James 5
1 हे धनवानों सुन तो लो; तुम अपने आने वाले क्लेशों पर चिल्ला-चिल्लाकर रोओ।
2 तुम्हारा धन बिगड़ गया और तुम्हारे वस्त्रों को कीड़े खा गए।
3 तुम्हारे सोने-चान्दी में काई लग गई है; और वह काई तुम पर गवाही देगी, और आग की नाईं तुम्हारा मांस खा जाएगी: तुम ने अन्तिम युग में धन बटोरा है।
4 देखो, जिन मजदूरों ने तुम्हारे खेत काटे, उन की वह मजदूरी जो तुम ने धोखा देकर रख ली है चिल्ला रही है, और लवने वालों की दोहाई, सेनाओं के प्रभु के कानों तक पहुंच गई है।
5 तुम पृथ्वी पर भोग-विलास में लगे रहे और बड़ा ही सुख भोगा; तुम ने इस वध के दिन के लिये अपने हृदय का पालन-पोषण करके मोटा ताजा किया।
6 तुम ने धर्मी को दोषी ठहरा कर मार डाला; वह तुम्हारा साम्हना नहीं करता॥
7 सो हे भाइयों, प्रभु के आगमन तक धीरज धरो, देखो, गृहस्थ पृथ्वी के बहुमूल्य फल की आशा रखता हुआ प्रथम और अन्तिम वर्षा होने तक धीरज धरता है।
8 तुम भी धीरज धरो, और अपने हृदय को दृढ़ करो, क्योंकि प्रभु का शुभागमन निकट है।
9 हे भाइयों, एक दूसरे पर दोष न लगाओ ताकि तुम दोषी न ठहरो, देखो, हाकिम द्वार पर खड़ा है।
10 हे भाइयो, जिन भविष्यद्वक्ताओं ने प्रभु के नाम से बातें की, उन्हें दुख उठाने और धीरज धरने का एक आदर्श समझो।
11 देखो, हम धीरज धरने वालों को धन्य कहते हैं: तुम ने अय्यूब के धीरज के विषय में तो सुना ही है, और प्रभु की ओर से जो उसका प्रतिफल हुआ उसे भी जान लिया है, जिस से प्रभु की अत्यन्त करूणा और दया प्रगट होती है।
12 पर हे मेरे भाइयों, सब से श्रेष्ठ बात यह है, कि शपथ न खाना; न स्वर्ग की न पृथ्वी की, न किसी और वस्तु की, पर तुम्हारी बातचीत हां की हां, और नहीं की नहीं हो, कि तुम दण्ड के योग्य न ठहरो॥
13 यदि तुम में कोई दुखी हो तो वह प्रार्थना करे: यदि आनन्दित हो, तो वह स्तुति के भजन गाए।
14 यदि तुम में कोई रोगी हो, तो कलीसिया के प्राचीनों को बुलाए, और वे प्रभु के नाम से उस पर तेल मल कर उसके लिये प्रार्थना करें।
15 और विश्वास की प्रार्थना के द्वारा रोगी बच जाएगा और प्रभु उस को उठा कर खड़ा करेगा; और यदि उस ने पाप भी किए हों, तो उन की भी क्षमा हो जाएगी।
16 इसलिये तुम आपस में एक दूसरे के साम्हने अपने अपने पापों को मान लो; और एक दूसरे के लिये प्रार्थना करो, जिस से चंगे हो जाओ; धर्मी जन की प्रार्थना के प्रभाव से बहुत कुछ हो सकता है।
17 एलिय्याह भी तो हमारे समान दुख-सुख भोगी मनुष्य था; और उस ने गिड़िगड़ा कर प्रार्थना की; कि मेंह न बरसे; और साढ़े तीन वर्ष तक भूमि पर मेंह नहीं बरसा।
18 फिर उस ने प्रार्थना की, तो आकाश से वर्षा हुई, और भूमि फलवन्त हुई॥
19 हे मेरे भाइयों, यदि तुम में कोई सत्य के मार्ग से भटक जाए, और कोई उस को फेर लाए।
20 तो वह यह जान ले, कि जो कोई किसी भटके हुए पापी को फेर लाएगा, वह एक प्राण को मृत्यु से बचाएगा, और अनेक पापों पर परदा डालेगा॥
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the Lord.
6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
7 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
9 And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
11 And Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, Lord, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
14 And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.
18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.
19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?
22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.
23 For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
24 And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.
25 And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)
26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the Lord’s side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.
27 And he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.
28 And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
29 For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to the Lord, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.
30 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the Lord; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.
31 And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.
32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
33 And the Lord said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
34 Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.
35 And the Lord plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.