תהילים 78
| משכיל לאסף האזינה עמי תורתי הטו אזנכם לאמרי-פי | 1 |
Maschil 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 dark sayings 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 children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful 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 [which] should be born; [who] should arise and declare [them] to their children:
| וישימו באלהים כסלם ולא ישכחו מעללי-אל ומצותיו ינצרו | 7 |
That they might set their hope 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, [being] armed, [and] carrying bows, 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 forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed 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 divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
| וינחם בענן יומם וכל-הלילה באור אש | 14 |
In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
| יבקע צרים במדבר וישק כתהמות רבה | 15 |
He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as [out of] the great depths.
| 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 |
And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
| 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 |
Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish 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 the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
| לכן שמע יהוה-- ויתעבר ואש נשקה ביעקב וגם-אף עלה בישראל | 21 |
Therefore the LORD heard [this], and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came 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 |
Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
| וימטר עליהם מן לאכל ודגן-שמים נתן למו | 24 |
And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
| לחם אבירים אכל איש צידה שלח להם לשבע | 25 |
Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.
| יסע קדים בשמים וינהג בעזו תימן | 26 |
He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
| וימטר עליהם כעפר שאר וכחול ימים עוף כנף | 27 |
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
| 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 |
So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
| לא-זרו מתאותם עוד אכלם בפיהם | 30 |
They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat [was] yet in their mouths,
| ואף אלהים עלה בהם ויהרג במשמניהם ובחורי ישראל הכריע | 31 |
The wrath of God came upon them, and 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 for his wondrous works.
| ויכל-בהבל ימיהם ושנותם בבהלה | 33 |
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
| אם-הרגם ודרשוהו ושבו ושחרו-אל | 34 |
When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
| ויזכרו כי-אלהים צורם ואל עליון גאלם | 35 |
And they remembered that God [was] their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
| ויפתוהו בפיהם ובלשונם יכזבו-לו | 36 |
Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
| ולבם לא-נכון עמו ולא נאמנו בבריתו | 37 |
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
| והוא רחום יכפר עון-- ולא-ישחית והרבה להשיב אפו ולא-יעיר כל-חמתו | 38 |
But he, [being] full of compassion, forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
| ויזכר כי-בשר המה רוח הולך ולא ישוב | 39 |
For 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 provoke him in the wilderness, [and] grieve him in the desert!
| וישובו וינסו אל וקדוש ישראל התוו | 41 |
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited 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 delivered them from the enemy.
| אשר-שם במצרים אתותיו ומופתיו בשדה-צען | 43 |
How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
| ויהפך לדם יאריהם ונזליהם בל-ישתיון | 44 |
And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
| ישלח בהם ערב ויאכלם וצפרדע ותשחיתם | 45 |
He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
| ויתן לחסיל יבולם ויגיעם לארבה | 46 |
He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
| יהרג בברד גפנם ושקמותם בחנמל | 47 |
He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
| ויסגר לברד בעירם ומקניהם לרשפים | 48 |
He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot 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 trouble, by sending evil angels [among them].
| יפלס נתיב לאפו לא-חשך ממות נפשם וחיתם לדבר הסגיר | 50 |
He made a way to 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 firstborn in Egypt; the chief of [their] strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
| ויסע כצאן עמו וינהגם כעדר במדבר | 52 |
But 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 on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
| ויביאם אל-גבול קדשו הר-זה קנתה ימינו | 54 |
And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, [even to] this mountain, [which] his right hand had purchased.
| ויגרש מפניהם גוים-- ויפילם בחבל נחלה וישכן באהליהם שבטי ישראל | 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.
| וינסו וימרו את-אלהים עליון ועדותיו לא שמרו | 56 |
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
| ויסגו ויבגדו כאבותם נהפכו כקשת רמיה | 57 |
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
| ויכעיסוהו בבמותם ובפסיליהם יקניאוהו | 58 |
For 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 |
When God heard [this], he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
| ויטש משכן שלו אהל שכן באדם | 60 |
So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent [which] he placed among men;
| ויתן לשבי עזו ותפארתו ביד-צר | 61 |
And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’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 |
The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
| 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 out of sleep, [and] like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
| ויך-צריו אחור חרפת עולם נתן למו | 66 |
And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
| וימאס באהל יוסף ובשבט אפרים לא בחר | 67 |
Moreover he refused the tabernacle 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 high [palaces], like the earth which he hath established 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 great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
| וירעם כתם לבבו ובתבונות כפיו ינחם | 72 |
So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
