诗篇 78
Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Simplified)
述选民违逆及神恩导
78 亚萨的训诲诗。
1 我的民哪，你们要留心听我的训诲，侧耳听我口中的话。
2 我要开口说比喻，我要说出古时的谜语，
3 是我们所听见所知道的，也是我们的祖宗告诉我们的。
4 我们不将这些事向他们的子孙隐瞒，要将耶和华的美德和他的能力，并他奇妙的作为，述说给后代听。
5 因为他在雅各中立法度，在以色列中设律法，是他吩咐我们祖宗要传给子孙的，
6 使将要生的后代子孙可以晓得。他们也要起来告诉他们的子孙，
7 好叫他们仰望神，不忘记神的作为，唯要守他的命令，
8 不要像他们的祖宗，是顽梗悖逆居心不正之辈，向着神心不诚实。
9 以法莲的子孙带着兵器拿着弓，临阵之日转身退后。
10 他们不遵守神的约，不肯照他的律法行。
11 又忘记他所行的，和他显给他们奇妙的作为。
12 他在埃及地，在琐安田，在他们祖宗的眼前，施行奇事。
13 他将海分裂，使他们过去，又叫水立起如垒。
14 他白日用云彩，终夜用火光，引导他们。
15 他在旷野分裂磐石，多多地给他们水喝，如从深渊而出。
16 他使水从磐石涌出，叫水如江河下流。
17 他们却仍旧得罪他，在干燥之地悖逆至高者。
18 他们心中试探神，随自己所欲的求食物，
19 并且妄论神说：“神在旷野岂能摆设筵席吗？
20 他曾击打磐石，使水涌出成了江河，他还能赐粮食吗？还能为他的百姓预备肉吗？”
21 所以耶和华听见就发怒，有烈火向雅各烧起，有怒气向以色列上腾。
22 因为他们不信服神，不倚赖他的救恩。
23 他却吩咐天空，又敞开天上的门，
24 降吗哪像雨给他们吃，将天上的粮食赐给他们。
25 各人[a]吃大能者的食物，他赐下粮食，使他们饱足。
26 他领东风起在天空，又用能力引了南风来。
27 他降肉像雨在他们当中，多如尘土，又降飞鸟，多如海沙，
28 落在他们的营中，在他们住处的四面。
29 他们吃了，而且饱足，这样就随了他们所欲的。
30 他们贪而无厌，食物还在他们口中的时候，
31 神的怒气就向他们上腾，杀了他们内中的肥壮人，打倒以色列的少年人。
32 虽是这样，他们仍旧犯罪，不信他奇妙的作为。
33 因此他叫他们的日子全归虚空，叫他们的年岁尽属惊恐。
34 他杀他们的时候，他们才求问他，回心转意，切切地寻求神。
35 他们也追念神是他们的磐石，至高的神是他们的救赎主。
36 他们却用口谄媚他，用舌向他说谎。
37 因他们的心向他不正，在他的约上也不忠心。
38 但他有怜悯，赦免他们的罪孽，不灭绝他们，而且屡次消他的怒气，不发尽他的愤怒。
39 他想到他们不过是血气，是一阵去而不返的风。
40 他们在旷野悖逆他，在荒地叫他担忧，何其多呢！
41 他们再三试探神，惹动以色列的圣者。
42 他们不追念他的能力[b]和赎他们脱离敌人的日子。
43 他怎样在埃及地显神迹，在琐安田显奇事，
44 把他们的江河并河汊的水都变为血，使他们不能喝。
45 他叫苍蝇成群落在他们当中，嘬尽他们，又叫青蛙灭了他们；
46 把他们的土产交给蚂蚱，把他们辛苦得来的交给蝗虫。
47 他降冰雹打坏他们的葡萄树，下严霜打坏他们的桑树；
48 又把他们的牲畜交给冰雹，把他们的群畜交给闪电。
49 他使猛烈的怒气和愤怒、恼恨、苦难成了一群降灾的使者，临到他们。
50 他为自己的怒气修平了路，将他们交给瘟疫，使他们死亡。
51 在埃及击杀一切长子，在含的帐篷中击杀他们强壮时头生的。
52 他却领出自己的民如羊，在旷野引他们如羊群。
53 他领他们稳稳妥妥的，使他们不致害怕，海却淹没他们的仇敌。
54 他带他们到自己圣地的边界，到他右手所得的这山地。
55 他在他们面前赶出外邦人，用绳子将外邦的地量给他们为业，叫以色列支派的人住在他们的帐篷里。
56 他们仍旧试探、悖逆至高的神，不守他的法度，
57 反倒退后，行诡诈，像他们的祖宗一样，他们改变如同翻背的弓。
58 因他们的丘坛惹了他的怒气，因他们雕刻的偶像触动他的愤恨。
59 神听见就发怒，极其憎恶以色列人。
60 甚至他离弃示罗的帐幕，就是他在人间所搭的帐篷；
61 又将他的约柜[c]交于人掳去，将他的荣耀交在敌人手中。
62 并将他的百姓交于刀剑，向他的产业发怒。
63 少年人被火烧灭，处女也无喜歌。
64 祭司倒在刀下，寡妇却不哀哭。
65 那时主像世人睡醒，像勇士饮酒呼喊。
66 他就打退了他的敌人，叫他们永蒙羞辱。
67 并且他弃掉约瑟的帐篷，不拣选以法莲支派，
68 却拣选犹大支派，他所喜爱的锡安山，
69 盖造他的圣所好像高峰，又像他建立永存之地。
70 又拣选他的仆人大卫，从羊圈中将他召来，
71 叫他不再跟从那些带奶的母羊，为要牧养自己的百姓雅各和自己的产业以色列。
72 于是他按心中的纯正牧养他们，用手中的巧妙引导他们。
Psalm 78
Amplified Bible
God’s Guidance of His People in Spite of Their Unfaithfulness.
A skillful song, or a didactic or reflective poem, of Asaph.
78 Listen, O my people, to my teaching;
Incline your ears to the words of my mouth [and be willing to learn].
2
I will open my mouth in a parable [to instruct using examples];
I will utter dark and puzzling sayings of old [that contain important truth]—(A)
3
Which we have heard and known,
And our fathers have told us.
4
We will not hide them from their children,
But [we will] tell to the generation to come the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord,
And [tell of] His great might and power and the wonderful works that He has done.
5
For He established a testimony (a specific precept) in Jacob
And appointed a law in Israel,
Which He commanded our fathers
That they should teach to their children [the great facts of God’s transactions with Israel],
6
That the generation to come might know them, that the children still to be born
May arise and recount them to their children,
7
That they should place their confidence in God
And not forget the works of God,
But keep His commandments,
8
And not be like their fathers—
A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation that did not prepare its heart to know and follow God,
And whose spirit was not faithful to God.
9
The sons of Ephraim were armed as archers and carrying bows,
Yet they turned back in the day of battle.
10
They did not keep the covenant of God
And refused to walk according to His law;
11
And they forgot His [incredible] works
And His miraculous wonders that He had shown them.
12
He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers
In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan [where Pharaoh resided].
13
He divided the [Red] Sea and allowed them to pass through it,
And He made the waters stand up like [water behind] a dam.(B)
14
In the daytime He led them with a cloud
And all the night with a light of fire.(C)
15
He split rocks in the wilderness
And gave them abundant [water to] drink like the ocean depths.
16
He brought streams also from the rock [at Rephidim and Kadesh]
And caused waters to run down like rivers.(D)
17
Yet they still continued to sin against Him
By rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
18
And in their hearts they put God to the test
By asking for food according to their [selfish] appetite.
19
Then they spoke against God;
They said, “Can God prepare [food for] a table in the wilderness?
20
“Behold, He struck the rock so that waters gushed out
And the streams overflowed;
Can He give bread also?
Or will He provide meat for His people?”
21
Therefore, when the Lord heard, He was full of wrath;
A fire was kindled against Jacob,
And His anger mounted up against Israel,
22
Because they did not believe in God [they did not rely on Him, they did not adhere to Him],
And they did not trust in His salvation (His power to save).
23
Yet He commanded the clouds from above
And opened the doors of heaven;
24
And He rained down manna upon them to eat
And gave them the grain of heaven.(E)
25
Man ate the bread of angels;
God sent them provision in abundance.
26
He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens
And by His [unlimited] power He guided the south wind.
27
He rained meat upon them like the dust,
And winged birds (quail) like the sand of the seas.(F)
28
And He let them fall in the midst of their camp,
Around their tents.
29
So they ate and were well filled,
He gave them what they craved.
30
Before they had satisfied their desire,
And while their food was in their mouths,(G)
31
The wrath of God rose against them
And killed some of the strongest of them,
And subdued the choice young men of Israel.
32
In spite of all this they still sinned,
For they did not believe in His wonderful and extraordinary works.
33
Therefore He consumed their days like a breath [in emptiness and futility]
And their years in sudden terror.
34
When He killed [some of] them, then those remaining sought Him,
And they returned [to Him] and searched diligently for God [for a time].
35
And they remembered that God was their rock,
And the Most High God their Redeemer.
36
Nevertheless they flattered Him with their mouths
And lied to Him with their tongues.
37
For their heart was not steadfast toward Him,
Nor were they faithful to His covenant.(H)
38
[a]But He, the source of compassion and lovingkindness, forgave their wickedness and did not destroy them;
Many times He restrained His anger
And did not stir up all His wrath.
39
For He [graciously] remembered that they were mere [human] flesh,
A wind that goes and does not return.
40
How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness
And grieved Him in the desert!
41
Again and again they tempted God,
And distressed the Holy One of Israel.
42
They did not remember [the miracles worked by] His [powerful] hand,
Nor the day when He redeemed them from the enemy,
43
How He worked His miracles in Egypt
And His wonders in the field of Zoan [where Pharaoh resided],
44
And turned their rivers into blood,
And their streams, so that they could not drink.
45
He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them,
And frogs which destroyed them.
46
He also gave their crops to the grasshopper,
And the fruit of their labor to the locust.
47
He destroyed their vines with [great] hailstones
And their sycamore trees with frost.
48
He gave over their cattle also to the hailstones,
And their flocks and herds to thunderbolts.(I)
49
He sent upon them His burning anger,(J)
His fury and indignation and distress,
A band of angels of destruction [among them].
50
He leveled a path for His anger [to give it free run];
He did not spare their souls from death,
But turned over their lives to the plague.
51
He killed all the firstborn in Egypt,
The first and best of their strength in the tents [of the land of the sons] of Ham.
52
But God led His own people forward like sheep
And guided them in the wilderness like [a good shepherd with] a flock.
53
He led them safely, so that they did not fear;
But the sea engulfed their enemies.(K)
54
So He brought them to His holy land,
To this mountain [Zion] which His right hand had acquired.
55
He also drove out the nations before the sons of Israel
And allotted their land as an inheritance, measured out and partitioned;
And He had the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents [the tents of those who had been dispossessed].
56
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God
And did not keep His testimonies (laws).
57
They turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers;
They were twisted like a warped bow [that will not respond to the archer’s aim].
58
For they provoked Him to [righteous] anger with their high places [devoted to idol worship]
And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images [by denying Him the love, worship, and obedience that is rightfully and uniquely His].
59
When God heard this, He was filled with [righteous] wrath;
And utterly rejected Israel, [greatly hating her ways],
60
So that He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh,
The tent in which He had dwelled among men,
61
And gave up His strength and power (the ark of the covenant) into captivity,
And His glory into the hand of the enemy (the Philistines).(L)
62
He also handed His people over to the sword,
And was infuriated with His inheritance (Israel).(M)
63
The fire [of war] devoured His young men,
And His [bereaved] virgins had no wedding songs.
64
His priests [Hophni and Phinehas] fell by the sword,
And His widows could not weep.(N)
65
Then the Lord awakened as from sleep,
Like a [mighty] warrior who awakens from the sleep of wine [fully conscious of his power].
66
He drove His enemies backward;
He subjected them to lasting shame and dishonor.
67
Moreover, He rejected the tent of Joseph,
And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim [in which the tabernacle stood].
68
But He chose the tribe of Judah [as Israel’s leader],
Mount Zion, which He loved [to replace Shiloh as His capital].
69
And He built His sanctuary [exalted] like the heights [of the heavens],
Like the earth which He has established forever.
70
He also chose David His servant
And took him from the sheepfolds;(O)
71
[b]From [c]tending the ewes with nursing young He brought him
To shepherd Jacob His people,
And Israel His inheritance.(P)
72
So David shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart;
And guided them with his skillful hands.
Footnotes
- Psalm 78:38 The ancient Sopherim, the Jewish scholars whose responsibility it was to do counts of all the letters, words, and verses of the OT, said that this verse marks the halfway point in Psalms.
- Psalm 78:71 The first impression one might receive from this passage is that God elevated David from the lowliest position in Israel to the highest. But the ancient rabbis said that God tested David’s skills and wisdom as a shepherd. For example, it is said that David held back the bigger sheep from the pasture and brought out the smaller ones first to graze on the tender grass. The rabbis represented God as saying, “He who knows how to shepherd the sheep, each one in proportion to its strength, shall come and shepherd My people.”
- Psalm 78:71 Lit following.
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