Jonah 3
1 And the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
परमप्रभुको वचन योनाकहाँ दोस्रो पटक यसो भनेर आयो,
2 Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I shall bid thee.
“उठ्, र त्यस ठुलो सहर निनवेमा जा र त्यसलाई दिनलाई मैले तँलाई आज्ञा गरेको सन्देश घोषणा गर् ।”
3 And Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.
यसैले योना उठे र परमप्रभुको वचनमा आज्ञाकारी भएर निनवेमा गए । त्यस बेला निनवे अत्यन्तै ठुलो सहर थियो । त्यहाँ पुग्न तिन दिनको यात्रा गर्नुपर्थ्यो ।
4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!
योना सहरभित्र प्रवेश गर्न थाले र एक दिनको यात्रापछि उनले कराए र यसो भने, “अबको चालीस दिनमा निनवे नाश हुनेछ ।”
5 And the men of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
निनवेका मानिसहरूले परमेश्वरलाई विश्वास गरे र तिनीहरूले उपवासको घोषणा गरे । तिमध्ये ठुलादेखि लिएर सानासम्म सबैले भाङ्ग्रा लगाए ।
6 And the word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
त्यो खबर चाँडै नै निनवेका राजाकहाँ पुग्यो । तिनी आफ्ना सिंहासनबाट उठे, आफ्नो वस्त्र उतारे, आफूलाई भाङ्ग्रा ढाके, र खरानीमा बसे ।
7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything: let them not feed, nor drink water;
तिनले एउटा यस्तो घोषणाको सन्देश पठाए, “निनवेमा, राजा र भारदारहरूको अधिकारले, कुनै मानिस वा गाईबस्तु वा भेडाबाख्राले कुनै कुरा खानेछैनन् । तिनीहरूले खाना नखाऊन्, न पानी पिऊन् ।
8 and let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God; and let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
तर मानिस र पशु दुबैले भाङ्ग्राले ढाकून्, र तिनीहरूले ठुलो सोरले परमेश्वारमा पुकारा गरून् । हरेक व्यक्ति आफ्ना दुष्ट मार्ग र आफ्ना हातले हिंसात्मक कामबाट फर्कून् ।
9 Who knoweth but that God will turn and repent, and will turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
कसलाई जान्दछ? परमेश्वर नरम बन्न र आफ्नो मनलाई बद्लन र आफ्नो भयङ्कर क्रोधबाट फर्कन सक्नुहुन्छ, जसले गर्दा हामी नष्ट हुनेछैनौं ।”
10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said he would do unto them, and he did [it] not.
तिनीहरूले जे गरे त्यो परमेश्वरले देख्नुभयो । यसरी तिनीहरू आफ्ना दुष्ट मार्गहरूबाट फर्के । यसैले परमेश्वरले तिनीहरूलाई दिन्छु भन्नुभएको दण्डको बारेमा उहाँले आफ्नो मन परिवर्तन गर्नुभयो, र उहाँले त्यसो गर्नुभएन ।
