Isaiah 6
1 राजा उज्जियाहको मृत्यु भएको बेला मैले मेरा मालिकलाई देखें। उहाँ एकदम उच्च अनि आर्श्चयचकित सिंहासनमा विराजमान हुनुहुन्थ्यो। उहाँको लामो वस्त्रले मन्दिर भरिएको थियो।
2 सराफ स्वर्गदूतहरू परमप्रभुको चारैतिर उभिएका थिए। प्रत्येक सराफ स्वर्गदूतका छ-छवटा पखेटाहरू थिए। ती स्वर्गदूतहरूले मुख ढाक्नलाई तिनीहरूको दुइ-दुइवटा पखेटाहरू प्रयोग गरेका थिए। अर्का दुइ-दुइवटा पखेटाहरू तिनीहरूको खुट्टाहरू छोप्नलाई प्रयोग गरेका थिए। अनि तिनीहरूको दुइवटा पखेटाहरू उड्नलाई प्रयोग गरेका थिए।
3 प्रत्येक स्वर्गदूतले एका-अर्कालाई बोलाइरहेका थिए। तिनीहरूले भन्थे, “पवित्र, पवित्र, पवित्र सेनाहरूका परमप्रभु अत्यन्त पवित्र हुनुहुन्छ। सारा पृथ्वी उहाँको महिमाले भरिएको छ।” स्वर्गदूतहरूका आवाजहरू एकदम चर्को थियो।
4 तिनीहरूका आवाजले वरिपरिका दैलोका संघारहरू हल्लिए। तब मन्दिर धूवाँले भरिन थाल्यो।
5 म भयभीत भएँ। मैले भनें, “अहँ, होइन! म नाश हुने रहेछु। म परमेश्वरसंग बोल्नलाई त्यतिको पवित्र छैन्। अनि म त्यस्तै अधर्मी मानिसहरू माझ बस्दछु। तथापि मैले सेनाहरूका परमप्रभु महाराजाधिराजलाई देखेकोछु।”
6 वेदीमा आगो थियो सराफ स्वर्गदूतहरूमध्ये एकजनाले आगोबाट तातो कोइला निकाल्न चिम्टा प्रयोग गरे। उनले तातो कोइला आफ्नो हातमा राखेर मकहाँ ल्याए।
7 सराफ स्वर्गदूतले तातो कोइलाले मेरो ओठहरू छोए। तब उनले भने, “हेर, यस तातो कोइलाले तिम्रो ओठहरू छोएपछि तिमीले जो गरेका थियो ती सबै हराए। अब तिमी पाप मुक्त भयौ।”
8 त्यसपछि मैले मेरो परमप्रभुको आवाज सुनें। परमप्रभुले भन्नुभयो, “म कसलाई पठाउन सक्छु? हाम्रा निम्तिको जाने?”यसकारण मैले भने, “म यहाँ छु। मलाई पठाउनुहोस्!”
9 तब परमप्रभुले भन्नुभयो, “जाऊ अनि मानिसहरूलाई यो बताऊः ‘ध्यानपूर्वक सुन, तर नबुझ! ध्यानपूर्वक हेर, तर नसिक!’
10 मानिसहरूलाई अल्मलाऊ। मानिसहरूलाई तिनीहरूले सुनेका र देखेका कुराहरू नबुझ्ने तरिकाले बताऊ। यदि तिमीले त्यसो गरेनौ भने, मानिसहरूले देखेका र आफ्ना कानले सुनेका कुराहरू मनमा बुझ्न सक्नेछन्। यदि तिनीहरूले बुझे भने मकहाँ फर्केर आउन सक्छन् र तिनीहरूले पाप माफ हुनेछ!”
11 तब मैले सोधें, “हे मेरा मालिक, कहिले सम्म मैले त्यसो गर्नु पर्छ?”परमप्रभुले भन्नुभयो, “यो त्यति बेला सम्म गर्नु जब सम्म शहरहरू ध्वंश हुँदैनन् र मानिसहरूले छोडेर जाँदैनन्। यो त्यति बेला सम्म गर्नु जतिबेला सम्म घरहरूमा मानिसहरू जीवित रहन्छन्। जबसम्म यो देश ध्वंस भएर खाली छोडिंदैन् तबसम्म तिमीले मैले भने जस्तो गर्नु।”
12 परमप्रभुले मानिसहरूलाई टाढा जाने बनाउनु भयो। भूमिमा विस्तृत क्षेत्रहरू खाली हुनेछ।
13 एक दशांश मानिसहरूलाई मात्र त्यस भूमिमा बस्ने अनुमति दिइनेछ। ती मानिसहरू ध्वंश गरिनु पर्ने भए तापनि परमप्रभुमा फर्कनेछन्। ती मानिसहरू फलाँटका रूख झैं हुनेछन्। जब रूख काटेर ढालिन्छ त्यसको ठुटो रहनेछ। यो ठुटो विशेष वशंज नै त्यसको ठुटो हो।
1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
12 And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
1 Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)
2 That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,
3 In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him:
4 When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days.
5 And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace;
6 Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.
7 And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king.
8 And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man’s pleasure.
9 Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.
10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
11 To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.
12 But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.
13 Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king’s manner toward all that knew law and judgment:
14 And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king’s face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)
15 What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?
16 And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
17 For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.
18 Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king’s princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.
19 If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
20 And when the king’s decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
21 And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:
22 For he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people.