1 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 skilfulness of his hands.
1 (77:1) Учение Асафа. Внимай, народ мой, закону моему, приклоните ухо ваше к словам уст моих.
2 (77:2) Открою уста мои в притче и произнесу гадания из древности.
3 (77:3) Что слышали мы и узнали, и отцы наши рассказали нам,
4 (77:4) не скроем от детей их, возвещая роду грядущему славу Господа, и силу Его, и чудеса Его, которые Он сотворил.
5 (77:5) Он постановил устав в Иакове и положил закон в Израиле, который заповедал отцам нашим возвещать детям их,
6 (77:6) чтобы знал грядущий род, дети, которые родятся, и чтобы они в свое время возвещали своим детям, –
7 (77:7) возлагать надежду свою на Бога и не забывать дел Божиих, и хранить заповеди Его,
8 (77:8) и не быть подобными отцам их, роду упорному и мятежному, неустроенному сердцем и неверному Богу духом своим.
9 (77:9) Сыны Ефремовы, вооруженные, стреляющие из луков, обратились назад в день брани:
10 (77:10) они не сохранили завета Божия и отреклись ходить в законе Его;
11 (77:11) забыли дела Его и чудеса, которые Он явил им.
12 (77:12) Он пред глазами отцов их сотворил чудеса в земле Египетской, на поле Цоан:
13 (77:13) разделил море, и провел их чрез него, и поставил воды стеною;
14 (77:14) и днем вел их облаком, а во всю ночь светом огня;
15 (77:15) рассек камень в пустыне и напоил их, как из великой бездны;
16 (77:16) из скалы извел потоки, и воды потекли, как реки.
17 (77:17) Но они продолжали грешить пред Ним и раздражать Всевышнего в пустыне:
18 (77:18) искушали Бога в сердце своем, требуя пищи по душе своей,
19 (77:19) и говорили против Бога и сказали: "может ли Бог приготовить трапезу в пустыне?"
20 (77:20) Вот, Он ударил в камень, и потекли воды, и полились ручьи. "Может ли Он дать и хлеб, может ли приготовлять мясо народу Своему?"
21 (77:21) Господь услышал и воспламенился гневом, и огонь возгорелся на Иакова, и гнев подвигнулся на Израиля
22 (77:22) за то, что не веровали в Бога и не уповали на спасение Его.
23 (77:23) Он повелел облакам свыше и отверз двери неба,
24 (77:24) и одождил на них манну в пищу, и хлеб небесный дал им.
25 (77:25) Хлеб ангельский ел человек; послал Он им пищу до сытости.
26 (77:26) Он возбудил на небе восточный ветер и навел южный силою Своею
27 (77:27) и, как пыль, одождил на них мясо и, как песок морской, птиц пернатых:
28 (77:28) поверг их среди стана их, около жилищ их, –
29 (77:29) и они ели и пресытились; и желаемое ими дал им.
30 (77:30) Но еще не прошла прихоть их, еще пища была в устах их,
31 (77:31) гнев Божий пришел на них, убил тучных их и юношей Израилевых низложил.
32 (77:32) При всем этом они продолжали грешить и не верили чудесам Его.
33 (77:33) И погубил дни их в суете и лета их в смятении.
34 (77:34) Когда Он убивал их, они искали Его и обращались, и с раннего утра прибегали к Богу,
35 (77:35) и вспоминали, что Бог – их прибежище, и Бог Всевышний – Избавитель их,
36 (77:36) и льстили Ему устами своими и языком своим лгали пред Ним;
37 (77:37) сердце же их было неправо пред Ним, и они не были верны завету Его.
38 (77:38) Но Он, Милостивый, прощал грех и не истреблял их, многократно отвращал гнев Свой и не возбуждал всей ярости Своей:
39 (77:39) Он помнил, что они плоть, дыхание, которое уходит и не возвращается.
40 (77:40) Сколько раз они раздражали Его в пустыне и прогневляли Его в [стране] необитаемой!
41 (77:41) и снова искушали Бога и оскорбляли Святаго Израилева,
42 (77:42) не помнили руки Его, дня, когда Он избавил их от угнетения,
43 (77:43) когда сотворил в Египте знамения Свои и чудеса Свои на поле Цоан;
44 (77:44) и превратил реки их и потоки их в кровь, чтобы они не могли пить;
45 (77:45) послал на них насекомых, чтобы жалили их, и жаб, чтобы губили их;
46 (77:46) земные произрастения их отдал гусенице и труд их – саранче;
47 (77:47) виноград их побил градом и сикоморы их – льдом;
48 (77:48) скот их предал граду и стада их – молниям;
49 (77:49) послал на них пламень гнева Своего, и негодование, и ярость и бедствие, посольство злых ангелов;
50 (77:50) уравнял стезю гневу Своему, не охранял души их от смерти, и скот их предал моровой язве;
51 (77:51) поразил всякого первенца в Египте, начатки сил в шатрах Хамовых;
52 (77:52) и повел народ Свой, как овец, и вел их, как стадо, пустынею;
53 (77:53) вел их безопасно, и они не страшились, а врагов их покрыло море;
54 (77:54) и привел их в область святую Свою, на гору сию, которую стяжала десница Его;
55 (77:55) прогнал от лица их народы и землю их разделил в наследие им, и колена Израилевы поселил в шатрах их.
56 (77:56) Но они еще искушали и огорчали Бога Всевышнего, и уставов Его не сохраняли;
57 (77:57) отступали и изменяли, как отцы их, обращались назад, как неверный лук;
58 (77:58) огорчали Его высотами своими и истуканами своими возбуждали ревность Его.
59 (77:59) Услышал Бог и воспламенился гневом и сильно вознегодовал на Израиля;
60 (77:60) отринул жилище в Силоме, скинию, в которой обитал Он между человеками;
61 (77:61) и отдал в плен крепость Свою и славу Свою в руки врага,
62 (77:62) и предал мечу народ Свой и прогневался на наследие Свое.
63 (77:63) Юношей его поедал огонь, и девицам его не пели брачных песен;
64 (77:64) священники его падали от меча, и вдовы его не плакали.
65 (77:65) Но, как бы от сна, воспрянул Господь, как бы исполин, побежденный вином,
66 (77:66) и поразил врагов его в тыл, вечному сраму предал их;
67 (77:67) и отверг шатер Иосифов и колена Ефремова не избрал,
68 (77:68) а избрал колено Иудино, гору Сион, которую возлюбил.
69 (77:69) И устроил, как небо, святилище Свое и, как землю, утвердил его навек,
70 (77:70) и избрал Давида, раба Своего, и взял его от дворов овчих
71 (77:71) и от доящих привел его пасти народ Свой, Иакова, и наследие Свое, Израиля.
72 (77:72) И он пас их в чистоте сердца своего и руками мудрыми водил их.