Joshua 2
1 तब नून के पुत्र यहोशू ने दो भेदियों को शित्तीम से चुपके से भेज दिया, और उन से कहा, जा कर उस देश और यरीहो को देखो। तुरन्त वे चल दिए, और राहाब नाम किसी वेश्या के घर में जा कर सो गए।
2 तब किसी ने यरीहो के राजा से कहा, कि आज की रात कई एक इस्राएली हमारे देश का भेद लेने को यहां आए हुए हैं।
3 तब यरीहो के राजा ने राहाब के पास यों कहला भेजा, कि जो पुरूष तेरे यहां आए हैं उन्हें बाहर ले आ; क्योंकि वे सारे देश का भेद लेने को आए हैं।
4 उस स्त्री ने दोनों पुरूषों को छिपा रखा; और इस प्रकार कहा, कि मेरे पास कई पुरूष आए तो थे, परन्तु मैं नहीं जानती कि वे कहां के थे;
5 और जब अन्धेरा हुआ, और फाटक बन्द होने लगा, तब वे निकल गए; मुझे मालूम नहीं कि वे कहां गए; तुम फुर्ती करके उनका पीछा करो तो उन्हें जा पकड़ोगे।
6 उसने उन को घर की छत पर चढ़ाकर सनई की लकडिय़ों के नीचे छिपा दिया था जो उसने छत पर सजा कर रखी थी।
7 वे पुरूष तो यरदन का मार्ग ले उनकी खोज में घाट तक चले गए; और ज्योंही उन को खोजने वाले फाटक से निकले त्योंही फाटक बन्द किया गया।
8 और ये लेटने न पाए थे कि वह स्त्री छत पर इनके पास जा कर
9 इन पुरूषों से कहने लगी, मुझे तो निश्चय है कि यहोवा ने तुम लोगों को यह देश दिया है, और तुम्हारा भय हम लोगों के मन में समाया है, और इस देश के सब निवासी तुम्हारे कारण घबरा रहे हैं।
10 क्योंकि हम ने सुना है कि यहोवा ने तुम्हारे मिस्र से निकलने के समय तुम्हारे साम्हने लाल समुद्र का जल सुखा दिया। और तुम लोगों ने सीहोन और ओग नाम यरदन पार रहने वाले एमोरियों के दोनों राजाओं को सत्यानाश कर डाला है।
11 और यह सुनते ही हमारा मन पिघल गया, और तुम्हारे कारण किसी के जी में जी न रहा; क्योंकि तुम्हारा परमेश्वर यहोवा ऊपर के आकाश का और नीचे की पृथ्वी का परमेश्वर है।
12 अब मैं ने जो तुम पर दया की है, इसलिये मुझ से यहोवा की शपथ खाओ कि तुम भी मेरे पिता के घराने पर दया करोगे, और इसकी सच्ची चिन्हानी मुझे दो,
13 कि तुम मेरे माता-पिता, भाइयों और बहिनों को, और जो कुछ उनका है उन सभों को भी जीवित रख छोड़ो, और हम सभों का प्राण मरने से बचाओगे।
14 तब उन पुरूषों ने उस से कहा, यदि तू हमारी यह बात किसी पर प्रगट न करे, तो तुम्हारे प्राण के बदले हमारा प्राण जाए; और जब यहोवा हम को यह देश देगा, तब हम तेरे साथ कृपा और सच्चाई से बर्ताव करेंगे।
15 तब राहाब जिसका घर शहरपनाह पर बना था, और वह वहीं रहती थीं, उसने उन को खिड़की से रस्सी के बल उतार के नगर के बाहर कर दिया।
16 और उसने उन से कहा, पहाड़ को चले जाओ, ऐसा न हो कि खोजने वाले तुम को पाएं; इसलिये जब तक तुम्हारे खोजने वाले लौट न आएं तब तक, अर्थात तीन दिन वहीं छिपे रहता, उसके बाद अपना मार्ग लेना।
17 उन्होंने उस से कहा, जो शपथ तू ने हम को खिलाई है उसके विषय में हम तो निर्दोष रहेंगे।
18 तुम, जब हम लोग इस देश में आएंगे, तब जिस खिड़की से तू ने हम को उतारा है उस में यही लाल रंग के सूत की डोरी बान्ध देना; और अपने माता पिता, भाइयों, वरन अपने पिता के घराने को इसी घर में अपने पास इकट्ठा कर रखना।
19 तब जो कोई तेरे घर के द्वार से बाहर निकले, उसके खून का दोष उसी के सिर पड़ेगा, और हम निर्दोष ठहरेंगे: परन्तु यदि तेरे संग घर में रहते हुए किसी पर किसी का हाथ पड़े, तो उसके खून का दोष हमारे सिर पर पड़ेगा।
20 फिर यदि तू हमारी यह बात किसी पर प्रगट करे, तो जो शपथ तू ने हम को खिलाई है उस से हम निर्बन्ध ठहरेंगे।
21 उसने कहा, तुम्हारे वचनों के अनुसार हो। तब उसने उन को विदा किया, और वे चले गए; और उसने लाल रंग की डोरी को खिड़की में बान्ध दिया।
22 और वे जा कर पहाड़ तक पहुंचे, और वहां खोजने वालों के लौटने तक, अर्थात तीन दिन तक रहे; और खोजने वाले उन को सारे मार्ग में ढूंढ़ते रहे और कहीं न पाया।
23 तब वे दोनों पुरूष पहाड़ से उतरे, और पार जा कर नून के पुत्र यहोशू के पास पहुंचकर जो कुछ उन पर बीता था उसका वर्णन किया।
24 और उन्होंने यहोशू से कहा, निसन्देह यहोवा ने वह सारा देश हमारे हाथ में कर दिया है; फिर इसके सिवाय उसके सारे निवासी हमारे कारण घबरा रहे हैं॥
1 And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot’s house, named Rahab, and lodged there.
2 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in hither to night of the children of Israel to search out the country.
3 And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine house: for they be come to search out all the country.
4 And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were:
5 And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.
6 But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.
7 And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.
8 And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;
9 And she said unto the men, I know that the Lord hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
10 For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
11 And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the Lord your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
12 Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the Lord, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father’s house, and give me a true token:
13 And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.
14 And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the Lord hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.
15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
16 And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.
17 And the men said unto her, We will be blameless of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear.
18 Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father’s household, home unto thee.
19 And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.
20 And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.
21 And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.
22 And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but found them not.
23 So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all things that befell them:
24 And they said unto Joshua, Truly the Lord hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us.
1 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
2 And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
5 Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!
7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?
8 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
9 Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
10 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
13 Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
14 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
16 Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the Lord’s right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.
17 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
18 What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
20 But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.