Mazmur 74
1 Nyanyian pengajaran Asaf. Ya Allah, untuk selamanyakah Kautinggalkan kami? Mengapa Engkau terus marah kepada umat-Mu sendiri?
A contemplation by Asaph. God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder 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 purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance: Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
3 Jejakilah tempat yang sudah menjadi reruntuhan; segalanya di Rumah-Mu telah dihancurkan musuh.
Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
4 Musuh-musuh-Mu berteriak-teriak di Rumah-Mu, dan mendirikan panji-panji kemenangan di situ.
Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
5 Mereka seperti penebang kayu yang mengayunkan kapaknya, untuk menebang pohon-pohon di hutan.
They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.
6 Semua ukiran kayu mereka hancurkan dengan kapak dan palu.
Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
7 Mereka membakar Rumah-Mu sampai musnah; dan menajiskan tempat Engkau disembah.
They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
8 Mereka mau menaklukkan kami sama sekali, dan membakar habis semua tempat ibadat di negeri ini.
They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
9 Nabi-nabi dan tanda-tanda ajaib tak tampak lagi, dan tak seorang pun tahu sampai kapan terus begini.
We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
10 Sampai kapan, ya Allah, musuh mengejek Engkau? Sampai selamanyakah mereka menghina nama-Mu?
How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
11 Mengapa Engkau tidak lagi menolong kami? Mengapa Engkau lepas tangan dari kami?
Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it from your chest and consume them!
12 Sejak semula Engkaulah rajaku, ya Allah, Engkaulah yang menyelamatkan kami.
Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth.
13 Dengan kekuatan yang dahsyat Engkau membelah laut, dan memecahkan kepala naga-naga laut.
You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
14 Engkau meremukkan kepala-kepala Lewiatan dan menjadikan dia makanan penghuni padang gurun.
You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.
15 Engkau mengalirkan mata air dan sungai; sungai yang besar Kaujadikan kering.
You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
16 Engkaulah yang menciptakan siang dan malam, serta menentukan tempat matahari dan bulan.
The day is yours, the night is also 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 boundaries 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 mocked you, LORD. 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.
Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
20 Ingatlah perjanjian yang Kaubuat dengan kami, sebab orang melakukan kekerasan di setiap tempat gelap di negeri ini.
Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
21 Jangan membiarkan orang tertindas dipermalukan, semoga orang sengsara dan miskin memuji Engkau.
Don’t let 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, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
23 Jangan lupa teriakan musuh-musuh-Mu, keributan lawan-lawan-Mu yang semakin keras!
Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
