< Psalms 78 >

1 Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, [to] my law: incline your ear to the words of my mouth.
Maskil to/for Asaph to listen [emph?] people my instruction my to stretch ear your to/for word lip my
2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
to open in/on/with proverb lip my to bubble riddle from front: old
3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
which to hear: hear and to know them and father our to recount to/for us
4 We will not hide [them] from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
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
5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
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
6 That the generation to come might know [them], [even] the children [who] should be born; [who] should arise and declare [them] to their children:
because to know generation last son: child to beget to arise: rise and to recount to/for son: child their
7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
and to set: make in/on/with God loin their and not to forget deed God and commandment his to watch
8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation [that] set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
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
9 The children of Ephraim, [being] armed, [and] carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
son: descendant/people Ephraim to handle to shoot bow to overturn in/on/with day battle
10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
not to keep: obey covenant God and in/on/with instruction his to refuse to/for to go: walk
11 And forgot his works, and his wonders that he had shown them.
and to forget wantonness his and to wonder his which to see: see them
12 Marvelous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, [in] the field of Zoan.
before father their to make: do wonder in/on/with land: country/planet Egypt land: country Zoan
13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as a heap.
to break up/open sea and to pass: bring them and to stand water like heap
14 In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
and to lead them in/on/with cloud by day and all [the] night in/on/with light fire
15 He cleaved the rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as [out of] the great depths.
to break up/open rock in/on/with wilderness and to water: drink like/as abyss many
16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
and to come out: issue to flow from crag and to go down like/as river water
17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the Most High in the wilderness.
and to add: again still to/for to sin to/for him to/for to rebel Most High in/on/with dryness
18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking food for their desire.
and to test God in/on/with heart their to/for to ask food to/for soul: appetite their
19 Yes, they spoke against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
and to speak: speak in/on/with God to say be able God to/for to arrange table in/on/with wilderness
20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
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
21 Therefore the LORD heard [this], and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
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
22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
for not be faithful in/on/with God and not to trust in/on/with salvation his
23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
and to command cloud from above and door heaven to open
24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
and to rain upon them manna to/for to eat and grain heaven to give: give to/for them
25 Man ate angels' food: he sent them food to the full.
food: bread mighty: angel to eat man: anyone provision to send: depart to/for them to/for satiety
26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
to set out east in/on/with heaven and to lead in/on/with strength his south
27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
and to rain upon them like/as dust flesh and like/as sand sea bird wing
28 And he let [it] fall in the midst of their camp, around their habitations.
and to fall: fall in/on/with entrails: among camp his around to/for tabernacle his
29 So they ate, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
and to eat and to satisfy much and desire their to come (in): bring to/for them
30 They were not estranged from their desire: but while their meat [was] yet in their mouths,
not be a stranger from desire their still food their in/on/with lip their
31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen [men] of Israel.
and face: anger God to ascend: rise in/on/with them and to kill in/on/with fatness their and youth Israel to bow
32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
in/on/with all this to sin still and not be faithful in/on/with to wonder his
33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
and to end: expend in/on/with vanity day their and year their in/on/with dismay
34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God.
if to kill them and to seek him and to return: repent and to seek God
35 And they remembered that God [was] their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
and to remember for God rock their and El (Most High) (LORD) Most High to redeem: redeem their
36 Nevertheless they flattered him with their mouth, and they lied to him with their tongues.
and to entice him in/on/with lip their and in/on/with tongue their to lie to/for him
37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant.
and heart their not to establish: establish with him and not be faithful in/on/with covenant his
38 But he, [being] full of compassion, forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: yes, many a time he turned his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
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
39 For he remembered that they [were but] flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
and to remember for flesh they(masc.) spirit: breath to go: walk and not to return: return
40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, [and] grieve him in the desert!
like/as what? to rebel him in/on/with wilderness to hurt him in/on/with wilderness
41 Yes, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
and to return: again and to test God and holy Israel to wound
42 They remembered not his hand, [nor] the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
not to remember [obj] hand: power his day which to ransom them from enemy
43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
which to set: put in/on/with Egypt sign: miraculous his and wonder his in/on/with land: country Zoan
44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
and to overturn to/for blood stream their and to flow their not to drink [emph?]
45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
to send: depart in/on/with them swarm and to eat them and frog and to ruin them
46 He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.
and to give: give to/for locust crops their and toil their to/for locust
47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost.
to kill in/on/with hail vine their and sycamore their in/on/with frost
48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
and to shut to/for hail cattle their and livestock their to/for flash
49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels [among them].
to send: let go in/on/with them burning anger face: anger his fury and indignation and distress deputation messenger: angel bad: harmful
50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
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
51 And smote all the first-born in Egypt; the chief of [their] strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
and to smite all firstborn in/on/with Egypt first: beginning strength in/on/with tent Ham
52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
and to set out like/as flock people his and to lead them like/as flock in/on/with wilderness
53 And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
and to lead them to/for security and not to dread and [obj] enemy their to cover [the] sea
54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, [even to] this mountain, [which] his right hand had purchased.
and to come (in): bring them to(wards) border: boundary holiness his mountain: mount this to buy right his
55 He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
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
56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
and to test and to rebel [obj] God Most High and testimony his not to keep: obey
57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
and to turn and to act treacherously like/as father their to overturn like/as bow deceit
58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
and to provoke him in/on/with high place their and in/on/with idol their be jealous him
59 When God heard [this], he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
to hear: hear God and be angry and to reject much in/on/with Israel
60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent [which] he placed among men;
and to leave tabernacle Shiloh tent to dwell in/on/with man
61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.
and to give: give to/for captivity strength his and beauty his in/on/with hand: power enemy
62 He gave over his people also to the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
and to shut to/for sword people his and in/on/with inheritance his be angry
63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
youth his to eat fire and virgin his not to boast: praise
64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
priest his in/on/with sword to fall: kill and widow his not to weep
65 Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, [and] like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
and to awake like/as sleeping Lord like/as mighty man to overcome from wine
66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder part: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
and to smite enemy his back reproach forever: enduring to give: put to/for them
67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
and to reject in/on/with tent Joseph and in/on/with tribe Ephraim not to choose
68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
and to choose [obj] tribe Judah [obj] mountain: mount Zion which to love: lover
69 And he built his sanctuary like high [palaces], like the earth which he hath established for ever.
and to build like to exalt sanctuary his like/as land: country/planet to found her to/for forever: enduring
70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheep-folds:
and to choose in/on/with David servant/slave his and to take: take him from fold flock
71 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
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
72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
and to pasture them like/as integrity heart his and in/on/with understanding palm his to lead them

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