Psalms 78:1-3 in English

¹ Maschil of Asaph. 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.

¹ A Psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; they have polluted thy holy temple; they have made Jerusalem a storehouse of fruits.

² They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of thy holy ones for the wild beasts of the earth.

³ They have shed their blood as water, round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

¹ Maschil of Asaph. 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.

¹ Maschil of Asaph. 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.

¹ (79) A Psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into your inheritance; they have polluted your holy temple; they have made Jerusalem a storehouse of fruits.

² They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your holy ones for the wild beasts of the earth.

³ They have shed their blood as water, round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

¹ Maschil of Asaph. 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.

¹ My friends, listen to what I am going to teach you; pay careful attention IDM to what I say.

² I am going to give you some sayings that wise people have said. They will be sayings about things that happened long ago, things that were difficult to understand MET,

³ things that we have heard and known previously, things that our parents and grandparents told us.

¹ (79) A Psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into your inheritance; they have polluted your holy temple; they have made Jerusalem a storehouse of fruits.

² They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your holy ones for the wild beasts of the earth.

³ They have shed their blood as water, round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

¹ A contemplation by Asaph. 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.

¹ A contemplation by Asaph. 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.

¹ A contemplation by Asaph. 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.

¹ Maschil. Of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law; let your ears be bent down to the words of my mouth.

² Opening my mouth I will give out a story, even the dark sayings of old times;

³ Which have come to our hearing and our knowledge, as they were given to us by our fathers.

¹ An instruction. Of Asaph. 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 riddles from of old,

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

¹ A psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathens are come into thy inheritance, they have defiled thy holy temple: they have made Jerusalem as a place to keep fruit.

² They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be meat for the fowls of the air: the flesh of thy saints for the beasts of the earth.

³ They have poured out their blood as water, round about Jerusalem and there was none to bury them.

¹ A psalm (maskil) of Asaph. Listen to what I have to teach you, my people; hear what I have to say.

² I will tell you wise sayings; I will explain mysteries from the past

³ that we have heard before and reflected on; stories our forefathers passed down to us.

¹ A Psalme to give instruction committed to Asaph. Heare my doctrine, O my people: incline your eares vnto the wordes of my mouth.

² I will open my mouth in a parable: I will declare high sentences of olde.

³ Which we haue heard and knowen, and our fathers haue tolde vs.

¹ Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

² I will open my mouth with a parable; I will utter dark sayings concerning days of old;

³ That which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us,

¹ Maschil of Asaph. 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.

¹ “A Maskil of Assaph.” Give ear, O my people, to my instruction: incline thy ear to the words of my mouth.

² I will open with a parable my mouth: I will utter riddles out of ancient times;

³ Which we have heard and know, and which our fathers have related unto us.

¹ A Psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; They have polluted thy holy temple; They have made Jerusalem a storehouse of fruits.

² They have given the dead bodies of thy servants To be food for the birds of the sky, The flesh of thy holy ones for the wild beasts of the earth.

³ They have shed their blood as water, Round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

¹ “A psalm of Asaph.” Give ear, O my people, to my instruction! Incline your ears to the words of my mouth!

² I will open my mouth in a psalm; I will utter sayings of ancient times.

³ What we have heard and learned, And our fathers have told us,

¹ A maskil of Asaph. My people, give ear to my teaching: bend your ears to the words of my mouth,

² as I open my mouth in a poem on the riddling story of the past.

³ What we have heard and known, and what our ancestors have told us,

¹ A maskil of Asaph. My people, give ear to my teaching: bend your ears to the words of my mouth,

² as I open my mouth in a poem on the riddling story of the past.

³ What we have heard and known, and what our ancestors have told us,

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 explain mysteries from days of old,

³ Which we have sh'ma ·heard obeyed· and known, and our fathers have told us.

¹ A maschil of Asaph. Hear my teaching, my people, listen to the words of my mouth.

² I will open my mouth in parables; I will sing about hidden things about the past.

³ These are things that we have heard and learned, things that our ancestors have told us.

¹ A contemplation by Asaph. 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.

¹ A contemplation by Asaph. 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.

¹ Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ear 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.

¹ A contemplation by Asaph. 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.

¹ A contemplation by Asaph. 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.

¹ The learning of Asaph. My people, perceive ye my law; bow your ear into the words of my mouth.

² I shall open my mouth in parables; I shall speak perfect reasons or propositions from the beginning.

³ How great things have we heard, and we have known those or them; and our fathers told to us.

¹ The learning of Asaph. My people, perceive ye my law; bow your ear into the words of my mouth. (A teaching by Asaph. My people, listen ye to my teaching; bow down your ear to the words of my mouth.)

² I shall open my mouth in parables; I shall speak perfect reasons from the beginning (or I shall speak perfect reasoning from the old days).

³ How great things have we heard, and we have known those; and our fathers told to us. (What great things we have heard, and we have known; and our fathers told us.)

¹ An Instruction of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law, Incline your ear to sayings of my mouth.

² I open with a simile my mouth, I bring forth hidden things of old,

³ That we have heard and do know, And our fathers have recounted to us.