Salmos 78:4-14

4 No lo ocultaremos a sus hijos, sino que contaremos a la generación venidera las alabanzas del SEÑOR, su poder y las maravillas que hizo.

5 Porque El estableció un testimonio en Jacob, y puso una ley en Israel, la cual ordenó a nuestros padres que enseñaran a sus hijos;

6 para que la generación venidera lo supiera, aun los hijos que habían de nacer; y éstos se levantaran y lo contaran a sus hijos,

7 para que ellos pusieran su confianza en Dios, y no se olvidaran de las obras de Dios, sino que guardaran sus mandamientos;

8 y no fueran como sus padres, una generación porfiada y rebelde, generación que no preparó su corazón, y cuyo espíritu no fue fiel a Dios.

9 Los hijos de Efraín eran arqueros bien equipados, pero volvieron las espaldas el día de la batalla.

10 No guardaron el pacto de Dios, y rehusaron andar en su ley;

11 olvidaron sus obras, y los milagros que les había mostrado.

12 El hizo maravillas en presencia de sus padres, en la tierra de Egipto, en el campo de Zoán.

13 Dividió el mar y los hizo pasar, y contuvo las aguas como en un montón.

14 Después los guió de día con la nube, y toda la noche con un resplandor de fuego.

Salmos 78:4-14 Meaning and Commentary

Maschil of Asaph. Or for "Asaph" {f}; a doctrinal and "instructive" psalm, as the word "Maschil" signifies; see Psalm 32:1, which was delivered to Asaph to be sung; the Targum is, "the understanding of the Holy Spirit by the hands of Asaph." Some think David was the penman of it; but from the latter part of it, in which mention is made of him, and of his government of the people of Israel, it looks as if it was wrote by another, and after his death, though not long after, since the account is carried on no further than his times; and therefore it is probable enough it was written by Asaph, the chief singer, that lived in that age: whoever was the penman of it, it is certain he was a prophet, and so was Asaph, who is called a seer, the same with a prophet, and who is said to prophesy, 2 Chronicles 29:30 and also that he represented Christ; for that the Messiah is the person that is introduced speaking in this psalm is clear from Matthew 13:34 and the whole may be considered as a discourse of his to the Jews of his time; giving them an history of the Israelites from their first coming out of Egypt to the times of David, and in it an account of the various benefits bestowed upon them, of their great ingratitude, and of the divine resentment; the design of which is to admonish and caution them against committing the like sins, lest they should be rejected of God, as their fathers were, and perish: some Jewish writers, as Arama observes, interpret this psalm of the children of Ephraim going out of Egypt before the time appointed.

Footnotes

• [a]. O, hizo recto