Romans 9
1 I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit
ahaM kAnjcid kalpitAM kathAM na kathayAmi, khrISTasya sAkSAt satyamEva bravImi pavitrasyAtmanaH sAkSAn madIyaM mana Etat sAkSyaM dadAti|
2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
mamAntaratizayaduHkhaM nirantaraM khEdazca
3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh
tasmAd ahaM svajAtIyabhrAtRNAM nimittAt svayaM khrISTAcchApAkrAntO bhavitum aiccham|
4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
yatasta isrAyElasya vaMzA api ca dattakaputratvaM tEjO niyamO vyavasthAdAnaM mandirE bhajanaM pratijnjAH pitRpuruSagaNazcaitESu sarvvESu tESAm adhikArO'sti|
5 of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen. (aiōn g165)
tat kEvalaM nahi kintu sarvvAdhyakSaH sarvvadA saccidAnanda IzvarO yaH khrISTaH sO'pi zArIrikasambandhEna tESAM vaMzasambhavaH| (aiōn g165)
6 But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.
Izvarasya vAkyaM viphalaM jAtam iti nahi yatkAraNAd isrAyElO vaMzE yE jAtAstE sarvvE vastuta isrAyElIyA na bhavanti|
7 Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”
aparam ibrAhImO vaMzE jAtA api sarvvE tasyaiva santAnA na bhavanti kintu ishAkO nAmnA tava vaMzO vikhyAtO bhaviSyati|
8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.
arthAt zArIrikasaMsargAt jAtAH santAnA yAvantastAvanta EvEzvarasya santAnA na bhavanti kintu pratizravaNAd yE jAyantE taEvEzvaravaMzO gaNyatE|
9 For this is a word of promise: “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”
yatastatpratizrutE rvAkyamEtat, EtAdRzE samayE 'haM punarAgamiSyAmi tatpUrvvaM sArAyAH putra EkO janiSyatE|
10 Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.
aparamapi vadAmi svamanO'bhilASata IzvarENa yannirUpitaM tat karmmatO nahi kintvAhvayitu rjAtamEtad yathA siddhyati
11 For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,
tadarthaM ribkAnAmikayA yOSitA janaikasmAd arthAd asmAkam ishAkaH pUrvvapuruSAd garbhE dhRtE tasyAH santAnayOH prasavAt pUrvvaM kinjca tayOH zubhAzubhakarmmaNaH karaNAt pUrvvaM
12 it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”
tAM pratIdaM vAkyam uktaM, jyESThaH kaniSThaM sEviSyatE,
13 Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
yathA likhitam AstE, tathApyESAvi na prItvA yAkUbi prItavAn ahaM|
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!
tarhi vayaM kiM brUmaH? IzvaraH kim anyAyakArI? tathA na bhavatu|
15 For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
yataH sa svayaM mUsAm avadat; ahaM yasmin anugrahaM cikIrSAmi tamEvAnugRhlAmi, yanjca dayitum icchAmi tamEva dayE|
16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
ataEvEcchatA yatamAnEna vA mAnavEna tanna sAdhyatE dayAkAriNEzvarENaiva sAdhyatE|
17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
phirauNi zAstrE likhati, ahaM tvaddvArA matparAkramaM darzayituM sarvvapRthivyAM nijanAma prakAzayitunjca tvAM sthApitavAn|
18 So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
ataH sa yam anugrahItum icchati tamEvAnugRhlAti, yanjca nigrahItum icchati taM nigRhlAti|
19 You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”
yadi vadasi tarhi sa dOSaM kutO gRhlAti? tadIyEcchAyAH pratibandhakatvaM karttaM kasya sAmarthyaM vidyatE?
20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
hE Izvarasya pratipakSa martya tvaM kaH? EtAdRzaM mAM kutaH sRSTavAn? iti kathAM sRSTavastu sraSTrE kiM kathayiSyati?
21 Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?
EkasmAn mRtpiNPAd utkRSTApakRSTau dvividhau kalazau karttuM kiM kulAlasya sAmarthyaM nAsti?
22 What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
IzvaraH kOpaM prakAzayituM nijazaktiM jnjApayitunjcEcchan yadi vinAzasya yOgyAni krOdhabhAjanAni prati bahukAlaM dIrghasahiSNutAm Azrayati;
23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory—
aparanjca vibhavaprAptyarthaM pUrvvaM niyuktAnyanugrahapAtrANi prati nijavibhavasya bAhulyaM prakAzayituM kEvalayihUdinAM nahi bhinnadEzinAmapi madhyAd
24 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
asmAniva tAnyAhvayati tatra tava kiM?
25 As he says also in Hosea, “I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.”
hOzEyagranthE yathA likhitam AstE, yO lOkO mama nAsIt taM vadiSyAmi madIyakaM| yA jAti rmE'priyA cAsIt tAM vadiSyAmyahaM priyAM|
26 “It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”
yUyaM madIyalOkA na yatrEti vAkyamaucyata| amarEzasya santAnA iti khyAsyanti tatra tE|
27 Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;
isrAyElIyalOkESu yizAyiyO'pi vAcamEtAM prAcArayat, isrAyElIyavaMzAnAM yA saMkhyA sA tu nizcitaM| samudrasikatAsaMkhyAsamAnA yadi jAyatE| tathApi kEvalaM lOkairalpaistrANaM vrajiSyatE|
28 for he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.”
yatO nyAyEna svaM karmma parEzaH sAdhayiSyati| dEzE saEva saMkSEpAnnijaM karmma kariSyati|
29 As Isaiah has said before, “Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.”
yizAyiyO'paramapi kathayAmAsa, sainyAdhyakSaparEzEna cEt kinjcinnOdaziSyata| tadA vayaM sidOmEvAbhaviSyAma vinizcitaM| yadvA vayam amOrAyA agamiSyAma tulyatAM|
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
tarhi vayaM kiM vakSyAmaH? itaradEzIyA lOkA api puNyArtham ayatamAnA vizvAsEna puNyam alabhanta;
31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
kintvisrAyEllOkA vyavasthApAlanEna puNyArthaM yatamAnAstan nAlabhanta|
32 Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
tasya kiM kAraNaM? tE vizvAsEna nahi kintu vyavasthAyAH kriyayA cESTitvA tasmin skhalanajanakE pASANE pAdaskhalanaM prAptAH|
33 even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”
likhitaM yAdRzam AstE, pazya pAdaskhalArthaM hi sIyOni prastarantathA| bAdhAkAranjca pASANaM paristhApitavAnaham| vizvasiSyati yastatra sa janO na trapiSyatE|
