यशैया 48

1 ए याकूबको घराना, यो कुरा सुन जसलाई इस्राएलको नाउँले बोलाइन्छ र यहूदाको वीर्यबाट आएको छ । तिमीहरू जसले परमप्रभुको नाउँमा शपथ खान्छौ र इस्राएलको परमेश्‍वरलाई पुकार्छौ, तर साँचो रूपले गर्दैनौ न धार्मिक तरिकाले गर्छौ ।

Hear you this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.

2 किनकि तिनीहरूले आफूलाई पवित्र सहरका मानिसहरू भन्छन् र इस्राएलको परमेश्‍वरमा भरोसा गर्छन् । सर्वशक्तिमान् परमप्रभु उहाँको नाउँ हो ।

For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.

3 “मैले धेरै पहिलेदेखि नै घोषणा गरेको छु । तिनीहरू मेरो मुखबाट निस्के र मैले नै तिनीहरूलाई प्रकट गरें । तब मैले अचानक ती गरें र ती हुन आए ।

I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.

4 किनभने तिमीहरू हठी भएको म जान्दथें, तिमीहरूका गर्दनका मांशपेशी फलामजस्तै कडा थियो, अनि तिमीहरूका निधार काँसाजस्तै थियो,

Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;

5 यसकारण मैले यी कुराहरू तिमीहरूलाई पहिले नै बताएँ । ती हुनुअगि नै मैले तिमीहरूलाई जानकारी दिएँ, त्यसैले तिमीहरूले यसो भन्‍न सक्‍नेछैनौ, 'मेरो मूर्तीले त्‍यो गरेको छ,' वा 'मेरो खोपेको आकृति र मेरो धातुबाट बनाइएको आकृतिले यी कुराहरू ठहराए ।’

I have even from the beginning declared it to you; before it came to pass I showed it you: lest you should say, My idol has done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, has commanded them.

6 तिमीहरूले यी कुराहरूका बारेमा सुन्यौ । यी सबै प्रमाणलाई हेर । अनि के मैले जे भनें सो सत्‍य हो भनी तिमीहरू स्वीकार गर्नेछैनौ? अबदेखि, तिमीहरूले नजानेका नयाँ कुराहरू, लुकाइएका थोकहरू म तिमीहरूलाई देखाउँदैछु ।

You have heard, see all this; and will not you declare it? I have showed you new things from this time, even hidden things, and you did not know them.

7 अहिले र पहिलेदेखि होइन, तिनीहरू अस्तित्वमा आउँछन् र आजभन्दा पहिले तिनीहरूका बारेमा तिमीहरूले सुनेका छैनौ, त्यसैले तिमीहरूले यसो भन्‍न सक्‍दैनौ, 'हो, तिनीहरूका बारेमा मलाई थाहा थियो ।'

They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when you heard them not; lest you should say, Behold, I knew them.

8 तिमीहरूले कहिल्यै सुनेनौ । तिमीहरूले जानेनौ । यी कुराहरू तिमीहरूका कानमा यसअघि भनिएको थिएन । किनकि तिमीहरू धेरै छली भएका छौ र जन्मैदेखि तिमीहरू विद्रोही भएका छौ भनी मलाई थाहा थियो ।

Yes, you heard not; yes, you knew not; yes, from that time that your ear was not opened: for I knew that you would deal very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.

9 मेरै नाउँको निम्‍ति म आफ्‍नो क्रोधलाई ढिला गर्नेछु, मेरो इज्‍जतको निम्ति म तिमीहरूलाई नाश गर्न रोक्‍नेछु ।

For my name’s sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for you, that I cut you not off.

10 हेर, तिमीहरूलाई मैले शुद्ध पारें, तर चाँदीलाई झैं होइन । तिमीहरूलाई मैले दुःखकष्‍टको भट्टीमा शुद्ध पारेको छु ।

Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

11 मेरै निम्‍ति, मेरै निम्‍ति म काम गर्नेछु । किनकि मेरो नाउँलाई म कसरी अपवित्र हुन दिन सक्छु र? म आफ्‍नो महिमा अरू कसैलाई दिनेछैन ।

For my own sake, even for my own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory to another.

12 ए याकूब, मेरो कुरा सुन्, ए इस्राएल जसलाई मैले बोलाएँ: म उही हुँ । म पहिलो हुँ र म अन्तिम पनि हुँ ।

Listen to me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.

13 हो, मेरो हातले पृथ्वीको जग बसाल्यो र मेरो दाहिने हातले आकाश फिंजायो । जब म तिनीहरूलाई बोलाउँछु, तब तिनीहरू एकसाथ खडा हुन्‍छन् ।

My hand also has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spanned the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.

14 तिमीहरू सबैले आफूलाई भेला पार र सुन! तिमीहरूका माझमा कसले यी कुराहरू घोषणा गरेको छ? परमप्रभुको मित्रले बेबिलोनविरुद्ध उहाँको उद्देश्य पुरा गर्ने छ । कल्दीहरूका विरुद्धमा उसले परमप्रभुको इच्छा पुरा गर्नेछन् ।

All you, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them has declared these things? The LORD has loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.

15 म, मैले बोलेको छु, हो, मैले त्यसलाई बोलाएको छु, मैले त्यसलाई ल्याएको छु र त्यो सफल हुनेछ ।

I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

16 मेरो नजिक आओ र यो कुरा सुनः “सुरुदेखि नै मैले गुप्‍तमा बोलेको छैन । जब यो हुन्छ, तब म त्यहाँ हुन्छु ।” अहिले परमप्रभु परमेश्‍वरले मलाई र उहाँको आत्मालाई पठाउनुभएको छ ।

Come you near to me, hear you this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, has sent me.

17 परमप्रभु, तिमीहरूका उद्धारक, इस्राएलका परमपवित्र यसो भन्‍नुहुन्छ, “म परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वर हुँ, जसले कसरी सफल हुने भनी सिकाउँछ, जसले तिमीहरू जानुपर्ने बाटोमा डोर्‍याउँछ ।

Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD your God which teaches you to profit, which leads you by the way that you should go.

18 तिमीहरूले मेरा आज्ञाहरू मात्र पालन गरेका भए । तिमीहरूका शान्ति र समृद्धि नदीझैं बग्‍ने थियो र तिमीहरूका उद्धार समुद्रको छालझैं हुनेथियो ।

O that you had listened to my commandments! then had your peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:

19 तिमीहरूका सन्तानहरू बालुवाझैं असंख्या हुने थिए र तिमीहरूका गर्भबाट जन्‍मेका छोराछोरीका बलुवाका कणझैं अनगिन्ति हुने थिए । तिनीहरूका नाउँ मेरो सामुबाट काटिने वा मेटिने थिएन ।

Your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

20 बेबिलोनबाट बाहिर आओ! कल्दीहरूबाट भाग! गुञ्‍जयमान् आवाजसँगै यो घोषणा गर! यसलाई प्रकट गर, यसलाई पृथ्वीको अन्तिम छेउसम्म जान देओ । यसो भन, 'परमप्रभुले आफ्नो सेवक याकूबलाई उद्धार गर्नुभएको छ ।'

Go you forth of Babylon, flee you from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare you, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say you, The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob.

21 उहाँले तिनीहरूलाई मरुभूमिमा डोर्‍याउनुहुँदा तिनीहरूलाइ तिर्खा लागेन । उहाँले तिनीहरूको निम्ति चट्टानबाट पानी बगाउनुभयो । उहाँले चट्टानलाई चिरा पार्नुभयो र पानी बाहिर बगेर आयो ।

And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he split the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

22 त्‍यहाँ दुष्‍टहरूलाई शान्ति हुँदैन,’ परमप्रभु भन्‍नुहुन्छ ।”

There is no peace, says the LORD, to the wicked.