भजनसंग्रह 78

1 हे मेरा मानिसहरू, मेरो शिक्षा सुन । मेरा मुखका वचनहरू सुन ।

An instruction. Of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

2 दृष्‍टान्तमा म आफ्‍नो मुख खोल्नेछु । विगतका गुप्‍त कुराको बारेमा म गीत गाउनेछु ।

I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter riddles from of old,

3 हामीले सुनेका र सिकेका कुराहरू, हाम्रा पुर्खाहरूले हामीलाई भनेका कुराहरू यिनै हुन् ।

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us:

4 तिनीहरूका सन्‍तानहरूबाट हामी ती कुरा लुकाउनेछैनौं । परमप्रभुका प्रशंसनीय कामहरू, उहाँको सामर्थ्य र उहाँले गर्नुभएका अचम्‍मका कामहरूका बारेमा हामी अर्को पुस्तालाई बताउनेछौं ।

We will not hide [them] from their sons, shewing forth to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength, and his marvellous works which he hath done.

5 किनकि उहाँले याकूबमा करारका नियमहरू स्थापित गर्नुभयो र इस्राएलमा व्यवस्था दिनुभयो । उहाँले हाम्रा पूर्खाहरूलाई ती आफ्ना सन्तानहरूलाई सिकाउने आज्ञा दिनुभयो ।

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

6 उहाँले यस्तो आज्ञा दिनुभयो, ताकि अझै नजन्‍मेका छोराछोरी, अर्थात् आउने पुस्‍ताले उहाँका आदेशहरू जानोस्, जसले पछि तिनीहरूका आफ्‍नै सन्ताहरूलाई ती भन्‍नुपर्छ ।

That the generation to come might know [them], the children that should be born; that they might rise up and tell [them] to their children,

7 तब तिनीहरूले आफ्‍नो आसा परमेश्‍वरमा राखून् र उहाँका कामरू नबिर्सून्, तर उहाँका आज्ञाहरू पालन गरून् ।

And that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but observe his commandments;

8 तब तिनीहरू आफ्‍ना पुर्खाहरूजस्ता हुनेछैनन्, जो हठी र विद्रोही पुस्ता थिए । एउटा यस्तो पुस्ता जसका हृदयहरू ठिक थिएनन् र जसका आत्माहरू परमेश्‍वरप्रति समर्पित र विश्‍वासयोग्य थिएनन् ।

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not their heart, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

9 एफ्राइमीहरू धनुले सुसज्‍जित थिए, तर तिनीहरू युद्धको दिनमा पछि फर्के ।

The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle.

10 तिनीहरूले परमेश्‍वरसँगको करार पालन गरेनन् र तिनीहरूले उहाँको व्यवस्था पालन गर्न इन्कार गरे ।

They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

11 तिनीहरूले उहाँका कामहरू, उहाँले तिनीहरूलाई प्रकट गर्नुभएको अचम्‍मका कुराहरूलाई बिर्से ।

And forgot his doings, and his marvellous works which he had shewn them.

12 मिश्र देशमा, सोअनको देशमा तिनीहरूका पुर्खाहरूका दृष्‍टिमा उहाँले गर्नुभएको चमत्कारिक कुराहरूलाई तिनीहरूले बिर्से ।

In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan.

13 उहाँले समुद्रलाई दुई भाग पार्नुभयो र तिनीहरूलाई त्‍यसको पारिपट्टि लानुभयो । उहाँले पानीलाई पर्खालहरूझैं खडा गर्नुभयो ।

He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and made the waters to stand as a heap;

14 दिनको समयमा बादलले र रातभरि आगोको प्रकाशले उहाँले तिनीहरूलाई डोर्‍याउनुभयो ।

And he led them with a cloud in the daytime, and all the night with the light of fire.

15 उहाँले उजाडस्थानको चट्टा चिर्नुभयो र समुद्रको गहिराइ भर्न प्रशस्‍त हुने पानी उहाँले तिनीहरूलाई दिनुभयो ।

He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as out of the depths, abundantly;

16 चट्टानबाट उहाँले खोलाहरू बगाउनुभयो र पानीलाई नदीहरूझैं बगाउनुभयो ।

And he brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

17 तापनि तिनीहरूले उजाड-स्थानमा सर्वोच्‍चको विरुद्धमा विद्रोह गरेर उहाँको विरुद्धमा पाप गरिरहे ।

Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert;

18 आफ्‍नो भोक मेटाउनलाई खाना मागेर आफ्‍ना हृदयहरूले तिनीहरूले परमेश्‍वरलाई चुनौति दिए ।

And they tempted God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;

19 तिनीहरू परमेश्‍वरको विरुद्धमा बोले । तिनीहरूले भने, “परमेश्‍वरले हामीलाई उजाड-स्थानमा साँच्‍चै नै खाना खुवाउन सक्‍नुहुन्छ र?

And they spoke against God: they said, Is God able to prepare a table in the wilderness?

20 हेर, उहाँले चट्टानलाई प्रहार गर्नुहुँदा, पानी निस्कियो र नदीहरू बगे । तर के उहाँले रोटी पनि दिन सक्‍नुहुन्छ? के उहाँले आफ्ना मानिसहरूलाई मासु दिनुहुनेछ?”

Behold, he smote the rock, and waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; is he able to give bread also, or provide flesh for his people?

21 जब परमप्रभुले यो सुन्‍नुभयो, तब उहाँ रिसाउनुभयो । त्यसैले उहाँको आगो याकूबको विरुद्ध दन्क्यो र उहाँको रिसले इस्राएललाई आक्रमण गर्‍यो,

Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; and fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel:

22 किनभने तिनीहरूले परमेश्‍वरमा विश्‍वास गरेनन् र उहाँको उद्धारमा भरोसा गरेनन् ।

Because they believed not in God, and confided not in his salvation;

23 तापनि उहाँले माथिका आकाशलाई आज्ञा गर्नुभयो र आकाशका ढोकाहरू खोल्नुभयो ।

Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of the heavens,

24 तिनीहरूलाई खानलाई उहाँले मन्‍न बर्साउनुभयो, र उहाँले तिनीहरूलाई स्वर्गको अन्‍न दिनुभयो ।

And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the corn of the heavens.

25 मानिसहरूले स्वर्गदूतहरूका रोटी खाए । तिनीहरूलाई उहाँले प्रशस्‍त गरी खाना पठाउनुभयो ।

Man did eat the bread of the mighty; he sent them provision to the full.

26 उहाँले आकाशमा पूर्वी बतास चलाउनुभयो र दक्षिणी बतासलाई आफ्‍नो शक्तिले उहाँले डोर्‍याउनुभयो ।

He caused the east wind to rise in the heavens, and by his strength he brought the south wind;

27 धूलोझैं उहाँले तिनीहरूमाथि मासु, समुद्रको बालुवाझैं चराहरू बर्साउनुभयो ।

And he rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowl as the sand of the seas,

28 तिनीहरूका शिविरको बिचमा, तिनीहरूका पालहरूको चारैतिर ती झरे ।

And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations:

29 त्यसैले तिनीहरूले खाए र अघाए । तिनीहरूले जे लालसा गरे सो उहाँले तिनीहरूलाई दिनुभयो ।

And they did eat, and were well filled; for that they lusted after, he brought to them.

30 तर तिनीहरू अझै अघाएका थिएनन् । तिनीहरूको खाना अझै तिनीहरूको मुखमै थियो ।

They were not alienated from their lust, their meat was yet in their mouths,

31 तब परमेश्‍वरको क्रोध तिनीहरूमाथि पर्‍यो र तिमध्येका बलियाहरूलाई मार्‍यो । उहाँले इस्राएलका जवानहरूलाई तल झार्नुभयो ।

When the anger of God went up against them; and he slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

32 यति हुँदा पनि, तिनीहरूले निरन्‍तर पाप गरे र उहाँका अचम्‍मका कामहरूमा विश्‍वास गरेनन् ।

For all this, they sinned still, and believed not in his marvellous works;

33 यसकारण परमेश्‍वरले तिनीहरूका दिनहरू घटाउनुभयो । तिनीहरूका वर्षहरू त्रासले भरिएका थिए ।

And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

34 जब परमेश्‍वरले तिनीहरूमाथि विपत्ति ल्याउनुभयो, तब तिनीहरूले उहाँको खोजी गर्न थाले, अनि तिनीहरू फर्के र उहाँलाई उत्‍सुकतासाथ खोजे ।

When he slew them, then they sought him, and returned and sought early after God;

35 परमेश्‍वर तिनीहरूका चट्टान हुनुहुन्थ्यो र सर्वोच्‍च तिनीहरूका उद्धारकर्ता हुनुहुन्थ्यो भनी तिनीहरूले सम्झे ।

And they remembered that God was their rock, and God, the Most High, their redeemer.

36 तर तिनीहरूले आफ्‍ना मुखले उहाँसँग चापलुसी गरे र तिनीहरूका शब्दहरूले उहाँसँग झुट बोले ।

But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied unto him with their tongue;

37 किनकि तिनीहरूका हृदयहरू उहाँमा स्थिर थिएनन् र तिनीहरू उहाँको करारप्रति विश्‍वासयोग्य थिएनन् ।

For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

38 तापनि उहाँ कृपालु हुनुभएर तिनीहरूका अधर्म क्षमा गर्नुभयो र तिनीहरूलाई नष्‍ट गर्नुभएन । हो, धेरै पल्‍ट उहाँले आफ्नो रिस थाम्‍नुभयो र उहाँका सबै क्रोधलाई उत्तेजित गर्नुभएन ।

But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed [them] not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury:

39 तिनीहरू मासुले बनेका हुन्, तिनीहरू बितिजाने र फर्केर नआउने बतास हुन् भनी उहाँले याद गर्नुभयो ।

And he remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passeth away and cometh not again.

40 उजाड-स्थानमा र बाँझो ठाउँहरूमा तिनीहरूले कति धेरै पल्‍ट उहाँको विरुद्धमा विद्रोह गरेर उहाँलाई दुःखी बनाए!

How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

41 तिनीहरूले परमेश्‍वरलाई धेरै पल्‍ट चुनौति दिए र इस्राएलका परम पवित्रलाई चित्त दुखाए ।

And they turned again and tempted God, and grieved the Holy One of Israel.

42 तिनीहरूले उहाँको शक्तिको बारेमा विचार गरेनन्, उहाँले तिनीहरूलाई शत्रुहरूबाट कसरी छुटकारा दिनुभएको थियो,

They remembered not his hand, the day when he delivered them from the oppressor,

43 जब उहाँले मिश्रदेशमा आफ्‍ना डरलाग्‍दा चिन्हहरू देखाउनुभयो र सोअनको क्षेत्रमा आफ्‍ना चमत्कारहरू देखाउनुभयो ।

How he set his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the field of Zoan;

44 उहाँले मिश्रदेशका नदीहरूलाई रगतमा परिणत गर्नुभयो, ताकि तिनीहरूले आफ्‍ना नदीहरूका पानी पिउन सकेनन् ।

And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink;

45 उहाँले झींगाका हुल पठाउनुभयो, जसले तिनीहरूलाई टोके र भ्यागुताहरूले तिनीहरूका देशलाई अतिक्रमण गर्‍यो ।

He sent dog-flies among them, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them;

46 तिनीहरूका अन्‍न फट्याङ्ग्रहरूलाई र तिनीहरूका परिश्रम सलहहरूलाई उहाँले दिनुभयो ।

And he gave their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust;

47 तिनीहरूका दाखहरूलाई असिनाले र तिनीहरूका अञ्‍जीरका रूखहरूलाई धेरै असिनाले उहाँले नाश पार्नुभयो ।

He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with hail-stones;

48 तिनीहरूका बथानमाथि उहाँले असिना बर्साउनुभयो र तिनीहरूका बगालमाथि बिजुली फाल्‍नुभयो ।

And he delivered up their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts.

49 उहाँको रिसको उग्रता तिनीहरूका विरुद्धमा पर्‍यो । उहाँले क्रोध, रिस र समस्‍यालाई विपत्ति ल्याउने एजेन्‍टझैं पठाउनुभयो ।

He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and distress, — a mission of angels of woes.

50 आफ्नो रिसको निम्ति उहाँले मार्ग तयार गर्नुभयो । उहाँले तिनीहरूलाई मृत्युबाट बचाउनुभएन तर तिनीहरूलाई रूढीमा सुम्पिनुभयो ।

He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

51 मिश्रदेशका सबै जेठाहरूलाई, हामका पालहरूमा भएका तिनीहरूका जेठाहरूलाई उहाँले मार्नुभयो ।

And he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the first-fruits of their vigour in the tents of Ham.

52 आफ्ना मानिसहरूलाई उहाँले भेडालाई झैं डोर्‍याउनुभयो र बगाललाई झैं तिनीहरूलाई उजाडस्‍थानमा बाटो देखाउनुभयो ।

And he made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

53 सुरक्षित र निर्भयसाथ उहाँले तिनीहरूलाई डोर्‍याउनुभयो, तर समुद्रले तिनीहरूका शत्रुहरूलाई डुबायो ।

And he led them safely, so that they were without fear; and the sea covered their enemies.

54 त्‍यसपछि उहाँले तिनीहरूलाई आफ्‍नो पवित्र देशको सिमानामा, उहाँको दहिने हातले प्राप्‍त गरेको यो पर्वतमा ल्याउनुभयो ।

And he brought them to his holy border, this mountain, which his right hand purchased;

55 तिनीहरूको सामुबाट उहाँले जातिहरूलाई धपाउनुभयो र तिनीहरूलाई आफ्‍नो उत्तराधिकार दिनुभयो । इस्राएलका कुलहरू उहाँले तिनीहरूका आफ्‍ना पालहरूमा बसाल्नुभयो ।

And he drove out the nations before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

56 तापनि तिनीहरूले सर्वोच्‍च परमेश्‍वरलाई चुनौति दिए र अवज्ञा गरे, अनि उहाँका गम्भीर आज्ञाहरू पालन गरेनन् ।

But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,

57 तिनीहरू अविश्‍वासयोग्य भए र आफ्‍ना पुर्खाहरूले झैं धोकापूर्ण काम गरे । तिनीहरू खोटपूर्ण धनुजस्तै भरोसाहीन थिए ।

And they drew back and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow.

58 किनकि तिनीहरूले उहाँलाई आफ्‍ना अग्‍ला डाँडाहरूले क्रुद्ध बनाए र आफ्‍ना मूर्तीहरूले उहाँलाई डाहले रसाउने बनाए ।

And they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

59 जब परमेश्‍वरले यो सुन्‍नुभयो, तब उहाँ रिसाउनुभयो र इस्राएललाई पूर्ण रूपमा इन्कार गर्नुभयो ।

God heard, and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

60 शीलोको पवित्रस्थान, उहाँ मानिसहरूका बिचमा बास गर्नुभएको पाललाई उहाँले त्याग्‍नुभयो ।

And he forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he had dwelt among men,

61 उहाँले आफ्‍नो सामर्थ्यलाई कसैको कब्जामा सुम्‍पिदिनुभयो र आफ्‍नो महिमालाई शत्रुहरूका हातमा सुम्पिनुभयो ।

And gave his strength into captivity, and his glory into the hand of the oppressor;

62 उहाँले आफ्ना मानिसहरूलाई तरवारमा सुम्‍पिनुभयो र उहाँ आफ्ना उत्तराधिकारसँग रिसाउनुभयो ।

And delivered up his people unto the sword, and was very wroth with his inheritance:

63 आगोले तिनीहरूका जवान मानिसहरूलाई भष्‍म पारे, र तिनीहरूका जवान स्‍त्रीहरूसँग विवाहको गीत थिएन ।

The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not praised in [nuptial] song;

64 तिनीहरूका पुजारीहरू तरवारले ढले र तिनीहरूका विधवाहरू रुन सकेनन् ।

Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.

65 अनि परमप्रभु निद्राबाट जागेझैं, दाखमद्यको कारणले कराउने योद्धाजस्तै उठ्नुभयो ।

Then the Lord awoke as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth aloud by reason of wine;

66 उहाँले आफ्‍ना वैरीहरूलाई पछि फर्काउनुभयो । उहाँले तिनीहरूलाई अनन्त लाजमा पार्नुभयो ।

And he smote his adversaries in the hinder part, and put them to everlasting reproach.

67 उहाँले योसेफको पाललाई इन्कार गर्नुभयो र उहाँले एफ्राइमको कुललाई चुन्‍नुभएन ।

And he rejected the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim,

68 उहाँले यहूदाको कुल र उहाँले प्रेम गर्नुभएको सियोन पर्वतलाई चुन्‍नुभयो ।

But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved;

69 उहाँले आफ्नो पवित्रस्थानलाई स्‍वर्गझैं, उहाँले सदाको निम्ति स्थापना गर्नुभएको पृथ्वीझैं बनाउनुभयो ।

And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he hath founded for ever.

70 उहाँले आफ्नो दास दाऊदलाई चुन्‍नुभयो र तिनलाई भेडाका बगालहरूबाट ल्‍याउनुभयो ।

And he chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:

71 आफ्‍ना पाठाहरूका साथमा हिंड्‍ने भेडीहरूका पछि लाग्‍नबाट उहाँले तिनलाई ल्‍याउनुभयो, अनि उहाँले तिनलाई याकूब, उहाँका मानिसहरू, र उहाँको उत्तराधिकार इस्राएलको गोठालो तुल्याउनुभयो ।

From following the suckling-ewes, he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

72 आफ्‍नो हृदयको इमानदारीताले दाऊदले उनीहरूको रेखदेख गरे र आफ्नो हातको सीपले तिनले उनीहरूलाई बाटो देखाए ।

And he fed them according to the integrity of his heart, and led them by the skilfulness of his hands.