भजन संहिता 74
1 १ आसाप का मश्कील हे परमेश्वर, तूने हमें क्यों सदा के लिये छोड़ दिया है? तेरी कोपाग्नि का धुआँ तेरी चराई की भेड़ों के विरुद्ध क्यों उठ रहा है?
[A Psalm] of instruction for Asaph. Therefore have you rejected [us], O God, for ever? [therefore] is your wrath kindled against the sheep of your pasture?
2 २ अपनी मण्डली को जिसे तूने प्राचीनकाल में मोल लिया था, और अपने निज भाग का गोत्र होने के लिये छुड़ा लिया था, और इस सिय्योन पर्वत को भी, जिस पर तूने वास किया था, स्मरण कर!
Remember your congregation which you have purchased from the beginning; you did ransom the rod of your inheritance; this mount Sion wherein you have lived.
3 ३ अपने डग अनन्त खण्डहरों की ओर बढ़ा; अर्थात् उन सब बुराइयों की ओर जो शत्रु ने पवित्रस्थान में की हैं।
Lift up your hands against their pride continually; [because of] all that the enemy has done wickedly in your holy places.
4 ४ तेरे द्रोही तेरे पवित्रस्थान के बीच गर्जते रहे हैं; उन्होंने अपनी ही ध्वजाओं को चिन्ह ठहराया है।
And they that hate you have boasted in the midst of your feast; they have set up their standards for signs,
ignorantly as it were in the entrance above;
they cut down its doors at once with axes as in a wood of trees; they have broken it down with hatchet and stone cutter.
7 ७ उन्होंने तेरे पवित्रस्थान को आग में झोंक दिया है, और तेरे नाम के निवास को गिराकर अशुद्ध कर डाला है।
They have burnt your sanctuary with fire to the ground; they have profaned the habitation of your name.
8 ८ उन्होंने मन में कहा है, “हम इनको एकदम दबा दें।” उन्होंने इस देश में परमेश्वर के सब सभास्थानों को फूँक दिया है।
They have said in their heart, [even] all their kindred together, Come, let us abolish the feasts of the Lord from the earth.
9 ९ हमको अब परमेश्वर के कोई अद्भुत चिन्ह दिखाई नहीं देते; अब कोई नबी नहीं रहा, न हमारे बीच कोई जानता है कि कब तक यह दशा रहेगी।
We have not seen our signs; there is no longer a prophet; and [God] will not know us any more.
How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach? shall the enemy provoke your name forever?
Therefore turn you away your hand, and your right hand from the midst of your bosom for ever?
But God is our King of old; he has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.
You did establish the sea, in your might, you did break to pieces the heads of the dragons in the water.
You did break to pieces the heads of the dragon; you did give him [for] meat to the Ethiopian nations.
You did cleave fountains and torrents; you dried up mighty rivers.
The day is your, and the night is your; you have prepared the sun and the moon.
You have made all the borders of the earth; you have made summer and spring.
Remember this your creation: an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people has provoked your name.
Deliver not to the wild beasts a soul that gives praise to you: forget not for ever the souls of your poor.
Look upon your covenant: for the dark [places] of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity.
let not the afflicted and shamed one be rejected: the poor and needy shall praise your name.
22 २२ हे परमेश्वर, उठ, अपना मुकद्दमा आप ही लड़; तेरी जो नामधराई मूर्ख द्वारा दिन भर होती रहती है, उसे स्मरण कर।
Arise, O God, plead your cause: remember your reproaches that come from the foolish one all the day.
Forget not the voice of your suppliants: let the pride of them that hate you continually ascend before you.
