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| [1]Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth. |
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| [2]I will open my mouth with a parable; I will utter dark sayings concerning days of old; |
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| [3]That which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us, |
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| [4]We will not hide from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, and His strength, and His wondrous works that He hath done. |
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| [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; |
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| [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, |
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| [7]That they might put their confidence in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments; |
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| [8]And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebelliou generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. |
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| [9]The children of Ephraim were as archers handling the bow, that turned back in the day of battle. |
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| [10]They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in His law; |
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| [11]And they forgot His doings, and His wondrous works that He had shown them. |
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| [12]Marvellous things did He in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. |
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| [13]He cleaved the sea, and caused them to pass through; and He made the waters to stand as a heap. |
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| [14]By day also He led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. |
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| [15]He cleaved rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the great deep. |
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| [16]He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. |
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| [17]Yet went they on still to sin against Him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert. |
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| [18]And they tried God in their heart by asking food for their craving. |
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| [19]Yea, they spoke against God; they said: 'Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? |
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| [20]Behold, He smote the rock, that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; can He give bread also? or will He provide flesh for His people?' |
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| [21]Therefore 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 heard, and was wroth; and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel; |
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| [22]Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in His salvation. |
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| [23]And He commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven; |
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| [24]And He caused manna to rain upon them for food, and gave them of the corn of heaven. |
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| [25]Man did eat the bread of the mighty; He sent them provisions to the full. |
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| [26]He caused the east wind to set forth in heaven; and by His power He brought on the south wind. |
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| [27]He caused flesh also to rain upon them as the dust, and winged fowl as the sand of the seas; |
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| [28]And He let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their dwellings. |
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| [29]So they did eat, and were well filled; and He gave them that which they craved. |
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| [30]They were not estranged from their craving, their food was yet in their mouths, |
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| [31]When the anger of God went up against them, and slew of the lustiest among them, and smote down the young men of Israel. |
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| [32]For all this they sinned s till, and believed not in His wondrous works. |
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| [33]Therefore He ended their days as a breath, and their years in terror. |
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| [34]When He slew them, then they would inquire after Him, and turn back and seek God earnestly. |
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| [35]And they remembered that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their redeemer. |
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| [36]But they beguiled Him with their mouth, and lied unto Him with their tongue. |
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| [37]For their heart was not stedfast with Him, neither were they faithful in His covenant. |
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| [38]But He, being full of compassion, forgiveth iniquity, and destroyeth not; yea, many a time doth He turn His anger away, and doth not stir up all His wrath. |
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| [39]So He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. |
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| [40]How oft did they rebel against Him in the wilderness, and grieve Him in the desert! |
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| [41]And still again they tried God, and set bounds to the Holy One of Israel. |
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| [42]They remembered not His hand, nor the day when He redeemed them from the adversary. |
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| [43]How He set His signs in Egypt, and His wonders in the field of Zoan; |
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| [44]And turned their rivers into blood, so that they could not drink their streams. |
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| [45]He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. |
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| [46]He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust. |
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| [47]He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore-trees with frost. |
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| [48]He gave over their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to fiery bolts. |
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| [49]He sent forth upon them the fierceness of His anger, wrath, an indignation, and trouble, a sending of messengers of evil. |
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| [50]He levelled a path for His anger; He spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; |
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| [51]And smote all the first-born in Egypt, the first-fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham; |
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| [52]But He made His own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. |
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| [53]And He led them safely, and they feared not; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. |
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| [54]And He brought them to His holy border, to the mountain, which His right hand had gotten. |
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| [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. |
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| [56]Yet they tried and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not His testimonies; |
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| [57]But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers; they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. |
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| [58]For they provoked Him with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their graven images. |
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| [59]God heard, and was wroth, and He greatly abhorred Israel; |
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| [60]And He forsook the tabernacle o Shiloh, the tent which He had made to dwell among men; |
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| [61]And delivered His strength into captivity, and His glory into the adversary's hand. |
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| [62]He gave His people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with His inheritance. |
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| [63]Fire devoured their young men; and their virgins had marriage-song. |
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| [64]Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation. |
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| [65]Then the Lord awaked as one asleep, like a mighty man recovering from wine. |
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| [66]And He smote His adversaries backward; He put upon them a perpetual reproach. |
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| [67]Moreover He abhorred the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim; |
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| [68]But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which He loved. |
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| [69]And He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which He hath founded for ever. |
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| [70]He chose David also His servant, and took him from the sheepfolds; |
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| [71]From following the ewes that give suck He brought him, to be shepherd over Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance. |
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| [72]So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart; and lead them by t skilfulness of his hands. |
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