Jonah 4
1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
तर यो कुराले योनालाई अप्रसन्न बनायो र तिनी धेरै रिसाए ।
2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hasted to flee unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and full of compassion, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy, and repentest thee of the evil.
यसैले योनाले परमप्रभुसँग प्रार्थना गरे र यसो भने, “हे परमप्रभु, के म आफ्नो देशमा हुँदा मैले यही कुरा भनेको थिइनँ र? यसकारण म तर्शीशमा भागेर जाने प्रयत्न गरें, किनभने मलाई थाहा थियो, कि तपाईं अनुग्रही परमेश्वर हुनुहुन्छ, दयाले पूर्ण, रिसाउनमा ढिलो र प्रतिज्ञामा विश्वसनीय हुनुहुन्छ, र तपाईंले विपत्ति पठाउन रोक्नुहुन्छ ।
3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
यसकारण, अब हे परमप्रभु, तपाईंसँग म बिन्ती गर्छु, मबाट मेरो प्राण लिनुहोस्, किनकि मेरो निम्ति जिउनुभन्दा मर्नु नै असल छ ।”
4 And the LORD said, Doest thou well to be angry?
परमप्रभुले भन्नुभयो, “के तँ यति धेरै रिसाउनु ठिक हुन्छ र?”
5 Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.
तब योना त्यस सहरबाट बाहिर गए र सहरको पुर्वपट्टि बसे । त्यहाँ उनले एउटा छाप्रो बनाए र त्यसको छायामा बसे जसले गर्दा त्यो सहरलाई के हुँदोरहेछ भनी तिनले हेर्न सक्थे।
6 And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his evil case. So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd.
परमप्रभु परमेश्वरले एउटा बिरुवा उमार्नुभयो र त्यसलाई योनाको माथि बढाउनुभयो, जसले गर्दा तिनको कष्ट कम गर्न त्यसले तिनको शिरमा छाया प्रदान गरोस् । त्यो बिरुवाको कारणले योना असाध्ये खुशी भए ।
7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.
तर अर्को बिहानीको सुर्योदयमा परमप्रभुले एउटा कीरा खटाउनुभयो । त्यो बिरुवालाई त्यसले काटिदियो, र त्यो बिरुवा सुक्यो ।
8 And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
अर्को बिहानी सुर्योदय हुँदा यसो भयो । परमप्रभुले तातो पुर्वी हावा पठाउनुभयो । अनि योनाको टाउकोमाथि टन्टलापुर घाम पर्यो र उनी मुर्छै पर्न लागे । तब योनाले आफू मर्न पाए हुन्थ्यो भनी इच्छा गरे । तिनले आफैलाई भने, “मेरो निम्ति त जिउनुभन्दा मर्नु नै बेस हुन्छ ।”
9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry even unto death.
तब परमप्रभुले योनालाई भन्नुभयो, “के तँ यो बिरुवाको निम्ति धेरै रिसाउनु ठिक हुन्छ र?” तब योनाले भने, “म मरुन्जेलसम्म पनि रिसाउन ठिक हुन्छ ।”
10 And the LORD said, Thou hast had pity on the gourd; for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
परमप्रभुले भन्नुभयो, “तैंले मेहनत नै नगरेको, र तैंले नहुर्काएको बिरुवाको तँलाई यति धेरै माया लाग्यो । त्यो एक रातमै बढ्यो र एक रातमै मर्यो ।
11 and should not I have pity on Nineveh, that great city; wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
यसैले मेरो बारेमा, क मैले त्यो ठुलो सहर निनवेलाई दया नदेखाउनू, जसमा एक लाख बिस हजारभन्दा धेरै मानिसहरू बस्छन्, जसलाई आफ्नो दाहिने र देब्रे हात बिचको भिन्नता थाहा छैन, र धेरै गाई-वस्तुहरू छन्?”
