Mazmur 74
1 Nyanyian pengajaran Asaf. Ya Allah, untuk selamanyakah Kautinggalkan kami? Mengapa Engkau terus marah kepada umat-Mu sendiri?
A maskil of Asaph. Why, O God, have you spurned us forever? Why smokes your wrath 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 the community you purchased of old to become by redemption the tribe of your heritage, Zion, the mountain you made your home.
3 Jejakilah tempat yang sudah menjadi reruntuhan; segalanya di Rumah-Mu telah dihancurkan musuh.
Rouse yourself, visit its ruins complete. In the temple the foe has made havoc of all things.
4 Musuh-musuh-Mu berteriak-teriak di Rumah-Mu, dan mendirikan panji-panji kemenangan di situ.
Like lions your enemies roared through your house, replacing our symbols by signs of their own,
5 Mereka seperti penebang kayu yang mengayunkan kapaknya, untuk menebang pohon-pohon di hutan.
hacking, like woodsmen who lift axes on thickets of trees,
6 Semua ukiran kayu mereka hancurkan dengan kapak dan palu.
smashing with hatchets and hammers all of its carved work together.
7 Mereka membakar Rumah-Mu sampai musnah; dan menajiskan tempat Engkau disembah.
They have set your temple on fire, to the very ground they have outraged the place where lives your name.
8 Mereka mau menaklukkan kami sama sekali, dan membakar habis semua tempat ibadat di negeri ini.
They have said in their heart, “Let us utterly crush them.” They have burned all the houses of God in the land.
9 Nabi-nabi dan tanda-tanda ajaib tak tampak lagi, dan tak seorang pun tahu sampai kapan terus begini.
No symbol of ours do we see any more: no prophet is there any more, none is with us who knows how long.
10 Sampai kapan, ya Allah, musuh mengejek Engkau? Sampai selamanyakah mereka menghina nama-Mu?
How long, O God, is the foe to insult? Shall the enemy spurn your name forever?
11 Mengapa Engkau tidak lagi menolong kami? Mengapa Engkau lepas tangan dari kami?
Why, O Lord, do you hold back your hand, why keep your right hand in the folds of your robe?
12 Sejak semula Engkaulah rajaku, ya Allah, Engkaulah yang menyelamatkan kami.
Yet God is our king from the ancient days, in the midst of the earth working deeds of salvation.
13 Dengan kekuatan yang dahsyat Engkau membelah laut, dan memecahkan kepala naga-naga laut.
It was you who did cleave the sea by your might, and shatter the heads of the ocean monsters.
14 Engkau meremukkan kepala-kepala Lewiatan dan menjadikan dia makanan penghuni padang gurun.
It was you who did crush many-headed Leviathan, and give him as food to the beasts of the wilderness.
15 Engkau mengalirkan mata air dan sungai; sungai yang besar Kaujadikan kering.
It was you who did cleave the fountains and torrents; it was you who did dry the perennial streams.
16 Engkaulah yang menciptakan siang dan malam, serta menentukan tempat matahari dan bulan.
Yours is the day; yours, too, is the night, it was you who did establish the sun and the star.
17 Engkau menetapkan batas-batas bumi, membuat musim kemarau dan musim hujan.
It was you who did fix all the borders of earth: summer and winter it’s you who have made them.
18 Ingatlah bagaimana musuh menghina Engkau, ya TUHAN, bangsa yang tidak mengenal Engkau menghujat nama-Mu.
Yet, for all this, the foe has insulted you, Lord, and a nation of fools has reviled your name.
19 Jangan menyerahkan umat-Mu yang tak berdaya ke tangan musuh yang kejam. Jangan untuk selamanya melupakan nasib umat-Mu yang malang.
Do not give your dove to the beasts, do not forget your afflicted forever.
20 Ingatlah perjanjian yang Kaubuat dengan kami, sebab orang melakukan kekerasan di setiap tempat gelap di negeri ini.
Look to the sleek ones – how full they are: the dark places of earth are the dwellings of violence.
21 Jangan membiarkan orang tertindas dipermalukan, semoga orang sengsara dan miskin memuji Engkau.
O let not the downtrodden turn back ashamed: let the poor and the needy sing praise to your name.
22 Bangkitlah ya Allah, belalah perkara-Mu! Sebab sepanjang hari Engkau dihina oleh orang-orang yang tidak percaya kepada-Mu.
Arise, God, and defend your cause: remember how fools all the day insult you.
23 Jangan lupa teriakan musuh-musuh-Mu, keributan lawan-lawan-Mu yang semakin keras!
Do not forget the uproar of your enemies, the din of your foes that ascends evermore.
