Psalms 78

1 Maskil to/for Asaph to listen [emph?] people my instruction my to stretch ear your to/for word lip my

A Psalme to give instruction committed to Asaph. Heare my doctrine, O my people: incline your eares vnto the wordes of my mouth.

2 to open in/on/with proverb lip my to bubble riddle from front: old

I will open my mouth in a parable: I will declare high sentences of olde.

3 which to hear: hear and to know them and father our to recount to/for us

Which we haue heard and knowen, and our fathers haue tolde vs.

4 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

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:

5 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

How he established a testimonie in Iaakob, and ordeined a Law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they shoulde teache their children:

6 because to know generation last son: child to beget to arise: rise and to recount to/for son: child their

That the posteritie might knowe it, and the children, which should be borne, should stand vp, and declare it to their children:

7 and to set: make in/on/with God loin their and not to forget deed God and commandment his to watch

That they might set their hope on God, and not forget the workes of God but keepe his commandements:

8 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

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.

9 son: descendant/people Ephraim to handle to shoot bow to overturn in/on/with day battle

The children of Ephraim being armed and shooting with the bowe, turned backe in the day of battell.

10 not to keep: obey covenant God and in/on/with instruction his to refuse to/for to go: walk

They kept not the couenant of God, but refused to walke in his Lawe,

11 and to forget wantonness his and to wonder his which to see: see them

And forgate his Actes, and his wonderfull woorkes that he had shewed them.

12 before father their to make: do wonder in/on/with land: country/planet Egypt land: country Zoan

Hee did marueilous thinges in the sight of their fathers in the lande of Egypt: euen in the fielde of Zoan.

13 to break up/open sea and to pass: bring them and to stand water like heap

He deuided the Sea, and led them through: he made also the waters to stand as an heape.

14 and to lead them in/on/with cloud by day and all [the] night in/on/with light fire

In the day time also hee led them with a cloude, and all the night with a light of fire.

15 to break up/open rock in/on/with wilderness and to water: drink like/as abyss many

He claue the rockes in the wildernes, and gaue them drinke as of the great depths.

16 and to come out: issue to flow from crag and to go down like/as river water

He brought floods also out of the stonie rocke; so that hee made the waters to descend like the riuers.

17 and to add: again still to/for to sin to/for him to/for to rebel Most High in/on/with dryness

Yet they sinned stil against him, and prouoked the Highest in the wildernesse,

18 and to test God in/on/with heart their to/for to ask food to/for soul: appetite their

And tempted God in their heartes in requiring meate for their lust.

19 and to speak: speak in/on/with God to say be able God to/for to arrange table in/on/with wilderness

They spake against God also, saying, Can God prepare a table in the wildernesse?

20 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

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?

21 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

Therefore the Lord heard and was angrie, and the fire was kindled in Iaakob, and also wrath came vpon Israel,

22 for not be faithful in/on/with God and not to trust in/on/with salvation his

Because they beleeued not in God, and trusted not in his helpe.

23 and to command cloud from above and door heaven to open

Yet he had comanded the clouds aboue, and had opened the doores of heauen,

24 and to rain upon them manna to/for to eat and grain heaven to give: give to/for them

And had rained downe MAN vpon them for to eate, and had giuen them of the wheate of heauen.

25 food: bread mighty: angel to eat man: anyone provision to send: depart to/for them to/for satiety

Man did eate the bread of Angels: hee sent them meate ynough.

26 to set out east in/on/with heaven and to lead in/on/with strength his south

He caused the Eastwinde to passe in the heauen, and through his power he brought in the Southwinde.

27 and to rain upon them like/as dust flesh and like/as sand sea bird wing

Hee rained flesh also vpon them as dust, and feathered foule as the sand of the sea.

28 and to fall: fall in/on/with entrails: among camp his around to/for tabernacle his

And hee made it fall in the middes of their campe euen round about their habitations.

29 and to eat and to satisfy much and desire their to come (in): bring to/for them

So they did eate and were well filled: for he gaue them their desire.

30 not be a stranger from desire their still food their in/on/with lip their

They were not turned from their lust, but the meate was yet in their mouthes,

31 and face: anger God to ascend: rise in/on/with them and to kill in/on/with fatness their and youth Israel to bow

When the wrath of God came euen vpon them, and slew the strongest of them, and smote downe the chosen men in Israel.

32 in/on/with all this to sin still and not be faithful in/on/with to wonder his

For all this, they sinned stil, and beleeued not his wonderous woorkes.

33 and to end: expend in/on/with vanity day their and year their in/on/with dismay

Therefore their daies did hee consume in vanitie, and their yeeres hastily.

34 if to kill them and to seek him and to return: repent and to seek God

And when hee slewe them, they sought him and they returned, and sought God earely.

35 and to remember for God rock their and El (Most High) (LORD) Most High to redeem: redeem their

And they remembred that God was their strength, and the most high God their redeemer.

36 and to entice him in/on/with lip their and in/on/with tongue their to lie to/for him

But they flattered him with their mouth, and dissembled with him with their tongue.

37 and heart their not to establish: establish with him and not be faithful in/on/with covenant his

For their heart was not vpright with him: neither were they faithfull in his couenant.

38 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

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.

39 and to remember for flesh they(masc.) spirit: breath to go: walk and not to return: return

For he remembered that they were flesh: yea, a winde that passeth and commeth not againe.

40 like/as what? to rebel him in/on/with wilderness to hurt him in/on/with wilderness

How oft did they prouoke him in the wildernes? and grieue him in the desert?

41 and to return: again and to test God and holy Israel to wound

Yea, they returned, and tempted God, and limited the Holie one of Israel.

42 not to remember [obj] hand: power his day which to ransom them from enemy

They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he deliuered them from the enemie,

43 which to set: put in/on/with Egypt sign: miraculous his and wonder his in/on/with land: country Zoan

Nor him that set his signes in Egypt, and his wonders in the fielde of Zoan,

44 and to overturn to/for blood stream their and to flow their not to drink [emph?]

And turned their riuers into blood, and their floods, that they could not drinke.

45 to send: depart in/on/with them swarm and to eat them and frog and to ruin them

Hee sent a swarme of flies among them, which deuoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.

46 and to give: give to/for locust crops their and toil their to/for locust

He gaue also their fruites vnto the caterpiller, and their labour vnto the grassehopper.

47 to kill in/on/with hail vine their and sycamore their in/on/with frost

He destroied their vines with haile, and their wilde figge trees with the hailestone.

48 and to shut to/for hail cattle their and livestock their to/for flash

He gaue their cattell also to the haile, and their flockes to the thunderboltes.

49 to send: let go in/on/with them burning anger face: anger his fury and indignation and distress deputation messenger: angel bad: harmful

Hee cast vpon them the fiercenesse of his anger, indignation and wrath, and vexation by the sending out of euill Angels.

50 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

He made a way to his anger: he spared not their soule from death, but gaue their life to the pestilence,

51 and to smite all firstborn in/on/with Egypt first: beginning strength in/on/with tent Ham

And smote al the firstborne in Egypt, euen the beginning of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham.

52 and to set out like/as flock people his and to lead them like/as flock in/on/with wilderness

But hee made his people to goe out like sheepe, and led them in the wildernes like a flocke.

53 and to lead them to/for security and not to dread and [obj] enemy their to cover [the] sea

Yea, he caried them out safely, and they feared not, and the Sea couered their enemies.

54 and to come (in): bring them to(wards) border: boundary holiness his mountain: mount this to buy right his

And he brought them vnto the borders of his Sanctuarie: euen to this Mountaine, which his right hand purchased.

55 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

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.

56 and to test and to rebel [obj] God Most High and testimony his not to keep: obey

Yet they tempted, and prouoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies,

57 and to turn and to act treacherously like/as father their to overturn like/as bow deceit

But turned backe and delt falsely like their fathers: they turned like a deceitfull bowe.

58 and to provoke him in/on/with high place their and in/on/with idol their be jealous him

And they prouoked him to anger with their high places, and mooued him to wrath with their grauen images.

59 to hear: hear God and be angry and to reject much in/on/with Israel

God heard this and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel,

60 and to leave tabernacle Shiloh tent to dwell in/on/with man

So that hee forsooke the habitation of Shilo, euen the Tabernacle where hee dwelt among men,

61 and to give: give to/for captivity strength his and beauty his in/on/with hand: power enemy

And deliuered his power into captiuitie, and his beautie into the enemies hand.

62 and to shut to/for sword people his and in/on/with inheritance his be angry

And hee gaue vp his people to the sworde, and was angrie with his inheritance.

63 youth his to eat fire and virgin his not to boast: praise

The fire deuoured their chosen men, and their maides were not praised.

64 priest his in/on/with sword to fall: kill and widow his not to weep

Their Priestes fell by the sworde, and their widowes lamented not.

65 and to awake like/as sleeping Lord like/as mighty man to overcome from wine

But the Lord awaked as one out of sleepe, and as a strong man that after his wine crieth out,

66 and to smite enemy his back reproach forever: enduring to give: put to/for them

And smote his enemies in the hinder parts, and put them to a perpetuall shame.

67 and to reject in/on/with tent Joseph and in/on/with tribe Ephraim not to choose

Yet he refused the tabernacle of Ioseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

68 and to choose [obj] tribe Judah [obj] mountain: mount Zion which to love: lover

But chose the tribe of Iudah, and mount Zion which he loued.

69 and to build like to exalt sanctuary his like/as land: country/planet to found her to/for forever: enduring

And he built his Sanctuarie as an high palace, like the earth, which he stablished for euer.

70 and to choose in/on/with David servant/slave his and to take: take him from fold flock

He chose Dauid also his seruant, and tooke him from the shepefolds.

71 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

Euen from behinde the ewes with yong brought he him to feede his people in Iaakob, and his inheritance in Israel.

72 and to pasture them like/as integrity heart his and in/on/with understanding palm his to lead them

So he fed them according to the simplicitie of his heart, and guided them by the discretion of his hands.