यर्मिया 5

1 “यरूशलेमका सडकहरूबाट छिटो जा । त्यसका चोकहरूमा पनि खोजी गर् । त्यसपछि हेरे अनि यस कुरा बारेमा विचार गर्: न्यायपूर्वक काम गर्ने र इमानदारीपूर्वक काम गर्न खोज्ने कुनै मानिस तैंले फेला पारिस् भने, म यरूशलेमलाई क्षमा दिनेछु ।

Run you about in the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and know, and seek in her broad places, if you can find [one], if there is any one that does judgment, and seeks faithfulness; and I will pardon them, says the Lord.

2 तिनीहरू भन्‍छन्‍छन्, 'जीवित परमप्रभुको नाउँमा' तापनि तिनीहरूले झूटा शपथ खाँदैछन् ।”

The Lord lives, they say; do they not therefore swear falsely?

3 हे परमप्रभु, के तपाईंका आँखाले विश्‍वसनीयताको खोजी गर्दैनन् र? तपाईंले मानिसहरूलाई प्रहार गर्नुभयो, तर तिनीहरूलाई पिडा महसुस हुँदैन । तपाईंले तिनीहरूलाई पूर्ण रूपमा पराजित गर्नुभएको छ, तर तिनीहरू अझै पनि अनुशासन मान्‍न इन्कार गर्छन् । तिनीहरूले आफ्ना अनुहार चट्टानभन्दा कडा बनाउँछन्, किनकि तिनीहरू पश्‍चात्ताप गर्न इन्कार गर्छन् ।

O Lord, your eyes are upon faithfulness: you have scourged them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them; but they would not receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.

4 त्यसैले मैले भनें, “निश्‍चय नै यिनीहरू मात्र दुःखी मानिसहरू रहेछन् । तिनीहरू मूर्ख छन्, किनकि तिनीहरू परमप्रभुका मार्ग जान्दैनन्, न त तिनीहरूका परमेश्‍वरका आज्ञाहरू जान्दछन् ।

Then I said, It may be they are poor; for they are weak, for they know not the way of the Lord, or the judgment of God.

5 म ठुला मानिसहरूकहाँ जानेछु, र तिनीहरूलाई परमेश्‍वरको सन्देश घोषणा गर्नेछु, किनकि कमसेकम आफ्‍ना परमेश्‍वरका मार्ग, परमेश्‍वरका आज्ञाहरू तिनीहरूले त जान्दछन् ।” तर तिनीहरू सबैले आफ्‍ना जुवा सँगसँगै भाँचे । तिनीहरू सबैले आफूलाई परमेश्‍वरसित बाँध्‍ने बन्धनलाई चुँडाले ।

I will go to the rich men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of God: but, behold, with one consent they have broken the yoke, they have burst the bonds.

6 त्यसैले झाडीबाट निस्केर आउने सिंहले तिनीहरूलाई आक्रमण गर्नेछ । अराबाबाट आउने ब्वाँसोले तिनीहरूलाई नष्‍ट पार्नेछ । ढुकेर बस्‍ने चितुवा तिनीहरूका सहरहरूको विरुद्धमा आउनेछ । आफ्नो सहरबाहिर जाने कोही पनि टुक्राटुक्रा पारिनेछ । किनकि तिनीहरूका अपराध बढ्दो छन् । तिनीहरूका विश्‍वासहीन कामहरू असीमित छन् ।

Therefore has a lion out of the forest struck them, and a wolf has destroyed them even to [their] houses, and a leopard has watched against their cities: all that go forth from them shall be hunted: for they have multiplied their ungodliness, they have strengthened themselves in their revoltings.

7 यी मानिसहरूलाई मैले किन क्षमा दिने? तिमीहरूका छोराहरूले मलाई त्यागेका छन्, र तिनीहरूले त्‍यो नाउँमा शपथ खान्छन् जो ईश्‍वरहरू नै होइनन् । मैले तिनीहरूलाई पेटभरि खुवाएँ, तर तिनीहरूले व्यभिचार गरे, र ठुलो सङ्ख्यामा वेश्याहरूका घरहरूमा गए ।

In what [way] shall I forgive you for these things? Your sons have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: and I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and lodged in harlots' houses.

8 तिनीहरू कामवासनाले मस्‍त घोडाहरूजस्ता थिए । मैथुनको चाहनाले तिनीहरू चारैतिर डुल्दै थिए । प्रत्येक आफ्नो छिमेकीको पत्‍नीको लागि हिनहिनायो ।

They became as wanton horses: they neighed each one after his neighbor's wife.

9 त्यसैले, यो परमप्रभुको घोषणा हो, के मैले तिनीहरूलाई दण्ड दिनुपर्दैन र, के मैले यस्तो जातिसित बदला लिनुपर्दैन र? ।

Shall I not visit for these things? says the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this.

10 त्यसका दाखबारीका गराहरूमा जा र नष्‍ट गरिदे। तर तिनमा पूर्ण विनाश नगर । तिनका हाँगाहरू छिंवल, किनकि ती दाखका बोट परमप्रभुबाट आएका होइनन् ।

Go up upon her battlements, and break [them] down; but make not a full end: leave her buttresses: for they are the Lord's.

11 किनकि इस्राएल र यहूदाका घरानाहरूले मलाई पूर्ण रूपमा धोका दिएक छन्, यो परमप्रभुको घोषणा हो ।

For the house of Israel have indeed dealt treacherously against me, says the Lord: the house of Juda also

12 तिनीहरूको परमप्रभुको बारेमा झूट बोलेका छन् र यसो भनेका छन्, “उहाँले केही गर्नुहुने छैन । हामीमाथि कुनै हानि आउनेछैन, र हामीले कुनै तरवार वा अनिकाल देख्‍ने छैनौं ।

have lied to their Lord, and they have said, These things are not so; no evils shall come upon us; and we shall not see sword or famine.

13 अगमवक्ताहरू हावा हुनेछन्, र तिनीहरूमा वचन छैन । त्यसैले तिनीहरूले भनेका कुरा तिनीहरूमाथि नै आइपरून् ।”

Our prophets became wind, and the word of the Lord was not in them.

14 त्यसैले सर्वशक्तिमान् परमप्रभु परमेश्‍वर यसो भन्‍नुहुन्छ, “तैंले यसो भनेको हुनाले हेर, म तेरो मुखमा मेरो वचन हाल्नै लागेको छु । यो आगोजस्तो हुनेछ, र यी मानिसहरू दाउराजस्ता हुनेछन् । किनकि यसले तिनीहरूलाई भस्म पार्ने छ ।

Therefore thus says the Lord Almighty, Because you have spoken this word, behold, I have made my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

15 हेर! ए इस्राएलको घराना हो, मैले तेरो विरुद्धमा धेरै टाढाबाट एउटा जातिलाई ल्याउनै लागेको छु, यो परमप्रभुको घोषणा हो, यो एउटा दिगो र प्राचीन जाति हो । यो एउटा त्‍यस्तो जाति हो जसको भाषा तैंले जान्दैनस्, न त तिनीहरूले के भन्‍छन् त्‍यो तैंले बुझ्नेछस् ।

Behold, I [will] bring upon you a nation from far, O house of Israel, says the Lord; a nation the sound of whose language one shall not understand.

16 तिनीहरूका वाणका ठोक्राहरू खुला चिहानजस्तै छन् । तिनीहरू सबै सिपाही हुन् ।

[They are] all mighty men:

17 त्यसैले तिमीहरूका फसल, तिमीहरूका छोराछोरी अनि तिमीहरूका खानेकुरा स्वाहा पारिनेछन् । तिनीहरूले तिमीहरूका भेडा-बाख्रा र गाईवस्तु खानेछन् । तिनीहरूले तिमीहरूका दाखका बोट र अञ्जीरका बोटहरूका फल खानेछन् । तिमीहरूले भरोसा गरेका तिमीहरूका किल्ला भएका सहरहरूलाई तिनीहरूले तरवारले नष्‍ट पार्नेछन् ।

and they shall devour your harvest, and your bread; and shall devour your sons, and your daughters; and they shall devour your sheep, and your calves, and devour your vineyards, and your fig-plantations, and your olive yards: and they shall utterly destroy your strong cities, wherein you trusted, with the sword.

18 तर ती दिनमा पनि म तिमीहरूलाई पूर्ण रूपमा नाश पार्ने इच्छा गर्दिनँ, यो परमप्रभुको घोषणा हो ।

And it shall come to pass in those days, says the Lord your God, that I will not utterly destroy you.

19 जब तँ, इस्राएल र यहूदाले यसो भन्‍छस्, ‘परमप्रभु हाम्रा परमेश्‍वरले किन हामीलाई यी सबै कुरा गर्नुभएको?’ तब तँ यर्मियाले तिनीहरूलाई भन्‍नेछस्, “जसरी तिमीहरूले परमप्रभुलाई त्याग्‍यौ र आफ्‍नै देशमा विदेशी देवताहरूको सेवा गर्‍यौ, त्यसरी नै तिमीहरूले विदेशमा पनि विदेशीहरूको सेवा गर्नुपर्नेछ ।”

And it shall come to pass, when you shall say, Therefore has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that you shall say to them, Because you served strange gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

20 याकूबको घरानामा यो प्रचार गर्, र यहूदामा यो सुनियोस् । यसो भन्,

Proclaim these things to the house of Jacob, and let them be heard in the house of Juda.

21 “हे समझ नभएको मूर्ख मानिस हो, यो कुरा सुन । तिमीहरूका आँखा छन्, तर देख्‍न सक्दैनौ, कान छन्, तर सुन्‍न सक्दैनौ ।

Hear you now these things, O foolish and senseless people; who have eyes, and see not; and have ears, and hear not:

22 मदेखि नडराओ, न त मेरो मुहारको सामु थरथर होओ, यो परमप्रभुको घोषणा हो । समुद्रलाई बालुवाको सिमाना राखेको छु जुन नभत्‍किने स्थायी, निरन्‍तर रहने आज्ञा हो, छाल ठोकिने र फर्किने भए तापनि त्‍यसले अझै भत्‍काउनेछैन । यसका तरङ्गहरू गर्जे तापनि तिनले यसलाई पार गर्दैनन् ।

will you not be afraid of me? says the Lord; and will you not fear before me, who have set the sand for a bound to the sea, [as] a perpetual ordinance, and it shall not pass it: yes, it shall rage, but not prevail; and its waves shall roar, but not pass over it.

23 तर यी मानिसहरूको हठी हृदय छ । यो विद्रोहमा बरालिन्‍छ र टाढा जान्छ ।

But this people has a disobedient and rebellious heart; and they have turned aside and gone back:

24 किनकि तिनीहरूले आफ्ना हृदयमा यसो भन्दैनन्, “हामी परमप्रभु हाम्रा परमेश्‍वरको भय मानौं जसले वर्षा ल्‍याउनुहुन्‍छ, हामीले खेति गर्नुपर्ने हप्‍ताहरूमा, ठिक समयमा अगिल्लो र पछिल्लो वर्षा दिनुहुन्‍छ।”

and they have not said in their heart, Let us fear now the Lord our God, who gives us the early and latter rain, according to the season of the fulfillment of the ordinance of harvest, and has preserved [it] for us.

25 तिमीहरूका अधर्महरूले गर्दा यी कुरा हुनबाट रोकिएका छन् । तिमीहरूका पापले गर्दा भलाइ तिमीहरूकहाँ आउन रोकिएको छ ।

Your transgressions have turned away these things, and your sins have removed good things from you.

26 किनकि मेरा मानिसहरूसँगै दुष्‍ट मानिसहरू भेट्टाइएका छन् । कोही मानिस चरा समाउनलाई चुप बसेझैं तिनीहरू ढुकिबस्छन् । तिनीहरूले पासो थाप्‍छन् र मानिसहरू समात्छन् ।

For among my people were found ungodly men; and they have set snares to destroy men, and have caught [them].

27 चराहरूले भरिएका पिंजराजस्तै तिनीहरूका घरहरू छलले भरिएका छन् । त्यसैले तिनीहरू ठुला र धनी भएका छन् ।

As a snare which has been set is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore have they grown great, and become rich:

28 तिनीहरू मोटाएका छन् । तिनीहरू सकुसल चिल्ला भएका छन् । तिनीहरूले दुष्‍टताको सबै सीमा पार गरेका छन् । तिनीहरूले मानिसहरू वा अनाथहरूको भलाइको निम्ति बिन्ती गर्दैनन् । तिनीहरूले खाँचोमा परेकाहरूलाई न्याय नदिए तापनि तिनीहरूको उन्‍नति हुन्‍छ ।

and they have transgressed [the rule of] judgment; they have not judged the cause of the orphan, nor have they judged the cause of the widow.

29 के यी कुराको लागि मैले तिनीहरूलाई दण्ड नदिने त, के यस्तो जातिलाई मैले बदला नलिते त? यो परमप्रभुको घोषणा हो ।

Shall I not visit for these things? says the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

30 यस देशमा बीभत्स र त्रासदीपूर्ण कामहरू भएका छन् ।

Shocking and horrible deeds have been done on the land;

31 अगमवक्ताहरूले छलपूर्ण अगमवाणी गर्छन्, र पुजारीहरूले आफ्नै शक्तिले शासन गर्छन् । मेरो मानिसहरूले यही तरिका मन पराउँछन्, तर अन्त्यमा के हुने छ?”

the prophets utter unrighteous prophecies, and the priests have clapped their hands: and my people has loved [to have it] thus: and what will you do for the future.