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| 1 [[An Instructive Psalm. Asaph's.]] Give ear, O my people, to mine instruction, Bend your ear to the sayings of my mouth; |
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| 2 I will open, in a parable, my mouth, I will pour forth enigmas out of antiquity;– |
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| 3 Which we have heard, and come to know, And, our fathers, have recounted to us; |
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| 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; |
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| 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; |
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| 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; |
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| 7 That they might set, in Elohim, their confidence,–And not forget the doings of El, But, his commandments, might observe; |
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| 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. |
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| 9 The sons of Ephraim–armed bowmen, Turned in the day of battle; |
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| 10 They kept not the covenant of God, And, in his law, refused to walk; |
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| 11 And forgat His doings, And his wonders which he had showed them: |
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| 12 In presence of their fathers, wrought he, wondrously,–In the land of Egypt–the field of Zoan: |
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| 13 He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through, And reared up the waters like a mound; |
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| 14 And led them, by a cloud, in the daytime, And all the night, by a light of fire; |
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| 15 He used to cleave rocks in the desert, And let them drink as out of mighty deeps; |
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| 16 And he brought forth streams out of the cliff, And caused waters to flow down, like rivers. |
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| 17 But again, once more sinned they against him, Resisting the Most High in a land of drought: |
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| 18 They put GOD to the proof in their heart, By asking food to their mind: |
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| 19 Yea they spake against Elohim,–They said, Can GOD prepare a table in the desert? |
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| 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? |
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| 21 Therefore, Yahweh hearkened, and became wroth,–And, a fire, was kindled against Jacob, Moreover also, anger, mounted against Israel; |
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| 22 Because, They believed not in God, Nor trusted in his salvation; |
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| 23 Though he had commanded the skies above, And, the doors of the heavens, had opened; |
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| 24 And had rained on them manna to eat, And, the corn of the heavens, had given to them: |
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| 25 The food of the mighty, each one did eat, Nourishment, sent he them to the full; |
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| 26 He let loose an east wind in the heavens, Then guided he, in his might, a south wind; |
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| 27 And rained upon them flesh as the dust, And, like the sand of the seas, birds of wing; |
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| 28 And let them fall in the midst of their camp,–Round about their habitations. |
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| 29 So they did eat and were abundantly filled, When, what they longed for, he had brought them:– |
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| 30 They had not turned away from what they had longed for, Yet was their food in their mouth, |
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| 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. |
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| 32 For all this, sinned they still, And believed not in his wonders; |
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| 33 So he ended, in a breath, their days, And their years, in a sudden terror! |
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| 34 If he slew [of] them, then they sought him, Yea they turned, and did earnestly seek GOD; |
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| 35 And remembered that, Elohim, was their rock, Yea, EL Most High, their Redeemer: |
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| 36 So they spake him fair with their mouth, And, with their tongue, did promise him falsely; |
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| 37 But, their heart, was not fixed with him, Nor were they trusty in his covenant: |
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| 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. |
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| 39 So then he remembered, That, Flesh, they were, A Wind departing, that returneth not. |
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| 40 How often they, Resisted him in the desert, Vexed him, in the waste: |
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| 41 Yea they again put GOD to the test, And, to the Holy One of Israel, caused they sorrow: |
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| 42 They remembered not his hand–The day, When he ransomed them from the adversary; |
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| 43 When he set, in Egypt, his signs, And his wonders, in the plain of Zoan; |
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| 44 When he turned, into blood, their Nile-streams, And, their own rivers, could they not drink; |
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| 45 He sent among them, The gad-fly, and it devoured them, And the frog, and it despoiled them; |
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| 46 When he gave to the corn-locust their produce, And their toil, to the swarming locust; |
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| 47 He killed, with hail, their vine, And their sycomores, with frost: |
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| 48 When he gave up, to hail-storms, their beasts, And their cattle, to pestilent fevers; |
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| 49 He sent among them the heat of his anger, Wrath and indignation and distress,–A mission of messengers of misfortune: |
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| 50 He leveled a path for his anger, Withheld not, from death, their soul, But, their life–to the pestilence, he delivered: |
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| 51 So he smote, Every first-born in Egypt, The beginning of their strength, in the tents of Ham; |
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| 52 And he set forth, like sheep, his people, And guided them, like a flock in the desert; |
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| 53 Yea he led them securely, and they dreaded not, And, their enemies, the sea did cover. |
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| 54 Then brought he them within his own holy bounds, The mountain-range, which his right hand made his own: |
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| 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. |
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| 56 But they tested and resisted God Most High, And, his testimonies, did not observe; |
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| 57 But drew back and dealt treacherously, like their fathers, They turned aside, like deceitful bowmen; |
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| 58 And provoked him to anger with their high places, And, with their images, used to move him to jealousy. |
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| 59 God heard and was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel; |
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| 60 So he gave up the habitation of Shiloh, The tent he had set up among Men; |
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| 61 Yea he gave up, into captivity, his strength, And his beauty into the hand of an adversary; |
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| 62 And delivered up, to the sword, his people, And, with his own inheritance, was he wroth; |
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| 63 His young men, were devoured by fire, And, his virgins, were not praised in song; |
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| 64 His priests, by the sword, did fall, And, his widows, were not able to bewail. |
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| 65 Then awoke, as one that had slept, Adonay, As a warrior exulting with wine!
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| 66 So he smote his adversaries in the rear, Reproach age-abiding, laid he upon them. |
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| 67 Howbeit he rejected the tent of Joseph, And, the tribe of Ephraim, did not choose: |
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| 68 But made choice of the tribe of Judah, The mountain of Zion, which he loved; |
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| 69 And built, like the heights, his sanctuary, Like the earth, he founded it to times age-abiding. |
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| 70 And made choice of David his servant, And took him from among the folds of the sheep: |
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| 71 From after the sucking ewes, he brought him in,–To be shepherd to Jacob his people, And to Israel, his inheritance. |
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| 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. |
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