यर्मिया 2
1 परमप्रभुको वचन मकहाँ यसो भनेर आयो,
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 “जा र यरूशलेमले सुन्ने गरी घोषणा गर् । यसो भन्, ‘परमप्रभु यसो भन्नुहुन्छः तेरो युवावस्थामा भएको करारको विश्वसनियता, हाम्रो मगनी भएको बेलाको तेरो प्रेम, बीउ नछरिएको त्यस देशको उजाड-स्थानमा तँ मेरो पछि लागेको समयलाई याद गर्न मैले तँलाई बोलाएको छु ।
“Go, and cry out to the ears of Jerusalem, saying: Thus says the Lord: I have remembered you, taking pity on your youth and on the charity of your betrothal, when you followed me into the desert, into a land which is not sown.
3 परमपप्रभुको फसलको अगौटे फल इस्राएललाई उहाँको निम्ति अलग गरियो । अगौटे फलबाट खाने सबै जना दोषी ठहरिए । तिनीहरूमाथि विपत्ति आइपर्यो, यो परमप्रभुको घोषणा हो ' ।”
Israel is holy to the Lord, the first of his fruits. All those who devour him commit an offense. Evils will overwhelm them, says the Lord.”
4 हे याकूबका घराना र इस्राएलको घरानाका सबै वंश हो, परमप्रभुको वचन सुन ।
Listen to the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all you families of the house of Israel.
5 परमप्रभु यसो भन्नुहुन्छ, “तिमीहरूका पुर्खाहरूले ममा के गल्ति भेट्टाए जसको कारणले गर्दा मलाई पछ्याउनबाट तिनीहरू टाढा भए? तिनीहरू बेकम्मा मुर्तिहरूको पछि गए र आफै बेकम्मा भए ।
Thus says the Lord: “What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they would draw far away from me, and would walk after emptiness, and would become empty?
6 तिनीहरूले यसो भनेनन्, 'हामीलाई मिश्रदेशबाट ल्याउनुहुने परमप्रभु कहाँ हुनुहुन्छ? हामीलाई उजाड-स्थानमा, अराबाको देश र खाडलहरूमा, सुख्खा र घोर अन्धकारको देशमा, कोही नजाने र कोही नबस्ने देशमा अगुवाइ गर्नुहुने परमप्रभु कहाँ हुनुहुन्छ?
And they have not said: ‘Where is the Lord, who caused us to ascend from the land of Egypt; who led us through the desert, through an uninhabited and impassable land, through a land of drought and of the image of death, through a land in which no one walked and in which no man lived?’
7 तर मैले तिमीहरूलाई कर्मेलको फल र अन्य असल खानेकुराहरू खान त्यस देशमा ल्याएँ । तापनि जब तिमीहरू आयौ, तिमीहरूले मेरो देशलाई दुषित पार्यौ । तिमीहरूले मेरो उत्तराधिकारलाई घृणित बनायौ ।
And I led you into the land of Carmel, so that you would eat from its fruit and from its excellence. And having entered it, you defiled my land, and you turned my inheritance into an abomination.
8 पुजारीले सोधेन, 'परमप्रभु कहाँ हुनुहुन्छ?', र व्यवस्थाका ज्ञाताहरूले मेरो बारेमा वास्तै गरेनन् । गोठालाहरूले मेरो विरुद्धमा अपराध गरे । अगमवक्ताहरूले बाल देवताको लागि अगमवाणी बोले, र व्यर्थैका कुराहरूको पछि लागे ।
The priests have not said: ‘Where is the Lord?’ And those who held the law did not know me. And the pastors betrayed me. And the prophets prophesied in Baal and followed idols.
9 त्यसैले परमप्रभु घोषणा गर्नुहुन्छ, म अझै पनि तिमीहरूलाई दोष लगाउनेछु र तिमीहरूका छोराहरूलाई दोष लगाउनेछु ।
Because of this, I will still contend in judgment against you, says the Lord, and I will dispute with your sons.
10 किनकि कित्तीमका किनारहरू पार गर र हेर । केदारमा सन्देशवाहकहरू पठाओ र पत्ता लगाओ, र त्यहाँ यस्तो काम पहिले कहिल्यै भएको रहेछ कि भनी हेर ।
Cross over to the isles of Kittim, and gaze. And send to Kedar, and consider diligently. And see if anything like this has ever been done.
11 के कुनै जातिले आफ्ना देवताहरू साटेका छन्? यद्यपि ती देवताहरू नै थिएनन् । तर जुन कुराले मेरो जातिलाई मदत गर्न सक्दैन, तिनै कुरासित तिनीहरूले आफ्नो महिमालाई साटेका छन् ।
See if a nation has ever changed their gods, though certainly those are not gods. Yet truly, my people have exchanged their glory for an idol.
12 यही कारणले गर्दा हे आकाशमण्डल, थरथर हो, चकित हो र डरले काँप, यो परमप्रभुको घोषणा हो ।
Be astonished at this, O heavens, and be utterly desolate, O gates of heaven, says the Lord.
13 किनकि मेरो जातिले मेरो विरुद्धमा दुईवटा दुष्ट काम गरेको छः तिनीहरूले जिउँदो पानीको मुललाई त्यागेका छन्, र तिनीहरूले आफ्नै निम्ति पानी चुहिने कुवाहरू खनेका छन् ।
For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken me, the Fountain of living water, and they have dug for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that are unable to hold water.
14 के इस्राएल दास हो? के त्यो आफ्नो मालिकको घरमा जन्मेको थियो? त्यसो भए, त्यो किन लुटको माल भएको छ त?
Is Israel a servant, or one born into slavery? Then why has he become a prey?
15 जवान सिंहहरू त्यसको विरुद्धमा गर्जे । तिनीहरूले ठुलो स्वरले गर्जेका छन्, र त्यसको देशलाई त्रसित पारेका छन् । त्यसका सहरहरू बासिन्दाहरू नरहने गरी नष्ट पारिएका छन् ।
The lions have roared over him, and they have uttered their voice. They have set his land in solitude; his cities have been burned up, and there is no one who lives in them.
16 साथै, मेम्फिस र तहपनेसका मानिसहरूले तेरो शिर खौरिनेछन् ।
Likewise, the sons of Memphis and of Tahpanhes have defiled you, even to the top of the head.
17 परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्वरले तिमीहरूलाई अगुवाइ गरिरहनुहुँदा तिमीहरूले उहाँलाई त्यागेर के यो तिमीहरू आफ्नै निम्ति गरेका होइनौ र?
Has this not been done to you because you abandoned the Lord your God, in that time when he was leading you by the way?
18 त्यसैले अब, शिहोर नदीको पानी पिउन किन मिश्रदेशमा पुर्याउने बाटो भएर जान्छौ? यूफ्रेटिस नदीको पानी पिउन किन अश्शूरमा पुर्याउने बाटो भएर जान्छौ?
And now what do you want from the way of Egypt, but to drink their turbid water? And what do you want from the way of the Assyrians, but to drink the water of their river?
19 तिमीहरूको दुष्टताले नै तिमीहरूलाई हप्काउँछ, र तिमीहरूको अविश्वासले नै तिमीहरूलाई दण्ड दिन्छ । त्यसैले यसबारे विचार गर, र बुझ, परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्वरलाई त्यागेर उहाँको डर नमान्नु भनेको दुष्ट र तितो कुरा हो, यो सर्वशक्तिमान् परमप्रभु परमेश्वरको घोषणा हो ।
Your own malice will reprove you, and your own apostasy will rebuke you! But know and perceive this: it is an evil and bitter thing for you to forsake the Lord your God, and to be without my fear within you, says the Lord, the God of hosts.
20 किनकि तँसित प्राचिन समयमा भएको तेरो जुवा मैले भाँचिदिएँ । मैले तेरा बन्धनहरू फुकाइदिएँ । तरै पनि तैंले भनिस्, 'म तपाईंको सेवा गर्नेछैनँ!' किनकि हरेक अग्लो डाँडा र हरेक झ्याम्म परेको रुखमुनि तैंले आफ्नो शिर झुकाइस्, तँ वेश्या होस् ।
From ancient times, you have broken my yoke; you have torn apart my bonds, and you have said, ‘I will not serve.’ For on every high hill, and under every leafy tree, you have been debased, O harlot.
21 मैले तँलाई पूर्ण रूपले शुद्ध बीउबाट असल दाखको बोटको रूपमा रोपेको थिएँ । तब तैंले आफैलाई भ्रष्ट र बेकम्मा दाखको बोटको रूपमा कसरी परिवर्तन गरिस्?
Yet I planted you as an elect vineyard, with only true seed. Then how have you been turned away from me, toward that which is depraved, O strange vineyard?
22 तैंले आफैलाई नदीमा सफा गरिस् वा साबुनले धोइस् भने पनि, तेरो अधर्म मेरो सामु दागझैं छ, यो परमप्रभु परमेश्वरको घोषणा हो ।
Even if you wash yourself with soap, and increase your use of herbal soaps, you are still stained by your iniquity in my sight, says the Lord God.
23 'म बिटुलो पारिएको छैनँ! म बाल देवताको पछि लागेको छैनँ' भनी तैले कसरी भन्न सक्छस्? तैंले उपत्यकाहरूमा के गरिस्, सो हेर् । तैंले गरेको कुरालाई विचार गर् । तँ यताउता कुदिहिंड्ने चञ्चल पोथी ऊँट हो,
How can you say: ‘I have not been polluted. I have not walked after Baal?’ Consider your ways in the steep valley. Acknowledge what you have done, so that you may be like a swift runner, following his course.
24 तँ उजाड-स्थानमा बस्न आदत भएको कामातुर भएर हावा सुँघ्दै हिंड्ने वन-गधैनी हो। त्यसको कामवासनालाई कसले नियन्त्रण गर्न सक्छ? त्यसको पछि लाग्ने कुनै पनि गधा थकित हुनुपर्दैन । मैथुनको समयमा तिनीहरूले त्यसलाई फेला पार्नेछन् ।
A wild donkey accustomed to solitude, out of the desire in his soul, caught the scent of his lover. Now nothing will turn him away from her. All those who seek her will not cease. But they will find her in her menstruation.
25 तेरो खुट्टालाई नाङ्गो हुनबाट र तेरो घाँटीलाई तिर्खाउनबाट तैंले नियन्त्रण गर्नुपर्छ । तर तैंले भनेको छस्, 'यो आशारहित छ! अहँ, म परदेशीहरूलाई प्रेम गर्छु र तिनीहरूकै पछि लाग्छु ।'
You should keep your foot from being naked, and your throat from being thirsty. But you have said: ‘I have lost hope. I will not do it. For certainly, I have loved strangers, and I will walk after them.’
26 चोर समातिंदा त्यो लज्जित भएझैं, इस्राएलको घराना लज्जित हुने छ । तिनीहरू, तिनीहरूका राजाहरू, तिनीहरूका राजकुमारहरू, र तिनीहरूका पुजारीहरू र तिनीहरूका अगमवक्ताहरू लज्जित हुनेछन् ।
In the same way that a thief is confounded when he has been apprehended, so the house of Israel has been confounded, they and their kings, their leaders and priests and prophets.
27 यी तिनै हुन् जसले रुखलाई भन्छन्, 'तिमी मेरा पिता हौ', र ढुङ्गालाई 'तिमीले मलाई जन्म दियौ' । किनकि तिनीहरूले मतर्फ पिठिउँ फर्काउँछन्, आफ्ना अनुहार होइन । तापनि सङ्कष्टको समयमा तिनीहरू भन्छन्, 'उठ्नुहोस् र हामीलाई बचाउनुहोस्!'
For they say to a piece of wood, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You have conceived me.’ They have turned their back to me, and not their face. But in the time of their affliction, they will say: ‘Rise up and deliver us.’
28 तापनि तिमीहरूले आफ्ना निम्ति बनाएका देवताहरू कहाँ छन्? तिमीहरूको सङ्कष्टको समयमा तिमीहरूलाई बचाउन तिनीहरूको इच्छा भए तिनीहरू उठून्, किनकि हे यहूदा, तेरा जति सहरहरू छन्, त्यति नै तेरा मुर्तिहरू छन् ।
Where are your gods that you made for yourselves? Let them rise up and deliver you in the time of your affliction. For certainly, your gods were like the number of your cities, O Judah.
29 त्यसैले मैले गलत गरेको छु भनी मलाई किन दोष लगाउँछस्? तिमीहरू सबैले मेरो विरुद्धमा पाप गरेका छौ, यो परमप्रभुको घोषणा हो ।
Why do you want to contend against me in judgment? You have all forsaken me, says the Lord.
30 मैले तेरो जातिलाई व्यर्थैमा दण्ड दिएको छु । तिनीहरूले अनुशासनलाई स्वीकार गर्दैनन् । तिमीहरूको तरवारले तिमीहरूका अगमवक्ताहरूलाई विनाश गर्ने सिंहले झैं निलेको छ ।
I have struck your children to no effect; they have not accepted discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets. Your generation is like a raging lion.
31 हे यस पुस्ताका मानिस हो, मेरा वचन, परमप्रभुको वचनमा ध्यान देओ । के म इस्राएलको निम्ति उजाड-स्थान वा घोर अन्धकारको देश भएँ र? किन मेरो जातिले यसो भन्छ, 'हामी वरिपरि घुम्न दिनुहोस्, हामी फेरि तपाईंकहाँ आउनेछैनौं'?
Consider the word of the Lord. Have I become like a wilderness to Israel, or like a land late to bear fruit? Then why have my people said, ‘We are withdrawing; we will no longer approach you’?
32 के कन्याले आफ्नो गरगहना, दुलहीले आफ्ना घुम्टो भुल्छे र? तरै पनि मेरो जातिले मलाई गन्नै नसक्ने दिनदेखि भुलेको छ ।
Can a virgin forget her ornament, or a bride the covering across her breast? Yet truly, my people have forgotten me, for innumerable days.
33 प्रेमको खोजी गर्न कसरी तैंले आफ्नो मार्ग बनाउँछेस्? तैंले दुष्ट स्त्रीहरूलाई पनि आफ्ना मार्गहरू सिकाएको छेस् ।
Why are you striving to claim that your way is good, as if to seek my love, when all the while you are also displaying your malice by your own way,
34 तेरा वस्त्रहरूमा निर्दोष गरिब मानिसहरूको जीवनको रगत भेट्टाइएको छ । यी मानिसहरू घरमा चिरी गरिरहँदा भेट्टाइएका होइनन् ।
and in your armpits there is found the blood of poor and innocent souls? I have found them, not in ditches, but everywhere that I mentioned previously.
35 तरै पनि तँ भन्छेस्, 'म निर्दोष छु । निश्चय नै उहाँको क्रोध मबाट तर्केर गएको छ ।' तर हेर! 'मैले पाप गरेको छैनँ' भनी तैंले भनेको हुनाले म तँमाथि इन्साफ ल्याउनेछु ।
And you have said: ‘I am innocent and without sin. And because of this, let your fury be turned away from me.’ Behold, I will contend with you in judgment, because you have said: ‘I have not sinned.’
36 तेरा मार्गमा यो बद्लाउलाई तँ किन निकै हलुकासित लिन्छेस्? जसरी अश्शूरले तँलाई निरुत्साही पार्यो, त्यसै गरी मिश्रदेशले पनि तँलाई निरुत्साही पार्नेछ ।
How exceedingly vile you have become, repeating your ways again and again! And so, you will be ashamed of Egypt, just as you were ashamed of Assur.
37 आफ्नो शिरमा आफ्ना हात राखेर तँ त्यहाँबाट दुःखी भएर जानुपर्ने हुन्छ, किनकि तैंले जस-जसमाथि भरोसा गरेको छेस्, तिनीहरूलाई परमप्रभुले इन्कार गर्नुभएको छ । त्यसैले तिनीहरूबाट तैंले मदत पाउनेछैनस् ।
For you will also depart from that place, and your hand will be upon your head. For the Lord has crushed your confidence, and you will have nothing prosperous by it.”
