भजनसंग्रह 44

1 हे परमेश्वर, हामीले तपाईंको विषयमा सुनेका छौं। हाम्रा पिता-पुर्खाहरूको जीवनकालमा तपाईंले के के गर्नुभयो उहाँ बताउनु भयो। तपाईंले धेरै वर्ष अघि गरेका कार्यहरू। तिनीहरूले बताउनु भयो।

2 परमेश्वर, तपाईंले आफ्नो महान् शक्ति सहित अरूका जग्गाहरू लिनुभयो अनि हामीलाई दिनु भयो। तपाईंले ती विदेशी मानिसहरूलाई टुहुरो पार्नु भयो। तपाईंले तिनीहरूलाई यो ठाउँ छोड्न वाध्य गर्नुभयो।

3 हाम्रा पिताहरूका तरवारहरू थिएनन् जसले जमीन खोस्यो। उनीहरूका पाखुराहरू बलिया थिएनन्। जसले तिनीहरूलाई विजयी गराए। यो हाम्रो पिता-पुर्खाहरूसँग तपाईं भएको कारणले गर्दा भएको हो। परमेश्वर, तपाईंको महान् शक्तिले हाम्रा पिता-पुर्खाहरूलाई बचाउनु भयो। किन? किनभने तपाईंले उहाँहरूलाई प्रेम गर्नुभयो!

4 हे मेरो परमेश्वर, तपाईं मेरो राजा हुनुहुन्छ। आदेश दिनुहोस् अनि याकूबका मानिसहरूलाई विजयतर्फ अगुवाइ गर्नुहोस्।

5 मेरो परमेश्वर, तपाईंको सहायताले गर्दा हामी आफ्ना शत्रुहरूलाई पछि धकेल्ने छौं। तपाईंको नाउँमा हामी तिनीहरूलाई कुल्चदै हिंड्ने छौं।

6 म मेरो धनु र तरवारमाथि भरोसा राख्दिन। मेरो तरवारले मलाई बचाउन सक्दैन।

7 हे परमेश्वर, तपाईंले हामीलाई मिश्रबाट बचाउनु भयो। तपाईंले हाम्रा शत्रुहरूलाई लज्जित बनाएर राख्नु भयो।

8 हामीले दिनभरि नै परमेश्वरको स्तुति-गान गाएका छौं। अनि तपाईंको नाउँको प्रशंसा सदा सर्वदा गर्नेछौं!

9 तर, हे परमेश्वर, तपाईंले हामीलाई छोड्नु भयो, तपाईंले हामीलाई लज्जित पार्नु भयो। तपाईं युद्धभूमिमा हामीसँग आउनु भएन।

10 तपाईंले हाम्रा शत्रुहरूलाई पछि धकेल्न लगाउनु भयो। हाम्रा शत्रुहरूले हाम्रो सम्पत्ति लगेर गए।

11 तपाईंले हामीलाई खाद्य रूपमा खाओस् भनेर भेंडा जस्तो टाढा अलग्ग राखि दिनु भयो। तपाईंले विदेशीहरूका माझ हामीलाई छरपस्ट पारेर छाडी दिनुभयो।

12 हे परमेश्वर, तपाईंले आफ्ना मानिसहरू सित्तैमा बेचिदिनु भयो, तपाईंले तिनीहरूको दर दाम पनि गर्नु भएन।

13 तपाईंले छिमेकीहरू समक्ष हामीलाई हाँसोको पात्र बनाउनु भयो। तिनीहरूले हामीमाथि हाँसे र खिल्ली उडाए।

14 हामी हँसाउने कथाहरू मध्ये एक हौं जो मानिसहरू भन्छन्। आफ्नो देश नभएका मानिसहरू सम्म हामीमाथि हाँस्छन् र आफ्ना टाउकाहरू हल्लाउँछन्।

15 म लाजले छोपिएको छु। सारा दिन आफ्नो लज्जित रूप हेर्छु।

16 मेरा शत्रुहरू जसले मसित साटो फेर्न चाहन्थे, तिनीहरूको खिसी र अपमानबाट उप्जेको लाजले गर्दा म आफैं लुक्छु।

17 परमेश्वर, तपाईंलाई हामीले बिर्सेका छैनौं। अझै यी सबै कुराहरू तपाईंले हाम्रा लागि गर्नु हुन्छ। हामीले तपाईंको करार पत्रमा हस्ताक्षर गर्दा छल-कपट गरेका छैनौ!

18 परमेश्वर, हामी तपाईंबाट टाढिएका छैनौं। हामी तपाईंलाई पछ्याउनका लागि रोकिएका छैनौं।

19 तर, परमेश्वर, तपाईंले हामीलाई यस ठाउँमा मिच्नु भयो जहाँ स्यालहरू बस्दछन्। तपाईंले हामीलाई त्यस ठाउँमा छाडिदिनु भयो जुन मृत्यु भन्दा पनि भयानक अंध्यारो छ।

20 के हामीले हाम्रो परमेश्वरको नाउँ बिर्सियौं? के हामीले विदेशी देवताहरूलाई प्रार्थना गर्यौ? होइन!

21 निश्चय नै परमेश्वर यी सबै कुराहरू जान्नुहुन्छ। उहाँले हाम्रो गहन गुप्त कुराहरू पनि जान्नुहुन्छ।

22 हे परमेश्वर, दिनभरि हामी तपाईंका लागि मरिमेट्‌यौं!हामी मार्न लगिएका भेडा जस्तै छौं।

23 उठ्नु होस्, मेरो स्वामी! किन तपाईं सुतिरहनु भएको छ? उठ्नु होस्! हामीलाई सदाको निम्ति नछोडनु होस्!

24 परमेश्वर, तपाईं किन हामीदेखि लुकिरहनु हुन्छ? तपाईंले हाम्रो पीर र संकटहरूलाई बिर्सिनु भयो?

25 हामीलाई फोहारेभित्र हुत्याइएको छ। हाम्रो शरिर धूलोमा पल्टिरहेको छ।

26 हे परमेश्वर, उठूनु होस र हामीलाई सहयोग गर्नुहोस्। तपाईंको स्नेहपूर्ण करूणाले हामीलाई बचाउनुहोस्।

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.

0 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,

1 I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.

2 The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

3 I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

6 In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.

13 The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.

14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.

18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay.

19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

20 The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.

23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.

24 Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;

26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.

27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.

28 For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.

29 For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

30 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.

31 For who is God save the Lord? or who is a rock save our God?

32 It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.

33 He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet, and setteth me upon my high places.

34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

35 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.

36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.

37 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.

38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

40 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.

41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the Lord, but he answered them not.

42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

43 Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.

45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.

46 The Lord liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

47 It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.

48 He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.

49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.

50 Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.