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1 राजा अर्तासास्तको बिसौँ वर्षको नीसान महिनामा उहाँले दाखमद्य रोज्नुभयो, र मैले दाखमद्य लिई राजालाई टक्र्याएँ । म उहाँको उपस्थितिमा पहिले कहिल्यै यस्तो उदास भएको थिइनँ ।
And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not formerly been sad in his presence.
2 त्यसैले राजाले मलाई सोध्‍नुभयो, “तिम्रो अनुसार किन यति उदास छ? तिमी बिरामीजस्तो त देखिँदैनौँ । यो ह्रदयको उदासी हुनुपर्छ ।” तब म सार्‍है डराएँ ।
And the king said to me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very much afraid.
3 मैले राजालाई भनेँ, “राजा सदासर्वदै अमर रहून्! मेरो अनुसार किन उदास नहुने त? मेरा पिता-पुर्खाहरूका चिहान भएको सहर भग्‍नावशेषमा परिणत भएको छ, र यसका मूल ढोकाहरू आगोले नष्‍ट पारेका छन् ।”
And I said to the king, Let the king live forever. Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchers, lies waste, and the gates of it are consumed with fire?
4 तब राजाले मलाई भन्‍नुभयो, “मैले के गरेको तिमी चाहन्छौ?” त्यसैले मैले स्वर्गका परमेश्‍वरलाई प्रार्थना चढाएँ ।
Then the king said to me, For what do thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
5 मैले राजालाई जवाफ दिएँ, “राजालाई असल लाग्यो भने, र हजुरका दासले हजुरको दृष्‍टिमा राम्रै गरेको छ भने हजुरले मलाई मेरा पिता-पुर्खाहरूका चिहान भए सहर यहूदा पठाउन सक्‍नुहुन्छ ताकि मैले यसको पुनर्निर्माण गर्न सकूँ ।”
And I said to the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant has found favor in thy sight, that thou would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' sepulchers, that I may build it.
6 राजाले मलाई जवाफ दिनुभयो (रानी पनि उहाँकै छेउमा बसिरहनुभएको थियो), “तिमी कहिलेसम्म टाढिन्छौ र तिमी कहिले फर्कने छौ?” मैले राजालाई मिति दिँदा राजा मलाई पठाउन खुसी हुनुभयो ।
And the king said to me (the queen also sitting by him), For how long shall thy journey be? And when will thou return? So it pleased the king to send me, and I set him a time.
7 तब मैले राजालाई भनेँ, “राजालाई खुसी लागे यूफ्रेटिस पारिको प्रान्तका राज्यपालहरूका लागि मलाई चिट्ठीहरू पठाइऊन् ताकि म यहूदा जाँदा तिनीहरूले मलाई तिनीहरूका इलाकाहरू भएर जान अनुमति देऊन् ।
Moreover I said to the king, If it please the king, let letters be given to me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through till I come to Judah,
8 राजाको जङ्गलको जिम्मावाल आसापको लागि पनि एउटा चिट्ठी होस्, ताकि मन्दिरसित गाँसिएको किल्लाका मूल ढोकाहरू, सहरको पर्खाल र म बस्‍ने घरका लागि सत्तरीहरू बनाउन तिनले मलाई मुढाहरू जुटाइदेऊन् ।” परमेश्‍वरको असल हात ममाथि भएकोले राजाले मेरो अनुरोध स्वीकार गर्नुभयो ।
and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the castle which appertains to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
9 म यूफ्रेटिस पारिको प्रान्तका राज्यपालहरूकहाँ आइपुगेँ, र तिनीहरूलाई राजाका चिट्ठीहरू दिएँ । राजाले मसँगै सेनाका अधिकृतहरू र घोडचढीहरू पठाएका थिए ।
Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen.
10 कसैले इस्राएलीहरूलाई मदत गर्न खोज्दै छ भनी जब होरोनी सन्बलत र अम्मोनी अधिकारी तोबियाले यो सुने, तिनीहरू निकै बेखुसी भए ।
And when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there came a man to seek the welfare of the sons of Israel.
11 यसरी म यरूशलेम आइपुगेँ, र त्यहाँ दिन रहेँ ।
So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
12 म र केही मानिसहरू रातमा उठ्यौँ । यरूशलेमको निम्ति परमेश्‍वरले मेरो ह्रदयमा हालिदिनुभएको बोझबारे मैले कसैलाई बताइनँ । म चढिरहेको पशुबाहेक त्यहाँ अरू कुनै पशु थिएन ।
And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me. I neither told any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem, nor was there any beast with me except the beast that I rode upon.
13 म राति बेँसी ढोका भएर बाहिर निस्केँ, अनि यरूशलेमका पर्खालहरू भत्केका र मूल ढोकाहरू जलाइएका ठाउँको निरीक्षण गर्दै म फोहोर ढोका रा स्यालको पोखरीतिर गएँ ।
And I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal's well and to the dung gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates of it were consumed with fire.
14 त्यसपछि म फुहारा ढोका र राजाको तलाउमा गएँ । त्यो ठाउँ यति सानो थियो कि म चढिरहको पशु जानलाई ठाउँ नै पुगेन ।
Then I went on to the fountain gate and to the king's pool, but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.
15 त्यसैले त्यस रात म उपत्यका भएर गएँ, र पर्खालको निरीक्षण गरेँ, अनि म फर्केर बेँसी ढोकाबाट भित्र प्रवेश गरेँ । यसरी म फर्किएँ ।
Then I went up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall. And I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.
16 म कहाँ गएँ र मैले के गरेँ भन्‍ने बारेमा शासकहरूलाई थाहै भएन, र यति बेलासम्म मैले यहूदीहरूलाई पनि भनेको थिइनँ, न पुजारीहरू, न प्रतिष्‍ठित मानिसहरू, न शासकहरू, न त काम गर्ने बाँकी मानिसहरूलाई भनेको थिएँ ।
And the rulers did not know where I went, or what I did, neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the ranking men, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work.
17 मैले तिनीहरूलाई भनेँ, “हामी कस्तो सङ्कष्‍टमा छौँ, यरूशलेम कसरी भग्‍नावशेषमा परिणत भएको छ र यसका मूल ढोकाहरू आगोले नष्‍ट पारिएको छ भनी तिमीहरूले देखेका छौ । आओ, हामी फेरि अपमानित नहोऔँ भनेर यरूशलेमको पर्खाल पुनर्निर्माण गरौँ ।”
Then I said to them, Ye see the evil condition that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and the gates of it are burned with fire. Come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem that we be no more a reproach.
18 मेरा परमेश्‍वरको असल हात ममाथि र राजाले मलाई भन्‍नुभएका वचनहरूमाथि थियो भनी मैले तिनीहरूलाई बताएँ । तिनीहरूले भने, “उठौँ, र निर्माण गरौँ ।” त्यसैले असल कामको लागि तिनीहरूले आ-आफ्ना हात मजबुत पारे ।
And I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me, as also of the king's words that he had spoken to me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for the good work.
19 तर जब होरोनी सन्बलत, अम्मोनी अधिकारी तोबिया र अरबी गेशेमले यो कुरा सुने तिनीहरूले हामीलाई खिसी गरे र गिल्ला गरेर भने, “तिमीहरू के गर्दै छौ? के तिमीहरू राजाको विरुद्धमा विद्रोह गर्दै छौ?”
But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? Will ye rebel against the king?
20 तब मैले तिनीहरूलाई जवाफ दिएँ, “स्वर्गका परमेश्‍वरल हामीलाई सफलता दिनुहुने छ । हामी उहाँका दासहरू हौँ, अनि हामी उठ्ने छौँ र निर्माणको काम गर्ने छौँ । तर यरूशलेममा तिमीहरूको कुनै हिस्सा, कुनै हक र कुनै ऐतिहासिक दाबी छैन ।”
Then I answered them, and said to them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us. Therefore we his servants will arise and build, but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.

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