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 this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by the LORD’s name, 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 citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; the LORD of Armies 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 of old. Yes, they went out of my mouth, and I revealed them. I did them suddenly, and they happened.
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 bronze;
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 ।’
therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I showed it to you; lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them. My engraved 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 it. Now see all this. And you, won’t you declare it? “I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known.
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 of old. Before today, you didn’t hear them, 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 didn’t hear. Yes, you didn’t know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened, for I knew that you dealt 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, I will defer my anger, and for my praise, I hold it back for you so that I don’t cut you 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 as 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, for my own sake, I will do it; for how would my name be profaned? 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 am also the last.
13 हो, मेरो हातले पृथ्वीको जग बसाल्यो र मेरो दाहिने हातले आकाश फिंजायो । जब म तिनीहरूलाई बोलाउँछु, तब तिनीहरू एकसाथ खडा हुन्छन् ।
Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out 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 ।
“Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear! Who amongst them has declared these things? He whom the LORD loves will do what he likes to Babylon, and his arm will be against 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 near to me and hear this: “From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it happened, I was there.” Now the Lord GOD has sent me with his Spirit.
17 परमप्रभु, तिमीहरूका उद्धारक, इस्राएलका परमपवित्र यसो भन्नुहुन्छ, “म परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्वर हुँ, जसले कसरी सफल हुने भनी सिकाउँछ, जसले तिमीहरू जानुपर्ने बाटोमा डोर्याउँछ ।
The LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who 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 ।
Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like 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 offspring also would have been as the sand and the descendants of your body like its grains. His name would not be 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 ।'
Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With the sound of joyful shouting announce this, tell it even to the end of the earth; say, “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 ।
They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts. He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them. He also split the rock and the waters gushed out.
22 त्यहाँ दुष्टहरूलाई शान्ति हुँदैन,’ परमप्रभु भन्नुहुन्छ ।”
“There is no peace”, says the LORD, “for the wicked.”
