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 ונפלאותיו אשר עשה׃ | 4 |
We will not hide them 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 which 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 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 they forgat his doings, and his wondrous works that he had shewed 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 clave 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 day-time 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 rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the 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 |
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 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 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? 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 |
Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven;
| וימטר עליהם מן לאכל ודגן שמים נתן למו׃ | 24 |
And he rained down manna upon them to eat, 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 meat to the full.
| יסע קדים בשמים וינהג בעזו תימן׃ | 26 |
He caused the east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he guided the south wind.
| וימטר עליהם כעפר שאר וכחול ימים עוף כנף׃ | 27 |
He rained flesh also 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 habitations.
| ויאכלו וישבעו מאד ותאותם יבא להם׃ | 29 |
So they did eat, and were well filled; and he gave them that they lusted after.
| לא זרו מתאותם עוד אכלם בפיהם׃ | 30 |
They were not estranged 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 slew of the fattest of 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 their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in terror.
| אם הרגם ודרשוהו ושבו ושחרו אל׃ | 34 |
When he slew them, then they inquired after him: and they returned and sought God early.
| 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 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 right 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, 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 |
And 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 they turned again and tempted God, and provoked 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, and their streams, that they could not drink.
| 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 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 over 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, a band of angels of evil.
| יפלס נתיב לאפו לא חשך ממות נפשם וחיתם לדבר הסגיר׃ | 50 |
He made 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 firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham:
| ויסע כצאן עמו וינהגם כעדר במדבר׃ | 52 |
But he led forth his own people 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 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, to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
| 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 tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, 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 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 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 maidens 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 out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
| ויך צריו אחור חרפת עולם נתן למו׃ | 66 |
And he smote his adversaries backward: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
| וימאס באהל יוסף ובשבט אפרים לא בחר׃ | 67 |
Moreover he refused 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 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 that give suck 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.
