Zephaniah 1

1 आमोन के पुत्र यहूदा के राजा योशिय्याह के दिनों में, सपन्याह के पास जो हिजकिय्याह के पुत्र अमर्याह का परपोता और गदल्याह का पोता और कूशी का पुत्र था, यहोवा का यह वचन पहुंचा:

2 मैं धरती के ऊपर से सब का अन्त कर दूंगा, यहोवा की यही वाणी है।

3 मैं मनुष्य और पशु दोनों का अन्त कर दूंगा; मैं आकाश के पक्षियों और समुद्र की मछलियों का, और दुष्टों समेत उनकी रखी हुई ठोकरों के कारण का भी अन्त कर दूंगा; मैं मनुष्य जाति को भी धरती पर से नाश कर डालूंगा, यहोवा की यही वाणी है।

4 मैं यहूदा पर और यरूशलेम के सब रहने वालों पर हाथ उठाऊंगा, और इस स्थान में बाल के बचे हुओं को और याजकों समेत देवताओं के पुजारियों के नाम को नाश कर दूंगा।

5 जो लोग अपने अपने घर की छत पर आकाश के गण को दण्डवत करते हैं, और जो लोग दण्डवत करते हुए यहोवा की सेवा करने की शपथ खाते हैं; और अपने मोलेक की भी शपथ खाते हैं;

6 और जो यहोवा के पीछे चलने से लौट गए हैं, और जिन्होंने न तो यहोवा को ढूंढ़ा, और न उसकी खोज में लगे, उन को भी मैं सत्यानाश कर डालूंगा॥

7 परमेश्वर यहोवा के साम्हने शान्त रहो! क्योंकि यहोवा का दिन निकट है; यहोवा ने यज्ञ सिद्ध किया है, और अपने पाहुनों को पवित्र किया है।

8 और यहोवा के यज्ञ के दिन, मैं हाकिमों और राजकुमारों को और जितने परदेश के वस्त्र पहिना करते हैं, उन को भी दण्ड दूंगा।

9 उस दिन मैं उन सभों को दण्ड दूंगा जो डेवढ़ी को लांघते, और अपने स्वामी के घर को उपद्रव और छल से भर देते हैं॥

10 यहोवा की यह वाणी है, कि उस दिन मछली फाटक के पास चिल्लाहट का और नये टोले मिश्नाह में हाहाकार का और टीलों पर बड़े धमाके का शब्द होगा।

11 हे मक्तेश के रहने वालो, हाय, हाय, करो! क्योंकि सब व्योपारी मिट गए; जितने चान्दी से लदे थे, उन सब का नाश हो गया है।

12 उस समय मैं दीपक लिए हुए यरूशलेम में ढूंढ-ढांढ़ करूंगा, और जो लोग दाखमधु के तलछट तथा मैल के समान बैठे हुए मन में कहते हैं कि यहोवा न तो भला करेगा और न बुरा, उन को मैं दण्ड दूंगा।

13 तब उनकी धन सम्पत्ति लूटी जाएगी, और उनके घर उजाड़ होंगे; वे घर तो बनाएंगे, परन्तु उन में रहने न पाएंगे; और वे दाख की बारियां लगाएंगे, परन्तु उन से दाखमधु न पीने पाएंगे॥

14 यहोवा का भयानक दिन निकट है, वह बहुत वेग से समीप चला आता है; यहोवा के दिन का शब्द सुन पड़ता है, वहां वीर दु:ख के मारे चिल्लाता है।

15 वह रोष का दिन होगा, वह संकट और सकेती का दिन, वह उजाड़ और उधेड़ का दिन, वह अन्धेर और घोर अन्धकार का दिन, वह बादल और काली घटा का दिन होगा।

16 वह गढ़ वाले नगरों और ऊंचे गुम्मटों के विरुद्ध नरसिंगा फूंकने और ललकारने का दिन होगा।

17 मैं मनुष्यों को संकट में डालूंगा, और वे अन्धों की नाईं चलेंगे, क्योंकि उन्होंने यहोवा के विरुद्ध पाप किया है; उनका लोहू धूलि के समान, और उनका मांस विष्ठा की नाईं फेंक दिया जाएगा।

18 यहोवा के रोष के दिन में, न तो चान्दी से उनका बचाव होगा, और न सोने से; क्योंकि उसके जलन की आग से सारी पृथ्वी भस्म हो जाएगी; वह पृथ्वी के सारे रहने वालों को घबरा कर उनका अन्त कर डालेगा॥

1 The word of the Lord which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.

2 I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the Lord.

3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the Lord.

4 I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests;

5 And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the Lord, and that swear by Malcham;

6 And them that are turned back from the Lord; and those that have not sought the Lord, nor inquired for him.

7 Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is at hand: for the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.

8 And it shall come to pass in the day of the Lord’s sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king’s children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.

9 In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.

10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.

11 Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.

12 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil.

13 Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.

14 The great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.

15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

16 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.

17 And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.

18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

1 These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.

2 Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar; Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush.

3 Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred and fifty.

4 Of the sons of Pahath-moab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males.

5 Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males.

6 Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males.

7 And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males.

8 And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him fourscore males.

9 Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.

10 And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with him an hundred and threescore males.

11 And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males.

12 And of the sons of Azgad; Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him an hundred and ten males.

13 And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore males.

14 Of the sons also of Bigvai; Uthai, and Zabbud, and with them seventy males.

15 And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.

16 Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding.

17 And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, and to his brethren the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God.

18 And by the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;

19 And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;

20 Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name.

21 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

22 For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.

23 So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.

24 Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,

25 And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellers, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:

26 I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents;

27 Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.

28 And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the Lord; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto the Lord God of your fathers.

29 Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the Lord.

30 So took the priests and the Levites the weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem unto the house of our God.

31 Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.

32 And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.

33 Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;

34 By number and by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time.

35 Also the children of those that had been carried away, which were come out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve he goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering unto the Lord.

36 And they delivered the king’s commissions unto the king’s lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river: and they furthered the people, and the house of God.