Salmos 78 - Bíblia Online

Povo meu, escute o meu ensino; incline os ouvidos para o que eu tenho a dizer. 
Em parábolas abrirei a minha boca, proferirei enigmas do passado; 
o que ouvimos e aprendemos, o que nossos pais nos contaram. 
Não os esconderemos dos nossos filhos; contaremos à próxima geração os louváveis feitos do Senhor, o seu poder e as maravilhas que fez. 
Ele decretou estatutos para Jacó, e em Israel estabeleceu a lei, e ordenou aos nossos antepassados que a ensinassem aos seus filhos, 
de modo que a geração seguinte a conhecesse, e também os filhos que ainda nasceriam, e eles, por sua vez, contassem aos seus próprios filhos. 
Então eles porão a confiança em Deus; não esquecerão os seus feitos e obedecerão aos seus mandamentos. 
Eles não serão como os seus antepassados, obstinados e rebeldes, povo de coração desleal para com Deus, gente de espírito infiel. 
Os homens de Efraim, flecheiros armados, viraram as costas no dia da batalha; 
não guardaram a aliança de Deus e se recusaram a viver de acordo com a sua lei. 
Esqueceram o que ele tinha feito, as maravilhas que lhes havia mostrado. 
Ele fez milagres diante dos seus antepassados, na terra do Egito, na região de Zoã. 
Dividiu o mar para que pudessem passar; fez a água erguer-se como um muro. 
Ele os guiou com a nuvem de dia e com a luz do fogo de noite. 
Fendeu as rochas no deserto e deu-lhes tanta água como a que flui das profundezas; 
da pedra fez sair regatos e fluir água como um rio. 
Mas contra ele continuaram a pecar, revoltando-se no deserto contra o Altíssimo. 
Deliberadamente puseram Deus à prova, exigindo o que desejavam comer. 
Duvidaram de Deus, dizendo: "Poderá Deus preparar uma mesa no deserto? 
Sabemos que quando ele feriu a rocha a água brotou e jorrou em torrentes. Mas conseguirá também dar-nos de comer? Poderá suprir de carne o seu povo? " 
O Senhor os ouviu e enfureceu-se; atacou Jacó com fogo, e sua ira levantou-se contra Israel, 
pois eles não creram em Deus nem confiaram no seu poder salvador. 
Contudo, ele deu ordens às nuvens e abriu as portas dos céus; 
fez chover maná para que o povo comesse, deu-lhe o pão dos céus. 
Os homens comeram o pão dos anjos; enviou-lhes comida à vontade. 
Enviou dos céus o vento oriental e pelo seu poder fez avançar o vento sul. 
Fez chover carne sobre eles como pó, bandos de aves como a areia da praia. 
Levou-as a cair dentro do acampamento, ao redor das suas tendas. 
Comeram à vontade, e assim ele satisfez o desejo deles. 
Mas, antes de saciarem o apetite, quando ainda tinham a comida na boca, 
acendeu-se contra eles a ira de Deus; e ele feriu de morte os mais fortes dentre eles, matando os jovens de Israel. 
A despeito disso tudo, continuaram pecando; não creram nos seus prodígios. 
Por isso ele encerrou os dias deles como um sopro e os anos deles em repentino pavor. 
Sempre que Deus os castigava com a morte, eles o buscavam; com fervor se voltavam de novo para ele. 
Lembravam-se de que Deus era a sua Rocha, de que o Deus Altíssimo era o seu Redentor. 
Com a boca o adulavam, com a língua o enganavam; 
o coração deles não era sincero; não foram fiéis à sua aliança. 
Contudo, ele foi misericordioso; perdoou-lhes as maldades e não os destruiu. Vez após vez conteve a sua ira, sem despertá-la totalmente. 
Lembrou-se de que eram meros mortais, brisa passageira que não retorna. 
Quantas vezes mostraram-se rebeldes contra ele no deserto e o entristeceram na terra solitária! 
Repetidas vezes puseram Deus à prova; irritaram o Santo de Israel. 
Não se lembravam da sua mão poderosa, do dia em que os redimiu do opressor, 
do dia em que mostrou os seus prodígios no Egito, as suas maravilhas na região de Zoã, 
quando transformou os rios e os riachos dos egípcios em sangue, e não mais conseguiam beber das suas águas, 
e enviou enxames de moscas que os devoraram, e rãs que os devastaram; 
quando entregou as suas plantações às larvas, a produção da terra aos gafanhotos; 
e destruiu as suas vinhas com a saraiva e as suas figueiras bravas, com a geada; 
quando entregou o gado deles ao granizo, os seus rebanhos aos raios; 
quando os atingiu com a sua ira ardente, com furor, indignação e hostilidade, com muitos anjos destruidores. 
Abriu caminho para a sua ira; não os poupou da morte, mas os entregou à peste. 
Matou todos os primogênitos do Egito, as primícias do vigor varonil das tendas de Cam. 
Mas tirou o seu povo como ovelhas e o conduziu como a um rebanho pelo deserto. 
Ele os guiou em segurança, e não tiveram medo; e os seus inimigos afundaram-se no mar. 
Assim os trouxe à fronteira da sua terra santa, aos montes que a sua mão direita conquistou. 
Expulsou nações que lá estavam, distribuiu-lhes as terras por herança e deu suas tendas às tribos de Israel para que nelas habitassem. 
Mas eles puseram Deus à prova e foram rebeldes contra o Altíssimo; não obedeceram aos seus testemunhos. 
Foram desleais e infiéis, como os seus antepassados, confiáveis como um arco defeituoso. 
Eles o irritaram com os altares idólatras; com os seus ídolos lhe provocaram ciúmes. 
Sabendo-o Deus, enfureceu-se e rejeitou totalmente a Israel; 
abandonou o tabernáculo de Siló, a tenda onde habitava entre os homens. 
Entregou o símbolo do seu poder ao cativeiro, e o seu esplendor, nas mãos do adversário. 
Deixou que o seu povo fosse morto à espada, pois enfureceu-se com a sua herança. 
O fogo consumiu os seus jovens, e as suas moças não tiveram canções de núpcias; 
os sacerdotes foram mortos à espada! As viúvas já nem podiam chorar! 
Então o Senhor despertou como que de um sono, como um guerreiro exaltado pelo vinho. 
Fez retroceder a golpes os seus adversários e os entregou a permanente humilhação. 
Também rejeitou as tendas de José, e não escolheu a tribo de Efraim; 
ao contrário, escolheu a tribo de Judá e o monte Sião, o qual amou. 
Construiu o seu santuário como as alturas; como a terra o firmou para sempre. 
Escolheu o seu servo Davi e o tirou do aprisco das ovelhas, 
do pastoreio de ovelhas para ser o pastor de Jacó, seu povo, de Israel, sua herança. 
E de coração íntegro Davi os pastoreou, com mãos experientes os conduziu. 

My people, hear my teaching; listen to the words of my mouth. 
I will open my mouth with a parable; I will utter hidden things, things from of old — 
things we have heard and known, things our ancestors have told us. 
We will not hide them from their descendants; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD, his power, and the wonders he has done. 
He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach their children, 
so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children. 
Then they would put their trust in God and would not forget his deeds but would keep his commands. 
They would not be like their ancestors — a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits were not faithful to him. 
The men of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned back on the day of battle; 
they did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by his law. 
They forgot what he had done, the wonders he had shown them. 
He did miracles in the sight of their ancestors in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan. 
He divided the sea and led them through; he made the water stand up like a wall. 
He guided them with the cloud by day and with light from the fire all night. 
He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them water as abundant as the seas; 
he brought streams out of a rocky crag and made water flow down like rivers. 
But they continued to sin against him, rebelling in the wilderness against the Most High. 
They willfully put God to the test by demanding the food they craved. 
They spoke against God; they said, "Can God really spread a table in the wilderness? 
True, he struck the rock, and water gushed out, streams flowed abundantly, but can he also give us bread? Can he supply meat for his people?" 
When the LORD heard them, he was furious; his fire broke out against Jacob, and his wrath rose against Israel, 
for they did not believe in God or trust in his deliverance. 
Yet he gave a command to the skies above and opened the doors of the heavens; 
he rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them the grain of heaven. 
Human beings ate the bread of angels; he sent them all the food they could eat. 
He let loose the east wind from the heavens and by his power made the south wind blow. 
He rained meat down on them like dust, birds like sand on the seashore. 
He made them come down inside their camp, all around their tents. 
They ate till they were gorged — he had given them what they craved. 
But before they turned from what they craved, even while the food was still in their mouths, 
God's anger rose against them; he put to death the sturdiest among them, cutting down the young men of Israel. 
In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; in spite of his wonders, they did not believe. 
So he ended their days in futility and their years in terror. 
Whenever God slew them, they would seek him; they eagerly turned to him again. 
They remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer. 
But then they would flatter him with their mouths, lying to him with their tongues; 
their hearts were not loyal to him, they were not faithful to his covenant. 
Yet he was merciful; he forgave their iniquities and did not destroy them. Time after time he restrained his anger and did not stir up his full wrath. 
He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return. 
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the wasteland! 
Again and again they put God to the test; they vexed the Holy One of Israel. 
They did not remember his power — the day he redeemed them from the oppressor, 
the day he displayed his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the region of Zoan. 
He turned their river into blood; they could not drink from their streams. 
He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them. 
He gave their crops to the grasshopper, their produce to the locust. 
He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore-figs with sleet. 
He gave over their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning. 
He unleashed against them his hot anger, his wrath, indignation and hostility — a band of destroying angels. 
He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague. 
He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt, the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham. 
But he brought his people out like a flock; he led them like sheep through the wilderness. 
He guided them safely, so they were unafraid; but the sea engulfed their enemies. 
And so he brought them to the border of his holy land, to the hill country his right hand had taken. 
He drove out nations before them and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance; he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes. 
But they put God to the test and rebelled against the Most High; they did not keep his statutes. 
Like their ancestors they were disloyal and faithless, as unreliable as a faulty bow. 
They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols. 
When God heard them, he was furious; he rejected Israel completely. 
He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent he had set up among humans. 
He sent the ark of his might into captivity, his splendor into the hands of the enemy. 
He gave his people over to the sword; he was furious with his inheritance. 
Fire consumed their young men, and their young women had no wedding songs; 
their priests were put to the sword, and their widows could not weep. 
Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, as a warrior wakes from the stupor of wine. 
He beat back his enemies; he put them to everlasting shame. 
Then he rejected the tents of Joseph, he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim; 
but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved. 
He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever. 
He chose David his servant and took him from the sheep pens; 
from tending the sheep he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel his inheritance. 
And David shepherded them with integrity of heart; with skillful hands he led them. 

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