There are several similar sounding words in the psalms derived from עָלַל. If God is the subject, the word is good - perhaps rendered by prodigality. If the human is the subject, it is not good and is rendered by wantonness. Possibly the five occurrences that are prefixed with mem might be glossed differently, but then we would miss a connection between psalms 77 and 78 which I think is evident from their sequence and the usage of these words.
If indeed we are to want nothing, then wantonness is a prodigality to be avoided, but the prodigality of God is a wantonness to be sought.
Hebrew | English | |
הַגִּידוּ בָעַמִּים עֲלִילוֹתָיו | 9.12 | make known among the peoples his prodigality |
כֶּסֶף צָרוּף בַּעֲלִיל לָאָרֶץ מְזֻקָּק שִׁבְעָתָיִם | 12.7 | silver refined in a furnace of earth purged seven times |
הִשְׁחִיתוּ הִתְעִיבוּ עֲלִילָה אֵין עֹשֵׂה טוֹב | 14.1 | They destroy, they do abomination, wantonness There is none doing good |
תֶּן לָהֶם כְּפָעֳלָם וּכְרֹעַ מַעַלְלֵיהֶם | 28.4 | give them as their works and the wickedness of their wantonness |
לְכוּ וּרְאוּ מִפְעֲלוֹת אֱלֹהִים נוֹרָא עֲלִילָה עַל בְּנֵי אָדָם | 66.5 | Come and see the works of God a fearful prodigality among the children of dust |
אֶזְכּוֹר מַעַלְלֵי יָהּ | 77.12 | I will remember the prodigality of Yah |
וּבַעֲלִילוֹתֶיךָ אָשִׂיחָה | 77.13 | and in your prodigality I ponder |
וַיִּשְׁכְּחוּ עֲלִילוֹתָיו | 78.11 | and they forgot his prodigality |
וְיָשִׂימוּ בֵאלֹהִים כִּסְלָם וְלֹא יִשְׁכְּחוּ מַעַלְלֵי אֵל | 78.7 | so they might set their hope in God and not forget the prodigality of God |
אֵל נֹשֵׂא הָיִיתָ לָהֶם וְנֹקֵם עַל עֲלִילוֹתָם | 99.8 | a God who lifts up you were to them but avenging their wantonness |
יוֹדִיעַ דְּרָכָיו לְמֹשֶׁה לִבְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל עֲלִילוֹתָיו | 103.7 | he made known his ways to Moses to the children of Israel his prodigality |
הוֹדוּ לַיהוָה הוֹדִיעוּ בָעַמִּים עֲלִילוֹתָיו | 105.1 | Give thanks to יְהוָה Make known his prodigality among the peoples |
וַיַּכְעִיסוּ בְּמַעַלְלֵיהֶם וַתִּפְרָץ בָּם מַגֵּפָה | 106.29 | and they grieved him with their wantonness and a plague broke out among them |
וַיִּטְמְאוּ בְמַעֲשֵׂיהֶם וַיִּזְנוּ בְּמַעַלְלֵיהֶם | 106.39 | and they became unclean through their own deeds and were unfaithful through their own wantonness |
אַל תַּט לִבִּי לְדָבָר רָע לְהִתְעוֹלֵל עֲלִלוֹת בְּרֶשַׁע אֶת אִישִׁים פֹּעֲלֵי אָוֶן וּבַל אֶלְחַם בְּמַנְעַמֵּיהֶם | 141.4 | do not give my heart to a word of evil wantonly wanton in wickedness with others, workers of mischief and let me not partake in their sweets |
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