Psalm 116
1 मैं प्रेम रखता हूं, इसलिये कि यहोवा ने मेरे गिड़गिड़ाने को सुना है।
2 उसने जो मेरी ओर कान लगाया है, इसलिये मैं जीवन भर उसको पुकारा करूंगा।
3 मृत्यु की रस्सियां मेरे चारोंओर थीं; मैं अधोलोक की सकेती में पड़ा था; मुझे संकट और शोक भोगना पड़ा।
4 तब मैं ने यहोवा से प्रार्थना की, कि हे यहोवा बिनती सुन कर मेरे प्राण को बचा ले!
5 यहोवा अनुग्रहकारी और धर्मी है; और हमारा परमेश्वर दया करने वाला है।
6 यहोवा भोलों की रक्षा करता है; जब मैं बलहीन हो गया था, उसने मेरा उद्धार किया।
7 हे मेरे प्राण तू अपने विश्राम स्थान में लौट आ; क्योंकि यहोवा ने तेरा उपकार किया है॥
8 तू ने तो मेरे प्राण को मृत्यु से, मेरी आंख को आंसू बहाने से, और मेरे पांव को ठोकर खाने से बचाया है।
9 मैं जीवित रहते हुए, अपने को यहोवा के साम्हने जान कर नित चलता रहूंगा।
10 मैं ने जो ऐसा कहा है, इसे विश्वास की कसौटी पर कस कर कहा है, कि मैं तो बहुत ही दु:खित हुआ;
11 मैं ने उतावली से कहा, कि सब मनुष्य झूठे हैं॥
12 यहोवा ने मेरे जितने उपकार किए हैं, उनका बदला मैं उसको क्या दूं?
13 मैं उद्धार का कटोरा उठा कर, यहोवा से प्रार्थना करूंगा,
14 मैं यहोवा के लिये अपनी मन्नतें सभों की दृष्टि में प्रगट रूप में उसकी सारी प्रजा के साम्हने पूरी करूंगा।
15 यहोवा के भक्तों की मृत्यु, उसकी दृष्टि में अनमोल है।
16 हे यहोवा, सुन, मैं तो तेरा दास हूं; मैं तेरा दास, और तेरी दासी का पुत्र हूं। तू ने मेरे बन्धन खोल दिए हैं।
17 मैं तुझ को धन्यवाद बलि चढ़ाऊंगा, और यहोवा से प्रार्थना करूंगा।
18 मैं यहोवा के लिये अपनी मन्नतें, प्रगट में उसकी सारी प्रजा के साम्हने
19 यहोवा के भवन के आंगनों में, हे यरूशलेम, तेरे भीतर पूरी करूंगा। याह की स्तुति करो!
1 I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.
2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.
3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
4 Then called I upon the name of the Lord; O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
5 Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.
6 The Lord preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.
7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.
8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
9 I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.
10 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.
12 What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me?
13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord.
14 I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people.
15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
16 O Lord, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the Lord.
18 I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people,
19 In the courts of the Lord’s house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye 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.