Psalms 78

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

An Instructive Psalm. Asaph’s. Give ear, O my people, to mine instruction, Bend your ear to the sayings of my mouth;

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

I will open, in a parable, my mouth, I will pour forth enigmas out of antiquity; —

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

Which we have heard, and come to know, And, our fathers, have recounted to us;

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

We will not withhold [them] from their children, To a later generation, recounting the praises of Yahweh, Even his might and his wonders which he wrought;

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

When he set up a testimony in Jacob, And, a law, appointed in Israel, —Which he commanded our fathers, That they might make them known to their children;

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

To the end, A later generation, might come to know, Children who should be born, Who should arise, and recount [them] 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, in Elohim, their confidence, —And not forget the doings of El, But, his commandments, might observe;

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 become, like their fathers, a generation stubborn and rebellious, —A generation that fixed not their heart, Neither was their spirit, faithful with GOD.

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

The sons of Ephraim—armed bowmen, Turned in the day of battle;

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

They kept not the covenant of God, And, in his law, refused to walk;

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

And forgat His doings, And his wonders which he had showed them:

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

In presence of their fathers, wrought he, wondrously, —In the land of Egypt—the field of Zoan:

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

He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through, And reared up the waters like a mound;

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

And led them, by a cloud, in the daytime, And all the night, by a light of fire;

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

He used to cleave rocks in the desert, And let them drink as out of mighty deeps;

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

And he brought forth streams out of the cliff, And caused waters to flow down, like rivers.

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

But again, once more sinned they against him, Resisting the Most High in a land of drought:

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

They put GOD to the proof in their heart, By asking food to their mind:

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

Yea they spake against Elohim, —They said, Can GOD prepare a table in the desert?

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

Lo! he hath smitten a rock, And waters, have gushed out, Yea, torrents, have rushed along, —Food also, can he give? Or provide 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, Yahweh hearkened, and became wroth, —And, a fire, was kindled against Jacob, Moreover also, anger, mounted against Israel;

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

Because, They believed not in God, Nor trusted in his salvation;

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

Though he had commanded the skies above, And, the doors of the heavens, had opened;

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

And had rained on them manna to eat, And, the corn of the heavens, had given to them:

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

The food of the mighty, each one did eat, Nourishment, sent he them to the full;

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

He let loose an east wind in the heavens, Then guided he, in his might, a south wind;

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

And rained upon them flesh as the dust, And, like the sand of the seas, birds of wing;

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

And let them fall in the midst of their camp, —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 eat and were abundantly filled, When, what they longed for, he had brought them: —

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

They had not turned away from what they had longed for, Yet was their food in their mouth,

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 anger of God, mounted against them, And he slew of their vigorous youths, And, the choice young men of Israel, caused he to bow down in death.

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

For all this, sinned they still, And believed not in his wonders;

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

So he ended, in a breath, their days, And their years, in a sudden terror!

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

If he slew [of] them, then they sought him, Yea they turned, and did earnestly seek GOD;

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

And remembered that, Elohim, was their rock, Yea, EL Most High, their Redeemer:

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

So they spake him fair with their mouth, And, with their tongue, did promise him falsely;

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

But, their heart, was not fixed with him, Nor were they trusty in his covenant:

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, full of compassion, would put a propitiatory-covering over iniquity, and not destroy, —Yea, many a time, turned he back his anger, And would not stir up all his wrath.

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

So then he remembered, That, Flesh, they were, A Wind departing, that returneth not.

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

How often they, Resisted him in the desert, Vexed him, in the waste:

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

Yea they again put GOD to the test, And, to the Holy One of Israel, caused they sorrow:

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

They remembered not his hand—The day, When he ransomed them from the adversary;

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

When he set, in Egypt, his signs, And his wonders, in the plain of Zoan;

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

When he turned, into blood, their Nile-streams, And, their own rivers, could they not drink;

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

He sent among them, The gad-fly, and it devoured them, And the frog, and it despoiled them;

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

When he gave to the corn-locust their produce, And their toil, to the swarming locust;

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

He killed, with hail, their vine, And their sycomores, with frost:

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

When he gave up, to hail-storms, their beasts, And their cattle, to pestilent fevers;

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

He sent among them the heat of his anger, Wrath and indignation and distress, —A mission of messengers of misfortune:

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 leveled a path for his anger, Withheld not, from death, their soul, But, their life—to the pestilence, he delivered:

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

So he smote, Every first-born in Egypt, The beginning of their strength, in the tents of Ham;

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

And he set forth, like sheep, his people, And guided them, like a flock in the desert;

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

Yea he led them securely, and they dreaded not, And, their enemies, the sea did cover.

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

Then brought he them within his own holy bounds, The mountain-range, which his right hand made his own:

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

So he drave out, before them, [whole] nations, And allotted them, by line, an inheritance, And caused to dwell, in their own homes, the tribes of Israel.

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

But they tested and resisted God Most High, And, his testimonies, did not observe;

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

But drew back and dealt treacherously, like their fathers, They turned aside, like deceitful bowmen;

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

And provoked him to anger with their high places, And, with their images, used to move him to jealousy.

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

God heard and was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;

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

So he gave up the habitation of Shiloh, The tent he had set up among Men;

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

Yea he gave up, into captivity, his strength, And his beauty into the hand of an adversary;

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

And delivered up, to the sword, his people, And, with his own inheritance, was he wroth;

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

His young men, were devoured by fire, And, his virgins, were not praised in song;

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

His priests, by the sword, did fall, And, his widows, were not able to bewail.

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

Then awoke, as one that had slept, Adonay, As a warrior exulting with wine!

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

So he smote his adversaries in the rear, Reproach age-abiding, laid he upon them.

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

Howbeit he rejected the tent of Joseph, And, the tribe of Ephraim, did not choose:

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

But made choice of the tribe of Judah, The mountain of Zion, which he loved;

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

And built, like the heights, his sanctuary, Like the earth, he founded it to times age-abiding.

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

And made choice of David his servant, And took him from among the folds of the sheep:

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

From after the sucking ewes, he brought him in, —To be shepherd to Jacob his people, And to Israel, his inheritance.

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

So he did shepherd them, according to the singleness of his heart, And, with the discernment of his hands, used he to guide them.