यशायाह 3
1 सुनो, प्रभु सेनाओं का यहोवा यरूशलेम और यहूदा का सब प्रकार का सहारा और सिरहाना अर्थात अन्न का सारा आधार, और जल का सारा आधार दूर कर देगा;
2 और वीर और योद्धा को, न्यायी और नबी को, भावी वक्ता और वृद्ध को, पचास सिपाहियों के सरदार और प्रतिष्ठित पुरूष को,
3 मन्त्री और चतुर कारीगर को, और निपुण टोन्हे को भी दूर कर देगा।
4 और मैं लड़कों को उनके हाकिम कर दूंगा, और बच्चे उन पर प्रभुता करेंगे।
5 और प्रजा के लागे आपस में एक दूसरे पर, और हर एक अपने पड़ोसी पर अंधेर करेंगे; और जवान वृद्ध जनों से और नीच जन माननीय लोगों से असभ्यता का व्यवहार करेंगे॥
6 उस समय जब कोई पुरूष अपने पिता के घर में अपने भाई को पकड़ कर कहेगा कि तेरे पास तो वस्त्र है, आ हमारा न्यायी हो जा और इस उजड़े देश को अपने वश में कर ले;
7 तब वह शपथ खाकर कहेगा, मैं चंगा करनेहारा न हूंगा; क्योंकि मेरे घर में न तो रोटी है और न कपड़े; इसलिये तुम मुझे प्रजा का न्यायी नहीं नियुक्त कर सकोगे।
8 यरूशलेम तो डगमगाया और यहूदा गिर गया है; क्योंकि उनके वचन और उनके काम यहोवा के विरुद्ध हैं, जो उसकी तेजोमय आंखों के साम्हने बलवा करने वाले ठहरे हैं॥
9 उनका चिहरा भी उनके विरुद्ध साक्षी देता है; वे सदोमियों की नाईं अपने आप को आप ही बखानते और नहीं छिपाते हैं। उन पर हाय! क्योंकि उन्होंने अपनी हानि आप ही की है।
10 धर्मियों से कहो कि उनका भला होगा, क्योंकि उसके कामों का फल उसको मिलेगा।
11 दुष्ट पर हाय!उसका बुरा होगा, क्योंकि उसके कामों का फल उसको मिलेगा।
12 मेरी प्रजा पर बच्चे अंधेर करते और स्त्रियां उन पर प्रभुता करती हैं। हे मेरी प्रजा, तेरे अगुवे तुझे भटकाते हैं, और तेरे चलने का मार्ग भुला देते हैं॥
13 यहोवा देश देश के लोगों से मुकद्दमा लड़ने और उनका न्याय करने के लिये खड़ा है।
14 यहोवा अपनी प्रजा के वृद्ध और हाकिमों के साथ यह विवाद करता है, तुम ही ने बारी की दाख खा डाली है, और दीन लोगों का धन लूटकर तुम ने अपने घरों में रखा है।
15 सेनाओं के प्रभु यहोवा की यह वाणी है, तुम क्यों मेरी प्रजा को दलते, और दीन लोगों को पीस डालते हो!
16 यहोवा ने यह भी कहा है, क्योंकि सिय्योन की स्त्रियां घमण्ड करतीं और सिर ऊंचे किये आंखें मटकातीं और घुंघुरूओं को छमछमाती हुई ठुमुक ठुमुक चलती हैं,
17 इसलिये प्रभु यहोवा उनके सिर को गंजा करेगा, और उनके तन को उघरवाएगा॥
18 उस समय प्रभु घुंघुरूओं, जालियों,
19 चंद्रहारों, झुमकों, कड़ों, घूंघटों,
20 पगडिय़ों, पैकरियों, पटुकों, सुगन्धपात्रों, गण्डों,
21 अंगूठियों, नत्थों,
22 सुन्दर वस्त्रों, कुर्त्तियों, चद्दरों, बटुओं,
23 दर्पणों, मलमल के वस्त्रों, बुन्दियों, दुपट्टों इन सभों की शोभा को दूर करेगा।
24 और सुगन्ध की सन्ती सड़ाहट, सुन्दर कर्घनी की सन्ती बन्धन की रस्सी, गुंथें हुए बालों की सन्ती गंजापन, सुन्दर पटुके की सन्ती टाट की पेटी, और सुन्दरता की सन्ती दाग होंगे।
25 तेरे पुरूष तलवार से, और शूरवीर युद्ध में मारे जाएंगे।
26 और उसके फाटकों में सांस भरना और विलाप करना होगा; और भूमि पर अकेली बैठी रहेगी।
1 For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counseller, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:
7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
13 The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
14 The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.
16 Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts.
18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
21 The rings, and nose jewels,
22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
2 And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and his wife’s sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.
3 Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.
4 And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
5 And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:
6 And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
7 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father’s house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?
8 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
9 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the Lord deliver them before me, shall I be your head?
10 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The Lord be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words.
11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his words before the Lord in Mizpeh.
12 And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight in my land?
13 And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably.
14 And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon:
15 And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:
16 But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;
17 Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh.
18 Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab.
19 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place.
20 But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
21 And the Lord God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
22 And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.
23 So now the Lord God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?
24 Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the Lord our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.
25 And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them,
26 While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover them within that time?
27 Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the Lord the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
28 Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
29 Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.
30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,
31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
32 So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the Lord delivered them into his hands.
33 And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
34 And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
35 And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go back.
36 And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the Lord, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the Lord hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.
37 And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.
38 And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.
39 And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,
40 That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.