Psalm 73
1 सचमुच इस्त्राएल के लिये अर्थात शुद्ध मन वालों के लिये परमेश्वर भला है।
2 मेरे डग तो उखड़ना चाहते थे, मेरे डग फिसलने ही पर थे।
3 क्योंकि जब मैं दुष्टों का कुशल देखता था, तब उन घमण्डियों के विषय डाह करता था॥
4 क्योंकि उनकी मृत्यु में वेदनाएं नहीं होतीं, परन्तु उनका बल अटूट रहता है।
5 उन को दूसरे मनुष्यों की नाईं कष्ट नहीं होता; और और मनुष्यों के समान उन पर विपत्ति नहीं पड़ती।
6 इस कारण अहंकार उनके गले का हार बना है; उनका ओढ़ना उपद्रव है।
7 उनकी आंखें चर्बी से झलकती हैं, उनके मन की भवनाएं उमण्डती हैं।
8 वे ठट्ठा मारते हैं, और दुष्टता से अन्धेर की बात बोलते हैं;
9 वे डींग मारते हैं। वे मानों स्वर्ग में बैठे हुए बोलते हैं, और वे पृथ्वी में बोलते फिरते हैं॥
10 तौभी उसकी प्रजा इधर लौट आएगी, और उन को भरे हुए प्याले का जल मिलेगा।
11 फिर वे कहते हैं, ईश्वर कैसे जानता है? क्या परमप्रधान को कुछ ज्ञान है?
12 देखो, ये तो दुष्ट लोग हैं; तौभी सदा सुभागी रहकर, धन सम्पत्ति बटोरते रहते हैं।
13 निश्चय, मैं ने अपने हृदय को व्यर्थ शुद्ध किया और अपने हाथों को निर्दोषता में धोया है;
14 क्योंकि मैं दिन भर मार खाता आया हूं और प्रति भोर को मेरी ताड़ना होती आई है॥
15 यदि मैं ने कहा होता कि मैं ऐसा ही कहूंगा, तो देख मैं तेरे लड़कों की सन्तान के साथ क्रूरता का व्यवहार करता,
16 जब मैं सोचने लगा कि इसे मैं कैसे समझूं, तो यह मेरी दृष्टि में अति कठिन समस्या थी,
17 जब तक कि मैं ने ईश्वर के पवित्र स्थान में जाकर उन लोगों के परिणाम को न सोचा।
18 निश्चय तू उन्हें फिसलने वाले स्थानों में रखता है; और गिराकर सत्यानाश कर देता है।
19 अहा, वे क्षण भर में कैसे उजड़ गए हैं! वे मिट गए, वे घबराते घबराते नाश हो गए हैं।
20 जैसे जागने हारा स्वप्न को तुच्छ जानता है, वैसे ही हे प्रभु जब तू उठेगा, तब उन को छाया सा समझ कर तुच्छ जानेगा॥
21 मेरा मन तो चिड़चिड़ा हो गया, मेरा अन्त:करण छिद गया था,
22 मैं तो पशु सरीखा था, और समझता न था, मैं तेरे संग रह कर भी, पशु बन गया था।
23 तौभी मैं निरन्तर तेरे संग ही था; तू ने मेरे दाहिने हाथ को पकड़ रखा।
24 तू सम्मति देता हुआ, मेरी अगुवाई करेगा, और तब मेरी महिमा करके मुझ को अपने पास रखेगा।
25 स्वर्ग में मेरा और कौन है? तेरे संग रहते हुए मैं पृथ्वी पर और कुछ नहीं चाहता।
26 मेरे हृदय और मन दोनों तो हार गए हैं, परन्तु परमेश्वर सर्वदा के लिये मेरा भाग और मेरे हृदय की चट्टान बना है॥
27 जो तुझ से दूर रहते हैं वे तो नाश होंगे; जो कोई तेरे विरुद्ध व्यभिचार करता है, उसको तू विनाश करता है।
28 परन्तु परमेश्वर के समीप रहना, यही मेरे लिये भला है; मैं ने प्रभु यहोवा को अपना शरणस्थान माना है, जिस से मैं तेरे सब कामों का वर्णन करूं॥
1 A Psalm of Asaph.
2 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
3 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
4 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
5 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
6 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
7 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
8 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
9 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
10 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
11 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
12 And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
13 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
14 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
15 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
16 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
17 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
18 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
19 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
20 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
21 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
22 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
23 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
24 Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.
25 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
26 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
27 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
28 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
29 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy works.
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.