Psalms 78
1 A maschil of Asaph. Hear my teaching, my people, listen to the words of my mouth.
| משכיל לאסף האזינה עמי תורתי הטו אזנכם לאמרי פי׃ |
2 I will open my mouth in parables; I will sing about hidden things about the past.
| אפתחה במשל פי אביעה חידות מני קדם׃ |
3 These are things that we have heard and learned, things that our ancestors have told us.
| אשר שמענו ונדעם ואבותינו ספרו לנו׃ |
4 We will not keep them from their descendants. We will tell the next generation about the praiseworthy deeds of Yahweh, his strength, and the wonders that he has done.
| לא נכחד מבניהם לדור אחרון מספרים תהלות יהוה ועזוזו ונפלאותיו אשר עשה׃ |
5 For he established covenant decrees in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel. He commanded our ancestors that they were to teach them to their children.
| ויקם עדות ביעקב ותורה שם בישראל אשר צוה את אבותינו להודיעם לבניהם׃ |
6 He commanded this so that the generation to come might know his decrees, the children not yet born, who should tell them in turn to their own children.
| למען ידעו דור אחרון בנים יולדו יקמו ויספרו לבניהם׃ |
7 Then they would place their hope in God and not forget his deeds but keep his commandments.
| וישימו באלהים כסלם ולא ישכחו מעללי אל ומצותיו ינצרו׃ |
8 Then they would not be like their ancestors, who were a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose hearts were not right, and whose spirits were not committed and faithful to God.
| ולא יהיו כאבותם דור סורר ומרה דור לא הכין לבו ולא נאמנה את אל רוחו׃ |
9 The Ephraimites were armed with bows, but they turned back on the day of battle.
| בני אפרים נושקי רומי קשת הפכו ביום קרב׃ |
10 They did not keep the covenant with God, and they refused to obey his law.
| לא שמרו ברית אלהים ובתורתו מאנו ללכת׃ |
11 They forgot his deeds, the wonderful things that he had shown them.
| וישכחו עלילותיו ונפלאותיו אשר הראם׃ |
12 They forgot the marvelous things he did in the sight of their ancestors in the land of Egypt, in the land of Zoan.
| נגד אבותם עשה פלא בארץ מצרים שדה צען׃ |
13 He divided the sea and led them across it; he made the waters to stand like walls.
| בקע ים ויעבירם ויצב מים כמו נד׃ |
14 In the daytime he led them with a cloud and all the night with the light of fire.
| וינחם בענן יומם וכל הלילה באור אש׃ |
15 He split the rocks in the wilderness, and he gave them water abundantly, enough to fill the depths of the sea.
| יבקע צרים במדבר וישק כתהמות רבה׃ |
16 He made streams flow out of the rock and made the water flow like rivers.
| ויוצא נוזלים מסלע ויורד כנהרות מים׃ |
17 Yet they continued to sin against him, rebelling against the Most High in the wilderness.
| ויוסיפו עוד לחטא לו למרות עליון בציה׃ |
18 They challenged God in their hearts by asking for food to satisfy their appetites.
| וינסו אל בלבבם לשאל אכל לנפשם׃ |
19 They spoke against God; they said, “Can God really lay out a table for us in the wilderness?
| וידברו באלהים אמרו היוכל אל לערך שלחן במדבר׃ |
20 See, when he struck the rock, waters gushed out and streams overflowed. But can he give bread also? Will he provide meat for his people?”
| הן הכה צור ויזובו מים ונחלים ישטפו הגם לחם יוכל תת אם יכין שאר לעמו׃ |
21 When Yahweh heard this, he was angry; so his fire burned against Jacob, and his anger attacked 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 skies above and opened the doors of the sky.
| ויצו שחקים ממעל ודלתי שמים פתח׃ |
24 He rained down manna for them to eat, and gave them the grain from heaven.
| וימטר עליהם מן לאכל ודגן שמים נתן למו׃ |
25 People ate the bread of angels. He sent them food in abundance.
| לחם אבירים אכל איש צידה שלח להם לשבע׃ |
26 He caused the east wind to blow in the sky, and by his power he guided the south wind.
| יסע קדים בשמים וינהג בעזו תימן׃ |
27 He rained down meat on them like dust, birds as numerous as the sands of the sea.
| וימטר עליהם כעפר שאר וכחול ימים עוף כנף׃ |
28 They fell in the middle of their camp, all around their tents.
| ויפל בקרב מחנהו סביב למשכנתיו׃ |
29 So they ate and were full. He gave them what they craved.
| ויאכלו וישבעו מאד ותאותם יבא להם׃ |
30 But they had not yet filled up; their food was still in their mouths.
| לא זרו מתאותם עוד אכלם בפיהם׃ |
31 Then God's anger attacked them and killed the strongest of them. He brought down the young men of Israel.
| ואף אלהים עלה בהם ויהרג במשמניהם ובחורי ישראל הכריע׃ |
32 Despite this, they continued to sin and did not believe his wonderful deeds.
| בכל זאת חטאו עוד ולא האמינו בנפלאותיו׃ |
33 Therefore God cut short their days; their years were filled with terror.
| ויכל בהבל ימיהם ושנותם בבהלה׃ |
34 Whenever God afflicted them, they would start to seek him, and they would return and look earnestly for him.
| אם הרגם ודרשוהו ושבו ושחרו אל׃ |
35 They would call to mind that God was their rock and that the Most High God was their rescuer.
| ויזכרו כי אלהים צורם ואל עליון גאלם׃ |
36 But they would flatter him with their mouth and lie to him with their words.
| ויפתוהו בפיהם ובלשונם יכזבו לו׃ |
37 For their hearts were not firmly fixed on him, and they were not faithful to his covenant.
| ולבם לא נכון עמו ולא נאמנו בבריתו׃ |
38 Yet he, being merciful, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. Yes, many times he held back his anger and did not stir up all his wrath.
| והוא רחום יכפר עון ולא ישחית והרבה להשיב אפו ולא יעיר כל חמתו׃ |
39 He called to mind that they were made of flesh, a wind that passes away and does not return.
| ויזכר כי בשר המה רוח הולך ולא ישוב׃ |
40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the barren regions!
| כמה ימרוהו במדבר יעציבוהו בישימון׃ |
41 Again and again they challenged God and offended the Holy One of Israel.
| וישובו וינסו אל וקדוש ישראל התוו׃ |
42 They did not think about his power, how he had rescued them from the enemy
| לא זכרו את ידו יום אשר פדם מני צר׃ |
43 when he performed his terrifying signs in Egypt and his wonders in the region of Zoan.
| אשר שם במצרים אתותיו ומופתיו בשדה צען׃ |
44 He turned the Egyptians' rivers to blood so that they could not drink from their streams.
| ויהפך לדם יאריהם ונזליהם בל ישתיון׃ |
45 He sent swarms of flies that devoured them and frogs that overran their land.
| ישלח בהם ערב ויאכלם וצפרדע ותשחיתם׃ |
46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper and their labor to the locust.
| ויתן לחסיל יבולם ויגיעם לארבה׃ |
47 He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore trees with more hail.
| יהרג בברד גפנם ושקמותם בחנמל׃ |
48 He rained hail on their cattle and hurled lightning bolts at their livestock.
| ויסגר לברד בעירם ומקניהם לרשפים׃ |
49 The fierceness of his anger lashed out against them. He sent wrath, fury, and trouble like agents who bring disaster.
| ישלח בם חרון אפו עברה וזעם וצרה משלחת מלאכי רעים׃ |
50 He leveled a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.
| יפלס נתיב לאפו לא חשך ממות נפשם וחיתם לדבר הסגיר׃ |
51 He killed all the firstborn in Egypt, the firstborn of their strength in the tents of Ham.
| ויך כל בכור במצרים ראשית אונים באהלי חם׃ |
52 He led his own people out like sheep and guided them through the wilderness like a flock.
| ויסע כצאן עמו וינהגם כעדר במדבר׃ |
53 He led them secure and unafraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
| וינחם לבטח ולא פחדו ואת אויביהם כסה הים׃ |
54 Then he brought them to the border of his holy land, to this mountain that his right hand acquired.
| ויביאם אל גבול קדשו הר זה קנתה ימינו׃ |
55 He drove out the nations from before them and assigned them their inheritance. He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
| ויגרש מפניהם גוים ויפילם בחבל נחלה וישכן באהליהם שבטי ישראל׃ |
56 Yet they challenged and defied the Most High God and did not keep his solemn commands.
| וינסו וימרו את אלהים עליון ועדותיו לא שמרו׃ |
57 They were unfaithful and acted treacherously like their fathers; they were as undependable as a faulty bow.
| ויסגו ויבגדו כאבותם נהפכו כקשת רמיה׃ |
58 For they made him angry with their high places and provoked him to jealous anger with their idols.
| ויכעיסוהו בבמותם ובפסיליהם יקניאוהו׃ |
59 When God heard this, he was angry and completely rejected Israel.
| שמע אלהים ויתעבר וימאס מאד בישראל׃ |
60 He abandoned the sanctuary of Shiloh, the tent where he had lived among people.
| ויטש משכן שלו אהל שכן באדם׃ |
61 He allowed his strength to be captured and gave his glory into the enemy's hand.
| ויתן לשבי עזו ותפארתו ביד צר׃ |
62 He handed his people over to the sword, and he was angry with his heritage.
| ויסגר לחרב עמו ובנחלתו התעבר׃ |
63 Fire devoured their young men, and their young women had no wedding songs.
| בחוריו אכלה אש ובתולתיו לא הוללו׃ |
64 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows could not weep.
| כהניו בחרב נפלו ואלמנתיו לא תבכינה׃ |
65 Then the Lord awakened as one from sleep, like a warrior who shouts because of wine.
| ויקץ כישן אדני כגבור מתרונן מיין׃ |
66 He drove his adversaries back; he put them to everlasting shame.
| ויך צריו אחור חרפת עולם נתן למו׃ |
67 He rejected the tent of Joseph, and he did not chose the tribe of Ephraim.
| וימאס באהל יוסף ובשבט אפרים לא בחר׃ |
68 He chose the tribe of Judah and Mount Zion that he loved.
| ויבחר את שבט יהודה את הר ציון אשר אהב׃ |
69 He built his sanctuary like the heavens, like the earth that he has established forever.
| ויבן כמו רמים מקדשו כארץ יסדה לעולם׃ |
70 He chose David, his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds.
| ויבחר בדוד עבדו ויקחהו ממכלאת צאן׃ |
71 He took him from following the ewes with their young, and he brought him to be shepherd of Jacob, his people, and of Israel, his heritage.
| מאחר עלות הביאו לרעות ביעקב עמו ובישראל נחלתו׃ |
72 David shepherded them with the integrity of his heart, and he guided them with the skill of his hands.
| וירעם כתם לבבו ובתבונות כפיו ינחם׃ |
