< यर्मिया 29 >
1 निर्वासितहरूका बिचमा बाँकी रहेका धर्म-गुरुहरू, पुजारीहरू, अगमवक्ताहरू र सबै मानिस जसलाई नबूकदनेसरले यरूशलेमबाट बेबिलोनमा निर्वासित गरेर लगेका थिए, तिनीहरूलाई यर्मिया अगमवक्ताले पठाएको मुट्ठोमा लिखित वचनहरू यी नै हुन् ।
After King Jehoiachin, his mother, his palace officials, other officials in Judah, and all the various kinds of craftsmen [DOU] had been exiled to Babylon, I wrote a letter to the elders, the priests, the prophets and all the other people who had been taken from Jerusalem to Babylon by [soldiers of] Nebuchadnezzar.
2 राजा यहोयाकीन, राजमाता, उच्च अधिकारीहरू, यहूदाका र यरूशलेमका अगुवाहरू र कारीगरहरू यरूशलेमबाट निर्वासनमा लगिएपछि यो वचन लेखियो ।
3 तिनले यो मुट्ठो शापानका छोरा एलासा र हिल्कियाहका छोरा गमर्याहको हातबाट पठाएका थिए, जसलाई यहूदाका राजा सिदकियाहले बेबिलोनका राजा नबूकदनेसरकहाँ पठाएका थिए ।
[I gave] the letter to Elasah the son of Shaphan, and to Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, when they were about to go to Babylon to be ambassadors from King Zedekiah to King Nebuchadnezzar. This is what I wrote in the letter:
4 मुट्ठामा यस्तो लेखियो, “मैले यरूशलेमबाट बेबिलोनमा निर्वासित गरेका सबै कैदीलाई, म, सर्वशक्तिमान् परमप्रभु इस्राएलका परमेश्वर यसो भन्छु,
This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israelis [worship], says to all you people who were captured [here] in Jerusalem and taken [there] to Babylon:
5 'घरहरू बनाओ र तिनमा बस । बारीहरूमा बीउ रोप र तिनको फल खाओ ।
“Build houses [there], and plan to stay there [because you will be there for many years]. Plant gardens, and eat the food that is produced in the gardens.
6 बिहेबारी गर र छोराहरू र छोरीहरू जन्माओ । त्यसपछि आफ्ना छोराहरूका लागि पत्नीहरू ल्याओ, र आफ्ना छोरीहरू तिनीहरूका पतिहरूलाई देओ । तिनीहरूले छोराहरू र छोरीहरू जन्माऊन्, र त्यहाँ आफ्नो सङ्ख्या बढाओ, घटाउने होइन ।
Get married and have children. Then [when they grow up], choose wives for your sons, and husbands for your daughters, in order that they [also] may have children. [In that way], the number of you people will increase, not decrease.
7 मैले तिमीहरूलाई जहाँ निर्वासित गरेको छु, त्यस सहरको शान्ति खोज, र यसको पक्षमा मलाई अन्तर-बिन्ती चढाओ, किनकि यो शान्तिमा रह्यो बने तिमीहरूलाई शान्ति हुनेछ ।'
Also, do things that will cause things to go well [for the other people there] in the city where I sent you. Pray that things will go well for [the people in] that city, because if things go well for them, things will go well for you, [also].”
8 किनकि सर्वशक्तिमान् परमप्रभु इस्राएलका परमेश्वर यसो भन्नुहुन्छ, 'तिमीहरूका बिचमा भएका अगमवक्ताहरू र जोखना हेर्नेहरूले तिमीहरूलाई धोका नदेऊन्, र तिमीहरू आफैले देखेका सपनाका कुराहरू नमान ।
This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israeli people [worship], says: “There are [false] prophets and fortune-tellers among you. Do not allow them to deceive you. Do not pay attention to [them when they tell you] their dreams,
9 किनकि तिनीहरूले मेरो नाउँमा तिमीहरूलाई छलको अगमवाणी बोल्दैछन् । मैले तिनीहरूलाई पठाइनँ, यो परमप्रभुको घोषणा हो ।'
because they are telling you lies, saying that [MTY] [I have given them the messages that they are telling you]. But, I have not appointed them.”
10 किनकि परमप्रभु यसो भन्नुहुन्छ, 'बेबिलोनले तिमीहरूमाथि सत्तरी वर्षसम्म शासन गरिसकेपछि म तिमीहरूलाई मदत गर्नेछु, र तिमीहरूलाई यस ठाउँमा फर्काएर ल्याउछु भन्ने मेरो असल वचन पुरा गर्नेछु ।
This is [also] what Yahweh says: “After you [and your children] have been in Babylon for seventy years, I will help you, and do for you the things that I promised, and I will enable you to return here [to Jerusalem].
11 किनकि तिमीहरूका निम्ति मैले बनाएका योजनाहरू म जान्दछु, यो परमप्रभुको घोषणा हो, तिमीहरूलाई एउटा भविष्य र आशा दिनलाई ती शान्तिका योजनाहरू हुन्, विपत्तिका होइनन् ।
I, Yahweh, know what I have planned for you. I am planning to cause things to go well for you, not to cause you to experience disasters. I am planning to give you many things that you confidently expect to receive in the future.
12 तब तिमीहरूले मलाई पुकार्नेछौ, र जानेछौ र मलाई प्रार्थना चढाउनेछौ, र म तिमीहरूको प्रार्थना सुन्नेछु ।
At that time, when you pray, I will heed you.
13 किनकि तिमीहरूले मलाई खोज्नेछौ र भेट्टाउनेछौ, किनभने तिमीहरूले मलाई आफ्ना सारा हृदयले खोज्नेछौ ।
If you earnestly desire for me [to bless you], you will experience me [blessing you].
14 तब तिमीहरूले मलाई भेट्टाइनेछौ, यो परमप्रभुको घोषणा हो, र म तिमीहरूका सुदिन फर्काउनेछु । मैले तिमीहरूलाई छरपष्ट पारेका सबै जाति र ठाउँहरूबाट म तिमीहरूलाई जम्मा गर्नेछु, यो परमप्रभुको घोषणा हो, मैले तिमीहरूलाई जुन ठाउँबाट निर्वासित गरें, त्यहाँबाट म तिमीहरूलाई फर्काएर ल्याउनेछु ।'
I will make my help available to you [IDM]. I will cause you to no longer be slaves [in Babylon]. I will gather you from all the nations to which I have exiled you, and I will bring you back [here to your own land], to the place from which you were taken.”
15 परमेश्वरले हाम्रा निम्ति बेबिलोनमा नै अगमवक्ताहरू खडा गर्नुभएको छ भनी तिमीहरूले भनेकको हुनाले,
[Some of] you say that Yahweh has appointed prophets for you [there] in Babylon.
16 दाऊदको सिंहासनमा बस्ने राजा र त्यस सहरमा बसोबास गरेका सबै मानिसलाई परमप्रभु यसो भन्नुहुन्छ, तिमीहरूका दाजुभाइ जो तिमीहरूसँग निर्वासनमा गएका छैनन्—
But this is what Yahweh says about the king who rules [here] in Jerusalem, and about all the other people who are [still] living here—your relatives who were not taken to Babylon with you.
17 हेर, तिनीहरूकहाँ मैले तरवार, अनिकाल र विपत्ति ल्याउनै लागेको छु, सर्वशक्तिमान् परमप्रभु यसो भन्नुहुन्छ । किनकि म तिनीहरूलाई कुहेका अञ्जीरहरूजस्तै तुल्याउनेछु जुन खानलाई असाध्ये खराब हुन्छन् ।
The Commander of the armies of angels says this: “I will cause them to experience wars and famines and diseases. I will cause them to become like [SIM] bad figs that are very rotten, with the result that no one can eat them.
18 त्यसपछि म तिनीहरूलाई तरवार, अनिकाल र विपत्तिले खेद्नेछु, अनि म तिनीहरूलाई पृथ्वीका सबै राज्यमा घृणाको दृश्य, मैले तिनीहरूलाई छरपष्ट पारेका सबै जातिका बिचमा तिनीहरूलाई त्रास, सराप र गिल्लाको पात्र र लाजका कुरा बनाउनेछु ।
I will not stop causing them to experience wars and famines and diseases. And I will scatter them all around the world. In every country where I (force them to be taken/exile them), I will cause them to be people whom [others] curse and be horrified about and make fun of [DOU].
19 तिनीहरूकहाँ मेरा दासहरू र अगमवक्ताहरूमार्फत मैले पठाएको मेरो वचन तिनीहरूले नसुनेको कारणले यसो हुनेछ, यो परमप्रभुको घोषणा हो । मैले तिनीहरूलाई पटक-पटक पठाएँ, तर तिमीहरूले सुनेनौ, यो परमप्रभुको घोषणा हो ।'
[That will happen] because they have refused to pay attention to my messages, messages that I gave to the prophets whom I sent to them. And you [who have been exiled to Babylon] have not paid attention to them, [either].” [That is what] Yahweh says.
20 त्यसैले हे सबै निर्वासितहरू हो, जसलाई उहाँले यरूशलेमबाट बेबिलोनमा पठाउनुभएको छ, तिमीहरू आफूले भने परमप्रभुको वचन सुन ।
[Therefore], you people who have been (exiled/forced to go) from Jerusalem to Babylon, listen to this message from Yahweh.
21 'कोलायाहका छोरा आहाब र मासेयाहका छोरा सिदकियाह, जसले मेरो नाउँमा तिमीहरूलाई झूटा अगमवाणी बोल्छन्, हेर्, तिनीहरूको विषयमा सर्वशक्तिमान् परमप्रभु इस्राएलका परमेश्वर यसो भन्नुहुन्छः मैले तिनीहरूलाई बेबिलोनका राजा नबूकदनेसरको हातमा दिनै लागेको छु । उसले तिनीहरूलाई तिमीहरूकै आँखाको सामु मार्नेछ ।
This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israelis [worship], says about Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and about Zedekiah, the son of Maaseiah, who are telling lies to you, saying that they are giving messages [MTY] from him: “They will be seized and taken to [MTY] King Nebuchadnezzar, who will cause them to be executed while you are watching.
22 त्यसपछि बेबिलोनमा भएका यहूदाका सबै निर्वासितद्वारा यी व्यक्तिहरूको बारेमा सरापको वचन बोलिनेछ । सराप यस्तो हुनेछ, 'परमप्रभुले तिमीहरूलाई सिदकियाह र आहाबजस्तै बनाऊन्, जसलाई बेबिलोनका राजाले आगोमा पोलेका थिए ।
Because of [what will happen to] them, all you people who have been taken from Judah to Babylon will say this when they curse someone: ‘I hope/wish that Yahweh will do to you the same thing that he did to Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the King of Babylon caused to be [killed by being] burned in a fire.’
23 तिनीहरूले आफ्ना छिमेकीहरूका पत्नीहरूसित व्यभिचार गरेर अनि मैले तिनीहरूलाई भन्नलाई कहिल्यै आज्ञा नगरेका झूटा कुराहरू मेरो नाउँमा घोषणा गरेर, तिनीहरूले इस्राएलमा गरेका लज्जित कुराहरूका कारणले यस्तो हुनेछ । किनकि मलाई यो कुरा थाहा छ, र म साक्षी हुँ, यो परमप्रभुको घोषणा हो ।
They have done terrible things to [my] Israeli people. They have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and they have spoken lies, saying that they were messages [MTY] from me. They have said things that I did not tell them to say, and I, Yahweh, have heard them [say those things].”
24 नेहेलामवासी शमायाह बारेमा यसो भन्,
[Yahweh told me to] send this message to Shemaiah, a man from Nehelam [town who was living in Babylon]:
25 “सर्वशक्तिमान् परमप्रभु इस्राएलका परमेश्वर यसो भन्नुहुन्छ, 'यरूशलेमका सबै मानिस, पुजारी मासेयाहका छोरा सपन्याह र सबै पुजारीलाई तेरो आफ्नै नाउँमा चिट्ठीहरू लेखेर यसो भनिस्,
This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israelis [worship], says: “You wrote a letter that no one told you to write. You sent it to Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, and [you sent copies] to the other priests and all the [other] people here in Jerusalem. [This is what] you wrote to him:
26 'पुजारी यहोयादाको सट्टामा परमप्रभुले तिमीलाई परमप्रभुको मन्दिरको जिम्मा लिन पुजारी बनाउनुभएको छ । तिमी बरबराएर आफैलाई अगमवक्ताहरू बनाउने सबै मानिसको नियन्त्रणमा छौ । तिमीहरूले तिनीहरूलाई साङ्लाले बाँधेर ठिंगुरोमा हाल्नू ।
[Zephaniah], Yahweh has appointed you to be the priest instead of Jehoiada, to supervise those who work in the temple. Anyone who acts like a crazy man and who claims that he is a prophet, you should put his arms and legs and head into (stocks/a wooden frame [so that he cannot move)].
27 त्यसैले अब, तिम्रो विरुद्धमा आफैलाई अगमवक्ता बनाउने अनातोतको यर्मियालाई किन हप्काएनौ?
So why have you not done anything to stop Jeremiah, the man from Anathoth [town], who [pretends that he] is a prophet among you?
28 किनकि बेबिलोनमा उसले हामीलाई यस्तो चिट्ठी पठाएको छ र भनेको छ, 'निर्वासन लामो समयसम्म हुनेछ । घरहरू बनाओ र तिनमा बस, र खेतबारीमा बीउ रोप र तिनको फल खाओ' ।”
He sent a letter to us [who are here] in Babylon, saying that [we will be here for] a long time. He said that [therefore] we should build houses and plan to stay here, and plant gardens, and eat the food that is produced in the gardens.”
29 यर्मिया अगमवक्ताले सुन्ने गरी पुजारी सपन्याहले यो पत्र पढे ।
[But when] Zephaniah the priest [received] the letter from you, he [brought it to me and] read it to me.
30 तब परमप्रभुको वचन यर्मियाकहाँ यसो भनेर आयो,
Then Yahweh gave me this message:
31 “सबै निर्वासितकहाँ यो खबर पठा र यसो भन्, 'नेहेलामवासी शमायाहको विषयमा परमप्रभु यसो भन्नुहुन्छः म आफैले शमायाहलाई नपठाउँदा पनि उसले तिमीहरूलाई अगमवाणी बोलेको र उसले तिमीहरूलाई झूटा कुराहरूमा विश्वास गर्न डोर्याएको छ,
“Send this message to all the people [from Judah] who are there [in Babylon]. Say that this is what Yahweh says about Shemaiah, the man from Nehelam: ‘I did not appoint him, but he has deceived you and caused you to believe the lies that he prophesied.
32 त्यसकारण परमप्रभु यसो भन्नुहुन्छः नेहेलामवासी शमायाह र त्यसका सन्तानहरूलाई मैले दण्ड दिनै लागेको छु । यस जातिको बिचमा बस्न त्यसको लागि कुनै मानिस हुनेछैन । मैले आफ्ना मानिसहरूलाई गर्ने भलाइ त्यसले देख्नेछैन, यो परमप्रभुको घोषणा हो, किनकि उसले परमप्रभुको विरुद्धमा विद्रोहको घोषणा गरेको छ' ।”
So, I will punish him and his family. He has incited you to rebel against me. Because of that, all of his descendants will soon die. I will do [many] good things for [you], my people, but he and his descendants will not see those things, [because they will be dead]. [That will surely happen because I], Yahweh, have said it!’”