Psalms 78 — LSV

78Verse 1AN INSTRUCTION OF ASAPH. Give ear, O my people, to my law, || Incline your ear to sayings of my mouth.^{Verse 2}I open my mouth with an allegory, || I bring forth hidden things of old,^{Verse 3}That we have heard and know, || And our fathers have recounted to us.^{Verse 4}We do not hide from their sons, || Recounting praises of YHWH to a later generation, || And His strength, and His wonders that He has done.^{Verse 5}And He raises up a testimony in Jacob, || And has placed a law in Israel, || That He commanded our fathers, || To make them known to their sons.^{Verse 6}So that a later generation knows, || Sons who are born, rise and recount to their sons,^{Verse 7}And place their confidence in God, || And do not forget the doings of God, || But keep His commands.^{Verse 8}And they are not like their fathers, || A generation apostatizing and being rebellious, || A generation—it has not prepared its heart, || Nor [is] its spirit steadfast with God.^{Verse 9}Sons of Ephraim—armed bearers of bow, || Have turned in a day of conflict.^{Verse 10}They have not kept the covenant of God, || And they have refused to walk in His law,^{Verse 11}And they forget His doings, || And His wonders that He showed them.^{Verse 12}He has done wonders before their fathers, || In the land of Egypt—the field of Zoan.^{Verse 13}He cleft a sea, and causes them to pass over, || Indeed, He causes waters to stand as a heap.^{Verse 14}And leads them with a cloud by day, || And with a light of fire all the night.^{Verse 15}He cleaves rocks in a wilderness, || And gives drink—as the great deep.^{Verse 16}And brings out streams from a rock, || And causes waters to come down as rivers.^{Verse 17}And they still add to sin against Him, || To provoke the Most High in the dry place.^{Verse 18}And they try God in their heart, || To ask food for their lust.^{Verse 19}And they speak against God—they said: “Is God able to array a table in a wilderness?”^{Verse 20}Behold, He has struck a rock, || And waters flow, indeed, streams overflow. “Also, [is] He able to give bread? Does He prepare flesh for His people?”^{Verse 21}Therefore YHWH has heard, || And He shows Himself angry, || And fire has been kindled against Jacob, || And anger has also gone up against Israel,^{Verse 22}For they have not believed in God, || Nor have they trusted in His salvation.^{Verse 23}And He commands clouds from above, || Indeed, He has opened doors of the heavens.^{Verse 24}And He rains manna on them to eat, || Indeed, He has given grain of the heavens to them.^{Verse 25}Each has eaten food of the mighty, || He sent provision to them to satiety.^{Verse 26}He causes an east wind to journey in the heavens, || And leads a south wind by His strength,^{Verse 27}And He rains on them flesh as dust, || And as sand of the seas—winged bird,^{Verse 28}And causes [it] to fall in the midst of His camp, || Around His dwelling places.^{Verse 29}And they eat, and are greatly satisfied, || And He brings their desire to them.^{Verse 30}They have not been estranged from their desire, || Their food [is] yet in their mouth,^{Verse 31}And the anger of God has gone up against them, || And He slays among their fat ones, || And He caused youths of Israel to bend.^{Verse 32}With all this they have sinned again, || And have not believed in His wonders.^{Verse 33}And He consumes their days in vanity, || And their years in trouble.^{Verse 34}If He slew them, then they sought Him, || And turned back, and earnestly sought God,^{Verse 35}And they remember that God [is] their rock, || And God Most High their redeemer.^{Verse 36}And they deceive Him with their mouth, || And lie to Him with their tongue,^{Verse 37}And their heart has not been right with Him, || And they have not been steadfast in His covenant.^{Verse 38}And He, the Merciful One, pardons iniquity, and does not destroy, || And has often turned back His anger, || And does not awaken all His fury.^{Verse 39}And He remembers that they [are] flesh, || A wind going on—and it does not return.^{Verse 40}How often do they provoke Him in the wilderness, || Grieve Him in the desolate place?^{Verse 41}Indeed, they turn back, and try God, || And have limited the Holy One of Israel.^{Verse 42}They have not remembered His hand || The day He ransomed them from the adversary.^{Verse 43}When He set His signs in Egypt, || And His wonders in the field of Zoan,^{Verse 44}And He turns their streams to blood, || And they do not drink their floods.^{Verse 45}He sends among them the beetle, and it consumes them, || And the frog, and it destroys them,^{Verse 46}And gives their increase to the caterpillar, || And their labor to the locust.^{Verse 47}He destroys their vine with hail, || And their sycamores with frost,^{Verse 48}And delivers their beasts up to the hail, || And their livestock to the burning flames.^{Verse 49}He sends on them the fury of His anger, || Wrath, and indignation, and distress—A discharge of evil messengers.^{Verse 50}He ponders a path for His anger, || He did not keep back their soul from death, || Indeed, He delivered up their life to the pestilence.^{Verse 51}And He strikes every firstborn in Egypt, || The first-fruit of the strong in tents of Ham.^{Verse 52}And causes His people to journey as a flock, || And guides them as a drove in a wilderness,^{Verse 53}And He leads them confidently, || And they have not been afraid, || And the sea has covered their enemies.^{Verse 54}And He brings them to the border of His sanctuary, || This mountain His right hand had acquired,^{Verse 55}And casts out nations from before them, || And causes them to fall in the line of inheritance, || And causes the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents,^{Verse 56}And they tempt and provoke God Most High, || And have not kept His testimonies.^{Verse 57}And they turn back, || And deal treacherously like their fathers, || They have been turned like a deceitful bow,^{Verse 58}And make Him angry with their high places, || And make Him zealous with their carved images,^{Verse 59}God has heard, and shows Himself angry. And kicks exceedingly against Israel.^{Verse 60}And He leaves the Dwelling Place of Shiloh, || The tent He had placed among men,^{Verse 61}And He gives His strength to captivity, || And His beauty into the hand of an adversary,^{Verse 62}And delivers His people up to the sword, || And showed Himself angry with His inheritance.^{Verse 63}Fire has consumed His young men, || And His virgins have not been praised.^{Verse 64}His priests have fallen by the sword, || And their widows do not weep.^{Verse 65}And the Lord wakes as a sleeper, || As a mighty one crying aloud from wine.^{Verse 66}And He strikes His adversaries backward, || He has put a continuous reproach on them,^{Verse 67}And He kicks against the tent of Joseph, || And has not fixed on the tribe of Ephraim.^{Verse 68}And He chooses the tribe of Judah, || With Mount Zion that He loved,^{Verse 69}And builds His sanctuary as a high place, || Like the earth, He founded it for all time.^{Verse 70}And He fixes on His servant David, || And takes him from the folds of a flock,^{Verse 71}He has brought him in from behind suckling ones, || To rule over Jacob His people, || And over Israel His inheritance.^{Verse 72}And he rules them according to the integrity of his heart, || And leads them by the skillfulness of his hands!