اَلْمَزَامِيرُ 78
| قَصِيدَةٌ لِآسَافَ اِصْغَ يَا شَعْبِي إِلَى شَرِيعَتِي. أَمِيلُوا آذَانَكُمْ إِلَى كَلَامِ فَمِي. | ١ 1 |
A psalm (maskil) of Asaph. Listen to what I have to teach you, my people; hear what I have to say.
| أَفْتَحُ بِمَثَلٍ فَمِي. أُذِيعُ أَلْغَازًا مُنْذُ ٱلْقِدَمِ. | ٢ 2 |
I will tell you wise sayings; I will explain mysteries from the past
| ٱلَّتِي سَمِعْنَاهَا وَعَرَفْنَاهَا وَآبَاؤُنَا أَخْبَرُونَا. | ٣ 3 |
that we have heard before and reflected on; stories our forefathers passed down to us.
| لَا نُخْفِي عَنْ بَنِيهِمْ إِلَى ٱلْجِيلِ ٱلْآخِرِ، مُخْبِرِينَ بِتَسَابِيحِ ٱلرَّبِّ وَقُوَّتِهِ وَعَجَائِبِهِ ٱلَّتِي صَنَعَ. | ٤ 4 |
We will not keep them from our children; we will tell the next generation about God's marvelous actions—about his power and the amazing things he has done.
| أَقَامَ شَهَادَةً فِي يَعْقُوبَ، وَوَضَعَ شَرِيعَةً فِي إِسْرَائِيلَ، ٱلَّتِي أَوْصَى آبَاءَنَا أَنْ يُعَرِّفُوا بِهَا أَبْنَاءَهُمْ، | ٥ 5 |
He gave his laws to the descendants of Jacob; his instructions to the people of Israel. He commanded our forefathers to teach them to their children,
| لِكَيْ يَعْلَمَ ٱلْجِيلُ ٱلْآخِرُ. بَنُونَ يُولَدُونَ فَيَقُومُونَ وَيُخْبِرُونَ أَبْنَاءَهُمْ، | ٦ 6 |
so that the next generation—children yet to be born—would understand and grow up to teach their children.
| فَيَجْعَلُونَ عَلَى ٱللهِ ٱعْتِمَادَهُمْ، وَلَا يَنْسَوْنَ أَعْمَالَ ٱللهِ، بَلْ يَحْفَظُونَ وَصَايَاهُ. | ٧ 7 |
In this way they should place their trust in God and not forget what God has done, and keep his commandments.
| وَلَا يَكُونُونَ مِثْلَ آبَائِهِمْ، جِيلًا زَائِغًا وَمَارِدًا، جِيلًا لَمْ يُثَبِّتْ قَلْبَهُ وَلَمْ تَكُنْ رُوحُهُ أَمِينَةً لِلهِ. | ٨ 8 |
Then they would not be like their forefathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation that was untrustworthy and unfaithful.
| بَنُو أَفْرَايِمَ ٱلنَّازِعُونَ فِي ٱلْقَوْسِ، ٱلرَّامُونَ، ٱنْقَلَبُوا فِي يَوْمِ ٱلْحَرْبِ. | ٩ 9 |
The soldiers of Ephraim, though armed with bows, ran away on the day of battle.
| لَمْ يَحْفَظُوا عَهْدَ ٱللهِ، وَأَبَوْا ٱلسُّلُوكَ فِي شَرِيعَتِهِ، | ١٠ 10 |
They did not keep God's agreement, and refused to follow his laws.
| وَنَسُوا أَفْعَالَهُ وَعَجَائِبَهُ ٱلَّتِي أَرَاهُمْ. | ١١ 11 |
They ignored what he had done, and the amazing things he had shown them—
| قُدَّامَ آبَائِهِمْ صَنَعَ أُعْجُوبَةً فِي أَرْضِ مِصْرَ، بِلَادِ صُوعَنَ. | ١٢ 12 |
the miracles he had performed for their forefathers near Zoan in Egypt.
| شَقَّ ٱلْبَحْرَ فَعَبَّرَهُمْ، وَنَصَبَ ٱلْمِيَاهَ كَنَدٍّ. | ١٣ 13 |
He split the sea in two and led them through, making the water stand like walls on either side.
| وَهَدَاهُمْ بِٱلسَّحَابِ نَهَارًا، وَٱللَّيْلَ كُلَّهُ بِنُورِ نَارٍ. | ١٤ 14 |
He led them with a cloud by day, and by night with a light of fire.
| شَقَّ صُخُورًا فِي ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ، وَسَقَاهُمْ كَأَنَّهُ مِنْ لُجَجٍ عَظِيمَةٍ. | ١٥ 15 |
He split open rocks in the desert to give his people plenty to drink, water as deep as the ocean.
| أَخْرَجَ مَجَارِيَ مِنْ صَخْرَةٍ، وَأَجْرَى مِيَاهًا كَٱلْأَنْهَارِ. | ١٦ 16 |
He made streams flow from the stone; water rushing down like rivers!
| ثُمَّ عَادُوا أَيْضًا لِيُخْطِئُوا إِلَيْهِ، لِعِصْيَانِ ٱلْعَلِيِّ فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ ٱلنَّاشِفَةِ. | ١٧ 17 |
But they repeatedly sinned against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
| وَجَرَّبُوا ٱللهَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ، بِسُؤَالِهِمْ طَعَامًا لِشَهْوَتِهِمْ. | ١٨ 18 |
They deliberately provoked God by demanding the foods they longed for.
| فَوَقَعُوا فِي ٱللهِ. قَالُوا: «هَلْ يَقْدِرُ ٱللهُ أَنْ يُرَتِّبَ مَائِدَةً فِي ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ؟ | ١٩ 19 |
They insulted God by saying, “Can God provide food here in the desert?
| هُوَذَا ضَرَبَ ٱلصَّخْرَةَ فَجَرَتِ ٱلْمِيَاهُ وَفَاضَتِ ٱلْأَوْدِيَةُ. هَلْ يَقْدِرُ أَيْضًا أَنْ يُعْطِيَ خُبْزًا، أَوْ يُهَيِّئَ لَحْمًا لِشَعْبِهِ؟». | ٢٠ 20 |
Yes, he can strike a rock so that water gushes out like flowing rivers, but can he give us bread? Can he supply his people with meat?”
| لِذَلِكَ سَمِعَ ٱلرَّبُّ فَغَضِبَ، وَٱشْتَعَلَتْ نَارٌ فِي يَعْقُوبَ، وَسَخَطٌ أَيْضًا صَعِدَ عَلَى إِسْرَائِيلَ، | ٢١ 21 |
When he heard this, the Lord became very angry, burning like fire against the descendants of Jacob, furious with the people of Israel,
| لِأَنَّهُمْ لَمْ يُؤْمِنُوا بِٱللهِ وَلَمْ يَتَّكِلُوا عَلَى خَلَاصِهِ. | ٢٢ 22 |
for they didn't believe in God and didn't trust him to take care of them.
| فَأَمَرَ ٱلسَّحَابَ مِنْ فَوْقُ، وَفَتَحَ مَصَارِيعَ ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ. | ٢٣ 23 |
Even so he commanded the skies above and the doors of heaven to open,
| وَأَمْطَرَ عَلَيْهِمْ مَنًّا لِلْأَكْلِ، وَبُرَّ ٱلسَّمَاءِ أَعْطَاهُمْ. | ٢٤ 24 |
and he made manna rain down on them to eat, giving them bread from heaven.
| أَكَلَ ٱلْإِنْسَانُ خُبْزَ ٱلْمَلَائِكَةِ. أَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ زَادًا لِلشِّبَعِ. | ٢٥ 25 |
Human beings ate the bread of angels; he sent them more than enough food.
| أَهَاجَ شَرْقِيَّةً فِي ٱلسَّمَاءِ، وَسَاقَ بِقُوَّتِهِ جَنُوبِيَّةً. | ٢٦ 26 |
He sent the east wind blowing across the sky; by his power he drove the south wind.
| وَأَمْطَرَ عَلَيْهِمْ لَحْمًا مِثْلَ ٱلتُّرَابِ، وَكَرَمْلِ ٱلْبَحْرِ طُيُورًا ذَوَاتِ أَجْنِحَةٍ. | ٢٧ 27 |
He rained down meat on them as plentiful as dust; birds as numerous as sand on a beach.
| وَأَسْقَطَهَا فِي وَسَطِ مَحَلَّتِهِمْ حَوَالَيْ مَسَاكِنِهِمْ. | ٢٨ 28 |
He made them fall right in the middle of their camp, all around where they were living.
| فَأَكَلُوا وَشَبِعُوا جِدًّا، وَأَتَاهُمْ بِشَهْوَتِهِمْ. | ٢٩ 29 |
They ate until they were full. He gave them the food they longed for.
| لَمْ يَزُوغُوا عَنْ شَهْوَتِهِمْ. طَعَامُهُمْ بَعْدُ فِي أَفْوَاهِهِمْ، | ٣٠ 30 |
But before they satisfied their appetite, while the meat was still in their mouths,
| فَصَعِدَ عَلَيْهِمْ غَضَبُ ٱللهِ، وَقَتَلَ مِنْ أَسْمَنِهِمْ، وَصَرَعَ مُخْتَارِي إِسْرَائِيلَ. | ٣١ 31 |
God became angry with them and he killed their strongest men, striking them down in the prime of life.
| فِي هَذَا كُلِّهِ أَخْطَأُوا بَعْدُ، وَلَمْ يُؤْمِنُوا بِعَجَائِبِهِ. | ٣٢ 32 |
Despite all this they went right on sinning. Despite the miracles, they refused to trust him.
| فَأَفْنَى أَيَّامَهُمْ بِٱلْبَاطِلِ وَسِنِيهِمْ بِٱلرُّعْبِ. | ٣٣ 33 |
So he snuffed out their futile lives, bringing them to an end in terror.
| إِذْ قَتَلَهُمْ طَلَبُوهُ، وَرَجَعُوا وَبَكَّرُوا إِلَى ٱللهِ، | ٣٤ 34 |
When he began killing them, the rest came back to God in repentance, praying to him.
| وَذَكَرُوا أَنَّ ٱللهَ صَخْرَتُهُمْ، وَٱللهَ ٱلْعَلِيَّ وَلِيُّهُمْ. | ٣٥ 35 |
They remembered that God was their rock, that God Most High was their Savior.
| فَخَادَعُوهُ بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ، وَكَذَبُوا عَلَيْهِ بِأَلْسِنَتِهِمْ. | ٣٦ 36 |
They flattered him by what they told him, but they were only lying.
| أَمَّا قُلُوبُهُمْ فَلَمْ تُثَبَّتْ مَعَهُ، وَلَمْ يَكُونُوا أُمَنَاءَ فِي عَهْدِهِ. | ٣٧ 37 |
Deep down they were not sincere, and did not keep the agreement they had with him.
| أَمَّا هُوَ فَرَؤُوفٌ، يَغْفِرُ ٱلْإِثْمَ وَلَا يُهْلِكُ. وَكَثِيرًا مَا رَدَّ غَضَبَهُ، وَلَمْ يُشْعِلْ كُلَّ سَخَطِهِ. | ٣٨ 38 |
But being compassionate he pardoned their guilt and did not destroy all of them. He often held back his anger—he did not pour out all his fury.
| ذَكَرَ أَنَّهُمْ بَشَرٌ. رِيحٌ تَذْهَبُ وَلَا تَعُودُ. | ٣٩ 39 |
He remembered their mortality—that they were like a puff of wind that would not return.
| كَمْ عَصَوْهُ فِي ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ وَأَحْزَنُوهُ فِي ٱلْقَفْرِ! | ٤٠ 40 |
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, giving him grief in the desert!
| رَجَعُوا وَجَرَّبُوا ٱللهَ وَعَنَّوْا قُدُّوسَ إِسْرَائِيلَ. | ٤١ 41 |
Again and again they provoked God, causing pain to the Holy One of Israel.
| لَمْ يَذْكُرُوا يَدَهُ يَوْمَ فَدَاهُمْ مِنَ ٱلْعَدُوِّ، | ٤٢ 42 |
They did not remember his strength when he rescued them from their oppressors,
| حَيْثُ جَعَلَ فِي مِصْرَ آيَاتِهِ، وَعَجَائِبَهُ فِي بِلَادِ صُوعَنَ. | ٤٣ 43 |
performing miracles in Egypt, doing wonderful things on the plain of Zoan.
| إِذْ حَوَّلَ خُلْجَانَهُمْ إِلَى دَمٍ، وَمَجَارِيَهُمْ لِكَيْ لَا يَشْرَبُوا. | ٤٤ 44 |
There he turned their rivers and their streams into blood so that no one could drink from them.
| أَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ بَعُوضًا فَأَكَلَهُمْ، وَضَفَادِعَ فَأَفْسَدَتْهُمْ. | ٤٥ 45 |
He sent flies among them to destroy them, and frogs to ruin everything.
| أَسْلَمَ لِلْجَرْدَمِ غَلَّتَهُمْ، وَتَعَبَهُمْ لِلْجَرَادِ. | ٤٦ 46 |
He gave their crops to locusts; everything they worked had for was taken by locusts.
| أَهْلَكَ بِٱلْبَرَدِ كُرُومَهُمْ، وَجُمَّيْزَهُمْ بِٱلصَّقِيعِ. | ٤٧ 47 |
He destroyed their vines with hail, and their fig trees with freezing rain.
| وَدَفَعَ إِلَى ٱلْبَرَدِ بَهَائِمَهُمْ، وَمَوَاشِيَهُمْ لِلْبُرُوقِ. | ٤٨ 48 |
He handed over their cattle to hail and their flocks to lightning bolts.
| أَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ حُمُوَّ غَضَبِهِ، سَخَطًا وَرِجْزًا وَضِيْقًا، جَيْشَ مَلَائِكَةٍ أَشْرَارٍ. | ٤٩ 49 |
He poured out on them his fierce anger—rage and hostility and anguish—sending a band of destroying angels against them.
| مَهَّدَ سَبِيلًا لِغَضَبِهِ. لَمْ يَمْنَعْ مِنَ ٱلْمَوْتِ أَنْفُسَهُمْ، بَلْ دَفَعَ حَيَاتَهُمْ لِلْوَبَإِ. | ٥٠ 50 |
He sent his unrestrained anger against them; he did not spare them from death, handing them over to the plague.
| وَضَرَبَ كُلَّ بِكْرٍ فِي مِصْرَ. أَوَائِلَ ٱلْقُدْرَةِ فِي خِيَامِ حَامٍ. | ٥١ 51 |
He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt, the first to be conceived in the tents of Ham.
| وَسَاقَ مِثْلَ ٱلْغَنَمِ شَعْبَهُ، وَقَادَهُمْ مِثْلَ قَطِيعٍ فِي ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ. | ٥٢ 52 |
But 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 to safety, and they were not afraid. He drowned their enemies in the sea.
| وَأَدْخَلَهُمْ فِي تُخُومِ قُدْسِهِ، هَذَا ٱلْجَبَلِ ٱلَّذِي ٱقْتَنَتْهُ يَمِينُهُ. | ٥٤ 54 |
He brought them to the border of his holy land, to this mountainous land that he had conquered for them.
| وَطَرَدَ ٱلْأُمَمَ مِنْ قُدَّامِهِمْ وَقَسَمَهُمْ بِٱلْحَبْلِ مِيرَاثًا، وَأَسْكَنَ فِي خِيَامِهِمْ أَسْبَاطَ إِسْرَائِيلَ. | ٥٥ 55 |
He drove out the heathen nations before them. He divided up the land for them to own. He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
| فَجَرَّبُوا وَعَصَوْا ٱللهَ ٱلْعَلِيَّ، وَشَهَادَاتِهِ لَمْ يَحْفَظُوا، | ٥٦ 56 |
But they provoked God Most High, rebelling against him. They did not follow what he had told them.
| بَلِ ٱرْتَدُّوا وَغَدَرُوا مِثْلَ آبَائِهِمْ. ٱنْحَرَفُوا كَقَوْسٍ مُخْطِئَةٍ. | ٥٧ 57 |
Just like their forefathers they turned away from God and were unfaithful to him, as twisted as a defective bow.
| أَغَاظُوهُ بِمُرْتَفَعَاتِهِمْ، وَأَغَارُوهُ بِتَمَاثِيلِهِمْ. | ٥٨ 58 |
They made him angry with their pagan high places of worship; they made him jealous with their idols.
| سَمِعَ ٱللهُ فَغَضِبَ، وَرَذَلَ إِسْرَائِيلَ جِدًّا، | ٥٩ 59 |
When God heard their worship he became furious and he totally rejected Israel.
| وَرَفَضَ مَسْكِنَ شِيلُوِ، ٱلْخَيْمَةَ ٱلَّتِي نَصَبَهَا بَيْنَ ٱلنَّاسِ. | ٦٠ 60 |
He abandoned his place at Shiloh, the Tabernacle where he lived among the people.
| وَسَلَّمَ لِلسَّبْيِ عِزَّهُ، وَجَلَالَهُ لِيَدِ ٱلْعَدُوِّ. | ٦١ 61 |
He surrendered the Ark of his power, allowing it to be captured; handing it over into enemy hands.
| وَدَفَعَ إِلَى ٱلسَّيْفِ شَعْبَهُ، وَغَضِبَ عَلَى مِيرَاثِهِ. | ٦٢ 62 |
He handed over his people to be slaughtered by the sword; he was furious with his chosen people.
| مُخْتَارُوهُ أَكَلَتْهُمُ ٱلنَّارُ، وَعَذَارَاهُ لَمْ يُحْمَدْنَ. | ٦٣ 63 |
Their young men were destroyed by fire; their young women had no wedding songs.
| كَهَنَتُهُ سَقَطُوا بِٱلسَّيْفِ، وَأَرَامِلُهُ لَمْ يَبْكِينَ. | ٦٤ 64 |
Their priests were killed by the sword; their widows were unable to mourn.
| فَٱسْتَيْقَظَ ٱلرَّبُّ كَنَائِمٍ، كَجَبَّارٍ مُعَيِّطٍ مِنَ ٱلْخَمْرِ. | ٦٥ 65 |
Then the Lord woke up as if from sleep, as a warrior sobering up from drinking wine.
| فَضَرَبَ أَعْدَاءَهُ إِلَى ٱلْوَرَاءِ. جَعَلَهُمْ عَارًا أَبَدِيًّا. | ٦٦ 66 |
He defeated his enemies, striking them on the back, causing them everlasting shame.
| وَرَفَضَ خَيْمَةَ يُوسُفَ، وَلَمْ يَخْتَرْ سِبْطَ أَفْرَايِمَ. | ٦٧ 67 |
He rejected the descendants of Joseph, and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.
| بَلِ ٱخْتَارَ سِبْطَ يَهُوذَا، جَبَلَ صِهْيَوْنَ ٱلَّذِي أَحَبَّهُ. | ٦٨ 68 |
Instead he chose the tribe of Judah, and Mount Zion which he loves.
| وَبَنَى مِثْلَ مُرْتَفَعَاتٍ مَقْدِسَهُ، كَٱلْأَرْضِ ٱلَّتِي أَسَّسَهَا إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ. | ٦٩ 69 |
There he built his sanctuary, high like the heavens, on earth that he made to last forever.
| وَٱخْتَارَ دَاوُدَ عَبْدَهُ، وَأَخَذَهُ مِنْ حَظَائِرِ ٱلْغَنَمِ. | ٧٠ 70 |
He chose his servant David, taking him from the sheep pens,
| مِنْ خَلْفِ ٱلْمُرْضِعَاتِ أَتَى بِهِ، لِيَرْعَى يَعْقُوبَ شَعْبَهُ، وَإِسْرَائِيلَ مِيرَاثَهُ. | ٧١ 71 |
taking him from caring for the sheep and lambs to be a shepherd to the descendants of Jacob—God's special people, Israel.
| فَرَعَاهُمْ حَسَبَ كَمَالِ قَلْبِهِ، وَبِمَهَارَةِ يَدَيْهِ هَدَاهُمْ. | ٧٢ 72 |
Like a shepherd, he took care of them with sincere devotion, leading them with skillful hands.
