भजन संहिता 78
A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth.
I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,
that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
4 ४ उन्हें हम उनकी सन्तान से गुप्त न रखेंगे, परन्तु होनहार पीढ़ी के लोगों से, यहोवा का गुणानुवाद और उसकी सामर्थ्य और आश्चर्यकर्मों का वर्णन करेंगे।
We will not hide them from their children, but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might, and the wonders He has performed.
5 ५ उसने तो याकूब में एक चितौनी ठहराई, और इस्राएल में एक व्यवस्था चलाई, जिसके विषय उसने हमारे पितरों को आज्ञा दी, कि तुम इन्हें अपने-अपने बाल-बच्चों को बताना;
For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,
6 ६ कि आनेवाली पीढ़ी के लोग, अर्थात् जो बच्चे उत्पन्न होनेवाले हैं, वे इन्हें जानें; और अपने-अपने बाल-बच्चों से इनका बखान करने में उद्यत हों,
that the coming generation would know them— even children yet to be born— to arise and tell their own children
7 ७ जिससे वे परमेश्वर का भरोसा रखें, परमेश्वर के बड़े कामों को भूल न जाएँ, परन्तु उसकी आज्ञाओं का पालन करते रहें;
that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments.
8 ८ और अपने पितरों के समान न हों, क्योंकि उस पीढ़ी के लोग तो हठीले और झगड़ालू थे, और उन्होंने अपना मन स्थिर न किया था, और न उनकी आत्मा परमेश्वर की ओर सच्ची रही।
Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
The archers of Ephraim turned back on the day of battle.
They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.
They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.
He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.
He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.
He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.
But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.
They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?
20 २० उसने चट्टान पर मारकर जल बहा तो दिया, और धाराएँ उमड़ चली, परन्तु क्या वह रोटी भी दे सकता है? क्या वह अपनी प्रजा के लिये माँस भी तैयार कर सकता?”
When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”
21 २१ यहोवा सुनकर क्रोध से भर गया, तब याकूब के विरुद्ध उसकी आग भड़क उठी, और इस्राएल के विरुद्ध क्रोध भड़का;
Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared against Israel,
because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.
Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.
He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.
Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.
He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might.
He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.
He felled them in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.
So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them what they craved.
Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,
31 ३१ कि परमेश्वर का क्रोध उन पर भड़का, और उसने उनके हष्टपुष्टों को घात किया, और इस्राएल के जवानों को गिरा दिया।
God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel.
In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.
So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.
When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.
And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.
But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.
Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.
38 ३८ परन्तु वह जो दयालु है, वह अधर्म को ढाँपता, और नाश नहीं करता; वह बार बार अपने क्रोध को ठंडा करता है, और अपनी जलजलाहट को पूरी रीति से भड़कने नहीं देता।
And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.
He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
They did not remember His power — the day He redeemed them from the adversary,
when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.
He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.
45 ४५ उसने उनके बीच में डांस भेजे जिन्होंने उन्हें काट खाया, और मेंढ़क भी भेजे, जिन्होंने उनका बिगाड़ किया।
He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.
He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.
49 ४९ उसने उनके ऊपर अपना प्रचण्ड क्रोध और रोष भड़काया, और उन्हें संकट में डाला, और दुःखदाई दूतों का दल भेजा।
He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity— a band of destroying angels.
50 ५० उसने अपने क्रोध का मार्ग खोला, और उनके प्राणों को मृत्यु से न बचाया, परन्तु उनको मरी के वश में कर दिया।
He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.
He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.
52 ५२ परन्तु अपनी प्रजा को भेड़-बकरियों के समान प्रस्थान कराया, और जंगल में उनकी अगुआई पशुओं के झुण्ड की सी की।
He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies.
54 ५४ और उसने उनको अपने पवित्र देश की सीमा तक, इसी पहाड़ी देश में पहुँचाया, जो उसने अपने दाहिने हाथ से प्राप्त किया था।
He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.
55 ५५ उसने उनके सामने से अन्यजातियों को भगा दिया; और उनकी भूमि को डोरी से माप-मापकर बाँट दिया; और इस्राएल के गोत्रों को उनके डेरों में बसाया।
He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
56 ५६ तो भी उन्होंने परमप्रधान परमेश्वर की परीक्षा की और उससे बलवा किया, और उसकी चितौनियों को न माना,
But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.
58 ५८ क्योंकि उन्होंने ऊँचे स्थान बनाकर उसको रिस दिलाई, और खुदी हुई मूर्तियों के द्वारा उसमें से जलन उपजाई।
They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.
He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.
He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.
He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage.
Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.
His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.
Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.
He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.
He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.
But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
69 ६९ उसने अपने पवित्रस्थान को बहुत ऊँचा बना दिया, और पृथ्वी के समान स्थिर बनाया, जिसकी नींव उसने सदा के लिये डाली है।
He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.
He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
71 ७१ वह उसको बच्चेवाली भेड़ों के पीछे-पीछे फिरने से ले आया कि वह उसकी प्रजा याकूब की अर्थात् उसके निज भाग इस्राएल की चरवाही करे।
from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.
So David shepherded them with integrity of heart and guided them with skillful hands.
