यहोशू 23
1 परमप्रभुले तिनीहरूको वरिपरि भएका तिनीहरूका सबै शत्रुबाट विश्राम दिनुभएको धेरै समयपछि यहोशू वृद्ध भइसकेका थिए ।
After many days, when the LORD had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,
2 यहोशूले इस्राएलका धर्म-गुरुहरू, अगुवाहरू, न्यायकर्ताहरू सबैलाई बोलाए र तिनीहरूलाई भने, “म निकै वृद्ध भइसकेको छु ।
Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said to them, “I am old and well advanced in years.
3 परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्वरले तिमीहरूका खातिर यी सबै जातिलाई गर्नुभएका सबै कुरा तिमीहरूले देखेका छौ, किनभने तिमीहरूका निम्ति लड्नुहुने परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्वर नै हुनुहुन्छ ।
You have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is the LORD your God who has fought for you.
4 हेर, मैले तिमीहरूलाई पश्चिममा यर्दनदेखि महासमुद्रसम्म पहिले नै नष्ट पारेका जातिहरूका साथै तिमीहरूका कुलहरूका निम्ति उत्तराधिकारको रूपमा हुन विजय हासिल गर्न बाँकी रहेका जातिहरू तिमीहरूलाई दिएको छु ।
Behold, I have allotted to you these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea towards the going down of the sun.
5 परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्वरले तिनीहरूलाई धपाउनुहुने छ । उहाँले तिनीहरूलाई तिमीहरूका खातिर फ्याँक्नुहुने छ । उहाँले तिनीहरूको भू-भाग कब्जा गर्नुहुने छ र परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्वरले तिमीहरूलाई प्रतिज्ञा गर्नुभएझैँ तिमीहरूले तिनीहरूको भूमि अधीन गर्ने छौ ।
The LORD your God will thrust them out from before you, and drive them from out of your sight. You shall possess their land, as the LORD your God spoke to you.
6 त्यसैले निकै बलियो होओ, ताकि मोशाको व्यवस्थाबाट न त दहिने न त देब्रेतिर नलागी सबै पालन गर ।
“Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn away from it to the right hand or to the left;
7 त्यसैले तिमीहरू तिमीहरूका माझमा रहेका जातिहरूसँग नमिसिओ वा तिनीहरूका देवताहरूको नाउँ उच्चारण नगर, तिनीहरूको शपथ नखाओ, तिनीहरूको आराधना नगर वा तिनीहरूलाई दण्डवत् नगर ।
that you not come amongst these nations, these that remain amongst you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves to them;
8 बरु, तिमीहरूले आजको दिनसम्म गरेझैँ तिमीहरूका परमप्रभु परमश्वरमा नै रहिरहो ।
but hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day.
9 किनभने परमप्रभुले ठुलो र बलियो जातिहरूलाई तिमीहरूको सामु धपाउनुभएको छ, आजको दिनसम्म कोही तिमीहरूको सामु खडा हुन सकेको छैन ।
“For the LORD has driven great and strong nations out from before you. But as for you, no man has stood before you to this day.
10 तिमीहरूमध्ये एक जनाले हजार जनालाई भगाउनेछ, किनभने तिमीहरूका परमप्रभु परमेश्वरले तिमीहरूलाई प्रतिज्ञा गर्नुभएझैँ उहाँ तिमीहरूका निम्ति लड्नुहुने छ ।
One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is the LORD your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you.
11 विशेष ध्यान देऊ, ताकि तिमीहरूले परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्वरलाई प्रेम गर
Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love the LORD your God.
12 तर यदि तिमीहरू तिमीहरूमाझ बाँकी रहेका यी जातिहरूसँग लाग्यौ र पछि हट्यौ भने वा यदि तिमीहरूले तिनीहरूसँग अन्तर-जातीय विवाह गर्यौ भने वा यदि तिमीहरू उनीहरूसँगै आयौ र उनीहरू तिमीहरूसँग सबै आए भने,
“But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain amongst you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;
13 यो जान कि परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्वरले तिमीहरू माझबाट यी जातिहरूलाई धपाउनुहुने छैन । बरु, परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्वरले तिमीहरूलाई दिनुभएको यो असल भूमिबाट तिमीहरू नष्ट नभएसम्म उनीहरू तिमीहरूका निम्ति पासो र जाल अनि तिमीहरूका पीठमा कोर्रा, तिमीहरूका आँखाका कसिङ्गर हुने छन् ।
know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
14 म सबै पृथ्वीको मार्गमा जाँदै छु, र परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्वरले तिमीहरूको बारेमा प्रतिज्ञा गर्नुभएको कुनै पनि असल कुरा सत्य साबित हुन एक शब्द पनि चुकेको छैन भनी तिमीहरूले आफ्नो सारा ह्रदय र आफ्नो सारा प्राणले जान्दछौ । यी सबै कुरा तिमीहरूका निम्ति पुरा भएका छन् । तिनमा एउटै पनि चुकेको छैन ।
“Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it.
15 तर जसरी परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्वरले तिमीहरूलाई प्रतिज्ञा गर्नुभएका सबै वचन पुरा भएको छ, त्यसरी नै परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्वरले तिमीहरूलाई दिनुभएको यो असल भूमिबाट तिमीहरूलाई नष्ट नगरेसम्म परमप्रभुले तिमीहरूमाथि सबै खराबी ल्याउनुहुने छ ।
It shall happen that as all the good things have come on you of which the LORD your God spoke to you, so the LORD will bring on you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you,
16 यदि तिमीहरूले पालन गर्न तिमीहरूलाई उहाँले आज्ञा गर्नुभएको परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्वरको करार तोड्यौ भने, उहाँले यो गर्नुहुने छ । यदि तिमीहरू जान्छौ र अरू देवताहरूको आराधना गर्छौ र दण्डवत् गर्छौ भने, परमप्रभुको क्रोध तिमीहरूविरुद्ध दन्किने छ र उहाँले तिमीहरूलाई दिनुभएको असल भूमिबाट तिमीहरू चाँडै नष्ट हुने छौ ।”
when you disobey the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them. Then the LORD’s anger will be kindled against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you.”
