Salmos 78

Biblia Sagrada	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 Poema de Asaf. |Escucha, pueblo mío, mi enseñanza; | inclina el oído a las palabras de mi boca:	1 A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth!
2 que voy a abrir mi boca a las sentencias, | para que broten los enigmas del pasado.	2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,
3 Lo que oímos y aprendimos, | lo que nuestros padres nos contaron,	3 things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us.
4 no lo ocultaremos a sus hijos, | lo contaremos a la futura generación: | las alabanzas del Señor, su poder, | las maravillas que realizó;	4 We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders which he has wrought.
5 porque él estableció una norma para Jacob, | dio una ley a Israel. | Él mandó a nuestros padres | que lo enseñaran a sus hijos,	5 He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children;
6 para que lo supiera la generación siguiente, | los hijos que nacieran después. | Que surjan y lo cuenten a sus hijos,	6 that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children,
7 para que pongan en Dios su confianza | y no olviden las acciones de Dios, | sino que guarden sus mandamientos;	7 so that they should set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;
8 para que no imiten a sus padres, | generación rebelde y pertinaz; | generación de corazón inconstante, | de espíritu infiel a Dios.	8 and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
9 Los arqueros de la tribu de Efraín | volvieron la espalda en la batalla.	9 The Ephraimites, armed with the bow, turned back on the day of battle.
10 No guardaron la alianza de Dios, | se negaron a seguir su ley,	10 They did not keep God's covenant, but refused to walk according to his law.
11 echando en olvido sus acciones, | las maravillas que les había mostrado,	11 They forgot what he had done, and the miracles that he had shown them.
12 cuando hizo portentos a vista de sus padres, | en la tierra de Egipto, en el campo de Soán.	12 In the sight of their fathers he wrought marvels in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.
13 Hendió el mar para darles paso, | sujetando las aguas como muros;	13 He divided the sea and let them pass through it, and made the waters stand like a heap.
14 los guiaba de día con una nube, | de noche con el resplandor del fuego.	14 In the daytime he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a fiery light.
15 Hendió la roca en el desierto, | y les dio a beber raudales de agua;	15 He cleft rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
16 sacó arroyos de la peña, | hizo correr las aguas como ríos.	16 He made streams come out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down like rivers.
17 Pero ellos volvieron a pecar contra él, | y en el desierto se rebelaron contra el Altísimo:	17 Yet they sinned still more against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
18 tentaron a Dios en sus corazones, | pidiendo una comida a su gusto;	18 They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.
19 hablaron contra Dios: «¿Podrá Dios | preparar una mesa en el desierto?	19 They spoke against God, saying, "Can God spread a table in the wilderness?
20 Él hirió la roca, brotó agua | y desbordaron los torrentes; | pero ¿podrá también darnos pan, | proveer de carne a su pueblo?».	20 He smote the rock so that water gushed out and streams overflowed. Can he also give bread, or provide meat for his people?"
21 Lo oyó el Señor, y se indignó; | un fuego se encendió contra Jacob, | hervía su cólera contra Israel,	21 Therefore, when the LORD heard, he was full of wrath; a fire was kindled against Jacob, his anger mounted against Israel;
22 porque no tenían fe en Dios | ni confiaban en su auxilio.	22 because they had no faith in God, and did not trust his saving power.
23 Pero dio orden a las altas nubes, | abrió las compuertas del cielo:	23 Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven;
24 hizo llover sobre ellos maná, | les dio pan del cielo;	24 and he rained down upon them manna to eat, and gave them the grain of heaven.
25 y el hombre comió pan de ángeles, | les mandó provisiones hasta la hartura.	25 Man ate of the bread of the angels; he sent them food in abundance.
26 Hizo soplar desde el cielo el levante, | y dirigió con su fuerza el viento sur;	26 He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens, and by his power he led out the south wind;
27 hizo llover carne como una polvareda, | y volátiles como arena del mar;	27 he rained flesh upon them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas;
28 los hizo caer en mitad del campamento, | alrededor de sus tiendas.	28 he let them fall in the midst of their camp, all around their habitations.
29 Ellos comieron y se hartaron, | así satisfizo su avidez;	29 And they ate and were well filled, for he gave them what they craved.
30 pero, con la avidez recién saciada, | con la comida aún en la boca,	30 But before they had sated their craving, while the food was still in their mouths,
31 la ira de Dios hirvió contra ellos: | mató a los más robustos, | doblegó a la flor de Israel.	31 the anger of God rose against them and he slew the strongest of them, and laid low the picked men of Israel.
32 Y, con todo, volvieron a pecar, | y no dieron fe a sus milagros:	32 In spite of all this they still sinned; despite his wonders they did not believe.
33 entonces consumió sus días en un soplo, | sus años en un momento.	33 So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror.
34 Y, cuando los hacía morir, lo buscaban, | y madrugaban para volverse hacia Dios;	34 When he slew them, they sought for him; they repented and sought God earnestly.
35 se acordaban de que Dios era su roca, | el Dios altísimo su redentor.	35 They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their redeemer.
36 Lo adulaban con sus bocas, | pero sus lenguas mentían:	36 But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.
37 su corazón no era sincero con él, | ni eran fieles a su alianza.	37 Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not true to his covenant.
38 Él, en cambio, sentía lástima, | perdonaba la culpa y no los destruía: | una y otra vez reprimió su cólera, | y no despertaba todo su furor,	38 Yet he, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger often, and did not stir up all his wrath.
39 acordándose de que eran de carne, | un aliento fugaz que no torna.	39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again.
40 ¡Qué rebeldes fueron en el desierto | enojando a Dios en la estepa!	40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!
41 Volvían a tentar a Dios, | a irritar al Santo de Israel,	41 They tested him again and again, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42 sin acordarse de aquella mano | que un día los rescató de la opresión.	42 They did not keep in mind his power, or the day when he redeemed them from the foe;
43 Cuando hizo prodigios en Egipto, | portentos en el campo de Soán.	43 when he wrought his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the fields of Zoan.
44 Cuando convirtió en sangre los canales | y los arroyos para que no bebieran;	44 He turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their streams.
45 cuando les mandó tábanos que los picasen | y ranas que los hostigasen;	45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
46 cuando entregó a la langosta sus cosechas | y al saltamontes el fruto de sus sudores;	46 He gave their crops to the caterpillar, and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
47 cuando aplastó con granizo sus viñedos, | y con escarcha sus higueras;	47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamores with frost.
48 cuando entregó sus ganados al pedrisco, | y al rayo sus rebaños.	48 He gave over their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts.
49 Cuando lanzó contra ellos el incendio de su ira, | su cólera, su furor, su indignación, | enviándolos como siniestros mensajeros.	49 He let loose on them his fierce anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.
50 Dio curso libre a su ira: | no los salvó de la muerte, | entregó sus vidas a la peste;	50 He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.
51 cuando hirió a los primogénitos en Egipto, | a las primicias de la virilidad en las tiendas de Cam.	51 He smote all the first-born in Egypt, the first issue of their strength in the tents of Ham.
52 Sacó como un rebaño a su pueblo, | los guio como un hato por el desierto,	52 Then he led forth his people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53 los condujo seguros, sin alarmas, | mientras el mar cubría a sus enemigos.	53 He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54 Los hizo entrar por las santas fronteras, | hasta el monte que su diestra había adquirido;	54 And he brought them to his holy land, to the mountain which his right hand had won.
55 ante ellos rechazó a las naciones, | les asignó por suerte su heredad: | instaló en sus tiendas a las tribus de Israel.	55 He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
56 Pero ellos tentaron al Dios altísimo y se rebelaron, | negándose a guardar sus preceptos;	56 Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God, and did not observe his testimonies,
57 desertaron y traicionaron como sus padres, | fallaron como un arco engañoso;	57 but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers; they twisted like a deceitful bow.
58 con sus altozanos lo irritaban, | con sus ídolos provocaban sus celos.	58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
59 Dios lo oyó y se indignó | y rechazó totalmente a Israel;	59 When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.
60 abandonó su morada de Siló, | la tienda en que habitaba con los hombres;	60 He forsook his dwelling at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among men,
61 abandonó sus valientes al cautiverio, | su orgullo a las manos enemigas;	61 and delivered his power to captivity, his glory to the hand of the foe.
62 entregó su pueblo a la espada, | encolerizado contra su heredad;	62 He gave his people over to the sword, and vented his wrath on his heritage.
63 el fuego devoraba a los jóvenes, | y sus doncellas no llegaron a casarse;	63 Fire devoured their young men, and their maidens had no marriage song.
64 los sacerdotes caían a espada, | y sus viudas no los lloraban.	64 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.
65 Pero el Señor se despertó como de un sueño, | como un soldado vencido por el vino:	65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a strong man shouting because of wine.
66 hirió al enemigo en la espalda | infligiéndole una derrota perdurable.	66 And he put his adversaries to rout; he put them to everlasting shame.
67 Repudió las tiendas de José, | no escogió la tribu de Efraín;	67 He rejected the tent of Joseph, he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;
68 escogió la tribu de Judá | y el monte Sión, su preferido.	68 but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loves.
69 Construyó su santuario como el cielo, | como la tierra, que cimentó para siempre.	69 He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded for ever.
70 Escogió a David, su siervo, | lo sacó de los apriscos del rebaño;	70 He chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
71 de andar tras las ovejas, lo llevó | a pastorear a su pueblo, Jacob; | a Israel, su heredad.	71 from tending the ewes that had young he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob his people, of Israel his inheritance.
72 Los pastoreó con corazón íntegro, | los guiaba con mano inteligente.	72 With upright heart he tended them, and guided them with skilful hand.