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1 ೧ ಪ್ರಧಾನಗಾಯಕನ ಕೀರ್ತನಸಂಹಗ್ರದಿಂದ ಆರಿಸಿಕೊಂಡದ್ದು; ಕೋರಹೀಯರ ಪದ್ಯ. ದೇವರೇ, ಪೂರ್ವಕಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ನಮ್ಮ ಪೂರ್ವಿಕರ ದಿನದಲ್ಲಿ, ನೀನು ನಡೆಸಿದ ಮಹತ್ಕಾರ್ಯಗಳ ವಿಷಯವನ್ನು ಕೇಳಿದ್ದೇವೆ; ಅವರೇ ನಮಗೆ ತಿಳಿಸಿದರು.
[For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm.] We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old.
2 ೨ ನಿನ್ನ ಹಸ್ತವೇ ಈ ದೇಶದಲ್ಲಿದ್ದ ಜನಾಂಗಗಳನ್ನು ಹೊರಡಿಸಿ, ನಮ್ಮ ಪೂರ್ವಿಕರನ್ನೇ ನೆಲೆಗೊಳಿಸಿದೆ; ನೀನು ಆ ಅನ್ಯಜನಗಳನ್ನು ತೆಗೆದುಬಿಟ್ಟು ನಮ್ಮವರನ್ನು ಹಬ್ಬಿಸಿದಿ.
You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.
3 ೩ ನಮ್ಮ ಪೂರ್ವಿಕರಿಗೆ ಕತ್ತಿಯೇ ಈ ದೇಶವನ್ನು ಸ್ವಾಧೀನಮಾಡಿಕೊಡಲಿಲ್ಲ; ನಿನ್ನ ಭುಜಬಲ, ಬಲಗೈ ಮತ್ತು ಪ್ರಸನ್ನತೆ ಅವರಿಗೆ ಜಯವನ್ನು ಉಂಟುಮಾಡಿದವು; ನಿನ್ನ ಸಹಾಯ ಸದಾಕಾಲ ಅವರಿಗಿತ್ತಲ್ಲಾ.
For they did not get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.
You are my King, my God, who commands victories for Jacob.
Through you we will push back our adversaries. Through your name we will trample down those who rise up against us.
For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us.
In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks to your name forever. (Selah)
But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and do not go out with our armies.
10 ೧೦ ನಾವು ಹಗೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಬೆನ್ನುಕೊಟ್ಟು ಓಡಿಹೋಗುವಂತೆ ಮಾಡಿದಿ; ನಮ್ಮ ವೈರಿಗಳು ತಮಗೋಸ್ಕರ ಬೇಕಾದ ಹಾಗೆ ಕೊಳ್ಳೆಹೊಡೆಯುತ್ತಾರೆ.
You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take spoil for themselves.
You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.
You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.
You make us the taunt of our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.
You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,
At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.
All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.
Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,
19 ೧೯ ಆದರೂ ನೀನು ನಮ್ಮನ್ನು ಅಪಜಯಪಡಿಸಿ ನರಿಗಳಿರುವ ಕಾಡನ್ನಾಗಿ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದೇಕೆ? ಮರಣದ ನೆರಳು ನಮ್ಮನ್ನು ಕವಿಯುವಂತೆ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದೇಕೆ?
Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
won't God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
22 ೨೨ ದೇವರೇ, ನಾವು ನಿನ್ನ ನಿಮಿತ್ತ ದಿನವೆಲ್ಲಾ ಕೊಲೆಗೆ ಗುರಿಯಾಗಿದ್ದೇವೆ; ಜನರು ನಮ್ಮನ್ನು ಕೊಯ್ಗುರಿಗಳಂತೆ ಎಣಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
For your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.
Wake up. Why do you sleep, LORD? Arise. Do not reject us forever.
Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body cleaves to the earth.
Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness' sake.
