Mazmur 74
1 Nyanyian pengajaran Asaf. Ya Allah, untuk selamanyakah Kautinggalkan kami? Mengapa Engkau terus marah kepada umat-Mu sendiri?
The understanding of Asaph. O God, why have you rejected us to the end. Why has your fury become enraged over the sheep of your pasture?
2 Ingatlah umat-Mu yang Kaupilih sejak dahulu, bangsa yang Kaubebaskan agar menjadi milik-Mu. Ingatlah akan Bukit Sion, yang Kaujadikan tempat kediaman-Mu.
Be mindful of your congregation, which you have possessed from the beginning. You redeemed the scepter of your inheritance, mount Zion, in which you have dwelt.
3 Jejakilah tempat yang sudah menjadi reruntuhan; segalanya di Rumah-Mu telah dihancurkan musuh.
Lift up your hands against their arrogance in the end. How great the malice of the enemy has been in the sanctuary!
4 Musuh-musuh-Mu berteriak-teriak di Rumah-Mu, dan mendirikan panji-panji kemenangan di situ.
And those who hate you have been glorified, in the midst of your solemnity. They have set up their own signs as a proof,
5 Mereka seperti penebang kayu yang mengayunkan kapaknya, untuk menebang pohon-pohon di hutan.
as if it had been issued from on high; yet they did not understand. As in a forest of chopped wood,
6 Semua ukiran kayu mereka hancurkan dengan kapak dan palu.
they have cut down the entrances themselves. With axe and hatchet, they have brought it down.
7 Mereka membakar Rumah-Mu sampai musnah; dan menajiskan tempat Engkau disembah.
They have set fire to your Sanctuary. They have polluted the tabernacle of your name on earth.
8 Mereka mau menaklukkan kami sama sekali, dan membakar habis semua tempat ibadat di negeri ini.
They have said in their heart, the whole group of them together: “Let us cause all the feast days of God to cease from the land.
9 Nabi-nabi dan tanda-tanda ajaib tak tampak lagi, dan tak seorang pun tahu sampai kapan terus begini.
We have not seen our proof; there is now no prophet. And he will no longer know us.”
10 Sampai kapan, ya Allah, musuh mengejek Engkau? Sampai selamanyakah mereka menghina nama-Mu?
How long, O God, will the enemy place blame? Is the adversary to provoke your name until the end?
11 Mengapa Engkau tidak lagi menolong kami? Mengapa Engkau lepas tangan dari kami?
Why do you turn your hand away, even your right hand, from the midst of your sinews, until the end?
12 Sejak semula Engkaulah rajaku, ya Allah, Engkaulah yang menyelamatkan kami.
But God is our king before all ages. He has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.
13 Dengan kekuatan yang dahsyat Engkau membelah laut, dan memecahkan kepala naga-naga laut.
In your virtue, you confirmed the sea. You crushed the heads of the serpents in the waters.
14 Engkau meremukkan kepala-kepala Lewiatan dan menjadikan dia makanan penghuni padang gurun.
You have broken the heads of the serpent. You have given him as food for the people of the Ethiopians.
15 Engkau mengalirkan mata air dan sungai; sungai yang besar Kaujadikan kering.
You have disrupted the fountains and the torrents. You have dried up the rivers of Ethan.
16 Engkaulah yang menciptakan siang dan malam, serta menentukan tempat matahari dan bulan.
Yours is the day, and yours is the night. You have made the morning light and the sun.
17 Engkau menetapkan batas-batas bumi, membuat musim kemarau dan musim hujan.
You have made all the limits of the earth. The summer and the spring were formed by you.
18 Ingatlah bagaimana musuh menghina Engkau, ya TUHAN, bangsa yang tidak mengenal Engkau menghujat nama-Mu.
Be mindful of this: the enemy placed blame against the Lord, and a foolish people has incited against your name.
19 Jangan menyerahkan umat-Mu yang tak berdaya ke tangan musuh yang kejam. Jangan untuk selamanya melupakan nasib umat-Mu yang malang.
Do not hand over to beasts the souls that confess to you; and do not forget the souls of your poor until the end.
20 Ingatlah perjanjian yang Kaubuat dengan kami, sebab orang melakukan kekerasan di setiap tempat gelap di negeri ini.
Consider your covenant. For those who have been darkened upon the earth have been filled by the iniquity of the houses.
21 Jangan membiarkan orang tertindas dipermalukan, semoga orang sengsara dan miskin memuji Engkau.
Do not allow the humble to be turned away in confusion. The poor and the needy will praise your name.
22 Bangkitlah ya Allah, belalah perkara-Mu! Sebab sepanjang hari Engkau dihina oleh orang-orang yang tidak percaya kepada-Mu.
Rise up, O God, judge your own case. Call to mind the accusations against you, which are made by the foolish all day long.
23 Jangan lupa teriakan musuh-musuh-Mu, keributan lawan-lawan-Mu yang semakin keras!
Do not forget the voices of your adversaries. The arrogance of those who hate you rises up continually.
