |
19 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
| וידברו באלהים אמרו היוכל אל לערך שלחן במדבר׃ |
20 Behold, he smote the rock, that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; can he give bread also? will he provide flesh for his people?
| הן הכה צור ויזובו מים ונחלים ישטפו הגם לחם יוכל תת אם יכין שאר לעמו׃ |
21 Therefore the LORD heard, and was wroth: and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel;
| לכן שמע יהוה ויתעבר ואש נשקה ביעקב וגם אף עלה בישראל׃ |
22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation.
| כי לא האמינו באלהים ולא בטחו בישועתו׃ |
23 Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven;
| ויצו שחקים ממעל ודלתי שמים פתח׃ |
24 And he rained down manna upon them to eat, and gave them of the corn of heaven.
| וימטר עליהם מן לאכל ודגן שמים נתן למו׃ |
25 Man did eat the bread of the mighty: he sent them meat to the full.
| לחם אבירים אכל איש צידה שלח להם לשבע׃ |
26 He caused the east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he guided the south wind.
| יסע קדים בשמים וינהג בעזו תימן׃ |
27 He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, and winged fowl as the sand of the seas:
| וימטר עליהם כעפר שאר וכחול ימים עוף כנף׃ |
28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
| ויפל בקרב מחנהו סביב למשכנתיו׃ |
29 So they did eat, and were well filled; and he gave them that they lusted after.
| ויאכלו וישבעו מאד ותאותם יבא להם׃ |
30 They were not estranged from their lust, their meat was yet in their mouths,
| לא זרו מתאותם עוד אכלם בפיהם׃ |
31 When the anger of God went up against them, and slew of the fattest of them, and smote down the young men of Israel.
| ואף אלהים עלה בהם ויהרג במשמניהם ובחורי ישראל הכריע׃ |
32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not in his wondrous works.
| בכל זאת חטאו עוד ולא האמינו בנפלאותיו׃ |
33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in terror.
| ויכל בהבל ימיהם ושנותם בבהלה׃ |
34 When he slew them, then they inquired after him: and they returned and sought God early.
| אם הרגם ודרשוהו ושבו ושחרו אל׃ |
35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God their redeemer.
| ויזכרו כי אלהים צורם ואל עליון גאלם׃ |
36 But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied unto him with their tongue.
| ויפתוהו בפיהם ובלשונם יכזבו לו׃ |
37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.
| ולבם לא נכון עמו ולא נאמנו בבריתו׃ |
38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
| והוא רחום יכפר עון ולא ישחית והרבה להשיב אפו ולא יעיר כל חמתו׃ |
39 And he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
| ויזכר כי בשר המה רוח הולך ולא ישוב׃ |
40 How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
| כמה ימרוהו במדבר יעציבוהו בישימון׃ |
41 And they turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
| וישובו וינסו אל וקדוש ישראל התוו׃ |
42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary.
| לא זכרו את ידו יום אשר פדם מני צר׃ |
43 How he set his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan;
| אשר שם במצרים אתותיו ומופתיו בשדה צען׃ |
44 And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink.
| ויהפך לדם יאריהם ונזליהם בל ישתיון׃ |
45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
| ישלח בהם ערב ויאכלם וצפרדע ותשחיתם׃ |
46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
| ויתן לחסיל יבולם ויגיעם לארבה׃ |
47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
| יהרג בברד גפנם ושקמותם בחנמל׃ |
48 He gave over their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
| ויסגר לברד בעירם ומקניהם לרשפים׃ |
49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, a band of angels of evil.
| ישלח בם חרון אפו עברה וזעם וצרה משלחת מלאכי רעים׃ |
50 He made a path for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
| יפלס נתיב לאפו לא חשך ממות נפשם וחיתם לדבר הסגיר׃ |
51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham:
| ויך כל בכור במצרים ראשית אונים באהלי חם׃ |
52 But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
| ויסע כצאן עמו וינהגם כעדר במדבר׃ |
53 And he led them safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
| וינחם לבטח ולא פחדו ואת אויביהם כסה הים׃ |
54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
| ויביאם אל גבול קדשו הר זה קנתה ימינו׃ |
55 He drove out the nations also before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
| ויגרש מפניהם גוים ויפילם בחבל נחלה וישכן באהליהם שבטי ישראל׃ |
56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and kept not his testimonies;
| וינסו וימרו את אלהים עליון ועדותיו לא שמרו׃ |
57 But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
| ויסגו ויבגדו כאבותם נהפכו כקשת רמיה׃ |
58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
| ויכעיסוהו בבמותם ובפסיליהם יקניאוהו׃ |
59 When God heard [this], he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
| שמע אלהים ויתעבר וימאס מאד בישראל׃ |
60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
| ויטש משכן שלו אהל שכן באדם׃ |
61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the adversary’s hand.
| ויתן לשבי עזו ותפארתו ביד צר׃ |
62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
| ויסגר לחרב עמו ובנחלתו התעבר׃ |
63 Fire devoured their young men; and their maidens had no marriage-song.
| בחוריו אכלה אש ובתולתיו לא הוללו׃ |
64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
| כהניו בחרב נפלו ואלמנתיו לא תבכינה׃ |
65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
| ויקץ כישן אדני כגבור מתרונן מיין׃ |
66 And he smote his adversaries backward: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
| ויך צריו אחור חרפת עולם נתן למו׃ |
67 Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim;
| וימאס באהל יוסף ובשבט אפרים לא בחר׃ |
68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
| ויבחר את שבט יהודה את הר ציון אשר אהב׃ |
69 And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
| ויבן כמו רמים מקדשו כארץ יסדה לעולם׃ |
70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
| ויבחר בדוד עבדו ויקחהו ממכלאת צאן׃ |
71 From following the ewes that give suck he brought him, to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
| מאחר עלות הביאו לרעות ביעקב עמו ובישראל נחלתו׃ |
72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
| וירעם כתם לבבו ובתבונות כפיו ינחם׃ |
