Jonah 3
1 પછી યહોવાએ યૂના સાથે બીજી વાર વાત કરી,
2 “ઊભો થા, મહાનગર નિનવેહ જા, હું તને કહું તે બોધ તેમને આપ.”
3 આથી યૂના ઉભો થયો અને યહોવાએ કહ્યું હતું તેમ નિનવેહ ગયો. નિનવેહ બહુ મોટુઁ શહેર હતું. શહેરમાંથી પસાર થતાં ત્રણ દિવસ લાગ્યાં.
4 પ્રથમ દિવસે યૂના શહેરમાં ગયો અને જાહેર કર્યું, “ચાળીસ દિવસ પછી નિનવેહનો નાશ થશે.”
5 નિનવેહના લોકોએ દેવના વચન પર વિશ્વાસ કર્યો; અને તેઓએ ઉપવાસ કરવાનો અને વિશિષ્ટ શોક વસ્ત્રો ધારણ કરવાનો નિર્ણય કર્યો. નાનાથી મોટા બધાંએ આમ કર્યું.
6 6નિનવેહનો રાજા સમાચાર સાંભળી તેની ગાદી પરથી નીચે આવ્યો અને તેનો ઝભ્ભો ઉતારી શણના શોક વસ્ત્રો ઘારણ કર્યા અને રાખમાં બેઠો.
7 રાજાએ એક વિશેષ સંદેશો બહાર પાડ્યો:રાજા અને તેના અધિકારીઓના પ્રભુત્વથી આ નિયમ હતો. માણસ કે ચોપગા પશુ, કે પશુપક્ષીના સમૂહને કંઇ ખાવા ન દો. તેમને ચરવા કે પાણી પીવાની પરવાનગી ન આપો.
8 માણસો અને પ્રાણીઓએ શણના વસ્રો પહેરવા જ અને દેવ તરફ જોરથી વિલાપ કરવો જ. દરેકે તેના દુષ્ટ રસ્તાઓ બદલવા અને તેમનાં ખરાબ કૃત્યો બંધ કરવા.
9 કોને ખબર દેવ, કદાચ વિચાર બદલે અને તેના રોષથી ફરી જાય, જે તેથી આપણો નાશ ન થાય.
10 દેવે તેમનાઁ કૃત્યો જોયાઁ. તેણે જોયું કે તેઓએ તેમનાઁ દુષ્ટ રસ્તાઓ છોડી દીધાં હતાં. તેથી તેણે તેઓ પર દયા વરસાવી. તેણે વિચાર બદલ્યો અને સજાની યોજના પડતી મૂકી. તેણે તેની યોજના પાર કરી નહિ.
1 And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey.
4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.
3 There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.
4 Thus saith the Lord my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;
5 Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the Lord; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.
6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour’s hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.
7 And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
9 Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.
10 And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.
11 And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the Lord.
12 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
13 And the Lord said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord.
14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
15 And the Lord said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
16 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
17 Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.