¹قصيدة لآساف‎. ‎اصغ يا شعبي الى شريعتي. اميلوا آذانكم الى كلام فمي‎.

¹{An instruction. Of Asaph.} Give ear, O my people, to my law; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

²‎افتح بمثل فمي. اذيع الغازا منذ القدم‎.

²I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter riddles from of old,

³‎التي سمعناها وعرفناها وآباؤنا اخبرونا‎.

³Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us:

⁴‎لا نخفي عن بنيهم الى الجيل الآخر مخبرين بتسابيح الرب وقوته وعجائبه التي صنع‎.

⁴We will not hide [them] from their sons, shewing forth to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength, and his marvellous works which he hath done.

⁵‎اقام شهادة في يعقوب ووضع شريعة في اسرائيل التي اوصى آباءنا ان يعرّفوا بها ابناءهم

⁵For 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;

⁶لكي يعلم الجيل الآخر. بنون يولدون فيقومون ويخبرون ابناءهم

⁶That the generation to come might know [them], the children that should be born; that they might rise up and tell [them] to their children,

⁷فيجعلون على الله اعتمادهم ولا ينسون اعمال الله بل يحفظون وصاياه

⁷And that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of ùGod, but observe his commandments;

⁸ولا يكونون مثل آبائهم جيلا زائغا وماردا جيلا لم يثبت قلبه ولم تكن روحه امينة لله

⁸And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not their heart, and whose spirit was not stedfast with ùGod.

⁹بنو افرايم النازعون في القوس الرامون انقلبوا في يوم الحرب‎.

⁹The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle.

¹⁰‎لم يحفظوا عهد الله وابوا السلوك في شريعته

¹⁰They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

¹¹ونسوا افعاله وعجائبه التي اراهم‎.

¹¹And forgot his doings, and his marvellous works which he had shewn them.

¹²‎قدام آبائهم صنع اعجوبة في ارض مصر بلاد صوعن‎.

¹²In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan.

¹³‎شق البحر فعبّرهم ونصب المياه كندّ‎.

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

¹⁴‎وهداهم بالسحاب نهارا والليل كله بنور نار‎.

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

¹⁵‎شق صخورا في البرية وسقاهم كانه من لجج عظيمة‎.

¹⁵He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as out of the depths, abundantly;

¹⁶‎اخرج مجاري من صخرة واجرى مياها كالانهار‎.

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

¹⁷‎ثم عادوا ايضا ليخطئوا اليه لعصيان العلي في الارض الناشفة‎.

¹⁷Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert;

¹⁸‎وجربوا الله في قلوبهم بسؤالهم طعاما لشهوتهم‎.

¹⁸And they tempted ùGod in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;

¹⁹‎فوقعوا في الله. قالوا هل يقدر الله ان يرتب مائدة في البرية‎.

¹⁹And they spoke against God: they said, Is ùGod able to prepare a table in the wilderness?

²⁰‎هوذا ضرب الصخرة فجرت المياه وفاضت الاودية. هل يقدر ايضا ان يعطي خبزا ويهيئ لحما لشعبه‎.

²⁰Behold, he smote the rock, and waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; is he able to give bread also, or provide flesh for his people?

²¹‎لذلك سمع الرب فغضب واشتعلت نار في يعقوب وسخط ايضا صعد على اسرائيل‎.

²¹Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; and fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel:

²²‎لانهم لم يؤمنوا بالله ولم يتكلوا على خلاصه‎.

²²Because they believed not in God, and confided not in his salvation;

²³‎فامر السحاب من فوق وفتح مصاريع السموات

²³Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of the heavens,

²⁴وامطر عليهم منّا للأكل وبر السماء اعطاهم‎.

²⁴And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the corn of the heavens.

²⁵‎اكل الانسان خبز الملائكة. ارسل عليهم زادا للشبع‎.

²⁵Man did eat the bread of the mighty; he sent them provision to the full.

²⁶‎اهاج شرقية في السماء وساق بقوته جنوبية

²⁶He caused the east wind to rise in the heavens, and by his strength he brought the south wind;

²⁷وامطر عليهم لحما مثل التراب وكرمل البحر طيورا ذوات اجنحة‎.

²⁷And he rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowl as the sand of the seas,

²⁸‎واسقطها في وسط محلتهم حوالي مساكنهم‎.

²⁸And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations:

²⁹‎فأكلوا وشبعوا جدا واتاهم بشهوتهم‎.

²⁹And they did eat, and were well filled; for that they lusted after, he brought to them.

³⁰‎لم يزوغوا عن شهوتهم طعامهم بعد في افواههم

³⁰They were not alienated from their lust, their meat was yet in their mouths,

³¹فصعد عليهم غضب الله وقتل من اسمنهم. وصرع مختاري اسرائيل‎.

³¹When the anger of God went up against them; and he slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

³²‎في هذا كله اخطأوا بعد ولم يؤمنوا بعجائبه

³²For all this, they sinned still, and believed not in his marvellous works;

³³فافنى ايامهم بالباطل وسنيهم بالرعب‎.

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

³⁴‎اذ قتلهم طلبوه ورجعوا وبكروا الى الله

³⁴When he slew them, then they sought him, and returned and sought early after ùGod;

³⁵وذكروا ان الله صخرتهم والله العلي وليّهم‎.

³⁵And they remembered that God was their rock, and ùGod, the Most High, their redeemer.

³⁶‎فخادعوه بافواههم وكذبوا عليه بالسنتهم‎.

³⁶But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied unto him with their tongue;

³⁷‎اما قلوبهم فلم تثبت معه ولم يكونوا امناء في عهده

³⁷For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

³⁸اما هو فرؤوف يغفر الاثم ولا يهلك وكثيرا ما رد غضبه ولم يشعل كل سخطه‎.

³⁸But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed [them] not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury:

³⁹‎ذكر انهم بشر ريح تذهب ولا تعود‎.

³⁹And he remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passeth away and cometh not again.

⁴⁰‎كم عصوه في البرية واحزنوه في القفر‎.

⁴⁰How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

⁴¹‎رجعوا وجربوا الله وعنّوا قدوس اسرائيل‎.

⁴¹And they turned again and tempted ùGod, and grieved the Holy One of Israel.

⁴²‎لم يذكروا يده يوم فداهم من العدو

⁴²They remembered not his hand, the day when he delivered them from the oppressor,

⁴³حيث جعل في مصر آياته وعجائبه في بلاد صوعن

⁴³How he set his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the field of Zoan;

⁴⁴اذ حول خلجانهم الى دم ومجاريهم لكي لا يشربوا‎.

⁴⁴And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink;

⁴⁵‎ارسل عليهم بعوضا فاكلهم وضفادع فافسدتهم‎.

⁴⁵He sent dog-flies among them, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them;

⁴⁶‎اسلم للجردم غلتهم وتعبهم للجراد‎.

⁴⁶And he gave their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust;

⁴⁷‎اهلك بالبرد كرومهم وجميزهم بالصقيع‎.

⁴⁷He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with hail-stones;

⁴⁸‎ودفع الى البرد بهائمهم ومواشيهم للبروق‎.

⁴⁸And he delivered up their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts.

⁴⁹‎ارسل عليهم حمو غضبه سخطا ورجزا وضيقا جيش ملائكة اشرار‏‎.

⁴⁹He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and distress, -- a mission of angels of woes.

⁵⁰‎مهد سبيلا لغضبه. لم يمنع من الموت انفسهم بل دفع حياتهم للوبإ

⁵⁰He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

⁵¹وضرب كل بكر في مصر. اوائل القدرة في خيام حام‎.

⁵¹And he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the first-fruits of their vigour in the tents of Ham.

⁵²‎وساق مثل الغنم شعبه وقادهم مثل قطيع في البرية‎.

⁵²And he made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

⁵³‎وهداهم آمنين فلم يجزعوا. اما اعداؤهم فغمرهم البحر‎.

⁵³And he led them safely, so that they were without fear; and the sea covered their enemies.

⁵⁴‎وادخلهم في تخوم قدسه هذا الجبل الذي اقتنته يمينه‎.

⁵⁴And he brought them to his holy border, this mountain, which his right hand purchased;

⁵⁵‎وطرد الامم من قدامهم وقسمهم بالحبل ميراثا واسكن في خيامهم اسباط اسرائيل

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

⁵⁶فجربوا وعصوا الله العلي وشهاداته لم يحفظوا

⁵⁶But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,

⁵⁷بل ارتدّوا وغدروا مثل آبائهم. انحرفوا كقوس مخطئة‎.

⁵⁷And they drew back and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow.

⁵⁸‎اغاظوه بمرتفعاتهم واغاروه بتماثيلهم‎.

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

⁵⁹‎سمع الله فغضب ورذل اسرائيل جدا

⁵⁹God heard, and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

⁶⁰ورفض مسكن شيلو الخيمة التي نصبها بين الناس‎.

⁶⁰And he forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he had dwelt among men,

⁶¹‎وسلم للسبي عزه وجلاله ليد العدو‎.

⁶¹And gave his strength into captivity, and his glory into the hand of the oppressor;

⁶²‎ودفع الى السيف شعبه وغضب على ميراثه‎.

⁶²And delivered up his people unto the sword, and was very wroth with his inheritance:

⁶³‎مختاروه اكلتهم النار وعذاراه لم يحمدن‎.

⁶³The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not praised in [nuptial] song;

⁶⁴‎كهنته سقطوا بالسيف وارامله لم يبكين

⁶⁴Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.

⁶⁵فاستيقظ الرب كنائم كجبار معّيط من الخمر‎.

⁶⁵Then the Lord awoke as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth aloud by reason of wine;

⁶⁶‎فضرب اعداءه الى الوراء. جعلهم عارا ابديا‎.

⁶⁶And he smote his adversaries in the hinder part, and put them to everlasting reproach.

⁶⁷‎ورفض خيمة يوسف ولم يختر سبط افرايم‎.

⁶⁷And he rejected the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim,

⁶⁸‎بل اختار سبط يهوذا جبل صهيون الذي احبه‎.

⁶⁸But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved;

⁶⁹‎وبنى مثل مرتفعات مقدسه كالارض التي اسسها الى الابد‎.

⁶⁹And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he hath founded for ever.

⁷⁰‎واختار داود عبده واخذه من حظائر الغنم‎.

⁷⁰And he chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:

⁷¹‎من خلف المرضعات أتى به ليرعى يعقوب شعبه واسرائيل ميراثه‎.

⁷¹From following the suckling-ewes, he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

⁷²‎فرعاهم حسب كمال قلبه وبمهارة يديه هداهم

⁷²And he fed them according to the integrity of his heart, and led them by the skilfulness of his hands.