Malachi 2
1 “এখন ওহে যাজকরা, এই নিয়ম তোমাদের জন্য|
2 যদি তোমরা এর অবাধ্য হও এবং আমাকে সম্মান করার এই রয়োজনীয় ব্যাপারটিকে যদি গুরুত্ব না দাও তবে আমি তোমাদের বিরুদ্ধে অভিশাপ পাঠাব, সর্বশক্তিমান প্রভু এই কথা বলেন| তোমরা আশীর্বাদ দিলে আমি তা অভিশাপে পরিণত করব, আর আমি তাদের অভিশাপ দিয়েছি কারণ তোমরা এই বিষযটার ওপর গুরুত্ব দাও না|”
3 “দেখ, আমি তোমার উত্তরপুরুষদের শাস্তি দেব| আমি তোমাদের মুখে উত্সব নৈবেদ্য থেকে জন্তুদের বীষ্ঠা লেপে দেবো এবং তোমাদের ওগুলোর সঙ্গে ছুঁড়ে ফেলে দেওয়া হবে|
4 তখন তোমরা জানবে য়ে আমি এই আদেশ দিচ্ছি যাতে লেবির সঙ্গে আমার চুক্তি চলতে থাকে|” সর্বশক্তিমান প্রভু এই কথা বলেন|
5 প্রভু বলেছেন, “লেবির সঙ্গে আমার চুক্তি ছিল জীবন ও শান্তির চুক্তি| সে আমায সম্মান করে এবং আমার নামে ভীত হয|
6 লেবি সত্য শিক্ষা দিয়েছে| সে কখনও মন্দ জিনিস শেখায় নি| সে ছিল সত্ এবং শান্তি ভালবাসত এবং সে অনেক লোককে মন্দ কাজ করা থেকে ফিরিযে এনেছিল|
7 আমি এসব বলি কারণ লোকে জ্ঞানের প্রয়োজনে যাজক খোঁজে আর ঈশ্বরের আজ্ঞা শিক্ষা করতে তারা তার কাছে যায়, কারণ সেই তো ঈশ্বরের বার্তাবাহক|”
8 কিন্তু প্রভু বলেছেন: “যাজকরা আমার পথ থেকে সরে গিয়েছিল এবং অনেক লোককে বিধি অস্বীকার করতে বাধ্য করেছে| তোমরা লেবির সঙ্গে আমার চুক্তি ধ্বংস করেছ|” সর্বশক্তিমান প্রভু এই কথা বলেন|
9 “য়েহেতু তোমরা আমার পথগুলি অনুসরণ করনি এবং আমার নীতি শিক্ষায় পক্ষপাতিত্ব করেছ সেহেতু আমি তোমাদের অস্বীকৃত এবং অপমানিত করাব!”
10 আমাদের সকলেরই সেই এক পিতা| একই ঈশ্বর আমাদের তৈরী করেছেন| তাহলে কেন লোকে তাদের ভাইদের ঠকিযে ঈশ্বর য়ে চুক্তি তাদের পূর্বপুরুষদের সঙ্গে করেছিলেন তাকে অসম্মান করে?
11 যিহূদার লোকরা বিশ্বাসঘাতকদের মত ব্যবহার করেছিল| জেরুশালেম এবং ইস্রায়েলের লোকরা মারাত্মক জিনিষ করেছে| যিহূদার লোক ঈশ্বরের পবিত্র মন্দির, য়েটাকে ঈশ্বর ভালবাসতেন, নষ্ট করেছে| যিহূদার লোকরা বিদেশী রমনীদের বিয়ে করেছিল যারা বিদেশী দেবতা সমূহের অধিকারপ্রাপ্ত এবং ঐ সব বিদেশী দেবতাদের পূজো শুরু করেছিল|
12 প্রভু যাকোবের পরিবার থেকে ঐ সমস্ত লোকদের সরিয়ে দেবেন| এমন কি যদিও সেই ব্যক্তি সর্বশক্তিমান প্রভুর উদ্দেশ্যে উপহার আনে|
13 তোমরা কাঁদতে পারো এবং প্রভুর বেদী চোখের জলে ঢেকে দিতে পারো, কিন্তু প্রভু তোমাদের উপহার গ্রহণ করবেন না এবং তোমরা যা কিছু আনো তাতে তিনি খুশী হবেন না|
14 আর তোমরা বলে থাকো, “এর কারণ কি?” কারণ তোমরা তোমাদের স্ত্রীর বিরুদ্ধে য়ে সব মন্দ কাজ করেছ তা প্রভু দেখেছেন| সেই স্ত্রী যদিও তোমার বিশ্বস্ত সঙ্গী ছিল এবং তোমার নিয়মের স্ত্রী ছিল তবু তুমি তার সঙ্গে প্রতারণা করেছ|
15 ঈশ্বর চান য়ে স্বামী ও স্ত্রী একদেহ ও এক আত্মাবিশিষ্ট হোক| তবেই তাদের পবিত্র সন্তানসন্ততি হবে| সুতরাং সেই আত্মিক একাত্মতা রক্ষা কর| তোমার স্ত্রীকে ঠকিও না| সে তোমার য়ৌবনের স্ত্রী|
16 ইস্রায়েলের প্রভু ঈশ্বর বলেন, “আমি বিবাহ বিচ্ছেদ এবং পুরুষরা য়ে সমস্ত নিষ্ঠুর কাজ করে তা ঘৃণা করি|1 সুতরাং অবিশ্বস্ত হয়ো না, তোমাদের নিজ নিজ আত্মাকে সাবধানতাসহ রক্ষা কর|”
17 তোমরা ভুল শিক্ষা দিয়েছ| সেই ভুল শিক্ষাগুলি প্রভুকে খুব ক্লান্ত করেছে| তোমরা শিখিয়েছ য়ে, য়ে সব ব্যক্তি কুকর্ম করে প্রভু তাদের ভালবাসেন| তোমরা বলছ য়ে ঈশ্বর মনে করেন সেই লোকরা ভালো এবং তোমরা শিখিয়েছ য়ে কুকর্ম করবার জন্য ঈশ্বর লোকদের শাস্তি দেন না|
1 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.
2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
4 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.
5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.
6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.
7 For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.
9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.
12 The Lord will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the Lord of hosts.
13 And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand.
14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
16 For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
17 Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
Psalm 50 in Tamil and English
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A Psalm of Asaph.
1 યહોવા, દેવોના દેવ બોલ્યા છે, તે સમગ્ર માનવ જાતને પૂર્વથી પશ્ચિમ સુધી બોલાવે છે.
The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
2 સિયોનમાંથી દેવ સવોર્ચ્ચ સુંદરતા સાથે પ્રકાશે છે.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
3 આપણા દેવ આવે છે, તેઓ મૌન રહેશે નહિ, ભસ્મ કરનાર અગ્નિ આગળ આવે છે, તેમની આસપાસ મહાતોફાન જાગશે.
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
4 તેઓ અહીં પોતાના લોકોનો ન્યાય કરવા આવ્યાં છે. જ્યારે તેઓ પોતાના લોકોનો ન્યાય કરશે ત્યારે તેઓ પૃથ્વી અને આકાશને સાક્ષી તરીકે બોલાવશે.
He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
5 જેઓએ યજ્ઞથી મારી સાથે કરાર કર્યા છે, એવાં ભકતોને મારી પાસે ભેગા કરો.
Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
6 દેવ પોતે જ ન્યાયાધીશ છે. તેમનું ન્યાયીપણું આકાશો પ્રગટ કરશે.
And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
7 હે મારા લોકો, હું કહું તે સાંભળો, “હે ઇસ્રાએલ, હું તારી વિરુદ્ધ સાક્ષી પૂરીશ; કારણકે હું દેવ છું, હા, હું તારો દેવ છું.
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
8 મારી વેદી પર તમે જે યજ્ઞો કરો છો, મારી સામે જે નિરંતર દહનાર્પણો થાય છે. તે માટે, હું તને ઠપકો દઇશ નહિ.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
9 હું તમારા ઢોરવાડામાંથી બળદો નહિ લઉં કે તમારા નેસડામાંથી બકરાં નહિ લઉં.
I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
10 કારણકે અરણ્યનાં પ્રત્યેક પશુ અને હજારો ડુંગરો પરનાં પ્રાણી મારાં છે.
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
11 હું પર્વતો પરના સર્વ પક્ષીઓને ઓળખું છું, અને જઁગલનાં સર્વ હિંસક પ્રાણીઓ પણ મારા જ છે.
I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
12 જો હું ભૂખ્યો હોઇશ, તોય તમને કહીશ નહિ, કારણ સમગ્ર સૃષ્ટિનું સર્વ મારુંં જ છે.
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
13 શું હું બળદોનું માંસ ખાંઉ, અથવા બકરાઓનું રકતપાન કરું?”
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
14 તેથી દેવ માટેના આભાર સ્તુતિનાં અર્પણો લઇ આવો અને પરાત્પર તમે આપેલા વચનો પરિપૂર્ણ કરો.
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
15 “મારામાં વિશ્વાસ રાખીને સંકટ સમયે મને પ્રાર્થના કરો, હું તમારી રક્ષા કરીશ અને પછી તમે મારો મહિમા કરી શકશો.”
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
16 પણ દુષ્ટ લોકોને દેવ કહે છ કે, “શા માટે તમે મારા વિધિઓ વિષે બોલો છો? શા માટે તમારે મારા કરાર વિષે વાત કરવી જોઇએ?
But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
17 મારા શિખામણનો તેઁ તિરસ્કાર કર્યો છે અને મારી શિસ્તની તેં અવગણના કરી છે.
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
18 જો તમે એક ચોરને જુઓ છો, તો તમે તેની સાથે જોડાવા દોડો છો, અને તમે વ્યભિચારીઓ સાથે વ્યભિચારમાં જોડાઓ છો.
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
19 તારું મુખ શાપ આપે છે, અને તારી વાણી અસત્ય વદે છે. અને તારી જીભનો ઉપયોગ તું કપટની ચાલમાં કરે છે.
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
20 તું તારા પોતાનાં ભાઇની નિંદા કરે છે, તું તારી માતાના પુત્રની બદનામી કરે છે.
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
21 તમે આ ખરાબ કામો કર્યા છે છતાં મેં કાઇં કહ્યું નહિ. તેથી તમે વિચાર્યુ કે હું હતો તમારા જેવો, પણ હવે આવ્યો છે સમય, મારા માટે તમારી સામે આ આરોપો મૂકવાનો અને તમારા મોઢાં પર ઠપકો આપવાનો !
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
22 તમે કે જે દેવને ભૂલી ગયા છો, તમારા ટુકડા કરૂં તે પહેલા તમારે આ સમજવાનુ છે કે તમને બચાવવાવાળું કોઇ નહિ હોય.
Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
23 જે વ્યકિત આભારસ્તુતિનાં અર્પણો અર્પણ કરે છે તે મને માન આપે છે. જે ન્યાયને માગેર્ ચાલે છે તે વ્યકિતનું રક્ષણ કરવાં હું મારંુ તારણ બતાવીશ.”
Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.