भजन संहिता 78
A maschil of Asaph. Hear my teaching, my people, listen to the words of my mouth.
I will open my mouth in parables; I will sing about hidden things about the past.
These are things that we have heard and learned, things that 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 keep them from their descendants. We will tell the next generation about the praiseworthy deeds of Yahweh, his strength, 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;
For he established covenant decrees in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel. He commanded our ancestors that they were 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,
He commanded this so that the generation to come might know his decrees, the children not yet born, who should tell them in turn to 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;
Then they would place their hope in God and not forget his deeds but 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 ancestors, who were a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose hearts were not right, and whose spirits were not committed and faithful to God.
The Ephraimites were armed with bows, but they turned back on the day of battle.
They did not keep the covenant with God, and they refused to obey his law.
They forgot his deeds, the wonderful things that he had shown them.
They forgot the marvelous things he did in the sight of their ancestors in the land of Egypt, in the land of Zoan.
He divided the sea and led them across it; he made the waters to stand like walls.
In the daytime he led them with a cloud and all the night with the light of fire.
He split the rocks in the wilderness, and he gave them water abundantly, enough to fill the depths of the sea.
He made streams flow out of the rock and made the water flow like rivers.
Yet they continued to sin against him, rebelling against the Most High in the wilderness.
They challenged God in their hearts by asking for food to satisfy their appetites.
They spoke against God; they said, “Can God really lay out a table for us 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?”
See, when he struck the rock, waters gushed out and streams overflowed. But can he give bread also? Will he provide meat for his people?”
21 २१ यहोवा सुनकर क्रोध से भर गया, तब याकूब के विरुद्ध उसकी आग भड़क उठी, और इस्राएल के विरुद्ध क्रोध भड़का;
When Yahweh heard this, he was angry; so his fire burned against Jacob, and his anger attacked Israel,
because they did not believe in God and did not trust in his salvation.
Yet he commanded the skies above and opened the doors of the sky.
He rained down manna for them to eat, and gave them the grain from heaven.
People ate the bread of angels. He sent them food in abundance.
He caused the east wind to blow in the sky, and by his power he guided the south wind.
He rained down meat on them like dust, birds as numerous as the sands of the sea.
They fell in the middle of their camp, all around their tents.
So they ate and were full. He gave them what they craved.
But they had not yet filled up; 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।
Then God's anger attacked them and killed the strongest of them. He brought down the young men of Israel.
Despite this, they continued to sin and did not believe his wonderful deeds.
Therefore God cut short their days; their years were filled with terror.
Whenever God afflicted them, they would start to seek him, and they would return and look earnestly for him.
They would call to mind that God was their rock and that the Most High God was their rescuer.
But they would flatter him with their mouth and lie to him with their words.
For their hearts were not firmly fixed on him, and they were not faithful 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।
Yet he, being merciful, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. Yes, many times he held back his anger and did not stir up all his wrath.
He called to mind that they were made of flesh, a wind that passes away and does not return.
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the barren regions!
Again and again they challenged God and offended the Holy One of Israel.
They did not think about his power, how he had rescued them from the enemy
when he performed his terrifying signs in Egypt and his wonders in the region of Zoan.
He turned the Egyptians' rivers to blood so that they could not drink from their streams.
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 overran their land.
He gave their crops to the grasshopper and their labor to the locust.
He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore trees with more hail.
He rained hail on their cattle and hurled lightning bolts at their livestock.
49 ४९ उसने उनके ऊपर अपना प्रचण्ड क्रोध और रोष भड़काया, और उन्हें संकट में डाला, और दुःखदाई दूतों का दल भेजा।
The fierceness of his anger lashed out against them. He sent wrath, fury, and trouble like agents who bring disaster.
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 leveled a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.
He killed all the firstborn in Egypt, the firstborn 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 his own people out like sheep and guided them through the wilderness like a flock.
He led them secure and unafraid, but the sea overwhelmed 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।
Then he brought them to the border of his holy land, to this mountain that his right hand 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 the nations from before them and assigned them 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,
Yet they challenged and defied the Most High God and did not keep his solemn commands.
They were unfaithful and acted treacherously like their fathers; they were as undependable as a faulty bow.
58 ५८ क्योंकि उन्होंने ऊँचे स्थान बनाकर उसको रिस दिलाई, और खुदी हुई मूर्तियों के द्वारा उसमें से जलन उपजाई।
For they made him angry with their high places and provoked him to jealous anger with their idols.
When God heard this, he was angry and completely rejected Israel.
He abandoned the sanctuary of Shiloh, the tent where he had lived among people.
He allowed his strength to be captured and gave his glory into the enemy's hand.
He handed his people over to the sword, and he was angry with his heritage.
Fire devoured their young men, and their young women had no wedding songs.
Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows could not weep.
Then the Lord awakened as one from sleep, like a warrior who shouts because of wine.
He drove his adversaries back; he put them to everlasting shame.
He rejected the tent of Joseph, and he did not chose the tribe of Ephraim.
He chose the tribe of Judah and Mount Zion that 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 heavens, like the earth that 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।
He took him from following the ewes with their young, and he brought him to be shepherd of Jacob, his people, and of Israel, his heritage.
David shepherded them with the integrity of his heart, and he guided them with the skill of his hands.
