תהילים 78
| משכיל לאסף האזינה עמי תורתי הטו אזנכם לאמרי-פי | 1 |
Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
| אפתחה במשל פי אביעה חידות מני-קדם | 2 |
I will open my mouth with a parable; I will utter dark sayings concerning days of old;
| אשר שמענו ונדעם ואבותינו ספרו-לנו | 3 |
That 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 from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and His strength, and His wondrous works that 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, even the children that should be born; who should arise and tell them to their children,
| וישימו באלהים כסלם ולא ישכחו מעללי-אל ומצותיו ינצרו | 7 |
That they might put their confidence in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep 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 set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
| בני-אפרים נושקי רומי-קשת הפכו ביום קרב | 9 |
The children of Ephraim were as archers handling the bow, that 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 they forgot His doings, and His wondrous works that He had shown them.
| נגד אבותם עשה פלא בארץ מצרים שדה-צען | 12 |
Marvellous things did He in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
| בקע ים ויעבירם ויצב-מים כמו-נד | 13 |
He cleaved the sea, and caused them to pass through; and He made the waters to stand as a heap.
| וינחם בענן יומם וכל-הלילה באור אש | 14 |
By day also He led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
| יבקע צרים במדבר וישק כתהמות רבה | 15 |
He cleaved rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the great deep.
| ויוצא נוזלים מסלע ויורד כנהרות מים | 16 |
He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
| ויוסיפו עוד לחטא-לו-- למרות עליון בציה | 17 |
Yet went they on still to sin against Him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
| וינסו-אל בלבבם-- לשאל-אכל לנפשם | 18 |
And they tried God in their heart by asking food for their craving.
| וידברו באלהים אמרו היוכל אל--לערך שלחן במדבר | 19 |
Yea, they spoke against God; they said: 'Can God 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, that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; can He give bread also? or will He provide flesh for His people?'
| לכן שמע יהוה-- ויתעבר ואש נשקה ביעקב וגם-אף עלה בישראל | 21 |
Therefore the LORD heard, and was wroth; and a 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 trusted not in His salvation.
| ויצו שחקים ממעל ודלתי שמים פתח | 23 |
And He commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven;
| וימטר עליהם מן לאכל ודגן-שמים נתן למו | 24 |
And He caused manna to rain upon them for food, and gave them of the corn of heaven.
| לחם אבירים אכל איש צידה שלח להם לשבע | 25 |
Man did eat the bread of the mighty; He sent them provisions to the full.
| יסע קדים בשמים וינהג בעזו תימן | 26 |
He caused the east wind to set forth in heaven; and by His power He brought on the south wind.
| וימטר עליהם כעפר שאר וכחול ימים עוף כנף | 27 |
He caused flesh also to rain upon them as the dust, and winged 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 dwellings.
| ויאכלו וישבעו מאד ותאותם יבא להם | 29 |
So they did eat, and were well filled; and He gave them that which they craved.
| לא-זרו מתאותם עוד אכלם בפיהם | 30 |
They were not estranged from their craving, their food 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 slew of the lustieth among them, and smote down the young men of Israel.
| בכל-זאת חטאו-עוד ולא-האמינו בנפלאותיו | 32 |
For all this they sinned still, and believed not in His wondrous works.
| ויכל-בהבל ימיהם ושנותם בבהלה | 33 |
Therefore He ended their days as a breath, and their years in terror.
| אם-הרגם ודרשוהו ושבו ושחרו-אל | 34 |
When He slew them, then they would inquire after Him, and turn back and seek God earnestly.
| ויזכרו כי-אלהים צורם ואל עליון גאלם | 35 |
And they remembered that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their redeemer.
| ויפתוהו בפיהם ובלשונם יכזבו-לו | 36 |
But they beguiled Him with their mouth, and lied unto Him with their tongue.
| ולבם לא-נכון עמו ולא נאמנו בבריתו | 37 |
For their heart was not stedfast with Him, neither were they faithful in His covenant.
| והוא רחום יכפר עון-- ולא-ישחית והרבה להשיב אפו ולא-יעיר כל-חמתו | 38 |
But He, being full of compassion, forgiveth iniquity, and destroyeth not; yea, many a time doth He turn His anger away, and doth not stir up all His wrath.
| ויזכר כי-בשר המה רוח הולך ולא ישוב | 39 |
So He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
| כמה ימרוהו במדבר יעציבוהו בישימון | 40 |
How oft did they rebel against Him in the wilderness, and grieve Him in the desert!
| וישובו וינסו אל וקדוש ישראל התוו | 41 |
And still again they tried God, and set bounds to the Holy One of Israel.
| לא-זכרו את-ידו יום אשר-פדם מני-צר | 42 |
They remembered not His hand, nor the day when He redeemed them from the adversary.
| אשר-שם במצרים אתותיו ומופתיו בשדה-צען | 43 |
How He set His signs in Egypt, and His wonders in the field of Zoan;
| ויהפך לדם יאריהם ונזליהם בל-ישתיון | 44 |
And turned their rivers into blood, so that they could not drink their streams.
| ישלח בהם ערב ויאכלם וצפרדע ותשחיתם | 45 |
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
| ויתן לחסיל יבולם ויגיעם לארבה | 46 |
He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust.
| יהרג בברד גפנם ושקמותם בחנמל | 47 |
He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore-trees with frost.
| ויסגר לברד בעירם ומקניהם לרשפים | 48 |
He gave over their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to fiery bolts.
| ישלח-בם חרון אפו--עברה וזעם וצרה משלחת מלאכי רעים | 49 |
He sent forth upon them the fierceness of His anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, a sending of messengers of evil.
| יפלס נתיב לאפו לא-חשך ממות נפשם וחיתם לדבר הסגיר | 50 |
He levelled a path 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 smote all the first-born in Egypt, the first-fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham;
| ויסע כצאן עמו וינהגם כעדר במדבר | 52 |
But 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, and they feared not; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
| ויביאם אל-גבול קדשו הר-זה קנתה ימינו | 54 |
And He brought them to His holy border, to the mountain, which His right hand had gotten.
| ויגרש מפניהם גוים-- ויפילם בחבל נחלה וישכן באהליהם שבטי ישראל | 55 |
He drove out the nations also 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 |
Yet they tried and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not His testimonies;
| ויסגו ויבגדו כאבותם נהפכו כקשת רמיה | 57 |
But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers; they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
| ויכעיסוהו בבמותם ובפסיליהם יקניאוהו | 58 |
For they provoked Him 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 He greatly abhorred Israel;
| ויטש משכן שלו אהל שכן באדם | 60 |
And He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which He had made to dwell among men;
| ויתן לשבי עזו ותפארתו ביד-צר | 61 |
And delivered His strength into captivity, and His glory into the adversary's hand.
| ויסגר לחרב עמו ובנחלתו התעבר | 62 |
He gave His people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with His inheritance.
| בחוריו אכלה-אש ובתולתיו לא הוללו | 63 |
Fire devoured their young men; and their virgins had no marriage-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 awaked as one asleep, like a mighty man recovering from wine.
| ויך-צריו אחור חרפת עולם נתן למו | 66 |
And He smote His adversaries backward; He put upon them a perpetual reproach.
| וימאס באהל יוסף ובשבט אפרים לא בחר | 67 |
Moreover He abhorred 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 |
He chose David also His servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
| מאחר עלות הביאו לרעות ביעקב עמו ובישראל נחלתו | 71 |
From following the ewes that give suck He brought him, to be shepherd over Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance.
| וירעם כתם לבבו ובתבונות כפיו ינחם | 72 |
So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart; and lead them by the skilfulness of his hands.
