Psalms 78

1 AN INSTRUCTION OF ASAPH. Give ear, O my people, to my law, Incline your ear to sayings of my mouth.

A poem of Asaph give ear to! O people my instruction my incline ear your to [the] words of mouth my.

2 I open my mouth with an allegory, I bring forth hidden things of old,

I will open in a parable mouth my I will pour forth riddles from antiquity.

3 That we have heard and know, And our fathers have recounted to us.

Which we have heard and we have known them and ancestors our they have recounted to us.

4 We do not hide from their sons, Recounting praises of YHWH to a later generation, And His strength, and His wonders that He has done.

Not we will hide - from descendants their to a generation later recounting [the] praises of Yahweh and might his and wonders his which he has done.

5 And He raises up a testimony in Jacob, And has placed a law in Israel, That He commanded our fathers, To make them known to their sons.

And he established a testimony - in Jacob and a law he appointed in Israel which he commanded ancestors our to make known them to children their.

6 So that a later generation knows, Sons who are born, rise and recount to their sons,

So that they may know - a generation later children [who] they will be born they will arise and may they recount [them] to children their.

7 And place their confidence in God, And do not forget the doings of God, But keep His commands.

So they may put in God confidence their and not they will forget [the] deeds of God and commandments his they will observe.

8 And they are not like their fathers, A generation apostatizing and being rebellious, A generation—it has not prepared its heart, Nor [is] its spirit steadfast with God.

And not they will be - like ancestors their a generation stubborn and rebellious a generation [which] not it directed heart its and [which] not it was faithful with God spirit its.

9 Sons of Ephraim—armed bearers of bow, Have turned in a day of conflict.

[the] people of Ephraim [were] equipped of shooters of a bow they turned back on [the] day of battle.

10 They have not kept the covenant of God, And they have refused to walk in His law,

Not they kept [the] covenant of God and in law his they refused to walk.

11 And they forget His doings, And His wonders that He showed them.

And they forgot deeds his and wonders his which he had shown them.

12 He has done wonders before their fathers, In the land of Egypt—the field of Zoan.

Before ancestors their he did wonder[s] in [the] land of Egypt [the] region of Zoan.

13 He cleft a sea, and causes them to pass over, Indeed, He causes waters to stand as a heap.

He split open [the] sea and he brought through them and he made to stand up [the] waters like a heap.

14 And leads them with a cloud by day, And with a light of fire all the night.

And he guided them by the cloud by day and all the night by [the] light of a fire.

15 He cleaves rocks in a wilderness, And gives drink—as the great deep.

He split open rocks in the wilderness and he gave [them] to drink like deeps much.

16 And brings out streams from a rock, And causes waters to come down as rivers.

And he brought out streams from a rock and he made to flow down like rivers water.

17 And they still add to sin against Him, To provoke the Most High in the dry place.

And they repeated again to sin to him by rebelling against [the] Most High in the dry region.

18 And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust.

And they put to [the] test God in heart their by requesting food for selves their.

19 And they speak against God—they said: “Is God able to array a table in a wilderness?”

And they spoke against God they said ¿ is he able God to arrange a table in the wilderness.

20 Behold, He has struck a rock, And waters flow, indeed, streams overflow. “Also, [is] He able to give bread? Does He prepare flesh for His people?”

There! he struck a rock - and they flowed out waters and torrents they overflowed ¿ also food is he able to give or? will he prepare meat for people his.

21 Therefore YHWH has heard, And He shows Himself angry, And fire has been kindled against Jacob, And anger has also gone up against Israel,

Therefore - he heard Yahweh and he was furious and fire it was kindled in Jacob and also anger it went up in Israel.

22 For they have not believed in God, Nor have they trusted in His salvation.

For not they trusted in God and not they trusted in salvation his.

23 And He commands clouds from above, Indeed, He has opened doors of the heavens.

And he commanded clouds above and [the] doors of heaven he opened.

24 And He rains manna on them to eat, Indeed, He has given grain of the heavens to them.

And he rained down on them manna to eat and [the] grain of heaven he gave to them.

25 Each has eaten food of the mighty, He sent provision to them to satiety.

Bread of mighty [ones] he ate everyone food he sent to them to satiety.

26 He causes an east wind to journey in the heavens, And leads a south wind by His strength,

He led out an east wind in the heavens and he led forth by strength his a south wind.

27 And He rains on them flesh as dust, And as sand of the seas—winged bird,

And he rained down on them like dust meat and like [the] sand of [the] seas bird[s] of wing.

28 And causes [it] to fall in the midst of His camp, Around His dwelling places.

And he made [them] fall in [the] midst of camp his around dwelling his.

29 And they eat, and are greatly satisfied, And He brings their desire to them.

And they ate and they were satisfied exceedingly and desire their he brought to them.

30 They have not been estranged from their desire, Their food [is] yet in their mouth,

Not they had become estranged from desire their still food their [was] in mouth their.

31 And the anger of God has gone up against them, And He slays among their fat ones, And He caused youths of Israel to bend.

And [the] anger of God - it went up in them and he killed among vigorous ones their and [the] young men of Israel he made bow down.

32 With all this they have sinned again, And have not believed in His wonders.

In all this they sinned again and not they believed in wonders his.

33 And He consumes their days in vanity, And their years in trouble.

And he brought to an end in futility days their and years their in sudden terror.

34 If He slew them, then they sought Him, And turned back, and earnestly sought God,

If he killed them and they sought him and they returned and they sought earnestly God.

35 And they remember that God [is] their rock, And God Most High their redeemer.

And they remembered that God [was] rock their and God Most High [was] redeemer their.

36 And they deceive Him with their mouth, And lie to Him with their tongue,

And they deceived him with mouth their and with tongue their they lied to him.

37 And their heart has not been right with Him, And they have not been steadfast in His covenant.

And heart their not [was] steadfast with him and not they were faithful in covenant his.

38 And He, the Merciful One, pardons iniquity, and does not destroy, And has often turned back His anger, And does not awaken all His fury.

And he [was] compassionate - he atoned for iniquity and not he destroyed [them] and he increased to turn back anger his and not he stirred up all rage his.

39 And He remembers that they [are] flesh, A wind going on—and it does not return.

And he remembered that [were] flesh they a wind [which] goes and not it returns.

40 How often do they provoke Him in the wilderness, Grieve Him in the desolate place?

How often! they rebelled against him in the wilderness they grieved him in a desolate place.

41 Indeed, they turn back, and try God, And have limited the Holy One of Israel.

And they returned and they put to [the] test God and [the] holy [one] of Israel they pained.

42 They have not remembered His hand The day He ransomed them from the adversary.

Not they remembered hand his [the] day when he ransomed them from [the] opponent.

43 When He set His signs in Egypt, And His wonders in the field of Zoan,

When he performed in Egypt signs his and wonders his in [the] region of Zoan.

44 And He turns their streams to blood, And they do not drink their floods.

And he turned into blood canals their and streams their not they drank!

45 He sends among them the beetle, and it consumes them, And the frog, and it destroys them,

He sent among them a swarm of flies and it devoured them and frog[s] and it ruined them.

46 And gives their increase to the caterpillar, And their labor to the locust.

And he gave to the locust produce their and [the] result of toil their to the locust.

47 He destroys their vine with hail, And their sycamores with frost,

He killed with hail vine[s] their and sycamore-fig trees their with a flood.

48 And delivers their beasts up to the hail, And their livestock to the burning flames.

And he delivered up to hail cattle their and livestock their to lightning bolts.

49 He sends on them the fury of His anger, Wrath, and indignation, and distress—A discharge of evil messengers.

He sent on them - [the] burning of anger his fury and indignation and trouble a band of angels of calamities.

50 He ponders a path for His anger, He did not keep back their soul from death, Indeed, He delivered up their life to the pestilence.

He made level a path for anger his not he kept back from death life their and life their to the pestilence he delivered up.

51 And He strikes every firstborn in Egypt, The first-fruit of the strong in tents of Ham.

And he struck down every firstborn in Egypt [the] beginning of manly vigor in [the] tents of Ham.

52 And causes His people to journey as a flock, And guides them as a drove in a wilderness,

And he led out like sheep people his and he led them like flock in the wilderness.

53 And He leads them confidently, And they have not been afraid, And the sea has covered their enemies.

And he guided them to security and not they were afraid and enemies their it covered the sea.

54 And He brings them to the border of His sanctuary, This mountain His right hand had acquired,

And he brought them to [the] territory of holiness his [the] mountain which it had acquired right [hand] his.

55 And casts out nations from before them, And causes them to fall in the line of inheritance, And causes the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents,

And he drove out from before them - nations and he made fall them by a measuring-line of inheritance and he caused to dwell in tents their [the] tribes of Israel.

56 And they tempt and provoke God Most High, And have not kept His testimonies.

And they put to [the] test and they rebelled against God Most High and testimonies his not they kept.

57 And they turn back, And deal treacherously like their fathers, They have been turned like a deceitful bow,

And they turned back and they acted treacherously like ancestors their they changed like a bow of deceit.

58 And make Him angry with their high places, And make Him zealous with their carved images,

And they provoked to anger him by high places their and by idols their they made jealous him.

59 God has heard, and shows Himself angry. And kicks exceedingly against Israel.

He heard God and he was furious and he rejected exceedingly Israel.

60 And He leaves the Dwelling Place of Shiloh, The tent He had placed among men,

And he abandoned [the] tabernacle of Shiloh [the] tent [which] he had pitched among humankind.

61 And He gives His strength to captivity, And His beauty into the hand of an adversary,

And he gave to captivity strength his and splendor his in [the] hand of [the] opponent.

62 And delivers His people up to the sword, And showed Himself angry with His inheritance.

And he delivered up to the sword people his and with inheritance his he was furious.

63 Fire has consumed His young men, And His virgins have not been praised.

Young men its it consumed fire and young women its not they were praised.

64 His priests have fallen by the sword, And their widows do not weep.

Priests its by the sword they fell and widows its not they wept.

65 And the Lord wakes as a sleeper, As a mighty one crying aloud from wine.

And he awoke like a sleeper - [the] Lord like a warrior overcome from wine.

66 And He strikes His adversaries backward, He has put a continuous reproach on them,

And he struck opponents his backwards a reproach of perpetuity he gave to them.

67 And He kicks against the tent of Joseph, And has not fixed on the tribe of Ephraim.

And he rejected [the] tent of Joseph and [the] tribe of Ephraim not he chose.

68 And He chooses the tribe of Judah, With Mount Zion that He loved,

And he chose [the] tribe of Judah [the] mountain of Zion which he loved.

69 And builds His sanctuary as a high place, Like the earth, He founded it for all time.

And he built like [the] high [things] sanctuary his like [the] earth [which] he founded it for ever.

70 And He fixes on His servant David, And takes him from the folds of a flock,

And he chose David servant his and he took him from [the] folds of sheep.

71 He has brought him in from behind suckling ones, To rule over Jacob His people, And over Israel His inheritance.

From after nursing [sheep] he brought him to shepherd Jacob people his and Israel inheritance his.

72 And he rules them according to the integrity of his heart, And leads them by the skillfulness of his hands!

And he shepherded them according to [the] integrity of heart his and with [the] skill of hands his he led them.