< Ezra 3 >
1 And now the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in their cities: and the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
Ilikuwa miezi saba baaada ya watu wa Israeli kurudi kwenye miji yao, ndipo walipojikusanya pamoja kama mtu mmoja katika Yerusalem.
2 And Josue the son of Josedec rose up, and his brethren the priests, and Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and his brethren, and they built the altar of the God of Israel that they might offer holocausts upon it, as it is written in the law of Moses the mall of God.
Yeshua mwana wa Yosadaki na kaka yake kuhani, na Zerubabeli mwana wa Sheatieli na kaka yake wakainuka na kujenga madhabahu ya Mungu wa Israeli na kutoa sadaka ya kuteketezwa kama ilivyoagizwa katika sheria ya Musa, Mtu wa Mungu.
3 And they set the altar of God upon its bases, while the people of the lands round about put them in fear, and they offered upon it a holocaust to the Lord morning and evening.
Ndipo wakaanzisha madhabahu juu ya msingi, kwa hofu waliokuwa nayo kwa sababu ya watu wa nchi/ Wakatoa sadaka ya kuteketezwa kwa Yahwe asubuhi na jioni.
4 And they kept the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the holocaust every day orderly according to the commandment, the duty of the day in its day.
Pia vilevile wakaichunguza sikukuu ya vibanda kama ilivyoandikwa na wakatoa sadaka ya kuteketezwa siku kwa siku kama ilivyoagizwa, kila siku kwa siku yake.
5 And afterwards the continual holocaust, both on the new moons, and on all the solemnities of the Lord, that were consecrated, and on all in which a free-will offering was made to the Lord.
Kulikuwa na sadaka ya kila siku ya kuteketezwa na mwezi mara moja na sadaka za siku ya Yahwe za kudumu, pamoja na sadaka zote za hiari.
6 From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer holocausts to the Lord: but the temple of God was not yet founded.
Walianza kutoa sadaka za kuteketezwa za Yahwe siku ya kwanza ya mwezi wa saba, ingawa hekalu lilikuwa halijaanza kujengwa.
7 And they gave money to hewers of stones and to masons: and meat and drink, and oil to the Sidonians and Tyrians, to bring cedar trees from Libanus to the sea of Joppe, according to the orders which Cyrus king of the Persians had given them.
Hivyo wakatoa fedha kwa wahunzi na fundi wa mkono, na wakawapa chakula, vinywaji na mafuta kwa watu wa Sidoni na Tiro, ili kwamba walete miti ya mierezi kupitia baharini kutoka Lebanoni mpaka Yafa, na kama walivyo ruhusiwa na mfalme Koreshi wa Uajemi.
8 And in the second year of their coming to the temple of God in Jerusalem, the second month, Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Josue the son of Josedec, and the rest of their brethren the priests, and the Levites, and all that were come from the captivity to Jerusalem began, and they appointed Levites from twenty years old and upward, to hasten forward the work of the Lord.
Ndipo mwezi wa pili katika mwaka wa pili baadae wakaja kwenye nyumba ya Mungu Yerusalem, Zerubabeli, Yoshua mwana wa Yosadaki, na baadhi ya makuhani na walawi na wale walikuja kutoka uhamishoni kurudi Yerusalem wakaanza kazi. Wakawachagua walawi walikuwa na miaka ishirini na zaidi kusimamia kazi ya nyumba ya Yahwe,
9 Then Josue and his sons and his brethren, Cedmihel, and his sons, and the children of Juda, as one man, stood to hasten them that did the work in the temple of God: the sons of Henadad, and their sons, and their brethren the Levites.
Yoshua akamsimamisha kijana wake na kaka yake, Kadmiel na watoto wake, na kizazi cha yuda kusimamia kufanya kazi katika nyumba ya Mungu. Pamoja na wao kulikuwa na wana wa Henadadi, na uzao wao, na pia jamaa zao walawi.
10 And when the masons laid the foundations of the temple of the Lord, the priests stood in their ornaments with trumpets: and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise God by the hands of David king of Israel.
Wajenzi wakasimamisha msingi wa Hekalu la Yahwe, Na hii ikawawezesha makuhani kusimama na mavazi yao wakiwa na tarumbeta, na walawi wana wa Asafu, kumtukuza Yahwe kwa matoazi, kama mkono wa mfalme Daudi wa Israel alivyoagiza.
11 And they sung together hymns, and praise to the Lord: because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever towards Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, praising the Lord, because the foundations of the temple of the Lord were laid.
Waliimba kwa kumsifu na kumshukuru Yahwe. “Yeye ni mwema! Agano lake ni kweli kwa Israel ladumu milele.”Watu wote wakapiga kelele kwa sauti kuu za shangwe wakimsifu Yahwe kwa sababu misingi ya Hekalu ilikuwa imekamilika.
12 But many of the priests and the Levites, and the chief of the fathers and the ancients that had seen the former temple; when they had the foundation of this temple before their eyes, wept with a loud voice: and many shouting for joy, lifted up their voice.
Lakini wengi wa Makuhani, walawi, wakuu wa kale, na wazeee wa zamani walioiona nyumba ya kwanza, wakati misingi ilipowekwa wakaishuhudia kwa macho yao, walilia kwa sauti. Lakiniwengi walipiga kelele kwa sauti za shangwe na furaha na sauti za kushangaza.
13 So that one could not distinguish the voice of the shout of joy, from the noise of the weeping of the people: for one with another the people shouted with a loud shout, and the voice was heard afar off.
Na matokeo yake, watu hawakuweza kutofautisha sauti za furaha na sauti za shangwe na sauti za watu waliokuwa wanalia, kwa kuwa watu walikuwa wanalia kwa sauti kuu ya shangwe na sauti ilisikika kutoka mbali.