عِبرانِيّين 3

١ 1 إِذَنْ، أَيُّهَا الإِخْوَةُ الْقِدِّيسُونَ الَّذِينَ اشْتَرَكْتُمْ فِي الدَّعْوَةِ السَّمَاوِيَّةِ، تَأَمَّلُوا يَسُوعَ: الرَّسُولَ وَرَئِيسَ الْكَهَنَةِ فِي الإِيمَانِ الَّذِي نَتَمَسَّكُ بِهِ.

Therefore, holy brethren, sharers with others in a heavenly invitation, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest whose followers we profess to be.

٢ 2 فَهُوَ أَمِينٌ لِلهِ فِي الْمُهِمَّةِ الَّتِي عَيَّنَهُ لَهَا، كَمَا كَانَ مُوسَى أَمِيناً فِي الْقِيَامِ بِخِدْمَتِهِ فِي بَيْتِ اللهِ كُلِّهِ.

How faithful He was to Him who appointed Him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house!

٣ 3 إِلّا أَنَّهُ يَسْتَحِقُّ مَجْداً أَعْظَمَ مِنْ مَجْدِ مُوسَى، كَمَا أَنَّ الَّذِي يَبْنِي بَيْتاً يَنَالُ إِكْرَاماً وَمَدْحاً أَكْثَرَ مِمَّا يَنَالُ الْبَيْتُ الَّذِي بَنَاهُ!

For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, in so far as he who has built a house has higher honour than the house itself.

٤ 4 طَبْعاً، كُلُّ بَيْتٍ لابُدَّ أَنْ يَكُونَ لَهُ بَانٍ، وَاللهُ نَفْسُهُ هُوَ بَانِي كُلِّ شَيْءٍ.

For every house has had a builder, and the builder of all things is God.

٥ 5 إِنَّ مُوسَى كَانَ أَمِيناً فِي كُلِّ بَيْتِ اللهِ، وَلَكِنْ بِصِفَتِهِ خَادِماً. وَكَانَ ذَلِكَ شَهَادَةً لِمَا أَعْلَنَهُ اللهُ فِيمَا بَعْدُ.

Moreover, Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant in delivering the message given him to speak;

٦ 6 أَمَّا الْمَسِيحُ، فَهُوَ أَمِينٌ بِصِفَتِهِ ابْناً يَتَرَأَّسُ عَلَى الْبَيْتِ. وَهَذَا الْبَيْتُ هُوَ نَحْنُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، عَلَى أَنْ نَتَمَسَّكَ بِالثِّقَةِ وَالافْتِخَارِ بِرَجَائِنَا تَمَسُّكاً ثَابِتاً حَتَّى النِّهَايَةِ.

but Christ was faithful as a Son having authority over God's house, and we are that house, if we hold firm to the End the boldness and the hope which we boast of as ours.

٧ 7 لِهَذَا، يُنَبِّهُنَا الرُّوحُ الْقُدُسُ إِذْ يَقُولُ: «الْيَوْمَ، إِنْ سَمِعْتُمْ صَوْتَهُ،

For this reason--as the Holy Spirit warns us, "To-day, if you hear His voice,

٨ 8 فَلا تُقَسُّوا قُلُوبَكُمْ، كَمَا حَدَثَ قَدِيماً، حِينَ أَثَارَ آبَاؤُكُمْ غَضَبِي، يَوْمَ التَّجْرِبَةِ فِي الصَّحْرَاءِ.

do not harden your hearts as your forefathers did in the time of the provocation on the day of the temptation in the Desert,

٩ 9 هُنَاكَ جَرَّبُونِي وَاخْتَبَرُونِي، وَقَدْ شَاهَدُوا أَعْمَالِي طَوَالَ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً.

where your forefathers so sorely tried My patience and saw all that I did during forty years.

١٠ 10 لِذَلِكَ ثَارَ غَضَبِي عَلَى ذَلِكَ الْجِيلِ، وَقُلْتُ: إِنَّ قُلُوبَهُمْ تَدْفَعُهُمْ دَائِماً إِلَى الضَّلالِ، وَلَمْ يَعْرِفُوا طُرُقِي قَطُّ!

Therefore I was greatly grieved with that generation, and I said, 'They are ever going astray in heart, and have not learnt to know My paths.'

١١ 11 وَهكَذَا، فِي غَضَبِي، أَقْسَمْتُ قَائِلاً: إِنَّهُمْ لَنْ يَدْخُلُوا مَكَانَ رَاحَتِي!»

As I swore in My anger, they shall not be admitted to My rest" --

١٢ 12 فَعَلَيْكُمْ، أَيُّهَا الإِخْوَةُ، أَنْ تَأْخُذُوا حِذْرَكُمْ جَيِّداً، حَتَّى لَا يَكُونَ قَلْبُ أَيِّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْكُمْ شِرِّيراً لَا إِيمَانَ فِيهِ، مِمَّا يُؤَدِّي بِهِ إِلَى الارْتِدَادِ عَنِ اللهِ الْحَيِّ.

see to it, brethren, that there is never in any one of you--as perhaps there may be--a sinful and unbelieving heart, manifesting itself in revolt from the ever-living God.

١٣ 13 وَإِنَّمَا، شَجِّعُوا بَعْضُكُمْ بَعْضاً كُلَّ يَوْمٍ، مَادُمْنَا نَقُولُ: «الْيَوْمَ». وَذَلِكَ لِكَيْ لَا تُقَسِّيَ الْخَطِيئَةُ قَلْبَ أَحَدٍ مِنْكُمْ بِخِدَاعِهَا.

On the contrary encourage one another, day after day, so long as To-day lasts, so that not one of you may be hardened through the deceitful character of sin.

١٤ 14 فَإِنْ تَمَسَّكْنَا دَائِماً بِالثِّقَةِ الَّتِي انْطَلَقْنَا بِها فِي الْبِدَايَةِ، وَأَبْقَيْنَاهَا ثَابِتَةً إِلَى النِّهَايَةِ، نَكُونُ مُشَارِكِينَ لِلْمَسِيحِ.

For we have, all alike, become sharers with Christ, if we really hold our first confidence firm to the End;

١٥ 15 فَمَازَالَ التَّحْذِيرُ مُوَجَّهاً إِلَيْنَا: «الْيَوْمَ، إِنْ سَمِعْتُمْ صَوْتَهُ، فَلا تُقَسُّوا قُلُوبَكُمْ، كَمَا حَدَثَ قَدِيماً عِنْدَمَا أُثِيرَ غَضَبِي!»

seeing that the warning still comes to us, "To-day, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as your forefathers did in the time of the provocation."

١٦ 16 فَمَنْ هُمُ الَّذِينَ أَثَارُوا غَضَبَ اللهِ عِنْدَمَا سَمِعُوا الدَّعْوَةَ وَرَفَضُوهَا؟ إِنَّهُمْ ذَلِكَ الشَّعْبُ الَّذِي خَرَجَ مِنْ مِصْرَ بِقِيَادَةِ مُوسَى!

For who were they that heard, and yet provoked God? Was it not the whole of the people who had come out of Egypt under the leadership of Moses?

١٧ 17 وَعَلَى مَنْ ثَارَ غَضَبُ اللهِ مُدَّةَ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً؟ عَلَى أُولَئِكَ الَّذِينَ أَخْطَأُوا، فَسَقَطَتْ جُثَثُهُمْ مُتَنَاثِرَةً فِي الصَّحْرَاءِ!

And with whom was God so greatly grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, and whose dead bodies fell in the Desert?

١٨ 18 وَلِمَنْ أَقْسَمَ اللهُ أَنَّهُمْ لَنْ يَدْخُلُوا أَبَداً مَكَانَ رَاحَتِهِ؟ لِلَّذِينَ عَصَوْا أَمْرَهُ!

And to whom did He swear that they should not be admitted to His rest, if it was not to those who were disobedient?

١٩ 19 وَهكَذَا، نَرَى أَنَّ عَدَمَ الإِيمَانِ مَنَعَهُمْ مِنَ الدُّخُولِ إِلَى مَكَانِ الرَّاحَةِ.

And so we see that it was owing to lack of faith that they could not be admitted.