Psalms 78
1 A maskil of Asaph. My people, attend to my teaching: bend your ears to the words of my mouth,
Maskil to/for Asaph to listen [emph?] people my instruction my to stretch ear your to/for word lip my
2 as I open my mouth in a poem on the riddling story of the past.
to open in/on/with proverb lip my to bubble riddle from front: old
3 What we have heard and known, and what our ancestors have told us,
which to hear: hear and to know them and father our to recount to/for us
4 we will not hide from their children. We will tell to the next generation the praises and might of the Lord, and the wonders that he has done.
not to hide from son: child their to/for generation last to recount praise LORD and strength his and to wonder his which to make: do
5 He set up a testimony in Jacob, a law he appointed in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to make known to their children,
and to arise: establish testimony in/on/with Jacob and instruction to set: appoint in/on/with Israel which to command [obj] father our to/for to know them to/for son: child their
6 that the next generation should know it, that the children yet to be born should arise and tell their children;
because to know generation last son: child to beget to arise: rise and to recount to/for son: child their
7 that in God they might put their confidence, and not forget God’s works; but that they might keep his commandments,
and to set: make in/on/with God loin their and not to forget deed God and commandment his to watch
8 and not be like their ancestors, a generation defiant and stubborn, a generation with heart unsteady, and spirit unfaithful towards God.
and not to be like/as father their generation to rebel and to rebel generation not to establish: establish heart his and not be faithful with God spirit his
9 Ephraimites, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle.
son: descendant/people Ephraim to handle to shoot bow to overturn in/on/with day battle
10 They did not keep God’s covenant, they refused to walk in his law.
not to keep: obey covenant God and in/on/with instruction his to refuse to/for to go: walk
11 They forgot what he had done, and the wonders he had shown them.
and to forget wantonness his and to wonder his which to see: see them
12 He did wonders before their ancestors in the country of Zoan in Egypt.
before father their to make: do wonder in/on/with land: country/planet Egypt land: country Zoan
13 Through the sea which he split he brought them, making waters stand up like a heap;
to break up/open sea and to pass: bring them and to stand water like heap
14 he led them by day with a cloud, all the night with a light of fire.
and to lead them in/on/with cloud by day and all [the] night in/on/with light fire
15 From the rocks which he split in the wilderness, he gave them to drink as of ocean’s abundance.
to break up/open rock in/on/with wilderness and to water: drink like/as abyss many
16 He brought streams out of the rock, and made water run down like rivers.
and to come out: issue to flow from crag and to go down like/as river water
17 Yet they still went on sinning against him, they defied the Most High in the desert.
and to add: again still to/for to sin to/for him to/for to rebel Most High in/on/with dryness
18 They wilfully challenged God, demanding the food that they longed for.
and to test God in/on/with heart their to/for to ask food to/for soul: appetite their
19 ‘Is God able,’ such was their challenge, ‘to spread in the desert a table?
and to speak: speak in/on/with God to say be able God to/for to arrange table in/on/with wilderness
20 From the rock that he struck there gushed water, and torrents that overflowed; but can he also give bread, or provide his people with meat?’
look! to smite rock and to flow: flowing water and torrent: river to overflow also food: bread be able to give: give if: surely no to establish: prepare flesh to/for people his
21 When the Lord heard this, he was furious, and fire was kindled on Jacob, anger flared up against Israel.
to/for so to hear: hear LORD and be angry and fire to kindle in/on/with Jacob and also face: anger to ascend: rise in/on/with Israel
22 For they put no trust in God, no confidence in his help.
for not be faithful in/on/with God and not to trust in/on/with salvation his
23 So he summoned the clouds above; and, opening the doors of heaven,
and to command cloud from above and door heaven to open
24 he rained manna upon them for food, and grain of heaven he gave them.
and to rain upon them manna to/for to eat and grain heaven to give: give to/for them
25 Everyone ate the bread of angels; he sent them food to the full.
food: bread mighty: angel to eat man: anyone provision to send: depart to/for them to/for satiety
26 He launched the east wind in the heavens, and guided the south by his power.
to set out east in/on/with heaven and to lead in/on/with strength his south
27 He rained meat upon them like dust, winged bird like the sand of the sea.
and to rain upon them like/as dust flesh and like/as sand sea bird wing
28 In the midst of their camp he dropped it, all around their tents.
and to fall: fall in/on/with entrails: among camp his around to/for tabernacle his
29 They ate and were more than filled; he had brought them the thing they desired.
and to eat and to satisfy much and desire their to come (in): bring to/for them
30 But the thing they desired became loathsome: while their food was still in their mouths,
not be a stranger from desire their still food their in/on/with lip their
31 the wrath of God rose against them. He slew the stoutest among them, and laid low the young men of Israel.
and face: anger God to ascend: rise in/on/with them and to kill in/on/with fatness their and youth Israel to bow
32 Yet for all this they sinned yet more, and refused to believe in his wonders.
in/on/with all this to sin still and not be faithful in/on/with to wonder his
33 So he ended their days in a breath, and their years in sudden dismay.
and to end: expend in/on/with vanity day their and year their in/on/with dismay
34 When he slew them, then they sought after him, they turned and sought God with diligence.
if to kill them and to seek him and to return: repent and to seek God
35 They remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God their redeemer.
and to remember for God rock their and El (Most High) (LORD) Most High to redeem: redeem their
36 But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.
and to entice him in/on/with lip their and in/on/with tongue their to lie to/for him
37 Their heart was not steady with him, they were faithless to his covenant.
and heart their not to establish: establish with him and not be faithful in/on/with covenant his
38 But he is full of pity: he pardons sin and destroys not. Often he turns his anger away, without stirring his wrath at all.
and he/she/it compassionate to atone iniquity: crime and not to ruin and to multiply to/for to return: repent face: anger his and not to rouse all rage his
39 So he remembered that they were but flesh, breath that passes and does not return.
and to remember for flesh they(masc.) spirit: breath to go: walk and not to return: return
40 But how often they rebelled in the desert, and caused him grief in the wilderness,
like/as what? to rebel him in/on/with wilderness to hurt him in/on/with wilderness
41 tempting God again and again, provoking the Holy One of Israel.
and to return: again and to test God and holy Israel to wound
42 They did not remember his strength, nor the day he redeemed from the foe,
not to remember [obj] hand: power his day which to ransom them from enemy
43 how he set his signs in Egypt, in the country of Zoan his wonders.
which to set: put in/on/with Egypt sign: miraculous his and wonder his in/on/with land: country Zoan
44 He turned their canals into blood, their streams undrinkable.
and to overturn to/for blood stream their and to flow their not to drink [emph?]
45 He sent forth flies, which devoured them; frogs, too, which destroyed them.
to send: depart in/on/with them swarm and to eat them and frog and to ruin them
46 Their crops he gave to the caterpillar, and the fruits of their toil to the locust.
and to give: give to/for locust crops their and toil their to/for locust
47 He slew their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost.
to kill in/on/with hail vine their and sycamore their in/on/with frost
48 He delivered their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to bolts of fire.
and to shut to/for hail cattle their and livestock their to/for flash
49 He let loose his hot anger among them, fury and wrath and distress, a band of destroying angels.
to send: let go in/on/with them burning anger face: anger his fury and indignation and distress deputation messenger: angel bad: harmful
50 He cleared a path for his anger, did not spare them from death, but gave them over to pestilence.
to envy path to/for face: anger his not to withhold from death soul: myself their and living thing their to/for pestilence to shut
51 He struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, the first fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham.
and to smite all firstborn in/on/with Egypt first: beginning strength in/on/with tent Ham
52 He led forth his people like sheep, he was guide to his flock in the desert.
and to set out like/as flock people his and to lead them like/as flock in/on/with wilderness
53 Securely he led them, and free from fear, while their foes were drowned in the sea.
and to lead them to/for security and not to dread and [obj] enemy their to cover [the] sea
54 To his holy realm he brought them, to the mountain his right hand had purchased.
and to come (in): bring them to(wards) border: boundary holiness his mountain: mount this to buy right his
55 He drove out the nations before them, and allotted their land for possession, and their tents for Israel to live in.
and to drive out: drive out from face: before their nation and to fall: allot them in/on/with cord inheritance and to dwell in/on/with tent their tribe Israel
56 Yet they tempted and angered the Most High God, they did not observe his decrees.
and to test and to rebel [obj] God Most High and testimony his not to keep: obey
57 They drew back, false like their ancestors; they failed like a treacherous bow.
and to turn and to act treacherously like/as father their to overturn like/as bow deceit
58 Their shrines stirred him to anger, their idols moved him to jealousy.
and to provoke him in/on/with high place their and in/on/with idol their be jealous him
59 When God heard of this, he was furious, and he spurned Israel utterly.
to hear: hear God and be angry and to reject much in/on/with Israel
60 He abandoned his home in Shiloh, the tent he had pitched among people.
and to leave tabernacle Shiloh tent to dwell in/on/with man
61 He gave his strength up to captivity, his glory to the hands of the foe.
and to give: give to/for captivity strength his and beauty his in/on/with hand: power enemy
62 He gave his people to the sword, he was furious with his own.
and to shut to/for sword people his and in/on/with inheritance his be angry
63 Fire devoured their young men, and their maidens had no marriage-song.
youth his to eat fire and virgin his not to boast: praise
64 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows could not weep.
priest his in/on/with sword to fall: kill and widow his not to weep
65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a warrior flushed with wine;
and to awake like/as sleeping Lord like/as mighty man to overcome from wine
66 and he beat back his foes, putting them to perpetual scorn.
and to smite enemy his back reproach forever: enduring to give: put to/for them
67 He disowned the tent of Joseph, he rejected the tribe of Ephraim;
and to reject in/on/with tent Joseph and in/on/with tribe Ephraim not to choose
68 but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loves.
and to choose [obj] tribe Judah [obj] mountain: mount Zion which to love: lover
69 And he built like the heights his sanctuary, like the earth which he founded forever.
and to build like to exalt sanctuary his like/as land: country/planet to found her to/for forever: enduring
70 And he chose David his servant, taking him from the sheepfolds.
and to choose in/on/with David servant/slave his and to take: take him from fold flock
71 From the mother-ewes he brought him, to be shepherd to Jacob his people, and to Israel his inheritance.
from after to nurse to come (in): bring him to/for to pasture in/on/with Jacob people his and in/on/with Israel inheritance his
72 With upright heart did he shepherd them, and with skilful hands did he guide them.
and to pasture them like/as integrity heart his and in/on/with understanding palm his to lead them
