Nahum 3

1 हाय उस हत्यारी नगरी पर, वह तो छल और लूट के धन से भरी हुई है; लूट कम नहीं होती है।

2 कोड़ों की फटकार और पहियों की घड़घड़ाहट हो रही है; घोड़े कूदते-फांदते और रथ उछलते चलते हैं।

3 सवार चढ़ाई करते, तलवारें और भाले बिजली की नाईं चमकते हैं, मारे हुओं की बहुतायत और लोथों का बड़ा ढेर है; मुर्दों की कुछ गिनती नहीं, लोग मुर्दों से ठोकर खा खाकर चलते हैं!

4 यह सब उस अति सुन्दर वेश्या, और निपुण टोनहिन के छिनाले की बहुतायत के कारण हुआ, जो छिनाले के द्वारा जाति-जाति के लोगों को, और टोने के द्वारा कुल-कुल के लोगों को बेच डालती है॥

5 सेनाओं के यहोवा की यह वाणी है, मैं तेरे विरुद्ध हूं, और तेरे वस्त्र को उठा कर, तुझे जाति-जाति के साम्हने नंगी और राज्य-राज्य के साम्हने नीचा दिखाऊंगा।

6 मैं तुझ पर घिनौनी वस्तुएं फेंक कर तुझे तुच्छ कर दूंगा, और सब से तेरी हंसी कराऊंगा।

7 और जितने तुझे देखेंगे, सब तेरे पास से भाग कर कहेंगे, नीनवे नाश हो गई; कौन उसके कारण विलाप करे? हम उसके लिये शान्ति देने वाला कहां से ढूंढ़ कर ले आएं?

8 क्या तू अमोन नगरी से बढ़ कर है, जो नहरों के बीच बसी थी, और उसके चारों ओर जल था, और महानद उसके लिये किला और शहरपनाह का काम देता था?

9 कूश और मिस्री उसको अनगिनित बल देते थे, पूत और लूबी तेरे सहायक थे॥

10 तौभी लोग उसको बंधुवाई में ले गए, और उसके नन्हें बच्चे सड़कों के सिरे पर पटक दिए गए; और उसके प्रतिष्ठित पुरूषों के लिये उन्होंने चिट्ठी डाली, और उसके सब रईस बेडिय़ों से जकड़े गए।

11 तू भी मतवाली होगी, तू घबरा जाएगी; तू भी शत्रु के डर के मारे शरण का स्थान ढूंढेगी।

12 तेरे सब गढ़ ऐसे अंजीर के वृक्षों के समान होंगे जिन में पहिले पक्के अंजीर लगे हों, यदि वे हिलाए जाएं तो फल खाने वाले के मुंह में गिरेंगे।

13 देख, तेरे लोग जो तेरे बीच में हैं, वे स्त्रियां बन गए हैं। तेरे देश में प्रवेश करने के मार्ग तेरे शत्रुओं के लिये बिलकुल खुले पड़े हैं; और रूकावट की छड़ें आग के कौर हो गई हैं॥

14 घिर जाने के दिनों के लिये पानी भर ले, और गढ़ों को अधिक दृढ़ कर; कीचड़ ले आकर गारा लताड़, और भट्ठे को सजा!

15 वहां तू आग में भस्म होगी, और तलवार से तू नाश हो जाएगी। वह येलेक नाम टिड्डी की नाईं तुझे निगल जाएगी॥ यद्यपि तू अर्बे नाम टिड्डी के समान अनगिनित भी हो जाए!

16 तेरे व्योपारी आकाश के तारागण से भी अधिक अनगिनित हुए। टिड्डी चट कर के उड़ जाती है।

17 तेरे मुकुटधारी लोग टिड्डियों के समान, और सेनापति टिड्डियों के दलों सरीखे ठहरेंगे जो जाड़े के दिन में बाड़ों पर टिकते हैं, परन्तु जब सूर्य दिखाई देता है तब भाग जाते हैं; और कोई नहीं जानता कि वे कहां गए॥

18 हे अश्शूर के राजा, तेरे ठहराए हुए चरवाहे ऊंघते हैं; तेरे शूरवीर भारी नींद में पड़ गए हैं। तेरी प्रजा पहाड़ों पर तितर-बितर हो गई है, और कोई उन को फिर इकट्ठे नहीं करता।

19 तेरा घाव न भर सकेगा, तेरा रोग असाध्य है। जितने तेरा समाचार सुनेंगे, वे तेरे ऊपर ताली बजाएंगे। क्योंकि ऐसा कौन है जिस पर तेरी लगातार दुष्टता का प्रभाव न पड़ा हो?

1 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;

2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.

3 The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:

4 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.

5 Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.

6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.

7 And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?

8 Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?

9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.

10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

11 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.

12 All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.

13 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.

14 Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.

15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.

16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.

17 Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

18 Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.

19 There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the Lord:

3 He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.

4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.

5 All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the Lord, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.

6 All the days that he separateth himself unto the Lord he shall come at no dead body.

7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.

8 All the days of his separation he is holy unto the Lord.

9 And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.

10 And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:

11 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day.

12 And he shall consecrate unto the Lord the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.

13 And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:

14 And he shall offer his offering unto the Lord, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,

15 And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings.

16 And the priest shall bring them before the Lord, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:

17 And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering.

18 And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.

19 And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair of his separation is shaven:

20 And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.

21 This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, and of his offering unto the Lord for his separation, beside that that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation.

22 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

23 Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them,

24 The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:

25 The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:

26 The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

27 And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.