Psalms 78
1 A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen 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 parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,
to open in/on/with proverb lip my to bubble riddle from front: old
3 that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to 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, but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might, and the wonders He has performed.
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 testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach 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 coming generation would know them— even children yet to be born— to arise and tell their own children
because to know generation last son: child to beget to arise: rise and to recount to/for son: child their
7 that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments.
and to set: make in/on/with God loin their and not to forget deed God and commandment his to watch
8 Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to 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 archers of Ephraim turned back on the day of battle.
son: descendant/people Ephraim to handle to shoot bow to overturn in/on/with day battle
10 They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.
not to keep: obey covenant God and in/on/with instruction his to refuse to/for to go: walk
11 They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.
and to forget wantonness his and to wonder his which to see: see them
12 He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region 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 brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.
to break up/open sea and to pass: bring them and to stand water like heap
14 He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
and to lead them in/on/with cloud by day and all [the] night in/on/with light fire
15 He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.
to break up/open rock in/on/with wilderness and to water: drink like/as abyss many
16 He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.
and to come out: issue to flow from crag and to go down like/as river water
17 But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
and to add: again still to/for to sin to/for him to/for to rebel Most High in/on/with dryness
18 They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.
and to test God in/on/with heart their to/for to ask food to/for soul: appetite their
19 They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really 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 When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”
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 filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared 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 God or rely on His salvation.
for not be faithful in/on/with God and not to trust in/on/with salvation his
23 Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.
and to command cloud from above and door heaven to open
24 He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.
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 in abundance.
food: bread mighty: angel to eat man: anyone provision to send: depart to/for them to/for satiety
26 He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might.
to set out east in/on/with heaven and to lead in/on/with strength his south
27 He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.
and to rain upon them like/as dust flesh and like/as sand sea bird wing
28 He felled them in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.
and to fall: fall in/on/with entrails: among camp his around to/for tabernacle his
29 So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them what they craved.
and to eat and to satisfy much and desire their to come (in): bring to/for them
30 Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,
not be a stranger from desire their still food their in/on/with lip their
31 God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued 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 In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.
in/on/with all this to sin still and not be faithful in/on/with to wonder his
33 So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.
and to end: expend in/on/with vanity day their and year their in/on/with dismay
34 When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.
if to kill them and to seek him and to return: repent and to seek God
35 And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.
and to remember for God rock their and El (Most High) (LORD) Most High to redeem: redeem their
36 But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.
and to entice him in/on/with lip their and in/on/with tongue their to lie to/for him
37 Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.
and heart their not to establish: establish with him and not be faithful in/on/with covenant his
38 And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full 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 passing breeze that does not return.
and to remember for flesh they(masc.) spirit: breath to go: walk and not to return: return
40 How often they disobeyed 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 Again and again they tested 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 power — the day He redeemed them from the adversary,
not to remember [obj] hand: power his day which to ransom them from enemy
43 when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields 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 to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.
and to overturn to/for blood stream their and to flow their not to drink [emph?]
45 He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
to send: depart in/on/with them swarm and to eat them and frog and to ruin them
46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.
and to give: give to/for locust crops their and toil their to/for locust
47 He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
to kill in/on/with hail vine their and sycamore their in/on/with frost
48 He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.
and to shut to/for hail cattle their and livestock their to/for flash
49 He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity— a band of destroying angels.
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 cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.
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 He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.
and to smite all firstborn in/on/with Egypt first: beginning strength in/on/with tent Ham
52 He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
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 they did not fear, but the sea engulfed 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 His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.
and to come (in): bring them to(wards) border: boundary holiness his mountain: mount this to buy right his
55 He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel 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 But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
and to test and to rebel [obj] God Most High and testimony his not to keep: obey
57 They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.
and to turn and to act treacherously like/as father their to overturn like/as bow deceit
58 They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
and to provoke him in/on/with high place their and in/on/with idol their be jealous him
59 On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.
to hear: hear God and be angry and to reject much in/on/with Israel
60 He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.
and to leave tabernacle Shiloh tent to dwell in/on/with man
61 He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.
and to give: give to/for captivity strength his and beauty his in/on/with hand: power enemy
62 He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage.
and to shut to/for sword people his and in/on/with inheritance his be angry
63 Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.
youth his to eat fire and virgin his not to boast: praise
64 His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.
priest his in/on/with sword to fall: kill and widow his not to weep
65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.
and to awake like/as sleeping Lord like/as mighty man to overcome from wine
66 He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.
and to smite enemy his back reproach forever: enduring to give: put to/for them
67 He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.
and to reject in/on/with tent Joseph and in/on/with tribe Ephraim not to choose
68 But He 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 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 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 tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of 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 David shepherded them with integrity of heart and guided them with skillful hands.
and to pasture them like/as integrity heart his and in/on/with understanding palm his to lead them
