Joel 3

1 क्योंकि सुनो, जिन दिनों में और जिस समय मैं यहूदा और यरूशलेम वासियों को बंधुआई से लौटा ले आऊंगा,

2 उस समय मैं सब जातियों को इकट्ठी कर के यहोशपात की तराई में ले जाऊंगा, और वहां उनके साथ अपनी प्रजा अर्थात अपने निज भाग इस्राएल के विषय में जिसे उन्होंने अन्यजातियों में तितर-बितर कर के मेरे देश को बांट लिया है, उन से मुकद्दमा लडूंगा।

3 उन्होंने तो मेरी प्रजा पर चिट्ठी डाली, और एक लड़का वेश्या के बदले में दे दिया, और एक लड़की बेच कर दाखमधु पीया है॥

4 हे सोर, और सीदोन और पलिश्तीन के सब प्रदेशो, तुम को मुझ से क्या काम? क्या तुम मुझ को बदला दोगे? यदि तुम मुझे बदला भी दो, तो मैं शीघ्र ही तुम्हारा दिया हुआ बदला, तुम्हारे ही सिर पर डाल दूंगा।

5 क्योंकि तुम ने मेरी चान्दी-सोना ले लिया, और मेरी अच्छी और मनभावनी वस्तुएं अपने मन्दिरों में ले जा कर रखी हैं;

6 और यहूदियों और यरूशलेमियों को यूनानियों के हाथ इसलिये बेच डाला है कि वे अपने देश से दूर किए जाएं।

7 इसलिये सुनो, मैं उन को उस स्थान से, जहां के जाने वालों के हाथ तुम ने उन को बेच दिया, बुलाने पर हूं, और तुम्हारा दिया हुआ बदला, तुम्हारे ही सिर पर डाल दूंगा।

8 मैं तुम्हारे बेटे-बेटियों को यहूदियों के हाथ बिकवा दूंगा, और वे उसको शबाइयों के हाथ बेच देंगे जो दूर देश के रहने वाले हैं; क्योंकि यहोवा ने यह कहा है॥

9 जाति जाति में यह प्रचार करो, युद्ध की तैयारी करो, अपने शूरवीरों को उभारो। सब योद्धा निकट आकर लड़ने को चढ़ें।

10 अपने अपने हल की फाल को पीटकर तलवार, और अपनी अपनी हंसिया को पीटकर बर्छी बनाओ; जो बलहीन हो वह भी कहे, मैं वीर हूं॥

11 हे चारों ओर के जाति जाति के लोगो, फुर्ती कर के आओ और इकट्ठे हो जाओ। हे यहोवा, तू भी अपने शूरवीरों को वहां ले जा।

12 जाति जाति के लोग उभर कर चढ़ जाएं और यहोशापात की तराई में जाएं, क्योंकि वहां मैं चारों ओर की सारी जातियों का न्याय करने को बैठूंगा॥

13 हंसुआ लगाओ, क्योंकि खेत पक गया है। आओ, दाख रौंदो, क्योंकि हौज़ भर गया है। रसकुण्ड उमण्डने लगे, क्योंकि उनकी बुराई बहुत बड़ी है॥

14 निबटारे की तराई में भीड़ की भीड़ है! क्योंकि निबटारे की तराई में यहोवा का दिन निकट है।

15 सूर्य और चन्द्रमा अपना अपना प्रकाश न देंगे, और न तारे चमकेंगे॥

16 और यहोवा सिय्योन से गरजेगा, और यरूशलेम से बड़ा शब्द सुनाएगा; और आकाश और पृथ्वी थरथराएंगे। परन्तु यहोवा अपनी प्रजा के लिये शरणस्थान और इस्राएलियों के लिये गढ़ ठहरेगा॥

17 इस प्रकार तुम जानोगे कि यहोवा जो अपने पवित्र पर्वत सिय्योन पर वास किए रहता है, वही हमारा परमेश्वर है। और यरूशलेम पवित्र ठहरेगा, और परदेशी उस में हो कर फिर न जाने पाएंगे॥

18 और उस समय पहाड़ों से नया दाखमधु टपकने लगेगा, और टीलों से दूध बहने लगेगा, और यहूदा देश के सब नाले जल से भर जाएंगे; और यहोवा के भवन में से एक सोता फूट निकलेगा, जिस से शित्तीम का नाम नाला सींचा जाएगा॥

19 यहूदियों पर उपद्रव करने के कारण, मिस्र उजाड़ और एदोम उजड़ा हुआ मरूस्थल हो जाएगा, क्योंकि उन्होंने उनके देश में निर्दोष की हत्या की थी।

20 परन्तु यहूदा सर्वदा और यरूशलेम पीढ़ी पीढ़ी तब बना रहेगा।

21 क्योंकि उनका खून, जो अब तक मैं ने पवित्र नहीं ठहराया था, उसे अब पवित्र ठहराऊंगा, क्योंकि यहोवा सिय्योन में वास किए रहता है॥

1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;

5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:

6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.

7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:

8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the Lord hath spoken it.

9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:

10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord.

12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.

13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.

14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.

15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

16 The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

17 So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.

18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim.

19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the Lord dwelleth in Zion.

0 A Psalm of David.

1 Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.

3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.

4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord chase them.

6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the Lord persecute them.

7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

9 And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord: it shall rejoice in his salvation.

10 All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.

13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.

18 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.

19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

22 This thou hast seen, O Lord: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.

24 Judge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the Lord be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

28 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.