Jeremias 2
1 And he said, Thus says the Lord,
परमप्रभुको वचन मकहाँ यसो भनेर आयो,
2 I remember the kindness of your youth, and the love of your espousals,
“जा र यरूशलेमले सुन्ने गरी घोषणा गर् । यसो भन्, ‘परमप्रभु यसो भन्नुहुन्छः तेरो युवावस्थामा भएको करारको विश्वसनियता, हाम्रो मगनी भएको बेलाको तेरो प्रेम, बीउ नछरिएको त्यस देशको उजाड-स्थानमा तँ मेरो पछि लागेको समयलाई याद गर्न मैले तँलाई बोलाएको छु ।
3 in following the Holy One of Israel, says the Lord, Israel was the holy [people] to the Lord, [and] the first fruits of his increase: all that devoured him shall offend; evils shall come upon them, says the Lord.
परमपप्रभुको फसलको अगौटे फल इस्राएललाई उहाँको निम्ति अलग गरियो । अगौटे फलबाट खाने सबै जना दोषी ठहरिए । तिनीहरूमाथि विपत्ति आइपर्यो, यो परमप्रभुको घोषणा हो ' ।”
4 Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and every family of the house of Israel.
हे याकूबका घराना र इस्राएलको घरानाका सबै वंश हो, परमप्रभुको वचन सुन ।
5 Thus says the Lord, What trespass have your fathers found in me, that they have revolted far from me, and gone after vanities, and become vain?
परमप्रभु यसो भन्नुहुन्छ, “तिमीहरूका पुर्खाहरूले ममा के गल्ति भेट्टाए जसको कारणले गर्दा मलाई पछ्याउनबाट तिनीहरू टाढा भए? तिनीहरू बेकम्मा मुर्तिहरूको पछि गए र आफै बेकम्मा भए ।
6 And they said not, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who guided us in the wilderness, in an untried and trackless land, in a land which no man at all went through, and no man lived there?
तिनीहरूले यसो भनेनन्, 'हामीलाई मिश्रदेशबाट ल्याउनुहुने परमप्रभु कहाँ हुनुहुन्छ? हामीलाई उजाड-स्थानमा, अराबाको देश र खाडलहरूमा, सुख्खा र घोर अन्धकारको देशमा, कोही नजाने र कोही नबस्ने देशमा अगुवाइ गर्नुहुने परमप्रभु कहाँ हुनुहुन्छ?
7 And I brought you to Carmel, that you should eat the fruits thereof, and the good thereof; and you went in, and defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
तर मैले तिमीहरूलाई कर्मेलको फल र अन्य असल खानेकुराहरू खान त्यस देशमा ल्याएँ । तापनि जब तिमीहरू आयौ, तिमीहरूले मेरो देशलाई दुषित पार्यौ । तिमीहरूले मेरो उत्तराधिकारलाई घृणित बनायौ ।
8 The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that held by the law knew me not: the shepherds also sinned against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after that which profited not.
पुजारीले सोधेन, 'परमप्रभु कहाँ हुनुहुन्छ?', र व्यवस्थाका ज्ञाताहरूले मेरो बारेमा वास्तै गरेनन् । गोठालाहरूले मेरो विरुद्धमा अपराध गरे । अगमवक्ताहरूले बाल देवताको लागि अगमवाणी बोले, र व्यर्थैका कुराहरूको पछि लागे ।
9 Therefore I will yet plead with you, and will plead with your children's children.
त्यसैले परमप्रभु घोषणा गर्नुहुन्छ, म अझै पनि तिमीहरूलाई दोष लगाउनेछु र तिमीहरूका छोराहरूलाई दोष लगाउनेछु ।
10 For go to the isles of the Chettians, and se; and send to Kedar, and observe accurately, and see if such things have been done;
किनकि कित्तीमका किनारहरू पार गर र हेर । केदारमा सन्देशवाहकहरू पठाओ र पत्ता लगाओ, र त्यहाँ यस्तो काम पहिले कहिल्यै भएको रहेछ कि भनी हेर ।
11 if the nations will change their gods, though they are not gods: but my people have changed their glory, [for that] from which they shall not be profited.
के कुनै जातिले आफ्ना देवताहरू साटेका छन्? यद्यपि ती देवताहरू नै थिएनन् । तर जुन कुराले मेरो जातिलाई मदत गर्न सक्दैन, तिनै कुरासित तिनीहरूले आफ्नो महिमालाई साटेका छन् ।
12 The heaven is amazed at this, and is very exceedingly horror-struck, says the Lord.
यही कारणले गर्दा हे आकाशमण्डल, थरथर हो, चकित हो र डरले काँप, यो परमप्रभुको घोषणा हो ।
13 For my people has committed two [faults], and evil ones: they have forsaken me, the fountain of water of life, and hewn out for themselves broken cisterns, which will not be able to hold water.
किनकि मेरो जातिले मेरो विरुद्धमा दुईवटा दुष्ट काम गरेको छः तिनीहरूले जिउँदो पानीको मुललाई त्यागेका छन्, र तिनीहरूले आफ्नै निम्ति पानी चुहिने कुवाहरू खनेका छन् ।
14 Is Israel a servant, or a home-born slave? why has he become a spoil?
के इस्राएल दास हो? के त्यो आफ्नो मालिकको घरमा जन्मेको थियो? त्यसो भए, त्यो किन लुटको माल भएको छ त?
15 The lions roared upon him, and uttered their voice, which have made his land a wilderness: and his cities are broken down, that they should not be inhabited.
जवान सिंहहरू त्यसको विरुद्धमा गर्जे । तिनीहरूले ठुलो स्वरले गर्जेका छन्, र त्यसको देशलाई त्रसित पारेका छन् । त्यसका सहरहरू बासिन्दाहरू नरहने गरी नष्ट पारिएका छन् ।
16 Also the children of Memphis and Taphnas have known you, and mocked you.
साथै, मेम्फिस र तहपनेसका मानिसहरूले तेरो शिर खौरिनेछन् ।
17 Has not your forsaking me brought these things upon you? says the Lord your God.
परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्वरले तिमीहरूलाई अगुवाइ गरिरहनुहुँदा तिमीहरूले उहाँलाई त्यागेर के यो तिमीहरू आफ्नै निम्ति गरेका होइनौ र?
18 And now what have you to do with the way of Egypt, to drink the water of Geon? and what have you to do with the way of the Assyrians, to drink the water of rivers?
त्यसैले अब, शिहोर नदीको पानी पिउन किन मिश्रदेशमा पुर्याउने बाटो भएर जान्छौ? यूफ्रेटिस नदीको पानी पिउन किन अश्शूरमा पुर्याउने बाटो भएर जान्छौ?
19 Your apostasy shall correct you, and your wickedness shall reprove you: know then, and see, that your forsaking me [has been] bitter to you, says the Lord your God; and I have taken no pleasure in you, says the Lord your God.
तिमीहरूको दुष्टताले नै तिमीहरूलाई हप्काउँछ, र तिमीहरूको अविश्वासले नै तिमीहरूलाई दण्ड दिन्छ । त्यसैले यसबारे विचार गर, र बुझ, परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्वरलाई त्यागेर उहाँको डर नमान्नु भनेको दुष्ट र तितो कुरा हो, यो सर्वशक्तिमान् परमप्रभु परमेश्वरको घोषणा हो ।
20 For of old you have broken your yoke, and plucked asunder your bands; and you has said, I will not serve you, but will go upon every high hill, and under every shady tree, there will I indulge in my fornication.
किनकि तँसित प्राचिन समयमा भएको तेरो जुवा मैले भाँचिदिएँ । मैले तेरा बन्धनहरू फुकाइदिएँ । तरै पनि तैंले भनिस्, 'म तपाईंको सेवा गर्नेछैनँ!' किनकि हरेक अग्लो डाँडा र हरेक झ्याम्म परेको रुखमुनि तैंले आफ्नो शिर झुकाइस्, तँ वेश्या होस् ।
21 Yet I planted you a fruitful vine, entirely of the right sort: how are you a strange vine turned to bitterness!
मैले तँलाई पूर्ण रूपले शुद्ध बीउबाट असल दाखको बोटको रूपमा रोपेको थिएँ । तब तैंले आफैलाई भ्रष्ट र बेकम्मा दाखको बोटको रूपमा कसरी परिवर्तन गरिस्?
22 Though you should wash yourself with nitre, and multiply to yourself soap, [still] you are stained by your iniquities before me, says the Lord.
तैंले आफैलाई नदीमा सफा गरिस् वा साबुनले धोइस् भने पनि, तेरो अधर्म मेरो सामु दागझैं छ, यो परमप्रभु परमेश्वरको घोषणा हो ।
23 How will you say, I am not polluted, and have not gone after Baal? behold your ways in the burial-ground, and know what you have done: her voice has howled in the evening:
'म बिटुलो पारिएको छैनँ! म बाल देवताको पछि लागेको छैनँ' भनी तैले कसरी भन्न सक्छस्? तैंले उपत्यकाहरूमा के गरिस्, सो हेर् । तैंले गरेको कुरालाई विचार गर् । तँ यताउता कुदिहिंड्ने चञ्चल पोथी ऊँट हो,
24 she has extended her ways over the waters of the desert; she was hurried along by the lusts of her soul; she is given up [to them], who will turn her back? none that seek her shall be weary; at [the time of] her humiliation they shall find her.
तँ उजाड-स्थानमा बस्न आदत भएको कामातुर भएर हावा सुँघ्दै हिंड्ने वन-गधैनी हो। त्यसको कामवासनालाई कसले नियन्त्रण गर्न सक्छ? त्यसको पछि लाग्ने कुनै पनि गधा थकित हुनुपर्दैन । मैथुनको समयमा तिनीहरूले त्यसलाई फेला पार्नेछन् ।
25 Withdraw your foot from a rough way, and your throat from thirst: but she said I will strengthen myself: for she loved strangers, and went after them.
तेरो खुट्टालाई नाङ्गो हुनबाट र तेरो घाँटीलाई तिर्खाउनबाट तैंले नियन्त्रण गर्नुपर्छ । तर तैंले भनेको छस्, 'यो आशारहित छ! अहँ, म परदेशीहरूलाई प्रेम गर्छु र तिनीहरूकै पछि लाग्छु ।'
26 As is the shame of a thief when he is caught, so shall the children of Israel be ashamed; they, and their kings, and their princes, and their priests, and their prophets.
चोर समातिंदा त्यो लज्जित भएझैं, इस्राएलको घराना लज्जित हुने छ । तिनीहरू, तिनीहरूका राजाहरू, तिनीहरूका राजकुमारहरू, र तिनीहरूका पुजारीहरू र तिनीहरूका अगमवक्ताहरू लज्जित हुनेछन् ।
27 They said to a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You has begotten me: and they have turned [their] backs to me, and not their faces: yet in the time of their afflictions they will say, Arise, and save us.
यी तिनै हुन् जसले रुखलाई भन्छन्, 'तिमी मेरा पिता हौ', र ढुङ्गालाई 'तिमीले मलाई जन्म दियौ' । किनकि तिनीहरूले मतर्फ पिठिउँ फर्काउँछन्, आफ्ना अनुहार होइन । तापनि सङ्कष्टको समयमा तिनीहरू भन्छन्, 'उठ्नुहोस् र हामीलाई बचाउनुहोस्!'
28 And where are your gods, which you made for yourself? will they arise and save in the time of your affliction? for according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Juda; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem they sacrificed to Baal.
तापनि तिमीहरूले आफ्ना निम्ति बनाएका देवताहरू कहाँ छन्? तिमीहरूको सङ्कष्टको समयमा तिमीहरूलाई बचाउन तिनीहरूको इच्छा भए तिनीहरू उठून्, किनकि हे यहूदा, तेरा जति सहरहरू छन्, त्यति नै तेरा मुर्तिहरू छन् ।
29 Therefore do you speak to me? you all have been ungodly, and you all have transgressed against me, says the Lord.
त्यसैले मैले गलत गरेको छु भनी मलाई किन दोष लगाउँछस्? तिमीहरू सबैले मेरो विरुद्धमा पाप गरेका छौ, यो परमप्रभुको घोषणा हो ।
30 In vain have I struck your children; you have not received correction: a sword has devoured your prophets as a destroying lion; yet you feared not.
मैले तेरो जातिलाई व्यर्थैमा दण्ड दिएको छु । तिनीहरूले अनुशासनलाई स्वीकार गर्दैनन् । तिमीहरूको तरवारले तिमीहरूका अगमवक्ताहरूलाई विनाश गर्ने सिंहले झैं निलेको छ ।
31 Hear you the word of the Lord: thus says the Lord, Have I been a wilderness or a dry land to Israel? therefore has my people said, We will not be ruled over, and will not come to you any more?
हे यस पुस्ताका मानिस हो, मेरा वचन, परमप्रभुको वचनमा ध्यान देओ । के म इस्राएलको निम्ति उजाड-स्थान वा घोर अन्धकारको देश भएँ र? किन मेरो जातिले यसो भन्छ, 'हामी वरिपरि घुम्न दिनुहोस्, हामी फेरि तपाईंकहाँ आउनेछैनौं'?
32 Will a bride forget her ornaments, or a virgin her girdle? but my people has forgotten me days without number.
के कन्याले आफ्नो गरगहना, दुलहीले आफ्ना घुम्टो भुल्छे र? तरै पनि मेरो जातिले मलाई गन्नै नसक्ने दिनदेखि भुलेको छ ।
33 What fair device will you yet employ in your ways, so as to seek love? [it shall] not [be] so; moreover you has done wickedly in corrupting your ways;
प्रेमको खोजी गर्न कसरी तैंले आफ्नो मार्ग बनाउँछेस्? तैंले दुष्ट स्त्रीहरूलाई पनि आफ्ना मार्गहरू सिकाएको छेस् ।
34 and in your hands has been found the blood of innocent souls; I have not found them in holes, but on every oak.
तेरा वस्त्रहरूमा निर्दोष गरिब मानिसहरूको जीवनको रगत भेट्टाइएको छ । यी मानिसहरू घरमा चिरी गरिरहँदा भेट्टाइएका होइनन् ।
35 Yet you said, I am innocent: only let his wrath be turned away from me. Behold, I [will] plead with you, whereas you say, I have not sinned.
तरै पनि तँ भन्छेस्, 'म निर्दोष छु । निश्चय नै उहाँको क्रोध मबाट तर्केर गएको छ ।' तर हेर! 'मैले पाप गरेको छैनँ' भनी तैंले भनेको हुनाले म तँमाथि इन्साफ ल्याउनेछु ।
36 For you has been so exceedingly contemptuous as to repeat your ways; but you shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assur.
तेरा मार्गमा यो बद्लाउलाई तँ किन निकै हलुकासित लिन्छेस्? जसरी अश्शूरले तँलाई निरुत्साही पार्यो, त्यसै गरी मिश्रदेशले पनि तँलाई निरुत्साही पार्नेछ ।
37 For you shall go forth thence also with your hands upon your head; for the Lord has rejected your hope, and you shall not prosper in it.
आफ्नो शिरमा आफ्ना हात राखेर तँ त्यहाँबाट दुःखी भएर जानुपर्ने हुन्छ, किनकि तैंले जस-जसमाथि भरोसा गरेको छेस्, तिनीहरूलाई परमप्रभुले इन्कार गर्नुभएको छ । त्यसैले तिनीहरूबाट तैंले मदत पाउनेछैनस् ।
