Psalm 78
1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,
3 Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.
4 We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, And his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done.
5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which he commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children;
6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tell them to their children,
7 That they might set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep his commandments,
8 And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that set not their heart aright, And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.
10 They kept not the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law;
11 And they forgat his doings, And his wondrous works that he had showed them.
12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
13 He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to stand as a heap.
14 In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, And all the night with a light of fire.
15 He clave rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
16 He brought streams also out of the rock, And caused waters to run down like rivers.
17 Yet went they on still to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
18 And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.
19 Yea, they spake against God; They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
20 Behold, he smote the rock, so that waters gushed out, And streams overflowed; Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?
21 Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; And a fire was kindled against Jacob, And anger also went up against Israel;
22 Because they believed not in God, And trusted not in his salvation.
23 Yet he commanded the skies above, And opened the doors of heaven;
24 And he rained down manna upon them to eat, And gave them food from heaven.
25 Man did eat the bread of the mighty: He sent them food to the full.
26 He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens; And by his power he guided the south wind.
27 He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, And winged birds as the sand of the seas:
28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, Round about their habitations.
29 So they did eat, and were well filled; And he gave them their own desire.
30 They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths,
31 When the anger of God went up against them, And slew of the fattest of them, And smote down the young men of Israel.
32 For all this they sinned still, And believed not in his wondrous works.
33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.
34 When he slew them, then they inquired after him; And they returned and sought God earnestly.
35 And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their redeemer.
36 But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied unto him with their tongue.
37 For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant.
38 But he, being merciful, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: Yea, many a time turned he his anger away, And did not stir up all his wrath.
39 And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
40 How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!
41 And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42 They remember not his hand, Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
43 How he set his signs in Egypt, And his wonders in the field of Zoan,
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 gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, And their labor unto the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycomore-trees with frost.
48 He gave over their cattle also to the hail, And their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, and indignation, and trouble, A band of angels of evil.
50 He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,
51 And smote all the first-born in Egypt, The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
52 But he led forth his own people like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53 And he led them safely, so that they feared not; But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had gotten.
55 He drove out the nations also before them, And allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;
57 But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
59 When God heard this, he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;
60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent which he placed among men;
61 And delivered his strength into captivity, And his glory into the adversary’s hand.
62 He gave his people over also unto the sword, And was wroth with his inheritance.
63 Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song.
64 Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation.
65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
66 And he smote his adversaries backward: He put them to a perpetual reproach.
67 Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph, And chose not the tribe of Ephraim,
68 But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he loved.
69 And he built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he hath established for ever.
70 He chose David also his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds:
71 From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
72 So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
SALMOS 78
Salmo 78 (77)
Contaremos las proezas del Señor
1 Salmo de Asaf.
Pueblo mío, escucha mi enseñanza,
atiendan a las palabras de mi boca.
2 Con sentencias sabias hablaré,
proclamaré enigmas de antañot.
3 Lo que nosotros oímos y sabemos,
lo que nuestros padres nos contaron,
4 no lo ocultaremos a sus hijos;
a la nueva generación le contaremos
las proezas del Señor y su poder,
las maravillas que él hizot.t
5 Él estableció una norma en Jacob,
una ley instituyó en Israel;
él ordenó a nuestros padres
enseñarlas a sus hijos,t
6 para que la generación venidera lo sepa
y los hijos que habrán de nacer
se dispongan a contarlo a sus hijos.
7 Así estos confiarán en Dios,
no olvidarán sus proezas
y respetarán sus mandatos;
8 no serán como sus padres,
generación terca y rebelde
que no fue fiel a Dios.t
9 Los hijos de Efraínt, diestros arqueros,
huyeron el día de la batalla.
10 No respetaron la alianza,
no quisieron seguir su ley;
11 olvidaron sus proezas,
los portentos que les mostró.t
12 Ante sus padres hizo prodigios
en el país de Egipto, en los campos de Soánt.
13 Abrió el mar y los hizo pasar,
como un dique detuvo las aguas;t
14 con una nube los guiaba de día,
con luz de fuego durante la noche;t
15 en el desierto hendió las rocas,
calmó su sed en caudalosos manantiales;t
16 hizo brotar arroyos de las peñas
y como ríos descendieron las aguast.
17 Pero de nuevo pecaron contra él,
se rebelaron contra el Altísimo en el desierto.
18 En su interior retaron a Dios,
reclamaron comida con ansia.t
19 Hablaron contra Dios, dijeron:
“¿Podrá Dios preparar una mesa en el desierto?
20 Es verdad que golpeó la roca
y el agua manó, los arroyos fluyeron;
pero ¿podrá también dar pan,
proporcionar carne a su pueblot?”.
21 Lo oyó el Señor y se llenó de furia,
su ira se encendió contra Jacob,
se alzó en cólera contra Israel,
22 porque no habían creído en Dios,
no confiaban en su salvación.
23 Entonces dio la orden a las nubes
y las puertas del cielo se abrieront.
24 Les hizo llover maná para comer,
les ofreció trigo del cielo.
25 Pan de ángelest comió el ser humano,
víveres mandó para saciarlos.
26 En el cielo hizo soplar viento del este,
viento del sur levantó con su poder.
27 Les llovió carne abundante como el polvo,
aves numerosas como la arena del mar;
28 en medio del campamento las hizo caer,
alrededor de sus tiendas.
29 Ellos comieron hasta hartarse
y él cumplió así sus deseos.
30 Pero no estaban aún satisfechos,
aún tenían la comida en la boca
31 cuando Dios se enfureció con ellos
y acabó con los más vigorosos,
abatió a los mejores de Israel.
32 A pesar de ello siguieron pecando,
no confiaron en sus maravillas.
33 Entonces en un soplo consumió sus días,
sus años en un súbito terror.
34 Si los hacía morir lo buscaban,
se arrepentían dirigiéndose a él;
35 recordaban que Dios era su refugio,
el Dios Altísimo su redentor.
36 Pero con su boca lo engañaban,
con su lengua le mentían;
37 su corazón no era sincero,
eran infieles a su alianza.t
38 Él, misericordioso, perdonaba
su pecado y no los destruía;
su ira contenía una y otra vez,
no desplegaba todo su furor.
39 Recordaba que eran humanos,
un soplo que pasa y no vuelvet.
40 ¡Cuántas veces se rebelaron en el desierto
y en el yermo lo llenaron de tristeza!
41 Una y otra vez provocaban a Dios,
enojaban al Santo de Israel.
42 No se acordaban de su poder,
del día que los salvó del enemigo,t
43 cuando en Egipto hizo prodigios
y portentost en los campos de Soán.t
44 Él convirtió en sangre sus ríos,
sus arroyos para que no bebieran.
45 Les envió plagas que los devoraron,
ranas que los destruyeron,
46 entregó a los saltamontes sus cosechas,
a las langostas sus tareas campesinas;
47 destruyó con el granizo sus viñedos,
con la helada sus higueras;
48 abandonó su ganado al pedrisco,
a los rayos sus rebaños.
49 Lanzó contra ellos el furor de su ira,
cólera, furia y calamidades,
una hueste de aciagos mensajeros.
50 Dio rienda suelta a su ira
y no los salvó de la muerte,
sino que entregó sus vidast a la peste;
51 a todo primogénito abatió en Egipto,
a todo primer nacido en las tiendas de Camt.
52 Como a un rebaño sacó a su pueblot,
por el desierto lo condujo como a ovejas;t
53 en sosiego los guiaba y no temían,
pero a sus enemigos los cubría el mar.t
54 Y los llevó hasta su tierra sagrada,
al monte que su mano conquistó.
55 Ante ellos expulsó naciones,
repartió en lotes su heredad
y en sus tiendas alojó a las tribus de Israel.t
56 Pero ellos lo pusieron a prueba,
se rebelaron contra el Dios Altísimo,
no respetaron sus mandamientos.
57 Lo abandonaron, lo traicionaron como sus padres,
se desviaron como un arco mal tensado.
58 Lo enfurecieron con sus altares*,
con sus ídolos le dieron celost.t
59 Dios lo oyó y se llenó de furia,
detestó intensamente a Israel.t
60 Abandonó su morada en Silót,
la Tienda que tenía en medio de ellos.t
61 Al cautiverio entregó su poder,
a manos del enemigo su gloriat;
62 abandonó su pueblo a la espada,
se enfureció contra su heredad;
63 a sus jóvenes consumió el fuego,
no hubo cantos de boda para sus doncellas;t
64 sus sacerdotes murieron a espadat,
sus viudas no los lloraron.
65 Pero el Señor despertó como quien duerme,
cual guerrero aturdido por el vinot,
66 y atacó a sus enemigos por la espalda,
los cubrió de una vergüenza eternat.
67 Rechazó a la casa de José*,
no eligió a la tribu de Efraínt;
68 eligió a la tribu de Judá,
al monte Sión que él ama.
69 Erigió su santuario como el cielo,
como la tierra que asentó para siempre.
70 Eligió a David su siervo,
del redil de las ovejas lo tomó;t
71 lo sacó de detrás de las corderas
para pastorear a Jacob, su pueblo,
y a Israel su heredad.
72 Y los pastoreó con corazón íntegro,
los condujo con mano diestra.