Psalms 78

Versículo 1. A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth.

Versículo 2. I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,

Versículo 3. that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.

Versículo 4. We will not hide them from their children, but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might, and the wonders He has performed.

Versículo 5. For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,

Versículo 6. that the coming generation would know them— even children yet to be born— to arise and tell their own children

Versículo 7. that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments.

Versículo 8. Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Versículo 9. The archers of Ephraim turned back on the day of battle.

Versículo 10. They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.

Versículo 11. They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.

Versículo 12. He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.

Versículo 13. He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.

Versículo 14. He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.

Versículo 15. He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.

Versículo 16. He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.

Versículo 17. But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

Versículo 18. They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.

Versículo 19. They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?

Versículo 20. When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”

Versículo 21. Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared against Israel,

Versículo 22. because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.

Versículo 23. Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.

Versículo 24. He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.

Versículo 25. Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.

Versículo 26. He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might.

Versículo 27. He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.

Versículo 28. He felled them in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.

Versículo 29. So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them what they craved.

Versículo 30. Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,

Versículo 31. God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel.

Versículo 32. In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.

Versículo 33. So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

Versículo 34. When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.

Versículo 35. And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.

Versículo 36. But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.

Versículo 37. Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.

Versículo 38. And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.

Versículo 39. He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

Versículo 40. How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

Versículo 41. Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Versículo 42. They did not remember His power— the day He redeemed them from the adversary,

Versículo 43. when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.

Versículo 44. He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.

Versículo 45. He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.

Versículo 46. He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.

Versículo 47. He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

Versículo 48. He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.

Versículo 49. He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity— a band of destroying angels.

Versículo 50. He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.

Versículo 51. He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.

Versículo 52. He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

Versículo 53. He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies.

Versículo 54. He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.

Versículo 55. He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

Versículo 56. But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.

Versículo 57. They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.

Versículo 58. They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.

Versículo 59. On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.

Versículo 60. He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.

Versículo 61. He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.

Versículo 62. He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage.

Versículo 63. Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.

Versículo 64. His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.

Versículo 65. Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.

Versículo 66. He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.

Versículo 67. He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.

Versículo 68. But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.

Versículo 69. He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.

Versículo 70. He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;

Versículo 71. from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.

Versículo 72. So David shepherded them with integrity of heart and guided them with skillful hands.