यर्मिया 38
1 मत्तानका छोरा शपत्याह, पशहूरका छोरा गदल्याह, शेलेम्याहका छोरा यहूकल र मल्कियाहका छोरा पशहूरले यर्मियाले सबै मानिसलाई घोषणा गरिरहेका यी वचन सुने । तिनले भन्दै थिए,
[Four officials, ] Shephatiah the son of Mattan, Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malkijah, heard what I had been telling all the people.
2 “परमप्रभु यसो भन्नुहुन्छः यस सहरमा बस्ने कुनै पनि व्यक्ति तरवार, अनिकाल र विपत्तिले मारिनेछ । तर निस्केर कल्दीहरूकहाँ जाने कुनै पनि व्यक्ति बाँच्नेछ । त्यसले आफ्नो प्राण बचाउनेछ, र जिउनेछ ।
[I had been telling them] that Yahweh was saying, “Everyone who stays in Jerusalem will die. They will be killed by [their enemies’] swords or from famines or from diseases. But those who surrender to the Babylonian army, they will be spared. They will not be killed.
3 परमप्रभु यसो भन्नुहुन्छः यो सहर बेबिलोनका राजाको सेनाको हातमा दिइनेछ, र उसले यसलाई कब्जा गर्नेछ ।”
Yahweh also says that the army of the King of Babylon will certainly capture this city [DOU].”
4 त्यसैले अधिकारीहरूले राजालाई भने, “यो मान्छे मरोस्, किनकि यसरी यो मानिसले यस सहरमा बाँकी रहेका योद्धाहरू र सबै मानिसको हातलाई कमजोर पार्दै छ । त्यसले यी वचनहरू घोषणा गर्दैछ, किनकि मानिसहरूको सुरक्षाको लागि उसले केही गरिरहेको छैन, तर विपत्तिको घोषणा गर्दैछ ।”
So those officials [went] to the king and said, “This man [Jeremiah] should be executed! Because of what he is saying, he is discouraging our soldiers who remain in the city. He is also discouraging the people. He is not saying things that will help us; he is saying things that will defeat us.”
5 त्यसैले राजा सिदकियाहले भने, “तिमीहरूको विरोध गर्न कुनै राजाले पनि नसक्ने हुनाले ऊ तिमीहरूकै हातमा छ ।”
King Zedekiah said, “All right, do to him what you want to; I do not have the power to stop you.”
6 तब तिनीहरूले यर्मियालाई लगे, र राजकुमार मल्कियाहको इनारमा फालिदिए । यो इनार गारदको चोकमा थियो । तिनीहरूले यर्मियालाई डोरीद्वारा तल झारे । इनारमा पानी थिएन, तर त्यसमा दलदले हिलो थियो, र तिनी हिलोमा गाडिए ।
So those officials took me from my cell and lowered me by ropes into a well in the courtyard. The well belonged to Malkijah, who was a son of the king. There was no water in the well, but there was [a lot of] mud, so I sank [down deep] into the mud.
7 राजदरबारमा भएका नपुंसकमध्ये कूशी एबेद-मेलेक एक जना थिए । तिनीहरूले यर्मियालाई इनारमा राखे भनी तिनले सुने । त्यस बेला राजा बेन्यामीनको मूल ढोकामा बसिरहेका थिए ।
But Ebed-Melech, a palace official from Ethiopia, heard [someone say] that I was in the well. [At that time] the king was deciding/judging people’s cases at the Benjamin Gate.
8 त्यसैले एबेद-मेलेक राजदरबाट गए र राजासित बात गरे । तिनले भने,
Ebed-Melech went out of the palace and said to the king,
9 “हे मेरा मालिक राजा, यी मानिसहरूले यर्मिया अगमवक्तासँग जसरी व्यवहार गरे त्यो दुष्ट काम हो । सहरमा खानलाई अब कुनै कुरा नभएको हुनाले भोकले मर्नलाई तिनीहरूले तिनलाई इनारमा हाले ।”
“Your majesty, those men have done a very evil thing. They have put the prophet Jeremiah in a well. [Almost] all the food in the city is gone, [so they will not be able to bring him any food] and as a result he will die from hunger!”
10 तब राजाले कूशी एबेद-मेलेकलाई हुकुम गरे । तिनले भने, “यहाँबाट तिस जना मानिस साथमा लिएर जाऊ र यर्मिया अगमवक्ता मर्नुअगि तिनलाई इनारबाट निकाल ।”
So the king told Ebed-Melech, “Take thirty of my men/soldiers with you, and pull Jeremiah out of the well, in order that he does not die!”
11 त्यसैले एबेद-मेलेकले ती मानिसहरूलाई लिए र राजदरबारको एउटा भण्डर कोठामा गए । त्यहाँबाट तिनले थोत्रा र फाटेका कपडाहरू निकाले, र त्यसपछि तिनले इनारमा यर्मियाको लागि डोरीले बाँधेर ती झारिदिए ।
So Ebed-Melech took thirty men with him and they went into a room in the palace below the room where they stored very valuable things. There they found some old rags and discarded clothing. They took those things and went to the well. They fastened them to a rope and lowered the rope to me.
12 कूशी एबेद-मेलेकले यर्मियालाई भने, “तिम्रा पाखुरा र डोरीहरूको माथिपट्टि यी थोत्रा र फाटेका लुगाहरू लगाऊ ।” यर्मियाले त्यसै गरे ।
Then Ebed-Melech called down to me, “Put these rags underneath your armpits, to protect you from [being injured by] the ropes!” So I did that.
13 त्यसपछि तिनीहरूले यर्मियालाई डोरीको सहायताले ताने । यसरी तिनीहरूले तिनलाई इनारबाट बाहिर निकाले । यसरी यर्मिया गारदको चोकमा बसे ।
Then they pulled me out of the well. I [returned] to the courtyard where the palace guards stayed, and I stayed there.
14 तब राजा सिदकियाहले खबर पठाए र यर्मिया अगमवक्तालाई आफूकहाँ परमप्रभुको मन्दिरको तेस्रो प्रवेशद्वारमा ल्याए । राजाले यर्मियालाई भने, “म तिमीलाई केही कुरो सोध्न चाहन्छु । मबाट जवाफ नलुकाऊ ।”
[One day] King Zedekiah summoned me, and I was brought to the king, [who was waiting for me] at the entrance of the temple. He said to me, “I want to ask you something. I want you [to answer me truthfully, and] and to not conceal anything.”
15 यर्मियाले सिदकियाहलाई भने, “मैले तपाईंलाई जवाफ दिएँ भने, के तपाईंले मलाई साँच्चै नै मार्नुहुन्न त?” तर मैले तपाईंलाई सल्लाह दिएँ भने तपाईंले सुन्नुहुनेछैन ।”
I replied, “If I tell you [the truth], you will [command that I] be executed. And if I give you [good] advice, you will not pay attention to what I say.”
16 तर राजा सिदकियाहले यर्मियासित गुप्तमा वाचा बाँधे र भने, “हामीलाई बनाउनुहुने जीवित परमप्रभुको नाउँमा शपथ खाएर भन्दछु, कि म तिमीलाई मार्नेछैनँ वा तिम्रो ज्यान लिन खोज्नेहरूको हातमा सुम्पिदिनेछैनँ ।”
But King Zedekiah secretly promised me, “[Tell me the truth]! And as surely as Yahweh lives, I will not [cause] you to be executed, and I will not hand you over to those who are wanting to kill you.”
17 त्यसैले यर्मियाले सिदकियाहलाई भने, “परमप्रभु सर्वशक्तिमान् परमेश्वर, इस्राएलका परमेश्वर यसो भन्नुहुन्छः तँ वास्तवमै बेबिलोनका राजाका अधिकारीहरूकहाँ गइस् भने, तँ बाँच्नेछस्, र यो सहर जलाइनेछैन । तँ र तेरो परिवार बाँच्नेछन् ।
[So] then I said to Zedekiah, “This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israelis [worship], says: ‘If you surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, you and your family will (be spared/not be killed), and this city will not be burned.
18 तर तँ बेबिलोनका राजाका अधिकारीहरूकहाँ गइनस् भने, यो सहरलाई कल्दीहरूको हातमा दिइनेछ । तिनीहरूले यसलाई आगो लगाउनेछन्, र तँ तिनीहरूको हातबाट उम्कनेछैनस् ।”
But if you refuse to surrender to them, you will not escape. And the army from Babylonia will capture this city and completely burn it.’”
19 सिदकियाह राजाले यर्मियालाई भने, “तर कल्दीहरूकहाँ भागेर गएका यहूदाका मानिसहरूदेखि म डराएको छु, किनकि ममाथि खराब व्यवहार गर्नलाई मलाई तिनीहरूको हातमा सुम्पिएला ।”
The king replied, “But I am afraid [to surrender to the soldiers from Babylon], because their officers may hand me over to the people of Judah who have already joined the soldiers from Babylonia, and those people from Judah will mistreat me.”
20 यर्मियाले भने, “तिनीहरूले तपाईंलाई उनीहरूका हातमा सुम्पिनेछैनन् । परमप्रभुबाट आएको सन्देशलाई मान्नुहोस्, जुन मैले तपाईंलाई बताउँदैछु जसले गर्दा तपाईंको भलो हुनेछ, र जसले गर्दा तपाईं बाँच्नुहुनेछ ।
I replied, “If you obey Yahweh by doing what I tell you to do, they will not hand you over to our people. Things will go well for you, and you will remain alive.
21 तर जान तपाईंले इन्कार गर्नुभयो भने त परमप्रभुले मलाई देखाउनुभएको कुरो यही हो ।
But if you refuse to surrender, this is what Yahweh has revealed to me:
22 हेर्नुहोस्, यहूदाका राजा अर्थात् तपाईंको महलमा छाडिएका सबै स्त्रीहरूलाई बेबिलोनका राजाका अधिकारीहरूकहाँ लगिनेछ । यी स्त्रीहरूले तपाईंलाई भन्नेछन्, 'तपाईंका मित्रहरूद्वारा तपाईं छलमा पर्नुभएको छ । तिनीहरूले तपाईंलाई नष्ट पारेका छन् । अब तपाईंका खुट्टा हिलोमा डुबेका छन्, र तपाईंका मित्रहरू भाग्नेछन् ।'
All the women who remain in your palace will be brought out and given to the officers of the king of Babylon. Then those women will say to you: ‘You had friends whom [you thought] you could trust, but they have deceived you and caused you to make a wrong decision. Now [it is as though] you are stuck in mud, and your friends have abandoned you.’
23 किनकि तपाईंका सबै पत्नी र छोराछोरी कल्दीहरूकहाँ लगिनेछन्, र तपाईं आफै पनि तिनीहरूको हातबाट उम्कनुहुनेछैन । तपाईं बेबिलोनका राजाको हातबाट पक्राउ पर्नुहुनेछ, र यो सहरलाई जलाइनेछ ।”
All of your wives and children [in the city] will be led out to the soldiers from Babylonia, and you also will not escape. [The soldiers of] the King of Babylon will seize you, and they will burn down this city.”
24 तब सिदकियाहले यर्मियालाई भने, “यी वचनको विषयमा कसैलाई नभन, जसले गर्दा तिमी मारिनेछैनौ ।
Then Zedekiah said to me, “Do not tell anyone what you told me; if you tell anyone, my officials may kill you.
25 मैले तिमीसित कुराकानी गरेको कुरा अधिकारीहरूले सुने र तिमीकहाँ आएर यसो भन्छन् भने, 'तिमीले राजालाई के भन्यौ, सो हामीलाई बताऊ, र हामीबाट त्यो नलुकाऊ, नत्र तिमीलाई हामी मर्नेछौ,'
If my officials find out that I talked to you, perhaps they will come to you and say, ‘Tell us what you and the king were talking about. If you do not tell us, we will kill you.’
26 तब तिमीले तिनीहरूलाई यसो भन्नू, 'राजाले मलाई जोनाथनको घरमा मर्नलाई नपठाऊन् भनी मैले राजाको सामु विनम्र बिन्ती चढाएँ' ।”
If that happens, [just] tell them that you pleaded with me not to send you back to the [dungeon/cell in] Jonathan’s house, [because you were afraid that] you would die [if you were put there again].”
27 तब सबै अधिकारी यर्मियाकहाँ आए र तिनलाई प्रश्न गरे, यसैले राजाले तिनलाई निर्देशन दिएअनुसार तिनले उनीहरूलाई जवाफ दिए । उनीहरूले यर्मिया र राजाको बिचमा भएको बातचितलाई नसुनेका हुनाले उनीहरूले तिनीसित थप कुराकानी गरेनन् ।
And [that is what happened]. The king’s officials came to me and asked [why the king had summoned me. But] I told them what the king told me to tell them. So they did not ask me any more [questions], because no one had heard what the king and I had said to each other.
28 यसरी यरूशलेम कब्जा नभएसम्म यर्मिया गारदको चोकमा नै बसे ।
So I remained being guarded in the courtyard [of the palace], until the day that [the army of Babylonia] captured Jerusalem.
