詩篇 74
1 神よいかなれば汝われらをかぎりなく棄たまひしや 奈何ばなんぢの草苑の羊にみかいかりの煙あがれるや
A contemplation by Asaph. God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smoulder against the sheep of your pasture?
2 ねがはくは往昔なんぢが買求めたまへる公會ゆづりの支派となさんとて贖ひたまへるものを思ひいでたまへ又なんぢが住たまふシオンの山をおもひいで給へ
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 とこしへの滅亡の跡にみあしを向たまへ仇は聖所にてもろもろの惡きわざをおこなへり
Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
4 なんぢの敵はなんぢの集のなかに吼たけびおのが旗をたてて誌とせり
Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
5 かれらは林のしげみにて斧をあぐる人の状にみゆ
They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.
6 いま鉞と鎚とをもて聖所のなかなる彫刻めるものをことごとく毀ちおとせり
Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
7 かれらはなんぢの聖所に火をかけ名の居所をけがして地におとしたり
They have burnt your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
8 かれら心のうちにいふ われらことごとく之をこぼちあらさんと かくて國内なる神のもろもろの會堂をやきつくせり
They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burnt up all the places in the land where God was worshipped.
9 われらの誌はみえず預言者も今はなし 斯ていくその時をかふべき われらのうちに知るものなし
We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there amongst us anyone who knows how long.
10 神よ敵はいくその時をふるまでそしるや 仇はなんぢの名をとこしへに汚すならんか
How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
11 いかなれば汝その手みぎの手をひきたまふや ねがはくは手をふところよりいだしてかれらを滅したまへ
Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it from your chest and consume them!
12 神はいにしへよりわが王なり すくひを世の中におこなひたまへり
Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth.
13 なんぢその力をもて海をわかち水のなかなる龍の首をくだき
You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
14 鰐のかうべをうちくだき野にすめる民にあたへて食となしたまへり
You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.
15 なんぢは泉と水流とをひらき又もろもろの大河をからしたまへり
You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
16 晝はなんぢのもの夜も又汝のものなり なんぢは光と日とをそなへ
The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
17 あまねく地のもろもろの界をたて夏と冬とをつくりたまへり
You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.
18 ヱホバよ仇はなんぢをそしり愚かなる民はなんぢの名をけがせり この事をおもひいでたまへ
Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, LORD. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
19 願くはなんぢの鴿のたましひを野のあらき獣にわたしたまふなかれ 苦しむものに命をとこしへに忘れたまふなかれ
Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
20 契約をかへりみたまへ地のくらきところは強暴の宅にて充たればなり
Honour your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
21 ねがはくは虐げらるるものを慚退かしめ給ふなかれ 惱るものと苦しむものとに聖名をほめたたへしめたまへ
Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.
22 神よおきてなんぢの訟をあげつらひ愚かなるものの終日なんぢを謗れるをみこころに記たまへ
Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
23 なんぢの敵の聲をわすれたまふなかれ 汝にさからひて起りたつ者のかしがましき聲はたえずあがれり
Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
