याकूब 5
1 हे धनवानों सुन तो लो; तुम अपने आने वाले क्लेशों पर चिल्ला-चिल्लाकर रोओ।
2 तुम्हारा धन बिगड़ गया और तुम्हारे वस्त्रों को कीड़े खा गए।
3 तुम्हारे सोने-चान्दी में काई लग गई है; और वह काई तुम पर गवाही देगी, और आग की नाईं तुम्हारा मांस खा जाएगी: तुम ने अन्तिम युग में धन बटोरा है।
4 देखो, जिन मजदूरों ने तुम्हारे खेत काटे, उन की वह मजदूरी जो तुम ने धोखा देकर रख ली है चिल्ला रही है, और लवने वालों की दोहाई, सेनाओं के प्रभु के कानों तक पहुंच गई है।
5 तुम पृथ्वी पर भोग-विलास में लगे रहे और बड़ा ही सुख भोगा; तुम ने इस वध के दिन के लिये अपने हृदय का पालन-पोषण करके मोटा ताजा किया।
6 तुम ने धर्मी को दोषी ठहरा कर मार डाला; वह तुम्हारा साम्हना नहीं करता॥
7 सो हे भाइयों, प्रभु के आगमन तक धीरज धरो, देखो, गृहस्थ पृथ्वी के बहुमूल्य फल की आशा रखता हुआ प्रथम और अन्तिम वर्षा होने तक धीरज धरता है।
8 तुम भी धीरज धरो, और अपने हृदय को दृढ़ करो, क्योंकि प्रभु का शुभागमन निकट है।
9 हे भाइयों, एक दूसरे पर दोष न लगाओ ताकि तुम दोषी न ठहरो, देखो, हाकिम द्वार पर खड़ा है।
10 हे भाइयो, जिन भविष्यद्वक्ताओं ने प्रभु के नाम से बातें की, उन्हें दुख उठाने और धीरज धरने का एक आदर्श समझो।
11 देखो, हम धीरज धरने वालों को धन्य कहते हैं: तुम ने अय्यूब के धीरज के विषय में तो सुना ही है, और प्रभु की ओर से जो उसका प्रतिफल हुआ उसे भी जान लिया है, जिस से प्रभु की अत्यन्त करूणा और दया प्रगट होती है।
12 पर हे मेरे भाइयों, सब से श्रेष्ठ बात यह है, कि शपथ न खाना; न स्वर्ग की न पृथ्वी की, न किसी और वस्तु की, पर तुम्हारी बातचीत हां की हां, और नहीं की नहीं हो, कि तुम दण्ड के योग्य न ठहरो॥
13 यदि तुम में कोई दुखी हो तो वह प्रार्थना करे: यदि आनन्दित हो, तो वह स्तुति के भजन गाए।
14 यदि तुम में कोई रोगी हो, तो कलीसिया के प्राचीनों को बुलाए, और वे प्रभु के नाम से उस पर तेल मल कर उसके लिये प्रार्थना करें।
15 और विश्वास की प्रार्थना के द्वारा रोगी बच जाएगा और प्रभु उस को उठा कर खड़ा करेगा; और यदि उस ने पाप भी किए हों, तो उन की भी क्षमा हो जाएगी।
16 इसलिये तुम आपस में एक दूसरे के साम्हने अपने अपने पापों को मान लो; और एक दूसरे के लिये प्रार्थना करो, जिस से चंगे हो जाओ; धर्मी जन की प्रार्थना के प्रभाव से बहुत कुछ हो सकता है।
17 एलिय्याह भी तो हमारे समान दुख-सुख भोगी मनुष्य था; और उस ने गिड़िगड़ा कर प्रार्थना की; कि मेंह न बरसे; और साढ़े तीन वर्ष तक भूमि पर मेंह नहीं बरसा।
18 फिर उस ने प्रार्थना की, तो आकाश से वर्षा हुई, और भूमि फलवन्त हुई॥
19 हे मेरे भाइयों, यदि तुम में कोई सत्य के मार्ग से भटक जाए, और कोई उस को फेर लाए।
20 तो वह यह जान ले, कि जो कोई किसी भटके हुए पापी को फेर लाएगा, वह एक प्राण को मृत्यु से बचाएगा, और अनेक पापों पर परदा डालेगा॥
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
1 And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.
2 And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.
3 And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he of brass.
4 And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.
5 And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves.
6 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass.
7 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.
8 And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
9 And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:
10 Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
11 And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
12 And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
13 And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
14 The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
15 And for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
16 All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.
17 And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
18 And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.
19 And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver.
20 And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.
21 This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.
22 And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the Lord commanded Moses.
23 And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.
24 All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
25 And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
26 A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
27 And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
28 And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.
29 And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.
30 And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the brasen altar, and the brasen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar,
31 And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.