भजन संहिता 78
A psalm (maskil) of Asaph. Listen to what I have to teach you, my people; hear what I have to say.
I will tell you wise sayings; I will explain mysteries from the past
that we have heard before and reflected on; stories our forefathers passed down 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 keep them from our children; we will tell the next generation about God's marvelous actions—about his power and the amazing things he has done.
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;
He gave his laws to the descendants of Jacob; his instructions to the people of Israel. He commanded our forefathers to teach them 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,
so that the next generation—children yet to be born—would understand and grow up to teach their children.
7 ७ जिससे वे परमेश्वर का भरोसा रखें, परमेश्वर के बड़े कामों को भूल न जाएँ, परन्तु उसकी आज्ञाओं का पालन करते रहें;
In this way they should place their trust in God and not forget what God has done, and keep 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 would not be like their forefathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation that was untrustworthy and unfaithful.
The soldiers of Ephraim, though armed with bows, ran away on the day of battle.
They did not keep God's agreement, and refused to follow his laws.
They ignored what he had done, and the amazing things he had shown them—
the miracles he had performed for their forefathers near Zoan in Egypt.
He split the sea in two and led them through, making the water stand like walls on either side.
He led them with a cloud by day, and by night with a light of fire.
He split open rocks in the desert to give his people plenty to drink, water as deep as the ocean.
He made streams flow from the stone; water rushing down like rivers!
But they repeatedly sinned against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
They deliberately provoked God by demanding the foods they longed for.
They insulted God by saying, “Can God provide food here in the desert?
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?”
Yes, he can strike a rock so that water gushes out like flowing rivers, but can he give us bread? Can he 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;
When he heard this, the Lord became very angry, burning like fire against the descendants of Jacob, furious with the people of Israel,
for they didn't believe in God and didn't trust him to take care of them.
Even so he commanded the skies above and the doors of heaven to open,
and he made manna rain down on them to eat, giving them bread from heaven.
Human beings ate the bread of angels; he sent them more than enough food.
He sent the east wind blowing across the sky; by his power he drove the south wind.
He rained down meat on them as plentiful as dust; birds as numerous as sand on a beach.
He made them fall right in the middle of their camp, all around where they were living.
They ate until they were full. He gave them the food they longed for.
But before they satisfied their appetite, while the meat was 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 became angry with them and he killed their strongest men, striking them down in the prime of life.
Despite all this they went right on sinning. Despite the miracles, they refused to trust him.
So he snuffed out their futile lives, bringing them to an end in terror.
When he began killing them, the rest came back to God in repentance, praying to him.
They remembered that God was their rock, that God Most High was their Savior.
They flattered him by what they told him, but they were only lying.
Deep down they were not sincere, and did not keep the agreement they had with him.
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।
But being compassionate he pardoned their guilt and did not destroy all of them. He often held back his anger—he did not pour out all his fury.
He remembered their mortality—that they were like a puff of wind that would not return.
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, giving him grief in the desert!
Again and again they provoked God, causing pain to the Holy One of Israel.
They did not remember his strength when he rescued them from their oppressors,
performing miracles in Egypt, doing wonderful things on the plain of Zoan.
There he turned their rivers and their streams into blood so that no one could drink from them.
45 ४५ उसने उनके बीच में डांस भेजे जिन्होंने उन्हें काट खाया, और मेंढ़क भी भेजे, जिन्होंने उनका बिगाड़ किया।
He sent flies among them to destroy them, and frogs to ruin everything.
He gave their crops to locusts; everything they worked had for was taken by locusts.
He destroyed their vines with hail, and their fig trees with freezing rain.
He handed over their cattle to hail and their flocks to lightning bolts.
49 ४९ उसने उनके ऊपर अपना प्रचण्ड क्रोध और रोष भड़काया, और उन्हें संकट में डाला, और दुःखदाई दूतों का दल भेजा।
He poured out on them his fierce anger—rage and hostility and anguish—sending a band of destroying angels against them.
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 sent his unrestrained anger against them; he did not spare them from death, handing them over to the plague.
He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt, the first to be conceived 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।
But he led out his people like sheep, and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
He led them to safety, and they were not afraid. He drowned their enemies in the sea.
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 the border of his holy land, to this mountainous land that he had conquered for them.
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 the heathen nations before them. He divided up the land for them to own. 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 provoked God Most High, rebelling against him. They did not follow what he had told them.
Just like their forefathers they turned away from God and were unfaithful to him, as twisted as a defective bow.
58 ५८ क्योंकि उन्होंने ऊँचे स्थान बनाकर उसको रिस दिलाई, और खुदी हुई मूर्तियों के द्वारा उसमें से जलन उपजाई।
They made him angry with their pagan high places of worship; they made him jealous with their idols.
When God heard their worship he became furious and he totally rejected Israel.
He abandoned his place at Shiloh, the Tabernacle where he lived among the people.
He surrendered the Ark of his power, allowing it to be captured; handing it over into enemy hands.
He handed over his people to be slaughtered by the sword; he was furious with his chosen people.
Their young men were destroyed by fire; their young women had no wedding songs.
Their priests were killed by the sword; their widows were unable to mourn.
Then the Lord woke up as if from sleep, as a warrior sobering up from drinking wine.
He defeated his enemies, striking them on the back, causing them everlasting shame.
He rejected the descendants of Joseph, and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.
Instead he chose the tribe of Judah, and Mount Zion which he loves.
69 ६९ उसने अपने पवित्रस्थान को बहुत ऊँचा बना दिया, और पृथ्वी के समान स्थिर बनाया, जिसकी नींव उसने सदा के लिये डाली है।
There he built his sanctuary, high like the heavens, on earth that he made to last forever.
He chose his servant David, taking him from the sheep pens,
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।
taking him from caring for the sheep and lambs to be a shepherd to the descendants of Jacob—God's special people, Israel.
Like a shepherd, he took care of them with sincere devotion, leading them with skillful hands.
