Psalm 78
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Psalm 78
God’s Goodness and Israel’s Ingratitude
A Maskil of Asaph.
1 Give ear, O my people, to my teaching;
incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable;
I will utter dark sayings from of old,
3 things that we have heard and known,
that our ancestors have told us.
4 We will not hide them from their children;
we will tell to the coming generation
the glorious deeds of the Lord and his might
and the wonders that he has done.
5 He established a decree in Jacob
and appointed a law in Israel,
which he commanded our ancestors
to teach to their children,
6 that the next generation might know them,
the children yet unborn,
and rise up and tell them to their children,
7 so that they should set their hope in God,
and not forget the works of God,
but keep his commandments;
8 and that they should not be like their ancestors,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation whose heart was not steadfast,
whose spirit was not faithful to God.
9 The Ephraimites, armed with the bow,
turned back on the day of battle.
10 They did not keep God’s covenant
and refused to walk according to his law.
11 They forgot what he had done
and the miracles that he had shown them.
12 In the sight of their ancestors he worked marvels
in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.
13 He divided the sea and let them pass through it
and made the waters stand like a heap.
14 In the daytime he led them with a cloud
and all night long with a fiery light.
15 He split rocks open in the wilderness
and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
16 He made streams come out of the rock
and caused waters to flow down like rivers.
17 Yet they sinned still more against him,
rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
18 They tested God in their heart
by demanding the food they craved.
19 They spoke against God, saying,
“Can God spread a table in the wilderness?
20 Even though he struck the rock so that water gushed out
and torrents overflowed,
can he also give bread
or provide meat for his people?”
21 Therefore, when the Lord heard, he was full of rage;
a fire was kindled against Jacob,
his anger mounted against Israel,
22 because they had no faith in God
and did not trust his saving power.
23 Yet he commanded the skies above
and opened the doors of heaven;
24 he rained down on them manna to eat
and gave them the grain of heaven.
25 Mortals ate of the bread of angels;
he sent them food in abundance.
26 He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens,
and by his power he led out the south wind;
27 he rained flesh upon them like dust,
winged birds like the sand of the seas;
28 he let them fall within their camp,
all around their dwellings.
29 And they ate and were well filled,
for he gave them what they craved.
30 But before they had satisfied their craving,
while the food was still in their mouths,
31 the anger of God rose against them,
and he killed the strongest of them
and laid low the flower of Israel.
32 In spite of all this they still sinned;
they did not believe in his wonders.
33 So he made their days vanish like a breath
and their years in terror.
34 When he killed them, they searched for him;
they repented and sought God earnestly.
35 They remembered that God was their rock,
the Most High God their redeemer.
36 But they flattered him with their mouths;
they lied to him with their tongues.
37 Their heart was not steadfast toward him;
they were not true to his covenant.
38 Yet he, being compassionate,
forgave their iniquity
and did not destroy them;
often he restrained his anger
and did not stir up all his wrath.
39 He remembered that they were but flesh,
a wind that passes and does not come again.
40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness
and grieved him in the desert!
41 They tested God again and again
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42 They did not keep in mind his power
or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,
43 when he displayed his signs in Egypt
and his miracles in the fields of Zoan.
44 He turned their rivers to blood,
so that they could not drink of their streams.
45 He sent among them swarms of flies that devoured them
and frogs that destroyed them.
46 He gave their crops to the caterpillar
and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail
and their sycamores with frost.
48 He gave over their cattle to the hail
and their flocks to thunderbolts.
49 He let loose on them his fierce anger,
wrath, indignation, and distress,
a company of destroying angels.
50 He made a path for his anger;
he did not spare them from death
but gave their lives over to the plague.
51 He struck all the firstborn in Egypt,
the first issue of their strength in the tents of Ham.
52 Then he led out his people like sheep
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53 He led them in safety so that they were not afraid,
but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54 And he brought them to his holy hill,
to the mountain that his right hand had won.
55 He drove out nations before them;
he apportioned them for a possession
and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
56 Yet they tested the Most High God
and rebelled against him.
They did not observe his decrees
57 but turned away and were faithless like their ancestors;
they twisted like a treacherous bow.
58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places;
they moved him to jealousy with their idols.
59 When God heard, he was full of wrath,
and he utterly rejected Israel.
60 He abandoned his dwelling at Shiloh,
the tent where he dwelt among mortals,
61 and delivered his power to captivity,
his glory to the hand of the foe.
62 He gave his people to the sword
and vented his wrath on his heritage.
63 Fire devoured their young men,
and their young women had no marriage song.
64 Their priests fell by the sword,
and their widows made no lamentation.
65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,
like a warrior shouting because of wine.
66 He put his adversaries to rout;
he put them to everlasting disgrace.
67 He rejected the tent of Joseph;
he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
68 but he chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which he loves.
69 He built his sanctuary like the high heavens,
like the earth, which he has founded forever.
70 He chose his servant David
and took him from the sheepfolds;
71 from tending the nursing ewes he brought him
to be the shepherd of his people Jacob,
of Israel, his inheritance.
72 With upright heart he tended them
and guided them with skillful hand.
Footnotes
78.9 Heb armed with shooting
Salmos 78
Reina Valera Actualizada
Lecciones de la historia de Israel
78 Masquil de Asaf.
Escucha, oh pueblo mío, mi ley;
inclinen ustedes su oído a las palabras de mi boca.
2 Abriré mi boca en parábolas;
evocaré las cosas escondidas
del pasado,
3 las cuales hemos oído y entendido, porque nos las contaron
nuestros padres.
4 No las encubriremos a sus hijos.
A la generación venidera contaremos las alabanzas del SEÑOR, y de su poder y de las maravillas que hizo.
5 Él estableció su testimonio en Jacob
y puso la ley en Israel.
Mandó a nuestros padres que lo
hicieran conocer a sus hijos
6 para que lo supiera la generación venidera y sus hijos que nacieran, para que los que surgieran lo contaran a sus hijos,
7 para que pusieran en Dios
su confianza
y no se olvidaran de las obras de Dios,
a fin de que guardaran
sus mandamientos;
8 para que no fuesen como sus padres: una generación porfiada y rebelde , una generación que no dispuso
su corazón,
ni su espíritu fue fiel para con Dios.
9 Los hijos de Efraín, armados con excelentes arcos,
volvieron las espaldas en el día
de la batalla.
10 No guardaron el pacto de Dios
y rehusaron andar en su ley.
11 Más bien, se olvidaron de sus obras; de las maravillas que les había mostrado.
12 Delante de sus padres Dios
hizo maravillas
en la tierra de Egipto,
en los campos de Tanis.
13 Dividió el mar y los hizo pasar ; hizo que las aguas se detuvieran como en un dique.
14 De día los condujo con una nube; toda la noche con resplandor de fuego.
15 Partió las peñas en el desierto
y les dio a beber del gran abismo.
16 Sacó corrientes de la peña
e hizo descender aguas como ríos.
17 A pesar de esto,
volvieron a pecar contra él ;
se rebelaron contra el Altísimo
en el desierto.
18 Probaron a Dios en su corazón,
pidiendo comida a su antojo.
19 Y hablaron contra Dios diciendo: “¿Podrá preparar una mesa en
el desierto?
20 He aquí que golpeó la peña
y fluyeron aguas,
y corrieron arroyos en torrentes. Pero, ¿podrá también dar pan? ¿Podrá proveer carne para su pueblo?”.
21 El SEÑOR lo oyó y se indignó ; fuego se encendió contra Jacob,
y la ira descendió contra Israel.
22 Porque no creyeron a Dios
ni confiaron en su liberación
23 a pesar de que mandó a las nubes
de arriba
y abrió las puertas de los cielos;
24 a pesar de que hizo llover sobre ellos maná para comer
y les dio trigo del cielo.
25 Pan de fuertes comió el hombre;
les envió comida hasta saciarlos.
26 Levantó en el cielo el viento
del oriente ,
y trajo el viento del sur con su poder.
27 Así hizo llover sobre ellos carne como polvo,
aves aladas como la arena del mar.
28 Las hizo caer en medio
del campamento,
alrededor de sus tiendas.
29 Comieron hasta hartarse;
les dio satisfacción a su apetito.
30 Pero cuando no habían colmado
su apetito,
estando la comida aún en su boca,
31 descendió sobre ellos la ira de Dios
y mató a los más distinguidos de ellos; derribó a los escogidos de Israel.
32 Con todo, siguieron pecando
y no dieron crédito a sus maravillas.
33 Por eso los consumió en la vanidad,
y consumió sus años con pánico.
34 Cuando los hacía morir
entonces buscaban a Dios ,
y, solícitos, volvían a acercarse a él.
35 Se acordaron de que Dios es su Roca;
de que el Dios Altísimo es su Redentor.
36 Pero le halagaban con la boca,
y con su lengua le mentían.
37 Pues sus corazones no eran firmes para con él,
ni eran fieles con su pacto.
38 Con todo, él perdonaba misericordioso la maldad y no los destruía.
En muchas ocasiones apartó su ira
y no despertó todo su enojo.
39 Se acordó de que ellos eran carne,
un soplo que va y no vuelve.
40 ¡Cuántas veces lo amargaron
en el desierto;
lo entristecieron en la sequedad!
41 Volvían a probar a Dios
e irritaban al Santo de Israel.
42 No se acordaron de su mano
en el día que los redimió del adversario,
43 cuando impuso en Egipto sus señales
y sus maravillas en los campos
de Tanis.
44 Convirtió en sangre sus canales; también sus corrientes para que
no bebieran.
45 Envió contra ellos enjambres de moscas que los devoraban
y ranas que los infestaban.
46 También entregó sus productos
a la oruga,
y el fruto de sus labores a la langosta.
47 Sus viñas destruyó con granizo
y sus higuerales con aluvión.
48 Entregó los animales al granizo,
y sus ganados a los rayos.
49 Envió sobre ellos el furor de su ira, enojo, indignación y angustia, como delegación de mensajeros destructores.
50 Dio vía libre a su furor;
no les eximió su alma de la muerte;
la vida de ellos entregó a la epidemia.
51 Hirió a todos los primogénitos
de Egipto ,
primicias del vigor de las tiendas
de Cam .
52 Pero hizo que su pueblo partiera cual manada
y los llevó por el desierto cual rebaño.
53 Los guió con seguridad
para que no tuvieran miedo;
y el mar cubrió a sus enemigos.
54 Después los trajo al territorio
de su santuario;
a este monte que adquirió
con su diestra.
55 Arrojó a las naciones de delante
de ellos ,
les repartió a cordel la heredad,
e hizo habitar en sus tiendas a las tribus de Israel.
56 Pero pusieron a prueba al Dios Altísimo y lo amargaron,
y no guardaron sus testimonios.
57 Más bien, se volvieron atrás
y se rebelaron como sus padres.
Se desviaron como arco engañoso.
58 Lo airaron con sus lugares altos,
y con sus imágenes lo provocaron
a celos.
59 Dios lo oyó y se encendió en ira;
en gran manera rechazó a Israel.
60 Abandonó el tabernáculo de Silo,
la tienda en que habitó entre los hombres.
61 Entregó su poderío a la cautividad ,
y su gloria en manos del enemigo.
62 También entregó su pueblo
a la espada;
se airó contra su posesión.
63 El fuego devoró a sus jóvenes; sus vírgenes no fueron alabadas.
64 Sus sacerdotes cayeron a espada,
y sus viudas no hicieron lamentación.
65 Entonces se despertó el Señor,
a la manera del que duerme, como un guerrero que grita dominado por el vino.
66 E hirió a sus enemigos haciéndolos
retroceder,
y los puso como afrenta perpetua.
67 Desechó la tienda de José;
no escogió a la tribu de Efraín.
68 Más bien, escogió a la tribu de Judá;
el monte Sion, al cual amó.
69 Allí edificó su santuario como
las alturas;
como la tierra a la cual cimentó para siempre.
70 Eligió a su siervo David ;
lo tomó de los rediles de las ovejas.
71 Lo trajo de detrás de las ovejas
recién paridas
para que apacentase a su pueblo Jacob,
a Israel su heredad.
72 Los apacentó con íntegro corazón; los pastoreó con la pericia de sus manos.
Footnotes
Salmos 78:1 Probablemente un canto sapiencial.
Salmos 78:8 Cf. Deut. 31:27; 32:5, 20.
Salmos 78:12 Cf. Éxo. 7—12.
Salmos 78:13 Cf. Éxo. 14:21, 22.
Salmos 78:15 Éxo. 17:6; Núm. 20:7-11.
Salmos 78:17 Éxo. 16:2-15.
Salmos 78:21 Cf. Núm. 11:1-10.
Salmos 78:26 Cf. Núm. 11:31.
Salmos 78:34 Cf. Núm. 21:7.
Salmos 78:42 Cf. Éxo. 7—12.
Salmos 78:51 Cf. Éxo. 12:29.
Salmos 78:51 Cf. Sal. 105:23.
Salmos 78:55 Cf. Jos. 24:8-13.
Salmos 78:61 Cf. 1 Sam. 4:11, 22.
Salmos 78:70 Cf. 1 Sam. 16:11-13; 2 Sam. 7:8.
Psalm 78
King James Version
78 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, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful 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 which should be born; who should arise and declare 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 forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
19 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
21 Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
25 Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
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: for he gave them their own desire;
30 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
38 But he, being full of compassion, 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 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan.
44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
48 He gave up 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, by sending evil angels among them.
50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53 And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
55 He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully 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 enemy's hand.
62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle 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 high palaces, 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 great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the sk