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MOF PSA Chapter 78

PSA 78 ©

An Asaphite ode.

78Listen to my teaching, O my people,

give ear to what I say,

2as I open my lips in a poem

on the deep lessons of the past,

3that we know as we have heard,

that our fathers told to us,

4hiding it not from their children,

but telling the next generation

the Eternal’s praise and power,

the wonders he has done.

5He set up his witness in Jacob,

he appointed a law within Israel,

bidding our fathers instruct their children,

6that the next generation might understand,

that children yet unborn might rise

and tell their children after them,

7to put their confidence in God,

and not forget the deeds of God,

but loyally obey him;

8that they might not be like their fathers,

a stubborn and unruly race,

a wavering race,

no loyal hearts for God.


9The Ephraimites were like a disappointing bow,

that fails upon the day of battle;

10they would not keep their compact with God,

they would not follow his directions,

11they forgot what he had done,

the wonders he had shown them.

12Marvels he wrought, under their fathers’ eyes,

in Egypt, in the land of Zoan;

13he split the sea and led them through,

piling the water up like walls,

14he led them with a cloud by day,

and all night with a blazing fire;

15he split rocks in the wilderness,

to give them drink in the desert,

16he brought streams out of the rock,

made water run like a river.

17But still they sinned against him, in the desert

they defied the Most High;

18with a doubt of God in their mind

they demanded the food they craved,

19they question God – was he able

here in the desert to spread us a table?

20He struck the rock till waters flowed

and streams poured out;

but can he give us food as well,

and furnish flesh to his people?

21When the Eternal heard this, he was wroth,

he blazed out against Jacob,

his wrath broke upon Israel,

22for failing to believe in God,

for trusting not his saving aid.

23So, at his bidding, from the skies,

as he opened the sluices of heaven,

24manna rained down for their food,

and he gave them heaven’s own grain;

25men ate the bread of angels,

he sent them food to the full.

26He brought an east wind over the sky,

he drove a strong wind from the south,

27raining flesh on them like the dust,

and birds like sand upon the beach,

28letting them fall inside the camp,

close to their very tents.

29They ate, and they were gorged then

with the food they craved;

30and still they were at their surfeit,

still eating up their food,

31when the anger of God broke on them

and slew their lusty men,

laying the pick of Israel low.

32Yet on they went in sin;

for all his wonders, they would not believe.

33So he made their days brief as a breath,

and the end of their life sudden death.

34Then, if he slew them, they sought after him,

they would earnestly seek God again,

35remembering God was their strength,

and God Most High their preserver.

36But it was smooth words and no more,

their promises to him were false;

37they had a wavering mind,

they were not loyal to his compact.


38He in his great pity cancels sin,

dooms not to death;

often he will avert his wrath,

without one angry breath.

39So he remembered they were mortal men,

their life no better than a passing breeze;

40though often they defied him in the desert,

and vexed him in the wilderness,

41with doubts of God again and again,

that pained the Majestic One of Israel.

42They remembered not his power,

nor the day he saved them from the foe,

43the portents that he wrought in Egypt,

his marvels in the land of Zoan;

44how he turned streams into blood,

till none could drink the water,

45sent out dog-flies to devour,

frogs to destroy,

46let caterpillars have the crops,

and locusts all the fruit of the foe’s labour.

47he killed their vines with hail,

the sycamores with frost,

48gave cattle over to the plague,

and beasts to the murrain.

49His blazing anger he let loose,

fury and rage and ruin,

the messengers of woe;

50straight and swift his anger sped, unsparing,

letting the deadly pestilence prey on life;

51he struck down all the first-born within Egypt,

each oldest male child in the tents of Khem.

52But his own people he led out like sheep,

guiding them in the desert like a flock;

53he led them safely on, without a fear,

when the sea drowned their foes;

54he brought them to his sacred soil,

to hills he had won for himself;

55he drove out nations before them,

and duly divided their land,

for Israel’s clans to occupy.

56Yet they doubted and defied the Most High God,

they would not obey his rules;

57they fell back, false like their fathers,

they failed, like a disappointing bow;

58their idols angered him upon the heights,

their images provoked his jealousy.

59God heard of it, and he was furious,

he was done with Israel!

60He abandoned his Dwelling at Shilo,

the tent he had pitched among men,

61he let his great ark be captured,

let his splendid ark fall to the foe;

62he abandoned his folk to the edge of the sword,

so furious was he with his own,

63till their youths fell in the flames of war,

and girls had never a wedding song,

64till their priests were cut to pieces,

and widows dared not raise a dirge.

65Then the Lord started up, as from a sleep,

and, like a hero wild with wine,

66he made rout of his foes,

defeating and disgracing them for ever;

67and then, disowning the tents of Joseph,

passing by Ephraim’s clan,

68he chose the clan of Judah,

his beloved hill of Sion,

69where he built his shrine like heaven on high,

firm as the earth he has founded for ever.

70He chose David his servant,

took him from the sheepfolds,

71fetched him from the care of ewes,

to tend his people Jacob,

to shepherd his own Israel;

72and he did tend them honestly,

he led them with ability.

PSA 78 ©

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