Psalm 102
1 हे यहोवा, मेरी प्रार्थना सुन; मेरी दोहाई तुझ तक पहुंचे!
2 मेरे संकट के दिन अपना मुख मुझ से न छिपा ले; अपना कान मेरी ओर लगा; जिस समय मैं पुकारूं, उसी समय फुर्ती से मेरी सुन ले!
3 क्योंकि मेरे दिन धुएं की नाईं उड़े जाते हैं, और मेरी हडि्डयां लुकटी के समान जल गई हैं।
4 मेरा मन झुलसी हुई घास की नाईं सूख गया है; और मैं अपनी रोटी खाना भूल जाता हूं।
5 कराहते कराहते मेरा चमड़ा हडि्डयों में सट गया है।
6 मैं जंगल के धनेश के समान हो गया हूं, मैं उजड़े स्थानों के उल्लू के समान बन गया हूं।
7 मैं पड़ा पड़ा जागता रहता हूं और गौरे के समान हो गया हूं जो छत के ऊपर अकेला बैठता है।
8 मेरे शत्रु लगातार मेरी नामधराई करते हैं, जो मेरे विराध की धुन में बावले हो रहे हैं, वे मेरा नाम लेकर शपथ खाते हैं।
9 क्योंकि मैं ने रोटी की नाईं राख खाई और आंसू मिला कर पानी पीता हूं।
10 यह तेरे क्रोध और कोप के कारण हुआ है, क्योंकि तू ने मुझे उठाया, और फिर फेंक दिया है।
11 मेरी आयु ढलती हुई छाया के समान है; और मैं आप घास की नाईं सूख चला हूं॥
12 परन्तु हे यहोवा, तू सदैव विराजमान रहेगा; और जिस नाम से तेरा स्मरण होता है, वह पीढ़ी से पीढ़ी तक बना रहेगा।
13 तू उठकर सिय्योन पर दया करेगा; क्योंकि उस पर अनुग्रह करने का ठहराया हुआ समय आ पहुंचा है।
14 क्योंकि तेरे दास उसके पत्थरों को चाहते हैं, और उसकी धूलि पर तरस खाते हैं।
15 इसलिये अन्यजातियां यहोवा के नाम का भय मानेंगी, और पृथ्वी के सब राजा तेरे प्रताप से डरेंगे।
16 क्योंकि यहोवा ने सिय्योन को फिर बसाया है, और वह अपनी महिमा के साथ दिखाई देता है;
17 वह लाचार की प्रार्थना की ओर मुंह करता है, और उनकी प्रार्थना को तुच्छ नहीं जानता।
18 यह बात आने वाली पीढ़ी के लिये लिखी जाएगी, और एक जाति जो सिरजी जाएगी वही याह की स्तुति करेगी।
19 क्योंकि यहोवा ने अपने ऊंचे और पवित्र स्थान से दृष्टि करके स्वर्ग से पृथ्वी की ओर देखा है,
20 ताकि बन्धुओं का कराहना सुने, और घात होन वालों के बन्धन खोले;
21 और सिय्योन में यहोवा के नाम का वर्णन किया जाए, और यरूशलेम में उसकी स्तुति की जाए;
22 यह उस समय होगा जब देश देश, और राज्य राज्य के लोग यहोवा की उपासना करने को इकट्ठे होंगे॥
23 उसने मुझे जीवन यात्रा में दु:ख देकर, मेरे बल और आयु को घटाया।
24 मैं ने कहा, हे मेरे ईश्वर, मुझे आधी आयु में न उठा ले, मेरे वर्ष पीढ़ी से पीढ़ी तक बने रहेंगे!
25 आदि में तू ने पृथ्वी की नेव डाली, और आकाश तेरे हाथों का बनाया हुआ है।
26 वह तो नाश होगा, परन्तु तू बना रहेगा; और वह सब कपड़े के समान पुराना हो जाएगा। तू उसको वस्त्र की नाईं बदलेगा, और वह तो बदल जाएगा;
27 परन्तु तू वहीं है, और तेरे वर्षों का अन्त नहीं होने का।
28 तेरे दासों की सन्तान बनी रहेगी; और उनका वंश तेरे साम्हने स्थिर रहेगा॥
1 A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the Lord.
2 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come unto thee.
3 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
4 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
5 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
6 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
7 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
8 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
9 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
10 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
11 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
12 My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
13 But thou, O Lord, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
14 Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
15 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.
16 So the heathen shall fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
17 When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
18 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
19 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord.
20 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the Lord behold the earth;
21 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
22 To declare the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
23 When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.
24 He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
25 I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
26 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
27 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
28 But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
29 The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.
1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
2 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the Lord.
3 He appointed also the king’s portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the Lord.
4 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the Lord.
5 And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.
6 And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the Lord their God, and laid them by heaps.
7 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the Lord, and his people Israel.
9 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
10 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the Lord, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the Lord hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.
11 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the Lord; and they prepared them,
12 And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.
13 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the Lord, and the most holy things.
15 And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:
16 Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house of the Lord, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;
17 Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;
18 And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:
19 Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.
20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the Lord his God.
21 And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.