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 contemplation by Asaph.] God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder 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 purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which 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 feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
4 ४ तेरे द्रोही तेरे पवित्रस्थान के बीच गर्जते रहे हैं; उन्होंने अपनी ही ध्वजाओं को चिन्ह ठहराया है।
Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.
Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
7 ७ उन्होंने तेरे पवित्रस्थान को आग में झोंक दिया है, और तेरे नाम के निवास को गिराकर अशुद्ध कर डाला है।
They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place 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 said in their heart, "We will crush them completely." They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
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 see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
How long, God, shall the enemy mock? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it out of your pocket and consume them.
Yet God is my King from long ago, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.
You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.
Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, LORD. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
Do not deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Do not forget the life of your poor forever.
Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
Do not let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy 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, God. Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
Do not forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
