1 A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth. | TOSK |
2 I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning, | IP | TOSK |
3 that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us. | TOSK |
4 We will not hide them from their children, but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might, and the wonders He has performed. | TOSK |
5 For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children, | TOSK |
6 that the coming generation would know them—even children yet to be born—to arise and tell their own children | TOSK |
7 that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments. | TOSK |
8 Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God. | TOSK |
9 The archers of Ephraim turned back on the day of battle. | TOSK |
10 They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law. | TOSK |
11 They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them. | TOSK |
12 He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan. | TOSK |
13 He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall. | IP | TOSK |
14 He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night. | TOSK |
15 He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas. | TOSK |
16 He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers. | TOSK |
17 But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High. | TOSK |
18 They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved. | TOSK |
19 They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness? | TOSK |
20 When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?” | TOSK |
21 Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared against Israel, | TOSK |
22 because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation. | TOSK |
23 Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens. | TOSK |
24 He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven. | IP | TOSK |
25 Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance. | TOSK |
26 He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might. | TOSK |
27 He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea. | TOSK |
28 He felled them in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings. | TOSK |
29 So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them what they craved. | TOSK |
30 Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths, | TOSK |
31 God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel. | TOSK |
32 In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe. | TOSK |
33 So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror. | TOSK |
34 When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God. | TOSK |
35 And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer. | TOSK |
36 But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues. | TOSK |
37 Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant. | TOSK |
38 And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath. | TOSK |
39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return. | TOSK |
40 How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert! | IP | TOSK |
41 Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel. | TOSK |
42 They did not remember His power—the day He redeemed them from the adversary, | TOSK |
43 when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan. | TOSK |
44 He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink. | IP¹ | IP² | TOSK |
45 He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them. | IP | TOSK |
46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust. | IP | TOSK |
47 He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet. | IP | TOSK |
48 He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning. | IP | TOSK |
49 He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity—a band of destroying angels. | IP | TOSK |
50 He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague. | IP | TOSK |
51 He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham. | IP | TOSK |
52 He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness. | IP | TOSK | LT |
53 He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies. | TOSK |
54 He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired. | IP | TOSK |
55 He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents. | TOSK |
56 But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees. | TOSK |
57 They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow. | TOSK |
58 They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols. | IP¹ | IP² | IP³ | IP⁴ | IP⁵ | IP⁶ | IP⁷ | IP⁸ | TOSK |
59 On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely. | IP¹ | IP² | IP³ | IP⁴ | TOSK |
60 He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men. | TOSK |
61 He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary. | TOSK |
62 He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage. | TOSK |
63 Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs. | TOSK |
64 His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament. | TOSK |
65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine. | TOSK |
66 He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame. | TOSK |
67 He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim. | TOSK |
68 But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved. | IP¹ | IP² | IP³ | TOSK |
69 He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever. | IP¹ | IP² | TOSK |
70 He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds; | TOSK | LT |
71 from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance. | TOSK |
72 So David shepherded them with integrity of heart and guided them with skillful hands. | TOSK |