ਜ਼ਬੂਰ 78
A contemplation by Asaph. Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,
which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
4 ੪ ਅਸੀਂ ਉਹਨਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੀ ਅੰਸ ਤੋਂ ਲੁਕਾਵਾਂਗੇ, ਸਗੋਂ ਆਉਣ ਵਾਲੀ ਪੀੜ੍ਹੀ ਨੂੰ ਯਹੋਵਾਹ ਦੀ ਉਸਤਤ, ਉਸ ਦੀ ਸ਼ਕਤੀ ਅਤੇ ਅਚਰਜ਼ ਕੰਮ ਜੋ ਉਸ ਨੇ ਕੀਤੇ ਦੱਸਾਂਗੇ।
We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.
5 ੫ ਉਸ ਨੇ ਤਾਂ ਯਾਕੂਬ ਵਿੱਚ ਇੱਕ ਸਾਖੀ ਕਾਇਮ ਕੀਤੀ, ਅਤੇ ਇਸਰਾਏਲ ਵਿੱਚ ਇੱਕ ਬਿਵਸਥਾ ਠਹਿਰਾਈ, ਜਿਹ ਦਾ ਹੁਕਮ ਉਸ ਨੇ ਸਾਡੇ ਪੁਰਖਿਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਦਿੱਤਾ, ਕਿ ਓਹ ਆਪਣੀ ਅੰਸ ਨੂੰ ਸਿਖਾਉਣ,
For he established a covenant in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;
6 ੬ ਤਾਂ ਜੋ ਆਉਣ ਵਾਲੀ ਪੀੜ੍ਹੀ ਅਰਥਾਤ ਓਹ ਬੱਚੇ, ਜਿਹੜੇ ਜੰਮਣਗੇ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਜਾਣ ਲੈਣ, ਕਿ ਓਹ ਵੀ ਉੱਠ ਕੇ ਆਪਣੀ ਅੰਸ ਨੂੰ ਦੱਸਣ,
that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,
7 ੭ ਕਿ ਓਹ ਪਰਮੇਸ਼ੁਰ ਵਿੱਚ ਆਪਣੀ ਆਸ਼ਾ ਰੱਖਣ, ਅਤੇ ਪਰਮੇਸ਼ੁਰ ਦੇ ਕੰਮਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਨਾ ਭੁੱਲਣ, ਪਰ ਉਸ ਦੇ ਹੁਕਮਾਂ ਦੀ ਰਾਖੀ ਕਰਨ,
that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God’s deeds, but keep his commandments,
8 ੮ ਅਤੇ ਓਹ ਆਪਣੇ ਪੁਰਖਿਆਂ ਵਾਂਗੂੰ ਨਾ ਹੋਣ, ਇੱਕ ਕੱਬੀ ਪੀੜ੍ਹੀ ਜਿਸ ਆਪਣਾ ਮਨ ਕਾਇਮ ਨਾ ਰੱਖਿਆ, ਅਤੇ ਜਿਹ ਦਾ ਆਤਮਾ ਪਰਮੇਸ਼ੁਰ ਵਿੱਚ ਦ੍ਰਿੜ੍ਹ ਨਾ ਰਿਹਾ।
and might not be as their fathers— a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law.
They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.
He did marvellous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.
In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.
He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
20 ੨੦ ਵੇਖੋ, ਉਸ ਨੇ ਚੱਟਾਨ ਨੂੰ ਮਾਰਿਆ, ਪਾਣੀ ਫੁੱਟ ਨਿੱਕਲਿਆ, ਅਤੇ ਧਾਰਾਂ ਵਗ ਪਈਆਂ, ਕੀ ਉਹ ਰੋਟੀ ਵੀ ਦੇ ਸਕੇਗਾ? ਨਾਲੇ ਆਪਣੀ ਪਰਜਾ ਨੂੰ ਮਹਾਂ ਪਰਸ਼ਾਦ ਵੀ ਪਹੁੰਚਾਵੇਗਾ?
Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide meat for his people?”
21 ੨੧ ਇਸ ਲਈ ਜਦ ਯਹੋਵਾਹ ਨੇ ਸੁਣਿਆ ਤਾਂ ਅੱਤ ਕ੍ਰੋਧਵਾਨ ਹੋਇਆ, ਅਤੇ ਯਾਕੂਬ ਵਿੱਚ ਅੱਗ ਭੜਕੀ, ਨਾਲੇ ਇਸਰਾਏਲ ਉੱਤੇ ਵੀ ਕੋਪ ਹੋਇਆ,
Therefore the LORD heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,
because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his salvation.
Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.
He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.
Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.
He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.
He also rained meat on them as the dust, winged birds as the sand of the seas.
He let them fall in the middle of their camp, around their habitations.
So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.
They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,
31 ੩੧ ਕਿ ਪਰਮੇਸ਼ੁਰ ਦਾ ਕ੍ਰੋਧ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਉੱਤੇ ਭੜਕਿਆ, ਅਤੇ ਉਸ ਨੇ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੇ ਡਾਢੇ ਮੋਟਿਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਵੱਢ ਸੁੱਟਿਆ, ਅਤੇ ਇਸਰਾਏਲ ਦੇ ਗੱਭਰੂਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਨਿਵਾ ਲਿਆ।
when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their strongest, and struck down the young men of Israel.
For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.
Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
34 ੩੪ ਜਦ ਉਸ ਨੇ ਉਹਨਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਵੱਢਿਆ ਤਾਂ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੇ ਉਸ ਦੀ ਭਾਲ ਕੀਤੀ, ਓਹ ਮੁੜੇ ਤੇ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੇ ਮਨੋਂ ਤਨੋਂ ਪਰਮੇਸ਼ੁਰ ਨੂੰ ਭਾਲਿਆ।
When he killed them, then they enquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.
They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.
But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.
38 ੩੮ ਪਰ ਉਸ ਰਹੀਮ ਹੋ ਕੇ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੀ ਬੁਰਿਆਈ ਨੂੰ ਖਿਮਾ ਕੀਤਾ, ਅਤੇ ਉਸ ਨੇ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦਾ ਨਾਸ ਨਾ ਕੀਤਾ, ਹਾਂ, ਬਹੁਤ ਵਾਰੀ ਉਸ ਨੇ ਆਪਣਾ ਕ੍ਰੋਧ ਰੋਕ ਛੱਡਿਆ, ਅਤੇ ਆਪਣਾ ਸਾਰਾ ਗੁੱਸਾ ਨਾ ਭੜਕਾਇਆ।
But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.
He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!
They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,
44 ੪੪ ਉਸ ਨੇ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੋ ਦਰਿਆਵਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਲਹੂ ਬਣਾ ਦਿੱਤਾ, ਨਾਲੇ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੀਆਂ ਨਦੀਆਂ ਨੂੰ, ਸੋ ਓਹ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਤੋਂ ਪੀ ਨਾ ਸਕੇ।
he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.
45 ੪੫ ਉਸ ਨੇ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਮੱਖਾਂ ਦੇ ਝੁੰਡ ਭੇਜੇ ਜਿਹੜੇ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਖਾ ਗਏ, ਅਤੇ ਡੱਡੂ ਜਿਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੇ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦਾ ਸੱਤਿਆਨਾਸ ਕੀਤਾ।
He sent amongst them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
He also gave their increase to the caterpillar, and their labour to the locust.
47 ੪੭ ਉਸ ਨੇ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੀਆਂ ਦਾਖ ਦੀਆਂ ਵੇਲਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਗੜਿਆਂ ਨਾਲ, ਅਤੇ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦਿਆਂ ਗੁੱਲਰ ਰੁੱਖਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਵੱਡੇ-ਵੱਡੇ ਔਲਿਆਂ ਨਾਲ ਬਰਬਾਦ ਕਰ ਸੁੱਟਿਆ।
He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.
He also gave over their livestock to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
49 ੪੯ ਉਸ ਨੇ ਬੁਰਿਆਈ ਦੇ ਦੂਤਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਭੇਜ ਕੇ ਆਪਣੇ ਕ੍ਰੋਧ ਦਾ ਡਾਢਾ ਕਹਿਰ, ਰੋਸਾ, ਗਜ਼ਬ ਅਤੇ ਬਿਪਤਾ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਉੱਤੇ ਪਾ ਦਿੱਤੀ।
He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.
50 ੫੦ ਉਸ ਨੇ ਆਪਣੇ ਕ੍ਰੋਧ ਲਈ ਰਾਹ ਸਿੱਧਾ ਕੀਤਾ, ਉਸ ਨੇ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੀਆਂ ਜਾਨਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਮੌਤ ਤੋਂ ਨਾ ਰੋਕਿਆ, ਸਗੋਂ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੀਆਂ ਹਯਾਤੀਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਬਵਾ ਦੇ ਹਵਾਲੇ ਕੀਤਾ।
He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,
and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54 ੫੪ ਤਾਂ ਉਸ ਨੇ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਆਪਣੇ ਪਵਿੱਤਰ ਥਾਂ ਦੇ ਬੰਨੇ ਤੱਕ ਪਹੁੰਚਾਇਆ, ਇਸ ਪਰਬਤ ਤੱਕ ਜਿਹ ਨੂੰ ਉਸ ਦੇ ਸੱਜੇ ਹੱਥ ਨੇ ਲਿਆ ਸੀ।
He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.
55 ੫੫ ਉਸ ਨੇ ਕੌਮਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੇ ਅੱਗੋਂ ਕੱਢ ਦਿੱਤਾ, ਅਤੇ ਜਰੀਬ ਨਾਲ ਮਿਣ ਕੇ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਮਿਲਖ਼ ਦਿੱਤੀ, ਅਤੇ ਇਸਰਾਏਲ ਦੀਆਂ ਗੋਤਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੇ ਤੰਬੂਆਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਵਸਾਇਆ।
He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
56 ੫੬ ਤਾਂ ਵੀ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੇ ਅੱਤ ਮਹਾਨ ਪਰਮੇਸ਼ੁਰ ਨੂੰ ਪਰਤਾਇਆ ਅਤੇ ਉਸ ਤੋਂ ਆਕੀ ਹੋ ਗਏ, ਅਤੇ ਉਸ ਦੀਆਂ ਸਾਖੀਆਂ ਦੀ ਪਾਲਣਾ ਨਾ ਕੀਤੀ।
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies,
but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were twisted like a deceitful bow.
58 ੫੮ ਆਪਣਿਆਂ ਉੱਚਿਆਂ ਥਾਵਾਂ ਦੇ ਕਾਰਨ ਉਸ ਦੇ ਗੁੱਸੇ ਨੂੰ ਛੇੜਿਆ, ਅਤੇ ਆਪਣੀਆਂ ਉੱਕਰੀਆਂ ਹੋਈਆਂ ਮੂਰਤਾਂ ਦੇ ਕਾਰਨ ਉਸ ਦੀ ਅਣਖ ਨੂੰ ਹਿਲਾਇਆ।
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel,
so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed amongst men,
and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand.
He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.
Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.
Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep.
Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.
Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,
But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
69 ੬੯ ਅਤੇ ਉਸ ਨੇ ਉੱਚਿਆਈਆਂ ਦੀ ਨਿਆਈਂ ਆਪਣਾ ਪਵਿੱਤਰ ਸਥਾਨ ਉਸਾਰਿਆ, ਅਤੇ ਧਰਤੀ ਦੀ ਨਿਆਈਂ ਜਿਹ ਨੂੰ ਉਸ ਨੇ ਸਦਾ ਲਈ ਅਟੱਲ ਰੱਖਿਆ ਹੈ।
He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.
He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
71 ੭੧ ਉਹ ਉਸ ਨੂੰ ਬੱਚਿਆਂ ਵਾਲੀਆਂ ਭੇਡਾਂ ਦੇ ਪਿੱਛੇ ਚੱਲਣ ਤੋਂ ਹਟਾ ਲਿਆਇਆ। ਕਿ ਉਸ ਦੀ ਪਰਜਾ ਯਾਕੂਬ ਨੂੰ ਅਤੇ ਉਸ ਦੀ ਮਿਲਖ਼ ਇਸਰਾਏਲ ਨੂੰ ਚਰਾਵੇ।
from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.
72 ੭੨ ਸੋ ਉਹ ਨੇ ਆਪਣੇ ਮਨ ਦੀ ਸਚਿਆਈ ਨਾਲ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਚਰਾਇਆ, ਅਤੇ ਆਪਣੇ ਹੱਥਾਂ ਦੇ ਗੁਣ ਨਾਲ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੀ ਅਗਵਾਈ ਕੀਤੀ।
So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
