नहेम्याह 5
1 तब मानिसहरू र तिनीहरूका पत्नीहरूले आफ्ना यहूदी मित्रहरूका विरुद्धमा ठुलो आवाज उठाए ।
Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
2 त्यहाँ केही मानिसहरू थिए जसले भने, “हाम्रा छोराछोरीहरूसमेत गर्दा हामी धेरै छौँ । हामीले खाएर बाँच्नलाई अन्न प्राप्त गरौँ ।”
For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”
3 त्यहाँ अरू केही मानिसहरू पनि थिए जसले भने, “अनिकालको समयमा अन्न प्राप्त गर्न हामी हाम्रा खेतहरू, हाम्रा दाखबारीहरू र हाम्रा घरहरू बन्धकमा राख्दै छौँ ।”
There were also some who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”
4 केहीले यसो पनि भने, “राजालाई हाम्रा खेतहरू र हाम्रा दाखबारीहरूको कर तिर्न हामीले पैसा सापट लिएका छौँ ।
There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.
5 तरै पनि हाम्रा शरीर हाम्रा दाजुभाइहरूका शरीर जस्तै हुन्, र हाम्रा छोराछोरीहरू तिनीहरूका छोराछोरीहरूजस्तै हुन् । हाम्रा छोराछोरीहरूलाई कमारा-कमारी बन्नको लागि बेच्न हामी बाध्य छौँ । हाम्रा केही छोरीहरू पहिले नै कमारी भइसकेका छन् । अरू मानिसहरूले हाम्रा खेतहरू र हाम्रा दाखबारीहरू अधिकार गरेकाले हामीसित मदत गर्ने खुबी छैन ।”
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”
6 जब मैले तिनीहरूको रोदन र यी वचनहरू सुने म सार्है रिसाएँ ।
I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
7 तब मैले यस विषयमा सोचविचार गरेँ, अनि कुलीनहरू र अधिकारीहरूलाई दोष लगाएँ । मैले तिनीहरूलाई भनेँ, “तिमीहरू हरेकले आफ्नै भाइबाट ब्याज लिँदै छौ ।” मैले तिनीहरूको विरुद्धमा ठुलो भेला गराएँ,
Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.
8 र तिनीहरूलाई भनेँ, “हामी कुलीनहरूले जाति-जातिहरूकहाँ दासत्वमा बेचिएका हाम्रा यहूदी दाजुभाइहरूलाई दाम तिरी फिर्ता गरेर ल्याएका छौँ, तर तिमीहरू आफ्ना दाजुभाइ तथा दिदी-बहिनीहरू फेरी हामीलाई बेच्छौ!” तिनीहरू स्तब्ध भए र बोल्नलाई कुनै शब्दै भएन ।
I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.
9 मैले यसो पनि भनेँ, “तिमीहरूले जे गरिरहेका छौ, त्यो ठिक होइन । जाति-जातिहरू अर्थात् हाम्रा शत्रुहरूका कटाक्षलाई रोक्न के तिमीहरू हाम्रा परमेश्वरोक डरमा चल्नुपर्दैन र?
Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?
10 मैले, मेरा दाजुभाइहरूले र मेरा सेवकहरूले तिनीहरूलाई रुपियाँ-पैसा र अन्न सापट दिँदै छौँ । तर हामीले यी ऋणमा ब्याज लगाउन रोक्नुपर्छ ।
I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.
11 आजकै दिन तिमीहरूले तिनीहरूबाट लिएका तिनीहरूका खेतहरू, दाखबारीहरू, भद्राक्ष बारीहरू, तिनीहरूका घरहरू, रुपियाँ-पैसाको ब्याज, अन्न, नयाँ दाखमद्य र तेल फर्काइदेओ ।”
Please restore to them, even today, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them.”
12 तब तिनीहरूले भने, “हामीले तिनीहरूबाट लिएका चिजहरू फिर्ता गरिदिने छौँ, र हामी तिनीहरूबाट केही माग गर्दैनौँ । हामी तपाईंले भन्नुभएझैँ गर्ने छौँ ।” तब मैले पुजारीहरूलाई बोलाई तिनीहरूले भनेअनुसार गर्न तिनीहरूलाई शपथ खान लगाएँ ।
Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you say.” Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.
13 मैले आफ्नो खास्टोको गाँठो फुकाएर भनेँ, “आफ्नो प्रतिज्ञा पुरा नगर्ने हरेक मानिसको घर र धन-सम्पत्ति परमेश्वरले यसरी नै फुकालिदेऊन् । त्यसलाई फुकाली रित्तो बनाइयोस् ।” सबै समुदायले भने, “आमेन,” अनि तिनीहरूले परमेश्वरको स्तुति गरे, र तिनीहरूले आ-आफूले प्रतिज्ञा गरेअनुसार गरे ।
Also I shook out my lap, and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that doesn’t perform this promise; even may he be shaken out and emptied like this.” All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised the LORD. The people did according to this promise.
14 म यहूदा देशको राज्यपाल नियुक्त भएको समयदेखि अर्थात् अर्तासास्त राजाको बिसौँ वर्षदेखि बत्तिसौँ वर्षसम्म, जम्माजम्मी बार्ह वर्षसम्म मैले र मेरा दाजुभाइहरूले राज्यपालको लागि उपलब्ध गराइएको खाना खाएनौँ ।
Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor.
15 तर मभन्दा अगिका राज्यपालहरूले मानिसहरूमाथि गर्हौँ बोझ लादिदिए, र तिनीहरूको दैनिक भोजनसाथै दाखमद्यको लागि मानिसहरूबाट चाँदीका चालिस सिक्का कर लिएका थिए । तिनीहरूका सेवकहरूले पनि मानिसहरूमाथि थिचोमिचो गरे । तर परमेश्वरको भयको कारणले मैले त्यसो गरिनँ ।
But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people, but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.
16 मैले पर्खालको कामलाई पनि जारी राखेँ, र कुनै जग्गा जमिन किनिनँ, अनि मेरा सबै सेवक कामको लागि त्यहाँ जम्मा हुन्थे ।
Yes, I also continued in the work of this wall. We didn’t buy any land. All my servants were gathered there to the work.
17 हाम्रा वरिपरि भएका जाति-जातिहरूबाट आउने मानिसहरूबाहेक मेरो टेबुलमा यहूदीहरू र अधिकारीहरू गरी जम्मा १५० जना हुन्थे ।
Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, one hundred and fifty men, in addition to those who came to us from amongst the nations that were around us.
18 एउटा गोरु, छवटा मोटा-मोटा भेडा र कुखुराहरू हरेक दिन खानलाई जुटाइनुपर्थ्यो, र दस-दस दिनपछि चाहिँ सबै किसिमका दाखमद्य प्रचुर मात्रामा जुटाइन्थ्यो । यति हुँदाहुँदै पनि मैले राज्यपालको भोजनको भत्ताको माग गरिनँ किनकि मानिसहरूमाथि ठुलो बोझ परेको थियो ।
Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep. Also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine. Yet for all this, I didn’t demand the governor’s pay, because the bondage was heavy on this people.
19 हे मेरा परमेश्वर, मैले यी मानिसहरूलाई गरेका सबै कामको निम्ति मेरो भलाइ सोच्नुहोस् ।
Remember me, my God, for all the good that I have done for this people.
