ဟောရှေ 1
1 ၁ ယုဒနိုင်ငံတွင်သြဇိမင်း၊ ယောသံမင်း၊ အာ ခတ်မင်း၊ ဟေဇကိမင်းနှင့်ဣသရေလနိုင်ငံ တွင်ယောရှမင်း၏သားယေရောဗောင်မင်းတို့ စိုးစံသည့်လက်ထက်၌ ဗေရိ၏သားဟောရှေ ထံသို့ရောက်ရှိလာသောထာဝရဘုရား၏ နှုတ်ကပတ်တော်ကားဤသို့တည်း။
౧ఉజ్జియా, యోతాము, ఆహాజు, హిజ్కియా అనే యూదా రాజులు, యెహోయాషు కుమారుడైన ఇశ్రాయేలు రాజు యరొబాము పరిపాలించిన దినాల్లో బెయేరి కుమారుడు హోషేయకు ప్రత్యక్షమైన యెహోవా వాక్కు.
2 ၂ ထာဝရဘုရားသည်ဟောရှေမှတစ်ဆင့် ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားတို့အားဦးစွာ မိန့်တော်မူသည်မှာ``သင်သည်သွား၍အမျိုး သမီးတစ်ဦးနှင့်အိမ်ထောင်ပြုလော့။ သင် ၏ဇနီးသည်သစ္စာမဲ့သူဖြစ်လိမ့်မည်။ သင်၏ သားသမီးများသည်လည်းသင်၏ဇနီးကဲ့ သို့သစ္စာမဲ့သူများဖြစ်လိမ့်မည်။ ငါ၏ လူစုသည်လည်းထိုနည်းတူစွာငါ့ကို စွန့်၍သစ္စာဖောက်ကြပြီ'' ဟုမိန့်တော် မူ၏။-
౨యెహోవా హోషేయతో మొదట మాట్లాడినప్పుడు ఇలా ఆజ్ఞాపించాడు. “వెళ్ళి ఒక వేశ్యను నీకు భార్యగా తెచ్చుకో. ఆమె వ్యభిచారం ఫలితంగా పుట్టిన సంతానాన్ని స్వీకరించు. ఎందుకంటే దేశం నన్ను విడిచిపెట్టి నీచమైన వ్యభిచార కార్యాలు చేసింది.”
3 ၃ သို့ဖြစ်၍ဟောရှေသည်ဒိဗလိမ်၏သမီး ဂေါမာဆိုသူနှင့်အိမ်ထောင်ပြုလေသည်။ သူတို့တွင်သားဦးတစ်ယောက်ကိုဖွား မြင်ပြီးနောက်၊-
౩కాబట్టి హోషేయ వెళ్ళి దిబ్లయీము కూతురు గోమెరును పెళ్ళాడాడు. ఆమె గర్భం ధరించి అతనికొక కొడుకుని కన్నది.
4 ၄ ထာဝရဘုရားကဟောရှေအား``သင်၏သား ကို`ယေဇရေလ' ဟုနာမည်မှည့်လော့၊ အဘယ် ကြောင့်ဆိုသော်ဣသရေလဘုရင်၏ဘိုးတော် ယေဟုသည် ယေဇရေလမြို့တွင်သတ်ဖြတ် လုပ်ကြံခဲ့သည့်လူသတ်မှုများအတွက် ငါ သည်ဣသရေလဘုရင်ကိုဒဏ်ခတ်မည်။ ယေဟုမင်းဆက်ကိုတိမ်ကောစေမည်။-
౪యెహోవా అతనికి ఇలా ఆజ్ఞాపించాడు. “వీడికి ‘యెజ్రెయేల్’ అని పేరు పెట్టు. యెజ్రెయేలులో యెహూ వంశం వారు రక్తపాతం చేశారు. దాన్ని బట్టి ఇక కొంతకాలానికి నేను వారిని శిక్షిస్తాను. ఇశ్రాయేలువారికి రాజ్యం ఉండకుండాా తీసేస్తాను.
5 ၅ ထိုအချိန်ကျရောက်လျှင်ငါသည်ယေဇရေလ ချိုင့်ဝှမ်းတွင် ဣသရေလနိုင်ငံ၏အာဏာစက် ကိုပျက်သုဉ်းစေမည်'' ဟုမိန့်တော်မူသည်။
౫ఆ రోజుల్లో జరిగేది ఏమిటంటే, నేను యెజ్రెయేలు లోయలో ఇశ్రాయేలు వారి విల్లును విరిచేస్తాను.”
6 ၆ ဂေါမာတွင်ဒုတိယကလေးတစ်ယောက်ဖွား မြင်လေ၏။ ထိုကလေးသည်သမီးမိန်းကလေး ဖြစ်သည်။ ထိုအခါထာဝရဘုရားကဟောရှေ အား``ငါသည်ဣသရေလပြည်သားတို့ကို နောင်အခါတွင် သနားကြင်နာ၍အပြစ် လွှတ်မည်မဟုတ်သောကြောင့်ထိုသမီး ကို`မေတ္တာမဲ့' ဟုနာမည်မှည့်လော့။-
౬గోమెరు మళ్లీ గర్భం ధరించి ఆడపిల్లను కన్నది. యెహోవా అతనికి ఇలా చెప్పాడు. “దీనికి ‘లో రూహామా’ అని పేరు పెట్టు. ఎందుకంటే ఇకపై నేను ఇశ్రాయేలును క్షమించడం కోసం వారిపై జాలి పడను.
7 ၇ ငါသည်ယုဒပြည်သားတို့ကိုမူကား သနားကြင်နာဦးမည်။ သူတို့၏ဘုရားသခင်ငါထာဝရဘုရားသည်သူတို့ အားကယ်တင်မည်။ သို့ရာတွင်စစ်တိုက် ခြင်းအားဖြင့်လည်းကောင်း၊ လေး၊ မြား၊ ဋ္ဌား၊ မြင်း၊ မြင်းတပ်အားဖြင့်လည်းကောင်းသူ တို့အားကယ်တင်မည်မဟုတ်။
౭అయితే యూదావారిపై జాలి చూపుతాను. వారి దేవుడైన యెహోవా అనే నేనే వారిని రక్షిస్తాను. విల్లు, ఖడ్గం, సమరం, గుర్రాలు, రౌతులు అనే వాటి వల్ల కాదు.”
౮లో రూహామా పాలు మానిన తరువాత ఆమె తల్లి గర్భం ధరించి మరొక కొడుకును కన్నది.
9 ၉ ထိုအခါထာဝရဘုရားကဟောရှေ အား``ဣသရေလပြည်သားတို့သည်ငါ ၏လူစုမဟုတ်၊ ငါသည်လည်းသူတို့၏ ဘုရားသခင်မဟုတ်သောကြောင့်ထိုသား ကို`ငါ့လူမျိုးမဟုတ်' ဟုနာမည်မှည့်လော့'' ဟုမိန့်တော်မူ၏။
౯యెహోవా ఇలా చెప్పాడు. “వీడికి ‘లో అమ్మీ’ అని పేరు పెట్టు. ఎందుకంటే మీరు నా ప్రజలు కారు, నేను మీకు దేవుణ్ణి కాను.
10 ၁၀ ဣသရေလပြည်သားတို့သည်ပင်လယ်ထဲမှ သဲပွင့်များကဲ့သို့ မရေမတွက်မတိုင်းမတာ နိုင်လောက်အောင်များပြားကြလိမ့်မည်။ ယခု အခါ၌ဘုရားသခင်ကသူတို့အား``သင် တို့သည်ငါ၏လူစုမဟုတ်'' ဟုမိန့်တော်မူ သော်လည်းနောင်တစ်နေ့တွင်``သင်တို့သည် အသက်ရှင်တော်မူသောဘုရားသခင်၏ သားသမီးများဖြစ်ကြ၏'' ဟုမိန့်တော် မူလိမ့်မည်။-
౧౦అయినప్పటికీ ఇశ్రాయేలీయుల జనసంఖ్య సముద్రతీరంలో ఇసుకంత విస్తారం అవుతుంది. దాన్ని కొలవలేము, లెక్కబెట్టలేము. ఎక్కడ ‘మీరు నా ప్రజలు కారు’ అని వారితో చెప్పానో, అక్కడే ‘మీరు సజీవుడైన దేవుని ప్రజలు’ అని వారికి చెబుతారు.
11 ၁၁ ယုဒပြည်သားတို့နှင့်ဣသရေလပြည် သားတို့သည်ပြန်လည်ပေါင်းစည်းကြလိမ့် မည်။ သူတို့သည်သူတို့အတွက်ခေါင်းဆောင် တစ်ဦးကိုရွေးကောက်တင်မြှောက်ကြလိမ့် မည်။ သူတို့သည်မိမိတို့နိုင်ငံတွင်ကြီးပွား တိုးတက်လာကြလိမ့်မည်။ ယေဇရေလနေ့ သည်နေ့ကြီးရက်ကြီးဖြစ်လိမ့်မည်'' ဟုမိန့် တော်မူ၏။
౧౧యూదా, ఇశ్రాయేలు ఒక్క చోట సమకూడుతారు. తమపై ఒకే నాయకుణ్ణి నియమించుకుంటారు. ఆ దేశంలో నుండి బయలు దేరుతారు. ఆ యెజ్రెయేలు దినం మహా ప్రభావ దినం.”
