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1 ၁ ထာဝရဘုရားသည်ငါ့အား၊-
౧యెహోవా వాక్కు నాకు ప్రత్యక్షమై ఇలా చెప్పాడు.
2 ၂ ``သင်သည်ယေရုရှလင်မြို့သို့သွား၍ ထိုမြို့ တွင်နေထိုင်သူအပေါင်းတို့အားဤသတင်း စကားကိုပြန်ကြားလော့။'' သင်တို့သည်ငယ်ရွယ်စဉ်အခါကအဘယ်သို့ သစ္စာရှိခဲ့ကြသည်ကိုငါသတိရ၏။ သင်သည်သတို့သမီးကဲ့သို့ငါ့ကိုချစ်ခဲ့၏။ သင်တို့သည်စိုက်ပျိုးခြင်းမရှိသော တောကန္တာရတစ်လျှောက်လုံးကိုဖြတ်၍ ငါ၏အနောက်သို့လိုက်ခဲ့ကြ၏။
౨“యెరూషలేము నివాసులకు ఇలా ప్రకటించు. యెహోవా చెప్పేదేమిటంటే, నువ్వు అరణ్యంలో, పంటలు పండని ప్రాంతాల్లో నా వెంట నడుస్తూ నీ యవ్వనకాలంలో నీవు నాపై చూపిన నిబంధన నమ్మకత్వం, నీ వైవాహిక ప్రేమ, నేను గుర్తు చేసుకుంటున్నాను.
3 ၃ အို ဣသရေလအမျိုးတို့၊သင်တို့ကို ငါတစ်ဦးတည်းသာလျှင်ပိုင်တော်မူ၏။ သင်တို့သည်ငါပိုင်သောအမြတ်ထားရာ ဖြစ်၏။ ငါသည်သင်တို့ကိုထိခိုက်နာကျင်စေသူ အပေါင်းအား ဘေးအန္တရာယ်နှင့်ဆင်းရဲဒုက္ခရောက်စေခဲ့၏။ ဤကားငါထာဝရဘုရားမြွက်ဟသည့် စကားပင်တည်း။''
౩అప్పుడు ఇశ్రాయేలు యెహోవాకు ప్రతిష్ఠిత జనంగా, ఆయన పంటలో ప్రథమ ఫలంగా ఉంది. వారిని బాధించే వారందరూ శిక్షకు పాత్రులు. వారిపైకి కీడు దిగి వస్తుంది.” ఇదే యెహోవా వాక్కు.
4 ၄ အချင်းယာကုပ်၏သားမြေး၊ ဣသရေလ အနွယ်ဝင်တို့၊ ထာဝရဘုရား၏ဗျာဒိတ် တော်ကိုနားထောင်ကြလော့။
౪యాకోబు సంతానమా, ఇశ్రాయేలు ప్రజలారా, మీరంతా యెహోవా మాట వినండి.
5 ၅ ထာဝရဘုရားမိန့်တော်မူသည်ကား ``ငါ၌အဘယ်အပြစ်ကိုတွေ့ရှိ၍သင်တို့၏ ဘိုးဘေးတို့သည်ငါ့ထံမှထွက်သွားကြသနည်း။ သူတို့သည်တန်ဖိုးမရှိသောရုပ်တုများကို ဝတ်ပြုရှိခိုး၍ မိမိတို့ကိုယ်တိုင်ပင်တန်ဖိုးမဲ့လာကြ၏။
౫యెహోవా ఇలా సెలవిస్తున్నాడు. “నాలో ఏ తప్పిదం చూసి మీ పూర్వికులు నాకు దూరమై వ్యర్థమైన విగ్రహాలను పూజించి వారూ వ్యర్థులుగా మారిపోయారు?
6 ၆ ငါသည်သူတို့အားအီဂျစ်ပြည်မှကယ်ဆယ် ကာ တောကန္တာရတစ်လျှောက်လုံး၊သဲကန္တာရများ၊ မြေတွင်းများနှင့်ပြည့်နှက်လျက်နေသောပြည်၊ ခြောက်ကပ်၍ဘေးအန္တရာယ်များသောပြည်၊ လူသူဆိတ်ညံလျက် ခရီးသည်မရှိသည့်ပြည်ကိုဖြတ်၍ လမ်းပြပို့ဆောင်ပေးခဲ့သော်လည်းသူတို့သည် ငါ့ကိုဂရုမစိုက်ကြ။
౬‘ఐగుప్తు దేశంలో నుండి మమ్మల్ని తెచ్చిన యెహోవా ఏడీ’ అని అడగలేదు. అంటే ‘అరణ్యంలో, చవిటి నేలలతో, గోతులతో నిండిన ప్రదేశంలో, అనావృష్టీ చీకటీ నిండిన, ఎవరూ తిరగని, నివసించని దేశంలో మమ్మల్ని నడిపించిన యెహోవా ఎక్కడ ఉన్నాడు?’ అని ప్రజలు అడగడం లేదు.
7 ၇ ငါသည်သူတို့အားမြေသြဇာကောင်းမွန်သော ပြည်သို့အသီးအနှံနှင့် အခြားမွန်မြတ်သည့်အစားအစာများကို စားသောက်စေရန်ခေါ်ဆောင်ခဲ့၏။ သို့ရာတွင်သူတို့သည်ငါ့ပြည်ကိုဖျက်ဆီးပစ်ကြ၏။ သူတို့အားငါပေးသည့်ပြည်ကိုညစ်ညမ်းစေကြ၏။
౭ఫలవంతమైన దేశంలోకి మిమ్మల్ని తీసుకువచ్చి దాని పంటను, దానిలోని శ్రేష్ఠమైన పదార్థాలను తినేలా చేశాను. అయితే మీరు నా దేశాన్ని అపవిత్రం చేసి నా వారసత్వాన్ని హేయపరిచారు.”
8 ၈ ယဇ်ပုရောဟိတ်တို့က`ထာဝရဘုရားသည် အဘယ်မှာရှိတော်မူပါသနည်း' ဟုမမေးကြ။ ငါ၏ယဇ်ပုရောဟိတ်တို့သည်ငါ့ကိုမသိ။ အုပ်ချုပ်သူတို့သည်ငါ့ကိုပုန်ကန်ကြ၏။ ပရောဖက်တို့ကဗာလဘုရား၏အမည်နာမကို တိုင်တည်ပြောဆိုကာ အသုံးမဝင်သည့်ရုပ်တုများကိုဝတ်ပြု ရှိခိုးကြ၏။
౮“యెహోవా ఎక్కడ ఉన్నాడు?” అని యాజకులు వెతకడం లేదు. ధర్మశాస్త్ర బోధకులకు నేనెవరో తెలియదు. ప్రజల నాయకులు నా మీద తిరుగుబాటు చేశారు. ప్రవక్తలు బయలు దేవుడి పేరట ప్రవచించి, వ్యర్ధమైన వాటిని అనుసరించారు.
9 ၉ ``သို့ဖြစ်၍ငါသည်သင်တို့အား တစ်ဖန်တရားစွပ်စွဲမည်။ သူတို့၏သားမြေးများအားလည်း စွပ်စွဲချက်တင်မည်'' ဟုထာဝရဘုရားမိန့်တော် မူ၏။
౯కాబట్టి నేనికనుండి మీపైనా మీ పిల్లల పైనా వారి పిల్లల పైనా నేరం మోపుతాను. ఇది యెహోవా వాక్కు.
10 ၁၀ ခိတ္တိမ်ကျွန်းရှိရာအနောက်ဘက်သို့သွားလော့။ ကေဒါပြည်သို့လူလွှတ်၍ကြည့်ရှုစေကြလော့။ ယခုအမှုမျိုးကိုအဘယ်အခါကမျှ မဖြစ်ပျက်ခဲ့ဘူးသည်ကိုသိမြင်ရလိမ့်မည်။
౧౦కిత్తీయుల ద్వీపాలకు వెళ్లి చూడండి, కేదారుకు దూతలను పంపి విచారించండి. మీలో జరుగుతున్న ప్రకారం ఇంకెక్కడైనా జరుగుతున్నదా?
11 ၁၁ မိမိတို့၏ဘုရားများသည်မစစ်မမှန်သော ဘုရားများပင်ဖြစ်၍နေစေကာမူ အဘယ်လူမျိုးသည်ဘုရားများကိုပြောင်းလဲ ၍ ကိုးကွယ်ပါသနည်း။ သို့ရာတွင်ငါ၏လူမျိုးတော်မူကား မိမိတို့၏ဂုဏ်အသရေကိုဆောင်သည့် ဘုရားသခင်တည်းဟူသော၊ ငါ့အားသူတို့ကိုမကူညီနိုင်သည့်ဘုရား များနှင့် လဲလှယ်လိုက်ကြလေပြီ။
౧౧దేవుళ్ళు కాని వారితో తమ దేవుళ్ళను ఏ ప్రజలైనా ఎప్పుడైనా మార్చుకున్నారా? కానీ నా ప్రజలు ప్రయోజనం లేని దాని కోసం తమ మహిమను మార్చుకున్నారు.
12 ၁၂ သို့ဖြစ်၍ငါထာဝရဘုရားသည်မိုးကောင်းကင်အား ထိတ်လန့်တုန်လှုပ်အံ့သြတွေဝေ၍သွားစေရန် အမိန့်ပေးတော်မူပြီ။
౧౨ఆకాశమా, దీని గురించి విస్మయం చెందు. భయపడి వణుకు. ఇదే యెహోవా వాక్కు.
13 ၁၃ ငါ၏လူမျိုးတော်သည်အသက်စမ်းရေတည်းဟူသော ငါ့အားစွန့်ပစ်၍ရေမလုံ၊ကွဲအက်လျက်ရှိသည့်၊ ရေလှောင်ကန်များကိုတူးကြသည်ဖြစ်၍ အပြစ်ဒုစရိုက်နှစ်ပါးကိုကူးလွန်ကြလေပြီ။
౧౩నా ప్రజలు రెండు తప్పులు చేశారు. జీవజలాల ఊటనైన నన్ను విడిచి పెట్టేశారు. తమకోసం తొట్లు, అంటే నీటిని నిలపలేక బద్దలైపోయే తొట్లను తొలిపించుకున్నారు.
14 ၁၄ ``ဣသရေလသည်ကျွန်မဟုတ်။ ကျွန်သားပေါက်လည်းမဟုတ်။ သို့ပါလျက်၊ရန်သူများသည်အဘယ် ကြောင့် သူ့အားလိုက်လံဖမ်းဆီးကြသနည်း။
౧౪ఇశ్రాయేలు ఒక బానిసా? అతడు ఇంటిలో జన్మించిన వాడే కదా? మరెందుకు అతడు దోపుడు సొమ్ముగా మారాడు?
15 ၁၅ ရန်သူများသည်သူ့အားခြင်္သေ့ကဲ့သို့ဟောက် ကြ၏။ သူ၏ပြည်ကိုခြောက်သွေ့စေကြ၏။ သူ၏မြို့များသည်ယိုယွင်းပျက်စီးကာ လူသူဆိတ်ညံလျက်ရှိ၏။
౧౫కొదమ సింహాలు అతనిపై గర్జించాయి, అతనిపై పెద్దగా అరుస్తూ అతని దేశాన్ని భయకంపితం చేశాయి. అతని పట్టణాలు ప్రజలు నివసించలేనంతగా నాశనం అయ్యాయి.
16 ၁၆ နောဖမြို့သားများနှင့်တာပနက်မြို့သားများ သည် သင်၏ဦးခေါင်းခွံကိုခွဲကြလေပြီ။
౧౬నోపు, తహపనేసు అనే పట్టణాల ప్రజలు నీకు బోడిగుండు చేసి నిన్ను బానిసగా చేసుకున్నారు.
17 ၁၇ အို ဣသရေလ၊ဤအမှုသည်သင်ပြုသည့်အမှုပင် ဖြစ်ပါသည်တကား။ ငါသည်သင့်အားလမ်းပြပို့ဆောင်၍လာစဉ် သင်သည်မိမိတို့ဘုရားသခင်၊ငါထာဝရ ဘုရားအား စွန့်ပစ်ခဲ့၏။
౧౭నీ దేవుడైన యెహోవా నిన్ను నడిపిస్తున్నప్పుడు నువ్వు ఆయన్ని విడిచి వేరైపోయి నీకు నీవే ఈ బాధ తెచ్చిపెట్టుకున్నావు గదా?
18 ၁၈ ယခုသင်သည်နိုင်းမြစ်ရေသောက်ရန်အီဂျစ်ပြည်သို့ သွားခြင်းဖြင့်အကျိုးရှိမည်ဟုထင်သလော။ ဥဖရတ်မြစ်ရေသောက်ရန်အာရှုရိပြည်သို့ သွားခြင်းဖြင့်အကျိုးရှိမည်ဟုထင်သလော။
౧౮ఐగుప్తు దారిలో వెళ్లి షీహోరు నీళ్లు తాగడానికి నీకేం పని? అష్షూరు దారిలో వెళ్లి యూఫ్రటీసు నది నీళ్లు తాగడానికి నీకేం పని?
19 ၁၉ သင်၏ဒုစရိုက်ကသင့်ကိုဒဏ်ခတ်လိမ့်မည်။ သင်၏ဖောက်ပြန်မှုကသင့်ကိုအပြစ်ဒဏ် ပေးပါလိမ့်မည်။ မိမိ၏ဘုရားသခင်ထာဝရဘုရားအားသင် စွန့်ပစ်မှု၊ ငါ့အားမကြောက်မရွံ့တော့ဘဲနေသောအမှုတို့သည် အဘယ်မျှဆိုးညစ်မိုက်မဲသည်ကိုသင်သိရှိ လာလိမ့်မည်။ ဤကားအနန္တတန်ခိုးရှင်ငါထာဝရဘုရား မြွက်ဟသည်စကားပင်တည်း။
౧౯నీ చెడుతనం నీ శిక్షకు కారణమౌతుంది. నువ్వు చేసిన ద్రోహం నిన్ను దండిస్తుంది అని ప్రభువు, సేనల ప్రభువు అయిన యెహోవా సెలవిస్తున్నాడు. ఎందుకంటే నీ దేవుడైన యెహోవాను నీవు విడిచిపెట్టావు. నేనంటే నీకెంత మాత్రం భయం లేదు.
20 ၂၀ အို ဣသရေလ၊သင်သည်ရှေးအခါကပင်ငါ၏ ထမ်းပိုးကိုချိုး၍ငါ၏နှောင်ကြိုးများကိုဖြတ် ခဲ့၏။ သင်သည်ငါ၏စကားကိုနားမထောင်ငါ့အား ဝတ်မပြုမကိုးကွယ်။ တောင်မြင့်ရှိသမျှအပေါ်၌လည်းကောင်း၊စိမ်း လန်းသည့် သစ်ပင်ရှိသမျှအောက်၌လည်းကောင်း၊ သင်သည်ပြည့်တန်ဆာကဲ့သို့ပြုမူခဲ့လေသည်။
౨౦పూర్వకాలం నుండి ఉన్న నీ కాడిని విరగగొట్టి, నీ బంధకాలను తెంపివేశాను. అయినా “నేను నిన్ను పూజించను” అని చెబుతున్నావు. ఎత్తయిన ప్రతి కొండ మీదా పచ్చని ప్రతి చెట్టు కిందా వేశ్యలాగా వ్యభిచారం చేశావు.
21 ၂၁ ငါသည်လက်ရွေးစင်မျိုးစေ့မှစပျစ်နွယ်ကို ငါစိုက်ပျိုးခဲ့၏။ သို့ရာတွင်သင်အဘယ်သို့ဖြစ်လာကြ သည်ကိုကြည့်ရှုလော့။ သင်သည်ပုပ်၍အသုံးမဝင်သည့်စပျစ်ပင်နှင့် တူနေပါသည်တကား။
౨౧శ్రేష్ఠమైన ద్రాక్షావల్లిగా నేను నిన్ను నాటాను. నిక్కచ్చి విత్తనం గల చెట్టులాగా నిన్ను నాటాను. అయినా నా పట్ల ఎందుకు నువ్వు పిచ్చి ద్రాక్షాతీగెలాగా నిష్ప్రయోజనం అయిపోయావు?
22 ၂၂ အကယ်၍သင်တို့သည်ဆပ်ပြာနှင့်အစွန်းချွတ် ဆေး အမြောက်အမြားကိုအသုံးပြုမည်ဆိုသော်လည်း၊ သင်တို့၏အပြစ်သည်ငါ၏ရှေ့၌ ထင်ရှားလျက်ပင်ရှိမည်။
౨౨నువ్వు నదిలో కడుక్కున్నా, ఎక్కువ సబ్బు రాసుకున్నా నీ దోషం నాకు గొప్ప మరకలాగా కనిపిస్తున్నది. ఇది ప్రభువైన యెహోవా వాక్కు.
23 ၂၃ သင်တို့သည်ဗာလဘုရားကိုအဘယ်အခါကမျှ ဝတ်မပြုရှိမခိုးခဲ့ပါ၊ မိမိတို့ကိုယ်ကိုမညစ်ညမ်းစေခဲ့ပါဟူ၍ အဘယ်သို့လျှင်ဆိုနိုင်မည်နည်း။ ချိုင့်ဝှမ်းထဲတွင်သင်တို့အဘယ်သို့ အပြစ် ကူးလွန်ခဲ့သည်ကိုကြည့်လော့။ သင်ပြုခဲ့သည့်အမှုကိုသိမှတ်လော့။ သင်သည်မုန်ယိုလျက်နေသည့်ကုလားအုတ် ပျိုကဲ့သို့၊ အချုပ်အချယ်မရှိဟိုမှသည်သို့ပြေး လျက်နေ၏။
౨౩“నాలో అపవిత్రత లేదు, బయలు దేవుళ్ళ వెనక నేను వెళ్ళడం లేదు” అని నువ్వు ఎలా అనుకుంటున్నావు? లోయల్లో నీవెలా ప్రవర్తించావో చూడు. నువ్వు చేసిన దాన్ని గమనించు. నువ్వు విచ్చలవిడిగా తిరిగే ఒంటెవి.
24 ၂၄ သင်သည်တောကန္တာရတွင်နေသည့် မြည်းရိုင်းမနှင့်တူ၏။ မိတ်လိုက်ချိန်ကျသောအခါ၊ သူ့အား အဘယ်သူတားဆီးနိုင်သနည်း။ သူ့ကိုအလိုရှိသူမြည်းထီးမှန်သမျှသည် အပင်ပန်းခံ၍ရှာနေရန်မလို။ မိတ်လိုက်ချိန်၌သူ့အားအစဉ်တွေ့ရှိနိုင်လေသည်။
౨౪అరణ్యానికి అలవాటు పడిన అడవి గాడిదవు. అది కామంతో దీర్ఘంగా శ్వాస తీసుకుంటుంది. మగ గాడిదను కలిసినప్పుడు దాన్ని ఆపగల వాడెవడు? దాని వెంటబడే గాడిదలకు అలుపు రాదు. తన జత కోసం వెదికే కాలంలో అది తేలికగా కనిపిస్తుంది.
25 ၂၅ အို ဣသရေလ၊အခြားဘုရားများသို့ လိုက်ပြေးခြင်းအားဖြင့် သင်၏ခြေ၌ဖိနပ်မကျွတ်စေနှင့်။ သင်၏အာခေါင်ကိုသော်လည်းမခြောက်စေနှင့်။ သို့ရာတွင်သင်က`အကျွန်ုပ်သည်လူမျိုးခြား ဘုရားများကိုချစ်၍၊ သူတို့၏နောက်သို့ပင်လိုက်ပါတော့မည်' ဟုဆို၏။
౨౫నీ పాదాలకు చెప్పులు తొడుక్కుని జాగ్రత్త పడు, నీ గొంతు ఆరిపోకుండా జాగ్రత్తపడు, అని నేను చెప్పాను. కాని “నీ మాట వినను, కొత్తవారిని మోహించాను, వారి వెంట వెళ్తాను” అని చెబుతున్నావు.
26 ၂၆ အဖမ်းခံရချိန်၌ သူခိုးသည်အရှက်ကွဲရ သကဲ့သို့ သင်၏ဘုရင်များ၊ မင်းညီမင်းသား များ၊ ယဇ်ပုရောဟိတ်များ၊ ပရောဖက်များ၊ သင် တို့ဣသရေလပြည်သားအပေါင်းတို့သည် အရှက်ကွဲရကြလိမ့်မည်။-
౨౬దొంగ దొరికిపోయినప్పుడు సిగ్గుపడే విధంగా ఇశ్రాయేలు కుటుంబం సిగ్గుపడుతుంది. చెట్టుతో “నువ్వు మా తండ్రివి” అనీ, రాయితో “నువ్వే నన్ను పుట్టించావు” అనీ చెబుతూ, ఇశ్రాయేలు ప్రజలు, వారి రాజులు, అధిపతులు, యాజకులు, ప్రవక్తలు అవమానం పొందుతారు.
27 ၂၇ သစ်ပင်အား`အရှင်သည်အကျွန်ုပ်အဖဖြစ်ပါ သည်' ဟူ၍လည်းကောင်း၊ ကျောက်တုံးအား`အရှင် သည်အကျွန်ုပ်အမိဖြစ်ပါသည်' ဟူ၍လည်း ကောင်းသင်တို့ပြောဆိုကြ၏။ သင်တို့သည်ငါ ၏ဘက်သို့မလှည့်၊ ငါ့အားကျောခိုင်း၍သွား ကြ၏။ သို့ရာတွင်သင်တို့သည်ဘေးအန္တရာယ် တွေ့သောအခါ၌မူကား၊ ငါ့အားကြွလာ တော်မူ၍သင်တို့ကိုကူမတော်မူရန်လျှောက် ထားကြ၏။
౨౭వారు నా వైపు నేరుగా చూడకుండా తమ వీపు తిప్పుకున్నారు. అయినా ఆపద సమయంలో మాత్రం, “వచ్చి మమ్మల్ని రక్షించు” అని నన్ను వేడుకుంటారు.
28 ၂၈ ``မိမိတို့အတွက်သင်တို့ပြုလုပ်ထားသည့် ဘုရားများကားအဘယ်မှာနည်း။ သင်တို့ဒုက္ခ ရောက်ချိန်ထိုဘုရားများကယ်နိုင်လျှင်ကယ် စေကြလော့။ အို ယုဒပြည်၊ သင်၏မြို့တို့သည် များပြားသကဲ့သို့ သင်ပြုလုပ်သောဘုရား တို့သည်လည်းများပြားလှပါသည်တကား။-
౨౮నీ కోసం చేసుకున్న దేవుళ్ళు ఎక్కడ ఉన్నారు? నీ ఆపదలో వాళ్ళు వచ్చి నిన్ను రక్షిస్తారేమో. యూదా, నీ పట్టణాలెన్ని ఉన్నాయో నీ దేవతా విగ్రహాలు కూడా అన్ని ఉన్నాయి కదా.
29 ၂၉ သင်တို့အားလုံးပင်ငါ့ကိုပုန်ကန်ကြလေပြီ။ သင်တို့သည်ငါ့ကို အဘယ်သို့မကျေမနပ် ဖြစ်ကြသနည်း'' ဟုထာဝရဘုရားမိန့် တော်မူ၏။-
౨౯మీరంతా నా మీద తిరగబడి పాపం చేశారు. ఇంకా ఎందుకు నాతో వాదిస్తారు? అని యెహోవా అడుగుతున్నాడు.
30 ၃၀ ``ငါသည်သင်တို့ကိုဆုံးမပါသော်လည်း အကျိုးမရှိ။ သင်တို့သည်ပဲ့ပြင်သွန်သင်မှုကို လက်မခံလိုကြ။ အမျက်ပြင်းစွာထွက်သည့် ခြင်္သေ့သဖွယ် သင်တို့သည်မိမိတို့ပရောဖက် များကိုသတ်ဖြတ်ကြလေပြီ။-
౩౦నేను మీ ప్రజలను శిక్షించడం వ్యర్థమే. ఎందుకంటే వారు శిక్షకు లోబడరు. నాశనవాంఛ గల సింహంలాగా మీ ఖడ్గం మీ ప్రవక్తలను చంపుతూ ఉంది.
31 ၃၁ ဣသရေလပြည်သူတို့၊ သင်တို့သည်ထာဝရ ဘုရား၏စကားကိုနားထောင်ကြလော့။ ငါ သည်သင်တို့အဖို့တောကန္တာရကဲ့သို့လည်း ကောင်း၊ မှောင်အတိလွှမ်းနေသည့်ပြည်ကဲ့သို့ လည်းကောင်းဖြစ်၍နေလေပြီလော။ ယင်းသို့ မဟုတ်ပါမူသင်တို့သည်အဘယ်ကြောင့် ထင်သလိုပြုကျင့်ကာ ငါ့ထံသို့အဘယ် အခါမျှပြန်မလာဘဲနေတော့မည်ဟု ဆိုကြသနည်း။-
౩౧ఇప్పటి తరం ప్రజలు యెహోవా చెప్పే మాట వినండి, నేను ఇశ్రాయేలుకు ఒక అరణ్యం లాగా అయ్యానా? గాఢాంధకారంతో నిండిన దేశంలా అయ్యానా? “మాకు స్వేచ్ఛ లభించింది, ఇంక నీ దగ్గరికి రాము” అని నా ప్రజలెందుకు చెబుతున్నారు?
32 ၃၂ မိန်းမပျိုသည်မိမိ၏ကျောက်မျက်ရတနာ များကိုလည်းကောင်း၊ မင်္ဂလာဆောင်သတို့ သမီးသည်မိမိ၏မင်္ဂလာဆောင်ဝတ်စုံကို လည်းကောင်းမေ့လျော့တတ်ပါသလော။ သို့ ရာတွင်ငါ၏လူမျိုးတော်မူကားမရေ မတွက်နိုင်သောနေ့ရက်များတွင်ငါ့ကို မေ့လျော့ကြလေပြီ။-
౩౨ఒక కన్య తన ఆభరణాలు మర్చిపోతుందా? పెళ్ళికూతురు తన మేలిముసుగులు మర్చిపోతుందా? అయితే నా ప్రజలు లెక్కలేనన్ని దినాలు నన్ను మర్చిపోయారు.
33 ၃၃ သင်တို့သည်မိမိတို့ချစ်သူများကိုအမှန် ပင်လိုက်၍ရှာတတ်ကြ၏။ ဆိုးညစ်သည့်အမျိုး သမီးများကိုပင်သင်တို့၏အကျင့်ကိုသင် ပေးနိုင်ကြ၏။-
౩౩కామం తీర్చుకోడానికి నీవెంత తెలివిగా నటిస్తున్నావు? కులటలకు కూడా నువ్వు ఇలాటివి నేర్పించగలవు.
34 ၃၄ ဖောက်ထွင်းခိုးယူမှုအတွက်သင်တို့ဖမ်းမမိ သော်လည်း ထိုဆင်းရဲသားများ၊ အပြစ်မဲ့သူ များ၏သွေးနှင့် သင်တို့၏အဝတ်များသည် စွန်းကွက်လျက်ရှိ၏။ ``သို့ပါလျက်
౩౪నిర్దోషులైన దీనుల ప్రాణరక్తం నీ బట్ట చెంగుల మీద కనబడుతూ ఉంది. వారేమీ నిన్ను దోచుకోడానికి వచ్చినవారు కాదు.
35 ၃၅ `ငါ့တွင်အပြစ်မရှိ၊ ထာဝရဘုရားသည်အမှန် ပင် ငါ့အားအမျက်ထွက်တော်မမူတော့ပြီဟု' ဆို ချင်သည်။ သို့သော်သင်ကမိမိအပြစ်မကူး လွန်ပါဟုငြင်းဆိုသဖြင့် ငါသည်သင့်အား အပြစ်ဒဏ်ခတ်တော်မူမည်။-
౩౫ఇంతా చేసినా నువ్వు “నేను నిర్దోషిని, యెహోవా కోపం నా మీదికి రాదులే” అని చెప్పుకుంటున్నావు. ఇదిగో చూడు, “నేను పాపం చేయలేదు” అని నువ్వు చెప్పిన దాన్నిబట్టి నిన్ను శిక్షిస్తాను.
36 ၃၆ သင်တို့သည်အခြားနိုင်ငံဘုရားများဆည်း ကပ်သောအားဖြင့်၊ မိမိကိုယ်ကိုတန်ဖိုးကျ စေသည့်အာရှုရိပြည်သည်သင့်အားအကူ အညီပေးရန်ပျက်ကွက်သကဲ့သို့ အီဂျစ် ပြည်သည်လည်းပျက်ကွက်လိမ့်မည်။-
౩౬నీ ప్రవర్తనలో మార్పును అంత తేలికగా ఎలా తీసుకోగలుగుతున్నావు? నువ్వు అష్షూరుపై ఆధారపడి సిగ్గుపడినట్టు ఐగుప్తు విషయంలో కూడా సిగ్గుపడతావు.
37 ၃၇ သင်သည်အရှက်ကွဲလျက်ခေါင်းငိုက်စိုက်နှင့် အီဂျစ်ပြည်မှပြန်လာရလိမ့်မည်။ ငါထာဝရ ဘုရားသည်သင်အားကိုးသူတို့ကိုပစ်ပယ် တော်မူပြီ။ သူတို့ထံမှသင်သည်အဘယ် အကျိုးကိုမျှရရှိလိမ့်မည်မဟုတ်။''
౩౭ఆ జనం దగ్గర నుండి నిరాశతో చేతులు తలపై పెట్టుకుని తిరిగి వెళ్తావు. నువ్వు నమ్ముకున్న వారిని యెహోవా తోసిపుచ్చాడు. వారు నీకు ఏ విధంగానూ సహాయం చేయలేరు.