Psaumes 78.56
New International Version

Fidélité de Dieu au cours de l’histoire d’Israël

¹ My people, hear my teaching;
listen to the words of my mouth.

² I will open my mouth with a parable;
I will utter hidden things, things from of old —

³ things we have heard and known,
things our ancestors have told us.

⁴ 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.

⁵ He decreed statutes for Jacob
and established the law in Israel,
which he commanded our ancestors
to teach their children,

⁶ so the next generation would know them,
even the children yet to be born,
and they in turn would tell their children.

⁷ Then they would put their trust in God
and would not forget his deeds
but would keep his commands.

⁸ 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.

⁹ The men of Ephraim, though armed with bows,
turned back on the day of battle;

¹⁰ they did not keep God’s covenant
and refused to live by his law.

¹¹ They forgot what he had done,
the wonders he had shown them.

¹² He did miracles in the sight of their ancestors
in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.

¹³ He divided the sea and led them through;
he made the water stand up like a wall.

¹⁴ He guided them with the cloud by day
and with light from the fire all night.

¹⁵ He split the rocks in the wilderness
and gave them water as abundant as the seas;

¹⁶ he brought streams out of a rocky crag
and made water flow down like rivers.

¹⁷ But they continued to sin against him,
rebelling in the wilderness against the Most High.

¹⁸ They willfully put God to the test
by demanding the food they craved.

¹⁹ They spoke against God;
they said, “Can God really
spread a table in the wilderness?

²⁰ 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?”

²¹ When the Lord heard them, he was furious;
his fire broke out against Jacob,
and his wrath rose against Israel,

²² for they did not believe in God
or trust in his deliverance.

²³ Yet he gave a command to the skies above
and opened the doors of the heavens;

²⁴ he rained down manna for the people to eat,
he gave them the grain of heaven.

²⁵ Human beings ate the bread of angels;
he sent them all the food they could eat.

²⁶ He let loose the east wind from the heavens
and by his power made the south wind blow.

²⁷ He rained meat down on them like dust,
birds like sand on the seashore.

²⁸ He made them come down inside their camp,
all around their tents.

²⁹ They ate till they were gorged —
he had given them what they craved.

³⁰ But before they turned from what they craved,
even while the food was still in their mouths,

³¹ God’s anger rose against them;
he put to death the sturdiest among them,
cutting down the young men of Israel.

³² In spite of all this, they kept on sinning;
in spite of his wonders, they did not believe.

³³ So he ended their days in futility
and their years in terror.

³⁴ Whenever God slew them, they would seek him;
they eagerly turned to him again.

³⁵ They remembered that God was their Rock,
that God Most High was their Redeemer.

³⁶ But then they would flatter him with their mouths,
lying to him with their tongues;

³⁷ their hearts were not loyal to him,
they were not faithful to his covenant.

³⁸ 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.

³⁹ He remembered that they were but flesh,
a passing breeze that does not return.

⁴⁰ How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness
and grieved him in the wasteland!

⁴¹ Again and again they put God to the test;
they vexed the Holy One of Israel.

⁴² They did not remember his power —
the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,

⁴³ the day he displayed his signs in Egypt,
his wonders in the region of Zoan.

⁴⁴ He turned their river into blood;
they could not drink from their streams.

⁴⁵ He sent swarms of flies that devoured them,
and frogs that devastated them.

⁴⁶ He gave their crops to the grasshopper,
their produce to the locust.

⁴⁷ He destroyed their vines with hail
and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

⁴⁸ He gave over their cattle to the hail,
their livestock to bolts of lightning.

⁴⁹ He unleashed against them his hot anger,
his wrath, indignation and hostility —
a band of destroying angels.

⁵⁰ He prepared a path for his anger;
he did not spare them from death
but gave them over to the plague.

⁵¹ He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt,
the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.

⁵² But he brought his people out like a flock;
he led them like sheep through the wilderness.

⁵³ He guided them safely, so they were unafraid;
but the sea engulfed their enemies.

⁵⁴ And so he brought them to the border of his holy land,
to the hill country his right hand had taken.

⁵⁵ He drove out nations before them
and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance;
he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.

⁵⁶ But they put God to the test
and rebelled against the Most High;
they did not keep his statutes.

⁵⁷ Like their ancestors they were disloyal and faithless,
as unreliable as a faulty bow.

⁵⁸ They angered him with their high places;
they aroused his jealousy with their idols.

⁵⁹ When God heard them, he was furious;
he rejected Israel completely.

⁶⁰ He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh,
the tent he had set up among humans.

⁶¹ He sent the ark of his might into captivity,
his splendor into the hands of the enemy.

⁶² He gave his people over to the sword;
he was furious with his inheritance.

⁶³ Fire consumed their young men,
and their young women had no wedding songs;

⁶⁴ their priests were put to the sword,
and their widows could not weep.

⁶⁵ Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,
as a warrior wakes from the stupor of wine.

⁶⁶ He beat back his enemies;
he put them to everlasting shame.

⁶⁷ Then he rejected the tents of Joseph,
he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;

⁶⁸ but he chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which he loved.

⁶⁹ He built his sanctuary like the heights,
like the earth that he established forever.

⁷⁰ He chose David his servant
and took him from the sheep pens;

⁷¹ from tending the sheep he brought him
to be the shepherd of his people Jacob,
of Israel his inheritance.

⁷² And David shepherded them with integrity of heart;
with skillful hands he led them.