Rotherham - Psalms - 78

78:1  Give ear, O my people, to mine instruction, Bend your ear to the sayings of my mouth;

78:2  I will open, in a parable, my mouth, I will pour forth enigmas out of antiquity;—

78:3  Which we have heard, and come to know, And, our fathers, have recounted to us;

78:4  We will not withhold [them] from their children, To a later generation, recounting the praises of Yahweh, Even his might and his wonders which he wrought;

78:5  When he set up a testimony in Jacob, And, a law, appointed in Israel,—Which he commanded our fathers, That they might make them known to their children;

78:6  To the end, A later generation, might come to know, Children who should be born, Who should arise, and recount [them] to their children;

78:7  That they might set, in Elohim, their confidence,—And not forget the doings of El, But, his commandments, might observe;

78:8  And not become, like their fathers, a generation stubborn and rebellious,—A generation that fixed not their heart, Neither was their spirit, faithful with GOD.

78:9  The sons of Ephraim—armed bowmen, Turned in the day of battle;

78:10  They kept not the covenant of God, And, in his law, refused to walk;

78:11  And forgat His doings, And his wonders which he had showed them:

78:12  In presence of their fathers, wrought he, wondrously,—In the land of Egypt—the field of Zoan:

78:13  He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through, And reared up the waters like a mound;

78:14  And led them, by a cloud, in the daytime, And all the night, by a light of fire;

78:15  He used to cleave rocks in the desert, And let them drink as out of mighty deeps;

78:16  And he brought forth streams out of the cliff, And caused waters to flow down, like rivers.

78:17  But again, once more sinned they against him, Resisting the Most High in a land of drought:

78:18  They put GOD to the proof in their heart, By asking food to their mind:

78:19  Yea they spake against Elohim,—They said, Can GOD prepare a table in the desert?

78:20  Lo! he hath smitten a rock, And waters, have gushed out, Yea, torrents, have rushed along,—Food also, can he give? Or provide flesh for his people?

78:21  Therefore, Yahweh hearkened, and became wroth,—And, a fire, was kindled against Jacob, Moreover also, anger, mounted against Israel;

78:22  Because, They believed not in God, Nor trusted in his salvation;

78:23  Though he had commanded the skies above, And, the doors of the heavens, had opened;

78:24  And had rained on them manna to eat, And, the corn of the heavens, had given to them:

78:25  The food of the mighty, each one did eat, Nourishment, sent he them to the full;

78:26  He let loose an east wind in the heavens, Then guided he, in his might, a south wind;

78:27  And rained upon them flesh as the dust, And, like the sand of the seas, birds of wing;

78:28  And let them fall in the midst of their camp,—Round about their habitations.

78:29  So they did eat and were abundantly filled, When, what they longed for, he had brought them:—

78:30  They had not turned away from what they had longed for, Yet was their food in their mouth,

78:31  When, the anger of God, mounted against them, And he slew of their vigorous youths, And, the choice young men of Israel, caused he to bow down in death.

78:32  For all this, sinned they still, And believed not in his wonders;

78:33  So he ended, in a breath, their days, And their years, in a sudden terror!

78:34  If he slew [of] them, then they sought him, Yea they turned, and did earnestly seek GOD;

78:35  And remembered that, Elohim, was their rock, Yea, EL Most High, their Redeemer:

78:36  So they spake him fair with their mouth, And, with their tongue, did promise him falsely;

78:37  But, their heart, was not fixed with him, Nor were they trusty in his covenant:

78:38  Yet, he, full of compassion, would put a propitiatory-covering over iniquity, and not destroy,—Yea, many a time, turned he back his anger, And would not stir up all his wrath.

78:39  So then he remembered, That, Flesh, they were, A Wind departing, that returneth not.

78:40  How often they, Resisted him in the desert, Vexed him, in the waste:

78:41  Yea they again put GOD to the test, And, to the Holy One of Israel, caused they sorrow:

78:42  They remembered not his hand—The day, When he ransomed them from the adversary;

78:43  When he set, in Egypt, his signs, And his wonders, in the plain of Zoan;

78:44  When he turned, into blood, their Nile-streams, And, their own rivers, could they not drink;

78:45  He sent among them, The gad-fly, and it devoured them, And the frog, and it despoiled them;

78:46  When he gave to the corn-locust their produce, And their toil, to the swarming locust;

78:47  He killed, with hail, their vine, And their sycomores, with frost:

78:48  When he gave up, to hail-storms, their beasts, And their cattle, to pestilent fevers;

78:49  He sent among them the heat of his anger, Wrath and indignation and distress,—A mission of messengers of misfortune:

78:50  He leveled a path for his anger, Withheld not, from death, their soul, But, their life—to the pestilence, he delivered:

78:51  So he smote, Every first-born in Egypt, The beginning of their strength, in the tents of Ham;

78:52  And he set forth, like sheep, his people, And guided them, like a flock in the desert;

78:53  Yea he led them securely, and they dreaded not, And, their enemies, the sea did cover.

78:54  Then brought he them within his own holy bounds, The mountain-range, which his right hand made his own:

78:55  So he drave out, before them, [whole] nations, And allotted them, by line, an inheritance, And caused to dwell, in their own homes, the tribes of Israel.

78:56  But they tested and resisted God Most High, And, his testimonies, did not observe;

78:57  But drew back and dealt treacherously, like their fathers, They turned aside, like deceitful bowmen;

78:58  And provoked him to anger with their high places, And, with their images, used to move him to jealousy.

78:59  God heard and was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;

78:60  So he gave up the habitation of Shiloh, The tent he had set up among Men;

78:61  Yea he gave up, into captivity, his strength, And his beauty into the hand of an adversary;

78:62  And delivered up, to the sword, his people, And, with his own inheritance, was he wroth;

78:63  His young men, were devoured by fire, And, his virgins, were not praised in song;

78:64  His priests, by the sword, did fall, And, his widows, were not able to bewail.

78:65  Then awoke, as one that had slept, Adonay, As a warrior exulting with wine!

78:66  So he smote his adversaries in the rear, Reproach age-abiding, laid he upon them.

78:67  Howbeit he rejected the tent of Joseph, And, the tribe of Ephraim, did not choose:

78:68  But made choice of the tribe of Judah, The mountain of Zion, which he loved;

78:69  And built, like the heights, his sanctuary, Like the earth, he founded it to times age-abiding.

78:70  And made choice of David his servant, And took him from among the folds of the sheep:

78:71  From after the sucking ewes, he brought him in,—To be shepherd to Jacob his people, And to Israel, his inheritance.

78:72  So he did shepherd them, according to the singleness of his heart, And, with the discernment of his hands, used he to guide them.