Verse
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
An
Instruction
of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law,
Incline
your
ear
to sayings
of my mouth.
A
Maskil
of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my instruction;
listen
to the
words
of my mouth.
I open with
a
simile
my mouth ,
I bring
forth
hidden
things of
old
,
I will
open my mouth in
parables;
I will
utter
things hidden
from
the
beginning
,
That we have heard and do
know,
And our fathers have recounted
to us.
that we have heard and known
and our fathers have relayed
to us.
We do
not hide from their sons
, To a
later
generation recounting
praises of Jehovah,
And His strength
, and His
wonders that
He hath
done
.
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
.
And
He raiseth
up
a testimony in Jacob ,
And a law hath
placed
in Israel, That
He commanded our fathers ,
To make
them
known
to their sons.
For
He established
a testimony in Jacob and appointed
a law in Israel, which
He commanded our fathers to teach
to their children,
So
that a
later
generation doth
know ,
Sons
who
are
born ,
do
rise
and
recount
to their sons,
that the
coming
generation would
know them—
even
children
yet
to
be
born —
to arise
and
tell
their own
children
And
place
in
God
their confidence, And
forget
not the
doings
of
God
, But keep
His commands
.
that
they
should
put
their confidence in
God
, not forgetting
His
works
, but keeping
His commandments
.
And
they are
not like their fathers, A generation
apostate
and rebellious ,
A
generation !
it
hath
not
prepared
its
heart, Nor
stedfast
with
God
`is'
its
spirit.
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
.
Sons
of Ephraim --
armed
bearers
of
bow,
Have
turned in
a
day of conflict
.
The
archers
of Ephraim turned back
on
the
day of battle
.
They have
not
kept
the
covenant of
God,
And in
His
law
they
have
refused to walk,
They failed
to
keep
God’s
covenant and refused to live
by
His
law.
And
they forget
His
doings
, And
His
wonders that
He shewed
them.
They forgot
what
He
had
done
, the
wonders He had
shown
them.
Before their fathers He
hath
done
wonders,
In the land of Egypt --
the field
of Zoan.
He
worked
wonders
before their fathers in the land of Egypt ,
in
the region
of Zoan.
He cleft
a
sea ,
and causeth
them to
pass
over,
Yea,
He causeth
waters to
stand
as
a heap
.
He split
the
sea and brought
them through;
He set
the
waters upright
like
a wall
.
And
leadeth
them with a cloud by day ,
And all
the
night
with a light of fire.
He
led
them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all
night
.
He cleaveth
rocks in a
wilderness ,
And giveth
drink --
as the great
deep
.
He split
the
rocks in the
wilderness and gave
them
drink as abundant
as
the seas
.
And
bringeth
out
streams from a
rock,
And causeth
waters
to
come
down as
rivers.
He
brought
streams from the
stone
and made
water
flow
down like
rivers.
And
they add
still
to sin against Him, To
provoke
the Most High in
the
dry
place
.
But
they continued
to sin against Him, rebelling
in
the desert
against
the
Most High.
And
they try
God in
their
heart,
To
ask
food for
their
lust
.
They willfully
tested
God by
demanding
the
food they
craved
.
And
they speak
against God --
they
said:
`Is
God able
to
array
a table in a
wilderness? '
They spoke
against God ,
saying,
“Can
God really
prepare
a table in the
wilderness?
Lo,
He hath
smitten
a
rock, And waters
flow,
yea,
streams
overflow
. `Also
--
bread
`is'
He able
to
give ?
Doth
He
prepare
flesh
for
His people? '
When
He struck
the
rock, water
gushed
out
and torrents
raged
. But
can
He also
give bread
or
supply
His people with
meat
? ”
Therefore hath
Jehovah
heard ,
And He
sheweth
Himself
wroth,
And
fire hath
been
kindled against Jacob, And anger also
hath
gone
up
against Israel,
Therefore the
LORD
heard and was
filled
with
wrath;
so
a
fire was
kindled against Jacob, and His
anger flared
against Israel,
For
they have
not believed
in
God ,
Nor
have
they
trusted
in
His salvation.
because
they did
not believe
God or
rely
on
His salvation.
And
He commandeth
clouds from
above ,
Yea,
doors of the heavens He
hath
opened
.
Yet
He commanded
the
clouds above and
opened
the
doors of the heavens.
And
He raineth
on
them
manna to eat ,
Yea,
corn
of
heaven
He hath
given
to
them.
He rained
down
manna for
them
to eat ;
He gave
them grain
from
heaven
.
Food
of
the mighty
hath
each
eaten,
Venison
He sent to
them to
satiety
.
Man
ate
the bread
of
angels;
He sent them food
in
abundance
.
He causeth
an
east wind to
journey
in
the heavens ,
And leadeth
by
His
strength
a
south wind ,
He stirred
the
east wind from
the heavens and drove
the
south wind by
His
might.
And
He raineth
on them flesh
as
dust, And as
sand of the seas
--
winged
fowl,
He rained
meat
on them like
dust, and winged
birds
like
the
sand of the sea.
And
causeth
`it'
to
fall
in the midst of His
camp, Round
about
His
tabernacles
.
He
felled
them
in the midst of their
camp, all
around
their
dwellings
.
And
they eat,
and are
greatly
satisfied
, And
their
desire
He bringeth
to
them.
So
they ate
and were
well
filled
, for
He gave
them what
they
craved
.
They have
not
been
estranged
from
their desire, Yet
`is'
their
food in their mouth
,
Yet
before
they had
filled
their desire, with
the
food still
in their mouths
,
And
the
anger of
God
hath
gone
up
against them, And He slayeth
among
their fat
ones,
And youths
of Israel He
caused
to
bend
.
God’s
anger flared
against them, and He put
to
death
their strongest
and subdued
the
young
men
of Israel.
With
all this they have
sinned
again
, And
have
not believed
in
His
wonders
.
In
spite
of
all this ,
they kept
on
sinning;
despite
His
wonderful
works
, they
did
not believe
.
And
He consumeth
in
vanity
their days, And their years in trouble
.
So
He ended
their days in
futility
, and their years in sudden
terror
.
If
He slew them, then
they sought
Him ,
And
turned
back,
and sought
God earnestly,
When
He slew them, they would
seek
Him ;
they
repented
and searched
for
God .
And they remember
that God `is'
their rock, And
God Most High their redeemer.
And they remembered
that God was
their Rock, that
God Most High was
their Redeemer.
And
--
they deceive
Him with their mouth
, And with
their
tongue
do
lie
to Him ,
But
they deceived
Him with their mouths
, and lied
to Him with
their
tongues.
And
their heart
hath
not
been
right
with
Him, And they have
not
been
stedfast
in
His covenant.
Their hearts
were
disloyal
to
Him, and they were
unfaithful
to
His covenant.
And He --
the
Merciful
One,
Pardoneth
iniquity ,
and destroyeth
not ,
And
hath
often turned
back
His anger ,
And waketh
not up
all
His fury
.
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
.
And
He remembereth
that they `are'
flesh, A wind
going
on
--
and
it
returneth
not.
He remembered
that they were
but
flesh, a passing
breeze
that
does
not return
.
How often do
they provoke
Him in the wilderness ,
Grieve
Him in the desolate
place?
How often they disobeyed
Him in the wilderness and
grieved
Him in the desert!
Yea,
they
turn
back,
and try
God ,
And the Holy One of Israel have
limited
.
Again
and again
they
tested
God and provoked
the Holy One of Israel.
They have
not remembered
His hand
The day He ransomed
them from the adversary .
They did
not remember
His power
—
the day He redeemed
them from the adversary ,
When He set
His signs in Egypt ,
And His wonders in the field
of Zoan ,
when He performed
His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields
of Zoan .
And
He turneth
to blood their
streams
, And their floods
they drink
not.
He turned
their
rivers
to blood, and from
their streams
they could
not drink
.
He sendeth
among
them
the
beetle,
and
it
consumeth
them, And the
frog,
and
it
destroyeth
them ,
He sent
swarms
of
flies
that
devoured
them, and frogs
that
devastated
them .
And
giveth
to the caterpillar
their
increase
, And
their labour
to the locust.
He
gave
their
crops
to the grasshopper
, the
fruit
of
their labor
to the locust.
He destroyeth
with
hail
their vine,
And their sycamores
with frost,
He killed
their vines
with
hailstones
and their sycamore-figs
with sleet.
And
delivereth
up
to the hail their
beasts,
And their cattle
to the
burning
flames
.
He
abandoned
their
cattle
to the hail and their livestock
to bolts
of
lightning
.
He sendeth
on
them
the
fury
of
His anger
, Wrath, and
indignation, and distress
--
A discharge
of evil
messengers
.
He unleashed
His fury
against
them
, wrath, indignation, and calamity—
a band
of destroying
angels
.
He pondereth
a path for His anger ,
He kept
not back
their
soul
from death ,
Yea,
their life
to the pestilence
He
delivered
up
.
He cleared
a path for His anger ;
He did
not spare
them
from death but
delivered
their lives
to the plague
.
And
He smiteth
every
first-born
in
Egypt,
The first-fruit
of the strong
in tents of Ham.
He struck
all
the firstborn
of Egypt,
the virility
in the
tents of Ham.
And
causeth
His people to
journey
as
a
flock,
And guideth
them as
a drove
in a
wilderness ,
He
led
out
His people like
sheep
and guided
them like
a flock
in the
wilderness .
And
He leadeth
them confidently
, And
they have
not been
afraid
, And
their
enemies
hath
the sea covered
.
He led
them safely
, so
they did
not fear
, but
the sea engulfed
their
enemies
.
And
He bringeth
them in
unto
the
border
of
His sanctuary
, This
mountain His right hand had got,
He brought
them to
His holy
land
, to
the
mountain His right hand had acquired.
And
casteth
out nations from
before them ,
And causeth
them
to
fall
in
the
line
of
inheritance ,
And
causeth
the tribes of Israel to
dwell
in their tents ,
He
drove
out nations before them and apportioned
their
inheritance ;
He
settled
the tribes of Israel in their tents .
And
they tempt
and provoke
God Most High, And
His
testimonies
have
not kept
.
But
they tested
and disobeyed
God Most High, for
they
did
not keep
His
decrees
.
And
they turn
back ,
And deal
treacherously
like their fathers, They
have
been
turned
like a deceitful
bow ,
They turned
back and were
faithless
like their fathers, twisted
like a faulty
bow .
And
make
Him angry
with their high places ,
And with their graven
images
make
Him
zealous,
They
enraged
Him with their high places and provoked
His
jealousy
with their idols.
God
hath
heard
, and
sheweth
Himself
wroth.
And kicketh
exceedingly
against
Israel.
On
hearing
it
, God
was
furious
and rejected
Israel completely
.
And
He leaveth
the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent He had placed
among men ,
He abandoned
the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched
among men .
And
He giveth
His strength to captivity, And His beauty
into
the hand of an
adversary ,
He delivered
His strength to captivity, and His splendor
to
the hand of the
adversary .
And
delivereth
up
to the sword His
people,
And
with
His inheritance
shewed
Himself
angry
.
He
surrendered
His
people
to the sword because
He
was
enraged
by
His heritage
.
His young men hath
fire
consumed
, And His
virgins
have
not
been
praised
.
Fire
consumed
His young men, and their
maidens
were
left
without
wedding
songs
.
His priests by the sword have
fallen
, And
their widows weep
not.
His priests fell
by the sword, but
their widows could
not lament
.
And
the Lord waketh
as a
sleeper
, As
a mighty one
crying
aloud
from
wine.
Then
the Lord awoke
as from
sleep
, like
a mighty warrior
overcome
by
wine.
And
He smiteth
His adversaries
backward,
A
reproach
age-during
He hath
put on
them ,
He beat
back
His foes;
He put them to
everlasting
shame.
And
He kicketh
against
the tent of Joseph ,
And on
the tribe of Ephraim hath
not
fixed
.
He rejected
the tent of Joseph and refused
the tribe of Ephraim.
And
He chooseth
the tribe of Judah, With
mount Zion that
He loved ,
But
He chose
the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion ,
which
He loved .
And
buildeth
His sanctuary as
a
high
place
, Like the earth ,
He founded
it
to
the
age
.
He
built
His sanctuary like
the
heights
, like the earth He has
established
forever
.
And
He fixeth
on
David His servant ,
And taketh
him from the folds
of
a
flock,
He chose
David His servant and took
him from the sheepfolds;
From behind
suckling
ones
He hath
brought him in,
To rule
over
Jacob
His people, And
over
Israel His inheritance.
from tending
the
ewes
He brought him to be
shepherd
of
His people Jacob
, of
Israel His inheritance.
And
he
ruleth
them according
to
the
integrity of his
heart ,
And by
the
skilfulness
of
his
hands
leadeth
them !
So
David
shepherded
them with
integrity of heart and guided
them with
skillful
hands.
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