Psalm 107
1 यहोवा का धन्यवाद करो, क्योंकि वह भला है; और उसकी करूणा सदा की है!
2 यहोवा के छुड़ाए हुए ऐसा ही कहें, जिन्हें उसने द्रोही के हाथ से दाम दे कर छुड़ा लिया है,
3 और उन्हें देश देश से पूरब- पश्चिम, उत्तर और दक्खिन से इकट्ठा किया है॥
4 वे जंगल में मरूभूमि के मार्ग पर भटकते फिरे, और कोई बसा हुआ नगर न पाया;
5 भूख और प्यास के मारे, वे विकल हो गए।
6 तब उन्होंने संकट में यहोवा की दोहाई दी, और उसने उन को सकेती से छुड़ाया;
7 और उन को ठीक मार्ग पर चलाया, ताकि वे बसने के लिये किसी नगर को जा पहुंचे।
8 लोग यहोवा की करूणा के कारण, और उन आश्चर्यकर्मों के कारण, जो वह मनुष्यों के लिये करता है, उसका धन्यवाद करें!
9 क्योंकि वह अभिलाषी जीव को सन्तुष्ट करता है, और भूखे को उत्तम पदार्थों से तृप्त करता है॥
10 जो अन्धियारे और मृत्यु की छाया में बैठे, और दु:ख में पड़े और बेड़ियों से जकड़े हुए थे,
11 इसलिये कि वे ईश्वर के वचनों के विरुद्ध चले, और परमप्रधान की सम्मति को तुच्छ जाना।
12 तब उसने उन को कष्ट के द्वारा दबाया; वे ठोकर खाकर गिर पड़े, और उन को कोई सहायक न मिला।
13 तब उन्होंने संकट में यहोवा की दोहाई दी, और उस ने सकेती से उनका उद्धार किया;
14 उसने उन को अन्धियारे और मृत्यु की छाया में से निकाल लिया; और उन के बन्धनों को तोड़ डाला।
15 लोग यहोवा की करूणा के कारण, और उन आश्चर्यकर्मों के कारण जो वह मनुष्यों के लिये करता है, उसका धन्यवाद करें!
16 क्योंकि उसने पीतल के फाटकों को तोड़ा, और लोहे के बेण्डों को टुकड़े टुकड़े किया॥
17 मूढ़ अपनी कुचाल, और अधर्म के कामों के कारण अति दु:खित होते हैं।
18 उनका जी सब भांति के भोजन से मिचलाता है, और वे मृत्यु के फाटक तक पहुंचते हैं।
19 तब वे संकट में यहोवा की दोहाई देते हैं, और व सकेती से उनका उद्धार करता है;
20 वह अपने वचन के द्वारा उन को चंगा करता और जिस गड़हे में वे पड़े हैं, उससे निकालता है।
21 लोग यहोवा की करूणा के कारण और उन आश्चर्यकर्मों के कारण जो वह मनुष्यों के लिये करता है, उसका धन्यवाद करें!
22 और वे धन्यवाद बलि चढ़ाएं, और जयजयकार करते हुए, उसके कामों का वर्णन करें॥
23 जो लोग जहाजों में समुद्र पर चलते हैं, और महासागर पर होकर व्यापार करते हैं;
24 वे यहोवा के कामों को, और उन आश्चर्यकर्मों को जो वह गहिरे समुद्र में करता है, देखते हैं।
25 क्योंकि वह आज्ञा देता है, वह प्रचण्ड बयार उठकर तरंगों को उठाती है।
26 वे आकाश तक चढ़ जाते, फिर गहराई में उतर आते हैं; और क्लेश के मारे उनके जी में जी नहीं रहता;
27 वे चक्कर खाते, और मत वाले की नाईं लड़खड़ाते हैं, और उनकी सारी बुद्धि मारी जाती है।
28 तब वे संकट में यहोवा की दोहाई देते हैं, और वह उन को सकेती से निकालता है।
29 वह आंधी को थाम देता है और तरंगें बैठ जाती हैं।
30 तब वे उनके बैठने से आनन्दित होते हैं, और वह उन को मन चाहे बन्दर स्थान में पहुंचा देता है।
31 लोग यहोवा की करूणा के कारण, और उन आश्चर्यकर्मों के कारण जो वह मनुष्यों के लिये करता है, उसका धन्यवाद करें।
32 और सभा में उसको सराहें, और पुरनियों के बैठक में उसकी स्तुति करें॥
33 वह नदियों को जंगल बना डालता है, और जल के सोतों को सूखी भूमि कर देता है।
34 वह फलवन्त भूमि को नोनी करता है, यह वहां के रहने वालों की दुष्टता के कारण होता है।
35 वह जंगल को जल का ताल, और निर्जल देश को जल के सोते कर देता है।
36 और वहां वह भूखों को बसाता है, कि वे बसने के लिये नगर तैयार करें;
37 और खेती करें, और दाख की बारियां लगाएं, और भांति भांति के फल उपजा लें।
38 और वह उन को ऐसी आशीष देता है कि वे बहुत बढ़ जाते हैं, और उनके पशुओं को भी वह घटने नहीं देता॥
39 फिर अन्धेर, विपत्ति और शोक के कारण, वे घटते और दब जाते हैं।
40 और वह हाकिमों को अपमान से लाद कर मार्ग रहित जंगल में भटकाता है;
41 वह दरिद्रों को दु:ख से छुड़ा कर ऊंचे पर रखता है, और उन को भेड़ों के झुंड सा परिवार देता है।
42 सीधे लोग देख कर आनन्दित होते हैं; और सब कुटिल लोग अपने मुंह बन्द करते हैं।
43 जो कोई बुद्धिमान हो, वह इन बातों पर ध्यान करेगा; और यहोवा की करूणा के कामों पर ध्यान करेगा॥
1 O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
2 Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.
4 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
6 Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
7 And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
8 Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
9 For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
13 Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
15 Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
17 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
18 Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
19 Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.
20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
21 Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.
23 They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;
24 These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
25 For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
26 They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.
28 Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
29 He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
30 Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
31 Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
32 Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
35 He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;
37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.
38 He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
39 Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
40 He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
41 Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
42 The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
43 Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the Lord.
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.