¹Poučna pjesma. Asafova. Poslušaj, narode moj, moju nauku, prikloni uho riječima usta mojih!

¹{An instruction. Of Asaph.} Give ear, O my people, to my law; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

²Otvorit ću svoja usta na pouku, iznijet ću tajne iz vremena davnih.

²I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter riddles from of old,

³Ono što čusmo i saznasmo, što nam kazivahu oci,

³Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us:

⁴nećemo kriti djeci njihovoj, predat ćemo budućem koljenu: slavu Jahvinu i silu njegovu i djela čudesna što ih učini.

⁴We will not hide [them] from their sons, shewing forth to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength, and his marvellous works which he hath done.

⁵Svjedočanstvo podiže on u Jakovu, Zakon postavi u Izraelu, da ono što naredi ocima našim oni djeci svojoj objave,

⁵For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

⁶da sazna budući naraštaj, i sinovi koji će se roditi da djeci svojoj kazuju

⁶That the generation to come might know [them], the children that should be born; that they might rise up and tell [them] to their children,

⁷da u Boga ufanje svoje stave i ne zaborave djela Božjih, već da vrše zapovijedi njegove,

⁷And that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of ùGod, but observe his commandments;

⁸kako ne bi bili, kao oci njihovi, naraštaj buntovan, prkosan - naraštaj srcem nestalan i duhom Bogu nevjeran.

⁸And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not their heart, and whose spirit was not stedfast with ùGod.

⁹Sinovi Efrajimovi, ratnici s lukom, u dan bitke okrenuše leđa.

⁹The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle.

¹⁰Saveza s Bogom ne održaše i ne htjedoše hoditi po Zakonu njegovu.

¹⁰They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

¹¹Zaboraviše na djela njegova, na čudesa koja im pokaza.

¹¹And forgot his doings, and his marvellous works which he had shewn them.

¹²Pred njihovim ocima činio je znakove u Egiptu, u Soanskom polju.

¹²In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan.

¹³On more razdijeli i njih prevede, vode kao nasip uzdiže.

¹³He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and made the waters to stand as a heap;

¹⁴Danju ih vodio oblakom, a svu noć ognjem blistavim.

¹⁴And he led them with a cloud in the daytime, and all the night with the light of fire.

¹⁵U pustinji hrid prolomi i napoji ih obilno kao iz bezdana.

¹⁵He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as out of the depths, abundantly;

¹⁶Iz stijene izbi potoke te izvede vode k'o velike rijeke.

¹⁶And he brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

¹⁷A oni jednako griješiše, prkosiše Višnjem u pustinji.

¹⁷Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert;

¹⁸Boga su kušali u srcima svojim ištuć' jela svojoj pohlepnosti.

¹⁸And they tempted ùGod in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;

¹⁹Prigovarali su Bogu i pitali: "Može li Gospod stol u pustinji prostrti?

¹⁹And they spoke against God: they said, Is ùGod able to prepare a table in the wilderness?

²⁰Eno, udari u hrid, i voda poteče i provreše potoci: a može li dati i kruha, i mesa pružiti svome narodu?"

²⁰Behold, he smote the rock, and waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; is he able to give bread also, or provide flesh for his people?

²¹Kad to začu Jahve, gnjevom usplamtje: oganj se raspali protiv Jakova, srdžba se razjari protiv Izraela,

²¹Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; and fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel:

²²jer ne vjerovaše Bogu niti se u njegovu pomoć uzdaše.

²²Because they believed not in God, and confided not in his salvation;

²³Pa ozgo naredi oblaku i otvori brane nebeske,

²³Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of the heavens,

²⁴k'o kišu prosu na njih mÓanu da jedu i nahrani ih kruhom nebeskim.

²⁴And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the corn of the heavens.

²⁵Čovjek blagovaše kruh Jakih; on im dade hrane do sitosti.

²⁵Man did eat the bread of the mighty; he sent them provision to the full.

²⁶Probudi na nebu vjetar istočni i svojom silom južnjak dovede.

²⁶He caused the east wind to rise in the heavens, and by his strength he brought the south wind;

²⁷Prosu na njih mesa k'o prašine i ptice krilatice k'o pijeska morskoga.

²⁷And he rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowl as the sand of the seas,

²⁸Padoše usred njihova tabora i oko šatora njihovih.

²⁸And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations:

²⁹Jeli su i nasitili se, želju njihovu on im ispuni.

²⁹And they did eat, and were well filled; for that they lusted after, he brought to them.

³⁰Još nisu svoju utažili pohlepu i jelo im još bješe u ustima,

³⁰They were not alienated from their lust, their meat was yet in their mouths,

³¹kad se srdžba Božja na njih raspali: pokosi smrću prvake njihove i mladiće pobi Izraelove.

³¹When the anger of God went up against them; and he slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

³²Uza sve to griješiše dalje i ne vjerovaše u čudesna djela njegova.

³²For all this, they sinned still, and believed not in his marvellous works;

³³I skonča im dane jednim dahom i njihova ljeta naglim svršetkom.

³³And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

³⁴Kad ih ubijaše, tražiše ga i opet pitahu za Boga;

³⁴When he slew them, then they sought him, and returned and sought early after ùGod;

³⁵spominjahu se da je Bog hridina njihova i Svevišnji njihov otkupitelj.

³⁵And they remembered that God was their rock, and ùGod, the Most High, their redeemer.

³⁶Ali ga opet ustima svojim varahu i jezikom svojim lagahu njemu.

³⁶But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied unto him with their tongue;

³⁷Njihovo srce s njime ne bijaše, nit' bijahu vjerni Savezu njegovu.

³⁷For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

³⁸A on im milosrdno grijeh praštao i nije ih posmicao; često je gnjev svoj susprezao da ne plane svom jarošću.

³⁸But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed [them] not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury:

³⁹Spominjao se da su pÓut i dah koji odlazi i ne vraća se više.

³⁹And he remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passeth away and cometh not again.

⁴⁰Koliko mu prkosiše u pustinji i žalostiše ga u samotnom kraju!

⁴⁰How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

⁴¹Sve nanovo iskušavahu Boga i vrijeđahu Sveca Izraelova

⁴¹And they turned again and tempted ùGod, and grieved the Holy One of Israel.

⁴²ne spominjuć' se ruke njegove ni dana kad ih od dušmana izbavi,

⁴²They remembered not his hand, the day when he delivered them from the oppressor,

⁴³ni znakova njegovih u Egiptu, ni čudesnih djela u polju Soanskom.

⁴³How he set his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the field of Zoan;

⁴⁴U krv im pretvori rijeke i potoke, da ne piju.

⁴⁴And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink;

⁴⁵Posla na njih obade da ih žderu i žabe da ih more.

⁴⁵He sent dog-flies among them, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them;

⁴⁶I predade skakavcu žetvu njihovu, i plod muke njihove žderaču.

⁴⁶And he gave their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust;

⁴⁷Vinograde im tučom udari, a mrazom smokvike njihove.

⁴⁷He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with hail-stones;

⁴⁸I predade grÓadu njihova goveda i munjama stada njihova.

⁴⁸And he delivered up their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts.

⁴⁹Obori na njih svu žestinu gnjeva svog, jarost, bijes i nevolju: posla na njih anđele nesreće.

⁴⁹He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and distress, -- a mission of angels of woes.

⁵⁰I put gnjevu svojem otvori: ne poštedje im život od smrti, životinje im izruči pošasti.

⁵⁰He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

⁵¹Pobi u Egiptu sve prvorođeno, prvence u šatorju Hamovu.

⁵¹And he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the first-fruits of their vigour in the tents of Ham.

⁵²I povede narod svoj kao ovce i vođaše ih kao stado kroz pustinju.

⁵²And he made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

⁵³Pouzdano ih je vodio te se nisu bojali, a more je prekrilo dušmane njihove.

⁵³And he led them safely, so that they were without fear; and the sea covered their enemies.

⁵⁴U Svetu zemlju svoju on ih odvede, na bregove što mu ih osvoji desnica.

⁵⁴And he brought them to his holy border, this mountain, which his right hand purchased;

⁵⁵Pred njima istjera pogane, konopom im podijeli baštinu, pod šatorjem njihovim naseli plemena izraelska.

⁵⁵And he drove out the nations before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

⁵⁶A oni iskušavali i gnjevili Boga Višnjega i nisu držali zapovijedi njegovih.

⁵⁶But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,

⁵⁷Otpadoše, iznevjeriše se k'o oci njihovi, k'o luk nepouzdan oni zatajiše.

⁵⁷And they drew back and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow.

⁵⁸Na gnjev ga nagnaše svojim uzvišicama, na ljubomor navedoše kumirima svojim.

⁵⁸And they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

⁵⁹Bog vidje i gnjevom planu, odbaci posve Izraela.

⁵⁹God heard, and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

⁶⁰I napusti boravište svoje u Šilu, Šator u kojem prebivaše s ljudima.

⁶⁰And he forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he had dwelt among men,

⁶¹Preda u ropstvo snagu svoju i svoju diku u ruke dušmanske.

⁶¹And gave his strength into captivity, and his glory into the hand of the oppressor;

⁶²Narod svoj prepusti maču, raspali se na svoju baštinu.

⁶²And delivered up his people unto the sword, and was very wroth with his inheritance:

⁶³Mladiće njihove oganj proguta, ne udaše se djevice njihove.

⁶³The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not praised in [nuptial] song;

⁶⁴Svećenici njihovi padoše od mača, ne zaplakaše Óudove njihove.

⁶⁴Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.

⁶⁵Tad se k'o oda sna trgnu Gospodin, k'o ratnik vinom savladan.

⁶⁵Then the Lord awoke as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth aloud by reason of wine;

⁶⁶Udari otraga dušmane svoje, sramotu im vječitu zadade.

⁶⁶And he smote his adversaries in the hinder part, and put them to everlasting reproach.

⁶⁷On odbaci šator Josipov i Efrajimovo pleme ne odabra,

⁶⁷And he rejected the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim,

⁶⁸već odabra pleme Judino i goru Sion koja mu omilje.

⁶⁸But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved;

⁶⁹Sagradi Svetište k'o nebo visoko, k'o zemlju utemelji ga dovijeka.

⁶⁹And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he hath founded for ever.

⁷⁰Izabra Davida, slugu svojega, uze ga od torova ovčjih;

⁷⁰And he chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:

⁷¹odvede ga od ovaca dojilica da pase Jakova, narod njegov, Izraela, baštinu njegovu.

⁷¹From following the suckling-ewes, he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

⁷²I pasao ih je srcem čestitim i brižljivim rukama vodio.

⁷²And he fed them according to the integrity of his heart, and led them by the skilfulness of his hands.