Psalms 78
1 [A contemplation by Asaph.] Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
| משכיל לאסף האזינה עמי תורתי הטו אזנכם לאמרי פי׃ |
2 I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings since the beginning of the world,
| אפתחה במשל פי אביעה חידות מני קדם׃ |
3 which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
| אשר שמענו ונדעם ואבותינו ספרו לנו׃ |
4 We will not hide them from their descendants, telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.
| לא נכחד מבניהם לדור אחרון מספרים תהלות יהוה ועזוזו ונפלאותיו אשר עשה׃ |
5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching 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 it, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell their children,
| למען ידעו דור אחרון בנים יולדו יקמו ויספרו לבניהם׃ |
7 that they might set their hope 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 did not make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
| ולא יהיו כאבותם דור סורר ומרה דור לא הכין לבו ולא נאמנה את אל רוחו׃ |
9 The people of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
| בני אפרים נושקי רומי קשת הפכו ביום קרב׃ |
10 They did not keep God's covenant, and refused to walk by his Law.
| לא שמרו ברית אלהים ובתורתו מאנו ללכת׃ |
11 They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown them.
| וישכחו עלילותיו ונפלאותיו אשר הראם׃ |
12 He did marvelous things 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 split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.
| בקע ים ויעבירם ויצב מים כמו נד׃ |
14 In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.
| וינחם בענן יומם וכל הלילה באור אש׃ |
15 He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
| 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 they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
| ויוסיפו עוד לחטא לו למרות עליון בציה׃ |
18 They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
| וינסו אל בלבבם לשאל אכל לנפשם׃ |
19 Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
| וידברו באלהים אמרו היוכל אל לערך שלחן במדבר׃ |
20 Look, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? 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 angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,
| לכן שמע יהוה ויתעבר ואש נשקה ביעקב וגם אף עלה בישראל׃ |
22 because they did not believe in God, and did not trust in his salvation.
| כי לא האמינו באלהים ולא בטחו בישועתו׃ |
23 Yet he commanded the clouds above, and opened the doors of heaven.
| ויצו שחקים ממעל ודלתי שמים פתח׃ |
24 He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them bread from heaven.
| וימטר עליהם מן לאכל ודגן שמים נתן למו׃ |
25 Man ate the bread of the mighty ones. He sent them food to the full.
| לחם אבירים אכל איש צידה שלח להם לשבע׃ |
26 He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.
| יסע קדים בשמים וינהג בעזו תימן׃ |
27 He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.
| וימטר עליהם כעפר שאר וכחול ימים עוף כנף׃ |
28 He let it fall in the midst of his camp, all around his tent.
| ויפל בקרב מחנהו סביב למשכנתיו׃ |
29 So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.
| ויאכלו וישבעו מאד ותאותם יבא להם׃ |
30 They did not turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,
| לא זרו מתאותם עוד אכלם בפיהם׃ |
31 when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of the fattest of them, and struck down the young men of Israel.
| ואף אלהים עלה בהם ויהרג במשמניהם ובחורי ישראל הכריע׃ |
32 For all this they still sinned, and did not believe in his wondrous works.
| בכל זאת חטאו עוד ולא האמינו בנפלאותיו׃ |
33 Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
| ויכל בהבל ימיהם ושנותם בבהלה׃ |
34 When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.
| אם הרגם ודרשוהו ושבו ושחרו אל׃ |
35 They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.
| ויזכרו כי אלהים צורם ואל עליון גאלם׃ |
36 But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.
| ויפתוהו בפיהם ובלשונם יכזבו לו׃ |
37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.
| ולבם לא נכון עמו ולא נאמנו בבריתו׃ |
38 But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and did not destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
| והוא רחום יכפר עון ולא ישחית והרבה להשיב אפו ולא יעיר כל חמתו׃ |
39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.
| ויזכר כי בשר המה רוח הולך ולא ישוב׃ |
40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert.
| כמה ימרוהו במדבר יעציבוהו בישימון׃ |
41 They turned again and tempted God, and gave pain to the Holy One of Israel.
| וישובו וינסו אל וקדוש ישראל התוו׃ |
42 They did not remember 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, his wonders in the field of Zoan,
| אשר שם במצרים אתותיו ומופתיו בשדה צען׃ |
44 he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.
| 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 to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.
| ויתן לחסיל יבולם ויגיעם לארבה׃ |
47 He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.
| יהרג בברד גפנם ושקמותם בחנמל׃ |
48 He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
| ויסגר לברד בעירם ומקניהם לרשפים׃ |
49 He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of destroying angels.
| ישלח בם חרון אפו עברה וזעם וצרה משלחת מלאכי רעים׃ |
50 He made a path for his anger. He did not spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,
| יפלס נתיב לאפו לא חשך ממות נפשם וחיתם לדבר הסגיר׃ |
51 and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
| ויך כל בכור במצרים ראשית אונים באהלי חם׃ |
52 But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
| ויסע כצאן עמו וינהגם כעדר במדבר׃ |
53 He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
| וינחם לבטח ולא פחדו ואת אויביהם כסה הים׃ |
54 He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.
| ויביאם אל גבול קדשו הר זה קנתה ימינו׃ |
55 He also drove out the nations before them, 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 tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and did not keep 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 to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
| ויכעיסוהו בבמותם ובפסיליהם יקניאוהו׃ |
59 When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;
| שמע אלהים ויתעבר וימאס מאד בישראל׃ |
60 So that he forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among men;
| ויטש משכן שלו אהל שכן באדם׃ |
61 and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary's hand.
| ויתן לשבי עזו ותפארתו ביד צר׃ |
62 He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.
| ויסגר לחרב עמו ובנחלתו התעבר׃ |
63 Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.
| בחוריו אכלה אש ובתולתיו לא הוללו׃ |
64 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep.
| כהניו בחרב נפלו ואלמנתיו לא תבכינה׃ |
65 Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
| ויקץ כישן אדני כגבור מתרונן מיין׃ |
66 He struck his adversaries backward. He made them a permanent shame.
| ויך צריו אחור חרפת עולם נתן למו׃ |
67 Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
| וימאס באהל יוסף ובשבט אפרים לא בחר׃ |
68 But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
| ויבחר את שבט יהודה את הר ציון אשר אהב׃ |
69 He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.
| ויבן כמו רמים מקדשו כארץ יסדה לעולם׃ |
70 He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
| ויבחר בדוד עבדו ויקחהו ממכלאת צאן׃ |
71 from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob his servant, and Israel his inheritance.
| מאחר עלות הביאו לרעות ביעקב עמו ובישראל נחלתו׃ |
72 So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
| וירעם כתם לבבו ובתבונות כפיו ינחם׃ |
