Psalms
110:1-7
[1] יהוה said to my Master, “Sit at My right hand, Until I make Your
enemies a footstool for Your feet.”
[2] יהוה sends Your mighty sceptre out of Tsiyon.
Rule in the midst of Your enemies!
[3] Your people
volunteer in the day of Your might, In the splendours of set-apartness! From
the womb, from the morning, You have the dew of Your youth!
[4] יהוה has sworn and does not relent, “You are a
priest forever According to the order of Malkitseḏeq.”
[5] יהוה at Your right hand Shall smite sovereigns
in the day of His wrath.
[6] He judges among
the nations, He shall fill the nations with dead bodies, He shall crush
the Head over the mighty earth!
[7] He drinks of the
stream by the wayside, Therefore He does lift up the head!
Psalms
78:1-72
[1] My
people, give ear to my Torah1,
Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. Footnote: 1In
vv. 1-11 the words “teaching, words, witness, commands, covenant,” are used interchangeably,
as parallels,almost synonymously. We find the same in Ps. 119.
[2] I open
my mouth in a parable; I utter riddles of old,
[3] Which
we have heard and known, For our fathers have related them to us.
[4] We do
not hide them from their children, Relating to the generation to come
the praises of יהוה, And His strength and His wonders which He
has done.
[5] For He raised a
witness in Yaʽaqoḇ, And set a Torah in Yisra’ĕl, Which He commanded our
fathers, To teach them to their children;
[6] That it might be
known to a generation to come, To children who would be born, To rise up and
relate them to their children,
[7] And place their
trust in Elohim, And not forget the works of Ěl, But watch over His commands,
[8] And not be like
their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation which did not
prepare its heart, Whose spirit was not steadfast to Ěl.
[9] The children of
Ephrayim, armed bowmen, Turned back in the day of battle.
[10] They did not guard
the covenant of Elohim, And they refused to walk in His Torah,
[11] And they forgot
His deeds And His wonders which He had shown them.
[12] He did wonders in
the sight of their fathers, In the land
of Mitsrayim, in the
field of Tsoʽan.
[13] He split the sea
and caused them to pass through, And He made the waters stand up like a heap,
[14] And led them with
the cloud by day, And all the night with a light of fire.
[15] He split the
rocks in the wilderness, And made them drink, as from the great depths,
[16] And brought forth
streams from the rock, And caused waters to come down as rivers.
[17] Yet they sinned
still more against Him To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
[18] And they tried Ěl
in their heart By asking food according to their desire.
[19] And they spoke
against Elohim. They said, “Is Ěl able to set a table in the wilderness?
[20] “Look, He struck
the rock, So that the waters gushed out, And the streams overflowed. Is He able
to give bread also? Would He provide meat for His people?”
[21] Therefore יהוה heard, and He was wroth; So a fire was
kindled against Yaʽaqoḇ, And displeasure also came up
against Yisra’ĕl,
[22] Because they did
not believe in Elohim, Neither did they trust in His deliverance.
[23] Yet He had
commanded the clouds above, And opened the doors of the heavens,
[24] And He rained
down manna on them to eat, And He gave them the grain of the heavens.
[25] Men ate bread of
the mighty; He sent them provisions to satisfaction.
[26] He made an east
wind blow in the heavens; And by His power He brought in the south wind.
[27] And He rained
meat on them like the dust, And winged birds like the sand of the seas,
[28] And let them fall
in the midst of His camp, All around His Dwelling Place.
[29] So they ate and
were completely satisfied, For He brought them what they desired.
[30] They had not
turned away from their desire, Their food was still in their mouths,
[31] When the wrath of
Elohim came against them, And He slew among their fat ones, And He struck down
the choice ones of Yisra’ĕl.
[32] In spite of all
this they still sinned, And did not believe in His wonders.
[33] So He ended their
days in a breath, And their years in trouble.
[34] When He slew
them, then they sought Him, And they returned and did earnestly seek Ěl.
[35] And they
remembered that Elohim was their rock, And the Most High Ěl their redeemer.
[36] But they
flattered Him with their mouth, And they lied to Him with their tongue,
[37] For their heart
was not steadfast with Him, And they were not true to His covenant.
[38] But He, the
Compassionate One, Pardoned crookedness, And did not destroy them. And many a
time He turned His displeasure away, And did not stir up all His wrath.
[39] For He remembered
that they were but flesh, A passing breath that does not return.
[40] How often they
rebelled against Him in the wilderness, And grieved Him in the desert!
[41] And again and
again they tried Ěl, And provoked the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl.
[42] They did not
remember His hand, The day when He redeemed them from the adversary,
[43] How He worked His
signs in Mitsrayim, And His wonders in the field of Tsoʽan.
[44] He turned their
rivers into blood, And they could not drink their streams.
[45] He sent among
them swarms of flies which devoured them, And frogs which destroyed them,
[46] And gave their
crops to the caterpillar, And their labour to the locust.
[47] He destroyed
their vines with hail, And their sycamore trees with frost,
[48] And gave their
beasts over to the hail, And their livestock to bolts of fire.
[49] He sent on them
the burning of His displeasure, Wrath, and rage, and distress, A deputation of
messengers of evils.
[50] He made a path
for His displeasure; He did not spare their being from death, But gave their
life over to the plague.
[51] And He smote all
the first-born in Mitsrayim, The first-fruits of strength in the tents of Ḥam,
[52] Then made His own
people go forth like sheep, And led them in the wilderness like a flock.
[53] And He led them
on safely, And they did not fear, But the sea covered their enemies.
[54] And He brought
them to the border of His set-apart place, This mountain which His right hand
had gained,
[55] And drove out
nations before them, And allotted them a measured inheritance, And made the
tribes of Yisra’ĕl dwell in their tents.
[56] Yet they tried
and rebelled Against the Most High Elohim, And did not guard His witnesses,
[57] But they turned
back And acted treacherously like their fathers; They twisted like a
treacherous bow.
[58] For they enraged
Him with their high places, And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.
[59] When Elohim heard
this, He was wroth, And greatly despised Yisra’ĕl,
[60] And He left the Dwelling Place of Shiloh, The Tent which He had set up among men.
[61] And He gave His strength1 into captivity, And His comeliness1 into the hand of the
adversary. Footnote: 1“Strength” and
“comeliness” are used as symbolic names for His Ark. See also Ps. 63:2, Ps.
132:8, and 2 Chr. 6:41.
[62] And He gave His
people over to the sword, And He was wroth with His inheritance.
[63] His young men
were consumed by fire, And His maidens were not praised.
[64] His priests fell
by the sword, And their widows could not weep.
[65] Then יהוה awoke as one asleep, As a mighty man who
shouts because of wine.
[66] And He smote His
adversaries backward, He put them to an everlasting reproach.
[67] Then He rejected
the tent of Yosĕph, And did not choose the tribe of Ephrayim,
[68] But chose the
tribe of Yehuḏah, Mount Tsiyon,
which He loved.
[69] And He built His
set-apart place like the heights, Like the earth He founded it forever.
[70] And He chose
Dawiḏ His servant, And took him from
the sheepfolds;
[71] He brought him in
from tending the ewes, To shepherd Yaʽaqoḇ His people, And Yisra’ĕl His
inheritance.
[72] And he shepherded
them According to the integrity of his heart, And led them by the skill of his
hands.
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