Psalms 78 — TOJB

78Verse 1(Maskil of Asaph)1 Give ear, O my people, to my torah;
incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
^{Verse 2}I will open my mouth in a mashal;
I will utter dark sayings from of old,
^{Verse 3}Which we have heard and known,
and Avoteinu have told us.
^{Verse 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.^{Verse 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;
^{Verse 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;
^{Verse 7}That they might put their confidence in Elohim,
and not forget the ma'allei El (works of G-d),
but keep His mitzvot;
^{Verse 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.^{Verse 9}The Bnei Ephrayim, being armed, and shooting keshet (the bows),
turned back in the day of battle.
^{Verse 10}They kept not the Brit Elohim,
and refused to walk in His torah;
^{Verse 11}And forgot His works,
and His nifla'ot (wonders) that He had shown them.
^{Verse 12}Peleh (marvellous things) did He in the sight of their avot,
in Eretz Mitzrayim, in the sadeh (area) of Tzoan.
^{Verse 13}He divided the yam, and caused them to pass through;
and He made the mayim to stand like a heap.
^{Verse 14}In the daytime also He led them with an anan,
and all the lailah with an ohr of eish.
^{Verse 15}He split the rocks in the midbar,
and gave them drink as out of the great tehomot.
^{Verse 16}He brought streams also out of the rock,
and caused mayim to run down like rivers.^{Verse 17}And they sinned yet more against Him
by provoking Elyon in the wilderness.
^{Verse 18}And they tested G-d by their lev
by demanding ochel for their lust.
^{Verse 19}And they spoke against Elohim;
they said, Can G-d spread a shulchan in the midbar?
^{Verse 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?^{Verse 21}Therefore Hashem heard this, and was in wrath;
so an eish was kindled against Ya'akov,
and anger also came up against Yisroel;
^{Verse 22}Because they believed not in Elohim,
and trusted not in His Yeshu'ah (salvation);
^{Verse 23}Though He had commanded the clouds from above,
and opened the daletei Shomayim (doors of heaven),
^{Verse 24}And had rained down manna upon them to eat,
and had given them of the bread of Shomayim.^{+
Verse 25}Ish did eat the bread of angels;
He sent them lechem to the full.
^{Verse 26}He caused an east wind to blow from Shomayim;
and by His oz He brought in the south wind.
^{Verse 27}He rained meat also upon them like aphar,
and winged fowls like the chol (sand) of the sea;
^{Verse 28}And He let it fall in the midst of their machaneh,
all around their mishkenot (habitations).
^{Verse 29}So they did eat, and were well filled;
for He gave them their own ta'avah (evil desire).
^{Verse 30}They were not estranged from their ta'avah.
But while their food was yet in their mouths,
^{Verse 31}The Af Elohim (wrath of G-d) came upon them,
and slaughtered the stoutest of them,
and cut down the bochurim of Yisroel.^{Verse 32}For all this they sinned still,
and believed not in His nifla'ot (wondrous works).
^{Verse 33}Therefore their yamim did He consume in hevel (futility, vanity)
and their shanim in terror.
^{Verse 34}When He slaughtered them, then they sought Him;
and they returned and inquired diligently after G-d.
^{Verse 35}And they remembered that Elohim was their Tzur,
and the El Elyon their Go'el (Redeemer).
^{Verse 36}Nevertheless they did flatter Him with their mouth,
and they lied unto Him with their leshon.
^{Verse 37}For their lev was not right with Him,
neither were they faithful in His Brit.
^{Verse 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.
^{Verse 39}For He remembered that they were but basar;
a ruach (wind) that passeth away, and cometh not again.
^{Verse 40}How oft did they provoke Him in the midbar,
and grieve Him in the desert!
^{Verse 41}Again and again they turned back and tested G-d,
and imposed limits on Kadosh Yisroel.
^{Verse 42}They remembered not His Yad (Hand, Power),
nor the yom (day) when He redeemed them from the enemy.
^{Verse 43}How He had wrought His otot in Mitzrayim,
and His mofetim in the area of Tzoan.
^{Verse 44}And had turned their rivers into dahm;
and their streams, that they could not drink.
^{Verse 45}He sent swarms of flies among them,
which devoured them;
and tzfarde'a (frogs), which destroyed them.
^{Verse 46}He gave also their crop unto the grasshopper,
and their produce unto the arbeh (locust).
^{Verse 47}He destroyed their gefen with barad (hail),
and their fig trees with frost.
^{Verse 48}He gave up their cattle also to the barad (hail),
and their livestock herds to hot thunderbolts.
^{Verse 49}He cast upon them His charon af,
evrah (wrath), and za'am (indignation), and tzarah,
by sending malachim ra'im among them.
^{Verse 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);
^{Verse 51}And struck all the bechor in Mitzrayim;
the reshit (first fruit) of their strength in the ohalim of Cham;
^{Verse 52}But made His own people to go forth like tzon,
and guided them in the midbar like an eder (flock).
^{Verse 53}And He led them in safety, so that they had no terror;
but the yam overwhelmed their oyevim.
^{Verse 54}And He brought them to His gevul kadosh (His holy border),
even to this Har, which His Yamin had purchased.
^{Verse 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.^{Verse 56}Yet they tested and provoked Elohim Elyon,
and were not shomer over His edot;
^{Verse 57}But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their avot;
they turned like a treacherous keshet.
^{Verse 58}For they provoked Him to anger with their high places,
and moved Him to jealousy with their pesilim.
^{Verse 59}When Elohim heard this, He was in wrath,
and greatly abhorred Yisroel;
^{Verse 60}So that He forsook the Mishkan of Shiloh,
the Ohel which He placed among adam (men);
^{Verse 61}And delivered His oz (strength) into captivity,
and His tiferet into the hand of the enemy.
^{Verse 62}He gave His people over also unto the cherev;
and was in wrath with His nachalah.
^{Verse 63}The eish consumed their bochurim;
and their betulot had no wedding celebration.
^{Verse 64}Their kohanim fell by the cherev;
and their almanot made no lamentation.
^{Verse 65}Then Adonoi awaked as one from sleep,
and like a gibbor that shouteth from yayin.
^{Verse 66}And He struck down His enemies behind;
He put them to cherpat olam (perpetual reproach).^{Verse 67}Moreover He rejected the Ohel Yosef,
and chose not the Shevet Ephrayim;
^{Verse 68}But chose the Shevet Yehudah,
Har Tziyon which He loved.
^{Verse 69}And He built His Mikdash like heavenly heights,
like Eretz which He hath established l'olam.
^{Verse 70}He chose Dovid also His Eved,
and took him from the mikhle'ot tzon (sheepfolds);
^{Verse 71}From following the nursing ewes He brought him
to shepherd Ya'akov His people,
and Yisroel His nachalah.
^{Verse 72}So he shepherded them according to the tohm (integrity, guilelessness) of his lev;
and led them by the skillfulness of his hands.