< Psalms 78 >
1 The lernyng of Asaph. Mi puple, perseyue ye my lawe; bowe youre eere in to the wordis 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 schal opene my mouth in parablis; Y schal speke perfite resouns fro the bigynnyng.
to open in/on/with proverb lip my to bubble riddle from front: old
3 Hou grete thingis han we herd, aud we han knowe tho; and oure fadris. telden to vs.
which to hear: hear and to know them and father our to recount to/for us
4 Tho ben not hid fro the sones of hem; in anothir generacioun. And thei telden the heriyngis of the Lord, and the vertues of hym; and hise merueilis, whyche he dide.
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 And he reiside witnessyng in Jacob; and he settide lawe in Israel. Hou grete thingis comaundide he to oure fadris, to make tho knowun to her sones;
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 another generacioun knowe. Sones, that schulen be born, and schulen rise vp; schulen telle out to her sones.
because to know generation last son: child to beget to arise: rise and to recount to/for son: child their
7 That thei sette her hope in God, and foryete not the werkis of God; and that thei seke hise comaundementis.
and to set: make in/on/with God loin their and not to forget deed God and commandment his to watch
8 Lest thei be maad a schrewid generacioun; and terrynge to wraththe, as the fadris of hem. A generacioun that dresside not his herte; and his spirit was not bileued 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 sones of Effraym, bendinge a bouwe and sendynge arowis; weren turned in the dai of batel.
son: descendant/people Ephraim to handle to shoot bow to overturn in/on/with day battle
10 Thei kepten not the testament of God; and thei nolden go in his lawe.
not to keep: obey covenant God and in/on/with instruction his to refuse to/for to go: walk
11 And thei foryaten hise benefices; and hise merueils, whiche he schewide to hem.
and to forget wantonness his and to wonder his which to see: see them
12 He dide merueils bifore the fadris of hem in the loond of Egipt; in the feeld of Taphneos.
before father their to make: do wonder in/on/with land: country/planet Egypt land: country Zoan
13 He brak the see, and ledde hem thorou; and he ordeynede the watris as in a bouge.
to break up/open sea and to pass: bring them and to stand water like heap
14 And he ledde hem forth in a cloude of the dai; and al niyt in the liytnyng of fier.
and to lead them in/on/with cloud by day and all [the] night in/on/with light fire
15 He brak a stoon in deseert; and he yaf watir to hem as in a myche depthe.
to break up/open rock in/on/with wilderness and to water: drink like/as abyss many
16 And he ledde watir out of the stoon; and he ledde forth watris as floodis.
and to come out: issue to flow from crag and to go down like/as river water
17 And thei `leiden to yit to do synne ayens hym; thei excitiden hiye God in to ire, in a place with out water.
and to add: again still to/for to sin to/for him to/for to rebel Most High in/on/with dryness
18 And thei temptiden God in her hertis; that thei axiden meetis to her lyues.
and to test God in/on/with heart their to/for to ask food to/for soul: appetite their
19 And thei spaken yuel of God; thei seiden, Whether God may make redi a bord in desert?
and to speak: speak in/on/with God to say be able God to/for to arrange table in/on/with wilderness
20 For he smoot a stoon, and watris flowiden; and streemys yeden out in aboundaunce. Whether also he may yyue breed; ether make redi a bord to his puple?
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 Therfor the Lord herde, and delaiede; and fier was kindelid in Jacob, and the ire of God stiede on 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 For thei bileueden not in God; nether hopiden in his heelthe.
for not be faithful in/on/with God and not to trust in/on/with salvation his
23 And he comaundide to the cloudis aboue; and he openyde the yatis of heuene.
and to command cloud from above and door heaven to open
24 And he reynede to hem manna for to eete; and he yaf to hem breed of heuene.
and to rain upon them manna to/for to eat and grain heaven to give: give to/for them
25 Man eet the breed of aungels; he sent to hem meetis in aboundance.
food: bread mighty: angel to eat man: anyone provision to send: depart to/for them to/for satiety
26 He turnede ouere the south wynde fro heuene; and he brouyte in bi his vertu the weste wynde.
to set out east in/on/with heaven and to lead in/on/with strength his south
27 And he reynede fleischis as dust on hem; and `he reinede volatils fethered, as the grauel of the see.
and to rain upon them like/as dust flesh and like/as sand sea bird wing
28 And tho felden doun in the myddis of her castels; aboute the tabernaclis of hem.
and to fall: fall in/on/with entrails: among camp his around to/for tabernacle his
29 And thei eeten, and weren fillid greetli, and he brouyte her desire to hem;
and to eat and to satisfy much and desire their to come (in): bring to/for them
30 thei weren not defraudid of her desier. Yit her metis weren in her mouth;
not be a stranger from desire their still food their in/on/with lip their
31 and the ire of God stiede on hem. And he killide the fatte men of hem; and he lettide the chosene 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 In alle these thingis thei synneden yit; and bileuede not in the merueils of God.
in/on/with all this to sin still and not be faithful in/on/with to wonder his
33 And the daies of hem failiden in vanytee; and the yeeris of hem faileden with haste.
and to end: expend in/on/with vanity day their and year their in/on/with dismay
34 Whanne he killide hem, thei souyten hym; and turneden ayen, and eerli thei camen to hym.
if to kill them and to seek him and to return: repent and to seek God
35 And thei bithouyten, that God is the helper of hem; and `the hiy God is the ayenbier of hem.
and to remember for God rock their and El (Most High) (LORD) Most High to redeem: redeem their
36 And thei loueden hym in her mouth; and with her tunge thei lieden to hym.
and to entice him in/on/with lip their and in/on/with tongue their to lie to/for him
37 Forsothe the herte of hem was not riytful with hym; nethir thei weren had feithful in his testament.
and heart their not to establish: establish with him and not be faithful in/on/with covenant his
38 But he is merciful, and he schal be maad merciful to the synnes of hem; and he schal not destrie hem. And he dide greetli, to turne awei his yre; and he kyndelide not al his ire.
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 And he bithouyte, that thei ben fleische; a spirit goynge, and not turnynge ayen.
and to remember for flesh they(masc.) spirit: breath to go: walk and not to return: return
40 Hou oft maden thei hym wrooth in desert; thei stireden hym in to ire in a place with out watir.
like/as what? to rebel him in/on/with wilderness to hurt him in/on/with wilderness
41 And thei weren turned, and temptiden God; and thei wraththiden the hooli of Israel.
and to return: again and to test God and holy Israel to wound
42 Thei bithouyten not on his hond; in the dai in the which he ayen bouyte hem fro the hond of the trobler.
not to remember [obj] hand: power his day which to ransom them from enemy
43 As he settide hise signes in Egipt; and hise grete wondris in the feeld of Taphneos.
which to set: put in/on/with Egypt sign: miraculous his and wonder his in/on/with land: country Zoan
44 And he turnede the flodis of hem and the reynes of hem in to blood; that thei schulden not drynke.
and to overturn to/for blood stream their and to flow their not to drink [emph?]
45 He sente a fleisch flie in to hem, and it eet hem; and he sente a paddok, and it loste hem.
to send: depart in/on/with them swarm and to eat them and frog and to ruin them
46 And he yaf the fruytis of hem to rust; and he yaf the trauels of hem to locustis.
and to give: give to/for locust crops their and toil their to/for locust
47 And he killide the vynes of hem bi hail; and the moore trees of hem bi a frost.
to kill in/on/with hail vine their and sycamore their in/on/with frost
48 And he bitook the beestis of hem to hail; and the possessioun of hem to fier.
and to shut to/for hail cattle their and livestock their to/for flash
49 He sente in to hem the ire of his indignacioun; indignacioun, and ire, and tribulacioun, sendingis in bi iuel aungels.
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 weie to the path of his ire, and he sparide not fro the deth of her lyues; and he closide togidere in deth the beestis of hem.
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 he smoot al the first gendrid thing in the lond of Egipt; the first fruytis of alle the trauel of hem in the tabernaclis of Cham.
and to smite all firstborn in/on/with Egypt first: beginning strength in/on/with tent Ham
52 And he took awei his puple as scheep; and he ledde hem forth as a flok in desert.
and to set out like/as flock people his and to lead them like/as flock in/on/with wilderness
53 And he ledde hem forth in hope, and thei dredden not; and the see hilide the enemyes of hem.
and to lead them to/for security and not to dread and [obj] enemy their to cover [the] sea
54 And he brouyte hem in to the hil of his halewyng; in to the hil which his riythond gat. And he castide out hethene men fro the face of hem; and bi lot he departide to hem the lond in a cord of delyng.
and to come (in): bring them to(wards) border: boundary holiness his mountain: mount this to buy right his
55 And he made the lynagis of Israel to dwelle in the tabernaclis of hem.
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 And thei temptiden, and wraththiden heiy God; and thei kepten not hise witnessyngis.
and to test and to rebel [obj] God Most High and testimony his not to keep: obey
57 And thei turneden awei hem silf, and thei kepten not couenaunt; as her fadris weren turned in to a schrewid bouwe.
and to turn and to act treacherously like/as father their to overturn like/as bow deceit
58 Thei stiriden him in to ire in her litle hillis; and thei terriden hym to indignacioun of her grauen ymagis.
and to provoke him in/on/with high place their and in/on/with idol their be jealous him
59 God herde, and forsook; and brouyte to nouyt Israel greetli.
to hear: hear God and be angry and to reject much in/on/with Israel
60 And he puttide awei the tabernacle of Sylo; his tabernacle where he dwellide among men.
and to leave tabernacle Shiloh tent to dwell in/on/with man
61 And he bitook the vertu of hem in to caitiftee; and the fairnesse of hem in to the hondis of the enemye.
and to give: give to/for captivity strength his and beauty his in/on/with hand: power enemy
62 And he closide togidere his puple in swerd; and he dispiside his erytage.
and to shut to/for sword people his and in/on/with inheritance his be angry
63 Fier eet the yonge men of hem; and the virgyns of hem weren not biweilid.
youth his to eat fire and virgin his not to boast: praise
64 The prestis of hem fellen doun bi swerd; and the widewis of hem weren not biwept.
priest his in/on/with sword to fall: kill and widow his not to weep
65 And the Lord was reisid, as slepynge; as miyti greetli fillid of wiyn.
and to awake like/as sleeping Lord like/as mighty man to overcome from wine
66 And he smoot hise enemyes on the hynderere partis; he yaf to hem euerlastyng schenschipe.
and to smite enemy his back reproach forever: enduring to give: put to/for them
67 And he puttide awei the tabernacle of Joseph; and he chees not the lynage of Effraym.
and to reject in/on/with tent Joseph and in/on/with tribe Ephraim not to choose
68 But he chees the lynage of Juda; he chees the hil of Syon, which he louede.
and to choose [obj] tribe Judah [obj] mountain: mount Zion which to love: lover
69 And he as an vnicorn bildide his hooli place; in the lond, which he foundide in to worldis.
and to build like to exalt sanctuary his like/as land: country/planet to found her to/for forever: enduring
70 And he chees Dauid his seruaunt, and took hym vp fro the flockis of scheep; he took hym fro bihynde scheep with lambren.
and to choose in/on/with David servant/slave his and to take: take him from fold flock
71 To feed Jacob his seruaunt; and Israel his eritage.
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 And he fedde hem in the innocens of his herte; and he ledde hem forth in the vndurstondyngis of his hondis.
and to pasture them like/as integrity heart his and in/on/with understanding palm his to lead them