Matthew 6
1 “होशियार बस, जब तिमीहरू राम्रो काम गर्छौ, अरू मानिसहरूका उपस्थितिमा त्यस्ता देखावटीका निम्ति काम नगर। यदि त्यसो गर्यौ भने स्वर्गमा भएका तिम्रा पिताबाट तिमीहरूलाई केही इनाम मिल्नेछैन।
2 ‘जब तिमी दरीद्रहरूलाई सहायता दिन्छौ त्यसको विज्ञापन नगर कपटीहरूले जस्तो काम नगर। तिनीहरूले अरूले देखुन भनेर दरीद्रलाई सहायता गर्न अघिबाटै आफ्ना तुरही बजाउँछन्। तिनीहरूले सभाघरहरू र गल्लीहरूमा यसो गर्छन्। मानिसहरूबाट प्रशंसा पाउनलाई तिनीहरू यसो गर्दछन्। म तिमीहरूलाई साँचो भन्छु, यो नै ती सबै इनामहरू हुन् जो तिनीहरूले पाउने छन्।
3 तर जब तिमी दरीद्रका निम्ति दान-पुण्य गर्दछौ, एकदमै गुप्त रुपले गर। तिमीले के गर्न लागि रहेका छौ भनेर कसैले चाल नपावोस्।
4 तिम्रो दान-पुण्य गुप्त रूपमा होस्। गुप्त रुपमा गरेका तिम्रो दान-पुण्य तिम्रा पिताले अवश्यै देख्नु हुनेछ। तब तिम्रा पिताले, जसले गुप्तहरूपमा के गरिएको छ देखनुभएको छ र उहाँले तिमीलाई इनाम दिनुहुनेछ।
5 ‘जब तिमी प्रार्थना गर्दछौ, तब कपटीहरूले जस्तो नगर। कपटीहरू सभाघरहरूमा र गल्लीहरूमा उभिएर अरूले देखून् भनी प्रार्थना गर्दछन्। म तिमीहरूलाई साँचो भन्दछु, यी सबैको इनाम तिनीहरूले पाइसकेका छन्।
6 जब तिमी प्रार्थना गर्दछौ, तिमी आफ्नो भित्री कोठामा पसी ढोका बन्द गर। त्यसपछि तिमी आफ्ना पितासित गुप्तमा प्रार्थना गर। गुप्तरूपमा गरेको सबै कुरा तिम्रा पिताले द्ख्नु हुनेछ, र तिमीलाई उहाँले इनाम दिनुहुनेछ।
7 ‘जब तिमी प्रार्थना गर्दछौ, तब परमेश्वरलाई नजान्ने अरु मानिसहरूले जस्तो व्यवहार नगर्। तिनीहरू अर्थहीन कुरा गर्छन्। तिमीले त्यसप्रकारले प्रार्थना गर्नु हुँदैन। तिनीहरूले सोंचेका हुन्छन् परमेश्वरले तिनीहरूका कुरा सुन्नुहुनेछ भनी।
8 त्यस्ता मानिसहरू जस्तो नहोऊ। तिमीहरूले पितासंग माग्नुभन्दा अघि नै तिमीहरूलाई कुन-कुन कुराको खाँचो छ, सो तिमीहरूका पिताले जान्नुहुन्छ।
9 यसैले जतिबेला तिमी प्रार्थना गर्दछौ, त्यसबेला यसरी प्रार्थना गर‘हे हाम्रा स्वर्गमा बस्नुहुने पिता, हामी प्रार्थना गर्दछौं तपाईंको नाउँ सँधै पवित्र रहोस्।’
10 हामी प्रार्थना गर्दछौं, तपाईंको राज्य आवोस् अनि तपाईंको इच्छा स्वर्गमा झैं यस पृथ्वीमा पूरा होस्।
11 आज हामीलाई प्रत्येक दिन चाहिने भोजन दिनुहोस्।
12 हाम्रा अपराधहरू क्षमा गरिदिनुहोस्। जसरी हामीले पनि आफ्ना अपराधीहरूलाई क्षमा गरेका छौं।
13 हामीलाई परीक्षामा पर्न नदिनुहोस् तर हामीलाई दुष्टबाट बँचाउनु होस्।
14 यदि, तिमीहरूले तिनीहरूको कसुर क्षमा गर्यौ भने तिमीहरूका स्वर्गमा बस्नुहुने पिताले पनि तिमीहरूलाई क्षमा गर्नुहुनेछ।
15 यदि तिमीहरूले मानिसहरूका दोष क्षमा गरेनौ भने स्वर्गमा बस्नुहुने तिमीहरूका पिताले पनि तिमीहरूका दोष क्षमा गर्नुहुनेछैन।
16 ‘जब तिमीहरू उपवास बस्छौ, तब कपटीहरू जस्ता उदासी नबन्। कपटीहरूले जस्तो आचरण नगर्। आफू उपवास बसेको कुरा माानिसहरूलाई देखाउन तिनीहरू आफ्नो मुखलाई अनौठो देखिने पार्छौ। म तिमीहरूलाई साँचो भन्दछु, ती कपटीहरूले पाउने सबै इनाम यही हो। तिमीहरूले इनाम पाइसकेकाछन्।
17 यसर्थ जब तिमीहरू उपवास बस्छौ, आफू राम्रो र असल भएर बस। आफ्नो मुख धोऊ।
18 तब मानिसहरूले तिमीहरू उपवास बसिरहेकाछौ भन्ने कुरा थाहा नपाऊन तर गुप्तमा भएका तिम्रा पिताले सबै कुराहरू देख्नुहुनेछ। अनि उहाँले नै इनाम दिनुहुनेछ।
19 ‘आफ्नो निम्ति पृथ्वीमा सम्पत्ति नथुपार। जहाँ खीया र किराहरूले सम्पत्ति ध्वंस पारिदिनेछ। अनि चोरहरूले पनि तिम्रो घर फोरेर त्यहाँको सम्पत्ति चोर्छन्।
20 तर आफ्नो निम्ति स्वर्गमा धन-सम्पत्ति थुपार। स्वर्गमा भएको धन-सम्पत्ति खीया र किराहरूले नष्ट पार्न सक्दैन। चोरले पनि त्यहाँ पसेर चोर्न सक्दैन।
21 कारण जहाँ तिम्रो धन हुन्छ, त्यहीं तिम्रो मन पनि हुनेछ।
22 “तिम्रो शरीरको ज्योति आँखा हो। यदि तिम्रा आँखाहरू निर्मल छन् भने, तिम्रा सारा शरीर उज्यालो रहनेछ।
23 तर यदि तिम्रा आँखा खराब छन् भने, तिम्रो सम्पूर्ण शरीर अँध्यारो हुनेछ। यदि तिम्रो उज्यालो चाहिं अँध्यारो भयो भने, त्यो घनघोर अँध्यारो हुनेछ।
24 ‘कसैले पनि दुई मालिकको सेवा एकै समयमा गर्न सक्दैन। उसले एउटालाई घृणा र अर्कोलाई प्रेम गर्नेछ। अथवा त्यो एउटासित झुक्नेछ, र अर्कोलाई तुच्छ गन्नेछ। यसैले एउटै समयमा एकै साथमा तिमीहरूले परमेश्वर र धनको चाकरी गर्न सक्दैनौ।
25 “यसैले म तिमीहरूलाई भन्दछु, बाँच्नलाई के खानु पर्ने भन्ने विषयमा तिमीहरू चिन्तित हुनु हुँदैन। तिमीलाई शरीको निम्ति चाहिने वस्त्रका विषयमा फिक्री नगर। खानेकुरा भन्दा जीवन धेरै मूल्यवान छ। अनि लुगाफाटा भन्दा शरीर धेरै मूल्यवान छ।
26 आकाशका चरा चुरुङ्गीलाई हेर, तिमीहरूले नता कहिले बीऊनै छर्छन्, न अन्नको फसल काट्छन् न भकारीहरूमा बटुल्छन्। तर तिमीहरू का स्वर्गका पिताले तिनीहरूलाई खुवाउनु हुन्छ। तर तिमीहरूलाई थाहाँ छ ती चराचरुङ्गीहरू भन्दा तिमीहरू बहुमूल्य छौ।
27 फिक्री मात्र गरेर कसैले पनि आफ्नो आयुमा केही समय बढाउन सक्दैन।
28 “अनि लुगाफाटाको निम्ति तिमीहरू किन फिक्री गर्छौ? बँगैचाको फूलहरूको विचार गर, ती कसरी बढदछन्। तिनीहरू न ता आफ्नो लागि परिश्रम गर्दछन्, न ता वस्त्रका निम्ति धागो कात्दछन्।
29 तर पनि म तिमीहरूलाई भन्दछु, महान अनि धनी राजा सुलेमान समेतले यी फूलहरू मध्ये एउटा जत्ति पनि सिंगारिएका थिएनन्।
30 यस प्रकार परमेश्वरले जमीनमा झारपात उमारेर सजाउँनु हुन्छ। ती आज देखिन्छ भोलि आगोमा फ्याँकिनेछ र जलाइनेछन्। यसकारण परमेश्वरले नै तिमीहरूलाई अझ राम्ररी लुगाफाटा पहिराइदिनु हुनेछैन र? अल्पविश्वासी हो
31 यसर्थ फिक्री गर्दै यसो नभन, ‘हामी के खाऔंला? वा हामी ‘के लगाउँला?
32 परमेश्वरमा विश्वास नगर्नेहरूले मात्रै यी कुराहरू पाउने इच्छा गर्दछन्। यसकारण फिक्री नगर, किनभने स्वर्गमा बस्नुहुने पिताले तिमीहरूलाई यी सबै थोकको आवश्यक छ भनी जान्नुहुन्छ।
33 तिमीहरू अरू थोकभन्दा परमेश्वरको राज्य र उहाँको धार्मिकताको विषयमा इच्छा गर। तब उहाँले तिमीहरूलाई तिमीहरूले चाहेका यी जम्मै कुराहरू दिनुहुनेछ,
34 जसद्वारा भोलिको निम्ति तिमीहरूले त्यत्ति फिक्री गर्नु पर्ने छैन, प्रत्येक दिनमा आ-आफ्नै समस्या हुन्छ। भोलिको दिनको पनि आफ्नै समस्याहरू छ।
1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:
4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
16 Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;
18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
1 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
3 For through the anger of the Lord it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.
5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.
8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
9 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.
10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,
13 And burned the house of the Lord, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:
14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.
15 Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
16 But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.
17 Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.
18 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
19 And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, took the captain of the guard away.
20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
21 And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.
22 And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these.
23 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about.
24 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
25 He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king’s person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.
26 So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.
28 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:
29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:
30 In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.
31 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison,
32 And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,
33 And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.
34 And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.