यर्मिया 2

1 परमप्रभुको वचन मकहाँ यसो भनेर आयो,

The LORD’s word 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 proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘The LORD says, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, your love as a bride, how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was 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 was holiness to the LORD, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him will be held guilty. Evil will come on them,”’ says the LORD.”

4 हे याकूबका घराना र इस्राएलको घरानाका सबै वंश हो, परमप्रभुको वचन सुन ।

Hear the LORD’s word, O house of Jacob, and all the 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 ।

The LORD says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?

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?

They didn’t say, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where 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 ।

I brought you into a plentiful land to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage 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 didn’t say, ‘Where is the LORD?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed things that do not profit.

9 त्यसैले परमप्रभु घोषणा गर्नुहुन्छ, म अझै पनि तिमीहरूलाई दोष लगाउनेछु र तिमीहरूका छोराहरूलाई दोष लगाउनेछु ।

“Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says the LORD, “and I will contend with your children’s children.

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 ।

For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see. Send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there has been such a thing.

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 ।

Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit.

12 यही कारणले गर्दा हे आकाशमण्डल, थरथर हो, चकित हो र डरले काँप, यो परमप्रभुको घोषणा हो ।

“Be astonished, you heavens, at this and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate,” 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 committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t 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 slave? Is he born into slavery? Why has he become a captive?

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 young lions have roared at him and raised their voices. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

16 साथै, मेम्फिस र तहपनेसका मानिसहरूले तेरो शिर खौरिनेछन् ।

The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.

17 परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरले तिमीहरूलाई अगुवाइ गरिरहनुहुँदा तिमीहरूले उहाँलाई त्यागेर के यो तिमीहरू आफ्‍नै निम्‍ति गरेका होइनौ र?

“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken the LORD your God, when he led 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?

Now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or why do you go on the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the 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 wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken GOD your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, the LORD 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 ।

“For long ago I broke off your yoke, and burst your bonds. You said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.

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 had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

22 तैंले आफैलाई नदीमा सफा गरिस् वा साबुनले धोइस् भने पनि, तेरो अधर्म मेरो सामु दागझैं छ, यो परमप्रभु परमेश्‍वरको घोषणा हो ।

For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” 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 am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways,

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 used to the wilderness, that sniffs the wind in her craving. When she is in heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her.

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 ।'

“Keep your feet from being bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go 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 ।

As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so the house of Israel is ashamed— they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their 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!'

who tell wood, ‘You are my father,’ and a stone, ‘You have given birth to me,’ for they have turned their back to me, and not their face, but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and save 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 ।

“But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble, for you have as many gods as you have towns, 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 will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against 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 in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying 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'?

Generation, consider the LORD’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more’?

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 ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.

33 प्रेमको खोजी गर्न कसरी तैंले आफ्नो मार्ग बनाउँछेस्? तैंले दुष्‍ट स्‍त्रीहरूलाई पनि आफ्ना मार्गहरू सिकाएको छेस् ।

How well you prepare your way to seek love! Therefore you have even taught the wicked women your ways.

34 तेरा वस्‍त्रहरूमा निर्दोष गरिब मानिसहरूको जीवनको रगत भेट्टाइएको छ । यी मानिसहरू घरमा चिरी गरिरहँदा भेट्टाइएका होइनन् ।

Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You didn’t find them breaking in, but it is because of all these things.

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 ।

“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘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 ।

Why do you go about so much to change your ways? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

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 ।

You will also leave that place with your hands on your head; for the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust, and you won’t prosper with them.