Esther 9
1 बाह्रौ महीना अर्थात आदरको महीनाको तेह्रौ दिनमा राजाको आदेश कार्यान्विनन् गर्ने दिन आइपुग्यो त्यसदिन तिनीहरूमाथि यहूदीका शत्रुहरूले प्रभुत्व हासिल गर्ने दिनथियो, त्यसलाई उल्टाइयो जब यहूदीहरूले आफूलाई विरोध गर्नेहरू माथि प्रभुत्व हाँसिल गरे।
2 राजा अहासूरसको सवै प्रान्तहरूलाई प्रहार गर्न आफ्ना शहरहरूमा भेला भए। अनि तिनीहरूलाई चोट पुर्याउनेहरूको विरूद्ध युद्ध गर्न भेला भए। कसैले तिनीहरूलाई बाधा दिएनन्। किनभने तिनीहरू सित भयभित थिए।
3 अनि प्रान्तहरूका समस्त अधिकारीहरू, हाकिमहरू र राज्यपालहरू अनि ती सबै जसले राजाको निम्ति काम गर्थे। यहूदीहरूलाई सहयोग गरेका थिए।
4 तिनीहरू मोर्दकैसित डराएका थिए। किनभने मोर्दकै राजा महलमा एक मुख्य व्यक्ति थिए, अनि समस्त प्रान्तमा तिनको प्रभाव अनुभव गरिएको थियो किनभने मोर्दकैका धेरै भन्दा धेरै शक्तिशाली मानिसहरू थिए।
5 तब यहूदीहरूले तिनीहरूका शत्रुलाई मारेर नष्ट गरिदिए, तिनलाई तिनीहरूको तरवारहरूले नष्ट गरे। अनि तिनीहरूको विरोध गर्नेहरूसित तिनीहरूलाई जे इच्छा लाग्छ त्यही गरे।
6 अनि शूशनको प्रासाद जिल्लामा यहूदीहरूले 500 मानिसहरूलाई मारे।
7 तिनीहरूले पर्शन्दाता, दल्पोन, अस्पाता,
8 पोराता अदल्या, अरीदाता,
9 पर्मश्ता, अरीशै, अरीदै अनि बैजाता।
10 हम्मदाताका छोरा, यहूदीहरूका शत्रु हामानका दशजना छोराहरूलाई पनि मारे। तर तिनीहरूले कुनै सर-सामान लुटेनन्।
11 त्यस समयमा शूशनको प्रसाद जिल्लामा मारीएका मानिसहरूको संख्या राजालाई बताइयो।
12 अनि राजाले रानी एस्तरलाई भने, “शूशनको प्रसाद जिल्लामा यहूदीहरूले दशजना हामानको छोराहरू लगाएत 500 जना मानिसहरूलाई मारे। राजाका अन्य प्रान्तहरूमा तिनीहरूले के गरे तिमी सुन्न चाहन्छौ? जे सुकै तिमी माग्छौ त्यो मञ्जूर गरिनेछ। अनि तिमीले अरूनै कुराहरू चाहे पनि त्यो पूरा गरिनेछ।”
13 अनि एस्तरले भनिन्, “यदि राजालाई असल लाग्छ भने शूशनमाबस्ने यहूदीहरूलाई आज तिनीहरूले जे गरे भोली फेरी त्यसै गर्ने अनुमति दिनुहोस् अनि हामानका दशजना छोराहरूलाई फाँसीमा झुण्डयाइयोस्।
14 फेरि एस्तरले भने अनुसार-राजाले त्यसै गर्ने आदेश दिनु भयो, अनि शूशनमा विधान घोषणा गरियो। तिनीहरूले हामानका दशजना छोराहरूलाई झुण्डयाइदिए।
15 अनि शूशनमा भएका यहूदीहरू फेरी भेला भए आदात महीनाको चौधौं दिनमा शूशनमा तिनीहरूले 300 जना मानिसहरूलाई मारे। तर तिनीहरूले कुनै लुट-पाट गरेनन्।
16 अनि बाँकी अन्य यहूदीहरू, जो राजाका प्रदेशहरूमा बस्थे, आफ्नो जिवनको सुरक्षा गर्न, शत्रुहरूबाट विश्राम पाउन, आफ्ना विरोधीहरू जम्मा 75,000 लाई मार्नका निम्ति एकत्रित भएका थिए। तर तिनीहरूले केही लुट-पाट गरेनन्।
17 यो घटना प्रदेशहरूमा अदार महीना को तेह्रौ दिनमा घट्यो अनि चौधौं दिनमा तिनीहरूले विश्राम लिए। अनि तिनीहरूले त्यस दिन भोज अनि समारोहको दिन तुल्याए।
18 तर यहूदीहरू जो शूशनमा थिए तिनीहरू महिनाको तेरौं अनि चौधौं दिनमा स्वयंलाई रक्षा गर्न एकत्रीत भएका थिए। त्यसपछि तिनीहरूले पन्धौं दिनमा विश्राम गरे त्यसलाई भोज अनि उत्सवको दिन तुल्याए।
19 यसले गर्दा बस्तीतिर शहरहरूमा बस्ने यहूदीहरूले अदार महिनाको चौधौं दिनलाई समारोह अनि भोजको र्हषित दिन तुल्याए अनि हरेकले उपहारहरूको आदान-प्रदान गरे।
20 अनि मोर्दकैले यी घटनाहरूको विषयमा लेखे अनि तिनले राजा अहासूरसका सबै प्रदेशहरू नजिक वा टाढा बस्ने सबै यहूदीहरूलाई पत्र पठाए।
21 तिनले तिनीहरूका निम्ति अदार महिनाको चौधौं अनि पन्ध्रौं दिनलाई वर्षै पिच्छे विदाको रूपमा पालन गर्ने प्रदर्श-रेखा स्थायी गर्नु भनी पत्रमा लेखे।
22 यी विदाहरूलाई त्यो दिन विदाको रूपमा अलग गरियो जब यहूदीहरूले आफ्ना शत्रुहरूबाट विश्रामपाए, त्यो महीना तिनीहरूको शोकबाट खुशीको समारोहमा परिवर्त्तन भयो अनि त्यो दिन तिनीहरूको रूवाई खुशीयालीको दिनमा परिर्वतनभयो। यी दिनहरूलाई भोज अनि समारोहको दिन, उपहार आदन-प्रदान गर्ने दिन, अनि गरीबहरूलाई दान गर्ने दिन तुल्यउन अलग गरियो।
23 यसर्थ तिनीहरूले भर्खरै शुरू गरेको विदाको दिनलाई मोर्दकैले जे गर्नु भनि तिनीहरूलाई लेखेर दिएका थिए, त्यही रूपले मनाउन यहूदीहरू सहमत भए।
24 अगामी हम्मादाताका छोरा, समस्त यहूदीहरूका शत्रु हामानले यहूदीहरूको अस्तित्व मेटाउने षड्यन्त्र गरेका थिए। अनि तिनले “पुरीम” अर्थात चिट्ठा पनि गरेका थिए, तिनीहरूलाई धम्किदिन र तिनीहरू को अस्तित्व मेटाऊन्।
25 तर जब एस्तर राजाको समक्ष गइन्। तिनले भने, “त्यो लेखिए को जस्तै तिनले यहूदीहरू प्रति योजना गरेका नराम्रो काम तिनी प्रतिनै गरियोस् अनि तिनीहरूले तिनका छोराहरूलाई फाँसीमा झुण्डयाओस्।
26 त्यसर्थ मानिसहरूले ती दिनहरूलाई “पूरीम” भने “पूरीम” नाउँको कारण किनभने मोर्दकैले पठाएको पत्रहरूमा भएका प्रदर्श-रेखा, यस घटनासंग सम्बन्धि थिए।
27 तिनीले देखे र तिनीहरूमाथि प्रायके घटयो त्यस कारण यहूदीहरूले आफू स्वंयमका निम्ति अनि आफ्ना कुलहरूका निम्ति र तिनीहरूका समस्त सन्तानहरूका निम्ति अनि जो जति व्यक्ति तिनीहरूसित मिल्छन् विदाको प्रदर्श-रेखालाई अभि पुष्टिगरे र स्वीकार गरे। प्रत्येक वर्ष निर्धारित समयमा व्यवस्थाद्वारा तोकिएका यी दुइ दिन विदा मनाउन कोही पनि चुक्नु पाउने छैनन्।
28 यो दिन प्रत्येक प्रान्त, प्रत्येक शहरभरि प्रत्येक वंश तथा पुस्ताले सम्झना गर्छन अनि मनाउँछन्। यी दुई दिन मनाउनु कहिल्यै पनि रोकिनु हुँदैन। यी दुई विशेष दिनको महत्व यहूदीहरूले आफ्ना सन्तानहरूलाई भन्न बिराउनु हुँदैन्।
29 तब अबीहेलकी अनि यहूदी मोर्दकैकी छोरी रानी एस्तरले पूरीमको विषयमा पूर्ण अधिकार सहित देस्रो पत्र लेखिन्।
30 अब मोर्दकैले सबै यहूदीहरूलाई जो राजा अहासूरसका 127 प्रान्तहरूमा बस्थे शान्ति र सुरक्षाको बधाई पत्रहरू पठाए।
31 मोर्दकैले ती विदाको निम्ति उचित समय तय गर्नका निम्ति पत्रहरू पठाएका थिए। जसरी यहूदी मोर्दकै अनि एस्तरले तिनीहरूमाथि गुण लगाएका थिए। जसरी तिनीहरूले तिनीहरू स्वयंमाथि र तिनीहरू का सन्तानहरू माथि उपवास बस्ने अनि खुबै विलाप गर्ने निर्देशन दिएका थिए।
32 अनि एस्तरको वचनले पूरीमा उत्सवको प्रदर्श-रेखा निर्धारित गर्यो अनि ती पुस्तकमा लेखिए।
1 Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)
2 The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people.
3 And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king, helped the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them.
4 For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.
5 Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.
6 And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.
7 And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
8 And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
9 And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha,
10 The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.
11 On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.
12 And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces? now what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request further? and it shall be done.
13 Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.
14 And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons.
15 For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
16 But the other Jews that were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,
17 On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
18 But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
20 And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,
21 To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
22 As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
23 And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
24 Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
25 But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
26 Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,
27 The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;
28 And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.
29 Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim.
30 And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth,
31 To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
32 And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.
1 Moreover the Lord answered Job, and said,
2 Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
3 Then Job answered the Lord, and said,
4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
5 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.
6 Then answered the Lord unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
7 Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
8 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
9 Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
10 Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty.
11 Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.
12 Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
13 Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.
14 Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.
15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
19 He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
22 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
23 Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
24 He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.