Jeremiah 16
1 यहोवा का यह वचन मेरे पास पहुंचा,
2 इस स्थान में विवाह कर के बेटे-बेटियां मत जन्मा।
3 क्योंकि जो बेटे-बेटियां इस स्थान में उत्पन्न हों और जो माताएं उन्हें जनें और जो पिता उन्हें इस देश में जन्माएं,
4 उनके विषय यहोवा यों कहता है, वे बुरी बुरी बीमारियों से मरेंगे। उनके लिये कोई छाती न पीटेगा, न उन को मिट्टी देगा; वे भूमि के ऊपर खाद की नाईं पड़े रहेंगे। वे तलवार और महंगी से मर मिटेंगे, और उनकी लोथें आकाश के पक्षियों और मैदान के पशुओं का आहार होंगी।
5 यहोवा ने कहा, जिस घर में रोना पीटना हो उस में न जाना, न छाती पीटने के लिये कहीं जाना और न इन लोगों के लिये शोक करना; क्योंकि यहोवा की यह वाणी है कि मैं ने अपनी शान्ति और करुणा और दया इन लोगों पर से उठा ली है।
6 इस कारण इस देश के छोटे-बड़े सब मरेंगे, न तो इन को मिट्टी दी जाएगी, न लोग छाती पीटेंगे, न अपना शरीर चीरेंगे, और न सिर मुंड़ाएंगे। इनके लिये कोई शोक करने वालों को रोटी न बाटेंगे कि शोक में उन्हें शान्ति दें;
7 और न लोग पिता वा माता के मरने पर किसी को शान्ति के लिये कटोरे में दाखमधु पिलाएंगे।
8 तू जेवनार के घर में इनके साथ खाने-पीने के लिये न जाना।
9 क्योंकि सेनाओं का यहोवा, इस्राएल का परमेश्वर यों कहता है, देख, तुम लोगों के देखते और तुम्हारे ही दिनों में मैं ऐसा करूंगा कि इस स्थान में न तो हर्ष और न आनन्द का शब्द सुनाईं पड़ेगा, न दुल्हे और न दुल्हिन का शब्द।
10 और जब तू इन लोगों से ये सब बातें कहे, और वे तुझ से पूछें कि यहोवा ने हमारे ऊपर यह सारी बड़ी विपत्ति डालने के लिये क्यों कहा है? हमारा अधर्म क्या है और हम ने अपने परमेश्वर यहोवा के विरुद्ध कौन सा पाप किया है?
11 तो तू इन लोगों से कहना, यहोवा की यह वाणी है, क्योंकि तुम्हारे पुरखा मुझे त्यागकर दूसरे देवताओं के पीछे चले, और उनकी उपासना कर के उन को दण्डवत की, और मुझ को त्याग दिया और मेरी व्यवस्था का पालन नहीं किया,
12 ओर जितनी बुराई तुम्हारे पुरखाओं ने की थी, उस से भी अधिक तुम करते हो, क्योंकि तुम अपने बुरे मन के हठ पर चलते हो और मेरी नहीं सुनते;
13 इस कारण मैं तुम को इस देश से उखाड़ कर ऐसे देश में फेंक दूंगा, जिस को न तो तुम जानते हो और न तुम्हारे पुरखा जानते थे; और वहां तुम रात-दिन दूसरे देवताओं की उपासना करते रहोगे, क्योंकि वहां मैं तुम पर कुछ अनुग्रह न करूंगा।
14 फिर यहोवा की यह वाणी हुई, देखो, ऐसे दिन आने वाले हैं जिन में फिर यह न कहा जाएगा कि यहोवा जो इस्राएलियों को मिस्र देश से छुड़ा ले आया उसके जीवन की सौगन्ध,
15 वरन यह कहा जाएगा कि यहोवा जो इस्राएलियों को उत्तर के देश से और उन सब देशों से जहां उसने उन को बरबस कर दिया था छुड़ा ले आया, उसके जीवन की सौगन्ध। क्योंकि मैं उन को उनके निज देश में जो मैं ने उनके पूर्वजों को दिया था, लौटा ले आऊंगा।
16 देखो, यहोवा की यह वाणी है कि मैं बहुत से मछुओं को बुलवा भेजूंगा कि वे इन लोगों को पकड़ लें, और, फिर मैं बहुत से बहेलियों को बुलवा भेजूंगा कि वे इन को अहेर कर के सब पहाड़ों और पहाडिय़ों पर से और चट्टानों की दरारों में से निकालें।
17 क्योंकि उनका पूरा चाल-चलन मेरी आंखों के साम्हने प्रगट है; वह मेरी दृष्टि से छिपा नहीं है, न उनका अधर्म मेरी आखों से गुप्त है। सो मैं उनके अधर्म और पाप का दूना दण्ड दूंगा,
18 क्योंकि उन्होंने मेरे देश को अपनी घृणित वस्तुओं की लोथों से अशुद्ध किया, और मेरे निज भाग को अपनी अशुद्धता से भर दिया है।
19 हे यहोवा, हे मेरे बल और दृढ़ गढ़, संकट के समय मेरे शरणस्थान, जातिजाति के लोग पृथ्वी की चहुं ओर से तेरे पास आकर कहेंगे, निश्चय हमारे पुरखा झूठी, व्यर्थ और निष्फल वस्तुओं को अपनाते आए हैं।
20 क्या मनुष्य ईश्वरों को बनाए? नहीं, वे ईश्वर नहीं हो सकते!
21 इस कारण, एक इस बार, मैं इन लोगों को अपना भुजबल और पराक्रम दिखाऊंगा, और वे जानेंगे कि मेरा नाम यहोवा है।
1 The word of the Lord came also unto me, saying,
2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.
3 For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;
4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
5 For thus saith the Lord, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the Lord, even lovingkindness and mercies.
6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
7 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.
9 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?
11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the Lord, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
12 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
13 Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.
14 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be said, The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
15 But, The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.
16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
19 O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?
21 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The Lord.
1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
2 And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
7 And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
8 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
10 And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.
11 And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.
13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:
14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
15 For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.
17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
19 And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.
21 And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
22 And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
23 And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.
24 And the Lord appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham’s sake.
25 And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged a well.
26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
28 And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the Lord.
30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.
33 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.
34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.