78 (Maskil of Asaph.) Give ear, O my people, to my torah; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

² I will open my mouth in a mashal; I will utter dark sayings from of old,

³ Which we have heard and known, and Avoteinu have told us.

⁴ We will not hide them from their banim, recounting to the dor acharon the tehillot Hashem, and His power, and His nifla’ot (wonderful works) that He hath done.

⁵ For He established edut in Ya’akov, set torah in Yisroel, which He commanded Avoteinu, that they should make them known to their banim;

⁶ So that the dor acharon might know them, even the banim which should be born; who should arise and recount them to their banim;

⁷ That they might put their confidence in Elohim, and not forget the ma’allei El (works of G-d), but keep His mitzvot;

⁸ And might not be as their Avot, a dor sorer u’moreh (stubborn and rebellious generation); a generation that set not its lev aright, and whose ruach was not faithful to G-d.

⁹ The Bnei Ephrayim, being armed, and shooting keshet (the bows), turned back in the day of battle.

¹⁰ They kept not the Brit Elohim, and refused to walk in His torah;

¹¹ And forgot His works, and His nifla’ot (wonders) that He had shown them.

¹² Peleh (marvellous things) did He in the sight of their avot, in Eretz Mitzrayim, in the sadeh (area) of Tzoan.

¹³ He divided the yam, and caused them to pass through; and He made the mayim to stand like a heap.

¹⁴ In the daytime also He led them with an anan, and all the lailah with an ohr of eish.

¹⁵ He split the rocks in the midbar, and gave them drink as out of the great tehomot.

¹⁶ He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused mayim to run down like rivers.

¹⁷ And they sinned yet more against Him by provoking Elyon in the wilderness.

¹⁸ And they tested G-d by their lev by demanding ochel for their lust.

¹⁹ And they spoke against Elohim; they said, Can G-d spread a shulchan in the midbar?

²⁰ Behold, He struck the Tzur, that the mayim gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can He give lechem also? Can He provide meat for His people?

²¹ Therefore Hashem heard this, and was in wrath; so an eish was kindled against Ya’akov, and anger also came up against Yisroel;

²² Because they believed not in Elohim, and trusted not in His Yeshuah (salvation);

²³ Though He had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the daletei Shomayim (doors of heaven),

²⁴ And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the bread of Shomayim [see Yn 6:31 OJBC].

²⁵ Ish did eat the bread of angels; He sent them lechem to the full.

²⁶ He caused an east wind to blow from Shomayim; and by His oz He brought in the south wind.

²⁷ He rained meat also upon them like aphar, and winged fowls like the chol (sand) of the sea;

²⁸ And He let it fall in the midst of their machaneh, all around their mishkenot (habitations).

²⁹ So they did eat, and were well filled; for He gave them their own ta’avah (evil desire).

³⁰ They were not estranged from their ta’avah. But while their food was yet in their mouths,

³¹ The Af Elohim (wrath of G-d) came upon them, and slaughtered the stoutest of them, and cut down the bochurim of Yisroel.

³² For all this they sinned still, and believed not in His nifla’ot (wondrous works).

³³ Therefore their yamim did He consume in hevel (futility, vanity) and their shanim in terror.

³⁴ When He slaughtered them, then they sought Him; and they returned and inquired diligently after G-d.

³⁵ And they remembered that Elohim was their Tzur, and the El Elyon their Go’el (Redeemer).

³⁶ Nevertheless they did flatter Him with their mouth, and they lied unto Him with their leshon.

³⁷ For their lev was not right with Him, neither were they faithful in His Brit.

³⁸ But He, being full of compassion, made kapporah for their avon and destroyed them not; and He many times turned His anger away, and did not stir up all His wrath.

³⁹ For He remembered that they were but basar; a ruach (wind) that passeth away, and cometh not again.

⁴⁰ How oft did they provoke Him in the midbar, and grieve Him in the desert!

⁴¹ Again and again they turned back and tested G-d, and imposed limits on Kadosh Yisroel.

⁴² They remembered not His Yad (Hand, Power), nor the yom (day) when He redeemed them from the enemy.

⁴³ How He had wrought His otot in Mitzrayim, and His mofetim in the area of Tzoan.

⁴⁴ And had turned their rivers into dahm; and their streams, that they could not drink.

⁴⁵ He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them; and tzfarde’a (frogs), which destroyed them.

⁴⁶ He gave also their crop unto the grasshopper, and their produce unto the arbeh (locust).

⁴⁷ He destroyed their gefen with barad (hail), and their fig trees with frost.

⁴⁸ He gave up their cattle also to the barad (hail), and their livestock herds to hot thunderbolts.

⁴⁹ He cast upon them His charon af, evrah (wrath), and za’am (indignation), and tzarah, by sending malachim ra’im among them.

⁵⁰ He made a way for His anger; He spared not their nefesh from mavet (death), but gave their beasts over to the dever (plague);

⁵¹ And struck all the bechor in Mitzrayim; the reshit (first fruit) of their strength in the ohalim of Cham;

⁵² But made His own people to go forth like tzon, and guided them in the midbar like an eder (flock).

⁵³ And He led them in safety, so that they had no terror; but the yam overwhelmed their oyevim.

⁵⁴ And He brought them to His gevul kadosh (His holy border), even to this Har, which His Yamin had purchased.

⁵⁵ He cast out the Goyim also before them, and divided by measure a nachalah for them, and made the Shivtei Yisroel to dwell in their ohalim.

⁵⁶ Yet they tested and provoked Elohim Elyon, and were not shomer over His edot;

⁵⁷ But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their avot; they turned like a treacherous keshet.

⁵⁸ For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their pesilim.

⁵⁹ When Elohim heard this, He was in wrath, and greatly abhorred Yisroel;

⁶⁰ So that He forsook the Mishkan of Shiloh, the Ohel which He placed among adam (men);

⁶¹ And delivered His oz (strength) into captivity, and His tiferet into the hand of the enemy.

⁶² He gave His people over also unto the cherev; and was in wrath with His nachalah.

⁶³ The eish consumed their bochurim; and their betulot had no wedding celebration.

⁶⁴ Their kohanim fell by the cherev; and their almanot made no lamentation.

⁶⁵ Then Adonoi awaked as one from sleep, and like a gibbor that shouteth from yayin.

⁶⁶ And He struck down His enemies behind; He put them to cherpat olam (perpetual reproach).

⁶⁷ Moreover He rejected the Ohel Yosef, and chose not the Shevet Ephrayim;

⁶⁸ But chose the Shevet Yehudah, Har Tziyon which He loved.

⁶⁹ And He built His Mikdash like heavenly heights, like Eretz which He hath established l’olam.

⁷⁰ He chose Dovid also His Eved, and took him from the mikhle’ot tzon (sheepfolds);

⁷¹ From following the nursing ewes He brought him to shepherd Ya’akov His people, and Yisroel His nachalah.

⁷² So he shepherded them according to the tohm (integrity, guilelessness) of his lev; and led them by the skillfulness of his hands.