Psalms 78

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¹ [Psalm Of Asaph] My people, listen to my teaching, pay attention to what I say.	¹ Understanding for Asaph. Attend, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
² I will speak to you in poetry, unfold the mysteries of the past.	² I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning.
³ What we have heard and know, what our ancestors have told us	³ How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
⁴ we shal not conceal from their descendants, but wil tell to a generation stil to come: the praises ofYahweh, his power, the wonderful deeds he has done.	⁴ They have not been hidden from their children, in another generation. Declaring the praises of the Lord, and his powers, and his wonders which he hath done.
⁵ He instituted a witness in Jacob, he established a law in Israel, he commanded our ancestors to handit down to their descendants,	⁵ And he set up a testimony in Jacob: and made a law in Israel. How great things he commanded our fathers, that they should make the same known to their children:
⁶ that a generation stil to come might know it, children yet to be born. They should be sure to tel theirown children,	⁶ that another generation might know them. The children that should be born and should rise up, and declare them to their children.
⁷ and should put their trust in God, never forgetting God's great deeds, always keeping his commands,	⁷ That they may put their hope in God and may not forget the works of God: and may seek his commandments.
⁸ and not, like their ancestors, be a stubborn and rebel ious generation, a generation weak of purpose,their spirit fickle towards God.	⁸ That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse end exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not faithful to God.
⁹ The archer sons of Ephraim turned tail when the time came for fighting;	⁹ The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: they have turned back in the day of battle.
¹⁰ they failed to keep God's covenant, they refused to fol ow his Law;	¹⁰ They kept not the covenant of God: and in his law they would not walk.
¹¹ they had forgotten his great deeds, the marvels he had shown them;	¹¹ And they forgot his benefits, and his wonders that he had shewn them.
¹² he did marvels in the sight of their ancestors in Egypt, in the plains of Tanis.	¹² Wonderful things did he do in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Tanis.
¹³ He split the sea and brought them through, made the waters stand up like a dam;	¹³ He divided the sea and brought them through: and he made the waters to stand as in a vessel.
¹⁴ he led them with a cloud by day, and al the night with the light of a fire;	¹⁴ And he conducted them with a cloud by day: and all the night with a light of
¹⁵ he split rocks in the desert, let them drink as though from the limitless depths;	¹⁵ He struck the rock in the wilderness: and gave them to drink, as out of the great deep.
¹⁶ he brought forth streams from a rock, made waters flow down in torrents.	¹⁶ He brought forth water out of the rock: and made streams run down as rivers.
¹⁷ But they only sinned against him more than ever, defying the Most High in barren country;	¹⁷ And they added yet more sin against him: they provoked the most High to wrath in the place without water.
¹⁸ they deliberately chal enged God by demanding food to their hearts' content.	¹⁸ And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their desires.
¹⁹ They insulted God by saying, 'Can God make a banquet in the desert?	¹⁹ And they spoke ill of God: they said: Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
²⁰ True, when he struck the rock, waters gushed out and flowed in torrents; but what of bread? Can hegive that, can he provide meat for his people?'	²⁰ Because he struck the rock, and the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed. Can he also give bread, or provide a table for his people?
²¹ When he heard them Yahweh vented his anger, fire blazed against Jacob, his anger mountedagainst Israel,	²¹ Therefore the Lord heard, and was angry: and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel.
²² because they had no faith in God, no trust in his power to save.	²² Because they believed not in God: and trusted not in his salvation.
²³ Even so he gave orders to the skies above, he opened the sluice-gates of heaven;	²³ And he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of heaven.
²⁴ he rained down manna to feed them, he gave them the wheat of heaven;	²⁴ And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the bread of heaven.
²⁵ mere mortals ate the bread of the Mighty, he sent them as much food as they could want.	²⁵ Man ate the bread of angels: he sent them provisions in abundance.
²⁶ He roused an east wind in the heavens, despatched a south wind by his strength;	²⁶ He removed the south wind from heaven: and by his power brought in the southwest wind.
²⁷ he rained down meat on them like dust, birds thick as sand on the seashore,	²⁷ And he rained upon them flesh as dust: and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea.
²⁸ tumbling into the middle of his camp, al around his dwel ing-place.	²⁸ And they fell in the midst of their camp, round about their pavilions.
²⁹ They ate as much food as they wanted, he satisfied al their cravings;	²⁹ So they did eat, and were filled exceedingly, and he gave them their desire:
³⁰ but their cravings were still upon them, the food was stil in their mouths,	³⁰ they were not defrauded of that which they craved. As yet their meat was in their mouth:
³¹ when the wrath of God attacked them, slaughtering their strongest men, laying low the flower ofIsrael.	³¹ and the wrath of God came upon them. And he slew the fat ones amongst them, and brought down the chosen men of Israel.
³² Despite al this, they went on sinning, they put no faith in his marvels.	³² In all these things they sinned still: and they believed not for his wondrous works.
³³ He made their days vanish in mist, their years in sudden ruin.	³³ And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years in haste.
³⁴ Whenever he slaughtered them, they began to seek him, they turned back and looked eagerly forhim,	³⁴ When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and came to him early in the morning.
³⁵ recalling that God was their rock, God the Most High, their redeemer.	³⁵ And they remembered that God was their helper: and the most high God their redeemer.
³⁶ They tried to hoodwink him with their mouths, their tongues were deceitful towards him;	³⁶ And they loved him with their mouth: and with their tongue they lied unto him:
³⁷ their hearts were not loyal to him, they were not faithful to his covenant.	³⁷ But their heart was not right with him: nor were they counted faithful in his covenant.
³⁸ But in his compassion he forgave their guilt instead of kil ing them, time and again repressing hisanger instead of rousing his full wrath,	³⁸ But he is merciful, and will forgive their sins: and will not destroy them. And many a time did he turn away his anger: and did not kindle all his wrath.
³⁹ remembering they were creatures of flesh, a breath of wind that passes, never to return.	³⁹ And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not.
⁴⁰ How often they defied him in the desert! How often they grieved him in the wastelands!	⁴⁰ How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water?
⁴¹ Repeatedly they chal enged God, provoking the Holy One of Israel,	⁴¹ And they turned back and tempted God: and grieved the holy one of Israel.
⁴² not remembering his hand, the time when he saved them from the oppressor,	⁴² They remembered not his hand, in the day that he redeemed them from the hand of him that afflicted them:
⁴³ he who did his signs in Egypt, his miracles in the plains of Tanis,	⁴³ How he wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Tanis.
⁴⁴ turning their rivers to blood, their streams so that they had nothing to drink.	⁴⁴ And he turned their rivers into blood, and their showers that they might, not drink.
⁴⁵ He sent horseflies to eat them up, and frogs to devastate them,	⁴⁵ He sent amongst them divers sores of flies, which devoured them: and frogs which destroyed them.
⁴⁶ consigning their crops to the caterpil ar, the fruit of their hard work to the locust;	⁴⁶ And he gave up their fruits to the blast, and their labours to the locust.
⁴⁷ he kil ed their vines with hail, their sycamore trees with frost,	⁴⁷ And he destroyed their vineyards with hail, and their mulberry trees with hoarfrost.
⁴⁸ delivering up their cattle to hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts.	⁴⁸ And he gave up their cattle to the hail, and their stock to the fire.
⁴⁹ He loosed against them the ful heat of his anger, fury, rage and destruction, a detachment ofdestroying angels;	⁴⁹ And he sent upon them the wrath of his indignation: indignation and wrath and trouble, which he sent by evil angels.
⁵⁰ he gave free course to his anger. He did not exempt their own selves from death, delivering up theirlives to the plague.	⁵⁰ He made a way for a path to his anger: he spared not their souls from death, and their cattle he shut up in death.
⁵¹ He struck all the first-born in Egypt, the flower of the youth in the tents of Ham.	⁵¹ And he killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: the firstfruits of all their labour in the tabernacles of Cham.
⁵² He brought out his people like sheep, guiding them like a flock in the desert,	⁵² And he took away his own people as sheep: and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
⁵³ leading them safe and unafraid, while the sea engulfed their enemies.	⁵³ And he brought them out in hope, and they feared not: band the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
⁵⁴ He brought them to his holy land, the hil -country won by his right hand;	⁵⁴ And he brought them into the mountain of his sanctuary: the mountain which his right hand had purchased. And he cast out the Gentiles before them: and by lot divided to them their land by a line of distribution.
⁵⁵ he dispossessed nations before them, measured out a heritage for each of them, and settled thetribes of Israel in their tents.	⁵⁵ And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.
⁵⁶ But stil they chal enged the Most High God and defied him, refusing to keep his decrees;	⁵⁶ Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God: and they kept not his testimonies.
⁵⁷ as perverse and treacherous as their ancestors, they gave way like a faulty bow,	⁵⁷ And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow.
⁵⁸ provoking him with their high places, rousing his jealousy with their idols.	⁵⁸ They provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to jealousy with their graven things.
⁵⁹ God listened and vented his wrath, he totally rejected Israel;	⁵⁹ God heard, and despised them, and he reduced Israel exceedingly as it were to nothing.
⁶⁰ he forsook his dwelling in Shiloh, the tent where he used to dwel on the earth.	⁶⁰ And he put away the tabernacle of Silo, his tabernacle where he dwelt among men.
⁶¹ He abandoned his power to captivity, his splendour to the enemy's clutches;	⁶¹ And he delivered their strength into captivity: and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.
⁶² he gave up his people to the sword, he vented his wrath on his own heritage.	⁶² And he shut up his people under the sword: and he despised his inheritance.
⁶³ Fire devoured their young men, their young girls had no wedding-song;	⁶³ Fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not lamented.
⁶⁴ their priests fel by the sword and their widows sang no dirge.	⁶⁴ Their priests fell by the sword: and their widows did not mourn.
⁶⁵ The Lord arose as though he had been asleep, like a strong man fighting-mad with wine,	⁶⁵ And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that hath been surfeited with wine.
⁶⁶ he struck his enemies on the rump, and put them to everlasting shame.	⁶⁶ And he smote his enemies on the hinder parts: he put them to an everlasting reproach.
⁶⁷ Rejecting the tents of Joseph, passing over the tribe of Ephraim,	⁶⁷ And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
⁶⁸ he chose the tribe of Judah, his wel -loved mountain of Zion;	⁶⁸ But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved.
⁶⁹ he built his sanctuary like high hil s, like the earth set it firm for ever.	⁶⁹ And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns, in the land which he founded for ever.
⁷⁰ He chose David to be his servant, took him from the sheepfold,	⁷⁰ And he chose his servant David, and took him from the hocks of sheep: he brought him from following the ewes great with young,
⁷¹ took him from tending ewes to pasture his servant Jacob, and Israel his heritage.	⁷¹ To feed Jacob his servant, and Israel his inheritance.
⁷² He pastured them with unblemished heart, with a sensitive hand he led them.	⁷² And he fed them in the innocence of his heart: and conducted them by the skilfulness of his hands.

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