The Psalms
capítulo 78
verso 1
A contemplation by Asaph. Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
verso 2
I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,
verso 3
which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
verso 4
We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.
verso 5
For he established a covenant in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;
verso 6
that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,
verso 7
that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God’s deeds, but keep his commandments,
verso 8
and might not be as their fathers— a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
verso 9
The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
verso 10
They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law.
verso 11
They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.
verso 12
He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
verso 13
He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.
verso 14
In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.
verso 15
He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
verso 16
He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
verso 17
Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
verso 18
They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
verso 19
Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
verso 20
Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide meat for his people?”
verso 21
Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,
verso 22
because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his salvation.
verso 23
Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.
verso 24
He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.
verso 25
Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.
verso 26
He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.
verso 27
He also rained meat on them as the dust, winged birds as the sand of the seas.
verso 28
He let them fall in the middle of their camp, around their habitations.
verso 29
So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.
verso 30
They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,
verso 31
when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their strongest, and struck down the young men of Israel.
verso 32
For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.
verso 33
Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
verso 34
When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.
verso 35
They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.
verso 36
But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.
verso 37
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.
verso 38
But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.
verso 39
He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.
verso 40
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!
verso 41
They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
verso 42
They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
verso 43
how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,
verso 44
he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.
verso 45
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
verso 46
He also gave their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.
verso 47
He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.
verso 48
He also gave over their livestock to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
verso 49
He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.
verso 50
He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,
verso 51
and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
verso 52
But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
verso 53
He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
verso 54
He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.
verso 55
He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
verso 56
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies,
verso 57
but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were twisted like a deceitful bow.
verso 58
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
verso 59
When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel,
verso 60
so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men,
verso 61
and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand.
verso 62
He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.
verso 63
Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.
verso 64
Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep.
verso 65
Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
verso 66
He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.
verso 67
Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,
verso 68
But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
verso 69
He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.
verso 70
He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
verso 71
from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.
verso 72
So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
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