Psalms 78
1 A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth.
Intellectus Asaph. Attendite popule meus legem meam: inclinate aurem vestram in verba oris mei.
2 I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,
Aperiam in parabolis os meum: loquar propositiones ab initio.
3 that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
Quanta audivimus et cognovimus ea: et patres nostri narraverunt nobis.
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.
Non sunt occultata a filiis eorum, in generatione altera. Narrantes laudes Domini, et virtutes eius, et mirabilia eius quæ fecit.
5 For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,
Et suscitavit testimonium in Iacob: et legem posuit in Israel. Quanta mandavit patribus nostris nota facere ea filiis suis:
6 that the coming generation would know them— even children yet to be born— to arise and tell their own children
ut cognoscat generatio altera. Filii qui nascentur, et exurgent, et narrabunt filiis suis,
7 that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments.
Ut ponant in Deo spem suam, et non obliviscantur operum Dei: et mandata eius exquirant.
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.
Ne fiant sicut patres eorum: generatio prava et exasperans. Generatio, quæ non direxit cor suum: et non est creditus cum Deo spiritus eius.
9 The archers of Ephraim turned back on the day of battle.
Filii Ephrem intendentes et mittentes arcum: conversi sunt in die belli.
10 They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.
Non custodierunt testamentum Dei, et in lege eius noluerunt ambulare.
11 They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.
Et obliti sunt benefactorum eius, et mirabilium eius quæ ostendit eis.
12 He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
Coram patribus eorum fecit mirabilia in terra Ægypti, in campo Taneos.
13 He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.
Interrupit mare, et perduxit eos: et statuit aquas quasi in utre.
14 He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
Et deduxit eos in nube diei: et tota nocte in illuminatione ignis.
15 He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.
Interrupit petram in eremo: et adaquavit eos velut in abysso multa.
16 He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.
Et eduxit aquam de petra: et deduxit tamquam flumina aquas.
17 But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
Et apposuerunt adhuc peccare ei: in iram excitaverunt Excelsum in inaquoso.
18 They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.
Et tentaverunt Deum in cordibus suis: ut peterent escas animabus suis.
19 They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?
Et male locuti sunt de Deo: dixerunt: Numquid poterit Deus parare mensam in deserto?
20 When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”
Quoniam percussit petram, et fluxerunt aquæ, et torrentes inundaverunt. Numquid et panem poterit dare, aut parare mensam populo suo?
21 Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared against Israel,
Ideo audivit Dominus, et distulit: et ignis accensus est in Iacob, et ira ascendit in Israel:
22 because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.
Quia non crediderunt in Deo, nec speraverunt in salutari eius:
23 Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.
Et mandavit nubibus desuper, et ianuas cæli aperuit.
24 He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.
Et pluit illis manna ad manducandum, et panem cæli dedit eis.
25 Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.
Panem angelorum manducavit homo: cibaria misit eis in abundantia.
26 He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might.
Transtulit Austrum de cælo: et induxit in virtute sua Africum.
27 He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.
Et pluit super eos sicut pulverem carnes, et sicut arenam maris volatilia pennata.
28 He felled them in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.
Et ceciderunt in medio castrorum eorum: circa tabernacula eorum.
29 So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them what they craved.
Et manducaverunt et saturati sunt nimis, et desiderium eorum attulit eis:
30 Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,
non sunt fraudati a desiderio suo. Adhuc escæ eorum erant in ore ipsorum,
31 God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel.
et ira Dei ascendit super eos. Et occidit pingues eorum, et electos Israel impedivit.
32 In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.
In omnibus his peccaverunt adhuc: et non crediderunt in mirabilibus eius.
33 So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.
Et defecerunt in vanitate dies eorum: et anni eorum cum festinatione.
34 When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.
Cum occideret eos, quærebant eum: et revertebantur, et diluculo veniebant ad eum.
35 And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.
Et rememorati sunt quia Deus adiutor est eorum: et Deus excelsus redemptor eorum est.
36 But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.
Et dilexerunt eum in ore suo, et lingua sua mentiti sunt ei:
37 Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.
Cor autem eorum non erat rectum cum eo: nec fideles habiti sunt in testamento eius.
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.
Ipse autem est misericors, et propitius fiet peccatis eorum: et non disperdet eos. Et abundavit ut averteret iram suam: et non accendit omnem iram suam:
39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
Et recordatus est quia caro sunt: spiritus vadens, et non rediens.
40 How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
Quoties exacerbaverunt eum in deserto, in iram concitaverunt eum in inaquoso?
41 Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
Et conversi sunt, et tentaverunt Deum: et Sanctum Israel exacerbaverunt.
42 They did not remember His power — the day He redeemed them from the adversary,
Non sunt recordati manus eius, die qua redemit eos de manu tribulantis,
43 when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.
Sicut posuit in Ægypto signa sua, et prodigia sua in campo Taneos.
44 He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.
Et convertit in sanguinem flumina eorum, et imbres eorum, ne biberent.
45 He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
Misit in eos cœnomyiam, et comedit eos: et ranam, et disperdidit eos.
46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.
Et dedit ærugini fructus eorum: et labores eorum locustæ.
47 He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
Et occidit in grandine vineas eorum: et moros eorum in pruina.
48 He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.
Et tradidit grandini iumenta eorum: et possessionem eorum igni.
49 He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity— a band of destroying angels.
Misit in eos iram indignationis suæ: indignationem, et iram, et tribulationem: immissiones per angelos malos.
50 He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.
Viam fecit semitæ iræ suæ, non pepercit a morte animabus eorum: et iumenta eorum in morte conclusit.
51 He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.
Et percussit omne primogenitum in terra Ægypti: primitias omnis laboris eorum in tabernaculis Cham.
52 He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
Et abstulit sicut oves populum suum: et perduxit eos tamquam gregem in deserto.
53 He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies.
Et deduxit eos in spe, et non timuerunt: et inimicos eorum operuit mare.
54 He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.
Et induxit eos in montem sanctificationis suæ, montem, quem acquisivit dextera eius. Et eiecit a facie eorum Gentes: et sorte divisit eis terram in funiculo distributionis.
55 He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
Et habitare fecit in tabernaculis eorum tribus Israel.
56 But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
Et tentaverunt, et exacerbaverunt Deum excelsum: et testimonia eius non custodierunt.
57 They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.
Et averterunt se, et non servaverunt pactum: quemadmodum patres eorum, conversi sunt in arcum pravum.
58 They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
In iram concitaverunt eum in collibus suis: et in sculptilibus suis ad æmulationem eum provocaverunt.
59 On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.
Audivit Deus, et sprevit: et ad nihilum redegit valde Israel.
60 He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.
Et repulit tabernaculum Silo, tabernaculum suum, ubi habitavit in hominibus.
61 He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.
Et tradidit in captivitatem virtutem eorum: et pulchritudinem eorum in manus inimici.
62 He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage.
Et conclusit in gladio populum suum: et hereditatem suam sprevit.
63 Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.
Iuvenes eorum comedit ignis: et virgines eorum non sunt lamentatæ.
64 His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.
Sacerdotes eorum in gladio ceciderunt: et viduæ eorum non plorabantur.
65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.
Et excitatus est tamquam dormiens Dominus, tamquam potens crapulatus a vino.
66 He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.
Et percussit inimicos suos in posteriora: opprobrium sempiternum dedit illis.
67 He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.
Et repulit tabernaculum Ioseph: et tribum Ephraim non elegit:
68 But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
Sed elegit tribum Iuda, montem Sion quem dilexit.
69 He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.
Et ædificavit sicut unicornium sanctificium suum in terra, quam fundavit in sæcula.
70 He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
Et elegit David servum suum, et sustulit eum de gregibus ovium: de post fœtantes accepit eum.
71 from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.
Pascere Iacob servum suum, et Israel hereditatem suam:
72 So David shepherded them with integrity of heart and guided them with skillful hands.
Et pavit eos in innocentia cordis sui: et in intellectibus manuum suarum deduxit eos.
