यशैया 42

1 हेर, मेरो सेवक, जसलाई म समर्थन गर्छु । मेरो चुनिएको मानिस, जसमा म खुसी हुन्छु । मेरो आत्मा मैले तिनमा हालेको छु । तिनले जातिहरूका माझमा न्याय ल्याउनेछन् ।

See my servant, whom I am supporting, my loved one, in whom I take delight: I have put my spirit on him; he will give the knowledge of the true God to the nations.

2 तिनी कराउनेछैनन् न चिच्याउनेछन्, न तिनको आवाज सडकहरूमा सुनाउनेछन् ।

He will make no cry, his voice will not be loud: his words will not come to men's ears in the streets.

3 तिनले फुटेको निगालोलाई भाँच्‍नेछैनन्, अनि मधुरो बत्तीलाई तिनले निभाउनेछैनन्: तिनले विश्‍वस्‍ततासाथ न्याय गर्नेछन् ।

He will not let a crushed stem be quite broken, and he will not let a feebly burning light be put out: he will go on sending out the true word to the peoples.

4 पृथ्वीमा तिनले न्याय स्थापित नगरेसम्म तिनी मूर्छा पर्नेछैनन्, न निराश हुनेछन् । अनि समुद्र किनारहरूले तिनको न्यायको आशा गर्छन् ।

His light will not be put out, and he will not be crushed, till he has given the knowledge of the true God to the earth, and the sea-lands will be waiting for his teaching.

5 आकाश सृष्‍टि गर्नुहुने र त्यसलाई फिंजाउनुहुने, पृथ्वी र त्यसले उपन्‍न गर्ने सबै थोक बनाउनुहुने, त्‍यसमा मानिसहरूलाई सास दिनुहुने र त्‍यसमा बस्‍नेहरूलाई जीवन दिनुहुने परमप्रभु परमेश्‍वर यसो भन्‍नुहुन्छः

God the Lord, even he who made the heavens, measuring them out on high; stretching out the earth, and giving its produce; he who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who go about on it, says:

6 “म परमप्रभुले तिमीलाई धार्मिकतामा बोलाएको छु र तिम्रो हात समात्‍नेछु । म तिमीलाई सुरक्षा दिनेछु र मानिसहरूको निम्ति करारको रूपमा र जतिहरूका निम्ति ज्योतिको रूपमा खडा गर्नेछु,

I the Lord have made you the vessel of my purpose, I have taken you by the hand, and kept you safe, and I have given you to be an agreement to the people, and a light to the nations:

7 अन्‍धाहरूका आँखा खोलिदिन, कालकोठरीबाट कैदीहरूलाई छुटकारा दिन र अन्धकारमा बस्‍नेहरूलाई बन्दीगृहबाट छुटकारा दिन ।

To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.

8 म परमप्रभु हुँ, मेरो नाउँत्यही हो । म आफ्‍नो महिमा अर्कोलाई दिनेछैन न म आफ्‍नो प्रशंसा मूर्तीहरूलाई दिन्‍छु ।

I am the Lord; that is my name: I will not give my glory to another, or my praise to pictured images.

9 हेर, पहिलेका कुरा बितेर गए, अब म नयाँ घटनाहरूका घोषणा गर्न लागेको छु । ती सुरु हुनअगि नै तिनका बारेमा म तिमीलाई भन्‍नेछु ।”

See, the things said before have come about, and now I give word of new things: before they come I give you news of them.

10 परमप्रभुको निम्ति एउटा नयाँ गीत गाओ र पृथ्वीको अन्‍तिम छेउबाट उहाँको प्रशंसा गाओ । तिमीहरू जो तल समुद्रमा जान्छौ, र त्‍यसमा भएका सबैले, समुद्री किनारहरू र त्‍यहाँ बस्‍नेहरूले ।

Make a new song to the Lord, and let his praise be sounded from the end of the earth; you who go down to the sea, and everything in it, the sea-lands and their people.

11 मरुभूमि र सहरहरूले सोर निकालून्, केदार बसेका गाउँहरू आनन्दले कराऊन्! सेला काबासिन्दाहरूले गाऊन्, पर्वतका चुचुराबाट तिनीहरू कराऊन् ।

Let the waste land and its flocks be glad, the tent-circles of Kedar; let the people of the rock give a glad cry, from the top of the mountains let them make a sound of joy.

12 तिनीहरूले परमप्रभुलाई महिमा दिऊन् र समुद्र किनारहरूमा उहाँको प्रशंसाको घोषणा गरून् ।

Let them give glory to the Lord, sounding his praise in the sea-lands.

13 परमप्रभु एउटा युद्धाझैं बाहिर निस्कनुहुनेछ । एक जना योद्धाले झैं उहाँले आफ्नो जोश जगाउनुहुनेछ । उहाँ करानुहुनेछ, हो, उहाँले युद्धाको ध्वनि निकाल्नुहुनेछ । उहाँले आफ्ना शत्रुहरूलाई आफ्नो शक्ति देखाउनुहुनेछ ।

The Lord will go out as a man of war, he will be moved to wrath like a fighting-man: his voice will be strong, he will give a loud cry; he will go against his attackers like a man of war.

14 म लामो समयसम्म चुपचाप बसेको छु । म मौन रहेको छु र आफैंलाई थामेको छु । अब म प्रसव वेदनामा परेको स्‍त्रझैं कराउँछु । म स्वाँ-स्वाँ गर्छु र छिटो-छिटो सास फेर्छु ।

I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.

15 म पहाडहरू र पर्वतहरूलाई उजाड पारेर छोड्नेछु र तिनका सबै बोटबिरुवालाई सुख्‍खा बनाउनेछु । अनि नदीहरूलाई टापुहरूमा म परिणत गर्नेछु र सिमसारहरू सुख्‍खा हुनेछन् ।

I will make waste mountains and hills, drying up all their plants; and I will make rivers dry, and pools dry land.

16 अन्‍धाहरूले नचिनेका बाटोद्वारा म तिनीहरूले ल्याउनेछु । तिनीहरूलाई थाहा नभएका बाटोहरूमा म तिनीहरूलाई डोर्‍याउनेछु । तिनीहरूका सामु अन्धकारलाई म उज्यालोमा बद्लनेछु र बाङ्गोटिङ्गो ठाउँहरूलाई सोझो बनाउनेछु । यी कुराहरू म गर्नेछु र म तिनीहरूलाई त्यग्‍नेछैन ।

And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.

17 तिनीहरूलाई फर्काइनेछ, तिनीहरूलाई पुर्ण रूपमा लाजमा पारिनेछ, जसले कुँदिएको आकृतिहरूमा भरोसा गर्छन्, जसले धातुका आकृतिहरूलाई भन्छन्, “तपाईंहरू हाम्रा ईश्‍वरहरू हुनुहुन्छ” ।

They will be turned back and be greatly shamed who put their hope in pictured images, who say to metal images, You are our gods.

18 ए बहिरा हो, सुन । अनि अन्धाहरूले हेर, ताकि तिमीहरूले देख्‍न सक ।

Give ear, you whose ears are shut; and let your eyes be open, you blind, so that you may see.

19 मेरो सेवकबाहेक को अन्धा छ? वा मैले पठाएको मेरो दूतबहेक को बहिरो छ? मेरो करारको साझेदारजस्तो बहिरो वा परमप्रभुको सेवकजस्तो अन्धा को छ?

Who is blind, but my servant? who has his ears stopped, but he whom I send? who is blind as my true one, or who has his ears shut like the Lord's servant?

20 तैंले धेरै थोक देख्छस्, तर बुझ्दैनस् । कानहरू खुल्‍ला छन्, तर कसैले सुन्दैन ।

Seeing much, but keeping nothing in mind; his ears are open, but there is no hearing.

21 आफ्‍नो न्यायको प्रशंसा गर्न र आफ्‍नो व्यावस्थालाई महिमित पार्न परमप्रभु खुसी हुनुहुन्छ ।

It was the Lord's pleasure, because of his righteousness, to make the teaching great and give it honour.

22 तर यिनीहरू ठगिएका र लुटिएका मानिसहरू हुन् । तिनीहरू सबै खल्डाहरूमा जाकिएका, कैदहरूमा राखिएका छन् । तिनीहरू कसैले उद्धार नगर्ने लूटका माल भएका छन् र कसैले यसो भन्‍दैन, “तिनीहरूलाई फिर्ता ल्‍याओ ।”

But this is a people whose property has been taken away from them by force; they are all taken in holes, and shut up in prisons: they are made prisoners, and no one makes them free; they are taken by force and no one says, Give them back.

23 तिमीहरूमध्ये कसले यो सुन्‍नेछ? भविष्यमा कसले सुन्‍नेछ र ध्यान दिनेछ?

Who is there among you who will give ear to this? who will give attention to it for the time to come?

24 याकूबलाई कसले लुटेराको हातमा र इस्राएललाई लुटाहाको हातमा सुम्प्यो? के परमप्रभुले नै होइन, जसको विरुद्धमा हामीले पाप गरेका छौं, जसको बाटोमा हिंड्न तिनीहरू इन्कार गरे र जसको व्यावस्था पालन गर्न तिनीहरूले इन्कार गरे?

Who gave up Jacob to those who took away his goods, and Israel to his attackers? Did not the Lord? he against whom they did wrong, and in whose ways they would not go, turning away from his teaching.

25 यसकारण उहाँले तिनीहरूमाथि आफ्‍नो डरलग्दो क्रोध र युद्धको हिंसा खन्याउनुभयो, त्‍यसको ज्वालाले तिनीहरूलाई घेर्‍यो, तापनि तिनीहरूले बुझेनन् । त्‍यसले तिनीहरूलाई भस्म पार्‍यो, तर तिनीहरूले त्‍यसलाई मनमा लिएनन् ।

For this reason he let loose on him the heat of his wrath, and his strength was like a flame; and it put fire round about him, but he did not see it; he was burned, but did not take it to heart.