Tehillim, starting at chapter 76
Psalm 76
For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm by Asaf. A
song.
{76:1} In Yehudah, God is known.
His name is great in Yisra'el.
{76:2} His tent is also in Shalem;
His dwelling-place in Tziyon.
{76:3} There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow,
The shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war.
Selah.
{76:4} Glorious are you, and excellent,
More than mountains of game.
{76:5} Valiant men lie plundered,
They have slept their last sleep.
None of the men of war can lift their hands.
{76:6} At your rebuke, God of Ya`akov,
Both chariot and horse are cast into a deep sleep.
{76:7} You, even you, are to be feared.
Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?
{76:8} You pronounced judgment from heaven.
The [1>]eretz[<1] feared, and was silent,
{76:9} When God arose to judgment,
To save all the afflicted ones of the [2>]eretz[<2].
Selah.
{76:10} Surely the wrath of man praises you.
The survivors of your wrath are restrained.
{76:11} Make vows to the LORD your God, and fulfill them!
Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.
{76:12} He will cut off the spirit of princes.
He is feared by the kings of the [3>]eretz[<3].
Psalm 77
For the Chief Musician. To Yedutun. A Psalm by Asaf.
{77:1} My cry goes to God!
Indeed, I cry to God for help,
And for him to listen to me.
{77:2} In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord.
My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired.
My soul refused to be comforted.
{77:3} I remember God, and I groan.
I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed.
Selah.
{77:4} You hold my eyelids open.
I am so troubled that I can't speak.
{77:5} I have considered the days of old,
The years of ancient times.
{77:6} I remember my song in the night.
I consider in my own heart;
My spirit diligently inquires:
{77:7} "Will the Lord reject us forever?
Will he be favorable no more?
{77:8} Has his lovingkindness vanished forever?
Does his promise fail for generations?
{77:9} Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?"
Selah.
{77:10} Then I thought, "I will appeal to this:
The years of the right hand of [1>]Ha`Elyon[<1]."
{77:11} I will remember the LORD's deeds;
For I will remember your wonders of old.
{77:12} I will also meditate on all your work,
And consider your doings.
{77:13} Your way, God, is in the sanctuary.
What god is great like God?
{77:14} You are the God who does wonders.
You have made your strength known among the peoples.
{77:15} You have redeemed your people with your arm,
The sons of Ya`akov and Yosef.
Selah.
{77:16} The waters saw you, God.
The waters saw you, and they writhed.
The depths also convulsed.
{77:17} The clouds poured out water.
The skies resounded with thunder.
Your arrows also flashed around.
{77:18} The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind.
The lightnings lit up the world.
The [2>]eretz[<2] trembled and shook.
{77:19} Your way was through the sea;
Your paths through the great waters.
Your footsteps were not known.
{77:20} You led your people like a flock,
By the hand of Moshe and Aharon.
Psalm 78
A maskil by Asaf.
{78:1} Hear my law, my people.
Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
{78:2} I will open my mouth in a parable.
I will utter dark sayings of old,
{78:3} Which we have heard and known,
Our fathers have told us.
{78:4} We will not hide them from their children,
Telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD,
His strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.
{78:5} For he established a testimony in Ya`akov,
And appointed a law in Yisra'el,
Which he commanded our fathers,
That they should make them known to their children;
{78:6} That the generation to come might know, even the children who
should be born;
Who should arise and tell their children,
{78:7} That they might set their hope in God,
And not forget the works of God,
But keep his [1>]mitzvot[<1],
{78:8} And might not be as their fathers,
A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation that didn't make their hearts loyal,
Whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
{78:9} The children of Efrayim, being armed and carrying bows,
Turned back in the day of battle.
{78:10} They didn't keep the covenant of God,
And refused to walk in his law.
{78:11} They forgot his doings,
His wondrous works that he had shown them.
{78:12} Marvelous things did he in the sight of their fathers,
In the land of Mitzrayim, in the field of Tzo`an.
{78:13} He split the sea, and caused them to pass through;
He made the waters stand as a heap.
{78:14} In the daytime he also led them with a cloud,
All the night with a light of fire.
{78:15} He split rocks in the wilderness,
And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
{78:16} He brought streams also out of the rock,
And caused waters to run down like rivers.
{78:17} Yet they still went on to sin against him,
To rebel against [2>]Ha`Elyon[<2] in the desert.
{78:18} They tempted God in their heart
By asking food according to their desire.
{78:19} Yes, they spoke against God.
They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
{78:20} Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out,
Streams overflowed.
Can he give bread also?
Will he provide flesh for his people?"
{78:21} Therefore the LORD heard, and was angry.
A fire was kindled against Ya`akov,
Anger also went up against Yisra'el,
{78:22} Because they didn't believe in God,
And didn't trust in his [3>]yeshu`ah[<3].
{78:23} Yet he commanded the skies above,
And opened the doors of heaven.
{78:24} He rained down manna on them to eat,
And gave them food from the sky.
{78:25} Man ate the bread of angels.
He sent them food to the full.
{78:26} He caused the east wind to blow in the sky.
By his power he guided the south wind.
{78:27} He rained also flesh on them as the dust;
Winged birds as the sand of the seas.
{78:28} He let them fall in the midst of their camp,
Around their habitations.
{78:29} So they ate, and were well filled.
He gave them their own desire.
{78:30} They didn't turn from their cravings.
Their food was yet in their mouths,
{78:31} When the anger of God went up against them,
And killed some of the fattest of them,
And struck down the young men of Yisra'el.
{78:32} For all this they still sinned,
And didn't believe in his wondrous works.
{78:33} Therefore he consumed their days in vanity,
And their years in terror.
{78:34} When he killed them, then they inquired after him.
They returned and sought God earnestly.
{78:35} They remembered that God was their rock,
The [4>]El `Elyon[<4] their redeemer.
{78:36} But they flattered him with their mouth,
And lied to him with their tongue.
{78:37} For their heart was not right with him,
Neither were they faithful in his covenant.
{78:38} But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn't destroy
them.
Yes, many times he turned his anger away,
And didn't stir up all his wrath.
{78:39} He remembered that they were but flesh,
A wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.
{78:40} How often did they rebel against him in the wilderness,
And grieve him in the desert!
{78:41} They turned again and tempted God,
And provoked the Holy One of Yisra'el.
{78:42} They didn't remember his hand,
Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
{78:43} How he set his signs in Mitzrayim,
His wonders in the field of Tzo`an,
{78:44} Turned their rivers into blood,
Their streams, so that they could not drink.
{78:45} He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them;
Frogs, which destroyed them.
{78:46} He gave also their increase to the caterpillar,
Their labor to the [5>]arbeh[<5].
{78:47} He destroyed their vines with hail,
Their sycamore-fig trees with frost.
{78:48} He gave over their cattle also to the hail,
And their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
{78:49} He threw on them the fierceness of his anger,
Wrath, indignation, and trouble,
And a band of angels of evil.
{78:50} He made a path for his anger.
He didn't spare their soul from death,
But gave their life over to the pestilence,
{78:51} And struck all the firstborn in Mitzrayim,
The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
{78:52} But he led forth his own people like sheep,
And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
{78:53} He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid,
But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
{78:54} He brought them to the border of his sanctuary,
To this mountain, which his right hand had taken.
{78:55} He also drove out the nations before them,
Allotted them for an inheritance by line,
And made the tribes of Yisra'el to dwell in their tents.
{78:56} Yet they tempted and rebelled against [6>]Ha`Elyon[<6] God,
And didn't keep 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 to anger with their high places,
And moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
{78:59} When God heard this, he was angry,
And greatly abhorred Yisra'el;
{78:60} So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh,
The tent which he placed among men;
{78:61} And delivered his strength into captivity,
His glory into the adversary's hand.
{78:62} He also gave his people over to the sword,
And was angry with his inheritance.
{78:63} Fire devoured their young men;
Their virgins had no wedding song.
{78:64} Their [7>]Kohanim[<7] fell by the sword;
Their widows made no lamentation.
{78:65} Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep,
Like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
{78:66} He struck his adversaries backward.
He put them to a perpetual reproach.
{78:67} Moreover he rejected the tent of Yosef,
And didn't choose the tribe of Efrayim,
{78:68} But chose the tribe of Yehudah,
Mount Tziyon which he loved.
{78:69} He built his sanctuary like the heights,
Like the [8>]eretz[<8] which he has established forever.
{78:70} He also chose David his servant,
And took him from the sheepfolds;
{78:71} From following the ewes that have their young he brought him
To be the shepherd of Ya`akov, his people, and Yisra'el, his
inheritance.
{78:72} So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his
heart,
And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
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Footnotes:
[1] {76:8} earth
[2] {76:9} earth
[3] {76:12} earth
[1] {77:10} the Most High
[2] {77:18} earth
[1] {78:7} commandments
[2] {78:17} the Most High
[3] {78:22} salvation
[4] {78:35} Most High God
[5] {78:46} locust
[6] {78:56} the Most High
[7] {78:64} priests
[8] {78:69} earth
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