Salmos 78— comparação

1Ouçam o meu ensino, meu povo.

2Abrirei a minha boca em uma parábola.

3que ouvimos e conhecemos,

4Não os esconderemos dos seus filhos,

5Pois ele estabeleceu uma aliança em Jacó,

6para que a geração futura o soubesse, até mesmo os filhos que ainda nasceriam;

7para que pusessem a sua esperança em Deus,

8e não fossem como seus pais—

9Os filhos de Efraim, armados e carregando arcos,

10Eles não guardaram a aliança de Deus,

11Eles se esqueceram dos seus feitos,

12Ele fez coisas maravilhosas à vista de seus pais,

13Ele dividiu o mar, e os fez passar por ele.

14De dia ele também os guiou com uma nuvem,

15Ele fendeu rochas no deserto,

16Ele também tirou correntes da rocha,

17Contudo, eles continuaram a pecar contra ele,

18Eles tentaram a Deus em seu coração,

19Sim, eles falaram contra Deus.

20Eis que ele feriu a rocha, de modo que as águas jorraram,

21Portanto, o SENHOR ouviu, e ficou irado.

22porque eles não creram em Deus,

23Ainda assim, ele deu ordens aos céus acima,

24Ele fez chover maná sobre eles para comerem,

25O homem comeu o pão dos anjos.

26Ele fez o vento leste soprar no céu.

27Ele também fez chover carne sobre eles como o pó,

28Ele as deixou cair no meio do seu acampamento,

29Então eles comeram e se fartaram bem.

30Eles não se afastaram dos seus desejos.

31quando a ira de Deus subiu contra eles,

32Apesar de tudo isso, eles ainda pecaram,

33Portanto, ele consumiu os seus dias em vaidade,

34Quando ele os matava, então eles o buscavam.

35Eles se lembravam de que Deus era a sua rocha,

36Mas eles o lisonjeavam com a sua boca,

37Pois o coração deles não era reto para com ele,

38Mas ele, sendo misericordioso, perdoou a iniquidade, e não os destruiu.

39Ele se lembrou de que eles eram apenas carne,

40Quantas vezes eles se rebelaram contra ele no deserto,

41Eles voltaram a tentar a Deus,

42Eles não se lembraram da sua mão,

43de como ele estabeleceu os seus sinais no Egito,

44ele transformou os seus rios em sangue,

45Ele enviou entre eles enxames de moscas, que os devoraram;

46Ele também entregou as suas colheitas à lagarta,

47Ele destruiu as suas videiras com granizo,

48Ele também entregou o seu gado ao granizo,

49Ele lançou sobre eles o furor da sua ira,

50Ele abriu um caminho para a sua ira.

51e feriu todos os primogênitos no Egito,

52Mas ele conduziu o seu próprio povo como ovelhas,

53Ele os guiou em segurança, de modo que não tiveram medo,

54Ele os trouxe até a fronteira do seu santuário,

55Ele também expulsou as nações de diante deles,

56Contudo, eles tentaram e se rebelaram contra o Deus Altíssimo,

57mas voltaram atrás, e agiram traiçoeiramente como os seus pais.

58Pois eles o provocaram à ira com os seus altos,

59Quando Deus ouviu isso, ele ficou irado,

60de modo que ele abandonou a tenda de Siló,

61e entregou a sua força ao cativeiro,

62Ele também entregou o seu povo à espada,

63O fogo devorou os seus jovens.

64Os seus sacerdotes caíram à espada,

65Então o Senhor despertou como quem sai do sono,

66Ele feriu os seus adversários, fazendo-os recuar.

67Além disso, ele rejeitou a tenda de José,

68Mas escolheu a tribo de Judá,

69Ele construiu o seu santuário como as alturas,

70Ele também escolheu Davi, seu servo,

71de seguir as ovelhas que amamentam as suas crias,

72Assim, ele foi o pastor deles segundo a integridade do seu coração,

1Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

2I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

3which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

4We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.

5For he established a covenant in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

6that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,

7that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God’s deeds, but keep his commandments,

8and might not be as their fathers— a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

9The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

10They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law.

11They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.

12He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

13He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.

14In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.

15He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

16He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

17Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

18They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

19Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

20Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide meat for his people?”

21Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,

22because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his salvation.

23Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.

24He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.

25Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.

26He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.

27He also rained meat on them as the dust, winged birds as the sand of the seas.

28He let them fall in the middle of their camp, around their habitations.

29So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.

30They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

31when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their strongest, and struck down the young men of Israel.

32For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.

33Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

34When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

35They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.

36But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

37For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

38But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.

39He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

41They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

42They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

43how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,

44he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.

45He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

46He also gave their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

47He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.

48He also gave over their livestock to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

49He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.

50He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,

51and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.

52But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

53He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

54He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.

55He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

56Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies,

57but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were twisted like a deceitful bow.

58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.

59When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel,

60so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men,

61and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand.

62He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.

63Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.

64Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep.

65Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

66He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.

67Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,

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

69He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.

70He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

71from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.

72So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.