Hosea 2
1 इसलिये तुम लोग अपने भाइयों से अम्मी और अपनी बहिनों से रूहामा कहो॥
2 अपनी माता से विवाद करो, विवाद क्योंकि वह मेरी स्त्री नहीं और न मैं उसका पति हूं। वह अपने मुंह पर से अपने छिनालपन को और छातियों के बीच से व्यभिचारों को अलग करे;
3 नहीं तो मैं उसके वस्त्र उतार कर उसको जन्म के दिन के समान नंगी कर दूंगा, और उसको मरूस्थल के समान और मरूभूमि सरीखी बनाऊंगा, और उसे प्यास से मार डालूंगा।
4 उसके लड़के-बालों पर भी मैं कुछ दया न करूंगा, क्योंकि वे कुकर्म के लड़के हैं।
5 उनकी माता ने छिनाला किया है; जिसके गर्भ में वे पड़े, उसने लज्जा के योग्य काम किया है। उसने कहा, मेरे यार जो मुझे रोटी-पानी, ऊन, सन, तेल और मद्य देते हैं, मैं उन्हीं के पीछे चलूंगी।
6 इसलिये देखो, मैं उसके मार्ग को कांटों से घेरूंगा, और ऐसा बाड़ा खड़ा करूंगा कि वह राह न पा सकेगी।
7 वह अपने यारों के पीछे चलने से भी न पाएगी; और उन्हें ढूंढ़ने से भी न पाएगी। तब वह कहेगी, मैं अपने पहिले पति के पास फिर जाऊंगी, क्योंकि मेरी पहिली दशा इस समय की दशा से अच्छी थी।
8 वह यह नहीं जानती थी, कि अन्न, नया दाखमधु और तेल मैं ही उसे देता था, और उसके लिये वह चान्दी सोना जिस को वे बाल देवता के काम में ले आते हैं, मैं ही बढ़ाता था।
9 इस कारण मैं अन्न की ऋतु में अपने अन्न को, और नये दाखमधु के होने के समय में अपने नये दाखमधु को हर लूंगा; और अपना ऊन और सन भी जिन से वह अपना तन ढांपती है, मैं छीन लूंगा।
10 अब मैं उसके यारों के साम्हने उसके तन को उघाडूंगा, और मेरे हाथ से कोई उसे छुड़ा न सकेगा।
11 और मैं उसके पर्व, नये चांद और विश्रामदिन आदि सब नियत समयों के उत्सवों का अन्त कर दूंगा।
12 और मैं उसकी दाखलताओं और अंजीर के वृक्षों को, जिनके विषय वह कहती है कि यह मेरे छिनाले की प्राप्ति है जिसे मेरे यारों ने मुझे दी है, उन्हें ऐसा उजाडूंगा कि वे जंगल से हो जाएंगे, और वन-पशु उन्हें चर डालेंगे।
13 और वे दिन जिन में वह बाल देवताओं के लिये धूप जलाती, और नत्थ और हार पहिने अपने यारों के पीछे जाती और मुझ को भूले रहती थी, उन दिनों का दण्ड मैं उसे दूंगा, यहोवा की यही वाणी है॥
14 इसलिये देखो, मैं उसे मोहित कर के जंगल में ले जाऊंगा, और वहां उस से शान्ति की बातें कहूंगा।
15 और वहीं मैं उसको दाख की बारियां दूंगा, और आकोर की तराई को आशा का द्वार कर दूंगा और वहां वह मुझ से ऐसी बातें कहेगी जैसी अपनी जवानी के दिनों में अर्थात मिस्र देश से चले आने के समय कहती थी।
16 और यहोवा की यह वाणी है कि उस समय तू मुझे ईशी कहेगी और फिर बाली न कहेगी।
17 क्योंकि भविष्य में मैं उसे बाल देवताओं के नाम न लेने दूंग; और न उनके नाम फिर स्मरण में रहेंगे।
18 और उस समय मैं उनके लिये वन-पशुओं और आकाश के पक्षियों और भूमि पर के रेंगने वाले जन्तुओं के साथ वाचा बान्धूंगा, और धनुष और तलवार तोड़ कर युद्ध को उनके देश से दूर कर दूंगा; और ऐसा करूंगा कि वे लोग निडर सोया करेंगे।
19 और मैं सदा के लिये तुझे अपनी स्त्री करने की प्रतिज्ञा करूंगा, और यह प्रतिज्ञा धर्म, और न्याय, और करूंणा, और दया के साथ करूंगा।
20 और यह सच्चाई के साथ की जाएगी, और तू यहोवा को जान लेगी॥
21 और यहोवा की यह वाणी है कि उस समय मैं आकाश की सुन कर उसको उत्तर दूंगा, और वह पृथ्वी की सुन कर उसे उत्तर देगा;
22 और पृथ्वी अन्न, नये दाखमधु, और ताजे तेल की सुन कर उन को उत्तर देगी, और वे यिज्रेल को उत्तर देंगे।
23 और मैं अपने लिये उसे देश में बोऊंगा, और लोरूहामा पर दया करूंगा, और लोअम्मी से कहूंगा, तू मेरी प्रजा है, और वह कहेगा, “हे मेरे परमेश्वर"॥
1 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
5 For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
7 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.
8 For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.
9 Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.
10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the Lord.
14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
16 And it shall be at that day, saith the Lord, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.
17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.
20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;
22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.
23 And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.
1 And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.
2 And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece,
3 And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.
4 And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.
5 These going before tarried for us at Troas.
6 And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.
7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
8 And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.
9 And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
10 And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.
11 When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.
12 And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.
13 And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to go afoot.
14 And when he met with us at Assos, we took him in, and came to Mitylene.
15 And we sailed thence, and came the next day over against Chios; and the next day we arrived at Samos, and tarried at Trogyllium; and the next day we came to Miletus.
16 For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.
17 And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.
18 And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons,
19 Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
20 And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house,
21 Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
22 And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:
23 Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
25 And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.
26 Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
27 For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
31 Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
32 And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
33 I have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel.
34 Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
36 And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all.
37 And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul’s neck, and kissed him,
38 Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the ship.