Mezmurlar 54

¹Son için, ilahiler eşliğinde; Davutun bilgelik ezgisi.

²Kulak ver duama ey Tanrı ve yakarışımı görmezden gelme.

³Bana yönel ve beni işit; kederli düşüncelerim içinde acı çektim ve sarsıldım.

⁴Düşmanın sesinden ve günahkarın baskısından ötürü; çünkü üzerime hukuksuzluk eğdiler ve öfkeyle bana hınç beslediler.

⁵Yüreğim içimde çalkalandı ve ölümün dehşeti üzerime çöktü.

⁶Korku ve titreme geldi üzerime ve beni karanlık kapladı.

⁷Ve dedim ki: Keşke bir güvercininki gibi kanatlarım olsaydı da uçup gitseydim ve huzura erseydim!

⁸İşte, kaçarak uzaklaştım ve çölde konakladım.

⁹Beni ruh daralmasından ve fırtınadan kurtaracak olanı umutla bekliyordum.

¹⁰Onları sulara göm ey Rab ve dillerini böl; çünkü şehirde hukuksuzluk ve çekişme gördüm.

¹¹Gece gündüz surların üzerinde dolanırlar onun çevresinde; kötülük ve sıkıntı var onun ortasında.

¹²Ve adaletsizlik; meydanlarından faiz ve hile eksilmedi.

¹³Çünkü beni aşağılayan bir düşman olsaydı katlanırdım; ve benden nefret eden bana karşı böbürlenseydi ondan gizlenirdim.

¹⁴Ama sendin bu, ey benimle aynı ruh yapısında olan insan, rehberim ve sırdaşım!

¹⁵Ki sen benimle birlikte yemekleri tatlılaştırdın; Tanrının evinde fikir birliği içinde yürüdük.

¹⁶Ölüm gelsin onların üzerine ve diri diri hadese insinler; çünkü kötülük onların konutlarında, onların içindedir.

¹⁷Ben ise Tanrıya haykırdım ve Rab beni işitti.

¹⁸Akşam, sabah ve öğlen durumumu anlatıp bildireceğim ve O sesimi işitecek.

¹⁹Canımı bana yaklaşanlardan esenlikle kurtaracak; çünkü çoklar halinde benimle birlikteydiler.

²⁰Tanrı işitecek ve onları alçaltacak, çağlardan önce var olan O. Çünkü onlar için bir değişim yoktur ve Tanrıdan korkmadılar.

²¹Elini cezalandırmak için uzattı; onun antlaşmasını kirlettiler.

²²Onun yüzünün öfkesinden bölündüler ve yürekleri yaklaştı; sözleri zeytinyağından daha yumuşaktı ama kendileri fırlatılan oklardır.

²³Kaygını Rabbin üzerine at ve O seni besleyip destekleyecektir; doğru insanın sonsuza dek sarsılmasına izin vermeyecektir.

²⁴Ama sen ey Tanrı, onları çürüme kuyusuna indireceksin; eli kanlı ve hilekar adamlar ömürlerinin günlerini yarılamayacaklar; ben ise ey Rab, sana güveneceğim.

¹Εἰς τὸ τέλος, ἐν ὕμνοις· συνέσεως τῷ Δαυΐδ. -

²ΕΝΩΤΙΣΑΙ, ὁ Θεός, τὴν προσευχήν μου καὶ μὴ ὑπερίδῃς τὴν δέησίν μου,

³πρόσχες μοι καὶ εἰσάκουσόν μου. ἐλυπήθην ἐν τῇ ἀδολεσχίᾳ μου καὶ ἐταράχθην

⁴ἀπὸ φωνῆς ἐχθροῦ καὶ ἀπὸ θλίψεως ἁμαρτωλοῦ, ὅτι ἐξέκλιναν ἐπ᾿ ἐμὲ ἀνομίαν καὶ ἐν ὀργῇ ἐνεκότουν μοι.

⁵ἡ καρδία μου ἐταράχθη ἐν ἐμοί, καὶ δειλία θανάτου ἐπέπεσεν ἐπ᾿ ἐμέ·

⁶φόβος καὶ τρόμος ἦλθεν ἐπ᾿ ἐμέ, καὶ ἐκάλυψέ με σκότος.

⁷καὶ εἶπα· τίς δώσει μοι πτέρυγας ὡσεὶ περιστερᾶς καὶ πετασθήσομαι καὶ καταπαύσω;

⁸ἰδοὺ ἐμάκρυνα φυγαδεύων καὶ ηὐλίσθην ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ. (διάψαλμα).

⁹προσεδεχόμην τὸν σῴζοντά με, ἀπὸ ὀλιγοψυχίας καὶ ἀπὸ καταιγίδος.

¹⁰καταπόντισον, Κύριε, καὶ καταδίελε τὰς γλώσσας αὐτῶν, ὅτι εἶδον ἀνομίαν καὶ ἀντιλογίαν ἐν τῇ πόλει.

¹¹ἡμέρας καὶ νυκτὸς κυκλώσει αὐτὴν ἐπὶ τὰ τείχη αὐτῆς, καὶ ἀνομία καὶ κόπος ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῆς

¹²καὶ ἀδικία, καὶ οὐκ ἐξέλιπεν ἐκ τῶν πλατειῶν αὐτῆς τόκος καὶ δόλος.

¹³ὅτι εἰ ἐχθρὸς ὠνείδισέ με, ὑπήνεγκα ἄν, καὶ εἰ ὁ μισῶν ἐπ᾿ ἐμὲ ἐμεγαλορρημόνησεν, ἐκρύβην ἂν ἀπ᾿ αὐτοῦ.

¹⁴σὺ δέ, ἄνθρωπε ἰσόψυχε, ἡγεμών μου καὶ γνωστέ μου,

¹⁵ὃς ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ ἐγλύκανάς μοι ἐδέσματα, ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐπορεύθην ἐν ὁμονοίᾳ.

¹⁶ἐλθέτω δὴ θάνατος ἐπ᾿ αὐτούς, καὶ καταβήτωσαν εἰς ᾅδου ζῶντες· ὅτι πονηρία ἐν ταῖς παροικίαις αὐτῶν ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῶν.

¹⁷ἐγὼ πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν ἐκέκραξα, καὶ ὁ Κύριος εἰσήκουσέ μου.

¹⁸ἑσπέρας καὶ πρωΐ καὶ μεσημβρίας διηγήσομαι καὶ ἀπαγγελῶ, καὶ εἰσακούσεται τῆς φωνῆς μου.

¹⁹λυτρώσεται ἐν εἰρήνῃ τὴν ψυχήν μου ἀπὸ τῶν ἐγγιζόντων μοι, ὅτι ἐν πολλοῖς ἦσαν σὺν ἐμοί.

²⁰εἰσακούσεται ὁ Θεὸς καὶ ταπεινώσει αὐτοὺς ὁ ὑπάρχων πρὸ τῶν αἰώνων. (διάψαλμα). οὐ γάρ ἐστιν αὐτοῖς ἀντάλλαγμα, ὅτι οὐκ ἐφοβήθησαν τὸν Θεόν.

²¹ἐξέτεινε τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ ἀποδιδόναι· ἐβεβήλωσαν τὴν διαθήκην αὐτοῦ.

²²διεμερίσθησαν ἀπὸ ὀργῆς τοῦ προσώπου αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἤγγισαν αἱ καρδίαι αὐτῶν· ἡπαλύνθησαν οἱ λόγοι αὐτοῦ ὑπὲρ ἔλαιον, καὶ αὐτοί εἰσι βολίδες.

²³ἐπίρριψον ἐπὶ Κύριον τὴν μέριμνάν σου, καὶ αὐτός σε διαθρέψει· οὐ δώσει εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα σάλον τῷ δικαίῳ.

²⁴σὺ δέ, ὁ Θεός, κατάξεις αὐτοὺς εἰς φρέαρ διαφθορᾶς· ἄνδρες αἱμάτων καὶ δολιότητος οὐ μὴ ἡμισεύσωσι τὰς ἡμέρας αὐτῶν, ἐγὼ δέ, Κύριε, ἐλπιῶ ἐπὶ σέ.

¹[For the end, among Hymns of instruction by David.]

²Hearken, O God, to my prayer; and disregard not my supplication.

³Attend to me, and hearken to me: I was grieved in my meditation, and troubled;

⁴because of the voice of the enemy, and because of the oppression of the sinner: for they brought iniquity against me, and were wrathfully angry with me.

⁵My heart was troubled within me; and the fear of death fell upon me.

⁶Fear and trembling came upon me, and darkness covered me.

⁷And I said, O that I had wings as [those] of a dove! then would I flee away, and be at rest.

⁸Lo! I have fled afar off, and lodged in the wilderness. Pause.

⁹I waited for him that should deliver me from distress of spirit and tempest.

¹⁰Destroy, O LORD, and divide their tongues: for I have seen iniquity and gainsaying in the city.

¹¹Day and night he shall go round about it upon its walls: iniquity and sorrow and unrighteousness [are] in the midst of it;

¹²and usury and craft have not failed from its streets.

¹³For if an enemy had reproached me, I would have endured it; and if one who hated [me] had spoken vauntingly against me, I would have hid myself from him.

¹⁴But thou, O man like minded, my guide, and my acquaintance,

¹⁵who in companionship with me sweetened [our] food: we walked in the house of God in concord.

¹⁶Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into Hades, for iniquity is in their dwellings, in the midst of them.

¹⁷I cried to God, and the Lord hearkened to me.

¹⁸Evening, and morning, and at noon I will declare and make known [my wants]: and he shall hear my voice.

¹⁹He shall deliver my soul in peace from them that draw nigh to me: for they were with me in many [cases].

²⁰God shall hear, and bring them low, [even] he that has existed from eternity. Pause. For they suffer no reverse, and [therefore] they have not feared God.

²¹He has reached forth his hand for retribution; they have profaned his covenant.

²²They were scattered at the anger of his countenance, and his heart drew nigh them. His words were smoother than oil, yet are they darts.

²³Cast thy care upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee; he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

²⁴But thou, O God, shalt bring them down to the pit of destruction; bloody and crafty men shall not live out half their days; but I will hope in thee, O Lord.