Psa Psalms, psalm Book of Psalms, psalm 78

AN INSTRUCTION OF ASAPH. Give ear, O my people, to my law, || Incline yöur ear to sayings of my mouth. I open my mouth with an allegory, || I bring forth hidden things of old, Psa 49:4; Mat 13:35That we have heard and know, || And our fathers have recounted to us. Psa 44:1We do not hide from their sons, || Recounting praises of YHWH to a later generation, || And His strength, and His wonders that He has done. 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. Deu 4:9So that a later generation knows, || Sons who are born, rise and recount to their sons, And place their confidence in God, || And do not forget the doings of God, || But keep His commands. 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. Deu 32:5; Ezk 2:3Sons of Ephraim—armed bearers of bow, || Have turned in a day of conflict. Jdg 8:2; Jdg 12:1; Isa 7:2; Hos 7:11They have not kept the covenant of God, || And they have refused to walk in His law, 2Ki 17:15And they forget His doings, || And His wonders that He showed them. He has done wonders before their fathers, || In the land of Egypt—the field of Zoan. He cleft a sea, and causes them to pass over, || Indeed, He causes waters to stand as a heap. Exo 14:21And leads them with a cloud by day, || And with a light of fire all the night. Exo 13:21; Psa 105:39He cleaves rocks in a wilderness, || And gives drink—as the great deep. Exo 17:6; Num 20:11; 1Co 10:4And brings out streams from a rock, || And causes waters to come down as rivers. And they still add to sin against Him, || To provoke the Most High in the dry place. And they try God in their heart, || To ask food for their lust. Num 11:4; Psa 106:14; 1Co 10:9And they speak against God—they said: “Is God able to array a table in a wilderness?” 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?” Therefore YHWH has heard, || And He shows Himself angry, || And fire has been kindled against Jacob, || And anger has also gone up against Israel, Num 11:1For they have not believed in God, || Nor have they trusted in His salvation. And He commands clouds from above, || Indeed, He has opened doors of the heavens. And He rains manna on them to eat, || Indeed, He has given grain of the heavens to them. Exo 16:14; Num 11:7; Jhn 6:31; 1Co 10:3Each has eaten food of the mighty, || He sent provision to them to satiety. He causes an east wind to journey in the heavens, || And leads a south wind by His strength, Exo 16:13; Num 11:31; Psa 105:40And He rains on them flesh as dust, || And as sand of the seas—winged bird, Exo 16:13; Num 11:31; Psa 105:40And causes [it] to fall in the midst of His camp, || Around His dwelling places. And they eat, and are greatly satisfied, || And He brings their desire to them. They have not been estranged from their desire, || Their food [is] yet in their mouth, Num 11:33And the anger of God has gone up against them, || And He slays among their fat ones, || And He caused youths of Israel to bend. With all this they have sinned again, || And have not believed in His wonders. Deu 1:32And He consumes their days in vanity, || And their years in trouble. If He slew them, then they sought Him, || And turned back, and earnestly sought God, And they remember that God [is] their rock, || And God Most High their redeemer. And they deceive Him with their mouth, || And lie to Him with their tongue, And their heart has not been right with Him, || And they have not been steadfast in His covenant. 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. And He remembers that they [are] flesh, || A wind going on—and it does not return. Jas 4:14How often do they provoke Him in the wilderness, || Grieve Him in the desolate place? Num 14:22Indeed, they turn back, and try God, || And have limited the Holy One of Israel. They have not remembered His hand || The day He ransomed them from the adversary. When He set His signs in Egypt, || And His wonders in the field of Zoan, And He turns their streams to blood, || And they do not drink their floods. Exo 7:20; Psa 105:29He sends among them the beetle, and it consumes them, || And the frog, and it destroys them, Exo 8:24; Psa 105:31And gives their increase to the caterpillar, || And their labor to the locust. Exo 10:13He destroys their vine with hail, || And their sycamores with frost, Exo 9:23; Exo 9:25; Psa 105:33And delivers their beasts up to the hail, || And their livestock to the burning flames. He sends on them the fury of His anger, || Wrath, and indignation, and distress—A discharge of evil messengers. 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. Exo 9:6And He strikes every firstborn in Egypt, || The first-fruit of the strong in tents of Ham. Exo 12:29And causes His people to journey as a flock, || And guides them as a drove in a wilderness, Exo 12:37And He leads them confidently, || And they have not been afraid, || And the sea has covered their enemies. And He brings them to the border of His sanctuary, || This mountain His right hand had acquired, 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, Jos 12:7And they tempt and provoke God Most High, || And have not kept His testimonies. And they turn back, || And deal treacherously like their fathers, || They have been turned like a deceitful bow, And make Him angry with their high places, || And make Him zealous with their carved images, Deu 32:16God has heard, and shows Himself angry. And kicks exceedingly against Israel. And He leaves the Dwelling Place of Shiloh, || The tent He had placed among men, 1Sa 4:11And He gives His strength to captivity, || And His beauty into the hand of an adversary, And delivers His people up to the sword, || And showed Himself angry with His inheritance. Fire has consumed His young men, || And His virgins have not been praised. His priests have fallen by the sword, || And their widows do not weep. 1Sa 4:11And the Lord wakes as a sleeper, || As a mighty one crying aloud from wine. And He strikes His adversaries backward, || He has put a continuous reproach on them, 1Sa 5:6; 1Sa 6:4And He kicks against the tent of Joseph, || And has not fixed on the tribe of Ephraim. And He chooses the tribe of Judah, || With Mount Zion that He loved, And builds His sanctuary as a high place, || Like the earth, He founded it for all time. And He fixes on His servant David, || And takes him from the folds of a flock, 1Sa 16:11; 2Sa 7:8He has brought him in from behind suckling ones, || To rule over Jacob His people, || And over Israel His inheritance. 2Sa 5:2; 1Ch 11:2And he rules them according to the integrity of his heart, || And leads them by the skillfulness of his hands!