Psalms 74
1 O God, why have you cast us off for ever? why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
Nyanyian pengajaran Asaf. Ya Allah, untuk selamanyakah Kautinggalkan kami? Mengapa Engkau terus marah kepada umat-Mu sendiri?
2 Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old; the rod of your inheritance, which you have redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein you have dwelt.
Ingatlah umat-Mu yang Kaupilih sejak dahulu, bangsa yang Kaubebaskan agar menjadi milik-Mu. Ingatlah akan Bukit Sion, yang Kaujadikan tempat kediaman-Mu.
3 Lift up your feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.
Jejakilah tempat yang sudah menjadi reruntuhan; segalanya di Rumah-Mu telah dihancurkan musuh.
4 your enemies roar in the midst of your congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
Musuh-musuh-Mu berteriak-teriak di Rumah-Mu, dan mendirikan panji-panji kemenangan di situ.
5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
Mereka seperti penebang kayu yang mengayunkan kapaknya, untuk menebang pohon-pohon di hutan.
6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
Semua ukiran kayu mereka hancurkan dengan kapak dan palu.
7 They have cast fire into your sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of your name to the ground.
Mereka membakar Rumah-Mu sampai musnah; dan menajiskan tempat Engkau disembah.
8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
Mereka mau menaklukkan kami sama sekali, dan membakar habis semua tempat ibadat di negeri ini.
9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knows how long.
Nabi-nabi dan tanda-tanda ajaib tak tampak lagi, dan tak seorang pun tahu sampai kapan terus begini.
10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme your name for ever?
Sampai kapan, ya Allah, musuh mengejek Engkau? Sampai selamanyakah mereka menghina nama-Mu?
11 Why withdraw you your hand, even your right hand? pluck it out of your bosom.
Mengapa Engkau tidak lagi menolong kami? Mengapa Engkau lepas tangan dari kami?
12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
Sejak semula Engkaulah rajaku, ya Allah, Engkaulah yang menyelamatkan kami.
13 You did divide the sea by your strength: you brake the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Dengan kekuatan yang dahsyat Engkau membelah laut, dan memecahkan kepala naga-naga laut.
14 You brake the heads of leviathan (sea serpent) in pieces, and gave him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Engkau meremukkan kepala-kepala Lewiatan dan menjadikan dia makanan penghuni padang gurun.
15 You did cleave the fountain and the flood: you dried up mighty rivers.
Engkau mengalirkan mata air dan sungai; sungai yang besar Kaujadikan kering.
16 The day is yours, the night also is yours: you have prepared the light and the sun.
Engkaulah yang menciptakan siang dan malam, serta menentukan tempat matahari dan bulan.
17 You have set all the borders of the earth: you have made summer and winter.
Engkau menetapkan batas-batas bumi, membuat musim kemarau dan musim hujan.
18 Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed your name.
Ingatlah bagaimana musuh menghina Engkau, ya TUHAN, bangsa yang tidak mengenal Engkau menghujat nama-Mu.
19 O deliver not the soul of your turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of your poor for ever.
Jangan menyerahkan umat-Mu yang tak berdaya ke tangan musuh yang kejam. Jangan untuk selamanya melupakan nasib umat-Mu yang malang.
20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
Ingatlah perjanjian yang Kaubuat dengan kami, sebab orang melakukan kekerasan di setiap tempat gelap di negeri ini.
21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise your name.
Jangan membiarkan orang tertindas dipermalukan, semoga orang sengsara dan miskin memuji Engkau.
22 Arise, O God, plead your own cause: remember how the foolish man reproaches you daily.
Bangkitlah ya Allah, belalah perkara-Mu! Sebab sepanjang hari Engkau dihina oleh orang-orang yang tidak percaya kepada-Mu.
23 Forget not the voice of your enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against you increases continually.
Jangan lupa teriakan musuh-musuh-Mu, keributan lawan-lawan-Mu yang semakin keras!
