Abaebbulaniya 3
1 Kale abooluganda abatukuvu, Katonda b’ayise, mulowoozenga ku Yesu, Omutume Omukulu era Kabona Asinga Obukulu, gwe twatula.
Therefore, my Christian friends, you who, all alike, have received the call from heaven, fix your attention on Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our religion.
2 Yali mwesigwa eri oyo eyamulonda, era nga Musa bwe yali omwesigwa mu nnyumba ya Katonda yonna.
See how faithful he was to the God who appointed him, as Moses was in the whole house of God.
3 Kubanga ng’omuzimbi bw’aweebwa ekitiibwa okusinga ennyumba gy’azimbye, bw’atyo Yesu wa kitiibwa okusinga Musa.
He has been deemed worthy of far higher honor than Moses, just as the founder of the house is held in greater regard than the house itself.
4 Kubanga buli nnyumba wabaawo agizimba, naye Katonda ye y’azimba buli kintu.
For every house has its founder, and the founder of the universe is God.
5 Musa yali muweereza mwesigwa mu nnyumba ya Katonda yonna, eyayogera eby’obunnabbi ku bintu ebyali bigenda okwogerwa mu biro eby’omu maaso.
While the faithful service of Moses in the whole house of God was that of a servant, whose duty was to bear testimony to a message still to come,
6 Naye ate Kristo ye Mwana omwesigwa, akulira ennyumba ya Katonda; ate ffe tuli nnyumba y’oyo bwe tunywera ne tuba bavumu ne twenyumiririza mu ssuubi lye tunywezezza.
the faithfulness of Christ was that of a son set over the house of God. And we are his house – if only we retain, unshaken to the end, the courage and confidence inspired by our hope.
7 Noolwekyo nga Mwoyo Mutukuvu bw’agamba nti, “Leero bwe munaawulira eddoboozi lye,
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says – ‘If today you hear God’s voice,
8 temukakanyaza mitima gyammwe, nga bali bwe baajeema, ku lunaku lwe bagezesaako Katonda mu ddungu.
harden not your hearts, as when Israel provoked me on the day when they tried my patience in the desert,
9 Bajjajjammwe bangezesa, ne balaba bye nakola mu myaka amakumi ana.
Where your ancestors tried my forbearance, and saw my mighty deeds for forty years.
10 Kyennava nsunguwalira omulembe ogwo, ne njogera nti bulijjo baba bakyamu mu mitima gyabwe, era tebamanyi makubo gange.
Therefore I was sorely vexed with that generation, and I said – “Their hearts are always straying; they have never learned my ways”;
11 Kyennava ndayira nga nsunguwadde nti, ‘Tebaliyingira mu kiwummulo kyange.’”
While in my wrath I swore – “They will never enter upon my rest.”’
12 Mwekuume abooluganda, omutima omubi ogw’obutakkiriza gulemenga kuba mu muntu yenna ku mmwe, ne gubaggya ku Katonda omulamu.
Be careful, friends, that there is never found in anyone of you a wicked and faithless heart, shown by that person separating themselves from the living God.
13 Mubuuliraganenga mwekka na mwekka bulijjo ng’ekiseera kikyaliwo, waleme okubaawo n’omu ku mmwe akakanyazibwa obulimba bw’ekibi.
Rather encourage one another daily – while there is a today – to prevent anyone among you from being hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
14 Olw’okubanga tussa kimu mu Kristo, tunywereze ddala obwesige bwaffe bwe twatandika nabwo, era tubunywereze ddala okutuusa ku nkomerero.
For we now all share in the Christ, if indeed we retain, unshaken to the end, the confidence that we had at the first.
15 Kyogerwako nti, “Leero bwe munaawulira eddoboozi lye temukakanyaza mitima gyammwe nga bwe mwakola bwe mwajeema.”
To use the words of scripture – ‘If today you hear God’s voice, harden not your hearts, as when Israel provoked me.’
16 Be baani abaawulira, naye ne bajeema? Si abo bonna abaava mu Misiri ne Musa?
Who were they who heard God speak and yet provoked him? Were not they all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?
17 Era baani be yanyiigira okumala emyaka amakumi ana? Si abo abaayonoona ne bafiira mu ddungu?
And with whom was it that God was sorely vexed for forty years? Was not it with those who had sinned, and who fell dead in the desert?
18 Era baani abo Katonda be yalayirira obutayingira mu kiwummulo kye? Si abo abataagonda?
And who were they to whom God swore that they should not enter upon his rest, if not those who had proved faithless?
19 Era tulaba nga baalemwa okuyingira olw’obutakkiriza bwabwe.
We see, then, that they failed to enter upon it because of their want of faith.
