Salmos 78

A contemplation by Asaph.

1 Hear my teaching, my people.

Turn 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,

telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh,

his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.

5 For 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;

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

who should arise and tell their children,

7 that they might set their hope in God,

and not forget God’s deeds,

but keep his commandments,

8 and 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.

9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows,

turned back in the day of battle.

10 They didn’t keep God’s covenant,

and refused to walk in his law.

11 They forgot his doings,

his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.

12 He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers,

in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

13 He split the sea, and caused them to pass through.

He made the waters stand as a heap.

14 In the daytime he also led them with a cloud,

and all night with a light of fire.

15 He split rocks in the wilderness,

and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

16 He brought streams also out of the rock,

and caused waters to run down like rivers.

17 Yet they still went on to sin against him,

to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

18 They tempted God in their heart

by asking food according to their desire.

19 Yes, they spoke against God.

They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

20 Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out,

and streams overflowed.

Can he give bread also?

Will he provide meat for his people?"

21 Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry.

A fire was kindled against Jacob,

anger also went up against Israel,

22 because they didn’t believe in God,

and didn’t trust in his salvation.

23 Yet he commanded the skies above,

and opened the doors of heaven.

24 He rained down manna on them to eat,

and gave them food from the sky.

25 Man ate the bread of angels.

He sent them food to the full.

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

By his power he guided the south wind.

27 He also rained meat on them as the dust,

winged birds as the sand of the seas.

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

around their habitations.

29 So they ate, and were well filled.

He gave them their own desire.

30 They didn’t turn from their cravings.

Their food was yet in their mouths,

31 when the anger of God went up against them,

killed some of their strongest,

and struck down the young men of Israel.

32 For all this they still sinned,

and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.

33 Therefore he consumed their days in vanity,

and their years in terror.

34 When he killed them, then they inquired after him.

They returned 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 mouth,

and lied to him with their tongue.

37 For their heart was not right with him,

neither were they faithful in his covenant.

38 But 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.

39 He remembered that they were but flesh,

a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness,

and grieved him in the desert!

41 They turned again and tempted God,

and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

42 They didn’t remember his hand,

nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

43 how he set his signs in Egypt,

his wonders in the field of Zoan,

44 he turned their rivers into blood,

and their streams, so that they could not drink.

45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them;

and frogs, which destroyed them.

46 He also gave their increase to the caterpillar,

and their labor to the locust.

47 He destroyed their vines with hail,

their sycamore fig trees with frost.

48 He also gave over their livestock to the hail,

and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

49 He threw on them the fierceness of his anger,

wrath, indignation, and trouble,

and a band of angels of evil.

50 He made a path for his anger.

He didn’t spare their soul from death,

but gave their life over to the pestilence,

51 and struck all the firstborn in Egypt,

the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.

52 But he led out his own people like sheep,

and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

53 He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid,

but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

54 He brought them to the border of his sanctuary,

to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.

55 He 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.

56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God,

and didn’t keep his testimonies,

57 but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers.

They were twisted like a deceitful bow.

58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places,

and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.

59 When God heard this, he was angry,

and greatly abhorred Israel,

60 so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh,

the tent which he placed among men,

61 and delivered his strength into captivity,

his glory into the adversary’s hand.

62 He also gave his people over to the sword,

and was angry with his inheritance.

63 Fire devoured their young men.

Their virgins had no wedding song.

64 Their priests fell by the sword,

and their widows couldn’t weep.

65 Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep,

like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

66 He struck his adversaries backward.

He put them to a perpetual reproach.

67 Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph,

and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,

68 But chose the tribe of Judah,

Mount Zion which he loved.

69 He built his sanctuary like the heights,

like the earth which he has established forever.

70 He also chose David his servant,

and took him from the sheepfolds;

71 from following the ewes that have their young,

he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people,

and Israel, his inheritance.

72 So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart,

and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

Te Atua me Āna Iwi

He Makiri nā Āhapa.

1 Kia anga mai te taringa, e tōku iwi, ki tāku ture;

tahuri mai ō koutou taringa ki ngā kupu a tōku māngai.

2 Ka puaki te kupu whakarite i tōku māngai,

ka kōrerotia e ahau ngā mea ngaro onamata –

3 i rongo nei, i mātau nei tātou,

kōrero ai hoki ō tātou mātua ki a tātou.

4 E kore e hunā e mātou i ā rātou tamariki;

me whakaatu ki tō muri whakatupuranga

ngā whakamoemiti ki a Ihowā, me tōna kaha,

me āna mahi whakamīharo i mea ai ia.

5 Kua pūmau hoki i a ia he whakaaturanga i roto i a Hākopa,

kua takoto he ture i roto i a Īharaira;

ā, whakahaua mai ana e ia ō tātou tūpuna,

kia whakaakona ki ā rātou tamariki;

6 kia mātauria ai e tō muri whakatupuranga,

e ngā tamariki e whānau, e ara ake ā mua,

mō tā rātou whakaatu ki ā rātou tamariki.

7 Kia ū ai tā rātou tūmanako ki te Atua,

kei wareware hoki ki ngā mahi a te Atua;

engari kia mau ki āna whakahau.

8 Kei rite hoki ki ō rātou tūpuna,

ki te whakatupuranga whakakeke, tutū,

ki te whakatupuranga kīhai nei i whakatikatika i tō rātou ngākau,

kīhai hoki i ū tō rātou wairua ki te Atua.

9 He hunga mau patu ngā tama a Ēparaima, he hunga hāpai kōpere,

heoi tahuri ana rātou i te rā o te tatauranga.

10 Kīhai i puritia e rātou te kawenata a te Atua;

kīhai anō i pai ki te haere i tāna ture.

11 Heoi, kua wareware ki āna mahi,

me āna mea whakamīharo i whakakitea e ia ki a rātou.

12 He mea whakamīharo āna mahi i te aroaro o ō rātou tūpuna,

i te whenua o Īhipa, i te pārae o Toana.

13 Tapahia ana e ia te moana, ā, meinga ana rātou kia whiti;

tū ake i a ia ngā wai ānō he pūranga.

14 He mea ārahi rātou e ia i te awatea ki te kapua;

i te roa hoki o te pō ki te mārama o te ahi.

15 I wāhia e ia ngā kōhatu i te koraha;

ā, me te mea nō ngā rire nui tana wai hei inu mā rātou.

16 Puta mai ana i a ia he awa i roto i te kāmaka;

meinga ana ngā wai kia heke, ānō he waipuke.

17 Heoi, ka hara anō rātou ki a ia;

whakatoi ana ki te Runga Rawa i te koraha.

18 Nā, kei te whakamātautau tō rātou ngākau i te Atua,

kei te īnoi kai mā tō rātou hiahia.

19 I kōrero kino anō rātou ki te Atua, i mea;

"E āhei rānei i te Atua te taka he tēpu ki te koraha?

20 Nanā, ko tāna patunga i te kōhatu, ka pakaru mai te wai,

ā, puke ana ngā awa;

e taea anō rānei e ia te hōmai taro,

e pae rānei i a ia he kikokiko mā tāna iwi?"

21 Nā, ko te rongonga o Ihowā, nā, ka riri;

ā, toro ana te kāpura ki a Hākopa,

puta ake ana te riri ki a Īharaira;

22 mō rātou kīhai i whakapono ki te Atua,

kīhai anō i whakawhirinaki ki tāna whakaoranga.

23 Nāna nei hoki i whakahau ngā kapua i runga,

i whakatuwhera ngā tatau o te rangi;

24 ā, whakauaina iho te mana ki runga ki a rātou hei kai;

hōmai ana hoki e ia te wīti o te rangi mā rātou.

25 Kai ana te tangata i tā te anahera kai;

i tukua e ia he kai mā rātou, ā mākona noa.

26 I whakaohokia e ia te marangai i te rangi;

i tākina anō te tonga e tōna kaha.

27 Ā, whakauaina iho e ia te kikokiko ki a rātou ānō he puehu;

he manu whai pākau ānō he one nō te moana.

28 Ā, whakangahorotia iho e ia ki waenganui i tō rātou puni;

ki ō rātou nohoanga ā tawhio noa.

29 Nā, kai ana rātou, tino mākona;

i tukua hoki e ia ki a rātou tā rātou i hiahia ai.

30 Kīhai rātou i ngaruru ki tā rātou i hiahia ai;

ā, i roto tonu tā rātou kai i ō rātou māngai,

31 nā, ka pā te riri o te Atua ki a rātou,

ā, patua iho e ia te hunga tetere o rātou;

piko ana i a ia ngā taitamariki o Īharaira.

32 Ahakoa pā katoa tēnei, i hara anō rātou;

kīhai anō i whakapono ki āna mahi whakamīharo.

33 I whakapaua ai e ia ō rātou rā ki te horihori,

ō rātou tau ki te pōtatutatu.

34 Ka patua rātou e ia, nā, ka rapu rātou i a ia,

ā, ka hoki, ka ui wawe ki te Atua.

35 Ka mahara hoki ko te Atua tō rātou kōhatu,

ko te Atua, ko te Runga Rawa, tō rātou kaihoko.

36 Otiia kei te patipati ō rātou māngai ki a ia,

ā, teka ana ō rātou arero ki a ia.

37 Kīhai hoki tō rātou ngākau i tika ki a ia;

kīhai anō rātou i ū ki tāna kawenata.

38 Ko tāna ia, he aroha;

hīpokina ana e ia te hē,

kīhai anō i whakangaro.

Āe rā, he maha āna whakahokinga iho i tōna riri,

ā, kīhai i oho katoa tōna riri.

39 I mahara hoki ia he kikokiko nei rātou;

he hau e pahure atu ana, ā, e kore e hoki mai.

40 Anō te tini o ā rātou whakatoinga i a ia i te koraha,

o ā rātou whakapōuritanga i a ia i te tahora!

41 Hoki whakamuri ana rātou, whakamātautau ana i te Atua;

whakatoia ana e rātou te Mea Tapu o Īharaira.

42 Kīhai rātou i mahara ki tōna ringa,

ki te rā i whakaorangia ai rātou e ia i te hoariri;

43 ki tāna meatanga i āna tohu ki Īhipa,

i āna merekara ki te pārae o Toana.

44 I puta kē ai i a ia ō rātou awa hei toto,

me ō rātou manga wai, tē inu ai rātou.

45 I tonoa ai e ia he huihuinga namu ki a rātou, ā, pau iho rātou;

he poroka, i hunā ai rātou.

46 Ā, hoatu ana e ia ō rātou hua ki te moka;

me tō rātou māuiui ki te māwhitiwhiti.

47 Whakamatea ana e ia ā rātou wāina ki te whatu,

ā rātou rākau hikamora ki te haupapa.

48 Tukua ana e ia ā rātou kararehe mā te whatu,

ā rātou kāhui mā ngā uira.

49 I tukua whakareretia e ia ki a rātou tōna riri,

āritarita, weriweri, me te raruraru;

he whakaeke nā ngā anahera kino.

50 Ā, whakatikaia ana e ia he ara mō tōna riri;

kīhai i tohungia tō rātou wairua kei mate,

otiia, tukua ana e ia tō rātou ora ki te mate urutā.

51 Nā, patua iho e ia ngā mātāmua i Īhipa,

te muanga o tō rātou kaha i ngā tēneti o Hama.

52 Otirā, ārahina ana e ia āna ake tāngata ānō he hipi;

whakahaerea ana rātou e ia i te koraha anō he kāhui.

53 Nā, ka ārahina mārietia rātou e ia, tē wehi rātou;

ko ō rātou hoariri ia taupokina iho e te moana.

54 Nā, ka kawea rātou e ia ki te rohe o tōna wāhi tapu,

ki tēnei maunga, i hokona nei e tōna matau.

55 Peia ana e ia ngā tauiwi i tō rātou aroaro;

ā, wehea ana e ia he kāinga mō rātou ki te aho,

whakanohoia iho ngā hapū o Īharaira ki ō rātou tēneti.

56 Heoi, ka whakamātauria,

ka whakatoia e rātou te Atua, te Runga Rawa;

kīhai hoki i mau ki āna whakaaturanga;

57 ā, hoki whakamuri ana, mahi hīanga ana, pērā ana me ō rātou mātua;

parori kē ana rātou, he pērā me te kōpere tinihanga.

58 Nā, ko ō rātou wāhi tiketike hei whakapātaritari i a ia;

ko ō rātou whakapakoko hei mea i a ia kia hae.

59 I te rongonga o te Atua, ka riri,

ka tino whakarihariha hoki ki a Īharaira.

60 Ā, mahue ake i a ia te tapenākara o Hiro,

te tēneti i whakatūria e ia ki waenganui i ngā tāngata;

61 ā, tukua ana e ia tōna kaha hei whakarau,

tōna korōria ki te ringa o te hoariri.

62 I tukua atu anō e ia tāna iwi mā te hoari;

ā, i riri ki tōna kāinga tupu.

63 Pau ake ā rātou taitama i te ahi;

kīhai anō ā rātou kōtiro i mārenatia.

64 I hinga ō rātou tohunga i te hoari;

kīhai hoki i tangi ā rātou pouaru.

65 Nā, ka maranga te Ariki ānō ko tētahi i te moe,

me te tangata kaha e hāmama ana i te wāina.

66 Ā, patua iho e ia a muri o ōna hoariri,

meinga ana rātou e ia hei taunutanga mō ake tonu atu.

67 I whakakāhore anō ia ki te tēneti o Hōhepa;

ā, kīhai i whiriwhiri i te hapū o Ēparaima;

68 heoi, ko te hapū o Hūrā tāna i whiriwhiri ai,

ko Maunga Hiona tāna i aroha ai.

69 Ā, whakatūria ana e ia tōna wāhi tapu kia pērā me ngā wāhi teitei;

me te whenua i whakapūmautia e ia mō ake tonu atu.

70 I whiriwhiria anō e ia a Rāwiri, tāna pononga,

he mea tango nāna i ngā kāinga hipi;

71 mauria ana mai e ia i te whai i ngā hipi whāereere,

hei whāngai i a Hākopa, i tāna iwi,

i a Īharaira hoki, i tōna kāinga tupu.

72 Ā, rite tonu ki te tapatahi o tōna ngākau tāna whāngai i a rātou;

he ārahi mōhio hoki tā tōna ringa i a rātou.