Psalm 44

1 हे परमेश्वर हम ने अपने कानों से सुना, हमारे बापदादों ने हम से वर्णन किया है, कि तू ने उनके दिनों में और प्राचीनकाल में क्या क्या काम किए हैं।

2 तू ने अपने हाथ से जातियों को निकाल दिया, और इन को बसाया; तू ने देश देश के लोगों को दु:ख दिया, और इन को चारों ओर फैला दिया;

3 क्योंकि वे न तो अपनी तलवार के बल से इस देश के अधिकारी हुए, और न अपने बाहुबल से; परन्तु तेरे दाहिने हाथ और तेरी भुजा और तेरे प्रसन्न मुख के कारण जयवन्त हुए; क्योंकि तू उन को चाहता था॥

4 हे परमेश्वर, तू ही हमारा महाराजा है, तू याकूब के उद्धार की आज्ञा देता है।

5 तेरे सहारे से हम अपने द्रोहियों को ढकेलकर गिरा देंगे; तेरे नाम के प्रताप से हम अपने विरोधियों को रौंदेंगे।

6 क्योंकि मैं अपने धनुष पर भरोसा न रखूंगा, और न अपनी तलवार के बल से बचूंगा।

7 परन्तु तू ही ने हम को द्रोहियोंसे बचाया है, और हमारे बैरियों को निराश और लज्जित किया है।

8 हम परमेश्वर की बड़ाई दिन भर करते रहते हैं, और सदैव तेरे नाम का धन्यवाद करते रहेंगे॥

9 तौभी तू ने अब हम को त्याग दिया और हमारा अनादर किया है, और हमारे दलों के साथ आगे नहीं जाता।

10 तू हम को शत्रु के साम्हने से हटा देता है, और हमारे बैरी मनमाने लूट मार करते हैं।

11 तू ने हमें कसाई की भेडों के समान कर दिया है, और हम को अन्य जातियों में तित्तर बित्तर किया है।

12 तू अपनी प्रजा को सेंत मेंत बेच डालता है, परन्तु उनके मोल से तू धनी नहीं होता॥

13 तू हमारे पड़ोसियों में हमारी नामधराई कराता है, और हमारे चारों ओर से रहने वाले हम से हंसी ठट्ठा करते हैं।

14 तू हम को अन्यजातियों के बीच में उपमा ठहराता है, और देश देश के लोग हमारे कारण सिर हिलाते हैं। दिन भर हमें तिरस्कार सहना पड़ता है,

15 और कलंक लगाने और निन्दा करने वाले के बोल से,

16 और शत्रु और बदला लेने वालों के कारण, बुरा- भला कहने वालों और निन्दा करने वालों के कारण।

17 यह सब कुछ हम पर बीता तौभी हम तुझे नहीं भूले, न तेरी वाचा के विषय विश्वासघात किया है।

18 हमारे मन न बहके, न हमारे पैर तरी बाट से मुड़े;

19 तौभी तू ने हमें गीदड़ों के स्थान में पीस डाला, और हम को घोर अन्धकार में छिपा दिया है॥

20 यदि हम अपने परमेश्वर का नाम भूल जाते, वा किसी पराए देवता की ओर अपने हाथ फैलाते,

21 तो क्या परमेश्वर इसका विचार न करता? क्योंकि वह तो मन की गुप्त बातों को जानता है।

22 परन्तु हम दिन भर तेरे निमित्त मार डाले जाते हैं, और उन भेड़ों के समान समझे जाते हैं जो वध होने पर हैं॥

23 हे प्रभु, जाग! तू क्यों सोता है? उठ! हम को सदा के लिये त्याग न दे!

24 तू क्यों अपना मुंह छिपा लेता है? और हमारा दु:ख और सताया जाना भूल जाता है?

25 हमारा प्राण मिट्टी से लग गया; हमारा पेट भूमि से सट गया है।

26 हमारी सहायता के लिये उठ खड़ा हो! और अपनी करूणा के निमित्त हम को छुड़ा ले॥

1 To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.

2 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

3 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.

4 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

5 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

6 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

7 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

8 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.

9 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.

10 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

11 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

12 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

13 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.

14 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

15 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

16 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

17 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.

18 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

19 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

20 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

21 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

22 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

23 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

24 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

25 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

26 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

27 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake.

1 In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them,

2 I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:

3 And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.

4 And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?

5 And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.

6 And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people.

7 And they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded to set them also before them.

8 So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets.

9 And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and he sent them away.

10 And straightway he entered into a ship with his disciples, and came into the parts of Dalmanutha.

11 And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.

12 And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.

13 And he left them, and entering into the ship again departed to the other side.

14 Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf.

15 And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.

16 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread.

17 And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?

18 Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?

19 When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.

20 And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.

21 And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?

22 And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.

23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.

24 And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.

25 After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.

26 And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town.

27 And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?

28 And they answered, John the Baptist: but some say, Elias; and others, One of the prophets.

29 And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.

30 And he charged them that they should tell no man of him.

31 And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

32 And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.

33 But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.

34 And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.

36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

38 Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.