Psalms 78

1 A contemplation by Asaph. Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

Maskil to/for Asaph to listen [emph?] people my instruction my to stretch ear your to/for word lip my

2 I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

to open in/on/with proverb lip my to bubble riddle from front: old

3 which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

which to hear: hear and to know them and father our to recount to/for us

4 We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.

not to hide from son: child their to/for generation last to recount praise LORD and strength his and to wonder his which to make: do

5 For he established a covenant in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

and to arise: establish testimony in/on/with Jacob and instruction to set: appoint in/on/with Israel which to command [obj] father our to/for to know them to/for son: child their

6 that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,

because to know generation last son: child to beget to arise: rise and to recount to/for son: child their

7 that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God’s deeds, but keep his commandments,

and to set: make in/on/with God loin their and not to forget deed God and commandment his to watch

8 and might not be as their fathers— a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

and not to be like/as father their generation to rebel and to rebel generation not to establish: establish heart his and not be faithful with God spirit his

9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

son: descendant/people Ephraim to handle to shoot bow to overturn in/on/with day battle

10 They did not keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law.

not to keep: obey covenant God and in/on/with instruction his to refuse to/for to go: walk

11 They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.

and to forget wantonness his and to wonder his which to see: see them

12 He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

before father their to make: do wonder in/on/with land: country/planet Egypt land: country Zoan

13 He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.

to break up/open sea and to pass: bring them and to stand water like heap

14 In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.

and to lead them in/on/with cloud by day and all [the] night in/on/with light fire

15 He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

to break up/open rock in/on/with wilderness and to water: drink like/as abyss many

16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

and to come out: issue to flow from crag and to go down like/as river water

17 Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

and to add: again still to/for to sin to/for him to/for to rebel Most High in/on/with dryness

18 They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

and to test God in/on/with heart their to/for to ask food to/for soul: appetite their

19 Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

and to speak: speak in/on/with God to say be able God to/for to arrange table in/on/with wilderness

20 Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide meat for his people?”

look! to smite rock and to flow: flowing water and torrent: river to overflow also food: bread be able to give: give if: surely no to establish: prepare flesh to/for people his

21 Therefore the LORD heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,

to/for so to hear: hear LORD and be angry and fire to kindle in/on/with Jacob and also face: anger to ascend: rise in/on/with Israel

22 because they did not believe in God, and did not trust in his salvation.

for not be faithful in/on/with God and not to trust in/on/with salvation his

23 Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.

and to command cloud from above and door heaven to open

24 He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.

and to rain upon them manna to/for to eat and grain heaven to give: give to/for them

25 Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.

food: bread mighty: angel to eat man: anyone provision to send: depart to/for them to/for satiety

26 He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.

to set out east in/on/with heaven and to lead in/on/with strength his south

27 He also rained meat on them as the dust, winged birds as the sand of the seas.

and to rain upon them like/as dust flesh and like/as sand sea bird wing

28 He let them fall in the middle of their camp, around their habitations.

and to fall: fall in/on/with entrails: among camp his around to/for tabernacle his

29 So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.

and to eat and to satisfy much and desire their to come (in): bring to/for them

30 They did not turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

not be a stranger from desire their still food their in/on/with lip their

31 when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their strongest, and struck down the young men of Israel.

and face: anger God to ascend: rise in/on/with them and to kill in/on/with fatness their and youth Israel to bow

32 For all this they still sinned, and did not believe in his wondrous works.

in/on/with all this to sin still and not be faithful in/on/with to wonder his

33 Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

and to end: expend in/on/with vanity day their and year their in/on/with dismay

34 When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

if to kill them and to seek him and to return: repent and to seek God

35 They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.

and to remember for God rock their and El (Most High) (LORD) Most High to redeem: redeem their

36 But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

and to entice him in/on/with lip their and in/on/with tongue their to lie to/for him

37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

and heart their not to establish: establish with him and not be faithful in/on/with covenant his

38 But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and did not destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

and he/she/it compassionate to atone iniquity: crime and not to ruin and to multiply to/for to return: repent face: anger his and not to rouse all rage his

39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and does not come again.

and to remember for flesh they(masc.) spirit: breath to go: walk and not to return: return

40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

like/as what? to rebel him in/on/with wilderness to hurt him in/on/with wilderness

41 They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

and to return: again and to test God and holy Israel to wound

42 They did not remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

not to remember [obj] hand: power his day which to ransom them from enemy

43 how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,

which to set: put in/on/with Egypt sign: miraculous his and wonder his in/on/with land: country Zoan

44 he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.

and to overturn to/for blood stream their and to flow their not to drink [emph?]

45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

to send: depart in/on/with them swarm and to eat them and frog and to ruin them

46 He also gave their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

and to give: give to/for locust crops their and toil their to/for locust

47 He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.

to kill in/on/with hail vine their and sycamore their in/on/with frost

48 He also gave over their livestock to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

and to shut to/for hail cattle their and livestock their to/for flash

49 He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.

to send: let go in/on/with them burning anger face: anger his fury and indignation and distress deputation messenger: angel bad: harmful

50 He made a path for his anger. He did not spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,

to envy path to/for face: anger his not to withhold from death soul: myself their and living thing their to/for pestilence to shut

51 and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.

and to smite all firstborn in/on/with Egypt first: beginning strength in/on/with tent Ham

52 But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

and to set out like/as flock people his and to lead them like/as flock in/on/with wilderness

53 He led them safely, so that they were not afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

and to lead them to/for security and not to dread and [obj] enemy their to cover [the] sea

54 He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.

and to come (in): bring them to(wards) border: boundary holiness his mountain: mount this to buy right his

55 He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

and to drive out: drive out from face: before their nation and to fall: allot them in/on/with cord inheritance and to dwell in/on/with tent their tribe Israel

56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and did not keep his testimonies,

and to test and to rebel [obj] God Most High and testimony his not to keep: obey

57 but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were twisted like a deceitful bow.

and to turn and to act treacherously like/as father their to overturn like/as bow deceit

58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.

and to provoke him in/on/with high place their and in/on/with idol their be jealous him

59 When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel,

to hear: hear God and be angry and to reject much in/on/with Israel

60 so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men,

and to leave tabernacle Shiloh tent to dwell in/on/with man

61 and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand.

and to give: give to/for captivity strength his and beauty his in/on/with hand: power enemy

62 He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.

and to shut to/for sword people his and in/on/with inheritance his be angry

63 Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.

youth his to eat fire and virgin his not to boast: praise

64 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows could not weep.

priest his in/on/with sword to fall: kill and widow his not to weep

65 Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

and to awake like/as sleeping Lord like/as mighty man to overcome from wine

66 He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.

and to smite enemy his back reproach forever: enduring to give: put to/for them

67 Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,

and to reject in/on/with tent Joseph and in/on/with tribe Ephraim not to choose

68 But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.

and to choose [obj] tribe Judah [obj] mountain: mount Zion which to love: lover

69 He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.

and to build like to exalt sanctuary his like/as land: country/planet to found her to/for forever: enduring

70 He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

and to choose in/on/with David servant/slave his and to take: take him from fold flock

71 from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.

from after to nurse to come (in): bring him to/for to pasture in/on/with Jacob people his and in/on/with Israel inheritance his

72 So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

and to pasture them like/as integrity heart his and in/on/with understanding palm his to lead them