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PSALM 78

78:1 Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 78:2 I will open my mouth with a parable; I will utter dark sayings concerning days of old; 78:3 That which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us, 78:4 We will not hide from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and His strength, and His wondrous works that He hath done. 78:5 For He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children; 78:6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children that should be born; who should arise and tell them to their children, 78:7 That they might put their confidence in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments; 78:8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. 78:9 The children of Ephraim were as archers handling the bow, that turned back in the day of battle. 78:10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in His law; 78:11 And they forgot His doings, and His wondrous works that He had shown them. 78:12 Marvellous things did He in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 78:13 He cleaved the sea, and caused them to pass through; and He made the waters to stand as a heap. 78:14 By day also He led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. 78:15 He cleaved rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out

of the great deep. 78:16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. 78:17 Yet went they on still to sin against Him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert. 78:18 And they tried God in their heart by asking food for their craving. 78:19 Yea, they spoke against God; they said: 'Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? 78:20 Behold, He smote the rock, that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; can He give bread also? or will He provide flesh for His people?' 78:21 Therefore the Lord heard, and was wroth; and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel; 78:22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in His salvation. 78:23 And He commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven; 78:24 And He caused manna to rain upon them for food, and gave them of the corn of heaven. 78:25 Man did eat the bread of the mighty; He sent them provisions to the full. 78:26 He caused the east wind to set forth in heaven; and by His power He brought on the south wind. 78:27 He caused flesh also to rain upon them as the dust, and winged fowl as the sand of the seas; 78:28 And He let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their dwellings. 78:29 So they did eat, and were well filled; and He gave them that which they craved. 78:30 They were not estranged from their craving, their food was yet in their mouths, 78:31 When the anger of God went up against them, and slew of the lustieth among them, and smote down the young men of Israel.

78:32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not in His wondrous works. 78:33 Therefore He ended their days as a breath, and their years in terror. 78:34 When He slew them, then they would inquire after Him, and turn back and seek God earnestly. 78:35 And they remembered that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their redeemer. 78:36 But they beguiled Him with their mouth, and lied unto Him with their tongue. 78:37 For their heart was not stedfast with Him, neither were they faithful in His covenant. 78:38 But He, being full of compassion, forgiveth iniquity, and destroyeth not; yea, many a time doth He turn His anger away, and doth not stir up all His wrath. 78:39 So He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. 78:40 How oft did they rebel against Him in the wilderness, and grieve Him in the desert! 78:41 And still again they tried God, and set bounds to the Holy One of Israel. 78:42 They remembered not His hand, nor the day when He redeemed them from the adversary. 78:43 How He set His signs in Egypt, and His wonders in the field of Zoan; 78:44 And turned their rivers into blood, so that they could not drink their streams. 78:45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. 78:46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust. 78:47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore-trees with frost. 78:48 He gave over their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to fiery bolts.

78:49 He sent forth upon them the fierceness of His anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, a sending of messengers of evil. 78:50 He levelled a path for His anger; He spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; 78:51 And smote all the first-born in Egypt, the first-fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham; 78:52 But He made His own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. 78:53 And He led them safely, and they feared not; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. 78:54 And He brought them to His holy border, to the mountain, which His right hand had gotten. 78:55 He drove out the nations also before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. 78:56 Yet they tried and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not His testimonies; 78:57 But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers; they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. 78:58 For they provoked Him with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their graven images. 78:59 God heard, and was wroth, and He greatly abhorred Israel; 78:60 And He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which He had made to dwell among men; 78:61 And delivered His strength into captivity, and His glory into the adversary's hand. 78:62 He gave His people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with His inheritance. 78:63 Fire devoured their young men; and their virgins had no marriage-song. 78:64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

78:65 Then the L-rd awaked as one asleep, like a mighty man recovering from wine. 78:66 And He smote His adversaries backward; He put upon them a perpetual reproach. 78:67 Moreover He abhorred the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim; 78:68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which He loved. 78:69 And He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which He hath founded for ever. 78:70 He chose David also His servant, and took him from the sheepfolds; 78:71 From following the ewes that give suck He brought him, to be shepherd over Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance. 78:72 So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart; and lead them by the skilfulness of his hands.

Hebrew Transliteration 78:1 maskiyl le'sph ha'aziynh `ammiy torthiy hathu'zenekhem le'imry-phiy 78:2 'ephtechh bhemshl piy 'abbiy`h chiydhothminniy-qedhem 78:3 'asher shma`nu vanndh`m va'abhothynu sipperu-lnu 78:4 lo' nekhachdh mibbenyhem ledhor 'acharon mesapperiym tehillothAdonay ve`ezuzo veniphle'othyv 'asher `sh 78:5 vayyqem `dhuthbeya`aqobh vethorh sm beyisr'l 'asher tsivvh 'eth-'abhothynulehodhiy`m libhnyhem 78:6 lema`an ydhe`u dor 'acharon bniymyivvldhu yqumu viysapperu libhnyhem 78:7 veysiymu bh'lohiymkislm velo' yishkechu ma`alely-'l umitsvothyv

yintsoru 78:8 velo'yihyu ka'abhothm dor sorr umoreh dor lo'-hkhiyn libbo velo'ne'emnh 'eth-'l rucho 78:9 beny-'ephrayim nosheqy romy-qshethhphekhu beyom qerbh 78:10 lo' shmeru beriyth 'elohiym ubhethortho m'anullekheth 78:11 vayyishkechu `aliylothyv veniphle'othyv 'asher her'm 78:12 neghedh 'abhothm `sh phele' be'erets mitsrayim sedhh-tso`an 78:13 bqa`.ym vayya`abhiyrm vayyatsebh-mayim kemo-ndh 78:14 vayyanchmbe`nn yomm vekhol-hallaylh be'or 'sh 78:15 yebhaqqa` tsuriymbammidhbr vayyashq kithhomoth rabbh 78:16 vayyotsi' nozeliymmissla` vayyoredh kannehroth myim 78:17 vayyosiyphu `odh lachatho'-lolamroth `elyon batsiyyh 78:18 vaynassu-'l bilbhbhm lish'l-'okhellenaphshm 78:19 vaydhabberu b'lohiym 'mru hayukhal 'l la`arokhshulchn bammidhbr 78:20 hn hikkh-tsur vayyzubhu mayim unechliymyishthophu haghamlechem yukhal tth 'im-ykhiyn she'r le`ammo 78:21 lkhnshma` Adonay vayyith`abbr ve'sh niseqh bheya`aqobh vegham-'aph`lh bheyisr'l 78:22 kiy lo' he'emiynu b'lohiym velo' bhthchubiyshu`tho 78:23 vaytsav shechqiym mimm`al vedhalthy shmayim pthch 78:24 vayyamthr `alyhem mn le'ekhol udheghan-shmayim nthan lmo 78:25 lechem 'abbiyriym 'khal 'iysh tsydhh shlach lhem lsobha` 78:26 yassa` qdhiym bashmyim vaynahgh be`uzzo thymn 78:27 vayyamthr`alyhem ke`phr she'r ukhechol yammiym `oph knph

78:28 vayyapplbeqerebh machanhu sbhiybh lemishkenothyv 78:29 vayyo'khlu vayyisbe`ume'odh vetha'avthm ybhi' lhem 78:30 lo'-zru mitta'avthm `odh'khlm bephiyhem 78:31 ve'aph 'elohiym `lh bhhem vayyaharoghbemishmannyhem ubhachury yisr'l hikhriya` 78:32 bekhol-zo'thchth'u-`odh velo'-he'emiynu beniphle'othyv 78:33 vaykhal-bahebhelyemyhem ushenothm babbehlh 78:34 'im-harghm udhershuhu veshbhuveshicharu-'l 78:35 vayyizkeru kiy-'elohiym tsurm ve'l `elyongo'alm 78:36 vayphattuhu bephiyhem ubhilshonm yekhazzebhu-lo 78:37 velibbm lo'-nkhon `immo velo' ne'emnu bibhriytho 78:38 vehu' rachumyekhappr `von velo'-yashchiyth vehirbh lehshiybh 'appo velo'-y`iyrkol-chamtho 78:39 vayyizkor kiy-bhsr hmmh ruach holkh velo'yshubh 78:40 kammh yamruhu bhammidhbr ya`atsiybhuhu biyshiymon 78:41 vayyshubhu vaynassu 'l uqedhosh yisr'l hithvu 78:42 lo'-zkhru'eth-ydho yom 'asher-pdhm minniy-tsr 78:43 'asher-sm bemitsrayim'othothyv umophethyv bisdhh-tso`an 78:44 vayyahaphokh ledhmye'oryhem venozelyhem bal-yishtyun 78:45 yeshallach bhem `robhvayyo'khlm utsepharda` vattashchiythm 78:46 vayyittn lechsiyl yebhulm.viyghiy`m l'arbeh 78:47 yaharogh babbrdh gaphnm veshiqmothmbachanmal 78:48 vayyasgr labbrdh be`iyrm umiqnyhemlrshphiym 78:49 yeshallach-bm charon 'appo `ebhrh vza`am vetsrhmishlachath

mal'akhy r`iym 78:50 yephalls nthiybh le'appo lo'-chsakhmimmveth naphshm vechayythm laddebher hisgiyr 78:51 vayyakh kol-bekhor bemitsryim r'shiyth 'oniym be'oholy-chm 78:52 vayyassa`katso'n `ammo vaynahaghm ka`dher bammidhbr 78:53 vayyanchmlbhethach velo' phchdhu ve'eth-'oyebhyhem kissh hayym 78:54 vaybhiy'm 'el-gebhul qodhsho har-zeh qnthh yemiyno 78:55 vayghreshmippenyhem goyim vayyappiylm bechebhel nachalh vayyashknbe'oholyhem shibhthy yisr'l 78:56 vaynassu vayyamru 'eth-'elohiym`elyon ve`dhothyv lo' shmru 78:57 vayyissoghu vayyibhgedhu ka'abhothmnehpekhu keqesheth remiyyh 78:58 vayyakh`iysuhu bebhmothmubhiphsiylyhem yaqniy'uhu 78:59 shma` 'elohiym vayyith`abbrvayyim'as me'odh beyisr'l 78:60 vayyithosh mishkan shilo 'ohel shikknb'dhm 78:61 vayyittn lashebhiy `uzzo vethiph'arto bheyadh-tsr 78:62 vayyasgr lacherebh `ammo ubhenachaltho hith`abbr 78:63 bachuryv'khlh-'sh ubhethulothyv lo' hulllu 78:64 kohanyv bacherebh nphluve'almenothyv lo' thibhkeynh 78:65 vayyiqats keyshn 'adhony keghibbormithronn miyyyin 78:66 vayyakh-tsryv 'chor cherpath `olm nthanlmo 78:67 vayyim'as be'ohel yosph ubheshbheth 'ephrayim lo' bhchr 78:68 vayyibhchar 'eth-shbheth yehudhh 'eth-har tsiyyon 'asher 'hbh 78:69 vayyibhenkemo-rmiym miqdsho ke'erets yesdhh le`olm

78:70 vayyibhcharbedhvidh `abhdo vayyiqqchhu mimmikhle'oth tso'n 78:71 m'achar `lothhebhiy'o lir`oth beya`aqobh `ammo ubheyisr'l nachaltho 78:72 vayyir`mkethom lebhbho ubhithbhunoth kappyv yanchm

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