< Psalms 78 >
1 A Psalme to give instruction committed to Asaph. Heare my doctrine, O my people: incline your eares vnto the wordes 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 declare high sentences of olde.
to open in/on/with proverb lip my to bubble riddle from front: old
3 Which we haue heard and knowen, and our fathers haue tolde vs.
which to hear: hear and to know them and father our to recount to/for us
4 Wee will not hide them from their children but to the generation to come we wil shewe the praises of the Lord his power also, and his wonderful woorkes that he hath 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 How he established a testimonie in Iaakob, and ordeined a Law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they shoulde teache 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 posteritie might knowe it, and the children, which should be borne, should stand vp, and declare it to 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 on God, and not forget the workes of God but keepe his commandements:
and to set: make in/on/with God loin their and not to forget deed God and commandment his to watch
8 And not to bee as their fathers, a disobedient and rebellious generation: a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirite was not faithfull vnto 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 shooting with the bowe, turned backe in the day of battell.
son: descendant/people Ephraim to handle to shoot bow to overturn in/on/with day battle
10 They kept not the couenant of God, but refused to walke in his Lawe,
not to keep: obey covenant God and in/on/with instruction his to refuse to/for to go: walk
11 And forgate his Actes, and his wonderfull woorkes that he had shewed them.
and to forget wantonness his and to wonder his which to see: see them
12 Hee did marueilous thinges in the sight of their fathers in the lande of Egypt: euen in the fielde of Zoan.
before father their to make: do wonder in/on/with land: country/planet Egypt land: country Zoan
13 He deuided the Sea, and led them through: he made also the waters to stand as an heape.
to break up/open sea and to pass: bring them and to stand water like heap
14 In the day time also hee led them with a cloude, and all the 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 claue the rockes in the wildernes, and gaue them drinke as of the great depths.
to break up/open rock in/on/with wilderness and to water: drink like/as abyss many
16 He brought floods also out of the stonie rocke; so that hee made the waters to descend like the riuers.
and to come out: issue to flow from crag and to go down like/as river water
17 Yet they sinned stil against him, and prouoked the Highest in the wildernesse,
and to add: again still to/for to sin to/for him to/for to rebel Most High in/on/with dryness
18 And tempted God in their heartes in requiring meate for their lust.
and to test God in/on/with heart their to/for to ask food to/for soul: appetite their
19 They spake against God also, saying, Can God prepare a table in the wildernesse?
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 smote the rocke, that the water gushed out, and the streames ouerflowed: can hee giue bread also? or prepare flesh 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 angrie, and the fire was kindled in Iaakob, and also wrath came vpon 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 beleeued not in God, and trusted not in his helpe.
for not be faithful in/on/with God and not to trust in/on/with salvation his
23 Yet he had comanded the clouds aboue, and had opened the doores of heauen,
and to command cloud from above and door heaven to open
24 And had rained downe MAN vpon them for to eate, and had giuen them of the wheate of heauen.
and to rain upon them manna to/for to eat and grain heaven to give: give to/for them
25 Man did eate the bread of Angels: hee sent them meate ynough.
food: bread mighty: angel to eat man: anyone provision to send: depart to/for them to/for satiety
26 He caused the Eastwinde to passe in the heauen, and through his power he brought in the Southwinde.
to set out east in/on/with heaven and to lead in/on/with strength his south
27 Hee rained flesh also vpon them as dust, and feathered foule as the sand of the sea.
and to rain upon them like/as dust flesh and like/as sand sea bird wing
28 And hee made it fall in the middes of their campe euen round about their habitations.
and to fall: fall in/on/with entrails: among camp his around to/for tabernacle his
29 So they did eate and were well filled: for he gaue them their desire.
and to eat and to satisfy much and desire their to come (in): bring to/for them
30 They were not turned from their lust, but the meate was yet in their mouthes,
not be a stranger from desire their still food their in/on/with lip their
31 When the wrath of God came euen vpon them, and slew the strongest of them, and smote downe the chosen men in 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 sinned stil, and beleeued not his wonderous woorkes.
in/on/with all this to sin still and not be faithful in/on/with to wonder his
33 Therefore their daies did hee consume in vanitie, and their yeeres hastily.
and to end: expend in/on/with vanity day their and year their in/on/with dismay
34 And when hee slewe them, they sought him and they returned, and sought God earely.
if to kill them and to seek him and to return: repent and to seek God
35 And they remembred that God was their strength, and 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 dissembled with 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 vpright with him: neither were they faithfull in his couenant.
and heart their not to establish: establish with him and not be faithful in/on/with covenant his
38 Yet he being merciful forgaue their iniquitie, and destroied them not, but oft times called backe his anger, and did not stirre vp 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 For he remembered that they were flesh: yea, a winde that passeth and commeth not againe.
and to remember for flesh they(masc.) spirit: breath to go: walk and not to return: return
40 How oft did they prouoke him in the wildernes? and grieue him in the desert?
like/as what? to rebel him in/on/with wilderness to hurt him in/on/with wilderness
41 Yea, they returned, and tempted God, and limited the Holie one of Israel.
and to return: again and to test God and holy Israel to wound
42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he deliuered them from the enemie,
not to remember [obj] hand: power his day which to ransom them from enemy
43 Nor him that set his signes in Egypt, and his wonders in the fielde of Zoan,
which to set: put in/on/with Egypt sign: miraculous his and wonder his in/on/with land: country Zoan
44 And turned their riuers into blood, and their floods, that they could not drinke.
and to overturn to/for blood stream their and to flow their not to drink [emph?]
45 Hee sent a swarme of flies among them, which deuoured 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 gaue also their fruites vnto the caterpiller, and their labour vnto the grassehopper.
and to give: give to/for locust crops their and toil their to/for locust
47 He destroied their vines with haile, and their wilde figge trees with the hailestone.
to kill in/on/with hail vine their and sycamore their in/on/with frost
48 He gaue their cattell also to the haile, and their flockes to the thunderboltes.
and to shut to/for hail cattle their and livestock their to/for flash
49 Hee cast vpon them the fiercenesse of his anger, indignation and wrath, and vexation by the sending out of euill 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 made a way to his anger: he spared not their soule from death, but gaue their life 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 smote al the firstborne in Egypt, euen the beginning of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham.
and to smite all firstborn in/on/with Egypt first: beginning strength in/on/with tent Ham
52 But hee made his people to goe out like sheepe, and led them in the wildernes like a flocke.
and to set out like/as flock people his and to lead them like/as flock in/on/with wilderness
53 Yea, he caried them out safely, and they feared not, and the Sea couered their enemies.
and to lead them to/for security and not to dread and [obj] enemy their to cover [the] sea
54 And he brought them vnto the borders of his Sanctuarie: euen to this Mountaine, which his right hand purchased.
and to come (in): bring them to(wards) border: boundary holiness his mountain: mount this to buy right his
55 He cast out the heathe also before them, and caused them to fall to the lot of his inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.
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 prouoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies,
and to test and to rebel [obj] God Most High and testimony his not to keep: obey
57 But turned backe and delt falsely like their fathers: they turned like a deceitfull bowe.
and to turn and to act treacherously like/as father their to overturn like/as bow deceit
58 And they prouoked him to anger with their high places, and mooued him to wrath with their grauen images.
and to provoke him in/on/with high place their and in/on/with idol their be jealous him
59 God heard this and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel,
to hear: hear God and be angry and to reject much in/on/with Israel
60 So that hee forsooke the habitation of Shilo, euen the Tabernacle where hee dwelt among men,
and to leave tabernacle Shiloh tent to dwell in/on/with man
61 And deliuered his power into captiuitie, and his beautie into the enemies hand.
and to give: give to/for captivity strength his and beauty his in/on/with hand: power enemy
62 And hee gaue vp his people to the sworde, and was angrie with his inheritance.
and to shut to/for sword people his and in/on/with inheritance his be angry
63 The fire deuoured their chosen men, and their maides were not praised.
youth his to eat fire and virgin his not to boast: praise
64 Their Priestes fell by the sworde, and their widowes lamented not.
priest his in/on/with sword to fall: kill and widow his not to weep
65 But the Lord awaked as one out of sleepe, and as a strong man that after his wine crieth out,
and to awake like/as sleeping Lord like/as mighty man to overcome from wine
66 And smote his enemies in the hinder parts, and put them to a perpetuall shame.
and to smite enemy his back reproach forever: enduring to give: put to/for them
67 Yet he refused the tabernacle of Ioseph, and chose not 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 Iudah, and mount Zion which he loued.
and to choose [obj] tribe Judah [obj] mountain: mount Zion which to love: lover
69 And he built his Sanctuarie as an high palace, like the earth, which he stablished for euer.
and to build like to exalt sanctuary his like/as land: country/planet to found her to/for forever: enduring
70 He chose Dauid also his seruant, and tooke him from the shepefolds.
and to choose in/on/with David servant/slave his and to take: take him from fold flock
71 Euen from behinde the ewes with yong brought he him to feede his people in Iaakob, and his inheritance in Israel.
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 fed them according to the simplicitie of his heart, and guided them by the discretion of his hands.
and to pasture them like/as integrity heart his and in/on/with understanding palm his to lead them