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Psalms 78
World English Bible British Edition · Berean Standard Bible
Hear my teaching, my people.
A Maskil (note: Maskil is probably a musical or liturgical term; used for Psalms 32, 42, 44–45, 52–55, 74, 78, 88–89, and 142.) of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth.
I will open my mouth in a parable.
I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning (note: Or from ancient times; see also LXX; cited in Matthew 13:35),
which we have heard and known,
that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
We will not hide them from their children,
We will not hide them from their children but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might and the wonders He has performed.
For he established a covenant in Jacob,
For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,
that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born;
that the coming generation would know them—even children yet to be born—to arise and tell their own children
that they might set their hope in God,
that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments.
and might not be as their fathers—
Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows,
The archers of Ephraim turned back on the day of battle.
They didn’t keep God’s covenant,
They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.
He did marvellous things in the sight of their fathers,
He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
He split the sea, and caused them to pass through.
He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.
In the daytime he also led them with a cloud,
He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
He split rocks in the wilderness,
He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.
He brought streams also out of the rock,
He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.
Yet they still went on to sin against him,
But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
Yes, they spoke against God.
They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?
Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out,
When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”
Therefore the LORD heard, and was angry.
Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared against Israel,
because they didn’t believe in God,
because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.
Yet he commanded the skies above,
Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.
He rained down manna on them to eat,
He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven (note: Cited in John 6:31).
He caused the east wind to blow in the sky.
He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might.
He also rained meat on them as the dust,
He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.
He let them fall in the middle of their camp,
He felled them in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.
So they ate, and were well filled.
So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them what they craved.
They didn’t turn from their cravings.
Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,
when the anger of God went up against them,
God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel.
For all this they still sinned,
In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.
Therefore he consumed their days in vanity,
So He ended their days in futility (note: Or in vapor), and their years in sudden terror.
When he killed them, then they enquired after him.
When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.
They remembered that God was their rock,
And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High (note: Hebrew El-Elyon) was their Redeemer.
But they flattered him with their mouth,
But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.
For their heart was not right with him,
Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.
But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them.
And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.
He remembered that they were but flesh,
He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness,
How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
They turned again and tempted God,
Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
They didn’t remember his hand,
They did not remember His power (note: Or His hand)—the day He redeemed them from the adversary,
how he set his signs in Egypt,
when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.
he turned their rivers into blood,
He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.
He sent amongst them swarms of flies, which devoured them;
He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
He also gave their increase to the caterpillar,
He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.
He destroyed their vines with hail,
He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet (note: Or frost or driving rain).
He also gave over their livestock to the hail,
He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.
He threw on them the fierceness of his anger,
He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity—a band of destroying angels.
He made a path for his anger.
He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.
and struck all the firstborn in Egypt,
He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.
But he led out his own people like sheep,
He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid,
He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies.
He brought them to the border of his sanctuary,
He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.
He also drove out the nations before them,
He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God,
But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers.
They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.
For they provoked him to anger with their high places,
They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
When God heard this, he was angry,
On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.
so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh,
He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.
and delivered his strength into captivity,
He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.
He also gave his people over to the sword,
He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage.
Fire devoured their young men.
Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.
Their priests fell by the sword,
His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.
Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep,
Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.
Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph,
He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.
He built his sanctuary like the heights,
He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.
from following the ewes that have their young,
from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.
So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart,
So David shepherded them with integrity of heart and guided them with skillful hands.