গীতসংহিতা 78
The understanding of Asaph. O my people, attend to my law. Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
I will open my mouth in parables. I will speak about concepts that are from the beginning.
We have heard and known such great things, as our fathers have described to us.
4 ৪ আমরা সে সকল তাদের সন্তানদের কাছে গোপন করব না, আমরা সদাপ্রভুুর গৌরব যোগ্য কাজের বিষয় পরবর্তী প্রজন্মের কাছে বলব,
These things have not been hidden from their sons in any generation: declaring the praises of the Lord, and his virtues, and the wonders that he has done.
5 ৫ কারণ তিনি যাকোবের মধ্যে নিয়মের আদেশ স্থাপন করিয়েছিলেন এবং ইস্রায়েলের মধ্যে ব্যবস্থা স্থাপন করিয়েছেন। তিনি আমাদের পিতৃপুরুষদেরকে আদেশ দিয়েছিলেন যে তারা নিজেদের সন্তানদের তা শেখাবে।
And he has received testimony with Jacob, and he has set a law within Israel. Such great things, he has commanded our fathers, so as to make these things known to their sons,
6 ৬ তিনি তা আদেশ করেছিলেন যেন পরবর্তী প্রজন্ম এই আদেশ জানতে পারে, যে সকল সন্তান এখনও জন্মায় নি, তারা তা জানতে পারে এবং তারা যেন আবার নিজের নিজের সন্তানদের কাছে বর্ণনা করতে পারে।
so that another generation might know them, and so that the sons, who will be born and who will grow up, shall describe them to their sons.
So then, may they put their hope in God, and may they not forget the works of God, and may they seek his commandments.
8 ৮ তখন তারা আর তাদের পিতৃপুরুষদের মত হবে না, যারা জেদী ও বিদ্রোহী বংশ ছিল; সেই বংশ যাদের হৃদয় যথাযথ ছিল না এবং যাদের আত্মা ঈশ্বরের প্রতি বিশ্বস্ত ছিল না।
May they not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation: a generation that does not straighten their heart and whose spirit is not trustworthy with God.
The sons of Ephraim, who bend and shoot the bow, have been turned back in the day of battle.
They have not kept the covenant of God. And they were not willing to walk in his law.
And they have been forgetful of his benefits, and of his miracle, which he revealed to them.
12 ১২ তিনি তাদের পিতৃপুরুষদের চোখের সামনে নানা আশ্চর্য্য কার্য্য করেছিলেন। মিশর দেশে, সোয়নের দেশে করেছিলেন।
He performed miracles in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Tanis.
He broke the sea and he led them through. And he stationed the waters, as if in a vessel.
And he led them with a cloud by day, and with illumination by fire throughout the night.
15 ১৫ তিনি মরুপ্রান্তে শৈল ভেদ করলেন এবং তিনি তাদেরকে প্রচুর জল দিলেন, যথেষ্ট পরিমাণে সমুদ্রের মত দিলেন।
He broke through the rock in the wasteland, and he gave them to drink, as if from the great abyss.
He brought forth water from the rock, and he conducted the waters, as if they were rivers.
17 ১৭ তবুও তারা বার বার তার বিরুদ্ধে পাপ করল, মরুপ্রান্তে মহান সর্বশক্তিমান ঈশ্বরের বিরুদ্ধে বিদ্রোহ করল;
And yet, they continued to sin against him. In a waterless place, they provoked the Most High with resentment.
And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking for food according to their desires.
19 ১৯ তারা ঈশ্বরের বিরুদ্ধে কথা বলল; তার বলল, “ঈশ্বর কি সত্যি মরুপ্রান্তে আমাদের জন্য মেজ সাজাতে পারেন?
And they spoke badly about God. They said, “Would God be able to prepare a table in the desert?
20 ২০ দেখ, তিনি যখন শৈলকে আঘাত করলেন, জলের ধারা বেরিয়ে এসেছিল এবং ঝর্নার ধারা প্রবাহিত হয়েছিল৷ কিন্তু তিনি কি খাবার দিতে পারেন? তিনি কি নিজের প্রজাদের জন্য মাংস যোগাতে পারেন?”
He struck the rock, and so waters flowed and the torrents flooded, but would even he be able to provide bread, or provide a table, for his people?”
21 ২১ যখন সদাপ্রভুু তা শুনলেন, তিনি রেগে গেলেন; তাই আগুন যাকোবের বিরুদ্ধে জ্বলে উঠেছিল এবং তাঁর রাগ ইস্রায়েলকে আক্রমণ করেছিল,
Therefore, the Lord heard, and he was dismayed, and a fire was kindled within Jacob, and an anger ascended into Israel.
For they neither put their trust in God, nor did they hope in his salvation.
And he commanded the clouds from above, and he opened the doors of heaven.
And he rained down manna upon them to eat, and he gave them the bread of heaven.
Man ate the bread of Angels. He sent them provisions in abundance.
He transferred the south wind from heaven, and, in his virtue, he brought in the Southwest wind.
And he rained down flesh upon them, as if it were dust, and feathered birds, as if they were the sand of the sea.
And they fell down in the midst of their camp, encircling their tabernacles.
And they ate until they were greatly satisfied, and he brought to them according to their desires.
They were not cheated out of what they wanted. Their food was still in their mouth,
31 ৩১ ঠিক সেই দিনের, ঈশ্বরের ক্রোধ তাদের আক্রমণ করল এবং তাদের শক্তিশালীদের মেরে ফেলল; তিনি ইস্রায়েলের যুবকদেরও মেরে ফেললেন।
and then the wrath of God came upon them. And he slew the fat ones among them, and he impeded the elect of Israel.
In all these things, they continued to sin, and they were not trustworthy with his miracles.
And their days faded away into vanity, and their years with haste.
When he slew them, then they sought him. And they returned, and they drew near to him in the early morning.
And they were mindful that God is their helper and that the Most High God is their redeemer.
And they chose him with their mouth, and then they lied to him with their tongue.
For their heart was not upright with him, nor have they been living faithfully in his covenant.
38 ৩৮ তবুও তিনি করুণাময়, তাদের অপরাধ ক্ষমা করলেন এবং তাদের ধ্বংস করলেন না। হ্যাঁ, অনেকবার তিনি তাঁর রাগ সম্বরণ করলেন এবং নিজের সব ক্রোধ উত্তেজিত করলেন না।
Yet he is merciful, and he will pardon their sins. And he will not destroy them. And he has abundantly turned aside his own wrath. And he did not enflame his wrath entirely.
And he remembered that they are flesh: with a spirit that goes forth and does not return.
How often did they provoke him in the desert and stir him to wrath in a waterless place?
And they turned back and tempted God, and they exasperated the Holy One of Israel.
They did not remember his hand, in the day that he redeemed them from the hand of the one troubling them.
43 ৪৩ যখন তিনি মিশরে নিজের ভয়ঙ্কর চিহ্নগুলি এবং সোয়নের এলাকায় নিজের আশ্চর্য্য কাজগুলি সম্পন্ন করলেন।
Thus, he positioned his signs in Egypt and his wonders in the field of Tanis.
And he turned their rivers into blood, along with their rain showers, so that they could not drink.
He sent among them the common fly, and it devoured them, and the frog, and it scattered them.
And he gave up their fruits to mold and their labors to the locust.
And he slew their vineyards with hail and their mulberry trees with severe frost.
And he delivered their cattle to the hail and their possessions to fire.
49 ৪৯ তিনি তাদের বিরুদ্ধে নিজের রাগের প্রচণ্ডতা, ক্রোধ, কোপ ও বিপদ পাঠালেন দূতের মত যে বিপর্যয় বয়ে আনে।
And he sent the wrath of his indignation among them: indignation and wrath and tribulation, sent forth by evil angels.
50 ৫০ তিনি নিজের রাগের জন্য পথ করলেন, তিনি মৃত্যু থেকে তাদের রক্ষা করেননি; কিন্তু তাদেরকে মহামারীর হাতে দিলেন।
He made way for the path of his anger. He did not spare their souls from death. And he enclosed their beasts of burden in death.
51 ৫১ তিনি আঘাত করলেন মিশরের সব প্রথম জন্মানো সন্তানকে, হামের তাঁবুগুলির মধ্যে তাদের শক্তির প্রথমজাতদেরকে মেরে ফেললেন
And he struck all the first-born in the land of Egypt: the first-fruits of all their labor in the tabernacles of Ham.
52 ৫২ তিনি নিজের লোকদেরকে মেষের মত চালালেন, পশুপালের মত মরুপ্রান্তের মধ্যে দিয়ে তাদের পরিচালনা করলেন।
And he took away his own people like sheep, and he led them through the wilderness like a flock.
And he led them out in hope, and they did not fear. And the sea covered their enemies.
And he led them to the mountain of his sanctification: the mountain that his right hand had acquired. And he cast out the Gentiles before their face. And he divided their land by lot to them, with a line of distribution.
55 ৫৫ তিনি তাদের সামনে থেকে জাতিদেরকে তাড়িয়ে দিলেন এবং তাদের অধিকার স্থির করলেন; তিনি ইস্রায়েলের বংশদেরকে তাদের তাঁবুতে বাস করালেন।
And he caused the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.
56 ৫৬ তবু তারা সর্বশক্তিমান মহান ঈশ্বরের পরীক্ষা করল, তারা বিদ্রোহী হল এবং তার গুরুত্বপূর্ণ আদেশগুলি পালন করল না।
Yet they tempted and aggravated God Most High, and they did not keep his testaments.
57 ৫৭ তারা অবিশ্বস্ত হল এবং বিশ্বাসঘাতকতা করল তাদের পূর্বপুরুষদের মত; তারা ত্রুটিপূর্ণ ধনুকের মত অনির্ভরযোগ্য হল।
And they turned themselves aside, and they did not serve the covenant. In the same manner as their fathers, they were turned backwards, like a crooked bow.
58 ৫৮ কারণ তারা তাদের পৌত্তলিক মন্দিরের দ্বারা তাকে অসন্তুষ্ট করল এবং তাদের প্রতিমাদের দ্বারা তারা তাঁকে ঈর্ষান্বিত রাগে প্ররোচিত করল।
They impelled him to anger on their hills, and they provoked him to rivalry with their graven images.
God listened, and he spurned them, and he reduced Israel greatly, almost to nothing.
And he rejected the tabernacle of Shiloh, his tabernacle where he had dwelt among men.
And he delivered their virtue into captivity, and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.
And he enclosed his people with the sword, and he spurned his inheritance.
Fire consumed their young men, and their virgins were not lamented.
Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows did not weep.
65 ৬৫ তখন প্রভু জাগলেন যেমন একজন ঘুম থেকে জেগে ওঠে, একজন যোদ্ধার মত যে আঙ্গুর রসের কারণে চিত্কার করে।
And the Lord was awakened, as if out of sleep, and like a powerful man impaired by wine.
And he struck his enemies on the back. He gave them over to everlasting disgrace.
And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph, and he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.
But he chose the tribe of Judah: mount Zion, which he loved.
69 ৬৯ তিনি নিজের পবিত্র জায়গা নির্মাণ করলেন, স্বর্গের মত, পৃথিবীর মত, যা তিনি চিরকালের জন্য স্থাপন করেছেন।
And he built up his sanctuary, like a single-horned beast, in the land that he founded for all ages.
And he chose his servant David, and he took him from the flocks of the sheep: he received him from following the ewes with their young,
in order to pasture Jacob his servant and Israel his inheritance.
And he fed them with the innocence of his heart. And he led them with the understanding of his hands.
