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 Then the Lord said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.

2 And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord:

3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.

4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.

5 And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.

6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:

7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the Lord.

9 And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

10 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

11 Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.

12 And Moses spake before the Lord, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?

13 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

14 These be the heads of their fathers’ houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these be the families of Reuben.

15 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon.

16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.

17 The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families.

18 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years.

19 And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these are the families of Levi according to their generations.

20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.

21 And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.

22 And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri.

23 And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

24 And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these are the families of the Korhites.

25 And Eleazar Aaron’s son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.

26 These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the Lord said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies.

27 These are they which spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron.

28 And it came to pass on the day when the Lord spake unto Moses in the land of Egypt,

29 That the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, I am the Lord: speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto thee.

30 And Moses said before the Lord, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?