Psalm 48
1 परमप्रभु महान् हुनुहुन्छ। उहाँको पवित्र पर्वतमा, मानिसहरूले हाम्रो परमेश्वरको शहरमा अधिक प्रशंसा गर्दछन्।
2 परमेश्वरको पवित्र शहर यस्तो आनन्दमय उचाइमा छ! यसले पृथ्वीभरिका मानिसहरूलाई आनन्द दिन्छ! सियोन पर्वत परमेश्वरको साँचो पर्वतहो, यो महान् राजाको शहर हो।
3 त्यस शहरको राजमहलमा, परमेश्वरलाई किल्ला भनिन्छ।
4 एक समय, केही राजाहरू आपस्तमा भेट गरे। तिनीहरूले यस शहरमाथि आक्रमण गर्ने योजना गरे। तिनीहरू सबैले यस शहरतर्फ कदम बढाए।
5 तर त्यसपछि ती राजाहरू यो शहर देखेर छक्क परे। तिनीहरू सबै भयग्रस्त भए अनि लम्पट परे!
6 डरले ती राजाहरूलाई कस्सेर समात्यो। ती राजाहरू डरले कामे।
7 हे परमेश्वर तपाईंले शक्तिशाली पूर्वेली बतास चलाउनु भयो अनि तिनीहरूका ठूल-ठूला जहाजहरू सबै भताभुङ्ग पारिदिनु भयो।
8 हो, हामीले तपाईंको महान् शक्तिका कथाहरू सुनेका छौं। तर यसलाई हामीले हाम्रो परमेश्वरको शहरमा पनि देख्यौं, सर्वशक्तिमान् परमेश्वरको शहरलाई उहाँले अनन्त सम्मको लागि बलियो बनाउनु भयो!
9 हे परमेश्वर, तपाईंको मन्दिरमा तपाईंको प्रेमपूर्ण अनुग्रहलाई हामी सतर्क भएर सोच्दछौं।
10 हे परमेश्वर, तपाईं प्रख्यात हुनुहुन्छ, मानिसहरूले तपाईंलाई पृथ्वीभरि प्रशंसा गर्दछन्। तपाईं कति धार्मिक हुनुहुन्छ भनेर सबैलाई थाहा छ।
11 हे परमेश्वर! सियोन पर्वत खुशी हुन्छ। यहूदाका शहरहरू तपाईंको सही निर्णयले गर्दा रमाउँदछन्।
12 सियोनको चारैतर्फ हिंड्। शहरमा हेर। त्यहाँका अग्ला महलहरू गन।
13 अग्ला पर्खालहरू हेर, सियोनका राजमलहरूको प्रशंसा गर। तब तिमीले आफ्ना भावी सन्तानहरूलाई यसको विषयमा भन्न सक्नेछौ।
14 यी परमेश्वर सदा-सर्वदाका लागि हाम्रा परमेश्वर हुनुहुन्छ। उहाँले हामीलाई सघैं पथ-प्रर्दशन गर्नु हुनेछ।
1 A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah.
2 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
3 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
4 God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
5 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
6 They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
7 Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
8 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
9 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
10 We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
11 According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
12 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
13 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
14 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
15 For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
6 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
7 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
8 For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.
15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
16 He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.