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OET-RV by section PSA 78:1

PSA 78:1–78:72 ©

This is still a very early look into the unfinished text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.

Song 78/God’s past goodness

78:0 God’s past goodness

78 A song[fn] by Asaf.

78Hear my teaching, my people.

Listen to what I’m saying.

2I will speak out in parables;

I will sing about hidden things about the past.

3These are things that we have heard and learnt—

things that our ancestors have told us.

4We won’t keep them from their descendants.

We’ll tell the next generation about Yahweh’s praiseworthy actions,

his strength, and the miracles that he has done.

5Also he established a rule in Yakov

and appointed a law in Yisrael.

He commanded our ancestors

that they were to teach them to their children.

6He commanded this so that the generation to come might know his decrees—

the children not yet born who should tell them in turn to their own children.

7Then they would place their hope in God

and not forget what he’s done

but obey his commands.

8Then they would not be like their ancestors,

who were a stubborn and rebellious generation—

a generation who didn’t control their hearts,

and whose spirits were not committed and faithful to God.

9The Efraimites had many archers,

but they turned back on the day of battle.

10They didn’t keep their agreement with God,

and they refused to obey his law.

11They forgot about what he’d done

the wonderful things that he had shown them.

12They forgot the marvellous things that he’d done

in the sight of their ancestors in Egypt (Heb. Mitsrayim) in the Tsoan region.

13He divided the sea and led them across it.

He made the water on each side stand up like walls.

14In the daytime he led them with a cloud,

^and throughout the night with the light from fire.

15He split the rocks in the wilderness,

and he gave them plenty of waterenough to fill the ocean.

16He made streams flow out of the rock

and made the water flow like rivers.

17Yet they continued to sin against him,

rebelling against the highest one in the wilderness.

18They challenged God in their hearts

by asking for food to satisfy their appetites.

19They spoke against God, saying,

“Can God really lay out food on a table for us in the wilderness?

20See, when he struck the rock, water gushed out

and streams overflowed.

But can he give food also?

Will he provide meat for his people?”

21When Yahweh heard that, he was angry

and his fire burned against Yakov.

His anger attacked Yisrael,

22because they didn’t believe in God

and didn’t trust that he would save them.

23Yet he commanded the skies above

and opened the doors in the sky.

24He rained down manna for them to eat.

He gave them the grain from heaven.

25People ate angels’ bread.

He sent them plenty of food.

26He caused the east wind to blow in the sky,

and by his power he guided the south wind.

27He rained meat down on them like dust—

birds as numerous as the sand on the seashore.

28They fell in the middle of their camp—

all around their tents.

29So they ate and were full.

He gave them what they craved.

30But they hadn’t filled their stomachs yet—

their food was still in their mouths

31and then God’s anger attacked them

and killed the strongest of them.

He brought down Yisrael’s young men.

32Despite that, they continued to sin

and wouldn’t trust in the wonderful things he would do.

33So their days were ended uselessly.

Their years were filled with terror.

34Whenever God afflicted them, they would start to search for him,

and they would return and earnestly look for him.

35They would call to mind that God was their security

and that the highest God was their rescuer.

36But they’d flatter him with their mouth,

and lie to him with their words.

37Their hearts weren’t firmly fixed on him,

and they weren’t faithful to his agreement.

38Yet he, being merciful, forgave their disobedience and didn’t destroy them.

Yes, many times he held back his anger

and didn’t stir up all his rage.

39He called to mind that they were only made of flesh—

a breath of wind that passes away and doesn’t return.

40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness,

and grieved him in those barren regions.

41Again and again they challenged God

and offended the holy one of Israel.

42They didn’t think about his power,

or about how he’d rescued them from their enemy,

43when he performed his miracles in Egypt

and his wonders in the Tsoan region.

44He turned the Egyptians’ rivers into blood

so that they couldn’t drink from their streams.

45He sent swarms of flies that bit them

and frogs that overran their land.

46He gave their crops to the grasshoppers

and the results of their labour to the locusts.

47He destroyed their grapevines with hail

and their sycamore fig trees with frost.

48He rained hail on their cattle

and hurled lightning bolts at their livestock.

49The fierceness of his anger lashed out against them.

He sent rage, fury, and trouble

like agents to bring disaster.

50He leveled a path for his anger.

He didn’t spare them from death

but gave them over to the plague.

51He killed all the firstborn in Egypt—

the firstborn of their reproductive strength in Ham’s tents.

52He led his own people out like sheep

and guided them through the wilderness like a flock.

53He led them secure and unafraid,

but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

54Then he brought them to the border of his holy land—

to this mountain that he acquired with his power.

55He drove out the nations ahead of them

and assigned them their inheritance.

He settled the Israeli tribes in their tents.[ref]

56Yet they challenged and defied the highest God

and didn’t obey his solemn commands.

57They were unfaithful and acted treacherously like their ancestors.

They were as unreliable as a faulty bow.

58They made him angry with their hilltop shrines

and provoked him to jealous anger with their idols.

59When God heard this, he was angry

and completely rejected Israel.

60He abandoned the sanctuary at Shiloh—

the tent where he had lived among people.[ref]

61He allowed his strength[fn] to be captured

and gave control of his splendour to the enemy.

62He handed his people over to the sword,

and he was angry with his heritage.

63Fire devoured their young men,

and their young women had no wedding songs.

64Their priests fell by the sword,

and their widows had no opportunity to weep.

65Then my master awakened like someone who’d been asleep—

like a warrior who shouts because he’s been drinking.

66He drove his opponents back.

He put them to perpetual shame.

67He rejected Yosef’s tent,

and he didn’t chose the tribe of Efraim.

68He chose the tribe of Yehudah

and Mt. Tsiyyon (Zion) that he loved.

69He built his sanctuary like the heavens—

like the earth that he has established forever.

70He chose his servant David,

and took him from the sheep pens.

71He took him from following the ewes with their young,

and he brought him to shepherd Yakov, his people,

and Yisrael, his heritage.

72David shepherded them with sincere integrity,

and he guided them with his skillful hands.


78:0 In Hebrew, ‘maskil’ is perhaps the name of this class of song.

78:61 Probably referring to the sacred chest containing the tablets with the Sinai agreement written on them. But there’s also connotations of Shimshon’s/Samson’s capture in this line.


78:55: Josh 11:16-23.

78:60: Josh 18:1; Jer 7:12-14; 26:6.

PSA 78:1–78:72 ©

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