Hebru 4
1 Te dongah amah kah duemnah khuiah kun ham olkhueh a paih te nangmih khuiah khat khat loh a hlavawt la a poek khaming tila birhih uh sih.
We must, therefore, be very careful, though there is a promise still standing that we shall enter upon God’s Rest, that none of you even appear to have missed it.
2 Amih bangla olthangthen aka phong lam ni n'om uh ngawn. Tedae a yaak rhoek te tangnah neh a rhoih uh pawt dongah a hnavue kah olka tah phu voel pawh.
For we have had the Good News told us just as they had. But the Message which they heard did them no good, since they did not share the faith of those who were attentive to it.
3 A ti bangla aka tangnah rhoek tah duemnah khuila n'kun uh. Ka kosi neh ka toemngam vanbangla kai duemnah khuiah kun venim. Te cakhaw diklai a tongnah lamloh a bibi te ana om coeng.
Upon that Rest we who have believed are now entering. As God has said — ‘In my wrath I swore — “They shall never enter upon my Rest;”’ Although God’s work was finished at the creation of the world;
4 Te dongah pakhat ah hninrhih ham a thui tangloeng. Te vaengah Pathen tah a bibi boeih lamkah hnin rhih vaengah duem.
for, in a passage referring to the seventh day, you will find these words — ‘God rested upon the seventh day after all his work.’
5 Te phoeiah amah hmuen la, “Ka duemnah khuiah kun uh mahpawh,” koep a ti.
On the other hand, we read in that passage — ‘They shall never enter upon my Rest.’
6 Te dongah a khuila kun ham hlangvang a khueh tangloeng pueng. Tedae hnukbuet kah aka phong rhoek tah althanah dongah kun uh pawh.
Since, then, there is still a promise that some shall enter upon this Rest, and since those who were first told the Good News did not enter upon it, because of their disbelief,
7 Te phoeiah khohnin pakhat te “Tihnin” la a hoep tih kum he yet phoeiah ni David loh a thui. A thui bangla, tihnin ah a ol te na yaak uh atah nangmih kah thinko te ning sak uh boeh.
again God fixed a day. ‘To-day,’ he said, speaking after a long interval through the mouth of David, in the passage already quoted — ‘If to-day you hear God’s voice Harden not your hearts.’
8 Joshua loh amih te a duem sak atah hekah khohnin phoeiah a tloe ham tah thui mahpawh.
Now if Joshua had given ‘Rest’ to the people, God would not have spoken of another and later day.
9 Te dongah duemhnin tah Pathen kah pilnam ham ni a om.
There is, then, a Sabbath-Rest still awaiting God’s People.
10 Te dongah amah kah duemnah khuiah aka kun tah Pathen loh amah bibi lamkah a duem vanbangla anih khaw amah bibi lamkah duem.
For he who enters upon God’s Rest does himself rest after his work, just as God did.
11 Te dongah tekah duemnah khuiah kun hamla haam uh sih. Te daengah ni althanah moeiboe dongah pakhat khaw amah la a bung pawt eh.
Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter upon that Rest, so that none of us fall through such disbelief as that of which we have had an example.
12 Te dongah Pathen kah olka tah hing tih khuekcet. cunghang boeih lakah voeivang la haat tih hinglu neh mueihla, rhuhcong neh hliing, duela a thun tih a sah. Thinko poeknah neh hmuhnah khaw khocueh rhamvueh la a khueh.
God’s Message is a living and active power, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing its way till it penetrates soul and spirit — not the joints only but the very marrow — and detecting the inmost thoughts and purposes of the mind.
13 Amah hmaikah a thuhphah suentae a om moenih. Tedae a cungkuem he a tlingyal neh a mikhmuh ah rha uh coeng. Anih taengah mamih ol te a paek.
There is no created thing that can hide itself from the sight of God. Everything is exposed and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we have to give account.
14 Khosoihham koek, vaan aka hil la Pathen Capa Jesuh n'khueh uh te olphoei la pom uh sih.
We have, then, in Jesus, the Son of God, a great High Priest who has passed into the highest Heaven; let us, therefore, hold fast to the Faith which we have professed.
15 Mamih kah vawtthoeknah aka rhen thai mueh khosoihham n'khueh uh moenih. A cungkuem dongah mamih mueiloh la a noemcai coeng dae tholhnah a khueh moenih.
Our High Priest is not one unable to sympathise with our weaknesses, but one who has in every way been tempted, exactly as we have been, but without sinning.
16 Te dongah lungvatnah ngolkhoel taengah sayalh la paan uh sih. Te daengah ni rhennah n'dang vetih bomnah he tapkhoeh la lungvatnah neh m'hmuh eh.
Therefore, let us draw near boldly to the Throne of Love, to find pity and love for the hour of need.
