Mazmur 74
1 Nyanyian pengajaran Asaf. Ya Allah, untuk selamanyakah Kautinggalkan kami? Mengapa Engkau terus marah kepada umat-Mu sendiri?
O God, why have you cast us off for ever? why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
2 Ingatlah umat-Mu yang Kaupilih sejak dahulu, bangsa yang Kaubebaskan agar menjadi milik-Mu. Ingatlah akan Bukit Sion, yang Kaujadikan tempat kediaman-Mu.
Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old; the rod of your inheritance, which you have redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein you have dwelt.
3 Jejakilah tempat yang sudah menjadi reruntuhan; segalanya di Rumah-Mu telah dihancurkan musuh.
Lift up your feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.
4 Musuh-musuh-Mu berteriak-teriak di Rumah-Mu, dan mendirikan panji-panji kemenangan di situ.
your enemies roar in the midst of your congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
5 Mereka seperti penebang kayu yang mengayunkan kapaknya, untuk menebang pohon-pohon di hutan.
A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
6 Semua ukiran kayu mereka hancurkan dengan kapak dan palu.
But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
7 Mereka membakar Rumah-Mu sampai musnah; dan menajiskan tempat Engkau disembah.
They have cast fire into your sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of your name to the ground.
8 Mereka mau menaklukkan kami sama sekali, dan membakar habis semua tempat ibadat di negeri ini.
They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
9 Nabi-nabi dan tanda-tanda ajaib tak tampak lagi, dan tak seorang pun tahu sampai kapan terus begini.
We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knows how long.
10 Sampai kapan, ya Allah, musuh mengejek Engkau? Sampai selamanyakah mereka menghina nama-Mu?
O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme your name for ever?
11 Mengapa Engkau tidak lagi menolong kami? Mengapa Engkau lepas tangan dari kami?
Why withdraw you your hand, even your right hand? pluck it out of your bosom.
12 Sejak semula Engkaulah rajaku, ya Allah, Engkaulah yang menyelamatkan kami.
For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13 Dengan kekuatan yang dahsyat Engkau membelah laut, dan memecahkan kepala naga-naga laut.
You did divide the sea by your strength: you brake the heads of the dragons in the waters.
14 Engkau meremukkan kepala-kepala Lewiatan dan menjadikan dia makanan penghuni padang gurun.
You brake the heads of leviathan (sea serpent) in pieces, and gave him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
15 Engkau mengalirkan mata air dan sungai; sungai yang besar Kaujadikan kering.
You did cleave the fountain and the flood: you dried up mighty rivers.
16 Engkaulah yang menciptakan siang dan malam, serta menentukan tempat matahari dan bulan.
The day is yours, the night also is yours: you have prepared the light and the sun.
17 Engkau menetapkan batas-batas bumi, membuat musim kemarau dan musim hujan.
You have set all the borders of the earth: you have made summer and winter.
18 Ingatlah bagaimana musuh menghina Engkau, ya TUHAN, bangsa yang tidak mengenal Engkau menghujat nama-Mu.
Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed your name.
19 Jangan menyerahkan umat-Mu yang tak berdaya ke tangan musuh yang kejam. Jangan untuk selamanya melupakan nasib umat-Mu yang malang.
O deliver not the soul of your turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of your poor for ever.
20 Ingatlah perjanjian yang Kaubuat dengan kami, sebab orang melakukan kekerasan di setiap tempat gelap di negeri ini.
Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
21 Jangan membiarkan orang tertindas dipermalukan, semoga orang sengsara dan miskin memuji Engkau.
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise your name.
22 Bangkitlah ya Allah, belalah perkara-Mu! Sebab sepanjang hari Engkau dihina oleh orang-orang yang tidak percaya kepada-Mu.
Arise, O God, plead your own cause: remember how the foolish man reproaches you daily.
23 Jangan lupa teriakan musuh-musuh-Mu, keributan lawan-lawan-Mu yang semakin keras!
Forget not the voice of your enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against you increases continually.
