Psalms 78
1 [A contemplation by Asaph.] Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
Escucha, pueblo mío, mi ley: inclinád vuestro oído a las palabras de mi boca.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings since the beginning of the world,
Abriré en parábola mi boca: hablaré enigmas del tiempo antiguo:
3 which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
Los cuales hemos oído y entendido: que nuestros padres nos los contaron.
4 We will not hide them from their descendants, telling to the generation to come the praises of YHWH, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.
No los encubriremos a sus hijos, contando a la generación postrera las alabanzas de Jehová: y su fortaleza, y sus maravillas, que hizo.
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;
Que levantó testimonio en Jacob, y puso ley en Israel: la cual mandó a nuestros padres, que la notificasen a sus hijos:
6 that the generation to come might know it, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell their children,
Para que sepa la generación postrera: y los hijos que nacerán, que se levantarán, cuenten a sus hijos:
7 that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,
Y pondrán en Dios su confianza, y no se olvidarán de las obras de Dios: y guardarán sus mandamientos.
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.
Y no serán como sus padres, generación contumaz, y rebelde: generación que no compuso su corazón, ni su espíritu fue fiel con Dios.
9 The people of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
Los hijos de Efraím armados, flecheros, volvieron las espaldas el día de la batalla.
10 They did not keep God's covenant, and refused to walk by his Law.
No guardaron el concierto de Dios: ni quisieron andar en su ley,
11 They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown them.
Antes se olvidaron de sus obras, y de sus maravillas que les había mostrado.
12 He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Delante de sus padres hizo maravillas en la tierra de Egipto, en el campo de Soan.
13 He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.
Rompió la mar, e hízolos pasar: e hizo estar las aguas como en un montón.
14 In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.
Y llevólos con nube de día, y toda la noche con lumbre de fuego.
15 He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
Hendió las peñas en el desierto: y dióles a beber de abismos grandes.
16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
Y sacó de la peña corrientes, e hizo descender aguas, como ríos.
17 Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
Y tornaron aun a pecar contra él, enojando al Altísimo en la soledad.
18 They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
Y tentaron a Dios en su corazón, pidiendo comida para su alma.
19 Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
Y hablaron contra Dios, diciendo: ¿Podrá Dios poner nos mesa en el desierto?
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?"
He aquí, ha herido la peña, y corrieron aguas, y arroyos salieron ondeando: ¿podrá también dar pan? ¿aparejará carne a su pueblo?
21 Therefore YHWH heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,
Por tanto oyó Jehová, y enojóse: y encendióse el fuego en Jacob, y el furor subió también en Israel.
22 because they did not believe in God, and did not trust in his salvation.
Porque no habían creído a Dios, ni habían confiado de su salud.
23 Yet he commanded the clouds above, and opened the doors of heaven.
Y mandó a las nubes de arriba: y abrió las puertas de los cielos.
24 He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them bread from heaven.
E hizo llover sobre ellos maná para comer, y dióles trigo de los cielos.
25 Man ate the bread of the mighty ones. He sent them food to the full.
Pan de nobles comió el hombre: envióles comida a hartura.
26 He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.
Movió al solano en el cielo; y trajo con su fortaleza al austro,
27 He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.
E hizo llover sobre ellos carne, como polvo: y aves de alas como arena de la mar.
28 He let it fall in the midst of his camp, all around his tent.
E hízo las caer en medio de su campo, al rededor de sus tiendas.
29 So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.
Y comieron, y hartáronse mucho: y cumplióles su deseo.
30 They did not turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,
No habían aun quitado de sí su deseo, aun su vianda estaba en su boca,
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.
Cuando vino sobre ellos el furor de Dios, y mató en los gruesos de ellos, y derribó los escogidos de Israel.
32 For all this they still sinned, and did not believe in his wondrous works.
Con todo esto pecaron aun; y no dieron crédito a sus maravillas.
33 Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
Y consumió en muy poco sus días, y sus años apresuradamente.
34 When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.
Si los mataba, entonces le buscaban; y convertíanse, y buscaban a Dios de mañana.
35 They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.
Y acordábanse que Dios era su refugio: y el Dios Alto su redentor.
36 But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.
Y lisonjeábanle con su boca; y con su lengua le mentían:
37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.
Mas sus corazones no eran rectos con él: ni estuvieron firmes en su concierto.
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.
Mas él, misericordioso perdonaba la maldad, y no los destruyó: y abundó su misericordia para apartar su ira, y no despertó toda su ira.
39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.
Y acordóse que eran carne: espíritu que va y no vuelve.
40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert.
¡Cuántas veces le ensañaron en el desierto, le enojaron en la soledad!
41 They turned again and tempted God, and gave pain to the Holy One of Israel.
Y volvieron, y tentaron a Dios: y limitaron al Santo de Israel.
42 They did not remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
No se acordaron de su mano: del día que les redimió de angustia;
43 how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,
Que había puesto en Egipto sus señales: y sus maravillas en el campo de Soan:
44 he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.
Y había vuelto sus ríos en sangre: y sus corrientes porque no bebiesen:
45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
Había enviado en ellos una mezcla de moscas que los había comido: asimismo ranas que los destruyeron.
46 He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.
Y había dado al pulgón sus frutos: y sus trabajos a la langosta.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.
Había destruido sus viñas con granizo, y sus higuerales con piedra.
48 He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
Y entregó al pedrisco sus bestias, y sus ganados al fuego.
49 He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of destroying angels.
Había enviado en ellos el furor de su saña: ira y enojo, y angustia, y ángeles malos.
50 He made a path for his anger. He did not spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,
Enderezó el camino a su furor: no detuvo la vida de ellos de la muerte, antes entregó su vida a la mortandad:
51 and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
E hirió a todo primogénito en Egipto; las primicias de las fuerzas en las tiendas de Cam.
52 But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
E hizo partir, como hato de ovejas, su pueblo; y llevólos, como a un rebaño, por el desierto.
53 He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
Y guiólos con seguridad, que no tuvieron miedo; y a sus enemigos cubrió la mar.
54 He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.
Metiólos en los términos de su tierra santa; en este monte, que ganó su mano derecha.
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.
Y echó las naciones de delante de ellos, e hízolas caer en cordel de heredad: e hizo habitar en sus moradas a las tribus de Israel.
56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and did not keep his testimonies;
Y tentaron, y enojaron al Dios Altísimo; y no guardaron sus testimonios.
57 but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
Y volviéronse, y rebeláronse como sus padres; volviéronse como arco engañoso.
58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
Y enojáronle con sus altos; y provocáronle a zelo con sus esculturas.
59 When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;
Oyó Dios, y enojóse; y aborreció en grande manera a Israel.
60 So that he forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among men;
Por esta causa dejó el tabernáculo de Silo, la tienda en que habitó entre los hombres.
61 and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary's hand.
Y dio en cautividad su fortaleza; y su gloria en mano del enemigo.
62 He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.
Y entregó a su pueblo a la espada; y airóse contra su heredad.
63 Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.
A sus mancebos tragó el fuego; y sus vírgenes no fueron loadas.
64 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep.
Sus sacerdotes cayeron a espada: y sus viudas no lamentaron.
65 Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
Y despertóse el Señor, como un dormido: como un valiente, que da voces a causa del vino:
66 He struck his adversaries backward. He made them a permanent shame.
E hirió a sus enemigos detrás: dióles vergüenza perpetua.
67 Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
Y aborreció la tienda de José; y no escogió a la tribu de Efraím:
68 But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
Mas escogió a la tribu de Judá: al monte de Sión, al cual amó.
69 He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.
Y edificó, como alturas, su santuario: como la tierra, lo acimentó para siempre.
70 He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
Y eligió a David su siervo: y tomóle de las majadas de las ovejas.
71 from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob his servant, and Israel his inheritance.
Detrás de las paridas le trajo: para que apacentase a Jacob su pueblo, y a Israel su heredad.
72 So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
Y apacentólos con enterez de su corazón: y con las industrias de sus manos los pastoreó.
