المَزامِير 78
| مَزْمُورٌ تَعْلِيمِيٌّ لآسَافَ أَصْغِ يَا شَعْبِي إِلَى شَرِيعَتِي، أَرْهِفُوا آذَانَكُمْ إِلَى أَقْوَالِ فَمِي. | ١ 1 |
Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ear to the words of my mouth.
| أَفْتَحُ فَمِي بِمَثَلٍ وَأَنْطِقُ بِأَلْغَازٍ قَدِيمَةٍ جِدّاً، | ٢ 2 |
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
| سَمِعْنَاهَا وَعَرَفْنَاهَا وَحَدَّثَنَا بِها آبَاؤُنَا. | ٣ 3 |
Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
| لَا نَكْتُمُهَا عَنْ أَبْنَائِنَا بَلْ نُخْبِرُ الْجِيلَ الْقَادِمَ عَنْ قُوَّةِ الرَّبِّ وَعَجَائِبِهِ الَّتِي صَنَعَ. | ٤ 4 |
We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
| أَعْطَى شَرَائِعَ لِبَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ وَأَوَامِرَ لِذُرِّيَّةِ يَعْقُوبَ، أَوْصَى فِيهَا آبَاءَنَا أَنْ يُعَرِّفُوا بِها أَبْنَاءَهُمْ. | ٥ 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:
| لِكَيْ يَعْرِفَهَا الْجِيلُ الْقَادِمُ، الْبَنُونَ الَّذِينَ لَمْ يُوْلَدُوا بَعْدُ، فَيُعَلِّمُوهَا أَيْضاً لأَبْنَائِهِمْ، | ٦ 6 |
That the generation to come might know them, even the children who should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
| فَيَضَعُوا عَلَى اللهِ اتِّكَالَهُمْ وَلَا يَنْسَوْا أَعْمَالَهُ، بَلْ يَحْفَظُوا وَصَايَاهُ، | ٧ 7 |
That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
| وَلَا يَكُونُوا مِثْلَ آبَائِهِمْ، جِيلاً عَنِيداً مُتَمَرِّداً، جِيلاً لَمْ يُثَبِّتْ قَلْبَهُ وَلَا كَانَتْ رُوحُهُ أَمِينَةً لِلهِ. | ٨ 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 steadfast with God.
| رُمَاةُ الْقَوْسِ، بَنُو أَفْرَايِمَ تَقَهْقَرُوا فِي يَوْمِ الْمَعْرَكَةِ. | ٩ 9 |
The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
| لأَنَّهُمْ لَمْ يُرَاعُوا عَهْدَ اللهِ، وَرَفَضُوا السُّلُوكَ فِي شَرِيعَتِهِ. | ١٠ 10 |
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
| نَسُوا أَفْعَالَهُ وَعَجَائِبَهُ الَّتِي أَظْهَرَهَا لَهُمُ، | ١١ 11 |
And forgot his works, and his wonders that he had shown them.
| الْعَجَائِبَ الَّتِي رَآهَا آبَاؤُهُمْ فِي سَهْلِ صُوعَنَ فِي أَرْضِ مِصْرَ. | ١٢ 12 |
Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
| شَقَّ الْبَحْرَ وَأَجَازَهُمْ، وَجَعَلَ الْمِيَاهَ تَقِفُ كَجِدَارٍ. | ١٣ 13 |
He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
| أَرْشَدَهُمْ بِالسَّحَابِ نَهَاراً وَبِنُورِ نَارٍ اللَّيْلَ كُلَّهُ. | ١٤ 14 |
In the day time also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
| شَقَّ صُخُوراً فِي الْبَرِّيَّةِ وَسَقَاهُمْ مَاءً غَزِيراً كَأَنَّهُ مِنَ اللُّجَجِ. | ١٥ 15 |
He split the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
| أَخْرَجَ مِنَ الصَّخْرَةِ سَوَاقِيَ، أَجْرَى مِيَاهَهَا كَأَنْهَارٍ. | ١٦ 16 |
He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
| لَكِنَّهُمْ أَوْغَلُوا فِي غَيِّهِمْ مُسْتَثِيرِينَ غَضَبَ الْعَلِيِّ فِي الصَّحْرَاءِ. | ١٧ 17 |
And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
| وَجَرَّبُوا اللهَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ، طَالِبِينَ طَعَاماً اشْتَهَتْهُ نُفُوسُهُمْ | ١٨ 18 |
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
| وَتَذَمَّرُوا عَلَى اللهِ قَائِلِينَ: أَيَقْدِرُ اللهُ أَنْ يَبْسُطَ لَنَا مَائِدَةً فِي الْبَرِّيَّةِ؟ | ١٩ 19 |
Yea, they spoke against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
| هَا هُوَ قَدْ ضَرَبَ الصَّخْرَةَ فَتَفَجَّرَتْ مِنْهَا الْمِيَاهُ وَفَاضَتِ الأَنْهَارُ، فَهَلْ يَقْدِرُ أَيْضاً أَنْ يُقَدِّمَ الْخُبْزَ أَوْ يُوَفِّرَ اللَّحْمَ لِشَعْبِهِ؟ | ٢٠ 20 |
Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
| فَلَمَّا سَمِعَ اللهُ ذَلِكَ ثَارَ غَضَبُهُ، وَانْدَلَعَتِ النَّارُ فِي يَعْقُوبَ، وَاشْتَدَّ السَّخَطُ عَلَى إِسْرَائِيلَ، | ٢١ 21 |
Therefore the LORD heard this, and was full of wrath: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
| لأَنَّهُمْ لَمْ يُؤْمِنُوا بِاللهِ وَلَمْ يَتَّكِلُوا عَلَى خَلاصِهِ. | ٢٢ 22 |
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
| وَمَعَ ذَلِكَ أَمَرَ السَّحَابَ وَفَتَحَ أَبْوَابَ السَّمَاوَاتِ، | ٢٣ 23 |
Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
| فَأَمْطَرَ عَلَيْهِمِ الْمَنَّ لِيَأْكُلُوا، وَأَنْزَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ حِنْطَةَ السَّمَاوَاتِ. | ٢٤ 24 |
And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the grain of heaven.
| فَأَكَلَ الإِنْسَانُ خُبْزَ الْمَلائِكَةِ، إِذْ أَرْسَلَ لَهُمْ زَاداً حَتَّى شَبِعُوا. | ٢٥ 25 |
Man ate angels’ food: he sent them food to the full.
| أَثَارَ رِيحاً شَرْقِيَّةً فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ، وَبِقُوَّتِهِ سَاقَ رِيحاً جَنُوبِيَّةً. | ٢٦ 26 |
He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
| فَأَمْطَرَ عَلَيْهِمْ لَحْماً كَثِيراً كَالتُّرَابِ، وَطُيُوراً كَرَمْلِ الْبَحْرِ، | ٢٧ 27 |
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
| جَعَلَهَا تَتَسَاقَطُ فِي وَسَطِ خِيَامِهِمْ حَوْلَ مَسَاكِنِهِمْ. | ٢٨ 28 |
And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, around their habitations.
| فَأَكَلُوا حَتَّى شَبِعُوا جِدّاً، وَأَعْطَاهُمْ مُشْتَهَاهُمْ. | ٢٩ 29 |
So they ate, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
| وَقَبْلَ أَنْ يَفْرُغُوا مِنَ الطَّعَامِ الَّذِي اشْتَهَوْهُ، وَهُوَ بَعْدُ فِي أَفْوَاهِهِمْ، | ٣٠ 30 |
They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
| ثَارَ عَلَيْهِمْ غَضَبُ اللهِ، فَقَتَلَ أَسْمَنَهُمْ وَصَرَعَ نُخْبَتَهُمْ. | ٣١ 31 |
The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
| وَمَعَ هَذَا ظَلُّوا يُخْطِئُونَ، وَبِالرَّغْمِ مِن عَجَائِبِهِ لَمْ يُؤْمِنُوا، | ٣٢ 32 |
For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
| فَأَفْنَى أَيَّامَهُمْ بِالْبَاطِلِ وَسِنِيهِمْ فِي الرُّعْبِ. | ٣٣ 33 |
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
| وَعِنْدَمَا قَتَلَ بَعْضَهُمْ، رَجَعُوا بِحَرَارَةٍ تَائِبِينَ يَلْتَمِسُونَ اللهَ. | ٣٤ 34 |
When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
| تَذَكَّرُوا أَنَّ اللهَ صَخْرَتُهُمْ وَالإِلَهَ الْعَلِيَّ فَادِيهِمْ. | ٣٥ 35 |
And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
| وَلَكِنَّهُمْ خَادَعُوهُ بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ، وَنَافَقُوهُ بِأَلْسِنَتِهِمْ. | ٣٦ 36 |
Nevertheless they would flatter him with their mouth, and they lied to him with their tongues.
| لَمْ يَكُونُوا مُخْلِصِينَ لَهُ، وَلَا كَانُوا أَوْفِيَاءَ لِعَهْدِهِ. | ٣٧ 37 |
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant.
| لَكِنَّهُ كَانَ رَحِيماً، فَعَفَا عَنِ الإِثْمِ وَلَمْ يُهْلِكْهُمْ. وَكَثِيراً مَا كَبَحَ غَضَبَهُ عَنْهُمْ وَلَمْ يُضْرِمْ كُلَّ سَخَطِهِ. | ٣٨ 38 |
But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time he turned his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
| ذَكَرَ أَنَّهُمْ بَشَرٌ كَالرِّيحِ الَّتِي تَذْهَبُ وَلَا تَعُودُ. | ٣٩ 39 |
For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
| كَمْ تَمَرَّدُوا عَلَيْهِ فِي الْبَرِّيَّةِ وَأَحْزَنُوهُ فِي الصَّحْرَاءِ. | ٤٠ 40 |
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
| ثُمَّ عَادُوا يُجَرِّبُونَ اللهَ وَيُغِيظُونَ قُدُّوسَ إِسْرَائِيلَ. | ٤١ 41 |
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
| لَمْ يَذْكُرُوا قُوَّتَهُ يَوْمَ أَنْقَذَهُمْ مِنْ طَالِبِيهِمْ، | ٤٢ 42 |
They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
| كَيْفَ أَجْرَى آيَاتِهِ فِي مِصْرَ وَعَجَائِبَهُ فِي سُهُولِ صُوعَنَ. | ٤٣ 43 |
How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
| إِذْ حَوَّلَ أَنْهَارَهُمْ وَسَوَاقِيَهُمْ دَماً حَتَّى لَا يَشْرَبُوا. | ٤٤ 44 |
And had turned their rivers into blood; and their streams, that they could not drink.
| أَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ بَعُوضاً فَأَكَلَهُمْ، وَضَفَادِعَ فَأَهْلَكَتْهُمْ. | ٤٥ 45 |
He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
| أَسْلَمَ غَلَّتَهُمْ لِلْجَنَادِبِ وَمَحَاصِيلَهُمْ لِلْجَرَادِ لِيُدَمِّرَهَا. | ٤٦ 46 |
He gave also their increase to the caterpiller, and their labour to the locust.
| أَتْلَفَ كُرُومَهُمْ بِالْبَرَدِ وَجُمَّيْزَهُمْ بِالصَّقِيعِ، | ٤٧ 47 |
He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost.
| وَدَفَعَ بَهَائِمَهُمْ إِلَى الْبَرَدِ، وَمَوَاشِيَهُمْ إِلَى نَارِ الْبُرُوقِ. | ٤٨ 48 |
He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
| أَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ حِمَمَ غَضَبِهِ، وَسَخَطِهِ وَغَيْظِهِ، وَأَطْلَقَ عَلَيْهِمْ حَمْلَةً مِنْ مَلائِكَةِ الْهَلاكِ. | ٤٩ 49 |
He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
| أَفْلَتَ عِنَانَ غَضَبِهِ، وَلَمْ يَحْفَظْهُمْ مِنَ الْمَوْتِ، بَلْ أَهْلَكَهُمْ بِالْوَبَإِ، | ٥٠ 50 |
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
| وَأَبَادَ كُلَّ أَبْكَارِ مِصْرَ، طَلائِعَ ثِمَارِ الرُّجُولَةِ فِي خِيَامِ حَامٍ. | ٥١ 51 |
And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
| ثُمَّ سَاقَ شَعْبَهُ كَالْغَنَمِ وَاقْتَادَهُمْ مِثْلَ الْقَطِيعِ فِي الصَّحْرَاءِ. | ٥٢ 52 |
But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
| هَدَاهُمْ آمِنِينَ فَلَمْ يَفْزَعُوا. أَمَّا أَعْدَاؤُهُمْ فَطَغَى الْبَحْرُ عَلَيْهِمْ وَغَمَرَهُمْ. | ٥٣ 53 |
And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
| وَأَدْخَلَهُمْ إِلَى تُخُومِ أَرْضِهِ الْمُقَدَّسَةِ، إِلَى الْجَبَلِ الَّذِي امْتَلَكَتْهُ يَمِينُهُ. | ٥٤ 54 |
And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
| ثُمَّ طَرَدَ الأُمَمَ مِنْ أَمَامِهِمْ وَقَسَمَ أَرْضَهُمْ بِالْحَبْلِ لِيَجْعَلَهَا مِيرَاثاً لِشَعْبِهِ، وَأَسْكَنَ فِي خِيَامِهِمْ أَسْبَاطَ إِسْرَائِيلَ. | ٥٥ 55 |
He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
| غَيْرَ أَنَّهُمْ جَرَّبُوا اللهَ الْعَلِيَّ وَتَمَرَّدُوا عَلَيْهِ، وَلَمْ يُرَاعُوا شَهَادَاتِهِ. | ٥٦ 56 |
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
| بَلِ ارْتَدُّوا عَنْهُ وَغَدَرُوا كَمَا فَعَلَ آبَاؤُهُمْ، وَانْحَرَفُوا كَقَوْسٍ مُخْطِئَةٍ. | ٥٧ 57 |
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
| وَأَغَاظُوهُ بِمَعَابِدِ مُرْتَفَعَاتِهِمْ وَأَثَارُوا غَيْرَتَهُ بِأَصْنَامِهِمْ. | ٥٨ 58 |
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
| سَمِعَ اللهُ فَغَضِبَ، وَعَافَتْ نَفْسُهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ جِدّاً. | ٥٩ 59 |
When God heard this, he was filled with wrath, and greatly abhorred Israel:
| هَجَرَ مَسْكَنَهُ فِي شِيلُوهَ، تِلْكَ الْخَيْمَةَ الَّتِي نَصَبَهَا مَسْكَناً لَهُ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ. | ٦٠ 60 |
So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
| وَأَسْلَمَ تَابُوتَ عَهْدِ عِزَّتِهِ إِلَى السَّبْيِ وَجَلالَهُ إِلَى يَدِ الْعَدُوِّ. | ٦١ 61 |
And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand.
| وَدَفَعَ شَعْبَهُ إِلَى السَّيْفِ وَصَبَّ نِقْمَتَهُ عَلَى مِيْرَاثِهِ. | ٦٢ 62 |
He gave over his people also to the sword; and was filled with wrath with his inheritance.
| فَالْتَهَمَتِ النَّارُ فِتْيَانَهُمْ، وَلَمْ تُنْشَدْ لِعَذَارَاهُمْ أُغْنِيَةُ زَوَاجٍ. | ٦٣ 63 |
The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
| سَقَطَ كَهَنَتُهُمْ صَرْعَى السَّيْفِ، وَأَرَامِلُهُمْ لَمْ يَنْدُبْنَ عَلَيْهِمْ. | ٦٤ 64 |
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
| ثُمَّ اسْتَيْقَظَ الرَّبُّ كَمَا يَسْتَيْقِظُ النَّائِمُ، مِثْلَ جَبَّارٍ يَصْرُخُ عَالِياً مِنَ الْخَمْرِ. | ٦٥ 65 |
Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
| فَضَرَبَ أَعْدَاءَهُ وَقَهَرَهُمْ، وَجَعَلَهُمْ عَاراً مَدَى الدَّهْرِ. | ٦٦ 66 |
And he smote his enemies in the hinder part: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
| رَفَضَ السُّكْنَى فِي خَيْمَةِ يُوسُفَ وَلَمْ يَخْتَرْ سِبْطَ أَفْرَايِمَ. | ٦٧ 67 |
Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
| بَلِ اصْطَفَى سِبْطَ يَهُوذَا، جَبَلَ صِهْيَوْنَ الَّذِي أَحَبَّهُ. | ٦٨ 68 |
But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
| فَشَيَّدَ هَيْكَلَهُ، (كَمَسْكِنِهِ) فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ العُلَى. جَعَلَهُ (ثَابِتاً) مِثْلَ الأَرْضِ الَّتِي أَسَّسَهَا إِلَى الأَبَدِ. | ٦٩ 69 |
And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
| وَاصْطَفَى دَاوُدَ عَبْدَهُ، وَأَخَذَهُ مِنْ بَيْنِ حَظَائِرِ الْغَنَمِ. | ٧٠ 70 |
He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheep folds:
| مِنْ خَلْفِ النِّعَاجِ الْمُرْضِعَةِ أَتَى بِهِ، لِيَرْعَى يَعْقُوبَ شَعْبَهُ وَإِسْرَائِيلَ مِيرَاثَهُ. | ٧١ 71 |
From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
| فَرَعَاهُمْ بِقَلْبٍ مُسْتَقِيمٍ، وَهَدَاهُمْ بِيَدَيْهِ الْمَاهِرَتَيْنِ. | ٧٢ 72 |
So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
