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Psalm 78:1-10

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1 Ein Maskil; von Asaph. Horche, mein Volk, auf mein Gesetz! Neiget euer Ohr zu den Worten meines Mundes!
2 Ich will meinen Mund auftun zu einem Spruche, will RÀtsel hervorströmen lassen aus der Vorzeit.
3 Was wir gehört und erfahren und unsere VÀter uns erzÀhlt haben,
4 wollen wir nicht verhehlen ihren Söhnen, dem kĂŒnftigen Geschlecht erzĂ€hlend den Ruhm Jehovas und seine StĂ€rke, und seine Wunderwerke, die er getan hat.
5 Denn er hat ein Zeugnis aufgerichtet in Jakob, und ein Gesetz gestellt in Israel, die er unseren VÀtern geboten hat, um sie ihren Söhnen kundzutun;
6 damit sie kennte das kĂŒnftige Geschlecht, die Söhne, die geboren werden sollten, und sie aufstĂ€nden und sie ihren Söhnen erzĂ€hlten;
7 und auf Gott ihr Vertrauen setzten, und die Taten Gottes nicht vergĂ€ĂŸen, und seine Gebote bewahrten;
8 und nicht wĂŒrden wie ihre VĂ€ter, ein widersetzliches und widerspenstiges Geschlecht, ein Geschlecht, das sein Herz nicht befestigte, und dessen Geist nicht treu war gegen Gott.
9 Die Söhne Ephraims, gerĂŒstete BogenschĂŒtzen, wandten um am Tage des Kampfes.
10 Sie hielten nicht den Bund Gottes und weigerten sich, in seinem Gesetz zu wandeln;

Psalm 78:1-10 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.
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