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Psalms 78

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1 An Instruction of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law, Incline your ear to sayings of my mouth.
1 My people, hear my teaching; listen to the words of my mouth.
2 I open with a simile my mouth, I bring forth hidden things of old,
2 I will open my mouth with a parable; I will utter hidden things, things from of old—
3 That we have heard and do know, And our fathers have recounted to us.
3 things we have heard and known, things our ancestors have told us.
4 We do not hide from their sons, To a later generation recounting praises of Jehovah, And His strength, and His wonders that He hath done.
4 We will not hide them from their descendants; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD, his power, and the wonders he has done.
5 And He raiseth up a testimony in Jacob, And a law hath placed in Israel, That He commanded our fathers, To make them known to their sons.
5 He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach their children,
6 So that a later generation doth know, Sons who are born, do rise and recount to their sons,
6 so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children.
7 And place in God their confidence, And forget not the doings of God, But keep His commands.
7 Then they would put their trust in God and would not forget his deeds but would keep his commands.
8 And they are not like their fathers, A generation apostate and rebellious, A generation! it hath not prepared its heart, Nor stedfast with God [is] its spirit.
8 They would not be like their ancestors— a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits were not faithful to him.
9 Sons of Ephraim -- armed bearers of bow, Have turned in a day of conflict.
9 The men of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned back on the day of battle;
10 They have not kept the covenant of God, And in His law they have refused to walk,
10 they did not keep God’s covenant and refused to live by his law.
11 And they forget His doings, And His wonders that He shewed them.
11 They forgot what he had done, the wonders he had shown them.
12 Before their fathers He hath done wonders, In the land of Egypt -- the field of Zoan.
12 He did miracles in the sight of their ancestors in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
13 He cleft a sea, and causeth them to pass over, Yea, He causeth waters to stand as a heap.
13 He divided the sea and led them through; he made the water stand up like a wall.
14 And leadeth them with a cloud by day, And all the night with a light of fire.
14 He guided them with the cloud by day and with light from the fire all night.
15 He cleaveth rocks in a wilderness, And giveth drink -- as the great deep.
15 He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them water as abundant as the seas;
16 And bringeth out streams from a rock, And causeth waters to come down as rivers.
16 he brought streams out of a rocky crag and made water flow down like rivers.
17 And they add still to sin against Him, To provoke the Most High in the dry place.
17 But they continued to sin against him, rebelling in the wilderness against the Most High.
18 And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust.
18 They willfully put God to the test by demanding the food they craved.
19 And they speak against God -- they said: `Is God able to array a table in a wilderness?'
19 They spoke against God; they said, “Can God really spread a table in the wilderness?
20 Lo, He hath smitten a rock, And waters flow, yea, streams overflow. `Also -- bread [is] He able to give? Doth He prepare flesh for His people?'
20 True, he struck the rock, and water gushed out, streams flowed abundantly, but can he also give us bread? Can he supply meat for his people?”
21 Therefore hath Jehovah heard, And He sheweth Himself wroth, And fire hath been kindled against Jacob, And anger also hath gone up against Israel,
21 When the LORD heard them, he was furious; his fire broke out against Jacob, and his wrath rose against Israel,
22 For they have not believed in God, Nor have they trusted in His salvation.
22 for they did not believe in God or trust in his deliverance.
23 And He commandeth clouds from above, Yea, doors of the heavens He hath opened.
23 Yet he gave a command to the skies above and opened the doors of the heavens;
24 And He raineth on them manna to eat, Yea, corn of heaven He hath given to them.
24 he rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them the grain of heaven.
25 Food of the mighty hath each eaten, Venison He sent to them to satiety.
25 Human beings ate the bread of angels; he sent them all the food they could eat.
26 He causeth an east wind to journey in the heavens, And leadeth by His strength a south wind,
26 He let loose the east wind from the heavens and by his power made the south wind blow.
27 And He raineth on them flesh as dust, And as sand of the seas -- winged fowl,
27 He rained meat down on them like dust, birds like sand on the seashore.
28 And causeth [it] to fall in the midst of His camp, Round about His tabernacles.
28 He made them come down inside their camp, all around their tents.
29 And they eat, and are greatly satisfied, And their desire He bringeth to them.
29 They ate till they were gorged— he had given them what they craved.
30 They have not been estranged from their desire, Yet [is] their food in their mouth,
30 But before they turned from what they craved, even while the food was still in their mouths,
31 And the anger of God hath gone up against them, And He slayeth among their fat ones, And youths of Israel He caused to bend.
31 God’s anger rose against them; he put to death the sturdiest among them, cutting down the young men of Israel.
32 With all this they have sinned again, And have not believed in His wonders.
32 In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; in spite of his wonders, they did not believe.
33 And He consumeth in vanity their days, And their years in trouble.
33 So he ended their days in futility and their years in terror.
34 If He slew them, then they sought Him, And turned back, and sought God earnestly,
34 Whenever God slew them, they would seek him; they eagerly turned to him again.
35 And they remember that God [is] their rock, And God Most High their redeemer.
35 They remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.
36 And -- they deceive Him with their mouth, And with their tongue do lie to Him,
36 But then they would flatter him with their mouths, lying to him with their tongues;
37 And their heart hath not been right with Him, And they have not been stedfast in His covenant.
37 their hearts were not loyal to him, they were not faithful to his covenant.
38 And He -- the Merciful One, Pardoneth iniquity, and destroyeth not, And hath often turned back His anger, And waketh not up all His fury.
38 Yet he was merciful; he forgave their iniquities and did not destroy them. Time after time he restrained his anger and did not stir up his full wrath.
39 And He remembereth that they [are] flesh, A wind going on -- and it returneth not.
39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
40 How often do they provoke Him in the wilderness, Grieve Him in the desolate place?
40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the wasteland!
41 Yea, they turn back, and try God, And the Holy One of Israel have limited.
41 Again and again they put God to the test; they vexed the Holy One of Israel.
42 They have not remembered His hand The day He ransomed them from the adversary.
42 They did not remember his power— the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,
43 When He set His signs in Egypt, And His wonders in the field of Zoan,
43 the day he displayed his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the region of Zoan.
44 And He turneth to blood their streams, And their floods they drink not.
44 He turned their river into blood; they could not drink from their streams.
45 He sendeth among them the beetle, and it consumeth them, And the frog, and it destroyeth them,
45 He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
46 And giveth to the caterpillar their increase, And their labour to the locust.
46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper, their produce to the locust.
47 He destroyeth with hail their vine, And their sycamores with frost,
47 He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
48 And delivereth up to the hail their beasts, And their cattle to the burning flames.
48 He gave over their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.
49 He sendeth on them the fury of His anger, Wrath, and indignation, and distress -- A discharge of evil messengers.
49 He unleashed against them his hot anger, his wrath, indignation and hostility— a band of destroying angels.
50 He pondereth a path for His anger, He kept not back their soul from death, Yea, their life to the pestilence He delivered up.
50 He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.
51 And He smiteth every first-born in Egypt, The first-fruit of the strong in tents of Ham.
51 He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt, the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.
52 And causeth His people to journey as a flock, And guideth them as a drove in a wilderness,
52 But he brought his people out like a flock; he led them like sheep through the wilderness.
53 And He leadeth them confidently, And they have not been afraid, And their enemies hath the sea covered.
53 He guided them safely, so they were unafraid; but the sea engulfed their enemies.
54 And He bringeth them in unto the border of His sanctuary, This mountain His right hand had got,
54 And so he brought them to the border of his holy land, to the hill country his right hand had taken.
55 And casteth out nations from before them, And causeth them to fall in the line of inheritance, And causeth the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents,
55 He drove out nations before them and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance; he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.
56 And they tempt and provoke God Most High, And His testimonies have not kept.
56 But they put God to the test and rebelled against the Most High; they did not keep his statutes.
57 And they turn back, And deal treacherously like their fathers, They have been turned like a deceitful bow,
57 Like their ancestors they were disloyal and faithless, as unreliable as a faulty bow.
58 And make Him angry with their high places, And with their graven images make Him zealous,
58 They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols.
59 God hath heard, and sheweth Himself wroth. And kicketh exceedingly against Israel.
59 When God heard them, he was furious; he rejected Israel completely.
60 And He leaveth the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent He had placed among men,
60 He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent he had set up among humans.
61 And He giveth His strength to captivity, And His beauty into the hand of an adversary,
61 He sent the ark of his might into captivity, his splendor into the hands of the enemy.
62 And delivereth up to the sword His people, And with His inheritance shewed Himself angry.
62 He gave his people over to the sword; he was furious with his inheritance.
63 His young men hath fire consumed, And His virgins have not been praised.
63 Fire consumed their young men, and their young women had no wedding songs;
64 His priests by the sword have fallen, And their widows weep not.
64 their priests were put to the sword, and their widows could not weep.
65 And the Lord waketh as a sleeper, As a mighty one crying aloud from wine.
65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, as a warrior wakes from the stupor of wine.
66 And He smiteth His adversaries backward, A reproach age-during He hath put on them,
66 He beat back his enemies; he put them to everlasting shame.
67 And He kicketh against the tent of Joseph, And on the tribe of Ephraim hath not fixed.
67 Then he rejected the tents of Joseph, he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;
68 And He chooseth the tribe of Judah, With mount Zion that He loved,
68 but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved.
69 And buildeth His sanctuary as a high place, Like the earth, He founded it to the age.
69 He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever.
70 And He fixeth on David His servant, And taketh him from the folds of a flock,
70 He chose David his servant and took him from the sheep pens;
71 From behind suckling ones He hath brought him in, To rule over Jacob His people, And over Israel His inheritance.
71 from tending the sheep he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel his inheritance.
72 And he ruleth them according to the integrity of his heart, And by the skilfulness of his hands leadeth them!
72 And David shepherded them with integrity of heart; with skillful hands he led them.
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