Jeremiah 46
1 ती वचनहरू जो परमप्रभुबाट अगमवक्ता यर्मियाकहाँ आए धेरै जाति-जातिहरूको विषयमा छ।
2 यो सन्देश मिश्र देशको विषयमा हो। यो सन्देश मिश्रदेशका राजा फिरऊन नेकोका सेनाको बारेमा छ। उसको सेना यूफ्रेटिस नदीको किनार कर्कशमा भन्ने शहरमा पराजित भएको थियो। जब बाबेलका राजा नबूकदनेस्सरले फिरऊन नेकोको सेनालाई कर्कशमा पराजित गरे। त्यसबेला योशियाहको छोरो यहोयाकाम यहूदाका राजा भएको चार वर्ष पुगेको थियो। यो मिश्रलाई परमप्रभुको सन्देश हो
3 “तिम्रो ठूलो र सानो ढालहरू तैयार पार। युद्धको लागि अघि बढ।
4 घोडाहरू तैयार पार सिपाहीहरू आफ्नो घोडाहरूमाथि चढे युद्धभूमिमा जाऊ। लडाइँको टोपहरू लगाऊ। भालाहरू तीखो पार झिलम लगाऊ।
5 मैले के देखें? सिपाहीहरू भयभीत छन् अनि भागिरहेका छन्। ती वीर सेनाहरू परास्त भइरहेका छन्। पछि नहेरी तिनीहरू हतारिएर भागिरहेका छन्। त्यहाँ वरिपरि त्रास छ।” परमप्रभुले यी कुराहरू भन्नुभयो।
6 फुर्तीला धाक्कहरू पनि भाग्न सक्तैनन्। बलियो सिपाहीहरू पनि उम्कन सक्तैनन्। तिनीहरू सबै ठेस लागेर लडने छन्। उत्तरमा यूफ्रेटिस् नदीको किनारमा यस्तो घटनाहरू हुनेछन्।
7 नील नदी जस्तै को आइरहेछ? को त्यस्तो तीव्र नदीहरू झैं आइरहेछ?
8 यो मिश्र हो जो नील नदी झैं आइरहेछ। यो मिश्र हो जो त्यो तीव्र नदीहरू झैं उर्लेर आईरहेछ। मिश्रले भन्दछ, ‘म आउने छु अनि पृथ्वीलाई ढाक्नेछु। म शहरहरू र त्यहाँ बस्ने मानिसहरूलाई नाश पार्नेछु।’
9 हे घोड-सवारी सिपाहीहरू, अघिबढ! हे रथ हाँक्नेहरू, चाँडो हाँक! हे वीर सिपाहीहरू, अघि बढ! कूश र पूटबाट आएका सिपाहीहरू, जो आफ्ना ढालहरू बोक। लूदबाट आएका सिपाहीहरू धनु समाल।
10 तर त्यस समय, हाम्रो मालिक सेनाहरूका परमप्रभु, परमेश्वरले आफ्नो शत्रुहरूमाथि बद्ला लिनुहुनेछ। त्यो बद्ला लिने दिन हुनेछ। तरवारले मार्नेछ अनि सन्तुष्ट हुनेछ। तिनीहरूको रगतले तरवार भरिनेछ। यो उत्तर देशको यूफ्रेटिस नदीको किनारमा मेरो मालिक, सेनाहरूका परमप्रभु निम्ति बलि हुनेछ।
11 हे मिश्र देशकी कन्ये-छोरी! गिलाद जाऊ अनि औषधि ल्याऊ। अनि सबै औषधिहरू जो तिमीले लगाउँछौ त्यो व्यर्थको हुनेछन्। तिमी निको हुने छैनौ।
12 तिम्रो अपमान विषयमा जाति-जातिहरूले सुन्नेछन्। तिम्रो रूवाँई सारा पृथ्वीभरि सुनिने छ। एउटा ‘वीर सिपाही’ अर्को ‘वीर सिपाहीमाथि’ पल्टिनेछ अनि दुवै एकैचोटी लडछन्।”
13 यो सन्देश अगमवक्ता यर्मियाकहाँ परमप्रभुबाट आयो जब नबूकदनेस्सर मिश्रमाथि आक्रमण गर्न अघि बढिरहेको थियो।
14 “यो सन्देश मिश्र, मिग्दोल, मेमफिस र तहपन्हेसमा घोषणा गरेर यसो भन्, ‘युद्धको लागि तैयार हौ किनभने तिम्रो वरिपरि तरवारले खाँदैछ।’
15 तिम्रो गोरू किन फ्याँकिएको छ? त्यो कि उभिन सक्तैन? किनभने परमप्रभुले तिनीहरूलाई तल घचेटि दिनुहुनेछ।
16 धेरै सिपाहीहरू ठोक्किनेछन् अनि लडनेछन्। तब तिनीहरू परस्परमा भन्नेछन्, ‘उठ, हाम्रा आफ्ना मानिसहरूकहाँ जाऊँ। हामी हाम्रा अत्याचारीहरूको तरवार भन्दा टाढो आफ्ना देशमा फर्कौ। हामी भाग्नै पर्छ किनभने हाम्रा शत्रुहरूले हामीलाई परास्त गरे।’
17 मिश्रको राजा फिरऊनलाई ‘चर्को हल्ला जसले आफ्नो नाउँमा बोलाऊ मौका गुमायो।”‘
18 जास्तो म जीवित छु। राजा भन्छन्- यो राजाको नाउँ हो सेनाहरूका परमप्रभु आउनु हुनेछ। उनी याबेर पर्वत अनि समुद्रको किनारको कर्मेल पर्वत जस्तै महान हुनेछ।”
19 हे मिश्रकी छोरी! आफ्ना सामानहरू बाँधबुध गर दासत्वको लागि तैयार हौं, किनभने मेमफिस शहर ध्वंस हुनेछ, जन शून्य बेकामे भूमि हुनेछ।
20 मिश्र एउटी सुन्दरी गाई जस्तै हो, तर एउटा डाँस उत्तरबाट उसकहाँ आइरहेछ।
21 मिश्रका भाडाका सिपाहीहरू पोसिएका गोरूहरू छन् झैं तिनीहरू सबै पीठ फर्काएर भागे। तिनीहरू आक्रमणकारीहरू समक्ष एक क्षण टिक्न सकेनन्। तिनीहरूको नाशको समय आईरहेछ। तिनीहरू दण्डित हुनेछन्।
22 मिश्र साँपको झैं आवाज गर्दै सुल्किरहेको छ किनभने उसको शत्रुहरू तेजले आएकाछन्। शत्रुले मिश्रलाई बन्चरोहरूले रूख काटे झैं आक्रमण गर्नेछ।”
23 परमप्रभु भन्नुहुन्छ, “तिनीहरूले उसको जंगल बाक्लो भए पनि फाँडनेछन्। शत्रुका सेनाहरू सलह झैं छन् अनि कसैले गन्न सक्तैन।
24 मिश्रकी छोरी लज्जित हुनेछ। उत्तर दिशाबाट आएका शत्रुले उसलाई पराजित गर्नेछ।”
25 सेनाहरूका परमप्रभु, इस्राएलका परमेश्वर भन्नुहुन्छ “म थेबेसको आमोनलाई दण्ड दिनेवाला छु। अनि म फिरऊन, मिश्र र त्यसका देवताहरूलाई दण्ड दिनेछु। म मिश्रका राजाहरूलाई र फिरऊनमाथि भरोसा गर्नेहरूलाई दण्ड दिनेछु।
26 म तिनीहरूलाई बाबेलको राजा नबूकदनेस्सर र उसको सेवकहरूको हातमा सुम्पिनेछु जसले तिनीहरूलाई मार्न खोजिरहेका छन्।”“यस ध्वंस पछि मिश्रमा फेरि अघि झैं मानिसहरू बसो-बास गर्नेछन्।” परमप्रभुले यी कुराहरू भन्नुभयो।
27 “हे याकूब, मेरो दास! नडराऊ। हे इस्राएल, होतोत्साही नबन। म तिमीहरू र तिम्रो नानीहरूलाई ती सुदूर र तिमीहरूलाई कैदी बनाउने ठाउँबाट बचाउनेछु। याकूब फर्कनेछ अनि शान्ति र सुरक्षा पाउने छ अनि कसैले पनि उसलाई भयभित पार्नेछैन।”
28 परमप्रभु भन्नुहुन्छ, “हे याकूब, मेरो दास! नडराऊ। म तिमीसँग छु। मैले तिमीलाई जहाँ पठाएको थिए ती जाति-जातिहरू सबै ध्वंस पार्नेछु। तर म तिमीलाई पूर्णरूपले ध्वंस गर्ने छैन। आवश्यकता अनुसार म तिमीलाई सुधार्नेछु र तिमीलाई सजाय नदिइ मुक्त पार्नेछैन।”
1 The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles;
2 Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh-necho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.
3 Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
4 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.
5 Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the Lord.
6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.
7 Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?
8 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
9 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.
10 For this is the day of the Lord God of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord God of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.
12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.
13 The word that the Lord spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.
14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee.
15 Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the Lord did drive them.
16 He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.
18 As I live, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
21 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
25 The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him:
26 And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the Lord.
27 But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the Lord: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
1 When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
2 And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
3 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
6 And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
7 And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.
8 Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.
9 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;
10 And gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord appointed me.
11 And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest.
12 And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
13 Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?
14 And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly.
15 Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would.
16 And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.
17 Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus which is called Christ?
18 For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
19 When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
20 But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
21 The governor answered and said unto them, Whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you? They said, Barabbas.
22 Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified.
23 And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.
24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
26 Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.
28 And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.
29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
30 And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.
31 And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.
32 And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.
33 And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,
34 They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.
35 And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.
36 And sitting down they watched him there;
37 And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
38 Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left.
39 And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
40 And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
41 Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,
42 He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.
43 He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
44 The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.
45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
47 Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.
48 And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
49 The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him.
50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
54 Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
55 And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:
56 Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee’s children.
57 When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus’ disciple:
58 He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.
62 Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,
63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.
65 Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can.
66 So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.