योना 4
1 तर यो कुराले योनालाई अप्रसन्न बनायो र तिनी धेरै रिसाए ।
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
2 यसैले योनाले परमप्रभुसँग प्रार्थना गरे र यसो भने, “हे परमप्रभु, के म आफ्नो देशमा हुँदा मैले यही कुरा भनेको थिइनँ र? यसकारण म तर्शीशमा भागेर जाने प्रयत्न गरें, किनभने मलाई थाहा थियो, कि तपाईं अनुग्रही परमेश्वर हुनुहुन्छ, दयाले पूर्ण, रिसाउनमा ढिलो र प्रतिज्ञामा विश्वसनीय हुनुहुन्छ, र तपाईंले विपत्ति पठाउन रोक्नुहुन्छ ।
He prayed to the LORD, and said, “Please, LORD, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.
3 यसकारण, अब हे परमप्रभु, तपाईंसँग म बिन्ती गर्छु, मबाट मेरो प्राण लिनुहोस्, किनकि मेरो निम्ति जिउनुभन्दा मर्नु नै असल छ ।”
Therefore now, LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
4 परमप्रभुले भन्नुभयो, “के तँ यति धेरै रिसाउनु ठिक हुन्छ र?”
The LORD said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”
5 तब योना त्यस सहरबाट बाहिर गए र सहरको पुर्वपट्टि बसे । त्यहाँ उनले एउटा छाप्रो बनाए र त्यसको छायामा बसे जसले गर्दा त्यो सहरलाई के हुँदोरहेछ भनी तिनले हेर्न सक्थे।
Then Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.
6 परमप्रभु परमेश्वरले एउटा बिरुवा उमार्नुभयो र त्यसलाई योनाको माथि बढाउनुभयो, जसले गर्दा तिनको कष्ट कम गर्न त्यसले तिनको शिरमा छाया प्रदान गरोस् । त्यो बिरुवाको कारणले योना असाध्ये खुशी भए ।
The LORD God prepared a vine and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine.
7 तर अर्को बिहानीको सुर्योदयमा परमप्रभुले एउटा कीरा खटाउनुभयो । त्यो बिरुवालाई त्यसले काटिदियो, र त्यो बिरुवा सुक्यो ।
But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine so that it withered.
8 अर्को बिहानी सुर्योदय हुँदा यसो भयो । परमप्रभुले तातो पुर्वी हावा पठाउनुभयो । अनि योनाको टाउकोमाथि टन्टलापुर घाम पर्यो र उनी मुर्छै पर्न लागे । तब योनाले आफू मर्न पाए हुन्थ्यो भनी इच्छा गरे । तिनले आफैलाई भने, “मेरो निम्ति त जिउनुभन्दा मर्नु नै बेस हुन्छ ।”
When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he was faint and requested for himself that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
9 तब परमप्रभुले योनालाई भन्नुभयो, “के तँ यो बिरुवाको निम्ति धेरै रिसाउनु ठिक हुन्छ र?” तब योनाले भने, “म मरुन्जेलसम्म पनि रिसाउन ठिक हुन्छ ।”
God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?” He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”
10 परमप्रभुले भन्नुभयो, “तैंले मेहनत नै नगरेको, र तैंले नहुर्काएको बिरुवाको तँलाई यति धेरै माया लाग्यो । त्यो एक रातमै बढ्यो र एक रातमै मर्यो ।
The LORD said, “You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not laboured, neither made it grow; which came up in a night and perished in a night.
11 यसैले मेरो बारेमा, क मैले त्यो ठुलो सहर निनवेलाई दया नदेखाउनू, जसमा एक लाख बिस हजारभन्दा धेरै मानिसहरू बस्छन्, जसलाई आफ्नो दाहिने र देब्रे हात बिचको भिन्नता थाहा छैन, र धेरै गाई-वस्तुहरू छन्?”
Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also many animals?”
