Ezra 1
1 Ary tamin’ ny taona voalohany nanjakan’ i Kyrosy, mpanjakan’ i Persia, dia notairin’ i Jehovah ny fanahin’ i Kyrosy, mpanjakan’ i Persia, mba hanatanteraka ny tenin’ i Jehovah izay nampilazainy an’ i Jeremia, ka dia nandefa teny eran’ ny fanjakany rehetra izy, sady nataony an-tsoratra koa izany hoe:
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
2 Izao no lazain’ i Kyrosy, mpanjakan’ i Persia: Ny fanjakana rehetra ambonin’ ny tany dia efa nomen’ i Jehovah, Andriamanitry ny lanitra, ahy; ary Izy efa nandidy ahy hanao trano ho Azy any Jerosalema izay any Joda.
“Cyrus king of Persia says, ‘Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
3 Koa iza avy moa aminareo rehetra no olony? Andriamaniny anie homba azy, fa aoka hiakatra any Jerosalema izay any Joda izy ka hanao ny tranon’ i Jehovah, Andriamanitry ny Isiraely, Izy no Andriamanitra Izay any Jerosalema.
Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of Yahweh, the God of Israel (he is God), which is in Jerusalem.
4 Ary na iza na iza sisa tratra, dia aoka ny tompon-tany ao amin’ izay ivahiniany hanome azy volafotsy sy volamena sy fanaka ary biby fiompy mbamin’ ny fanati-tsitrapo ho an’ ny tranon’ Andriamanitra, izay any Jerosalema.
Whoever is left, in any place where he lives, let the men of his place help him with silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, in addition to the free will offering for God’s house which is in Jerusalem.’”
5 Dia niainga ny lohan’ ny firenen’ i Joda sy Benjamina sy ny mpisorona sy ny Levita, dia izay rehetra efa namporisihin’ Andriamanitra hiakatra hanao ny tranon’ i Jehovah any Jerosalema.
Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin, the priests and the Levites, all whose spirit God had stirred to go up, rose up to build Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem.
6 Ary izay rehetra manodidina dia nampahery ny tànan’ ireo tamin’ ny fanaka volafotsy sy volamena sy fanaka hafa sy biby fiompy ary zava-tsoa mbamin’ izay rehetra nateriny tamin’ ny sitrapo.
All those who were around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, with animals, and with precious things, in addition to all that was willingly offered.
7 Dia navoak’ i Kyrosy mpanjaka ny fanaky ny tranon’ i Jehovah, izay efa nalain’ i Nebokadnezara tany Jerosalema ka efa nataony tao an-tranon’ ireo andriamaniny.
Also Cyrus the king brought out the vessels of Yahweh’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought out of Jerusalem, and had put in the house of his gods;
8 Ary Mitredata, mpitahiry ny haren’ ny fanjakana, dia nasain’ i Kyrosy, mpanjakan’ i Persia; namoaka ireny, ka nisainy sady natolony an’ i Sesbazara, lehiben’ ny firenen’ i Joda.
even those, Cyrus king of Persia brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.
9 Ary izao no isany: Lovia volamena telo-polo, lovia volafotsy arivo, antsy sivy amby roa-polo,
This is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, one thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine knives,
10 kapoaka volamena misarona telo-polo, lovia volafotsy manarakaraka folo amby efa-jato, ary lovia hafa koa arivo;
thirty bowls of gold, four hundred ten silver bowls of a second kind, and one thousand other vessels.
11 efa-jato amby dimy arivo no isan’ ny fanaka volamena sy volafotsy rehetra. Ireo rehetra ireo dia nentin’ i Sesbazara niaraka nankany Jerosalema tamin’ ny babo izay niverina avy tany Babylona.
All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand four hundred. Sheshbazzar brought all these up when the captives were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
