Mezmurlar 108

¹Son için; Davut'un bir mezmuru. Ey Tanrı, hamt ilahime sessiz kalma!

²Çünkü üzerime günahkarın ve hilekarın ağzı açıldı; bana karşı aldatıcı bir dille konuştular.

³Beni nefret sözleriyle kuşattılar ve benimle sebepsiz yere savaştılar.

⁴Sevgime karşılık bana iftiralar yağdırdılar, bense sürekli dua ediyordum.

⁵İyiliğimin yerine bana kötülük, sevgimin yerine ise nefret yüklediler.

⁶Onun üzerine günahkar birini yetkilendir ve sağında bir suçlayıcı dursun.

⁷Yargılandığı zaman mahkum edilmiş olarak çıksın ve duası bile günaha dönüşsün.

⁸Günleri azalsın ve onun gözetmenlik makamını bir başkası devralsın.

⁹Oğulları öksüz, karısı ise dul kalsın.

¹⁰Oğulları serserice dolaşıp dilensinler ve harap olmuş yurtlarından dışarı atılsınlar.

¹¹Alacaklısı onun olan her şeyi didik didik edip arasın ve yabancılar onun emeğini yağmalasın.

¹²Onun elinden tutacak kimse bulunmasın, öksüz kalan çocuklarına acıyan olmasın.

¹³Soyu yok oluşa sürüklensin, tek bir kuşak sonra adı tamamen silinsin.

¹⁴Babalarının yasasızlığı Rab'bin önünde anılsın ve annesinin günahı asla silinmesin.

¹⁵Bunlar her zaman Rab'bin huzurunda dursun ve onların hatırası yeryüzünden yok edilsin.

¹⁶Çünkü o merhamet etmeyi hatırlamadı; aksine yoksulu, muhtacı ve yüreği kederle sarsılmış olanı öldürmek için amansızca kovaladı.

¹⁷Laneti sevdi, lanet başına gelecektir; kutsamayı istemedi, kutsama ondan uzak kalacaktır.

¹⁸Laneti bir elbise gibi giydi; lanet, su gibi iç organlarına ve zeytinyağı gibi kemiklerine işledi.

¹⁹Bu lanet onun için örtündüğü bir elbise ve her zaman beline bağladığı bir kuşak gibi olsun.

²⁰Beni suçlayanların ve ruhuma karşı şer konuşanların Rab katından alacağı karşılık bu olsun.

²¹Ama sen, ey Rab, ey Rab, adın uğruna bana lütufta bulun; çünkü senin merhametin iyidir, kurtar beni.

²²Çünkü ben muhtaç ve yoksulum, yüreğim içimde dehşetle sarsıldı.

²³Uzayıp giden bir gölge gibi silinip gittim, bir çekirge gibi üzerimden silkelendim.

²⁴Oruç tutmaktan dizlerim dermansız kaldı, bedenim yağsızlıktan çöktü.

²⁵Onlar için bir utanç kaynağı oldum; beni gördüklerinde başlarını sallıyorlar.

²⁶Yardım et bana, ey Rab Tanrım! Merhametin uyarınca kurtar beni.

²⁷Bilsinler ki bu senin elindir ve bunu yapan sensin, ey Rab!

²⁸Onlar lanetlesin, ama sen kutsa; bana karşı ayaklananlar utandırılsın, senin kulun ise sevinsin.

²⁹Beni suçlayanlar utanç giysinler, rezilliklerini çift katlı bir pelerin gibi üzerlerine kuşansınlar.

³⁰Ağzımla Rab'be son derece şükredeceğim, kalabalığın ortasında O'na övgüler sunacağım.

³¹Çünkü O, ruhumu amansızca kovalayanlardan kurtarmak için yoksulun sağında durmuştur.

¹Εἰς τὸ τέλος· ψαλμὸς τῷ Δαυΐδ. - Ο Θεός, τὴν αἴνεσίν μου μὴ παρασιωπήσῃς,

²ὅτι στόμα ἁμαρτωλοῦ καὶ στόμα δολίου ἐπ᾿ ἐμὲ ἠνοίχθη, ἐλάλησαν κατ᾿ ἐμοῦ γλώσσῃ δολίᾳ

³καὶ λόγοις μίσους ἐκύκλωσάν με καὶ ἐπολέμησάν με δωρεάν.

⁴ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀγαπᾶν με ἐνδιέβαλλόν με, ἐγὼ δὲ προσηυχόμην·

⁵καὶ ἔθεντο κατ᾿ ἐμοῦ κακὰ ἀντὶ ἀγαθῶν καὶ μῖσος ἀντὶ τῆς ἀγαπήσεώς μου.

⁶κατάστησον ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸν ἁμαρτωλόν, καὶ διάβολος στήτω ἐκ δεξιῶν αὐτοῦ·

⁷ἐν τῷ κρίνεσθαι αὐτὸν ἐξέλθοι καταδεδικασμένος, καὶ ἡ προσευχὴ αὐτοῦ γενέσθω εἰς ἁμαρτίαν.

⁸γενηθήτωσαν αἱ ἡμέραι αὐτοῦ ὀλίγαι, καὶ τὴν ἐπισκοπὴν αὐτοῦ λάβοι ἕτερος.

⁹γενηθήτωσαν οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτοῦ ὀρφανοὶ καὶ ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ χήρα·

¹⁰σαλευόμενοι μεταναστήτωσαν οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐπαιτησάτωσαν, ἐκβληθήτωσαν ἐκ τῶν οἰκοπέδων αὐτῶν.

¹¹ἐξερευνησάτω δανειστὴς πάντα, ὅσα ὑπάρχει αὐτῷ, καὶ διαρπασάτωσαν ἀλλότριοι τοὺς πόνους αὐτοῦ·

¹²μὴ ὑπαρξάτω αὐτῷ ἀντιλήπτωρ, μηδὲ γενηθήτω οἰκτίρμων τοῖς ὀρφανοῖς αὐτοῦ·

¹³γενηθήτω τὰ τέκνα αὐτοῦ εἰς ἐξολόθρευσιν, ἐν γενεᾷ μιᾷ ἐξαλειφθείη τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ.

¹⁴ἀναμνησθείη ἡ ἀνομία τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ ἔναντι Κυρίου, καὶ ἡ ἁμαρτία τῆς μητρὸς αὐτοῦ μὴ ἐξαλειφθείη·

¹⁵γενηθήτωσαν ἐναντίον Κυρίου διαπαντός, καὶ ἐξολοθρευθείη ἐκ γῆς τὸ μνημόσυνον αὐτῶν,

¹⁶ἀνθ᾿ ὧν οὐκ ἐμνήσθη ποιῆσαι ἔλεος καὶ κατεδίωξεν ἄνθρωπον πένητα καὶ πτωχὸν καὶ κατανενυγμένον τῇ καρδίᾳ τοῦ θανατῶσαι.

¹⁷καὶ ἠγάπησε κατάραν, καὶ ἥξει αὐτῷ· καὶ οὐκ ἠθέλησεν εὐλογίαν, καὶ μακρυνθήσεται ἀπ᾿ αὐτοῦ.

¹⁸καὶ ἐνεδύσατο κατάραν ὡς ἱμάτιον, καὶ εἰσῆλθεν ὡσεὶ ὕδωρ εἰς τὰ ἔγκατα αὐτοῦ καὶ ὡσεὶ ἔλαιον ἐν τοῖς ὀστέοις αὐτοῦ.

¹⁹γενηθήτω αὐτῷ ὡς ἱμάτιον, ὃ περιβάλλεται, καὶ ὡσεὶ ζώνη, ἣν διαπαντὸς περιζώννυται.

²⁰τοῦτο τὸ ἔργον τῶν ἐνδιαβαλλόντων με παρὰ Κυρίου καὶ τῶν λαλούντων πονηρὰ κατὰ τῆς ψυχῆς μου.

²¹καὶ σύ, Κύριε Κύριε, ποίησον μετ᾿ ἐμοῦ ἕνεκεν τοῦ ὀνόματός σου, ὅτι χρηστὸν τὸ ἔλεός σου. ῥῦσαί με,

²²ὅτι πτωχὸς καὶ πένης εἰμὶ ἐγώ, καὶ ἡ καρδία μου τετάρακται ἐντός μου.

²³ὡσεὶ σκιὰ ἐν τῷ ἐκκλῖναι αὐτὴν ἀντανῃρέθην, ἐξετινάχθην ὡσεὶ ἀκρίδες.

²⁴τὰ γόνατά μου ἠσθένησαν ἀπὸ νηστείας, καὶ ἡ σάρξ μου ἠλλοιώθη δι᾿ ἔλαιον.

²⁵κἀγὼ ἐγενήθην ὄνειδος αὐτοῖς· εἴδοσάν με, ἐσάλευσαν κεφαλὰς αὐτῶν.

²⁶βοήθησόν μοι, Κύριε ὁ Θεός μου, καὶ σῶσόν με κατὰ τὸ ἔλεός σου.

²⁷καὶ γνώτωσαν ὅτι ἡ χείρ σου αὕτη καὶ σύ, Κύριε, ἐποίησας αὐτήν.

²⁸καταράσονται αὐτοί, καὶ σὺ εὐλογήσεις· οἱ ἐπανιστάμενοί μοι αἰσχυνθήτωσαν, ὁ δὲ δοῦλός σου εὐφρανθήσεται.

²⁹ἐνδυσάσθωσαν οἱ ἐνδιαβάλλοντές με ἐντροπὴν καὶ περιβαλέσθωσαν ὡς διπλοΐδα αἰσχύνην αὐτῶν.

³⁰ἐξομολογήσομαι τῷ Κυρίῳ σφόδρα ἐν τῷ στόματί μου καὶ ἐν μέσῳ πολλῶν αἰνέσω αὐτόν,

³¹ὅτι παρέστη ἐκ δεξιῶν πένητος τοῦ σῶσαι ἐκ τῶν καταδιωκόντων τὴν ψυχήν μου.

¹[For the end, a Psalm of David.] O God, pass not over my praise in silence;

²for the mouth of the sinner and the mouth of the crafty [man] have been opened against me: they have spoken against me with a crafty tongue.

³And they have compassed me with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

⁴Instead of loving me, they falsely accused me: but I continued to pray.

⁵And they rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

⁶Set thou a sinner against him; and let the devil stand at his right hand.

⁷When he is judged, let him go forth condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

⁸Let his days be few: and let another take his office of overseer.

⁹Let his children be orphans, and his wife a widow.

¹⁰Let his children wander without a dwelling-place, and beg: let them be cast out of their habitations.

¹¹Let [his] creditor exact all that belongs to him: and let strangers spoil his labours.

¹²Let him have no helper; neither let there be any one to have compassion on his fatherless children.

¹³Let his children be [given up] to utter destruction: in one generation let his name be blotted out.

¹⁴Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

¹⁵Let them be before the Lord continually; and let their memorial be blotted out from the earth.

¹⁶Because he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the needy and poor man, and [that] to slay him that was pricked in the heart.

¹⁷He loved cursing also, and it shall come upon him; and he took not pleasure in blessing, so it shall be removed far from him.

¹⁸Yea, he put on cursing as a garment, and it is come as water into his bowels, and as oil into his bones.

¹⁹Let it be to him as a garment which he puts on, and as a girdle with which he girds himself continually.

²⁰This is the dealing of the Lord with those who falsely accuse me, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

²¹But thou, O Lord, Lord, deal [mercifully] with me, for thy name’s sake: for thy mercy is good.

²²Deliver me, for I am poor and needy; and my heart is troubled within me.

²³I am removed as a shadow in its going down: I am tossed up and down like locusts.

²⁴My knees are weakened through fasting, and my flesh is changed by reason of [the want of] oil.

²⁵I became also a reproach to them: [when] they saw me they shook their heads.

²⁶Help me, O Lord my God; and save me according to thy mercy.

²⁷And let them know that this is thy hand; and [that] thou, Lord, hast wrought it.

²⁸Let them curse, but thou shalt bless: let them that rise up against me be ashamed, but let thy servant rejoice.

²⁹Let those that falsely accuse me be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their shame as with a mantle.

³⁰I will give thanks to the Lord abundantly with my mouth; and in the midst of many I will praise him.

³¹For he stood on the right hand of the poor, to save [me] from them that persecute my soul.