योना 3
1 परमप्रभुको वचन योनाकहाँ दोस्रो पटक यसो भनेर आयो,
The word of Yahweh came to Jonah a second time, saying,
2 “उठ्, र त्यस ठुलो सहर निनवेमा जा र त्यसलाई दिनलाई मैले तँलाई आज्ञा गरेको सन्देश घोषणा गर् ।”
“Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I command you to give.”
3 यसैले योना उठे र परमप्रभुको वचनमा आज्ञाकारी भएर निनवेमा गए । त्यस बेला निनवे अत्यन्तै ठुलो सहर थियो । त्यहाँ पुग्न तिन दिनको यात्रा गर्नुपर्थ्यो ।
So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh in obedience to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was a very large city, one of three days' journey.
4 योना सहरभित्र प्रवेश गर्न थाले र एक दिनको यात्रापछि उनले कराए र यसो भने, “अबको चालीस दिनमा निनवे नाश हुनेछ ।”
Jonah began to enter the city and after a day's journey he called out and said, “In forty days Nineveh will be overthrown.”
5 निनवेका मानिसहरूले परमेश्वरलाई विश्वास गरे र तिनीहरूले उपवासको घोषणा गरे । तिमध्ये ठुलादेखि लिएर सानासम्म सबैले भाङ्ग्रा लगाए ।
The people of Nineveh believed God and they proclaimed a fast. They all put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them down to the least of them.
6 त्यो खबर चाँडै नै निनवेका राजाकहाँ पुग्यो । तिनी आफ्ना सिंहासनबाट उठे, आफ्नो वस्त्र उतारे, आफूलाई भाङ्ग्रा ढाके, र खरानीमा बसे ।
Soon the news reached the king of Nineveh. He rose up from his throne, took off his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 तिनले एउटा यस्तो घोषणाको सन्देश पठाए, “निनवेमा, राजा र भारदारहरूको अधिकारले, कुनै मानिस वा गाईबस्तु वा भेडाबाख्राले कुनै कुरा खानेछैनन् । तिनीहरूले खाना नखाऊन्, न पानी पिऊन् ।
He sent out a proclamation that said, “In Nineveh, by the authority of the king and his nobles, let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not eat, nor drink water.
8 तर मानिस र पशु दुबैले भाङ्ग्राले ढाकून्, र तिनीहरूले ठुलो सोरले परमेश्वारमा पुकारा गरून् । हरेक व्यक्ति आफ्ना दुष्ट मार्ग र आफ्ना हातले हिंसात्मक कामबाट फर्कून् ।
But let both man and animal be covered with sackcloth and let them cry out loudly to God. Let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.
9 कसलाई जान्दछ? परमेश्वर नरम बन्न र आफ्नो मनलाई बद्लन र आफ्नो भयङ्कर क्रोधबाट फर्कन सक्नुहुन्छ, जसले गर्दा हामी नष्ट हुनेछैनौं ।”
Who knows? God may relent and change his mind and turn away from his fierce anger so that we do not perish.”
10 तिनीहरूले जे गरे त्यो परमेश्वरले देख्नुभयो । यसरी तिनीहरू आफ्ना दुष्ट मार्गहरूबाट फर्के । यसैले परमेश्वरले तिनीहरूलाई दिन्छु भन्नुभएको दण्डको बारेमा उहाँले आफ्नो मन परिवर्तन गर्नुभयो, र उहाँले त्यसो गर्नुभएन ।
God saw what they did, that they turned from their evil ways. So then God changed his mind about the punishment that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
