Isaiah 21
1 The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.
समुद्र नजिकको मरुभूमिको बारेमा एउटा घोषणा । नेगेवमा चल्ने आँधीहुरी जस्तै मरुभूमि र डरलाग्दो देशबाट यो आउँछ ।
2 A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.
मलाई एउटा कष्टप्रद दर्शन दिइएको छः “धोकेबाजले धोकापुर्ण किसिमले काम गर्छ र विनाश गर्नेले विनाश गर्छ । ए एलाम, माथि जा र आक्रमण गर् । ए मादी घेरा हाल् । त्यसको सबै शोकलाई म रोक्नेछु ।
3 Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I am so dismayed that I can’t see.
यसकारण मेरो कमर दुखेको छ । स्त्रीको प्रसव पीडाजस्तो पीडाले मलाई समातेको छ । मैले जे सुनेको छु त्यसद्वारा म झुकेको छु । मैले जे देखेको छु सोद्वारा म व्याकुल भएको छु ।
4 My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
मेरो मुटु धड्कन्छ । म डरले काँप्छु । मैले साँझको इच्छा गरें, तर त्यसले ममा त्रास ल्यायो ।
5 They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
तिनीहरू टेबल तयार गर्छन्, तिनीहतरू राडी ओछ्याउँछन्, अनि खान्छन् र पिउँछन् । ए शासकहरू उठ, आफ्ना ढालहरूमा तेल लगाओ ।
6 For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.
किनकि परमप्रभुले मलाई यसो भन्नुभयो, “जा, एक जना पहरेदार राख । उसले जे देख्छ सो बताउनुपर्छ ।
7 When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”
जब उसले एउटा रथ, एक जोडी घोडचढी, गधामाथि चढ्नेहरू र उँटमाथि चढ्नेहरू देख्छ, तब उसले ध्यान दिनुपर्छ र निकै सजग हुनुपर्छ ।”
8 He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.
पहरेदार कराउँछ, “हे परमप्रभु, म दिनभरि, हरेक दिन पहरा बस्ने धरहरमाथि बस्छु, अनि आफ्नो अखडामा म रातभरि खडा रहन्छु ।”
9 Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.
यहाँ एक जना मानिस र एक जोडी घोडचढी लिएर एउटा रथ आउँछ । उसले भन्छ, “बेबिलोनको पतन भएको छ, पतन भएको छ र यसका कुँदेका सबै देवताहरूका मूर्तीहरू जमिनमा चकनाचूर भएका छन् ।”
10 You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.
ए मेरा चुटिएका र निफनिएकाहरू हो, मेरा खलाका सन्तानहरू हो! सर्वशक्तिमान् परमप्रभु इस्राएलका परमेश्वरबाट मैले जे सुनेको छु सो मैले तिमीहरूलाई घोषणा गरेको छु ।
11 The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”
दुमाको बारेमा एउटा घोषणा । कसैले मलाई सेइरबाट बोलाउँछ, “ए पहरेदार, रात कति बाँकी छ? ए पहरेदार, रात कति बाँकी छ?”
12 The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.”
पहरेदारले भन्यो, “बिहान आउँछ र रात पनि आउँछ । तिमीलाई सोध्नुछ भने सोध । अनि फेरि फेर्केर आऊ ।”
13 The burden on Arabia. You will lodge in the thickets in Arabia, you caravans of Dedanites.
अरब देशको बारेमा एउटा घोषणा । तिमीहरू ददानीहरूका यात्री दलहरूले अरबको मरुभूमिमा रात बिताओ ।
14 They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.
तिर्खाउनेहरूका निम्ति पानी ल्याओ । ए तेमा देशका बासिन्दाहरू, रोटी लिएर भगौडाहरूलाई भेट ।
15 For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.
किनकि तिनीहरू तरवार, थुतेको तरवाट, ताँदो चढाएको धनुबाट र युद्धको भारबाट भागेका छन् ।
16 For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,
किनकि परमप्रभुले मलाई यसो भन्नुभयो, “एक वर्षभित्रमा नै ज्यालामा लिइएको श्रमिकले यो देख्नेछ, केदारको सारा गौरवको अन्त हुनेछ ।
17 and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”
केदारका धनुर्धारी अर्थात् योद्धाहरूमध्ये केही मात्र रहेनेछन्,” किनकि परमप्रभु इस्राएलका परमेश्वरले यसो भन्नुभएको छ ।
