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Psalms 78

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1 <Maschil. Of Asaph.> Give ear, O my people, to my law; let your ears be bent down to the words of my mouth.

2 Opening my mouth I will give out a story, even the dark sayings of old times;

3 Which have come to our hearing and our knowledge, as they were given to us by our fathers.

4 We will not keep them secret from our children; we will make clear to the coming generation the praises of the Lord and his strength, and the great works of wonder which he has done.

5 He put up a witness in Jacob, and made a law in Israel; which he gave to our fathers so that they might give knowledge of them to their children;

6 So that the generation to come might have knowledge of them, even the children of the future, who would give word of them to their children;

7 So that they might put their hope in God, and not let God's works go out of their minds, but keep his laws;

8 And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.

9 The children of Ephraim, armed with bows, were turned back on the day of the fight.

10 They were not ruled by God's word, and they would not go in the way of his law;

11 They let his works go out of their memory, and the wonders which he had made them see.

12 He did great works before the eyes of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.

13 The sea was cut in two so that they might go through; the waters were massed together on this side and on that.

14 In the daytime he was guiding them in the cloud, and all through the night with a light of fire.

15 The rocks of the waste land were broken by his power, and he gave them drink as out of the deep waters.

16 He made streams come out of the rock; and waters came flowing down like rivers.

17 And they went on sinning against him even more, turning away from the Most High in the waste land;

18 Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire.

19 They said bitter words against God, saying, Is God able to make ready a table in the waste land?

20 See, the rock was cut open by his power, so that the water came rushing out, and overflowing streams; is he able to give us bread? is he able to get meat for his people?

21 So these things came to the Lord's ears, and he was angry; and a fire was lighted against Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel;

22 Because they had no faith in God, and no hope in his salvation.

23 And he gave orders to the clouds on high, and the doors of heaven were open;

24 And he sent down manna like rain for their food, and gave them the grain of heaven.

25 Man took part in the food of strong ones; he sent them meat in full measure.

26 He sent an east wind from heaven, driving on the south wind by his power.

27 He sent down meat on them like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the sea,

28 And he let it come down into their resting-place, round about their tents.

29 So they had food and were full; for he gave them their desire;

30 But they were not turned from their desires; and while the food was still in their mouths,

31 The wrath of God came on them, and put to death the fattest of them, and put an end to the young men of Israel.

32 For all this they went on sinning even more, and had no faith in his great wonders.

33 So their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble.

34 When he sent death on them, then they made search for him; turning to him and looking for him with care;

35 In the memory that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their saviour.

36 But their lips were false to him, and their tongues were untrue to him;

37 And their hearts were not right with him, and they did not keep their agreement with him.

38 But he, being full of pity, has forgiveness for sin, and does not put an end to man: frequently turning back his wrath, and not being violently angry.

39 So he kept in mind that they were only flesh; a breath which is quickly gone, and will not come again.

40 How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!

41 Again they put God to the test, and gave pain to the Holy One of Israel.

42 They did not keep in mind the work of his hand, or the day when he took them from the power of their haters;

43 How he had done his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan;

44 So that their rivers were turned to blood, and they were not able to get drink from their streams.

45 He sent different sorts of flies among them, poisoning their flesh; and frogs for their destruction.

46 He gave the increase of their fields to worms, the fruits of their industry to the locusts.

47 He sent ice for the destruction of their vines; their trees were damaged by the bitter cold.

48 Ice was rained down on their cattle; thunderstorms sent destruction among the flocks.

49 He sent on them the heat of his wrath, his bitter disgust, letting loose evil angels among them.

50 He let his wrath have its way; he did not keep back their soul from death, but gave their life to disease.

51 He gave to destruction all the first sons of Egypt; the first-fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham;

52 But he took his people out like sheep, guiding them in the waste land like a flock.

53 He took them on safely so that they had no fear; but their haters were covered by the sea.

54 And he was their guide to his holy land, even to the mountain, which his right hand had made his;

55 Driving out nations before them, marking out the line of their heritage, and giving the people of Israel their tents for a resting-place.

56 But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;

57 Their hearts were turned back and untrue like their fathers; they were turned to one side like a twisted bow.

58 They made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images.

59 When this came to God's ears he was very angry, and gave up Israel completely;

60 So that he went away from the holy place in Shiloh, the tent which he had put among men;

61 And he let his strength be taken prisoner, and gave his glory into the hands of his hater.

62 He gave his people up to the sword, and was angry with his heritage.

63 Their young men were burned in the fire; and their virgins were not praised in the bride-song.

64 Their priests were put to death by the sword, and their widows made no weeping for them.

65 Then was the Lord like one awaking from sleep, and like a strong man crying out because of wine.

66 His haters were turned back by his blows and shamed for ever.

67 And he put the tent of Joseph on one side, and took not the tribe of Ephraim;

68 But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.

69 And he made his holy place like the high heaven, like the earth which is fixed by him for ever.

70 He took David to be his servant, taking him from the place of the flocks;

71 From looking after the sheep which were giving milk, he took him to give food to Jacob his people, and to Israel his heritage.

72 So he gave them food with an upright heart, guiding them by the wisdom of his hands.

Orthodox Jewish Bible OJB

1 8 (Maskil of Asaph.) Give ear, O my people, to my torah; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

2 I will open my mouth in a mashal; I will utter dark sayings from of old,

3 Which we have heard and known, and Avoteinu have told us.

4 We will not hide them from their banim, recounting to the dor acharon the tehillot Hashem, and His power, and His nifla’ot (wonderful works) that He hath done.

5 For He established edut in Ya’akov, set torah in Yisroel, which He commanded Avoteinu, that they should make them known to their banim;

6 So that the dor acharon might know them, even the banim which should be born; who should arise and recount them to their banim;

7 That they might put their confidence in Elohim, and not forget the ma’allei El (works of G-d), but keep His mitzvot;

8 And might not be as their Avot, a dor sorer u’moreh (stubborn and rebellious generation); a generation that set not its lev aright, and whose ruach was not faithful to G-d.

9 The Bnei Ephrayim, being armed, and shooting keshet (the bows), turned back in the day of battle.

10 They kept not the Brit Elohim, and refused to walk in His torah;

11 And forgot His works, and His nifla’ot (wonders) that He had shown them.

12 Peleh (marvellous things) did He in the sight of their avot, in Eretz Mitzrayim, in the sadeh (area) of Tzoan.

13 He divided the yam, and caused them to pass through; and He made the mayim to stand like a heap.

14 In the daytime also He led them with an anan, and all the lailah with an ohr of eish.

15 He split the rocks in the midbar, and gave them drink as out of the great tehomot.

16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused mayim to run down like rivers.

17 And they sinned yet more against Him by provoking Elyon in the wilderness.

18 And they tested G-d by their lev by demanding ochel for their lust.

19 And they spoke against Elohim; they said, Can G-d spread a shulchan in the midbar?

20 Behold, He struck the Tzur, that the mayim gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can He give lechem also? Can He provide meat for His people?

21 Therefore Hashem heard this, and was in wrath; so an eish was kindled against Ya’akov, and anger also came up against Yisroel;

22 Because they believed not in Elohim, and trusted not in His Yeshuah (salvation);

23 Though He had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the daletei Shomayim (doors of heaven),

24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the bread of Shomayim [see Yn 6:31 OJBC].

25 Ish did eat the bread of angels; He sent them lechem to the full.

26 He caused an east wind to blow from Shomayim; and by His oz He brought in the south wind.

27 He rained meat also upon them like aphar, and winged fowls like the chol (sand) of the sea;

28 And He let it fall in the midst of their machaneh, all around their mishkenot (habitations).

29 So they did eat, and were well filled; for He gave them their own ta’avah (evil desire).

30 They were not estranged from their ta’avah. But while their food was yet in their mouths,

31 The Af Elohim (wrath of G-d) came upon them, and slaughtered the stoutest of them, and cut down the bochurim of Yisroel.

32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not in His nifla’ot (wondrous works).

33 Therefore their yamim did He consume in hevel (futility, vanity) and their shanim in terror.

34 When He slaughtered them, then they sought Him; and they returned and inquired diligently after G-d.

35 And they remembered that Elohim was their Tzur, and the El Elyon their Go’el (Redeemer).

36 Nevertheless they did flatter Him with their mouth, and they lied unto Him with their leshon.

37 For their lev was not right with Him, neither were they faithful in His Brit.

38 But He, being full of compassion, made kapporah for their avon and destroyed them not; and He many times turned His anger away, and did not stir up all His wrath.

39 For He remembered that they were but basar; a ruach (wind) that passeth away, and cometh not again.

40 How oft did they provoke Him in the midbar, and grieve Him in the desert!

41 Again and again they turned back and tested G-d, and imposed limits on Kadosh Yisroel.

42 They remembered not His Yad (Hand, Power), nor the yom (day) when He redeemed them from the enemy.

43 How He had wrought His otot in Mitzrayim, and His mofetim in the area of Tzoan.

44 And had turned their rivers into dahm; and their streams, that they could not drink.

45 He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them; and tzfarde’a (frogs), which destroyed them.

46 He gave also their crop unto the grasshopper, and their produce unto the arbeh (locust).

47 He destroyed their gefen with barad (hail), and their fig trees with frost.

48 He gave up their cattle also to the barad (hail), and their livestock herds to hot thunderbolts.

49 He cast upon them His charon af, evrah (wrath), and za’am (indignation), and tzarah, by sending malachim ra’im among them.

50 He made a way for His anger; He spared not their nefesh from mavet (death), but gave their beasts over to the dever (plague);

51 And struck all the bechor in Mitzrayim; the reshit (first fruit) of their strength in the ohalim of Cham;

52 But made His own people to go forth like tzon, and guided them in the midbar like an eder (flock).

53 And He led them in safety, so that they had no terror; but the yam overwhelmed their oyevim.

54 And He brought them to His gevul kadosh (His holy border), even to this Har, which His Yamin had purchased.

55 He cast out the Goyim also before them, and divided by measure a nachalah for them, and made the Shivtei Yisroel to dwell in their ohalim.

56 Yet they tested and provoked Elohim Elyon, and were not shomer over His edot;

57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their avot; they turned like a treacherous keshet.

58 For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their pesilim.

59 When Elohim heard this, He was in wrath, and greatly abhorred Yisroel;

60 So that He forsook the Mishkan of Shiloh, the Ohel which He placed among adam (men);

61 And delivered His oz (strength) into captivity, and His tiferet into the hand of the enemy.

62 He gave His people over also unto the cherev; and was in wrath with His nachalah.

63 The eish consumed their bochurim; and their betulot had no wedding celebration.

64 Their kohanim fell by the cherev; and their almanot made no lamentation.

65 Then Adonoi awaked as one from sleep, and like a gibbor that shouteth from yayin.

66 And He struck down His enemies behind; He put them to cherpat olam (perpetual reproach).

67 Moreover He rejected the Ohel Yosef, and chose not the Shevet Ephrayim;

68 But chose the Shevet Yehudah, Har Tziyon which He loved.

69 And He built His Mikdash like heavenly heights, like Eretz which He hath established l’olam.

70 He chose Dovid also His Eved, and took him from the mikhle’ot tzon (sheepfolds);

71 From following the nursing ewes He brought him to shepherd Ya’akov His people, and Yisroel His nachalah.

72 So he shepherded them according to the tohm (integrity, guilelessness) of his lev; and led them by the skillfulness of his hands.