গীতসংহিতা 74
1 ১ আসফের মস্কীল। হে ঈশ্বর তুমি কেন চিরদিনের র জন্য ত্যাগ করেছ? কেন চরানির মেষদের বিরুদ্ধে তোমার রাগের আগুন জ্বলছে?
[A Psalm] of instruction for Asaph. Therefore have you rejected [us], O God, for ever? [therefore] is your wrath kindled against the sheep of your pasture?
2 ২ তোমার লোকেদেরকে মনে কর, যাকে তুমি অতীতকালে মুক্ত করেছিলে, যাকে তুমি কিনেছিলে তোমার অধিকারের বংশ করবার জন্য এবং সিয়োন পর্বত যেখানে তুমি থাক।
Remember your congregation which you have purchased from the beginning; you did ransom the rod of your inheritance; this mount Sion wherein you have lived.
Lift up your hands against their pride continually; [because of] all that the enemy has done wickedly in your holy places.
And they that hate you have boasted in the midst of your feast; they have set up their standards for signs,
ignorantly as it were in the entrance above;
they cut down its doors at once with axes as in a wood of trees; they have broken it down with hatchet and stone cutter.
7 ৭ তারা তোমার ধর্মধামে আগুন লাগিয়ে দিল, তারা অপবিত্র করল যেখানে তুমি থাক ভেঙে মাটিতে মিশিয়ে দিলো।
They have burnt your sanctuary with fire to the ground; they have profaned the habitation of your name.
8 ৮ তারা মনে মনে বলল, “আমরা তাদেরকে ধ্বংস করব,” তারা দেশের মধ্যে ঈশ্বরের সব সমাগমের জায়গা পুড়িয়ে দিয়েছে।
They have said in their heart, [even] all their kindred together, Come, let us abolish the feasts of the Lord from the earth.
9 ৯ আমরা আমাদের দেখতে পাইনা আর কোনো ঈশ্বরের চিহ্ন কোনো ভাববাদী আর নাই; আমাদের কেউ জানে না, কত দিন আর অবশিষ্ট থাকবে।
We have not seen our signs; there is no longer a prophet; and [God] will not know us any more.
How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach? shall the enemy provoke your name forever?
11 ১১ তুমি তোমার হাত কেন ফিরিয়ে নিলে, তোমার ডান হাত, তোমার পোশাক থেকে ডান হাত বার কর এবং তাদেরকে ধ্বংস কর।
Therefore turn you away your hand, and your right hand from the midst of your bosom for ever?
But God is our King of old; he has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.
You did establish the sea, in your might, you did break to pieces the heads of the dragons in the water.
You did break to pieces the heads of the dragon; you did give him [for] meat to the Ethiopian nations.
You did cleave fountains and torrents; you dried up mighty rivers.
The day is your, and the night is your; you have prepared the sun and the moon.
You have made all the borders of the earth; you have made summer and spring.
Remember this your creation: an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people has provoked your name.
Deliver not to the wild beasts a soul that gives praise to you: forget not for ever the souls of your poor.
Look upon your covenant: for the dark [places] of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity.
let not the afflicted and shamed one be rejected: the poor and needy shall praise your name.
Arise, O God, plead your cause: remember your reproaches that come from the foolish one all the day.
Forget not the voice of your suppliants: let the pride of them that hate you continually ascend before you.
