< Joel 1 >

1 The word of the Lord which came to Joel the son of Bathuel.
पतुएलका छोरा योएलकहाँ आएको परमप्रभु वचन यही हो ।
2 Hear these [words], you elders, and listen all you that inhabit the land. Have such things happen in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
ए धर्मगुरुहरू हो, यो कुरा सुन, र ए देशका सबै बासिन्दाहरू हो ध्यानसँग सुन । तिमीहरूका दिनमा वा तिमीहरूका पुर्खाहरूका दिनमा कहिल्यै यस्तो भएको छ?
3 Tell your children concerning them, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation.
यसको विषयमा आफ्ना छोराछोरीलाई भन, र तिमीहरूका छोराछोरीले आफ्‍ना छोराछोरीलाई भनून्, र तिनीहरूका छोराछोरीले अर्को पुस्तालाई भनून् ।
4 The leavings of the caterpillar has the locust eaten, and the leavings of the locust has the palmerworm eaten, and the leavings of the palmerworm has the cankerworm eaten.
बथानमा हिंड्ने सलहहरूले जे बाँकी छोडेका छन्, ती ठुला सलहले खाएका छन्, ठुला सलहले जे बाँकी छोडेका छन् ती फट्‍याङ्‍ग्राले खाएका छन्, र फट्‍याङ्‍ग्राले जे बाँकी छोडेका छन् ती झुसिल्‍किराले खाएका छन् ।
5 Awake, you drunkards, from your wine, and weep: mourn, all you that drink wine to drunkenness: for joy and gladness and removed are from your mouth.
ए मद्यले मातेकाहरू हो, उठ र रोओ! ए दाखमद्य पिउनेहरू, सबै विलाप गर, किनभने मिठो दाखमद्यलाई तिमीहरूबाट खोसिएको छ ।
6 For a strong and innumerable nation is come up against my land, their teeth are lion's teeth, and their back teeth those of a [lion's] whelp.
किनकि मेरो देशमा एउटा जाति आएको छ, बलियो र अनगिन्ती छ । त्यसका दाँत सिंहका दाँतझैं छन्, र त्यसका दाह्रा सिंहनीका झैं छन् ।
7 He has ruined my vine, and utterly broken my fig-trees: he has utterly searched [my vine], and cast it down; he has peeled its branches.
त्यसले मेरो दाखबारीलाई उजाड ठाउँ बनाएको छ र मेरो नेभाराका बोटलाई लाछेर नाङ्गो पारेको छ । त्यसका बोक्राहरू त्यसले ताछेको छ र टाढा फालेको छ, र हाँगाहरू केवल सेता मात्र छन् ।
8 Lament to me more than a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
आफ्नो भर्खरको पतिको मृत्यु भएर भाङ्‍ग्रा लगाएकी कन्या केटीले झैं विलाप गर ।
9 The meat-offering and drink-offering are removed from the house of the Lord: mourn, you priests that serve at the altar of the Lord.
परमप्रभुको मन्‍दिरबाट अन्‍नबलि र अर्घबलि हटाइएका छन् । परमप्रभुको सेवा गर्ने पुजारीहरू विलाप गर्छन् ।
10 For the plains languish: let the land mourn, for the corn languishes; the wine is dried up, the oil becomes scarce;
खेतहरू सखाप पारिएका छन्, र अन्‍नहरू नष्‍ट पारिएका हुनाले भूमिले विलाप गर्दैछ । नयाँ दाखमद्य सुकेको छ, तेल बाँकी छैन ।
11 the husbandmen are consumed: mourn your property on account of the wheat and barley; for the harvest has perished from off the field.
ए किसानहरू हो, लज्‍जित होओ, र दाखबारी लगाउनेहरू हो, विलाप गर । किनभने भूमिको उब्जनी नष्‍ट भएको छ । गहुँ र जौका बढिरहेका छैनन् ।
12 The vine is dried up, and the fig-trees are become few; the pomegranate, and palm tree, and apple, and all trees of the field are dried up: for the sons of men have have abolished joy.
दाखका बोटहरू ओइलाएका छन् र नेभाराका बोटहरू सुकेका छन्, र अनार बोटहरू, खजूर बोटहरू र स्याउको बोटहरू, खेतबारीका सबै बोटहरू ओइलाएका छन् । किनभने मानवजातिका सन्तानबाट आनन्द विलाएर गएको छ ।
13 Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, you priests: mourn, you that serve at the altar: go in, sleep in sackcloths, you that minister to God: for the meat-offering and drink-offering are withheld from the house of your God.
ए पुजारीहरू हो, भाङ्‍ग्रा लगाओ र विलाप गर! वेदीमा सेवा गर्नेहरू हो, विलाप गर । ए मेरा परमेश्‍वरका सेवा गर्नेहरू हो, आओ, र रातभर भाङ्‍ग्रा लगाएर बस । किनभने तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरको मन्‍दिरबाट अन्‍नबलि र अर्घबलि हटाइएका छन् ।
14 Sanctify a fast, proclaim a [solemn] service, gather the elders [and] all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God, and cry earnestly to the Lord,
पवित्र उपवासको घोषणा गर, र पवित्र सभा आव्‍हान गर । परमप्रभु आफ्‍ना परमेश्‍वरको मन्‍दिरमा देशका सबै धर्मगुरुहरू र बासिन्दाहरूलाई भेला गराओ र, अनि परमप्रभुमा पुकार ।
15 Alas, Alas, Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and it will come as trouble upon trouble.
हाय! त्यो दिन, किनकि परमप्रभुको दिन नजिकै छ । त्योसँगै सर्वशक्तिमान्‌बाट विनाश आउनेछ ।
16 [Your] meat has been destroyed before your eyes, joy and gladness from out of the house of your God.
के हाम्रै आँखाका सामु खानेकुरा, अनि हाम्रा परमेश्‍वरको मन्‍दिरबाट आनन्द र रमाहट रोकिएको छैन र?
17 The heifers have started at their mangers, the treasures are abolished, the wine presses are broken down; for the corn is withered.
माटोका डल्‍लामुनि बीउहरू सडे, भण्‍डारहरू उजाड भए, र अन्‍नका भकारीहरू भत्‍काइए, किनकि अन्‍न सुकेको छ ।
18 What shall we store up for ourselves? the herds of cattle have mourned, because they had no pasture; and the flocks of sheep have been utterly destroyed.
पशुहरू कसरी विलाप् गर्छन्! पाल्‍तु पशुका बथानहरूले कष्‍ट भोग्‍दैछन्, किनकि तिनीहरूका निम्ति खर्क छैन । साथै, भेडाका बगालहरू पनि कष्‍ट भोग्‍दैछन् ।
19 To you, O Lord, will I cry: for fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness, and a flame has burnt up all the trees of the field.
हे परमप्रभु, म तपाईंमा पुकारा गर्दछु । किनकि उजाड-स्‍थानका खर्कहरूलाई आगोले भस्म पारेका छ, र खेतका सबै रूखहरूलाई आगोले जलाएको छ ।
20 And the cattle of the field have looked up to you: for the fountains of waters have been dried up, and fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness.
जमिनका पशुहरू पनि तपाईंका निम्ति तड्‍पिन्‍छन्, किनकि पानीका खोलाहरू सुकेका छन्, र उजाड-स्‍थानका खर्कहरूलाई आगोले भस्‍म पारेको छ ।

< Joel 1 >