भजन संहिता 78
A maskil of Asaph. My people, attend to my teaching: bend your ears to the words of my mouth,
as I open my mouth in a poem on the riddling story of the past.
What we have heard and known, and what our ancestors have told 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 from their children. We will tell to the next generation the praises and might of the Lord, and the wonders that 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 set up a testimony in Jacob, a law he appointed in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to make known 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 next generation should know it, that the children yet to be born should arise and tell 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;
that in God they might put their confidence, and not forget God’s works; but that they might 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।
and not be like their ancestors, a generation defiant and stubborn, a generation with heart unsteady, and spirit unfaithful towards God.
Ephraimites, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle.
They did not keep God’s covenant, they refused to walk in his law.
They forgot what he had done, and the wonders he had shown them.
He did wonders before their ancestors in the country of Zoan in Egypt.
Through the sea which he split he brought them, making waters stand up like a heap;
he led them by day with a cloud, all the night with a light of fire.
From the rocks which he split in the wilderness, he gave them to drink as of ocean’s abundance.
He brought streams out of the rock, and made water run down like rivers.
Yet they still went on sinning against him, they defied the Most High in the desert.
They willfully challenged God, demanding the food that they longed for.
“Is God able,” such was their challenge, “to spread in the desert a table?
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?”
From the rock that he struck there gushed water, and torrents that overflowed; but can he also give bread, or provide 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 the Lord heard this, he was furious, and fire was kindled on Jacob, anger flared up against Israel.
For they put no trust in God, no confidence in his help.
So he summoned the clouds above; and, opening the doors of heaven,
he rained manna upon them for food, and grain of heaven he gave them.
Everyone ate the bread of angels; he sent them food to the full.
He launched the east wind in the heavens, and guided the south by his power.
He rained meat upon them like dust, winged bird like the sand of the sea.
In the midst of their camp he dropped it, all around their tents.
They ate and were more than filled; he had brought them the thing they desired.
But the thing they desired became loathsome: while their food 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।
the wrath of God rose against them. He slew the stoutest among them, and laid low the young men of Israel.
Yet for all this they sinned yet more, and refused to believe in his wonders.
So he ended their days in a breath, and their years in sudden dismay.
When he slew them, then they sought after him, they turned and sought God with diligence.
They remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God their redeemer.
But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.
Their heart was not steady with him, they were faithless 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।
But he is full of pity: he pardons sin and destroys not. Often he turns his anger away, without stirring his wrath at all.
So he remembered that they were but flesh, breath that passes and does not return.
But how often they rebelled in the desert, and caused him grief in the wilderness,
tempting God again and again, provoking the Holy One of Israel.
They did not remember his strength, nor the day he redeemed from the foe,
how he set his signs in Egypt, in the country of Zoan his wonders.
He turned their canals into blood, their streams undrinkable.
45 ४५ उसने उनके बीच में डांस भेजे जिन्होंने उन्हें काट खाया, और मेंढ़क भी भेजे, जिन्होंने उनका बिगाड़ किया।
He sent forth flies, which devoured them; frogs, too, which destroyed them.
Their crops he gave to the caterpillar, and the fruits of their toil to the locust.
He slew their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost.
He delivered their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to bolts of fire.
49 ४९ उसने उनके ऊपर अपना प्रचण्ड क्रोध और रोष भड़काया, और उन्हें संकट में डाला, और दुःखदाई दूतों का दल भेजा।
He let loose his hot anger among them, fury and wrath and distress, 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, did not spare them from death, but gave them over to pestilence.
He struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, the first fruits of their strength 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 forth his people like sheep, he was guide to his flock in the desert.
Securely he led them, and free from fear, while their foes were drowned 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।
To his holy realm he brought them, to the mountain his right hand had purchased.
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 nations before them, and allotted their land for possession, and their tents for Israel to live in.
56 ५६ तो भी उन्होंने परमप्रधान परमेश्वर की परीक्षा की और उससे बलवा किया, और उसकी चितौनियों को न माना,
Yet they tempted and angered the Most High God, they did not observe his decrees.
They drew back, false like their ancestors; they failed like a treacherous bow.
58 ५८ क्योंकि उन्होंने ऊँचे स्थान बनाकर उसको रिस दिलाई, और खुदी हुई मूर्तियों के द्वारा उसमें से जलन उपजाई।
Their shrines stirred him to anger, their idols moved him to jealousy.
When God heard of this, he was furious, and he spurned Israel utterly.
He abandoned his home in Shiloh, the tent he had pitched among people.
He gave his strength up to captivity, his glory to the hands of the foe.
He gave his people to the sword, he was furious with his own.
Fire devoured their young men, and their maidens had no marriage-song.
Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows could not weep.
Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a warrior flushed with wine;
and he beat back his foes, putting them to perpetual scorn.
He disowned the tent of Joseph, he rejected the tribe of Ephraim;
but he chose the tribe of Judah, 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।
And he built like the heights his sanctuary, like the earth which he founded forever.
And he chose David his servant, taking 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 the mother-ewes he brought him, to be shepherd to Jacob his people, and to Israel his inheritance.
With upright heart did he shepherd them, and with skilful hands did he guide them.
