1 शमूएल 8

1 जब शमूएल बूढ़ा हुआ, तब उसने अपने पुत्रों को इस्राएलियों पर न्यायी ठहराया।

2 उसके जेठे पुत्र का नाम योएल, और दूसरे का नाम अबिथ्याह था; थे बेर्शेबा में न्याय करते थे।

3 परन्तु उसके पुत्र उसकी राह पर न चले, अर्थात लालच में आकर घूस लेते और न्याय बिगाड़ते थे॥

4 तब सब इस्राएली वृद्ध लोग इकट्ठे हो कर रामा में शमूएल के पास जा कर

5 उस से कहने लगे, सुन, तू तो अब बूढ़ा हो गया, और तेरे पुत्र तेरी राह पर नहीं चलते; अब हम पर न्याय करने के लिये सब जातियों की रीति के अनुसार हमारे लिये एक राजा नियुक्त कर दे।

6 परन्तु जो बात उन्होंने कही, कि हम पर न्याय करने के लिये हमारे ऊपर राजा नियुक्त कर दे, यह बात शमूएल को बुरी लगी। और शमूएल ने यहोवा से प्रार्थना की।

7 और यहोवा ने शमूएल से कहा, वे लोग जो कुछ तुझ से कहें उसे मान ले; क्योंकि उन्होंने तुझ को नहीं परन्तु मुझी को निकम्मा जाना है, कि मैं उनका राजा न रहूं।

8 जैसे जैसे काम वे उस दिन से, जब से मैं उन्हें मिस्र से निकाल लाया, आज के दिन तक करते आए हैं, कि मुझ को त्यागकर पराए, देवताओं की उपासना करते आए हैं, वैसे ही वे तुझ से भी करते हैं।

9 इसलिये अब तू उनकी बात मान; तौभी तू गम्भीरता से उन को भली भांति समझा दे, और उन को बतला भी दे कि जो राजा उन पर राज्य करेगा उसका व्यवहार किस प्रकार होगा॥

10 और शमूएल ने उन लोगों को जो उस से राजा चाहते थे यहोवा की सब बातें कह सुनाईं।

11 और उसने कहा जो राजा तुम पर राज्य करेगा उसकी यह चाल होगी, अर्थात वह तुम्हारे पुत्रों को ले कर अपने रथों और घोड़ों के काम पर नौकर रखेगा, और वे उसके रथों के आगे आगे दौड़ा करेंगे;

12 फिर वह उन को हजार हजार और पचास पचास के ऊपर प्रधान बनाएगा, और कितनों से वह अपने हल जुतवाएगा, और अपने खेत कटवाएगा, और अपने लिये युद्ध के हथियार और रथों के साज बनवाएगा।

13 फिर वह तुम्हारी बेटियों को ले कर उन से सुगन्धद्रव्य और रसोई और रोटियां बनवाएगा।

14 फिर वह तुम्हारे खेतों और दाख और जलपाई की बारियों में से जो अच्छी से अच्छी होंगे उन्हें ले ले कर अपने कर्मचारियों को देगा।

15 फिर वह तुम्हारे बीज और दाख की बारियों का दसवां अंश ले ले कर अपने हाकिमों और कर्मचारियों को देगा।

16 फिर वह तुम्हारे दास-दासियों, और तुम्हारे अच्छे से अच्छे जवानों को, और तुम्हारे गदहों को भी ले कर अपने काम में लगाएगा।

17 वह तुम्हारी भेड़-बकरियों का भी दसवां अंश लेगा; निदान तुम लोग उस के दास बन जाओगे।

18 और उस दिन तुम अपने उस चुने हुए राजा के कारण दोहाई दोगे, परन्तु यहोवा उस समय तुम्हारी न सुनेगा।

19 तौभी उन लोगों ने शमूएल की बात न सुनी; और कहने लगे, नहीं! हम निश्चय अपने लिये राजा चाहते हैं,

20 जिस से हम भी और सब जातियों के समान हो जाएं, और हमारा राजा हमारा न्याय करे, और हमारे आगे आगे चलकर हमारी ओर से युद्ध किया करे।

21 लोगों की ये सब बातें सुनकर शमूएल ने यहोवा के कानों तक पहुंचाया।

22 यहोवा ने शमूएल से कहा, उनकी बात मानकर उनके लिये राजा ठहरा दे। तब शमूएल ने इस्राएली मनुष्यों से कहा, तुम अब अपने अपने नगर को चले जाओ॥

1 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.

3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,

5 And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the Lord.

7 And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.

9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.

10 And Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto the people that asked of him a king.

11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.

12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.

13 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.

15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

16 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.

18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day.

19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;

20 That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.

21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord.

22 And the Lord said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.

1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

2 O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!

3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

5 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.

6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.

7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.

9 They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

10 And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.

11 Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.

12 Art thou not from everlasting, O Lord my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O Lord, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.

13 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

15 They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.

16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.

17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?