लूका 21
1 फिर उस ने आंख उठाकर धनवानों को अपना अपना दान भण्डार में डालते देखा।
2 और उस ने एक कंगाल विधवा को भी उस में दो दमडिय़ां डालते देखा।
3 तब उस ने कहा; मैं तुम से सच कहता हूं कि इस कंगाल विधवा ने सब से बढ़कर डाला है।
4 क्योंकि उन सब ने अपनी अपनी बढ़ती में से दान में कुछ डाला है, परन्तु इस ने अपनी घटी में से अपनी सारी जीविका डाल दी है॥
5 जब कितने लोग मन्दिर के विषय में कह रहे थे, कि वह कैसे सुन्दर पत्थरों और भेंट की वस्तुओं से संवारा गया है तो उस ने कहा।
6 वे दिन आएंगे, जिन में यह सब जो तुम देखते हो, उन में से यहां किसी पत्थर पर पत्थर भी न छूटेगा, जो ढाया न जाएगा।
7 उन्होंने उस से पूछा, हे गुरू, यह सब कब होगा और ये बातें जब पूरी होने पर होंगी, तो उस समय का क्या चिन्ह होगा?
8 उस ने कहा; चौकस रहो, कि भरमाए न जाओ, क्योंकि बहुतेरे मेरे नाम से आकर कहेंगे, कि मैं वही हूं; और यह भी कि समय निकट आ पहुंचा है: तुम उन के पीछे न चले जाना।
9 और जब तुम लड़ाइयों और बलवों की चर्चा सुनो, तो घबरा न जाना; क्योंकि इन का पहिले होना अवश्य है; परन्तु उस समय तुरन्त अन्त न होगा।
10 तब उस ने उन से कहा, कि जाति पर जाति और राज्य पर राज्य चढ़ाई करेगा।
11 और बड़ें बड़ें भूईडोल होंगे, और जगह जगह अकाल और मरियां पड़ेंगी, और आकाश में भयंकर बातें और बड़े बड़े चिन्ह प्रगट होंगे।
12 परन्तु इन सब बातों से पहिले वे मेरे नाम के कारण तुम्हें पकड़ेंगे, और सताएंगे, और पंचायतों में सौपेंगे, और बन्दीगृह मे डलवाएंगे, और राजाओं और हाकिमों के साम्हने ले जाएंगे।
13 पर यह तुम्हारे लिये गवाही देने का अवसर हो जाएगा।
14 इसलिये अपने अपने मन में ठान रखो कि हम पहिले से उत्तर देने की चिन्ता न करेंगे।
15 क्योंकि मैं तुम्हें ऐसा बोल और बुद्धि दूंगा, कि तुम्हारे सब विरोधी साम्हना या खण्डन न कर सकेंगे।
16 और तुम्हारे माता पिता और भाई और कुटुम्ब, और मित्र भी तुम्हें पकड़वाएंगे; यहां तक कि तुम में से कितनों को मरवा डालेंगे।
17 और मेरे नाम के कारण सब लोग तुम से बैर करेंगे।
18 परन्तु तुम्हारे सिर का एक बाल भी बांका न होगा।
19 अपने धीरज से तुम अपने प्राणों को बचाए रखोगे॥
20 जब तुम यरूशलेम को सेनाओं से घिरा हुआ देखो, तो जान लेना कि उसका उजड़ जाना निकट है।
21 तब जो यहूदिया में हों वह पहाड़ों पर भाग जाएं, और जो यरूशलेम के भीतर हों वे बाहर निकल जाएं; और जो गावों में हो वे उस में न जांए।
22 क्योंकि यह पलटा लेने के ऐसे दिन होंगे, जिन में लिखी हुई सब बातें पूरी हो जाएंगी।
23 उन दिनों में जो गर्भवती और दूध पिलाती होंगी, उन के लिये हाय, हाय, क्योंकि देश में बड़ा क्लेश और इन लोगों पर बड़ी आपत्ति होगी।
24 वे तलवार के कौर हो जाएंगे, और सब देशों के लोगों में बन्धुए होकर पहुंचाए जाएंगे, और जब तक अन्य जातियों का समय पूरा न हो, तब तक यरूशलेम अन्य जातियों से रौंदा जाएगा।
25 और सूरज और चान्द और तारों में चिन्ह दिखाई देंगें, और पृथ्वी पर, देश देश के लोगों को संकट होगा; क्योंकि वे समुद्र के गरजने और लहरों के कोलाहल से घबरा जाएंगे।
26 और भय के कारण और संसार पर आनेवाली घटनाओं की बाट देखते देखते लोगों के जी में जी न रहेगा क्योंकि आकाश की शक्तियां हिलाई जाएंगी।
27 तब वे मनुष्य के पुत्र को सामर्थ और बड़ी महिमा के साथ बादल पर आते देखेंगे।
28 जब ये बातें होने लगें, तो सीधे होकर अपने सिर ऊपर उठाना; क्योंकि तुम्हारा छुटकारा निकट होगा॥
29 उस ने उन से एक दृष्टान्त भी कहा कि अंजीर के पेड़ और सब पेड़ों को देखो।
30 ज्योंहि उन की कोंपलें निकलती हैं, तो तुम देखकर आप ही जान लेते हो, कि ग्रीष्म काल निकट है।
31 इसी रीति से जब तुम ये बातें होते देखो, तब जान लो कि परमेश्वर का राज्य निकट है।
32 मैं तुम से सच कहता हूं, कि जब तक ये सब बातें न हो लें, तब तक इस पीढ़ी का कदापि अन्त न होगा।
33 आकाश और पृथ्वी टल जाएंगे, परन्तु मेरी बातें कभी न टलेंगी॥
34 इसलिये सावधान रहो, ऐसा न हो कि तुम्हारे मन खुमार और मतवालेपन, और इस जीवन की चिन्ताओं से सुस्त हो जाएं, और वह दिन तुम पर फन्दे की नाईं अचानक आ पड़े।
35 क्योंकि वह सारी पृथ्वी के सब रहने वालों पर इसी प्रकार आ पड़ेगा।
36 इसलिये जागते रहो और हर समय प्रार्थना करते रहो कि तुम इन सब आने वाली घटनाओं से बचने, और मनुष्य के पुत्र के साम्हने खड़े होने के योग्य बनो॥
37 और वह दिन को मन्दिर में उपदेश करता था; और रात को बाहर जाकर जैतून नाम पहाड़ पर रहा करता था।
38 और भोर को तड़के सब लोग उस की सुनने के लिये मन्दिर में उसके पास आया करते थे।
1 And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.
2 And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.
3 And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:
4 For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.
5 And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said,
6 As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
7 And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass?
8 And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.
9 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.
10 Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake.
13 And it shall turn to you for a testimony.
14 Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:
15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
16 And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.
17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.
18 But there shall not an hair of your head perish.
19 In your patience possess ye your souls.
20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
21 Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.
22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
37 And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives.
38 And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him.
1 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did.
4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
5 He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.
6 For he clave to the Lord, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.
7 And the Lord was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.
8 He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
10 And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
11 And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:
12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
15 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king’s house.
16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.
18 And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
19 And Rab-shakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
20 Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
21 Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.
22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the Lord our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
24 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
25 Am I now come up without the Lord against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rab-shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews’ language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
27 But Rab-shakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
28 Then Rab-shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:
29 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:
32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The Lord will deliver us.
33 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?
35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?
36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh.