תהילים 78
| משכיל לאסף האזינה עמי תורתי הטו אזנכם לאמרי-פי | 1 |
An instruction. Of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
| אפתחה במשל פי אביעה חידות מני-קדם | 2 |
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter riddles from of old,
| אשר שמענו ונדעם ואבותינו ספרו-לנו | 3 |
Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us:
| לא נכחד מבניהם-- לדור אחרון מספרים תהלות יהוה ועזוזו ונפלאתיו אשר עשה | 4 |
We will not hide [them] from their sons, shewing forth to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength, and his marvellous works which he hath done.
| ויקם עדות ביעקב ותורה שם בישראל אשר צוה את-אבותינו-- להודיעם לבניהם | 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;
| למען ידעו דור אחרון--בנים יולדו יקמו ויספרו לבניהם | 6 |
That the generation to come might know [them], the children that should be born; that they might rise up and tell [them] to their children,
| וישימו באלהים כסלם ולא ישכחו מעללי-אל ומצותיו ינצרו | 7 |
And that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but observe his commandments;
| ולא יהיו כאבותם-- דור סורר ומרה דור לא-הכין לבו ולא-נאמנה את-אל רוחו | 8 |
And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not their heart, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
| בני-אפרים נושקי רומי-קשת הפכו ביום קרב | 9 |
The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle.
| לא שמרו ברית אלהים ובתורתו מאנו ללכת | 10 |
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
| וישכחו עלילותיו ונפלאותיו אשר הראם | 11 |
And forgot his doings, and his marvellous works which he had shewn them.
| נגד אבותם עשה פלא בארץ מצרים שדה-צען | 12 |
In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan.
| בקע ים ויעבירם ויצב-מים כמו-נד | 13 |
He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and made the waters to stand as a heap;
| וינחם בענן יומם וכל-הלילה באור אש | 14 |
And he led them with a cloud in the daytime, and all the night with the light of fire.
| יבקע צרים במדבר וישק כתהמות רבה | 15 |
He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as out of the depths, abundantly;
| ויוצא נוזלים מסלע ויורד כנהרות מים | 16 |
And he brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
| ויוסיפו עוד לחטא-לו-- למרות עליון בציה | 17 |
Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert;
| וינסו-אל בלבבם-- לשאל-אכל לנפשם | 18 |
And they tempted God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;
| וידברו באלהים אמרו היוכל אל--לערך שלחן במדבר | 19 |
And they spoke against God: they said, Is God able to prepare a table in the wilderness?
| הן הכה-צור ויזובו מים-- ונחלים ישטפו הגם-לחם יוכל תת אם-יכין שאר לעמו | 20 |
Behold, he smote the rock, and waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; is he able to give bread also, or provide flesh for his people?
| לכן שמע יהוה-- ויתעבר ואש נשקה ביעקב וגם-אף עלה בישראל | 21 |
Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; and fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel:
| כי לא האמינו באלהים ולא בטחו בישועתו | 22 |
Because they believed not in God, and confided not in his salvation;
| ויצו שחקים ממעל ודלתי שמים פתח | 23 |
Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of the heavens,
| וימטר עליהם מן לאכל ודגן-שמים נתן למו | 24 |
And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the corn of the heavens.
| לחם אבירים אכל איש צידה שלח להם לשבע | 25 |
Man did eat the bread of the mighty; he sent them provision to the full.
| יסע קדים בשמים וינהג בעזו תימן | 26 |
He caused the east wind to rise in the heavens, and by his strength he brought the south wind;
| וימטר עליהם כעפר שאר וכחול ימים עוף כנף | 27 |
And he rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowl as the sand of the seas,
| ויפל בקרב מחנהו סביב למשכנתיו | 28 |
And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations:
| ויאכלו וישבעו מאד ותאותם יבא להם | 29 |
And they did eat, and were well filled; for that they lusted after, he brought to them.
| לא-זרו מתאותם עוד אכלם בפיהם | 30 |
They were not alienated from their lust, their meat was yet in their mouths,
| ואף אלהים עלה בהם ויהרג במשמניהם ובחורי ישראל הכריע | 31 |
When the anger of God went up against them; and he slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
| בכל-זאת חטאו-עוד ולא-האמינו בנפלאותיו | 32 |
For all this, they sinned still, and believed not in his marvellous works;
| ויכל-בהבל ימיהם ושנותם בבהלה | 33 |
And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
| אם-הרגם ודרשוהו ושבו ושחרו-אל | 34 |
When he slew them, then they sought him, and returned and sought early after God;
| ויזכרו כי-אלהים צורם ואל עליון גאלם | 35 |
And they remembered that God was their rock, and God, the Most High, their redeemer.
| ויפתוהו בפיהם ובלשונם יכזבו-לו | 36 |
But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied unto him with their tongue;
| ולבם לא-נכון עמו ולא נאמנו בבריתו | 37 |
For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
| והוא רחום יכפר עון-- ולא-ישחית והרבה להשיב אפו ולא-יעיר כל-חמתו | 38 |
But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed [them] not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury:
| ויזכר כי-בשר המה רוח הולך ולא ישוב | 39 |
And he remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passeth away and cometh not again.
| כמה ימרוהו במדבר יעציבוהו בישימון | 40 |
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
| וישובו וינסו אל וקדוש ישראל התוו | 41 |
And they turned again and tempted God, and grieved the Holy One of Israel.
| לא-זכרו את-ידו יום אשר-פדם מני-צר | 42 |
They remembered not his hand, the day when he delivered them from the oppressor,
| אשר-שם במצרים אתותיו ומופתיו בשדה-צען | 43 |
How he set his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the field of Zoan;
| ויהפך לדם יאריהם ונזליהם בל-ישתיון | 44 |
And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink;
| ישלח בהם ערב ויאכלם וצפרדע ותשחיתם | 45 |
He sent dog-flies among them, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them;
| ויתן לחסיל יבולם ויגיעם לארבה | 46 |
And he gave their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust;
| יהרג בברד גפנם ושקמותם בחנמל | 47 |
He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with hail-stones;
| ויסגר לברד בעירם ומקניהם לרשפים | 48 |
And he delivered up their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts.
| ישלח-בם חרון אפו--עברה וזעם וצרה משלחת מלאכי רעים | 49 |
He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and distress, — a mission of angels of woes.
| יפלס נתיב לאפו לא-חשך ממות נפשם וחיתם לדבר הסגיר | 50 |
He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
| ויך כל-בכור במצרים ראשית אונים באהלי-חם | 51 |
And he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the first-fruits of their vigour in the tents of Ham.
| ויסע כצאן עמו וינהגם כעדר במדבר | 52 |
And he made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock;
| וינחם לבטח ולא פחדו ואת-אויביהם כסה הים | 53 |
And he led them safely, so that they were without fear; and the sea covered their enemies.
| ויביאם אל-גבול קדשו הר-זה קנתה ימינו | 54 |
And he brought them to his holy border, this mountain, which his right hand purchased;
| ויגרש מפניהם גוים-- ויפילם בחבל נחלה וישכן באהליהם שבטי ישראל | 55 |
And he drove out the nations before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
| וינסו וימרו את-אלהים עליון ועדותיו לא שמרו | 56 |
But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,
| ויסגו ויבגדו כאבותם נהפכו כקשת רמיה | 57 |
And they drew back and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow.
| ויכעיסוהו בבמותם ובפסיליהם יקניאוהו | 58 |
And they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
| שמע אלהים ויתעבר וימאס מאד בישראל | 59 |
God heard, and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
| ויטש משכן שלו אהל שכן באדם | 60 |
And he forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he had dwelt among men,
| ויתן לשבי עזו ותפארתו ביד-צר | 61 |
And gave his strength into captivity, and his glory into the hand of the oppressor;
| ויסגר לחרב עמו ובנחלתו התעבר | 62 |
And delivered up his people unto the sword, and was very wroth with his inheritance:
| בחוריו אכלה-אש ובתולתיו לא הוללו | 63 |
The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not praised in [nuptial] song;
| כהניו בחרב נפלו ואלמנתיו לא תבכינה | 64 |
Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.
| ויקץ כישן אדני כגבור מתרונן מיין | 65 |
Then the Lord awoke as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth aloud by reason of wine;
| ויך-צריו אחור חרפת עולם נתן למו | 66 |
And he smote his adversaries in the hinder part, and put them to everlasting reproach.
| וימאס באהל יוסף ובשבט אפרים לא בחר | 67 |
And he rejected the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim,
| ויבחר את-שבט יהודה את-הר ציון אשר אהב | 68 |
But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved;
| ויבן כמו-רמים מקדשו כארץ יסדה לעולם | 69 |
And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he hath founded for ever.
| ויבחר בדוד עבדו ויקחהו ממכלאת צאן | 70 |
And he chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
| מאחר עלות הביאו לרעות ביעקב עמו ובישראל נחלתו | 71 |
From following the suckling-ewes, he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
| וירעם כתם לבבו ובתבונות כפיו ינחם | 72 |
And he fed them according to the integrity of his heart, and led them by the skilfulness of his hands.
