اَلْمَزَامِيرُ 78

١ 1 قَصِيدَةٌ لِآسَافَ اِصْغَ يَا شَعْبِي إِلَى شَرِيعَتِي. أَمِيلُوا آذَانَكُمْ إِلَى كَلَامِ فَمِي.

Understanding for Asaph. Attend, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

٢ 2 أَفْتَحُ بِمَثَلٍ فَمِي. أُذِيعُ أَلْغَازًا مُنْذُ ٱلْقِدَمِ.

I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning.

٣ 3 ٱلَّتِي سَمِعْنَاهَا وَعَرَفْنَاهَا وَآبَاؤُنَا أَخْبَرُونَا.

How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

٤ 4 لَا نُخْفِي عَنْ بَنِيهِمْ إِلَى ٱلْجِيلِ ٱلْآخِرِ، مُخْبِرِينَ بِتَسَابِيحِ ٱلرَّبِّ وَقُوَّتِهِ وَعَجَائِبِهِ ٱلَّتِي صَنَعَ.

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.

٥ 5 أَقَامَ شَهَادَةً فِي يَعْقُوبَ، وَوَضَعَ شَرِيعَةً فِي إِسْرَائِيلَ، ٱلَّتِي أَوْصَى آبَاءَنَا أَنْ يُعَرِّفُوا بِهَا أَبْنَاءَهُمْ،

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:

٦ 6 لِكَيْ يَعْلَمَ ٱلْجِيلُ ٱلْآخِرُ. بَنُونَ يُولَدُونَ فَيَقُومُونَ وَيُخْبِرُونَ أَبْنَاءَهُمْ،

That another generation might know them. The children that should be born and should rise up, and declare them to their children.

٧ 7 فَيَجْعَلُونَ عَلَى ٱللهِ ٱعْتِمَادَهُمْ، وَلَا يَنْسَوْنَ أَعْمَالَ ٱللهِ، بَلْ يَحْفَظُونَ وَصَايَاهُ.

That they may put their hope in God and may not forget the works of God: and may seek his commandments.

٨ 8 وَلَا يَكُونُونَ مِثْلَ آبَائِهِمْ، جِيلًا زَائِغًا وَمَارِدًا، جِيلًا لَمْ يُثَبِّتْ قَلْبَهُ وَلَمْ تَكُنْ رُوحُهُ أَمِينَةً لِلهِ.

That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

٩ 9 بَنُو أَفْرَايِمَ ٱلنَّازِعُونَ فِي ٱلْقَوْسِ، ٱلرَّامُونَ، ٱنْقَلَبُوا فِي يَوْمِ ٱلْحَرْبِ.

The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: they have turned back in the day of battle.

١٠ 10 لَمْ يَحْفَظُوا عَهْدَ ٱللهِ، وَأَبَوْا ٱلسُّلُوكَ فِي شَرِيعَتِهِ،

They kept not the covenant of God: and in his law they would not walk.

١١ 11 وَنَسُوا أَفْعَالَهُ وَعَجَائِبَهُ ٱلَّتِي أَرَاهُمْ.

And they forgot his benefits, and his wonders that he had shewn them.

١٢ 12 قُدَّامَ آبَائِهِمْ صَنَعَ أُعْجُوبَةً فِي أَرْضِ مِصْرَ، بِلَادِ صُوعَنَ.

Wonderful things did he do in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Tanis.

١٣ 13 شَقَّ ٱلْبَحْرَ فَعَبَّرَهُمْ، وَنَصَبَ ٱلْمِيَاهَ كَنَدٍّ.

He divided the sea and brought them through: and he made the waters to stand as in a vessel.

١٤ 14 وَهَدَاهُمْ بِٱلسَّحَابِ نَهَارًا، وَٱللَّيْلَ كُلَّهُ بِنُورِ نَارٍ.

And he conducted them with a cloud by day: and all the night with a light of fire.

١٥ 15 شَقَّ صُخُورًا فِي ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ، وَسَقَاهُمْ كَأَنَّهُ مِنْ لُجَجٍ عَظِيمَةٍ.

He struck the rock in the wilderness: and gave them to drink, as out of the great deep.

١٦ 16 أَخْرَجَ مَجَارِيَ مِنْ صَخْرَةٍ، وَأَجْرَى مِيَاهًا كَٱلْأَنْهَارِ.

He brought forth water out of the rock: and made streams run down as rivers.

١٧ 17 ثُمَّ عَادُوا أَيْضًا لِيُخْطِئُوا إِلَيْهِ، لِعِصْيَانِ ٱلْعَلِيِّ فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ ٱلنَّاشِفَةِ.

And they added yet more sin against him: they provoked the most High to wrath in the place without water.

١٨ 18 وَجَرَّبُوا ٱللهَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ، بِسُؤَالِهِمْ طَعَامًا لِشَهْوَتِهِمْ.

And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their desires.

١٩ 19 فَوَقَعُوا فِي ٱللهِ. قَالُوا: «هَلْ يَقْدِرُ ٱللهُ أَنْ يُرَتِّبَ مَائِدَةً فِي ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ؟

And they spoke ill of God: they said: Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

٢٠ 20 هُوَذَا ضَرَبَ ٱلصَّخْرَةَ فَجَرَتِ ٱلْمِيَاهُ وَفَاضَتِ ٱلْأَوْدِيَةُ. هَلْ يَقْدِرُ أَيْضًا أَنْ يُعْطِيَ خُبْزًا، أَوْ يُهَيِّئَ لَحْمًا لِشَعْبِهِ؟».

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?

٢١ 21 لِذَلِكَ سَمِعَ ٱلرَّبُّ فَغَضِبَ، وَٱشْتَعَلَتْ نَارٌ فِي يَعْقُوبَ، وَسَخَطٌ أَيْضًا صَعِدَ عَلَى إِسْرَائِيلَ،

Therefore the Lord heard, and was angry: and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel.

٢٢ 22 لِأَنَّهُمْ لَمْ يُؤْمِنُوا بِٱللهِ وَلَمْ يَتَّكِلُوا عَلَى خَلَاصِهِ.

Because they believed not in God: and trusted not in his salvation.

٢٣ 23 فَأَمَرَ ٱلسَّحَابَ مِنْ فَوْقُ، وَفَتَحَ مَصَارِيعَ ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ.

And he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of heaven.

٢٤ 24 وَأَمْطَرَ عَلَيْهِمْ مَنًّا لِلْأَكْلِ، وَبُرَّ ٱلسَّمَاءِ أَعْطَاهُمْ.

And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the bread of heaven.

٢٥ 25 أَكَلَ ٱلْإِنْسَانُ خُبْزَ ٱلْمَلَائِكَةِ. أَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ زَادًا لِلشِّبَعِ.

Man ate the bread of angels: he sent them provisions in abundance.

٢٦ 26 أَهَاجَ شَرْقِيَّةً فِي ٱلسَّمَاءِ، وَسَاقَ بِقُوَّتِهِ جَنُوبِيَّةً.

He removed the south wind from heaven: and by his power brought in the southwest wind.

٢٧ 27 وَأَمْطَرَ عَلَيْهِمْ لَحْمًا مِثْلَ ٱلتُّرَابِ، وَكَرَمْلِ ٱلْبَحْرِ طُيُورًا ذَوَاتِ أَجْنِحَةٍ.

And he rained upon them flesh as dust: and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea.

٢٨ 28 وَأَسْقَطَهَا فِي وَسَطِ مَحَلَّتِهِمْ حَوَالَيْ مَسَاكِنِهِمْ.

And they fell in the midst of their camp, round about their pavilions.

٢٩ 29 فَأَكَلُوا وَشَبِعُوا جِدًّا، وَأَتَاهُمْ بِشَهْوَتِهِمْ.

So they did eat, and were filled exceedingly, and he gave them their desire:

٣٠ 30 لَمْ يَزُوغُوا عَنْ شَهْوَتِهِمْ. طَعَامُهُمْ بَعْدُ فِي أَفْوَاهِهِمْ،

They were not defrauded of that which they craved. As yet their meat was in their mouth:

٣١ 31 فَصَعِدَ عَلَيْهِمْ غَضَبُ ٱللهِ، وَقَتَلَ مِنْ أَسْمَنِهِمْ، وَصَرَعَ مُخْتَارِي إِسْرَائِيلَ.

And the wrath of God came upon them. And he slew the fat ones amongst them, and brought down the chosen men of Israel.

٣٢ 32 فِي هَذَا كُلِّهِ أَخْطَأُوا بَعْدُ، وَلَمْ يُؤْمِنُوا بِعَجَائِبِهِ.

In all these things they sinned still: and they believed not for his wondrous works.

٣٣ 33 فَأَفْنَى أَيَّامَهُمْ بِٱلْبَاطِلِ وَسِنِيهِمْ بِٱلرُّعْبِ.

And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years in haste.

٣٤ 34 إِذْ قَتَلَهُمْ طَلَبُوهُ، وَرَجَعُوا وَبَكَّرُوا إِلَى ٱللهِ،

When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and came to him early in the morning.

٣٥ 35 وَذَكَرُوا أَنَّ ٱللهَ صَخْرَتُهُمْ، وَٱللهَ ٱلْعَلِيَّ وَلِيُّهُمْ.

And they remembered that God was their helper: and the most high God their redeemer.

٣٦ 36 فَخَادَعُوهُ بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ، وَكَذَبُوا عَلَيْهِ بِأَلْسِنَتِهِمْ.

And they loved him with their mouth: and with their tongue they lied unto him:

٣٧ 37 أَمَّا قُلُوبُهُمْ فَلَمْ تُثَبَّتْ مَعَهُ، وَلَمْ يَكُونُوا أُمَنَاءَ فِي عَهْدِهِ.

But their heart was not right with him: nor were they counted faithful in his covenant.

٣٨ 38 أَمَّا هُوَ فَرَؤُوفٌ، يَغْفِرُ ٱلْإِثْمَ وَلَا يُهْلِكُ. وَكَثِيرًا مَا رَدَّ غَضَبَهُ، وَلَمْ يُشْعِلْ كُلَّ سَخَطِهِ.

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.

٣٩ 39 ذَكَرَ أَنَّهُمْ بَشَرٌ. رِيحٌ تَذْهَبُ وَلَا تَعُودُ.

And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not.

٤٠ 40 كَمْ عَصَوْهُ فِي ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ وَأَحْزَنُوهُ فِي ٱلْقَفْرِ!

How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water?

٤١ 41 رَجَعُوا وَجَرَّبُوا ٱللهَ وَعَنَّوْا قُدُّوسَ إِسْرَائِيلَ.

And they turned back and tempted God: and grieved the holy one of Israel.

٤٢ 42 لَمْ يَذْكُرُوا يَدَهُ يَوْمَ فَدَاهُمْ مِنَ ٱلْعَدُوِّ،

They remembered not his hand, in the day that he redeemed them from the hand of him that afflicted them:

٤٣ 43 حَيْثُ جَعَلَ فِي مِصْرَ آيَاتِهِ، وَعَجَائِبَهُ فِي بِلَادِ صُوعَنَ.

How he wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Tanis.

٤٤ 44 إِذْ حَوَّلَ خُلْجَانَهُمْ إِلَى دَمٍ، وَمَجَارِيَهُمْ لِكَيْ لَا يَشْرَبُوا.

And he turned their rivers into blood, and their showers that they might, not drink.

٤٥ 45 أَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ بَعُوضًا فَأَكَلَهُمْ، وَضَفَادِعَ فَأَفْسَدَتْهُمْ.

He sent amongst them divers sores of flies, which devoured them: and frogs which destroyed them.

٤٦ 46 أَسْلَمَ لِلْجَرْدَمِ غَلَّتَهُمْ، وَتَعَبَهُمْ لِلْجَرَادِ.

And he gave up their fruits to the blast, and their labours to the locust.

٤٧ 47 أَهْلَكَ بِٱلْبَرَدِ كُرُومَهُمْ، وَجُمَّيْزَهُمْ بِٱلصَّقِيعِ.

And he destroyed their vineyards with hail, and their mulberry trees with hoarfrost.

٤٨ 48 وَدَفَعَ إِلَى ٱلْبَرَدِ بَهَائِمَهُمْ، وَمَوَاشِيَهُمْ لِلْبُرُوقِ.

And he gave up their cattle to the hail, and their stock to the fire.

٤٩ 49 أَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ حُمُوَّ غَضَبِهِ، سَخَطًا وَرِجْزًا وَضِيْقًا، جَيْشَ مَلَائِكَةٍ أَشْرَارٍ.

And he sent upon them the wrath of his indignation: indignation and wrath and trouble, which he sent by evil angels.

٥٠ 50 مَهَّدَ سَبِيلًا لِغَضَبِهِ. لَمْ يَمْنَعْ مِنَ ٱلْمَوْتِ أَنْفُسَهُمْ، بَلْ دَفَعَ حَيَاتَهُمْ لِلْوَبَإِ.

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.

٥١ 51 وَضَرَبَ كُلَّ بِكْرٍ فِي مِصْرَ. أَوَائِلَ ٱلْقُدْرَةِ فِي خِيَامِ حَامٍ.

And he killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: the firstfruits of all their labour in the tabernacles of Cham.

٥٢ 52 وَسَاقَ مِثْلَ ٱلْغَنَمِ شَعْبَهُ، وَقَادَهُمْ مِثْلَ قَطِيعٍ فِي ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ.

And he took away his own people as sheep: and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

٥٣ 53 وَهَدَاهُمْ آمِنِينَ فَلَمْ يَجْزَعُوا. أَمَّا أَعْدَاؤُهُمْ فَغَمَرَهُمُ ٱلْبَحْرُ.

And he brought them out in hope, and they feared not: band the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

٥٤ 54 وَأَدْخَلَهُمْ فِي تُخُومِ قُدْسِهِ، هَذَا ٱلْجَبَلِ ٱلَّذِي ٱقْتَنَتْهُ يَمِينُهُ.

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.

٥٥ 55 وَطَرَدَ ٱلْأُمَمَ مِنْ قُدَّامِهِمْ وَقَسَمَهُمْ بِٱلْحَبْلِ مِيرَاثًا، وَأَسْكَنَ فِي خِيَامِهِمْ أَسْبَاطَ إِسْرَائِيلَ.

And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.

٥٦ 56 فَجَرَّبُوا وَعَصَوْا ٱللهَ ٱلْعَلِيَّ، وَشَهَادَاتِهِ لَمْ يَحْفَظُوا،

Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God: and they kept not his testimonies.

٥٧ 57 بَلِ ٱرْتَدُّوا وَغَدَرُوا مِثْلَ آبَائِهِمْ. ٱنْحَرَفُوا كَقَوْسٍ مُخْطِئَةٍ.

And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow.

٥٨ 58 أَغَاظُوهُ بِمُرْتَفَعَاتِهِمْ، وَأَغَارُوهُ بِتَمَاثِيلِهِمْ.

They provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to jealousy with their graven things.

٥٩ 59 سَمِعَ ٱللهُ فَغَضِبَ، وَرَذَلَ إِسْرَائِيلَ جِدًّا،

God heard, and despised them, and he reduced Israel exceedingly as it were to nothing.

٦٠ 60 وَرَفَضَ مَسْكِنَ شِيلُوِ، ٱلْخَيْمَةَ ٱلَّتِي نَصَبَهَا بَيْنَ ٱلنَّاسِ.

And he put away the tabernacle of Silo, his tabernacle where he dwelt among men.

٦١ 61 وَسَلَّمَ لِلسَّبْيِ عِزَّهُ، وَجَلَالَهُ لِيَدِ ٱلْعَدُوِّ.

And he delivered their strength into captivity: and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.

٦٢ 62 وَدَفَعَ إِلَى ٱلسَّيْفِ شَعْبَهُ، وَغَضِبَ عَلَى مِيرَاثِهِ.

And he shut up his people under the sword: and he despised his inheritance.

٦٣ 63 مُخْتَارُوهُ أَكَلَتْهُمُ ٱلنَّارُ، وَعَذَارَاهُ لَمْ يُحْمَدْنَ.

Fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not lamented.

٦٤ 64 كَهَنَتُهُ سَقَطُوا بِٱلسَّيْفِ، وَأَرَامِلُهُ لَمْ يَبْكِينَ.

Their priests fell by the sword: and their widows did not mourn.

٦٥ 65 فَٱسْتَيْقَظَ ٱلرَّبُّ كَنَائِمٍ، كَجَبَّارٍ مُعَيِّطٍ مِنَ ٱلْخَمْرِ.

And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that hath been surfeited with wine.

٦٦ 66 فَضَرَبَ أَعْدَاءَهُ إِلَى ٱلْوَرَاءِ. جَعَلَهُمْ عَارًا أَبَدِيًّا.

And he smote his enemies on the hinder parts: he put them to an everlasting reproach.

٦٧ 67 وَرَفَضَ خَيْمَةَ يُوسُفَ، وَلَمْ يَخْتَرْ سِبْطَ أَفْرَايِمَ.

And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

٦٨ 68 بَلِ ٱخْتَارَ سِبْطَ يَهُوذَا، جَبَلَ صِهْيَوْنَ ٱلَّذِي أَحَبَّهُ.

But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved.

٦٩ 69 وَبَنَى مِثْلَ مُرْتَفَعَاتٍ مَقْدِسَهُ، كَٱلْأَرْضِ ٱلَّتِي أَسَّسَهَا إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ.

And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns, in the land which he founded for ever.

٧٠ 70 وَٱخْتَارَ دَاوُدَ عَبْدَهُ، وَأَخَذَهُ مِنْ حَظَائِرِ ٱلْغَنَمِ.

And he chose his servant David, and took him from the hocks of sheep: he brought him from following the ewes great with young,

٧١ 71 مِنْ خَلْفِ ٱلْمُرْضِعَاتِ أَتَى بِهِ، لِيَرْعَى يَعْقُوبَ شَعْبَهُ، وَإِسْرَائِيلَ مِيرَاثَهُ.

To feed Jacob his servant, and Israel his inheritance.

٧٢ 72 فَرَعَاهُمْ حَسَبَ كَمَالِ قَلْبِهِ، وَبِمَهَارَةِ يَدَيْهِ هَدَاهُمْ.

And he fed them in the innocence of his heart: and conducted them by the skillfulness of his hands.