Psalm 105
1 यहोवा का धन्यवाद करो, उससे प्रार्थना करो, देश देश के लोगों में उसके कामों का प्रचार करो!
2 उसके लिये गीत गाओ, उसके लिये भजन गाओ, उसके सब आश्चर्यकर्मों पर ध्यान करो!
3 उसके पवित्र नाम की बड़ाई करो; यहोवा के खोजियों का हृदय आनन्दित हो!
4 यहोवा और उसकी सामर्थ को खोजो, उसके दर्शन के लगातार खोजी बने रहो!
5 उसके किए हुए आश्चर्यकर्म स्मरण करो, उसके चमत्कार और निर्णय स्मरण करो!
6 हे उसके दास इब्राहीम के वंश, हे याकूब की सन्तान, तुम तो उसके चुने हुए हो!
7 वही हमारा परमेश्वर यहोवा है; पृथ्वी भर में उसके निर्णय होते हैं।
8 वह अपनी वाचा को सदा स्मरण रखता आया है, यह वही वचन है जो उसने हजार पीढ़ीयों के लिये ठहराया है;
9 वही वाचा जो उसने इब्राहीम के साथ बान्धी, और उसके विषय में उसने इसहाक से शपथ खाई,
10 और उसी को उसने याकूब के लिये विधि करके, और इस्राएल के लिये यह कह कर सदा की वाचा करके दृढ़ किया,
11 कि मैं कनान देश को तुझी को दूंगा, वह बांट में तुम्हारा निज भाग होगा॥
12 उस समय तो वे गिनती में थोड़े थे, वरन बहुत ही थोड़े, और उस देश में परदेशी थे।
13 वे एक जाति से दूसरी जाति में, और एक राज्य से दूसरे राज्य में फिरते रहे;
14 परन्तु उसने किसी मनुष्य को उन पर अन्धेर करने न दिया; और वह राजाओं को उनके निमित्त यह धमकी देता था,
15 कि मेरे अभिषिक्तों को मत छुओ, और न मेरे नबियों की हानि करो!
16 फिर उसने उस देश में अकाल भेजा, और अन्न के सब आधार को दूर कर दिया।
17 उसने यूसुफ नाम एक पुरूष को उन से पहिले भेजा था, जो दास होने के लिये बेचा गया था।
18 लोगों ने उसके पैरों में बेड़ियां डाल कर उसे दु:ख दिया; वह लोहे की सांकलों से जकड़ा गया;
19 जब तक कि उसकी बात पूरी न हुई तब तक यहोवा का वचन उसे कसौटी पर कसता रहा।
20 तब राजा ने दूत भेज कर उसे निकलवा लिया, और देश देश के लोगों के स्वामी ने उसके बन्धन खुलवाए;
21 उसने उसको अपने भवन का प्रधान और अपनी पूरी सम्पत्ति का अधिकारी ठहराया,
22 कि वह उसके हाकिमों को अपनी इच्छा के अनुसार कैद करे और पुरनियों को ज्ञान सिखाए॥
23 फिर इस्राएल मिस्त्र में आया; और याकूब हाम के देश में परदेशी रहा।
24 तब उसने अपनी प्रजा को गिनती में बहुत बढ़ाया, और उसके द्रोहियों से अधिक बलवन्त किया।
25 उसने मिस्त्रियों के मन को ऐसा फेर दिया, कि वे उसकी प्रजा से बैर रखने, और उसके दासों से छल करने लगे॥
26 उसने अपने दास मूसा को, और अपने चुने हुए हारून को भेजा।
27 उन्होंने उनके बीच उसकी ओर से भांति भांति के चिन्ह, और हाम के देश में चमत्कार दिखाए।
28 उसने अन्धकार कर दिया, और अन्धियारा हो गया; और उन्होंने उसकी बातों को न टाला।
29 उसने मिस्त्रियों के जल को लोहू कर डाला, और मछलियों को मार डाला।
30 मेंढक उनकी भूमि में वरन उनके राजा की कोठरियों में भी भर गए।
31 उसने आज्ञा दी, तब डांस आ गए, और उनके सारे देश में कुटकियां आ गईं।
32 उसने उनके लिये जलवृष्टि की सन्ती ओले, और उनके देश में धधकती आग बरसाई।
33 और उसने उनकी दाखलताओं और अंजीर के वृक्षों को वरन उनके देश के सब पेड़ों को तोड़ डाला।
34 उसने आज्ञा दी तब अनगिनत टिडि्डयां, और कीड़े आए,
35 और उन्होंने उनके देश के सब अन्न आदि को खा डाला; और उनकी भूमि के सब फलों को चट कर गए।
36 उसने उनके देश के सब पहिलौठों को, उनके पौरूष के सब पहिले फल को नाश किया॥
37 तब वह अपने गोत्रियों को सोना चांदी दिला कर निकाल लाया, और उन में से कोई निर्बल न था।
38 उनके जाने से मिस्त्री आनन्दित हुए, क्योंकि उनका डर उन में समा गया था।
39 उसने छाया के लिये बादल फैलाया, और रात को प्रकाश देने के लिये आग प्रगट की।
40 उन्होंने मांगा तब उसने बटेरें पहुंचाई, और उन को स्वर्गीय भोजन से तृप्त किया।
41 उसने चट्टान फाड़ी तब पानी बह निकला; और निर्जल भूमि पर नदी बहने लगी।
42 क्योंकि उसने अपने पवित्र वचन और अपने दास इब्राहीम को स्मरण किया॥
43 वह अपनी प्रजा को हर्षित करके और अपने चुने हुओं से जयजयकार कराके निकाल लाया।
44 और उन को अन्यजातियों के देश दिए; और वे और लोगों के श्रम के फल के अधिकारी किए गए,
45 कि वे उसकी विधियों को मानें, और उसकी व्यवस्था को पूरी करें। याह की स्तुति करो!
1 O give thanks unto the Lord; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people.
2 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works.
3 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.
4 Seek the Lord, and his strength: seek his face evermore.
5 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;
6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.
7 He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
8 He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
9 Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;
10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:
11 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:
12 When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
13 When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;
14 He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;
15 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
17 He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:
18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
19 Until the time that his word came: the word of the Lord tried him.
20 The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.
21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:
22 To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.
23 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
24 And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.
25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
26 He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.
27 They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
29 He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
30 Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings.
31 He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts.
32 He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.
33 He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts.
34 He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
35 And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.
36 He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.
37 He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.
38 Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.
39 He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.
40 The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
41 He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.
42 For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.
43 And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness:
44 And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;
45 That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the Lord.
1 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;
2 (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)
3 By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,
4 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;
5 Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;
6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
8 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.
9 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the Lord.
10 For thus saith the Lord, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
14 And I will be found of you, saith the Lord: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
15 Because ye have said, The Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;
16 Know that thus saith the Lord of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;
17 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
18 And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:
19 Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the Lord, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the Lord.
20 Hear ye therefore the word of the Lord, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:
21 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;
22 And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The Lord make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;
23 Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the Lord.
24 Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,
25 Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
26 The Lord hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the Lord, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.
27 Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?
28 For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
29 And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.
30 Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah, saying,
31 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the Lord concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie:
32 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the Lord; because he hath taught rebellion against the Lord.