भजन संहिता 44

1 हे परमेश्वर हम ने अपने कानों से सुना, हमारे बापदादों ने हम से वर्णन किया है, कि तू ने उनके दिनों में और प्राचीनकाल में क्या क्या काम किए हैं।

2 तू ने अपने हाथ से जातियों को निकाल दिया, और इन को बसाया; तू ने देश देश के लोगों को दु:ख दिया, और इन को चारों ओर फैला दिया;

3 क्योंकि वे न तो अपनी तलवार के बल से इस देश के अधिकारी हुए, और न अपने बाहुबल से; परन्तु तेरे दाहिने हाथ और तेरी भुजा और तेरे प्रसन्न मुख के कारण जयवन्त हुए; क्योंकि तू उन को चाहता था॥

4 हे परमेश्वर, तू ही हमारा महाराजा है, तू याकूब के उद्धार की आज्ञा देता है।

5 तेरे सहारे से हम अपने द्रोहियों को ढकेलकर गिरा देंगे; तेरे नाम के प्रताप से हम अपने विरोधियों को रौंदेंगे।

6 क्योंकि मैं अपने धनुष पर भरोसा न रखूंगा, और न अपनी तलवार के बल से बचूंगा।

7 परन्तु तू ही ने हम को द्रोहियोंसे बचाया है, और हमारे बैरियों को निराश और लज्जित किया है।

8 हम परमेश्वर की बड़ाई दिन भर करते रहते हैं, और सदैव तेरे नाम का धन्यवाद करते रहेंगे॥

9 तौभी तू ने अब हम को त्याग दिया और हमारा अनादर किया है, और हमारे दलों के साथ आगे नहीं जाता।

10 तू हम को शत्रु के साम्हने से हटा देता है, और हमारे बैरी मनमाने लूट मार करते हैं।

11 तू ने हमें कसाई की भेडों के समान कर दिया है, और हम को अन्य जातियों में तित्तर बित्तर किया है।

12 तू अपनी प्रजा को सेंत मेंत बेच डालता है, परन्तु उनके मोल से तू धनी नहीं होता॥

13 तू हमारे पड़ोसियों में हमारी नामधराई कराता है, और हमारे चारों ओर से रहने वाले हम से हंसी ठट्ठा करते हैं।

14 तू हम को अन्यजातियों के बीच में उपमा ठहराता है, और देश देश के लोग हमारे कारण सिर हिलाते हैं। दिन भर हमें तिरस्कार सहना पड़ता है,

15 और कलंक लगाने और निन्दा करने वाले के बोल से,

16 और शत्रु और बदला लेने वालों के कारण, बुरा- भला कहने वालों और निन्दा करने वालों के कारण।

17 यह सब कुछ हम पर बीता तौभी हम तुझे नहीं भूले, न तेरी वाचा के विषय विश्वासघात किया है।

18 हमारे मन न बहके, न हमारे पैर तरी बाट से मुड़े;

19 तौभी तू ने हमें गीदड़ों के स्थान में पीस डाला, और हम को घोर अन्धकार में छिपा दिया है॥

20 यदि हम अपने परमेश्वर का नाम भूल जाते, वा किसी पराए देवता की ओर अपने हाथ फैलाते,

21 तो क्या परमेश्वर इसका विचार न करता? क्योंकि वह तो मन की गुप्त बातों को जानता है।

22 परन्तु हम दिन भर तेरे निमित्त मार डाले जाते हैं, और उन भेड़ों के समान समझे जाते हैं जो वध होने पर हैं॥

23 हे प्रभु, जाग! तू क्यों सोता है? उठ! हम को सदा के लिये त्याग न दे!

24 तू क्यों अपना मुंह छिपा लेता है? और हमारा दु:ख और सताया जाना भूल जाता है?

25 हमारा प्राण मिट्टी से लग गया; हमारा पेट भूमि से सट गया है।

26 हमारी सहायता के लिये उठ खड़ा हो! और अपनी करूणा के निमित्त हम को छुड़ा ले॥

1 To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.

2 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

3 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.

4 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

5 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

6 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

7 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

8 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.

9 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.

10 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

11 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

12 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

13 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.

14 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

15 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

16 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

17 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.

18 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

19 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

20 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

21 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

22 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

23 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

24 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

25 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

26 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

27 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake.

1 Again the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying,

2 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.

3 Thus saith the Lord; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the Lord of hosts the holy mountain.

4 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.

5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

6 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the Lord of hosts.

7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;

8 And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.

9 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.

10 For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.

11 But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the Lord of hosts.

12 For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

13 And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands be strong.

14 For thus saith the Lord of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord of hosts, and I repented not:

15 So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.

16 These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

17 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the Lord.

18 And the word of the Lord of hosts came unto me, saying,

19 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.

20 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:

21 And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts: I will go also.

22 Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord.

23 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.