ರೋಮಾಪುರದವರಿಗೆ 9
1 ನಾನು ಕ್ರಿಸ್ತ ಯೇಸುವಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಸತ್ಯವನ್ನು ಮಾತನಾಡುತ್ತೇನೆ. ನಾನು ಸುಳ್ಳು ಹೇಳುತ್ತಾ ಇಲ್ಲ. ನನ್ನ ಮನಸ್ಸಾಕ್ಷಿಯು ಇದನ್ನು ಪವಿತ್ರಾತ್ಮ ದೇವರ ಮೂಲಕ ಖಚಿತ ಪಡಿಸುತ್ತದೆ.
[Now I would like to discuss the fact that most of my fellow Israelites have rejected Christ]. Because of my relationship with Christ, I say completely truthfully [what I will now tell you]. I am not lying [DOU]! My conscience confirms what I [say] because the Holy Spirit [controls it].
2 ನನ್ನ ಹೃದಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಹಾದುಖಃವೂ ಎಡೆಬಿಡದ ವೇದನೆಯೂ ತೀರದವೇದನೆಯೂ ಇದೆ.
[I tell you that] I grieve very greatly and deeply [DOU] [about my fellow Israelites].
3 ನನ್ನ ಸ್ವಂತ ಜನರಾದ ನನ್ನ ಯೆಹೂದ್ಯ ಸಹೋದರರಿಗಾಗಿ, ಸಾಧ್ಯವಾದರೆ ನಾನೇ ಕ್ರಿಸ್ತ ಯೇಸುವಿನಿಂದ ದೂರಹೋಗಿ ಶಾಪಗ್ರಸ್ತನಾಗಲು ಸಿದ್ಧನಾಗಿದ್ದೇನೆ.
I personally would be willing to let [God] curse me [and, as a result, be separated] from Christ, [if that would] help my fellow Israelites, my natural kinsmen, [to believe in Christ].
4 ಇಸ್ರಾಯೇಲರಾದ ಅವರಿಗೆ ಸ್ವೀಕಾರವೂ ದೇವರ ಮಹಿಮೆಯೂ ಒಡಂಬಡಿಕೆಗಳೂ ನಿಯಮ ಕೊಡೋಣವೂ ದೇವಾಲಯದ ಸೇವೆಯೂ ಹಾಗೂ ವಾಗ್ದಾನಗಳೂ ಒಪ್ಪಿಸಲಾಗಿವೆ.
We [Jews] are [Israelites, God’s chosen] descendants of [Jacob]. [God has always considered] us as his children [MET]. It was to our ancestors [that he used to appear] gloriously [while they were in the desert]. It was with them that [God made] covenants [several times]. It was to them [that God] gave the laws [at Sinai Mountain]. They were the ones [to whom God showed how they should] worship him. They were the ones [to whom God] promised many things, [especially that the Messiah would come from their race].
5 ನಮ್ಮ ಪಿತೃಗಳು ಅವರಿಗೆ ಸೇರಿದವರು. ಕ್ರಿಸ್ತ ಯೇಸುವು ಮನುಷ್ಯರಾಗಿ ಹುಟ್ಟಿದ್ದು ಅವರ ವಂಶದಲ್ಲಿಯೇ; ಈ ಕ್ರಿಸ್ತ ಯೇಸುವೇ ಎಲ್ಲರ ಮೇಲಿರುವ ದೇವರೂ ಎಂದೆಂದಿಗೂ ಸ್ತುತಿಹೊಂದತಕ್ಕವರೂ ಆಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ! ಆಮೆನ್. (aiōn g165)
It was our ancestors, [Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, whom God chose to found our nation]. And, [most importantly], it was from us Israelites that the Messiah received his human nature. [Nevertheless, most of my fellow Israelites have rejected Christ], who is the one who controls all things! He is God, the one who is worthy that we praise him forever! This is true! (OR, Amen!) (aiōn g165)
6 ಇದು ದೇವರ ವಾಕ್ಯವು ನೆರವೇರಲಿಲ್ಲ ಎಂಬಂತೆ ಅಲ್ಲ. ಏಕೆಂದರೆ ಇಸ್ರಾಯೇಲ್ ವಂಶದಲ್ಲಿ ಬಂದವರೆಲ್ಲರೂ ಇಸ್ರಾಯೇಲರಲ್ಲ.
[God promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that their descendants would all inherit his blessings]. But [although most of my fellow Israelites have rejected Christ], that does not [prove] that God has failed [to do] the things that he promised, because it is not all who are descended from Jacob and who [call themselves the people of] Israel whom [God considers] to be truly his people.
7 ಅಥವಾ ಅಬ್ರಹಾಮನ ಸಂತತಿಯವರೆಲ್ಲ ಅವನ ಮಕ್ಕಳಲ್ಲ. ಆದರೆ, “ಇಸಾಕನಿಂದ ಹುಟ್ಟುವವರೇ ನಿನ್ನ ಸಂತತಿ ಎನಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವರು,” ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಲಾಗಿದೆ.
And it is also not all of Abraham’s natural descendants that [God considers] to be his people. Instead, [God considers only some of them to be Abraham’s children]. [This agrees with what God told Abraham]: “It is Isaac, [not any of your(sg) other sons], whom [I] will consider [to be the true father of] your descendants.”
8 ಇದರ ಅರ್ಥ, ಶರೀರಸಂಬಂಧದ ಮಕ್ಕಳು ದೇವರ ಮಕ್ಕಳಾಗಿರದೆ ವಾಗ್ದಾನದ ಮಕ್ಕಳೇ ಅಬ್ರಹಾಮನ ಮಕ್ಕಳೆಂದು ಎನಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವರು ಎಂಬುದು.
That means that it is not all the natural-born descendants [of Abraham] whom God [considers as] his children. Instead, it is those who [believed what God] promised whom [he] considers to be his children.
9 ಏಕೆಂದರೆ, “ನೇಮಕವಾದ ಕಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ನಾನು ತಿರುಗಿ ಬಂದಾಗ ಸಾರಳಿಗೆ ಒಬ್ಬ ಮಗನಿರುವನು,” ಅದು ವಾಗ್ದಾನದ ಮಾತಾಗಿತ್ತು.
[You know that what God] promised [to Abraham] was this: “About this time [next year] Sarah [your wife] will bear a son [as a result of my enabling] [MTY] [her to do so].” [So Abraham knew that it was not through Ishmael, the son that he already had, that God would fulfill what he had promised him] (OR, [that his true descendants would come]).
10 ಇದು ಮಾತ್ರವಲ್ಲದೆ, ರೆಬೆಕ್ಕಳು ಸಹ ನಮ್ಮ ಪಿತೃವಾದ ಇಸಾಕನ ಮೂಲಕ ಅವಳಿಜವಳಿ ಮಕ್ಕಳನ್ನು ಪಡೆದಳು.
And not only then did God show [that he did not determine who would be his true children according to who their ancestors were. He showed it again] when Rebecca conceived [twins] by our ancestor Isaac.
11 ಹೀಗೆ, ಆ ಮಕ್ಕಳು ಹುಟ್ಟುವುದಕ್ಕೆ ಮುಂಚೆ, ಒಳ್ಳೆಯದು ಅಥವಾ ಕೆಟ್ಟದ್ದನ್ನು ಮಾಡುವುದಕ್ಕೆ ಮುಂಚೆಯೇ, ದೇವರ ಆಯ್ಕೆಯ ಉದ್ದೇಶವು ಕೃತ್ಯಗಳಿಗೆ ಅನುಸಾರವಲ್ಲವೆಂಬುದು ಸ್ಥಿರವಾಯಿತು.
Before [the twins, Jacob and Esau], were born, when neither one had yet done anything good or bad, [God] said to Rebecca [about the twins she was to bear], “The older one shall later serve the younger one, [contrary to normal custom].” [God said this] in order that [we] might [clearly] understand that what he purposed [for people] was according to what he himself determined. That is, people’s [eternal destiny] does not depend on what they do. Instead, their destiny depends on [God], the one who chooses them.
12 ಆದರೆ ಅದು ಕರೆಯುವಾತನಿಂದಲೇ, “ಹಿರಿಯನು ಕಿರಿಯವನಿಗೆ ಸೇವೆಮಾಡುವನು,” ಎಂದು ರೆಬೆಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆ ಹೇಳಲಾಗಿತ್ತು.
13 ಇದಕ್ಕನುಸಾರವಾಗಿ, “ಯಾಕೋಬನನ್ನು ನಾನು ಪ್ರೀತಿಸಿದೆನು, ಆದರೆ ಏಸಾವನನ್ನು ಹಗೆ ಮಾಡಿದೆನು,” ಎಂದು ಬರೆದಿರುತ್ತದೆ.
And [this teaching is] ([supported/shown to be true]) [by] what is written [in the Scriptures] {what [a prophet] recorded} [that God said]: “I favored Jacob, [the younger son]. I did not favor [HYP] Esau, [the older son].”
14 ಹಾಗಾದರೆ ನಾವು ಏನು ಹೇಳೋಣ? ದೇವರು ಅನ್ಯಾಯಗಾರನೋ? ಎಂದಿಗೂ ಇಲ್ಲ.
[Someone] might say, “(Is God unjust [by choosing the ones he wants to choose?/I think] that God is unjust [by choosing the ones he wants to choose!])” [RHQ] [I would reply], “[He is] certainly not [unjust]!”
15 ದೇವರು ಮೋಶೆಗೆ ಹೇಳಿದ್ದೇನೆಂದರೆ, “ಯಾವನ ಮೇಲೆ ನನ್ನ ಕರುಣೆ ಉಂಟೋ, ಅವನನ್ನು ಕರುಣಿಸುವೆನು. ಯಾವನ ಮೇಲೆ ನನ್ನ ಕನಿಕರವಿದೆಯೋ ಅವನನ್ನು ಕನಿಕರಿಸುವೆನು.”
God told Moses, “I will pity and help anyone whom I choose [DOU]!”
16 ಆದ್ದರಿಂದ ದೇವರ ಆಯ್ಕೆಯು ಮನುಷ್ಯನ ಬಯಕೆ ಅಥವಾ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನದಿಂದಾಗಿರದೆ, ದೇವರ ಕರುಣೆಯಿಂದಲೇ ಆಗಿದೆ.
So [God chooses people], not because they want [God to choose them] or because they try hard [to do things so that he] will [accept them]. Instead he chooses people because he himself has mercy [on undeserving ones].
17 ಏಕೆಂದರೆ, “ನಾನು ನಿನ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನ ಶಕ್ತಿಯನ್ನು ತೋರಿಸಿ ನನ್ನ ಹೆಸರನ್ನು ಭೂಮಿಯ ಮೇಲೆಲ್ಲಾ ಪ್ರಸಿದ್ಧಪಡಿಸಬೇಕೆಂಬ ಉದ್ದೇಶದಿಂದಲೇ ನಿನ್ನನ್ನು ಉನ್ನತಸ್ಥಾನಕ್ಕೆ ಏರಿಸಿದೆನು,” ಎಂದು ಪವಿತ್ರ ವೇದದಲ್ಲಿ ದೇವರು ಫರೋಹನಿಗೆ ಹೇಳುತ್ತಾರೆ.
[Moses] recorded [PRS] [that God had told] Pharaoh, “This is why I gave you [(sg)] authority [MTY]: It was in order that I might show [by how I oppose] you [how exceedingly] powerful I am, and in order that people everywhere [HYP] would hear about me [MTY].”
18 ಆದ್ದರಿಂದ ದೇವರು ಯಾರನ್ನು ಕರುಣಿಸಬೇಕೆಂದು ಬಯಸುತ್ತಾರೋ, ಅವರನ್ನು ಕರುಣಿಸುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಯಾರನ್ನು ಕಠಿಣಪಡಿಸಬೇಕೆಂದು ಬಯಸುತ್ತಾರೋ, ಅವರನ್ನು ಕಠೋರನ್ನಾಗಿ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಾರೆ.
So [we conclude that God] kindly helps the ones he wants to act kindly towards. But he makes stubborn the ones [such as Pharaoh] that he wants [to make stubborn].
19 ಹಾಗಾದರೆ ನೀನು, “ದೇವರು ಇನ್ನೂ ತಪ್ಪು ಕಂಡುಹಿಡಿಯುವುದು ಏಕೆ? ದೇವರ ಸಂಕಲ್ಪವನ್ನು ಎದುರಿಸುವವರು ಯಾರು?” ಎಂದು ನೀನು ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಕೇಳುವೆ.
[One of] you may [object to this by] saying to me, “[Because God determines ahead of time everything that people do, that also implies that he wants us to do everything that we do]. (No one has resisted what God has willed!/Who has resisted what God has willed?) [RHQ] Therefore, (it would not be right that God would still condemn [a person for having sinned]!/why does God still condemn [a person for having sinned]?) [RHQ]”
20 ಎಲೈ, ಮನುಷ್ಯನೇ, ದೇವರಿಗೆ ಎದುರಾಗಿ ಮಾತನಾಡಲು ನೀನು ಯಾರು? “ರೂಪಿಸಿರುವುದು ರೂಪಿಸಿದವನಿಗೆ, ‘ಏಕೆ ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಹೀಗೆ ರೂಪಿಸಿದೆ?’” ಎಂದು ಪ್ರಶ್ನಿಸಬಹುದೋ?
[I would reply that since] you [(sg)] are [just a] human being, (you do not [have any right at all to] criticize God!/[who are you to] say that what God does is wrong?) [RHQ] [As a potter is the one who creates a clay pot, God is the one who created you]. (A clay pot [MET] certainly would not [have a right to criticize] the potter by asking [PRS], “Why did you [(sg)] make me this way?”/Would a clay pot [have a right to criticize] the potter by asking [PRS], “Why did you [(sg)] make me this way?”) [RHQ]
21 ಕುಂಬಾರನಿಗೆ ಒಂದೇ ಮಣ್ಣಿನ ರಾಶಿಯಿಂದ ಒಂದನ್ನು ಉತ್ತಮವಾದ ಪಾತ್ರೆಯನ್ನಾಗಿಯೂ ಮತ್ತೊಂದನ್ನು ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯವಾದ ಪಾತ್ರೆಯನ್ನಾಗಿಯೂ ಮಾಡುವ ಅಧಿಕಾರ ಇಲ್ಲವೋ?
Instead, (the potter certainly has the right to [take] some clay and from one lump [of clay] make one pot that people will honor and [make another] one for ordinary purposes [MET]./does not a potter have the right to [take] some clay and from one lump [of clay] make one pot that people will honor and [make another] pot for ordinary purposes?) [MET, RHQ] [Similarly, God has the right to carry out what he purposes for people].
22 ನಾಶಕ್ಕೂ, ಕೋಪಾಗ್ನಿಗೂ ಪಾತ್ರೆಯಾಗಿರುವುದರ ಮೇಲೆ ದೇವರು ತಮ್ಮ ಕೋಪವನ್ನು ತೋರಿಸಿ ತಮ್ಮ ಸಾಮರ್ಥ್ಯವನ್ನು ತಿಳಿಯಪಡಿಸಬೇಕೆಂದಿದ್ದರೂ ಬಹು ಸಹನೆಯಿಂದ ತಾಳಿಕೊಂಡಿರಲು ಬಯಸಿದರೆ, ಯಾರು ಏನು ಮಾಡಬಹುದು?
Although God desires to show that he is angry [about sin], and [although he desires to] make clear that he can powerfully [punish people who have sinned], he tolerated very patiently the people [MET] who caused him to be angry and who deserved to be destroyed (OR, who were made to be destroyed).
23 ದೇವರು ಯೆಹೂದ್ಯರೊಳಗಿಂದ ಮಾತ್ರವೇ ಕರೆಯದೆ, ಯೆಹೂದ್ಯರಲ್ಲದವರಿಂದಲೂ ಕರೆದು, ಮಹಿಮೆಗೆಂದು ಮೊದಲೇ ಸಿದ್ಧಮಾಡಿ, ತಮ್ಮ ಕರುಣೆಗೆ ಪಾತ್ರರಾದ ಜನರಿಗೆ ತಮ್ಮ ಮಹಿಮೆಯ ಐಶ್ವರ್ಯವನ್ನು ಪ್ರಕಟಿಸಲು ಇದನ್ನು ಮಾಡಿದರು.
[God has been patient] in order that he might make clear how very wonderfully [he acts toward those] [MET] whom he intended to act mercifully towards and whom he prepared ahead of time in order that they might [live] gloriously [in heaven].
24 ಇದಕ್ಕಾಗಿಯೇ ದೇವರು ಯೆಹೂದ್ಯರನ್ನು ಮಾತ್ರವೇ ಕರೆಯದೆ ಯೆಹೂದ್ಯರಲ್ಲದವರನ್ನು ಸಹ ಕರೆದಿದ್ದಾರಲ್ಲಾ?
That means us whom he chose—not only [us] Jews but also non-Jews.
25 ಹೋಶೇಯನ ಪ್ರವಾದನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ದೇವರು, “ನನ್ನ ಜನರಲ್ಲದವರನ್ನು ‘ನನ್ನ ಜನರು,’ ಎಂದು ಕರೆಯುವರು. ನಾನು ಪ್ರೀತಿಸದವರನ್ನು ನನ್ನ ‘ಪ್ರಿಯರು’ ಎಂದೂ ಹೇಳುವರು.”
[These words that] Hosea wrote [MTY] that [God] said also (show that God has the right/[support God’s right]) [to choose from among both Jews and non-Jews] [MTY]: I will declare that many people who were not my people are now my people. I will declare that many people whom I did not love [HYP] before, I love now.
26 ಮತ್ತು, “ಯಾವ ಸ್ಥಳದಲ್ಲಿ ‘ನೀವು ನನ್ನ ಜನರಲ್ಲ,’ ಎಂದು ಅವರಿಗೆ ಹೇಳಲಾಗಿತ್ತೋ, ಆ ಸ್ಥಳದಲ್ಲಿಯೇ, ‘ಅವರು ಜೀವಸ್ವರೂಪಿಯಾದ ದೇವರ ಮಕ್ಕಳು,’ ಎಂದು ಕರೆಯಲಾಗುವರು,” ಎಂದು ದೇವರು ಹೇಳುತ್ತಾರೆ.
And [another prophet wrote]: What will happen is that in the places where [God] told them before, “You are not my people,” in those same places [people] will declare truthfully that they are children of God, who is completely powerful.
27 ಇದಲ್ಲದೆ ಯೆಶಾಯನು ಇಸ್ರಾಯೇಲರನ್ನು ಕುರಿತು ಕೂಗಿ ಹೇಳುವುದೇನೆಂದರೆ, “ಇಸ್ರಾಯೇಲರ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆಯು ಸಮುದ್ರದ ಉಸುಬಿನಂತಿದ್ದರೂ ಅವರಲ್ಲಿ ಕೆಲವರು ಮಾತ್ರ ರಕ್ಷಣೆಹೊಂದುವರು.
Isaiah also exclaimed concerning the Israelites: Even though the Israelites are [so many that no one can count them, like] sand [particles on the beach beside] the ocean, [only] a small part of them will be saved {[God] will save [only] a small part of them},
28 ಏಕೆಂದರೆ ಕರ್ತನು ತಮ್ಮ ವಾಕ್ಯವನ್ನು ಭೂಮಿಯ ಮೇಲೆ ಅಂತಿಮವಾಗಿಯೂ ತ್ವರಿತವಾಗಿಯೂ ನೆರವೇರಿಸುವರು.”
because the Lord will punish completely and speedily the [people who live on] this earth, as he said that he would do.
29 ಯೆಶಾಯನು ಈ ಹಿಂದೆ, “ಸೇನಾಧೀಶ್ವರರಾದ ದೇವರು ನಮಗೆ ಸಂತತಿಯನ್ನು ಉಳಿಸದೆ ಹೋಗಿದ್ದರೆ, ನಾವು ಸೊದೋಮಿನಂತೆ ಆಗುತ್ತಿದ್ದೆವು, ಗೊಮೋರದ ಹಾಗೆ ಇರುತ್ತಿದ್ದೆವು.” ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಿದ್ದಾನೆ.
[Also, we can understand from what the prophet] Isaiah said [that God would not save] anyone if he did not show mercy: If the Lord, who controls everything in heaven, had not mercifully allowed some of our descendants to survive, we would have become like the people of [the cities of] Sodom and Gomorrah, who were [SIM, DOU] completely destroyed.
30 ಹಾಗಾದರೆ ನಾವು ಏನು ಹೇಳೋಣ? ನೀತಿಯನ್ನು ಅನುಸರಿಸದ ಯೆಹೂದ್ಯರಲ್ಲದವರು ನಂಬಿಕೆಯ ಮೂಲಕ ದೊರಕುವ ನೀತಿಯನ್ನು ಪಡೆದರು.
We must conclude this: [RHQ] Although non-Jews did not search out [a way by which] God would erase the record of their sins, they actually found that way because they trusted [in what Christ did for them].
31 ಆದರೆ ನೀತಿಯ ನಿಯಮವನ್ನು ಅನುಸರಿಸಿದ ಇಸ್ರಾಯೇಲರಾದರೋ ಆ ನೀತಿಯ ಮಾರ್ಗವನ್ನು ಪಡೆಯಲಿಲ್ಲ.
But although [the people of] Israel sought a basis [by which God would] erase the record of their sins, they did not succeed in [fulfilling the true purpose of the] laws [that God gave to Moses].
32 ಏಕೆ? ಏಕೆಂದರೆ ಅವರು ನಂಬಿಕೆಯನ್ನು ಅನುಸರಿಸದೆ ಕೃತ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ಅನುಸರಿಸಿದ್ದರಿಂದಲೇ. ಅವರು ಎಡವುಕಲ್ಲನ್ನು ಎಡವಿದರು.
The reason [RHQ] [that they did not succeed] is that they did not trust that [God would provide a way to save them]. Instead, they were trying to do certain things [in order that God would accept them. Because they did not expect the Messiah to die, the Israelites] felt disgusted about [Jesus’ death, which is like] the stone [MET] on which people stumble.
33 ಪವಿತ್ರ ವೇದದಲ್ಲಿ ಹೀಗೆ ಬರೆಯಲಾಗಿದೆ: “ಇಗೋ, ನಾನು ಚೀಯೋನಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಜನರು ಎಡವಿ ಬೀಳುವಂತೆ ಮಾಡುವ ಕಲ್ಲನ್ನೂ ಮುಗ್ಗರಿಸುವ ಬಂಡೆಯನ್ನೂ ಇಡುತ್ತೇನೆ. ಆತನ ಮೇಲೆ ನಂಬಿಕೆಯಿಡುವವನು ಆಶಾಭಂಗಪಡುವದೇ ಇಲ್ಲ.”
This is what [a prophet] predicted when he wrote these words that [God said about the Messiah]: Listen! I am placing in Israel [MTY] [one who is like] a stone [MET] on which people will stumble. What he does will offend people [DOU]. Nevertheless, those who believe in him will not be disappointed.
