Micah 4
1 अन्त के दिनों में ऐसा होगा कि यहोवा के भवन का पर्वत सब पहाड़ों पर दृढ़ किया जाएगा, और सब पहाडिय़ों से अधिक ऊंचा किया जाएगा; और हर जाति के लोग धारा की नाईं उसकी ओर चलेंगे।
2 और बहुत जातियों के लोग जाएंगे, और आपस में कहेंगे, आओ, हम यहोवा के पर्वत पर चढ़कर, याकूब के परमेश्वर के भवन में जाएं; तब वह हम को अपने मार्ग सिखाएगा, और हम उसके पथों पर चलेंगे। क्योंकि यहोवा की व्यवस्था सिय्योन से, और उसका वचन यरूशलेम से निकलेगा।
3 वह बहुत देशों के लोगों का न्याय करेगा, और दूर दूर तक की सामर्थी जातियों के झगड़ों को मिटाएगा; सो वे अपनी तलवारें पीटकर हल के फाल, और अपने भालोंसे हंसिया बनाएंगे; तब एक जाति दूसरी जाति के विरुद्ध तलवार फिर न चलाएगी;
4 और लोग आगे को युद्ध विद्या न सीखेंगे। परन्तु वे अपनी अपनी दाखलता और अंजीर के वृक्ष तले बैठा करेंगे, और कोई उन को न डराएगा; सेनाओं के यहोवा ने यही वचन दिया है॥
5 सब राज्यों के लोग तो अपने अपने देवता का नाम ले कर चलते हैं, परन्तु हम लोग अपने परमेश्वर यहोवा का नाम ले कर सदा सर्वदा चलते रहेंगे॥
6 यहोवा की यह वाणी है, उस समय मैं प्रजा के लंगड़ों को, और बरबस निकाले हुओं को, और जिन को मैं ने दु:ख दिया है उन सब को इकट्ठे करूंगा।
7 और लंगड़ों को मैं बचा रखूंगा, और दूर किए हुओं को एक सामर्थी जाति कर दूंगा; और यहोवा उन पर सिय्योन पर्वत के ऊपर से सदा राज्य करता रहेगा॥
8 और हे एदेर के गुम्मट, हे सिय्योन की पहाड़ी, पहिली प्रभुता अर्थात यरूशलेम का राज्य तुझे मिलेगा॥
9 अब तू क्यों चिल्लाती है? क्या तुझ में कोई राजा नहीं रहा? क्या तेरा युक्ति करने वाला नाश हो गया, जिस से जच्चा स्त्री की नाईं तुझे पीड़ा उठती है?
10 हे सिय्योन की बेटी, जच्चा स्त्री की नाईं पीड़ा उठा कर उत्पन्न कर; क्योंकि अब तू गढ़ी में से निकल कर मैदान में बसेगी, वरन बाबुल तक जाएगी; वहीं तू छुड़ाई जाएगी, अर्थात वहीं यहोवा तुझे तेरे शत्रुओं के वश में से छुड़ा लेगा॥
11 और अब बहुत सी जातियां तेरे विरुद्ध इकट्ठी हो कर तेरे विषय में कहेंगी सिय्योन अपवित्र की जाए, और हम अपनी आंखों से उसको निहारें।
12 परन्तु वे यहोवा की कल्पनाएं नहीं जानते, न उसकी युक्ति समझते हैं, कि वह उन्हें ऐसा बटोर लेगा जैसे खलिहान में पूले बटोरे जाते हैं।
13 हे सिय्योन, उठ और दांव कर, मैं तेरे सींगों को लोहे के, और तेरे खुरों को पीतल के बना दूंगा; ओर तू बहुत सी जातियों को चूरचूर करेगी, ओर उनकी कमाई यहोवा को और उनकी धन-सम्पत्ति पृथ्वी के प्रभु के लिये अर्पण करेगी॥
1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.
5 For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.
6 In that day, saith the Lord, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;
7 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the Lord shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.
8 And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
9 Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counseller perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.
10 Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
11 Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
12 But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.
13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the Lord, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
1 Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
3 And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
4 So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.
5 And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister.
6 And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-jesus:
7 Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.
8 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.
9 Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,
10 And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
11 And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
12 Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.
13 Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.
14 But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.
15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
16 Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.
17 The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.
18 And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
19 And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
20 And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.
21 And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.
22 And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.
23 Of this man’s seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:
24 When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
25 And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.
26 Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
28 And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.
29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
30 But God raised him from the dead:
31 And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.
32 And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.
35 Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
37 But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;
41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
42 And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.
43 Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
44 And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.
45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.
48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
49 And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.
50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.
52 And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.