Psalms 78
1 Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
| משכיל לאסף האזינה עמי תורתי הטו אזנכם לאמרי פי׃ |
2 I will open my mouth with a parable; I will utter dark sayings concerning days of old;
| אפתחה במשל פי אביעה חידות מני קדם׃ |
3 That which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us,
| אשר שמענו ונדעם ואבותינו ספרו לנו׃ |
4 We will not hide from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and His strength, and His wondrous works that He hath done.
| לא נכחד מבניהם לדור אחרון מספרים תהלות יהוה ועזוזו ונפלאותיו אשר עשה׃ |
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;
| ויקם עדות ביעקב ותורה שם בישראל אשר צוה את אבותינו להודיעם לבניהם׃ |
6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children that should be born; who should arise and tell them to their children,
| למען ידעו דור אחרון בנים יולדו יקמו ויספרו לבניהם׃ |
7 That they might put their confidence in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments;
| וישימו באלהים כסלם ולא ישכחו מעללי אל ומצותיו ינצרו׃ |
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 stedfast with God.
| ולא יהיו כאבותם דור סורר ומרה דור לא הכין לבו ולא נאמנה את אל רוחו׃ |
9 The children of Ephraim were as archers handling the bow, that turned back in the day of battle.
| בני אפרים נושקי רומי קשת הפכו ביום קרב׃ |
10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in His law;
| לא שמרו ברית אלהים ובתורתו מאנו ללכת׃ |
11 And they forgot His doings, and His wondrous works that He had shown them.
| וישכחו עלילותיו ונפלאותיו אשר הראם׃ |
12 Marvellous things did He in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
| נגד אבותם עשה פלא בארץ מצרים שדה צען׃ |
13 He cleaved the sea, and caused them to pass through; and He made the waters to stand as a heap.
| בקע ים ויעבירם ויצב מים כמו נד׃ |
14 By day also He led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
| וינחם בענן יומם וכל הלילה באור אש׃ |
15 He cleaved rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the great deep.
| יבקע צרים במדבר וישק כתהמות רבה׃ |
16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
| ויוצא נוזלים מסלע ויורד כנהרות מים׃ |
17 Yet went they on still to sin against Him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
| ויוסיפו עוד לחטא לו למרות עליון בציה׃ |
18 And they tried God in their heart by asking food for their craving.
| וינסו אל בלבבם לשאל אכל לנפשם׃ |
19 Yea, they spoke against God; they said: 'Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
| וידברו באלהים אמרו היוכל אל לערך שלחן במדבר׃ |
20 Behold, He smote the rock, that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; can He give bread also? or will He provide flesh for His people?'
| הן הכה צור ויזובו מים ונחלים ישטפו הגם לחם יוכל תת אם יכין שאר לעמו׃ |
21 Therefore the LORD heard, and was wroth; and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel;
| לכן שמע יהוה ויתעבר ואש נשקה ביעקב וגם אף עלה בישראל׃ |
22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in His salvation.
| כי לא האמינו באלהים ולא בטחו בישועתו׃ |
23 And He commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven;
| ויצו שחקים ממעל ודלתי שמים פתח׃ |
24 And He caused manna to rain upon them for food, and gave them of the corn of heaven.
| וימטר עליהם מן לאכל ודגן שמים נתן למו׃ |
25 Man did eat the bread of the mighty; He sent them provisions to the full.
| לחם אבירים אכל איש צידה שלח להם לשבע׃ |
26 He caused the east wind to set forth in heaven; and by His power He brought on the south wind.
| יסע קדים בשמים וינהג בעזו תימן׃ |
27 He caused flesh also to rain upon them as the dust, and winged fowl as the sand of the seas;
| וימטר עליהם כעפר שאר וכחול ימים עוף כנף׃ |
28 And He let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their dwellings.
| ויפל בקרב מחנהו סביב למשכנתיו׃ |
29 So they did eat, and were well filled; and He gave them that which they craved.
| ויאכלו וישבעו מאד ותאותם יבא להם׃ |
30 They were not estranged from their craving, their food was yet in their mouths,
| לא זרו מתאותם עוד אכלם בפיהם׃ |
31 When the anger of God went up against them, and slew of the lustieth among them, and smote down the young men of Israel.
| ואף אלהים עלה בהם ויהרג במשמניהם ובחורי ישראל הכריע׃ |
32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not in His wondrous works.
| בכל זאת חטאו עוד ולא האמינו בנפלאותיו׃ |
33 Therefore He ended their days as a breath, and their years in terror.
| ויכל בהבל ימיהם ושנותם בבהלה׃ |
34 When He slew them, then they would inquire after Him, and turn back and seek God earnestly.
| אם הרגם ודרשוהו ושבו ושחרו אל׃ |
35 And they remembered that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their redeemer.
| ויזכרו כי אלהים צורם ואל עליון גאלם׃ |
36 But they beguiled Him with their mouth, and lied unto Him with their tongue.
| ויפתוהו בפיהם ובלשונם יכזבו לו׃ |
37 For their heart was not stedfast with Him, neither were they faithful in His covenant.
| ולבם לא נכון עמו ולא נאמנו בבריתו׃ |
38 But He, being full of compassion, forgiveth iniquity, and destroyeth not; yea, many a time doth He turn His anger away, and doth not stir up all His wrath.
| והוא רחום יכפר עון ולא ישחית והרבה להשיב אפו ולא יעיר כל חמתו׃ |
39 So He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
| ויזכר כי בשר המה רוח הולך ולא ישוב׃ |
40 How oft did they rebel against Him in the wilderness, and grieve Him in the desert!
| כמה ימרוהו במדבר יעציבוהו בישימון׃ |
41 And still again they tried God, and set bounds to the Holy One of Israel.
| וישובו וינסו אל וקדוש ישראל התוו׃ |
42 They remembered not His hand, nor the day when He redeemed them from the adversary.
| לא זכרו את ידו יום אשר פדם מני צר׃ |
43 How He set His signs in Egypt, and His wonders in the field of Zoan;
| אשר שם במצרים אתותיו ומופתיו בשדה צען׃ |
44 And turned their rivers into blood, so that they could not drink their streams.
| ויהפך לדם יאריהם ונזליהם בל ישתיון׃ |
45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
| ישלח בהם ערב ויאכלם וצפרדע ותשחיתם׃ |
46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust.
| ויתן לחסיל יבולם ויגיעם לארבה׃ |
47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore-trees with frost.
| יהרג בברד גפנם ושקמותם בחנמל׃ |
48 He gave over their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to fiery bolts.
| ויסגר לברד בעירם ומקניהם לרשפים׃ |
49 He sent forth upon them the fierceness of His anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, a sending of messengers of evil.
| ישלח בם חרון אפו עברה וזעם וצרה משלחת מלאכי רעים׃ |
50 He levelled a path for His anger; He spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
| יפלס נתיב לאפו לא חשך ממות נפשם וחיתם לדבר הסגיר׃ |
51 And smote all the first-born in Egypt, the first-fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham;
| ויך כל בכור במצרים ראשית אונים באהלי חם׃ |
52 But He made His own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
| ויסע כצאן עמו וינהגם כעדר במדבר׃ |
53 And He led them safely, and they feared not; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
| וינחם לבטח ולא פחדו ואת אויביהם כסה הים׃ |
54 And He brought them to His holy border, to the mountain, which His right hand had gotten.
| ויביאם אל גבול קדשו הר זה קנתה ימינו׃ |
55 He drove out the nations also before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
| ויגרש מפניהם גוים ויפילם בחבל נחלה וישכן באהליהם שבטי ישראל׃ |
56 Yet they tried and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not His testimonies;
| וינסו וימרו את אלהים עליון ועדותיו לא שמרו׃ |
57 But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers; they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
| ויסגו ויבגדו כאבותם נהפכו כקשת רמיה׃ |
58 For they provoked Him with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their graven images.
| ויכעיסוהו בבמותם ובפסיליהם יקניאוהו׃ |
59 God heard, and was wroth, and He greatly abhorred Israel;
| שמע אלהים ויתעבר וימאס מאד בישראל׃ |
60 And He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which He had made to dwell among men;
| ויטש משכן שלו אהל שכן באדם׃ |
61 And delivered His strength into captivity, and His glory into the adversary's hand.
| ויתן לשבי עזו ותפארתו ביד צר׃ |
62 He gave His people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with His inheritance.
| ויסגר לחרב עמו ובנחלתו התעבר׃ |
63 Fire devoured their young men; and their virgins had no marriage-song.
| בחוריו אכלה אש ובתולתיו לא הוללו׃ |
64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
| כהניו בחרב נפלו ואלמנתיו לא תבכינה׃ |
65 Then the Lord awaked as one asleep, like a mighty man recovering from wine.
| ויקץ כישן אדני כגבור מתרונן מיין׃ |
66 And He smote His adversaries backward; He put upon them a perpetual reproach.
| ויך צריו אחור חרפת עולם נתן למו׃ |
67 Moreover He abhorred the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim;
| וימאס באהל יוסף ובשבט אפרים לא בחר׃ |
68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which He loved.
| ויבחר את שבט יהודה את הר ציון אשר אהב׃ |
69 And He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which He hath founded for ever.
| ויבן כמו רמים מקדשו כארץ יסדה לעולם׃ |
70 He chose David also His servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
| ויבחר בדוד עבדו ויקחהו ממכלאת צאן׃ |
71 From following the ewes that give suck He brought him, to be shepherd over Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance.
| מאחר עלות הביאו לרעות ביעקב עמו ובישראל נחלתו׃ |
72 So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart; and lead them by the skilfulness of his hands.
| וירעם כתם לבבו ובתבונות כפיו ינחם׃ |
