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1 ၁ အနန္တတန်ခိုးရှင်ထာဝရဘုရားက``ငါ သည်မိမိ၏တမန်တော်ကိုစေလွှတ်၍ ငါ့ အဖို့လမ်းခရီးကိုပြင်ဆင်စေမည်။ ထို နောက်သင်တို့စောင့်မျှော်နေသောထာဝရ ဘုရားသည် မိမိ၏ဗိမာန်တော်သို့ကြွလာ တော်မူလိမ့်မည်။ သင်တို့စောင့်မျှော်နေသော တမန်တော်သည်လာ၍ ငါ၏ပဋိညာဉ်တော် ကိုဖော်ပြကြေညာလိမ့်မည်'' ဟုမိန့်တော် မူ၏။
౧సైన్యాలకు అధిపతియైన యెహోవా ఇలా చెబుతున్నాడు. “నేను నా దూతను పంపుతున్నాను. అతడు నాకు ముందుగా దారి సిద్ధం చేస్తాడు. ఆ తరువాత మీరు వెతుకుతూ ఉన్న ఆ ప్రభువు, అంటే మీరు కోరుకున్న నిబంధన దూత తన ఆలయానికి హఠాత్తుగా వస్తాడు. ఆయన వస్తున్నాడు.
2 ၂ သို့ရာတွင်အဘယ်သူသည်ကိုယ်တော်ရှင်ကြွ လာတော်မူမည့်နေ့ရက်ကာလကိုတိမ်းရှောင် နိုင်ပါမည်နည်း။ ကိုယ်တော်ရှင်ပေါ်ထွန်းတော် မူရာကာလ၌အဘယ်သူသည်ကျန်ရစ်လိမ့် မည်နည်း။ ကိုယ်တော်သည်အစွမ်းထက်သည့် ဆပ်ပြာနှင့်လည်းကောင်း၊ သတ္တုချွတ်သည့် မီးနှင့်လည်းကောင်းတူလိမ့်မည်။-
౨ఆయన రాకడ దినం ఎవరు తట్టుకోగలడు? ఆయన కనబడినప్పుడు ఎవరు నిలబడి ఉండగలరు? ఆయన కంసాలి కొలిమిలో ఉండే నిప్పులాంటివాడు, చాకలి చేతిలోని సబ్బు వంటివాడు.
3 ၃ ကိုယ်တော်သည်ချေးညှော်ကင်းစင်စေရန်ငွေ ကိုချွတ်သောသူကဲ့သို့ကြွလာ၍ တရား စီရင်တော်မူလိမ့်မည်။ ရွှေထည်ငွေထည်အလုပ် သမားသည်ရွှေနှင့်ငွေကိုချွတ်သကဲ့သို့ ထာဝရ ဘုရား၏ကောင်းကင်တမန်သည်လေဝိယဇ် ပုရောဟိတ်တို့အားသန့်စင်အောင်ပြုလိမ့်မည်။ ယင်းသို့ပြုရသည့်အကြောင်းမှာယဇ်ပုရော ဟိတ်တို့သည် ထာဝရဘုရားထံတော်သို့ လျောက်ပတ်သည့်ပူဇော်သကာများကို ယူဆောင်လာနိုင်ကြစေရန်ဖြစ်ပေသည်။-
౩ఆయన వెండిని పరీక్షించి పుటం పెట్టి శుద్ధి చేసేవాడిలాగా కూర్చుంటాడు. వెండి బంగారాలను శుద్ధి చేసి పుటంపెట్టే విధంగా ఆయన లేవీ గోత్రం వారిని శుద్ధి చేస్తాడు. అప్పుడు వాళ్ళు నీతి నియమాలను అనుసరించి యెహోవాకు నైవేద్యాలు అర్పిస్తారు.
4 ၄ ထိုအခါ၌ယုဒပြည်သူများနှင့်ယေရုရှ လင်မြို့သားတို့ထာဝရဘုရား၏ထံတော် သို့ ယူဆောင်လာသည့်ပူဇော်သကာများသည် ရှေးကာလမှာကဲ့သို့ပင်ထာဝရဘုရား နှစ်သက်တော်မူဖွယ်ရာဖြစ်လိမ့်မည်။
౪గతించిన రోజుల్లో, పూర్వకాలంలో ఉన్నట్టుగా, యూదా ప్రజలు, యెరూషలేము నివాసులు అర్పించే నైవేద్యాలు యెహోవాకు ప్రీతికరంగా ఉంటాయి.
5 ၅ ကိုယ်တော်က``ငါသည်တရားစီရင်ရန်သင် တို့ထံသို့လာ၍မှော်အတတ်ကိုကျင့်သုံး သူများ၊ သူတစ်ပါး၏အိမ်ရာကိုပြစ်မှား သူများ၊ မမှန်သောသက်သေခံသူများ၊ မိမိ၏အလုပ်သမားများအပေါ်အခ ကြေးငွေကိုမတရားသဖြင့်ပြုသူများ၊ မုဆိုးမ၊ မိဖမဲ့သူနှင့်လူမျိုးခြားတို့ အားအနိုင်ကျင့်သူမှစ၍ ငါ့အားမရို သေမလေးစားသူမှန်သမျှတို့အားချက် ချင်းထုတ်ဖော်ကြေညာမည်။
౫తీర్పు తీర్చడానికి నేను మీ దగ్గరికి వచ్చినప్పుడు, మాంత్రికుల మీద, వ్యభిచారుల మీద, అబద్దసాక్ష్యం పలికే వారి మీద నా సాక్ష్యం చెప్పడానికి సిద్ధంగా ఉంటాను. నేనంటే భయం లేకుండా కూలి ఇచ్చే విషయంలో కూలివాళ్ళను, విధవరాండ్రను, తండ్రిలేని వారిని బాధపెట్టిన వారి విషయంలో, పరాయి దేశస్థుల పట్ల అన్యాయంగా ప్రవర్తించిన వారి విషయంలో నేను బలంగా సాక్ష్యం పలుకుతాను అని సైన్యాలకు అధిపతియైన యెహోవా సెలవిస్తున్నాడు.
6 ၆ ``ငါသည်ထာဝရဘုရားဖြစ်တော်မူ၍ ပြောင်းလဲတော်မမူ။ ထိုကြောင့်ယာကုပ်၏ သားမြေးဖြစ်သူသင်တို့သည်လုံးဝ ဆုံးရှုံးမှုမဖြစ်ကြသေးပေ။-
౬యెహోవానైన నేను మార్పు చెందను గనుక యాకోబు సంతతివారైన మీరు నాశనం కారు.
7 ၇ သင်တို့သည်မိမိတို့၏ဘိုးဘေးများနည်း တူ ငါ၏ပညတ်တော်တို့ကိုမစောင့်ထိန်း ဘဲလွှဲရှောင်လျက်နေခဲ့ကြလေပြီ။ သင် တို့သည်ငါ့ထံသို့ပြန်လာကြလော့။ ငါ သည်လည်းသင်တို့ထံသို့ပြန်လာမည်။'' ``သို့ ရာတွင်သင်တို့က`အထံတော်သို့ပြန်လာ နိုင်ရန်ကျွန်တော်မျိုးတို့အဘယ်သို့ပြုရ ကြပါမည်နည်း' ဟုမေးလျှောက်ကြ၏။-
౭మీ పూర్వీకుల కాలం నుండి మీరు నా నియమాలను లక్ష్యపెట్టకుండా వాటిని తిరస్కరించారు. అయితే ఇప్పుడు మీరు నావైపు తిరిగిన పక్షంలో నేను మీవైపు తిరుగుతానని సైన్యాల అధిపతియైన యెహోవా చెప్పినప్పుడు, ‘మేము దేని విషయంలో తిరగాలి?’ అని మీరు అంటారు.
8 ၈ လူသည်ဘုရားသခင်ကိုလိမ်လည်လှည့်စား အပ်ပါသလောဟု သင်တို့အားငါမေးပါ ၏။ ဤသို့မပြုအပ်သော်လည်းသင်တို့သည် ငါ့အားလိမ်လည်လှည့်စားလျက်နေပေ သည်။ သင်တို့က`ကျွန်တော်မျိုးတို့သည် အဘယ်သို့လိမ်လည်လှည့်စားကြပါ သနည်း' ဟုဆိုပါမူဆယ်ဖို့တစ်ဖို့အလှူ နှင့်ပူဇော်သကာများဆက်သမျှဟူ၍ ဖြေရပေမည်။-
౮మానవుడు దేవుని సొత్తు దొంగతనం చేస్తాడా? అయితే మీరు నా సొత్తు దొంగిలించారు. ‘ఏ విషయంలో మేము నీదగ్గర దొంగిలించాం?’ అని మీరు అంటారు. దశమ భాగం, కృతజ్ఞత అర్పణలు ఇవ్వకుండా దొంగిలించారు.
9 ၉ တစ်နိုင်ငံလုံးပင်ငါ့အားလိမ်လည်လှည့် စားလျက်နေသဖြင့် သင်တို့အားလုံးသည် ကျိန်စာသင့်လျက်ရှိကြ၏။-
౯ఈ ప్రజలందరూ నా దగ్గర దొంగతనం చేస్తూనే ఉన్నారు. మీరు శాపానికి పాత్రులయ్యారు.
10 ၁၀ ဗိမာန်တော်တွင်စားနပ်ရိက္ခာအမြောက် အမြားရှိစေရန် သင်တို့၏ဆယ်ဖို့တစ်ဖို့ အလှူကိုအပြည့်အဝယူဆောင်ခဲ့ကြ လော့။ ငါ၏အကဲကိုစမ်း၍ကြည့်ကြလော့။ ထိုအခါငါသည်ကောင်းကင်ပြူတင်းပေါက် များကိုဖွင့်၍ သင်တို့အပေါ်သို့ကောင်းချီး မင်္ဂလာအမျိုးမျိုးသွန်းလောင်းတော်မူ သည်ကိုသင်တို့တွေ့မြင်ကြရလိမ့်မည်။-
౧౦నా ఆలయంలో ఆహారం ఉండేలా మీ దశమ భాగం నా ఆలయం గిడ్డంగిలోనికి తీసుకురండి. ఇలా తీసుకువచ్చి నన్ను శోధించండి, నేను పరలోక ద్వారాలు విప్పి, పట్టలేనంత దీవెనలు విస్తారంగా కుమ్మరిస్తాను” అని సైన్యాలకు అధిపతియైన యెహోవా సెలవిస్తున్నాడు.
11 ၁၁ ငါသည်ပိုးမွှားများအားသင်တို့အသီး အနှံများကိုဖျက်ဆီးခွင့်ပြုလိမ့်မည် မဟုတ်။ သင်တို့၏စပျစ်နွယ်များသည် လည်းအသီးများနှင့်ပြည့်လျက်နေလိမ့် မည်။-''
౧౧“మీ పంటను పురుగులు తినివేయకుండా నేను గద్దిస్తాను. అవి మీ భూమిపై ఉన్న పంటను నాశనం చెయ్యవు. మీ ద్రాక్షచెట్ల ఫలాలు అకాలంలో రాలిపోవు. ఇది సైన్యాలకు అధిపతియైన యెహోవా వాక్కు.
12 ၁၂ ``ထိုအခါသင်တို့ပြည်သည်နေထိုင်ဖွယ် ကောင်းသည့်အရပ်ဖြစ်လိမ့်မည်။ သို့ဖြစ်၍ လူမျိုးတကာတို့သည်သင်တို့အားမင်္ဂလာ ရှိသူများဟုခေါ်ဝေါ်ကြလိမ့်မည်'' ဟု မိန့်တော်မူ၏။
౧౨ఇక అప్పుడు ఆనందకరమైన దేశంలో మీరు నివసిస్తారు. అన్య దేశాల ప్రజలంతా మిమ్మల్ని ధన్య జీవులు అంటారు అని సైన్యాలకు అధిపతియైన యెహోవా సెలవిస్తున్నాడు.
13 ၁၃ ထာဝရဘုရားက``သင်တို့သည်ငါ့အကြောင်း မကောင်းသတင်းများကိုပြောဆိုကြလေပြီ။ သို့သော်လည်းသင်တို့က`ကျွန်တော်မျိုးတို့ သည်ကိုယ်တော်ရှင်၏အကြောင်းကိုအဘယ် သို့ပြောဆိုခဲ့ကြပါသနည်း' ဟုမေးကြ၏။-
౧౩యెహోవా చెప్పేదేమిటంటే, నాకు విరోధంగా మీరు చాలా గర్వంగా మాట్లాడారు. ‘నిన్ను గూర్చి ఏమని మాట్లాడాం?’ అని మీరు అడుగుతారు.
14 ၁၄ သင်တို့သည်`ဘုရားသခင်အားဝတ်ပြု ကိုးကွယ်ရသည်မှာအချည်းနှီးပင်ဖြစ်၏။ ကိုယ်တော်မိန့်တော်မူသည့်အတိုင်းလိုက်နာ ဆောင်ရွက်သော်လည်းကောင်း၊ ငါတို့သည် မိမိတို့ပြုမိသည့်အပြစ်များအတွက် ဝမ်းနည်းကြောင်းအနန္တတန်ခိုးရှင်ထာဝရ ဘုရားအားကြိုးစားဖော်ပြ၍သော်လည်း ကောင်းအဘယ်အကျိုးရှိပါမည်နည်း။-
౧౪మీరు ఇలా చెప్పుకుంటున్నారు, ‘దేవునికి సేవ చేయడం వ్యర్ధం. ఆయన ఆజ్ఞలు గైకొని సైన్యాల అధిపతియైన యెహోవా సన్నిధిలో మనం దుఃఖాక్రాంతులుగా తిరుగుతూ ఉండడంవల్ల ఏమి ఉపయోగం?
15 ၁၅ ငါတို့တွေ့မြင်ရကြသည့်အတိုင်းမာန်မာန ကြီးသူများသည်မင်္ဂလာရှိကြ၏။ သူယုတ်မာ တို့သည်ကောင်းစားကြ၏။ ထိုမျှမကသူတို့ သည်ဘုရားသခင်၏ခန္တီပါရမီတော်ကို အကဲစမ်းကြသော်လည်းအဘယ်ဒုက္ခနှင့် မျှမတွေ့ရကြ' ဟုဆိုကြ၏'' ဟုမိန့်တော် မူ၏။
౧౫గర్విష్ఠులే ధన్యతలు పొందుతున్నారు, యెహోవాను శోధించే దుర్మార్గులు భద్రంగా ఉంటూ వర్ధిల్లుతున్నారు.’”
16 ၁၆ ထိုအခါမိမိအားကြောက်ရွံ့ရိုသေသော သူတို့အချင်းချင်းပြောဆိုနေကြသည့် စကားများကို ထာဝရဘုရားသည်နား ထောင်လျက်နေတော်မူသဖြင့်ကြားတော် မူ၏။ ထာဝရဘုရားအားကြောက်ရွံ့ရိုသေ သူများ၏စားရင်းကို ရှေ့တော်တွင်စာစောင် တစ်ခု၌ရေးမှတ်ထားရှိ၏။-
౧౬అప్పుడు, యెహోవా పట్ల భయభక్తులు గలవారు ఒకరితో ఒకరు మాట్లాడుకుంటున్నప్పుడు యెహోవా ఆ మాటలు విన్నాడు. యెహోవా పట్ల భయభక్తులు కలిగి ఆయన నామాన్ని గౌరవించే వారి గురించి జ్ఞాపకార్థంగా ఆయన సన్నిధానంలో ఒక పుస్తకం రాశారు.
17 ၁၇ အနန္တတန်ခိုးရှင်ထာဝရဘုရားက``ဤ သူတို့သည်ငါ၏လူစုဖြစ်လိမ့်မည်။ သူ တို့သည်ငါစီရင်ချက်ချမှတ်ရာနေ့၌ ငါ၏ကိုယ်ပိုင်လူစုဖြစ်ကြလိမ့်မည်။ အဖ သည်မိမိ၏အစေအပါးကို ခံသည့်သား အပေါ်တွင် ကရုဏာထားသကဲ့သို့ငါ သည်လည်းသူတို့အပေါ်တွင်ကရုဏာ ထားတော်မူမည်။-
౧౭“నేను నియమించే రోజు సమీపించినప్పుడు వారు నావారుగా, నా ప్రత్యేక సొత్తుగా ఉంటారు. తండ్రి తనను సేవించే కొడుకును కనికరించే విధంగా నేను వారిని కనికరిస్తాను” అని సైన్యాలకు అధిపతియైన యెహోవా సెలవిస్తున్నాడు.
18 ၁၈ တစ်ဖန်တုံငါ၏လူစုသည်သူတော်ကောင်း နှင့် သူယုတ်မာတို့တွေ့ကြုံခံစားရမှုမတူ ပုံကိုလည်းကောင်း၊ ငါ့အားဝတ်ပြုကိုးကွယ် သူနှင့်ဝတ်မပြုမကိုးကွယ်သူတို့ တွေ့ကြုံ ခံစားရမှုမတူပုံကိုလည်းကောင်းသိရှိ ကြလိမ့်မည်'' ဟုမိန့်တော်မူ၏။
౧౮అప్పుడు నీతిమంతులెవరో దుర్మార్గులెవరో, దేవుణ్ణి సేవించేవాళ్ళు ఎవరో, సేవించనివాళ్ళు ఎవరో మీరు మళ్ళీ గుర్తిస్తారు.