תהילים 78
| משכיל לאסף האזינה עמי תורתי הטו אזנכם לאמרי פי׃ | 1 |
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 ונפלאותיו אשר עשה׃ | 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 has 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 steadfast 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 forgot his works, and his wonders that he had showed them.
| נגד אבותם עשה פלא בארץ מצרים שדה צען׃ | 12 |
Marvelous 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 split 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 |
Yes, they spoke 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 on 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 on 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 middle 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 on 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 inquired 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 to him with their tongues.
| ולבם לא נכון עמו ולא נאמנו בבריתו׃ | 37 |
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast 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: yes, 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 passes away, and comes 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 |
Yes, 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 worked 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 to the caterpillar, and their labor to 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 on 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 to 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 shouts 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 has 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 skillfulness of his hands.
