निर्गमन 33

1 फिर यहोवा ने मूसा से कहा, तू उन लोगों को जिन्हें मिस्र देश से छुड़ा लाया है संग ले कर उस देश को जा, जिसके विषय मैं ने इब्राहीम, इसहाक, और याकूब से शपथ खाकर कहा था, कि मैं उसे तुम्हारे वंश को दूंगा।

2 और मैं तेरे आगे आगे एक दूत को भेजूंगा, और कनानी, एमोरी, हित्ती, परिज्जी, हिब्बी, और यबूसी लोगों को बरबस निकाल दूंगा।

3 तुम लोग उस देश को जाओ जिस में दूध और मधु की धारा बहती है; परन्तु तुम हठीले हो, इस कारण मैं तुम्हारे बीच में होके न चलूंगा, ऐसा न हो कि मैं मार्ग में तुम्हारा अन्त कर डालूं।

4 यह बुरा समाचार सुनकर वे लोग विलाप करने लगे; और कोई अपने गहने पहिने हुए न रहा।

5 क्योंकि यहोवा ने मूसा से कह दिया था, कि इस्त्राएलियों को मेरा यह वचन सुना, कि तुम लोग तो हठीले हो; जो मैं पल भर के लिये तुम्हारे बीच हो कर चलूं, तो तुम्हारा अन्त कर डालूंगा। इसलिये अब अपने अपने गहने अपने अंगों से उतार दो, कि मैं जानूं कि तुम्हारे साथ क्या करना चाहिए।

6 तब इस्त्राएली होरेब पर्वत से ले कर आगे को अपने गहने उतारे रहे॥

7 मूसा तम्बू को छावनी से बाहर वरन दूर खड़ा कराया करता था, और उसको मिलापवाला तम्बू कहता था। और जो कोई यहोवा को ढूंढ़ता वह उस मिलाप वाले तम्बू के पास जो छावनी के बाहर था निकल जाता था।

8 और जब जब मूसा तम्बू के पास जाता, तब तब सब लोग उठ कर अपने अपने डेरे के द्वार पर खड़े हो जाते, और जब तक मूसा उस तम्बू में प्रवेश न करता था तब तक उसकी ओर ताकते रहते थे।

9 और जब मूसा उस तम्बू में प्रवेश करता था, तब बादल का खम्भा उतर के तम्बू के द्वार पर ठहर जाता था, और यहोवा मूसा से बातें करने लगता था।

10 और सब लोग जब बादल के खम्भे को तम्बू के द्वार पर ठहरा देखते थे, तब उठ कर अपने अपने डेरे के द्वार पर से दण्डवत करते थे।

11 और यहोवा मूसा से इस प्रकार आम्हने-साम्हने बातें करता था, जिस प्रकार कोई अपने भाई से बातें करे। और मूसा तो छावनी में फिर आता था, पर यहोशू नाम एक जवान, जो नून का पुत्र और मूसा का टहलुआ था, वह तम्बू में से न निकलता था॥

12 और मूसा ने यहोवा से कहा, सुन तू मुझ से कहता है, कि इन लोगों को ले चल; परन्तु यह नहीं बताया कि तू मेरे संग किस को भेजेगा। तौभी तू ने कहा है, कि तेरा नाम मेरे चित्त में बसा है, और तुझ पर मेरे अनुग्रह की दृष्टि है।

13 और अब यदि मुझ पर तेरे अनुग्रह की दृष्टि हो, तो मुझे अपनी गति समझा दे, जिस से जब मैं तेरा ज्ञान पाऊं तब तेरे अनुग्रह की दृष्टि मुझ पर बनी रहे। फिर इसकी भी सुधि कर कि यह जाति तेरी प्रजा है।

14 यहोवा ने कहा, मैं आप चलूंगा और तुझे विश्राम दूंगा।

15 उसने उससे कहा, यदि तू आप न चले, तो हमें यहां से आगे न ले जा।

16 यह कैसे जाना जाए कि तेरे अनुग्रह की दृष्टि मुझ पर और अपनी प्रजा पर है? क्या इस से नहीं कि तू हमारे संग संग चले, जिस से मैं और तेरी प्रजा के लोग पृथ्वी भर के सब लोगों से अलग ठहरें?

17 यहोवा ने मूसा से कहा, मैं यह काम भी जिसकी चर्चा तू ने की है करूंगा; क्योंकि मेरे अनुग्रह की दृष्टि तुझ पर है, और तेरा नाम मेरे चित्त में बसा है।

18 उसने कहा मुझे अपना तेज दिखा दे।

19 उसने कहा, मैं तेरे सम्मुख हो कर चलते हुए तुझे अपनी सारी भलाई दिखाऊंगा, और तेरे सम्मुख यहोवा नाम का प्रचार करूंगा, और जिस पर मैं अनुग्रह करना चाहूं उसी पर अनुग्रह करूंगा, और जिस पर दया करना चांहू उसी पर दया करूंगा।

20 फिर उसने कहा, तू मेरे मुख का दर्शन नहीं कर सकता; क्योंकि मनुष्य मेरे मुख का दर्शन करके जीवित नहीं रह सकता।

21 फिर यहोवा ने कहा, सुन, मेरे पास एक स्थान है, तू उस चट्टान पर खड़ा हो;

22 और जब तक मेरा तेज तेरे साम्हने होके चलता रहे तब तक मैं तुझे चट्टान के दरार में रखूंगा, और जब तक मैं तेरे साम्हने हो कर न निकल जाऊं तब तक अपने हाथ से तुझे ढांपे रहूंगा;

23 फिर मैं अपना हाथ उठा लूंगा, तब तू मेरी पीठ का तो दर्शन पाएगा, परन्तु मेरे मुख का दर्शन नहीं मिलेगा॥

1 And the Lord said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:

2 And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

3 Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.

4 And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.

5 For the Lord had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.

6 And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.

7 And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which sought the Lord went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp.

8 And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, that all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle.

9 And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses.

10 And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door.

11 And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.

12 And Moses said unto the Lord, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.

13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.

14 And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.

15 And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.

16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.

17 And the Lord said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.

18 And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.

19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.

20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.

21 And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:

22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:

23 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.

1 For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,

4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

5 The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.

6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.

7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.

8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.

9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?

11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.

19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.

21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

22 For I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the Lord.

23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.

24 The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.

26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.

27 For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.

29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.

31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.

32 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the Lord hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.