यशैया 41
1 परमप्रभुले भन्नुहुन्छ, “टाढामा भएका देशहरू, शान्त बन र मकहाँ आऊ। जातिहरू बालवान होऊ। मकहाँ आऊ र बोल। हामी साथ साथै भेट्नेछौं, अनि को ठीक हो भनेर निर्णय गर्नेछौं।
2 निम्न प्रश्नहरूका मलाई उत्तर देऊ जो मानिस पूर्वबाट आइरहेको छ उसलाई कसले जगायो? धार्मिकता उसँग हिंड्दछ। उसले आफ्नो तरवार चलाउँछ र जातिहरू परास्त गर्छ। तिनीहरू धूलोको जस्ता हुन्छन्। उसले आफ्नो धनु चलाउँछ र राजाहरूलाई जित्छ अनि तिनीहरू हावाले पराल उडाए झैं भाग्दछन्।
3 उसले सैन्यहरूको खेदो गर्दछ र कहिल्यै घाइते हुँदैन्। उ कहिल्यै नपुगेका ठाउँहरू पुग्दछ।
4 कसले यी कुराहरू हुने गरायो? कसले यो गर्यो? कसले प्रारम्भदेखि सारा मानिसहरूलाई बोलायो? म, परमप्रभुले, यी कुराहरू गरे। म, परमप्रभु नै प्रथम मानिस हुँ, अनि जब पृथ्वीमा सारा थोकहरू समाप्त हुन्छन् म यहाँ हुनेछु।
5 तिमीहरू सबै सुदूर ठाउँहरू हेर, अनि डराऊ। तिमीहरू सबै सुदूर ठाउँहरू, पृथ्वीमाथि डरले कम्पित हौ। यहाँ मकहाँ आऊ र ध्यान दिएर सुन्।” अनि तिनीहरू आए।
6 “कर्मीहरू एकार्कामा सहयोग गर्छन आपस साथ निभाउँदछ। तिनीहरू बलियो हुनलाई परस्परमा प्रेरणा दिन्छन्।
7 एकजना कर्मीले मूर्ति बनाउनलाई काठ काट्छ। त्यस मानिसले सुनारलाई प्रेरणा दिँन्छ। अर्को एकजना कर्मीले मार्तोल पिटेर धातुलाई चिल्लो पार्दछ। त्यसपछि त्यस कर्मीले लीही चलाउनेलाई प्रेरित गर्दछ। यो अन्तिम कर्मीले भन्दछ, ‘यो काम असल हो, धातु आउने छैन्।’ त्यसपछि भूईंमा नखसोस् भनेर त्यसलाई काँटी ठोकेर दरिलो बनाउँदछ ताकि त्यो कहिल्यै नढलोस्। अनि त्यो कहिल्यै हल्लिदैन।”
8 परमप्रभु भन्नुहुन्छ “तिमी इस्राएल मेरो दास हौ, याकूब मैले तिमीलाई रोजें। तिमी आब्राहाम परिवारका हौ। अनि म आब्राहामलाई प्रेम गर्दछु।
9 तिमी टाढा देशमा थियौ, तर म तिमीकहाँ पुगें मैले तिमीलाई त्यो टाढा ठाउँबाट बोलाएँ। मैले भने, ‘तिमी मेरो दास हौ।’ तिमीलाई रोजें। अनि मैले तिमीलाई रद्ध गरिनँ।
10 सुर्ता नगर, म तिमीसितै छु। नडराऊ, म तिम्रै परमेश्वर हुँ। म तिमीलाई बलियो बनाउनेछु। म तिमीलाई सहायता दिनेछु, म तिमीलाई मेरो धार्मिकताको दाहिने हातले समाल्नेछु।
11 हेर, कतिपय मानिसहरू तिमीसँग रिसिएका छन्। तर तिनीहरू लज्जित हुनेछन्। तिम्रा शत्रुहरू हराउनेछन् र विलाई जानेछन्।
12 तिमीले ती मानिसहरूलाई खोज्नेछौ जो तिम्रो विरोधीहरू थिए, तर तिमीले तिनीहरूलाई भेटाउन सक्ने छैनौ। ती मानिसहरू जो तिम्रो विरूद्ध लडे तिनीहरू पूर्ण रूपमा बिलाई जानेछन्।
13 म परमप्रभु तिम्रो परमेश्वर हुँ। मैले तिम्रो दाहिने हात समाति रहेकोछु। अनि म तिमीलाई भन्दछु नडराऊ। म तिम्रो साथमा हुनेछु।
14 हे बहुमूल्य यहूदा, नडराऊ! मेरा इस्राएलका प्रिय मानिसहरू, भयभीत न हौ म साँच्चि नै तिमीहरूलाई सघाउने छु।” परमप्रभु स्वयंले ती कुराहरू भन्नु भएको थियो। इस्राएलका पवित्र परमप्रभु जसले तिमीलाई बचाए उहाँले ती कुराहरू भन्नुभयो
15 “हेर, म तिमीलाई एक झाँटने उपकरण बनाउनेछु। त्यो उपकरण धेरै तीखा दाँतहरू भएका हुनेछन्, कृषकहरूले यो अन्न कुट्नलाई चलाउने छन् यसकारण तिनीहरूले अन्न देखि खोस्टा अलग्गै पार्नेछन्। तिमी पर्वतहरूमाथि कुल्चिँदै हिडनेछौ र तिनीहरूलाई धूलोपीठो पार्नेछौ। तिमीले पहाडहरूलाई छिल्काहरू जस्तो पार्नेछौ।
16 तिमीले तिनीहरूलाई बतास फ्याँकी दिनेछौ, अनि तिनीहरूलाई उडाएर लैजाने छ र छरपष्ट पारिदिने छ। तब तिमी परमप्रभुमा रमाहट हुनेछौ। तिमी इस्राएलका पवित्र परमप्रभुसँग गर्व गर्नेछौ।”
17 “गरीब र दीन-दुखी मानिसहरूले पानी खोज्नेछन्, तर तिनीहरूले पाउने छैनन् र पनि तिनीहरू प्यासी छैनन्। तिनीहरूको जिब्राहरू सुवखा छन्। म तिनीहरूक प्रार्थनाको प्रत्युत्तर दिनेछु। म तिनीहरूलाई त्यसै छोडने छैन र मर्न दिने छैन्।
18 म सुक्खा पहाडहरूमा नदीहरू बगाइ दिनेछु। म झरनाको मूल फुटाएर बेंसीहरूमा बगाउने छु। म पानीले भरिपूर्ण पार्नेछु मरूभूमिलाई तलाउमा परिर्वतन गर्नेछु। त्यहाँ सुख्खा भूमिहरूमा झरनाका पानी हुनेछ।
19 देवदारूहरू मरूभूमिमा उम्रिनेछन्, त्यहाँ बबुलका रूखहरू, चन्दनका र जैतूनका रूखहरू र धूपीका रूखहरू हुनेछन्।
20 मानिसहरूले ती कुराहरू हेर्नेछन्। अनि उनीहरूले बुझ्ने छन् कि यी सबै परमप्रभुकै शक्तिले भएका हुन्। मानिसहरूले यी कुराहरू देख्नेछन् अनि तिनीहरूले बुझ्न थाल्नेछन कि इस्राएलका पवित्र परमप्रभुले यी कुराहरू गरेका हुन्।”
21 परमप्रभु, याकूबका राजाले भन्नहुन्छ, “आऊ मलाई तिमीहरूका वाद-विवादहरू बताऊ। मलाई तिमीहरूका प्रमाणहरू देखाऊ, अनि हामी ती कुराहरू ठीक रहेछन् भनेर निर्णय गर्नेछौ।
22 तिमीहरूका झूटा देवताहरू आउनु पर्छ अनि के भइरहेछ बताउनु पर्छ।“आदिमा के भयो? हामीलाई बताऊ। भविष्यमा के हुने हो? हामीलाई बताऊ। हामी एकदम ध्यान दिएर सुन्नेछौ। तब मात्र हामीहरू जान्नेछौ कि अर्को पल्ट के हुने हो।
23 हामीलाई ती कुराहरू बताऊ जुन के हुने होला हामीले जान्नै पर्छ। तब तिमीहरू वास्तवमा देवताहरू नै हौ भनेर हामी विश्वास गर्ने छौ। केही त गर! जे पनि गर राम्रो वा नराम्रो। तब तिमी जीउँदो नै हौ भनेर हामी देख्नेछौ। अनि हामी तिमीलाई पछ्याउने छौं।
24 “हेर, झूटा देवताहरू, तिमीहरू वास्तवमा केही पनि होइनौ। तिमीहरू केही गर्न सक्तैनौ। केवल मूर्ख मानिसहरूले मात्र तिमीहरूलाई पुज्ने छन्।”
25 “मैले उत्तरबाट एकजना मानिसलाई माथि उठाउएको छु। उ पूर्वबाट आइरहेकोछ जहाँबाट सूर्य उदाउँछ। उसले मेरो आराधना गर्छ। एकजना कुमाले जसले भाँडा बनाउँछ, हिलो माटोमा हिडँछ। त्यस्तै प्रकारले त्यो मानिस राजाहरूलाई मिचेर हिँड्छ।”
26 यस्तो हुन भन्दा अघि हामीलाई कसले भन्यो? हामीले उनलाई परमेश्वर भनेर घोषणा गर्नुपर्छ। के तिमीहरूको एउटै मूर्तिले यी कुराहरूको विषय भन्यो र? अहँ। ती कुनै पनि मूर्तिहरूले हामीलाई केही पनि भनेनन्। ती मूर्तिहरूले एउटा शब्द पनि भनेनन् अनि ती झुटा देवताहरूले तिमीले भनेका शब्दहरू सुन्न सक्तैनन्।
27 सियोनका बारेमा ती कुराहरू भन्ने म, परमप्रभु, नै प्रथम ब्याक्ती थिएँ। मैले यो समाचार सहित यरूशलेममा सन्देशवाहकहरू पठाएँ “हेर, तिम्रा मानिसहरू फर्केर आइरहेछन्।”
28 मैले ती झूटा देवताहरूमा हेरें। तिनीहरू केही भन्नलाई कोही पनि बुद्धिमानी थिएनन्। मैले तिनीहरूलाई प्रश्नहरू गरें तर तिनीहरूले एउटा शब्द पनि भनेनन्।
29 ती सारा देवताहरू वास्तवमा केही पनि होइनन्। ती मूर्तिहरू पूर्णत महत्वहीन छन्। तिनीहरूले केही गर्न सक्तैनन्।
1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
2 Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
3 He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.
4 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he.
5 The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.
6 They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.
7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
8 But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
9 Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.
12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
13 For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the Lord, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
15 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
18 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
20 That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
21 Produce your cause, saith the Lord; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
22 Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.
23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
25 I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
26 Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words.
27 The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
28 For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counseller, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you.
2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.
3 Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
4 But ye that did cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day.
5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
7 For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
8 And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;
10 Specially the day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
12 And the Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.
13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
14 And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.
15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
20 But the Lord hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
21 Furthermore the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:
22 But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.
23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the Lord thy God hath forbidden thee.
24 For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
25 When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger:
26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
27 And the Lord shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the Lord shall lead you.
28 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
29 But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
31 (For the Lord thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
33 Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
34 Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God; there is none else beside him.
36 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
37 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
38 To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for ever.
41 Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;
42 That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:
43 Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.
44 And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,
46 On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:
47 And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;
48 From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon,
49 And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.