यशैया 36

1 हिजकिया राजाको चौधौं वर्षमा अश्शूरका राजा सनहेरीबले यहूदाका किल्लाबन्दी गरिएका सबै सहरहरूमा आक्रमण गरे र ति कब्जा गरे ।

And it happened that, in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib, the king of the Assyrians, went up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and he seized them.

2 तब अश्शूरका राजाले प्रमुख कमाण्‍डरलाई लाकीशबाट यरूशलेममा हिजकिया राजाकहाँ ठुलो फौजसहित पठाए । तिनी धोबीहरूको खेततिर जाने मुल बाटोमा माथिल्‍लो तलाउको नहर छेउमा खडा भए ।

And the king of the Assyrians sent Rabshakeh from Lachish into Jerusalem, to king Hezekiah, with a great force, and he stood near the aqueduct of the upper pool, at the road to the fuller’s field.

3 तिनीहरूसँग कुरा गर्न जाने इस्राएली अधिकारीहरूमा दरबारका प्रशासक हिल्कियाहका छोरा एल्याकीम, राजाका सचिव शेब्‍ना र सरकारको निर्णय लेख्‍ने आसापका छोरा योआ थिए ।

And those who went to him were Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna, the scribe, and Joah, son of Asaph, the historian.

4 प्रमुख कमाण्‍डरले तिनीहरूलाई भने, “हिजकियालाई भन कि अश्शूरका राजा महाराजाले भन्छन्, 'तिम्रो भरोसाको स्रोत के हो?

And Rabshakeh said to them: “Tell Hezekiah: Thus says the great king, the king of the Assyrians: What is this faith in which you believe?

5 युद्धको निम्ति सल्लाह र सामर्थ्य छ भनी तिमीले व्यार्थका शब्दहरू मात्र बोल्छौ । अहिले तिमीले कसलाई भरोसा गरिरहेका छौ? मेरो विरुद्धमा विद्रोह गर्न तिमीलाई कसले आँट दिएको छ?

And by what counsel or strength would you prepare to rebel? In whom do you have faith, so much so that you would withdraw from me?

6 हेर, तिमीले मिश्रदेशमा भर पर्दैछौ, जुन फुटेको नर्कट हो, जसलाई तिमीले यसलाई हिंड्ने लट्ठीको रूपमा प्रयोग गर्छौ, तर एक जना मानिस यसमा ढल्किन्छ भने, त्यसको हातमा त्‍यसले घोच्‍नेछ र त्‍यसलाई छेड्नेछ । मिश्रदेशका राजा फारोमा भरोसा गर्नेहरूका निम्ति त्यो त्यस्तै नै हुनेछ ।

Behold, you are trusting in Egypt, in that broken staff of a reed. But if a man were to lean against it, it would enter his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to all who trust in him.

7 तर, “परमप्रभु हाम्रा परमेश्‍वरमा हामी भरोसा गरिरहेका छौं” बनेर तिमी मलाई भन्छौ भने, के त्‍यो उही होइन जसका उच्‍च स्थानहरू र वेदीहरूलाई हिजकियाले हटाएका छन्, अनि यहूदा र यरूशलेमलाई भनेका छन्, “तिमीहरूले यरूशलेमको यस वेदीको सामु आराधना गर्नुपर्छ”?

But if you answer me by saying: ‘We trust in the Lord our God.’ Is it not his high places and altars that Hezekiah has taken away? And he has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar.’

8 यसकारण, अब मेरो मालिक अश्शूरका महाराजाको तर्फबाट म तिमीलाई असल कुरा दिन चाहन्छु । तिमीले घोडचडीहरू भेट्टउन सक्‍छौ भने, म तिमीलाई दुई हजार घोडाहरू दिनेछु ।

And now, hand yourselves over to my lord, the king of the Assyrians, and I will give you two thousand horses, and you will not be able to find riders for them on your own.

9 मेरो मालिकका सेवकहरूमध्‍ये सबाभन्दा सानो एक जना कप्‍तानको पनि तिमीले कसरी सामना गर्न सक्छौ र? तिमीले रथहरू र घोडचढीहरूका निम्ति मिश्रदेशमा भरोसा गरेका छौ ।

So how will you withstand the face of the ruler of even one place, of even the least of my lord’s subordinates? But if you trust in Egypt, in four-horse chariots and in horsemen:

10 अब के मैले यहाँ यस देशको विरुद्ध युद्ध गर्न र यसलाई विनाश पार्न परमप्रभुविना नै आएको हुँ र? परमप्रभुले मलाई भन्‍नुभयो, “यो देशलाई आक्रमण गर् र त्‍यसलाई नाश गर् ।”

do I intend to go up against this land to destroy it without the Lord? But the Lord said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’”

11 तब हिल्कियाहका छोरा एल्याकीम, शेब्‍ना र योआले प्रमुख कमाण्‍डरलाई भने, “कृपया, तपाईंका सेवकहरूसँग आरमेइक भाषा बोल्नुहोस्, किनकि हामी यो बुझ्‍छौं । पर्खालमा भएका यी मानिसहरूले सुन्‍ने गरी यहूदाको भाषामा नबोल्नुहोस् ।”

And Eliakim, and Shebna, and Joah said to Rabshakeh: “Speak to your servants in the Syrian language. For we understand it. Do not speak to us in the Jewish language, in the hearing of the people, who are upon the wall.”

12 तर प्रमुख कमाण्‍डरले भने, “के तिमीहरूका मालिक र तिमीहरूलाई मात्र यो कुरा भन्‍न मेरा मालिकले मलाई पठाउनुभएको हो र? के पर्खालमाथि बस्‍ने मानिसहरूलाई पनि यो कुरा भन्‍न उहाँले मलाई पठाउनुभएको होइन र, जसले तिमीहरूसँगै आफ्‍नो दिसा खानुपर्छ र आफ्‍नो पिसाब पिउनुपर्छ?”

And Rabshakeh said to them: “Has my lord sent me to your lord and to you in order to speak all these words, and not even more so to the men who are sitting on the wall, so that they may eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”

13 तब प्रमुख कमाण्‍डर खडा भए र ठुलो सोरमा यहूदी भाषामा नै यसो भने, “महान् राजा, अश्शूरका महाराजाका कुरा सुन ।

Then Rabshakeh stood up, and he cried out with a loud voice in the Jewish language, and he said: “Listen to the words of the great king, the king of the Assyrians.

14 महाराजा भन्‍नुहुन्छ, 'हिजकियाले तिमीहरूलाई छल नगरोस्, किनकि त्यसले तिमीहरूलाई छुटकारा दिन सक्‍नेछैन ।

Thus says the king: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. For he will not be able to rescue you.

15 तिमीहरूलाई यसो भन्‍दै परमप्रभुमा भरोसा गर्ने बनाउन हिजकियालाई नदेओ, 'परमप्रभुले निश्‍चय पनि हामीलाई छुटकारा दिनुहुनेछ । यो सहर अश्शूरका राजाको हातमा दिइनेछैन' ।

And do not let Hezekiah cause you to trust in the Lord, saying: ‘The Lord will rescue and free us. This city will not be given into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.’

16 हिजकियाको कुरा नसुन, किनकि अश्शूरका राजा यसो भन्‍नुहुन्छ, 'मसँग मिलाप गर र मकहाँ बाहिर आओ । तब तिमीहरूमध्‍ये हरेकले आ-आफ्नै दाख र अञ्जिरको रूखबाट खानेछ र आफ्नै इनारबाट पानी पिउनेछ ।

Do not listen to Hezekiah. For the king of the Assyrians says this: Act with me to your own benefit, and come out to me. And let each one eat from his own vine, and each one from his own fig tree. And let each one drink water from his own well,

17 तिमीहरूको जस्तै देशमा, अन्‍न र नयाँ दाखमद्यको देशमा, रोटी र दाखबारीको देशमा म आएर मैले तिमीहरूलाई नलगेसम्म तिमीहरूले यसै गर्नेछौ ।'

until I arrive and take you away to a land which is like your own: a land of grain and of wine, a land of bread and of vineyards.

18 हिजकियाले तिमीहरूलाई यसो भनेर भ्रममा पार्न नदेओ, 'परमप्रभुले हामीलाई छुटकारा दिनुहुनेछ' । के अश्शूरका राजाका हातबाट मानिसहरूका कुनै देवताहरूले तिनीहरूलाई छुटकारा दिएका छन् र?

But you should not let Hezekiah disturb you, saying, ‘The Lord will deliver us.’ Have any of the gods of each of the nations delivered their land from the hand of the king of the Assyrians?

19 हमात र अर्पादका देवताहरू कहाँ छन्? सपर्बेमका देवताहरू कहाँ छन्? के तिनीहरूले समरियालाई मेरो शक्तिबाट छुटकारा दिएका छन् र?

Where is the god of Hamath and of Arpad? Where is the god of Sepharvaim? Have they freed Samaria from my hand?

20 यी देशहरूका सबै देवताहरूमध्‍ये कुनै देवताले आफ्नो देशलाई मेरो शक्तिबाट छुटकारा दिएका छन् । के परमप्रभुले यरूशलेमलाई मेरो शक्तिबाट बचाउनुभयो भनेजस्तै कुरा गर्छौ?”

Who is there, among all the gods of these lands, who has rescued his land from my hand, so that the Lord would rescue Jerusalem from my hand?”

21 तर मानिसहरू चुपचाप बसे र कुनै जवाफ दिएनन्, किनकि “त्‍यसलाई जवाफ नदिनू” भन्‍ने राजाको हुकुम थियो ।

And they remained silent and did not answer a word to him. For the king had commanded them, saying, “You shall not respond to him.”

22 तब राजदरवारका निरीक्षक हिल्कियाहका छोरा एल्याकीम, शास्‍त्री शेब्‍ना र लेखक आसापका छोरा योआले आफ्‍ना लुगा च्यातेर हिजकियाकहाँ आए र प्रमुख कमाण्‍डरका कुरा तिनलाई सुनाए ।

And Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna, the scribe, and Joah, son of Asaph, the historian, entered to Hezekiah with their garments rent, and they reported to him the words of Rabshakeh.