Romans 9
1 म ख्रीष्टमा छु र सत्य कुरा बोलिरहेछु। म झुटो बोल्दिनँ। मेरो अन्तारात्मा पवित्र-आत्माद्वारा नियंत्रित छ। अनि यो अन्तरात्माले निश्चित गर्छ कि म झूटो होइनः
2 मलाई ठूलो अफसोस छ र मेरो हृदयमा अटुट वेदना छ यहूदी जातिको निम्ति।
3 तिनीहरू मेरा दाज्यु-भाइ दिदी-बहिनीहरू हुन्, पृथ्वीमा मेरा सन्तानहरू हुन्। यदि यसले तिनीहरूलाई सहायता गर्न सक्थे भने म ख्रीष्टबाट श्राप पाउन र उहाँसित छुट्टिनें पनि इच्छा गर्थें।
4 तिनीहरू इस्राएलका मानिसहरू हुन्। जसलाई परमेश्वरले आफ्नो सन्तान बनाउन चुन्नु भएको छ। तिनीहरूसँग परमेश्वरको महिमा र उहाँ अनि उहाँका मानिसहरू माझमा करार छ। परमेश्वरले उनीहरूलाई आराधाना र संकल्प गर्ने तरिका भएको मोशाको व्यवस्था दिनुभयो।
5 ती मानिसहरू हाम्रा पुर्खाहरूका सन्तानहरू हुन्। अनि तिनीहरू ख्रीष्टका पार्थिव परिवार हुन्। ख्रीष्ट सबै प्राणीहरू माथिका परमेश्वर हुनुहुन्छ। सदा उहाँको प्रशंसा गर! आमिन।
6 हो, म यहूदीहरूको लागि दुःख अनुभव गर्छु। म भन्दिनँ कि परमेश्वर उनीहरूको लागि आफ्नो प्रतिज्ञा राख्नमा चुक्नु भयो। तर इस्राएलका कतिपय मानिसहरू मात्र परमेश्वरका साँचो मानिस छन्।
7 अनि अब्राहामका सन्तानहरू मध्ये थोरै मात्र अब्राहामको साँचो सन्तान थिए। यही कारण परमेश्वरले अब्राहामलाई भन्नुभयोः“इसहाक मात्र खालि कानूनी छोरो हुनेछ।”
8 यसले बताउँछ अब्राहामका सबै सन्तानहरू परमेश्वरका खास छोराछोरीहरू होइनन्। परमेश्वरले अब्राहामलाई प्रतिज्ञाको आधारामा अब्राहामका खास छोराछोरीहरू ती हुन् जो परमेश्वरका छोराछोरीहरू भए।
9 परमेश्वरले अब्राहमलाई यो प्रतिज्ञा दिनुभएको थियोः “निश्चित समयमा म र्फकने छु अनि साराले एउटा छोरो पाउनेछिन्।”
10 अनि यति मात्र होइन। रिबेकाको पनि छोराहरू थिए। अनि ती छोराहरूका एउटै पिता थिए। उनी हाम्रा पिता पूर्खा इसहाक थिए।
11 तर दुईजना छोराहरू जन्मनू भन्दा अघाडी परमेश्वरले रिबेकालाई भन्नुभयो, “ठूलो छोराले सानालाई सेवा गर्नेछ।”केटाहरू जन्मनु भन्दा र तिनीहरूले राम्रो वा नराम्रो कुनै काम गर्न भन्दा अगाडी यसो भनिएको थियो। आफूले चुनेको केटो आफ्नो योजनाकै आधारमा होस् भन्नालाई परमेश्वरले यसो भन्नुभएको थियो।
12 परमेश्वरकै चाहनाले उनी चुनिएका थिए तर ती केटाहरूले केही गरेको कारणले होइन। त्यो परमेवरको इच्छा थियो।
13 जस्तो धर्मशास्त्रमा भनिएको छ, “मैले याकूबालाई प्रेम गरें तर एसावलाई घृणा गरें।”
14 यसकारण यस विषयमा हामीले के भन्नुपर्छ? के परमेश्वरमा कुनै अन्याय छ? निश्र्चय छैन।
15 परमेश्वरले मोशालाई भन्नुभयो, “जसलाई म कृपा दर्शाउनु चाहन्छु उसैलाई कृपा दर्शाउँछ। अनि जसलाई सहानुभूति दर्शाउनु चाहन्छु उलाई सहानुभूति दर्शाउछु।”
16 यसैले हरेक कुरो परमेश्वरको कृपामा निर्भर छ, अनि मानिसको इच्छामा वा प्रयासमा निर्भर छैन।
17 धर्मासास्त्रमा परमेश्वरले फिरऊनलाई भन्नुभयो, “मैले तिमीलाई राजा बनाएँ ताकि मेरो निम्ति तिमीले केही गर्न सकौला। म मेरो शक्ति तिमी मार्फत प्रदर्शन गर्न चाहन्थें। म चाहन्थे मेरो नाउँ संसारभरि घोषित होस्।”
18 यसैले, परमेश्वरले जसलाई चाहनु हुन्छ उसैमाथि कृपा दर्शाउनु हुन्छ। अनि परमेश्वरले जसलाई हठी बनाउनु चाहनु हुन्छ उसलाई हठी बनाउनु हुन्छ।
19 यसकारण तिमीहरूमध्ये कसैले पनि प्रश्न गर्नसक्छौः “यदि परमेश्वरले हामीले गरेका सबै कुराहरूमा नियंत्रण गर्नुहुन्छ भने परमेश्वरले हाम्रो पापहरूको निम्ति हामीलाई किन दोष दिनुहुन्छ?”
20 हे मानिस, तिमी आफूलाई को हुँ भन्ने सम्झन्छौ? परमेश्वरलाई प्रश्न गर्ने तिमी को हौ? के एउटा माटाको हाँडीले कुमालेलाई “मलाई किन यस्तो बनायौ” भनेर सोध्छ?
21 कुमालेको अधिकार छ एउटै माटोबाट उसले विशेष प्रयोगमा आउने एक किसिमको भाँडो बनाउँछ भने सामान्य प्रयोगमा आउने अर्को किसिमको भाँडो पनि बनाउँछ। के यो ठीक होइन?
22 यस्तै प्रकारले परमेश्वरले पनि काम गर्नुहुन्छ। परमेश्वरले आफ्नो क्रोध मानिसहरूमा प्रकट गर्न चाहनु भयो, जसमा कि उनीहरूले उहाँको शक्ति देखुन्। तर परमेश्वरले ठूलो धैर्यसित ती मानिसहरूलाई सहनु भयो जो विनाश हुनै आँटेका थिए।
23 परमेश्वरले धैर्यतापूर्वक पर्खनु भयो जसमा कि उहाँको कृपा पाउनेहरूलाई उहाँले आफ्नो सम्पन्न महिमा देखाउन सकून्। परमेश्वरले ती मानिसहरूलाई आफ्नो महिमा प्राप्त गर्न तयार गर्नु भयो।
24 हामी तिनै मानिसहरू हौं। परमेश्वरले हामीलाई यहूदी र गैर-यहूदी दुवै सम्प्रदायबाट चुन्नु भएको छ।
25 होशेको कितावमा धर्मशास्त्रले भन्दछः“जो मानिसहरू मेरा होइनन्, म भन्नेछु ती मेरा मानिसहरू हुन्। अनि ती मानिसहरू जसलाई मैले प्रेम गरिनँ, म भन्नेछु तिनीहरूलाई प्रेम गर्छु।”
26 “अनि त्यही ठाउँमा जहाँ परमेश्वरले भन्नुभयो, ‘तिमीहरू मेरा मानिसहरू होइनौ’ त्यसै ठाउँमा तिनीहरूलाई जीउँदा परमेश्वरका पुत्रहरू भनेर भनिने छ।”
27 अनि इस्राएलको विषयमा यशैयाले भनेका छन्“इस्राएलका मानिसहरू समुद्र किनारका बालुवाका कणहरू झैं अनगन्ती छन्। तर तिनमा थोरैको मात्र उद्धार हुनेछ।
28 हो, परमेश्वरले चाँडै नै यस पृथ्वीमा मानिसहरूको जाँच गरिसक्नु हुनेछ।”
29 यस्तै कुरा यशैयाले भनेः“परमप्रभु सर्वशक्तिमान हुनुहुन्छ। प्रभुले हाम्रा निम्ति उहाँका कतिपय मानिसहरूलाई बचाउनु भयो। यदि उहाँले त्यसो नगर्नु भएको भए अहिले हामी सदोम र गमोरा जस्तै हुने थियौं।”
30 यसकारण यी सबले के बुझाउँछ? यसको तात्पर्य होः गैर-यहूदीहरूले धर्मी बन्न खोजिरहेका थिएनन्। तर तिनीहरू विश्वासमा आधारित धर्मी बनाइए।
31 अनि इस्राएलका मानिसहरूले व्यवस्थालाई पछ्याएर धर्मी बन्ने कोशिश गरे। तर तिनीहरू आफ्नो उद्देश्यमा सफल भएनन्।
32 किन असफल भए? किनभने, आफ्ना कामहरूको आधारमा तिनीहरूले आफैलाई धर्मी बनाउने कोशिश गरे, विश्वासको आधारमा होइन। तिनीहरू त्यस ढुँगामा ठेस लागेर लडे जसले मानिसलाई लडाउँछ।
33 त्यस ढुंगाको विषयमा धर्मशास्त्र भन्छः“हेर, सियोनमा म एउटा ढुंगा राख्छु, जसमा मानिसहरूलाई ठेस लाग्छ। यो एउटा चहान हो जसले मानिसलाई पाप गर्न लाउँछ। तर चट्टानमा कसैले विश्वास गर्दछ भने उसलाई लज्जित पारिने छैन।”
1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
29 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
1 And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.
2 And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son.
3 And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
4 But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
5 And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;
6 In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.
7 Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the Lord, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now.
8 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the people came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent.
9 And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.
10 And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?
11 And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, even to his house.
12 Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
13 And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.
14 And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto the king, Return thou, and all thy servants.
15 So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan.
16 And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which was of Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.
17 And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.
18 And there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king’s household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was come over Jordan;
19 And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.
20 For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.
21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the Lord’s anointed?
22 And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?
23 Therefore the king said unto Shimei, Thou shalt not die. And the king sware unto him.
24 And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.
25 And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth?
26 And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.
27 And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes.
28 For all of my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
29 And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.
30 And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own house.
31 And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went over Jordan with the king, to conduct him over Jordan.
32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
33 And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem.
34 And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?
35 I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
36 Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?
37 Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.
38 And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou shalt require of me, that will I do for thee.
39 And all the people went over Jordan. And when the king was come over, the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned unto his own place.
40 Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him: and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the people of Israel.
41 And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David’s men with him, over Jordan?
42 And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king’s cost? or hath he given us any gift?
43 And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.