Romans 9
1 [Now I would like to discuss the fact that most of my fellow Israelites have rejected Christ]. Because of my relationship with Christ, I say completely truthfully [what I will now tell you]. I am not lying [DOU]! My conscience confirms what I [say] because the Holy Spirit [controls it].
१मैं मसीह में सच कहता हूँ, झूठ नहीं बोलता और मेरा विवेक भी पवित्र आत्मा में गवाही देता है।
2 [I tell you that] I grieve very greatly and deeply [DOU] [about my fellow Israelites].
२कि मुझे बड़ा शोक है, और मेरा मन सदा दुखता रहता है।
3 I personally would be willing to let [God] curse me [and, as a result, be separated] from Christ, [if that would] help my fellow Israelites, my natural kinsmen, [to believe in Christ].
३क्योंकि मैं यहाँ तक चाहता था, कि अपने भाइयों, के लिये जो शरीर के भाव से मेरे कुटुम्बी हैं, आप ही मसीह से श्रापित और अलग हो जाता।
4 We [Jews] are [Israelites, God’s chosen] descendants of [Jacob]. [God has always considered] us as his children [MET]. It was to our ancestors [that he used to appear] gloriously [while they were in the desert]. It was with them that [God made] covenants [several times]. It was to them [that God] gave the laws [at Sinai Mountain]. They were the ones [to whom God showed how they should] worship him. They were the ones [to whom God] promised many things, [especially that the Messiah would come from their race].
४वे इस्राएली हैं, लेपालकपन का हक़, महिमा, वाचाएँ, व्यवस्था का उपहार, परमेश्वर की उपासना, और प्रतिज्ञाएँ उन्हीं की हैं।
5 It was our ancestors, [Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, whom God chose to found our nation]. And, [most importantly], it was from us Israelites that the Messiah received his human nature. [Nevertheless, most of my fellow Israelites have rejected Christ], who is the one who controls all things! He is God, the one who is worthy that we praise him forever! This is true! (OR, Amen!) (aiōn g165)
५पूर्वज भी उन्हीं के हैं, और मसीह भी शरीर के भाव से उन्हीं में से हुआ, जो सब के ऊपर परम परमेश्वर युगानुयुग धन्य है। आमीन। (aiōn g165)
6 [God promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that their descendants would all inherit his blessings]. But [although most of my fellow Israelites have rejected Christ], that does not [prove] that God has failed [to do] the things that he promised, because it is not all who are descended from Jacob and who [call themselves the people of] Israel whom [God considers] to be truly his people.
६परन्तु यह नहीं, कि परमेश्वर का वचन टल गया, इसलिए कि जो इस्राएल के वंश हैं, वे सब इस्राएली नहीं;
7 And it is also not all of Abraham’s natural descendants that [God considers] to be his people. Instead, [God considers only some of them to be Abraham’s children]. [This agrees with what God told Abraham]: “It is Isaac, [not any of your(sg) other sons], whom [I] will consider [to be the true father of] your descendants.”
७और न अब्राहम के वंश होने के कारण सब उसकी सन्तान ठहरे, परन्तु (लिखा है) “इसहाक ही से तेरा वंश कहलाएगा।”
8 That means that it is not all the natural-born descendants [of Abraham] whom God [considers as] his children. Instead, it is those who [believed what God] promised whom [he] considers to be his children.
८अर्थात् शरीर की सन्तान परमेश्वर की सन्तान नहीं, परन्तु प्रतिज्ञा के सन्तान वंश गिने जाते हैं।
9 [You know that what God] promised [to Abraham] was this: “About this time [next year] Sarah [your wife] will bear a son [as a result of my enabling] [MTY] [her to do so].” [So Abraham knew that it was not through Ishmael, the son that he already had, that God would fulfill what he had promised him] (OR, [that his true descendants would come]).
९क्योंकि प्रतिज्ञा का वचन यह है, “मैं इस समय के अनुसार आऊँगा, और सारा का एक पुत्र होगा।”
10 And not only then did God show [that he did not determine who would be his true children according to who their ancestors were. He showed it again] when Rebecca conceived [twins] by our ancestor Isaac.
१०और केवल यही नहीं, परन्तु जब रिबका भी एक से अर्थात् हमारे पिता इसहाक से गर्भवती थी।
11 Before [the twins, Jacob and Esau], were born, when neither one had yet done anything good or bad, [God] said to Rebecca [about the twins she was to bear], “The older one shall later serve the younger one, [contrary to normal custom].” [God said this] in order that [we] might [clearly] understand that what he purposed [for people] was according to what he himself determined. That is, people’s [eternal destiny] does not depend on what they do. Instead, their destiny depends on [God], the one who chooses them.
११और अभी तक न तो बालक जन्मे थे, और न उन्होंने कुछ भला या बुरा किया था, इसलिए कि परमेश्वर की मनसा जो उसके चुन लेने के अनुसार है, कर्मों के कारण नहीं, परन्तु बुलानेवाले पर बनी रहे।
१२उसने कहा, “जेठा छोटे का दास होगा।”
13 And [this teaching is] ([supported/shown to be true]) [by] what is written [in the Scriptures] {what [a prophet] recorded} [that God said]: “I favored Jacob, [the younger son]. I did not favor [HYP] Esau, [the older son].”
१३जैसा लिखा है, “मैंने याकूब से प्रेम किया, परन्तु एसाव को अप्रिय जाना।”
14 [Someone] might say, “(Is God unjust [by choosing the ones he wants to choose?/I think] that God is unjust [by choosing the ones he wants to choose!])” [RHQ] [I would reply], “[He is] certainly not [unjust]!”
१४तो हम क्या कहें? क्या परमेश्वर के यहाँ अन्याय है? कदापि नहीं!
15 God told Moses, “I will pity and help anyone whom I choose [DOU]!”
१५क्योंकि वह मूसा से कहता है, “मैं जिस किसी पर दया करना चाहूँ, उस पर दया करूँगा, और जिस किसी पर कृपा करना चाहूँ उसी पर कृपा करूँगा।”
16 So [God chooses people], not because they want [God to choose them] or because they try hard [to do things so that he] will [accept them]. Instead he chooses people because he himself has mercy [on undeserving ones].
१६इसलिए यह न तो चाहनेवाले की, न दौड़नेवाले की परन्तु दया करनेवाले परमेश्वर की बात है।
17 [Moses] recorded [PRS] [that God had told] Pharaoh, “This is why I gave you [(sg)] authority [MTY]: It was in order that I might show [by how I oppose] you [how exceedingly] powerful I am, and in order that people everywhere [HYP] would hear about me [MTY].”
१७क्योंकि पवित्रशास्त्र में फ़िरौन से कहा गया, “मैंने तुझे इसलिए खड़ा किया है, कि तुझ में अपनी सामर्थ्य दिखाऊँ, और मेरे नाम का प्रचार सारी पृथ्वी पर हो।”
18 So [we conclude that God] kindly helps the ones he wants to act kindly towards. But he makes stubborn the ones [such as Pharaoh] that he wants [to make stubborn].
१८तो फिर, वह जिस पर चाहता है, उस पर दया करता है; और जिसे चाहता है, उसे कठोर कर देता है।
19 [One of] you may [object to this by] saying to me, “[Because God determines ahead of time everything that people do, that also implies that he wants us to do everything that we do]. (No one has resisted what God has willed!/Who has resisted what God has willed?) [RHQ] Therefore, (it would not be right that God would still condemn [a person for having sinned]!/why does God still condemn [a person for having sinned]?) [RHQ]”
१९फिर तू मुझसे कहेगा, “वह फिर क्यों दोष लगाता है? कौन उसकी इच्छा का सामना करता है?”
20 [I would reply that since] you [(sg)] are [just a] human being, (you do not [have any right at all to] criticize God!/[who are you to] say that what God does is wrong?) [RHQ] [As a potter is the one who creates a clay pot, God is the one who created you]. (A clay pot [MET] certainly would not [have a right to criticize] the potter by asking [PRS], “Why did you [(sg)] make me this way?”/Would a clay pot [have a right to criticize] the potter by asking [PRS], “Why did you [(sg)] make me this way?”) [RHQ]
२०हे मनुष्य, भला तू कौन है, जो परमेश्वर का सामना करता है? क्या गढ़ी हुई वस्तु गढ़नेवाले से कह सकती है, “तूने मुझे ऐसा क्यों बनाया है?”
21 Instead, (the potter certainly has the right to [take] some clay and from one lump [of clay] make one pot that people will honor and [make another] one for ordinary purposes [MET]./does not a potter have the right to [take] some clay and from one lump [of clay] make one pot that people will honor and [make another] pot for ordinary purposes?) [MET, RHQ] [Similarly, God has the right to carry out what he purposes for people].
२१क्या कुम्हार को मिट्टी पर अधिकार नहीं, कि एक ही लोंदे में से, एक बर्तन आदर के लिये, और दूसरे को अनादर के लिये बनाए?
22 Although God desires to show that he is angry [about sin], and [although he desires to] make clear that he can powerfully [punish people who have sinned], he tolerated very patiently the people [MET] who caused him to be angry and who deserved to be destroyed (OR, who were made to be destroyed).
२२कि परमेश्वर ने अपना क्रोध दिखाने और अपनी सामर्थ्य प्रगट करने की इच्छा से क्रोध के बरतनों की, जो विनाश के लिये तैयार किए गए थे बड़े धीरज से सही।
23 [God has been patient] in order that he might make clear how very wonderfully [he acts toward those] [MET] whom he intended to act mercifully towards and whom he prepared ahead of time in order that they might [live] gloriously [in heaven].
२३और दया के बरतनों पर जिन्हें उसने महिमा के लिये पहले से तैयार किया, अपने महिमा के धन को प्रगट करने की इच्छा की?
24 That means us whom he chose—not only [us] Jews but also non-Jews.
२४अर्थात् हम पर जिन्हें उसने न केवल यहूदियों में से वरन् अन्यजातियों में से भी बुलाया।
25 [These words that] Hosea wrote [MTY] that [God] said also (show that God has the right/[support God’s right]) [to choose from among both Jews and non-Jews] [MTY]: I will declare that many people who were not my people are now my people. I will declare that many people whom I did not love [HYP] before, I love now.
२५जैसा वह होशे की पुस्तक में भी कहता है, “जो मेरी प्रजा न थी, उन्हें मैं अपनी प्रजा कहूँगा, और जो प्रिया न थी, उसे प्रिया कहूँगा;
26 And [another prophet wrote]: What will happen is that in the places where [God] told them before, “You are not my people,” in those same places [people] will declare truthfully that they are children of God, who is completely powerful.
२६और ऐसा होगा कि जिस जगह में उनसे यह कहा गया था, कि तुम मेरी प्रजा नहीं हो, उसी जगह वे जीविते परमेश्वर की सन्तान कहलाएँगे।”
27 Isaiah also exclaimed concerning the Israelites: Even though the Israelites are [so many that no one can count them, like] sand [particles on the beach beside] the ocean, [only] a small part of them will be saved {[God] will save [only] a small part of them},
२७और यशायाह इस्राएल के विषय में पुकारकर कहता है, “चाहे इस्राएल की सन्तानों की गिनती समुद्र के रेत के बराबर हो, तो भी उनमें से थोड़े ही बचेंगे।
28 because the Lord will punish completely and speedily the [people who live on] this earth, as he said that he would do.
२८क्योंकि प्रभु अपना वचन पृथ्वी पर पूरा करके, धार्मिकता से शीघ्र उसे सिद्ध करेगा।”
29 [Also, we can understand from what the prophet] Isaiah said [that God would not save] anyone if he did not show mercy: If the Lord, who controls everything in heaven, had not mercifully allowed some of our descendants to survive, we would have become like the people of [the cities of] Sodom and Gomorrah, who were [SIM, DOU] completely destroyed.
२९जैसा यशायाह ने पहले भी कहा था, “यदि सेनाओं का प्रभु हमारे लिये कुछ वंश न छोड़ता, तो हम सदोम के समान हो जाते, और गमोरा के सरीखे ठहरते।”
30 We must conclude this: [RHQ] Although non-Jews did not search out [a way by which] God would erase the record of their sins, they actually found that way because they trusted [in what Christ did for them].
३०तो हम क्या कहें? यह कि अन्यजातियों ने जो धार्मिकता की खोज नहीं करते थे, धार्मिकता प्राप्त की अर्थात् उस धार्मिकता को जो विश्वास से है;
31 But although [the people of] Israel sought a basis [by which God would] erase the record of their sins, they did not succeed in [fulfilling the true purpose of the] laws [that God gave to Moses].
३१परन्तु इस्राएली; जो धार्मिकता की व्यवस्था की खोज करते हुए उस व्यवस्था तक नहीं पहुँचे।
32 The reason [RHQ] [that they did not succeed] is that they did not trust that [God would provide a way to save them]. Instead, they were trying to do certain things [in order that God would accept them. Because they did not expect the Messiah to die, the Israelites] felt disgusted about [Jesus’ death, which is like] the stone [MET] on which people stumble.
३२किस लिये? इसलिए कि वे विश्वास से नहीं, परन्तु मानो कर्मों से उसकी खोज करते थे: उन्होंने उस ठोकर के पत्थर पर ठोकर खाई।
33 This is what [a prophet] predicted when he wrote these words that [God said about the Messiah]: Listen! I am placing in Israel [MTY] [one who is like] a stone [MET] on which people will stumble. What he does will offend people [DOU]. Nevertheless, those who believe in him will not be disappointed.
३३जैसा लिखा है, “देखो मैं सिय्योन में एक ठेस लगने का पत्थर, और ठोकर खाने की चट्टान रखता हूँ, और जो उस पर विश्वास करेगा, वह लज्जित न होगा।”
