भजन संहिता 69
1 हे परमेश्वर, मेरा उद्धार कर, मैं जल में डूबा जाता हूं।
2 मैं बड़े दलदल में धसा जाता हूं, और मेरे पैर कहीं नहीं रूकते; मैं गहिरे जल में आ गया, और धारा में डूबा जाता हूं।
3 मैं पुकारते पुकारते थक गया, मेरा गला सूख गया है; अपने परमेश्वर की बाट जोहते जोहते, मेरी आंखे रह गई हैं॥
4 जो अकारण मेरे बैरी हैं, वे गिनती में मेरे सिर के बालों से अधिक हैं; मेरे विनाश करने वाले जो व्यर्थ मेरे शत्रु हैं, वे सामर्थी हैं, इसलिये जो मैं ने लूटा नहीं वह भी मुझ को देना पड़ा है।
5 हे परमेश्वर, तू तो मेरी मूढ़ता को जानता है, और मेरे दोष तुझ से छिपे नहीं हैं॥
6 हे प्रभु, हे सेनाओं के यहोवा, जो तेरी बाट जोहते हैं, उनकी आशा मेरे कारण न टूटे; हे इस्राएल के परमेश्वर, जो तुझे ढूंढते हैं उनका मुंह मेरे कारण काला न हो।
7 तेरे ही कारण मेरी निन्दा हुई है, और मेरा मुंह लज्जा से ढंपा है।
8 मैं अपने भाइयों के साम्हने अजनबी हुआ, और अपने सगे भाइयों की दृष्टि में परदेशी ठहरा हूं॥
9 क्योंकि मैं तेरे भवन के निमित्त जलते जलते भस्म हुआ, और जो निन्दा वे तेरी करते हैं, वही निन्दा मुझ को सहनी पड़ी है।
10 जब मैं रोकर और उपवास करके दु:ख उठाता था, तब उससे भी मेरी नामधराई ही हुई।
11 और जब मैं टाट का वस्त्र पहिने था, तब मेरा दृष्टान्त उन में चलता था।
12 फाटक के पास बैठने वाले मेरे विषय बातचीत करते हैं, और मदिरा पीने वाले मुझ पर लगता हुआ गीत गाते हैं।
13 परन्तु हे यहोवा, मेरी प्रार्थना तो तेरी प्रसन्नता के समय में हो रही है; हे परमेश्वर अपनी करूणा की बहुतायात से, और बचाने की अपनी सच्ची प्रतिज्ञा के अनुसार मेरी सुन ले।
14 मुझ को दलदल में से उबार, कि मैं धंस न जाऊं; मैं अपने बैरियों से, और गहिरे जल में से बच जाऊं।
15 मैं धारा में डूब न जाऊं, और न मैं गहिरे जल में डूब मरूं, और न पाताल का मुंह मेरे ऊपर बन्द हो॥
16 हे यहोवा, मेरी सुन ले, क्योंकि तेरी करूणा उत्तम है; अपनी दया की बहुतायत के अनुसार मेरी ओर ध्यान दे।
17 अपने दास से अपना मुंह न मोड़; क्योंकि मैं संकट में हूं, फुर्ती से मेरी सुन ले।
18 मेरे निकट आकर मुझे छुड़ा ले, मेरे शत्रुओं से मुझ को छुटकारा दे॥
19 मेरी नामधराई और लज्जा और अनादर को तू जानता है: मेरे सब द्रोही तेरे साम्हने हैं।
20 मेरा हृदय नामधराई के कारण फट गया, और मैं बहुत उदास हूं। मैं ने किसी तरस खाने वाले की आशा तो की, परन्तु किसी को न पाया, और शान्ति देने वाले ढूंढ़ता तो रहा, परन्तु कोई न मिला।
21 और लोगों ने मेरे खाने के लिये इन्द्रायन दिया, और मेरी प्यास बुझाने के लिये मुझे सिरका पिलाया॥
22 उनका भोजन उनके लिये फन्दा हो जाए; और उनके सुख के समय जाल बन जाए।
23 उनकी आंखों पर अन्धेरा छा जाए, ताकि वे देख न सकें; और तू उनकी कटि को निरन्तर कंपाता रह।
24 उनके ऊपर अपना रोष भड़का, और तेरे क्रोध की आंच उन को लगे।
25 उनकी छावनी उजड़ जाए, उनके डेरों में कोई न रहे।
26 क्योंकि जिस को तू ने मारा, वे उसके पीछे पड़े हैं, और जिन को तू ने घायल किया, वे उनकी पीड़ा की चर्चा करते हैं।
27 उनके अधर्म पर अधर्म बढ़ा; और वे तेरे धर्म को प्राप्त न करें।
28 उनका नाम जीवन की पुस्तक में से काटा जाए, और धर्मियों के संग लिखा न जाए॥
29 परन्तु मैं तो दु:खी और पीड़ित हूं, इसलिये हे परमेश्वर तू मेरा उद्धार करके मुझे ऊंचे स्थान पर बैठा।
30 मैं गीत गाकर तेरे नाम की स्तुति करूंगा, और धन्यवाद करता हुआ तेरी बड़ाई करूंगा।
31 यह यहोवा को बैल से अधिक, वरन सींग और खुर वाले बैल से भी अधिक भाएगा।
32 नम्र लोग इसे देख कर आनन्दित होंगे, हे परमेश्वर के खोजियों तुम्हारा मन हरा हो जाए।
33 क्योंकि यहोवा दरिद्रों की ओर कान लगाता है, और अपने लोगों को जो बन्धुए हैं तुच्छ नहीं जानता॥
34 स्वर्ग और पृथ्वी उसकी स्तुति करें, और समुद्र अपने सब जीव जन्तुओं समेत उसकी स्तुति करे।
35 क्योंकि परमेश्वर सिय्योन का उद्धार करेगा, और यहूदा के नगरों को फिर बसाएगा; और लोग फिर वहां बस कर उसके अधिकारी हो जाएंगे।
36 उसके दासों को वंश उसको अपने भाग में पाएगा, और उसके नाम के प्रेमी उस में वास करेंगे॥
1 To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David.
2 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
3 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
4 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
5 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
6 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
7 Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
8 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
9 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
10 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
11 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
12 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
13 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
14 But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
15 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
16 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
17 Hear me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
18 And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
19 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
20 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
21 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
22 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
23 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
24 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
25 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
26 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
27 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
28 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
29 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
30 But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
31 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
32 This also shall please the Lord better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
33 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
34 For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
35 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
36 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
37 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
1 And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Eben-ezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek.
2 And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.
3 And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the Lord smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.
4 So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth between the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
5 And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.
6 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the Lord was come into the camp.
7 And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a thing heretofore.
8 Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.
9 Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.
10 And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
11 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
12 And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.
13 And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.
14 And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What meaneth the noise of this tumult? And the man came in hastily, and told Eli.
15 Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.
16 And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?
17 And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.
18 And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.
19 And his daughter in law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.
20 And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it.
21 And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.
22 And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.