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౧ఇశ్రాయేలీయులను గూర్చి మలాకీ ప్రవక్త ద్వారా చెప్పబడిన యెహోవా వాక్కు.
2 ၂ ထာဝရဘုရား မိန့် တော်မူသောစကားဟူမူကား၊ သင် တို့ကို ငါချစ် လေပြီ။ အကျွန်ုပ် တို့ကို အဘယ်သို့ ချစ် တော်မူသနည်းဟု သင်တို့မေး ကြလျှင် ၊ ဧသော သည် ယာကုပ် ၏အစ်ကို ဖြစ်သည်မ ဟုတ်လော။ သို့သော်လည်း ယာကုပ် ကို ငါချစ် ၏။
౨యెహోవా ఈ విధంగా అంటున్నాడు. “నేను మీ పట్ల ప్రేమ కనపరిచాను. అయితే మీరు ‘ఏ విషయంలో నీవు మా పట్ల ప్రేమ చూపించావు?’ అంటారు. ఏశావు యాకోబుకు అన్న కదా. నేను యాకోబును ప్రేమించాను.
3 ၃ ဧသော ကို ငါမုန်း ၍ သူ နေသောတောင် တို့ကို လွင်ပြင် ဖြစ် စေပြီ။ သူ့ အမွေခံ ရာမြေကို မြေခွေး တို့၌ အပ်လေပြီဟု ထာဝရဘုရား မိန့် တော်မူ၏။
౩ఏశావును ద్వేషించాను. అతని నివాస స్థలాలను పాడుచేసి అతని ఆస్తిని ఎడారిలో ఉన్న నక్కలపాలు చేశాను.”
4 ၄ ဧဒုံ အမျိုးသားတို့က၊ ငါတို့သည် ပျက်စီး သော်လည်း ၊ ပျက်စီး သောအရပ်တို့ကို တဖန် တည်ဆောက် ဦးမည်ဟုဆို ရာတွင်၊ ကောင်းကင်ဗိုလ်ခြေ အရှင် ထာဝရဘုရား မိန့် တော်မူသည်ကား၊ သူ တို့သည် တည်ဆောက် သော်လည်း ငါ ဖြိုဖျက် မည်။ သူ တို့ကို ဒုစရိုက် ပြည်သား ၊ ထာဝရဘုရား အစဉ် အမျက် ထွက်တော်မူသောလူမျိုး ဟူ၍သမုတ် ကြလိမ့်မည်။
౪“మనం నాశనమై పోయాం. రండి, పాడైపోయిన మన నివాస స్థలాలు తిరిగి నిర్మించుకుందాం” అని ఎదోమీయులు అనుకొంటారు. అయితే సైన్యాలకు అధిపతియైన యెహోవా చెబుతున్నది ఏమిటంటే, వారు మళ్ళీ నిర్మించుకొన్నప్పటికీ నేను వాటిని క్రింద పడదోసి నాశనం చేస్తాను. వాళ్ళ దేశం భక్తిహీనుల ప్రదేశమనీ, వాళ్ళపై యెహోవా కోపం నిత్యమూ నిలిచి ఉంటుందని ఇతర ప్రజలు అంటారు.
5 ၅ ထိုအမှုကို သင်တို့သည် မြင် သောအခါ၊ ထာဝရဘုရား သည် ဣသရေလ ပြည် ၏ပြင်မှာ ဘုန်းတန်ခိုးကြီး တော်မူသည်ဟု ဆို ကြလိမ့်မည်။
౫కళ్ళారా దాన్ని చూసిన మీరు “ఇశ్రాయేలు ప్రజల సరిహద్దుల అవతల కూడా యెహోవా గొప్పవాడు” అంటారు.
6 ၆ သား သည် အဘ ကို ရိုသေ တတ်၏။ ကျွန် သည် သခင် ကို ကြောက်ရွံ့တတ်၏။ ငါ သည် အဘ မှန်လျှင် ၊ ငါ့ ကို အဘယ်သူ ရိုသေ သနည်း။ သခင် မှန်လျှင် ၊ အဘယ်သူ ကြောက်ရွံ့ သနည်းဟု ကောင်းကင်ဗိုလ်ခြေ အရှင် ထာဝရဘုရား သည် နာမ တော်ကို မထီမဲ့မြင် ပြုသော ယဇ်ပုရောဟိတ် တို့အား မေး တော်မူ၏။ အကျွန်ုပ်တို့သည် နာမ တော်ကို အဘယ်သို့ မထီမဲ့မြင် ပြုပါသနည်းဟု သင်တို့ မေး ရာတွင် ၊
౬“కుమారుడు తన తండ్రిని గొప్ప చేస్తాడు గదా, దాసుడు తన యజమానుని ఘనపరుస్తాడు గదా. నా గొప్పదనాన్ని నిర్లక్ష్యం చేసే యాజకులారా, నేను మీకు తండ్రినైతే నాకు రావలసిన ఘనత ఏమయింది? నేను యజమానుడినైతే నాకు భయపడేవాడు ఎక్కడ ఉన్నాడు?” అని సేనల ప్రభువైన యెహోవా మిమ్మల్ని అడిగినప్పుడు “నీ నామాన్ని మేము ఏ విధంగా నిర్లక్ష్యం చేశాం?” అని మీరు అంటారు.
7 ၇ ညစ်ညူး သောအစာ ကို ငါ့ ယဇ် ပလ္လင်သို့ ဆောင် ခဲ့ကြသည်တကား။ အကျွန်ုပ်တို့သည် ကိုယ်တော် ကို အဘယ်သို့ ရှုတ်ချ ပါသနည်းဟုမေး ရာတွင် ၊ ထာဝရဘုရား ၏စားပွဲ သည် ယုတ်မာ ၏ဟုဆိုသောကြောင့်ငါ့ကို ရှုတ်ချကြပြီ။
౭మీరు నా బలిపీఠం మీద అపవిత్రమైన ఆహారం నాకు అర్పిస్తూ “ఏమి చేసి నిన్ను అపవిత్రపరచాం?” అంటారు. “యెహోవా భోజనపు బల్లను అవమాన పరచడం వల్లనే గదా
8 ၈ မျက်စိ ကန်းသော အကောင်ကို ယဇ် ပူဇော်လျှင် အပြစ် ရှိသည် မဟုတ်လော။ ခြေ ဆွံ့သောအကောင်နှင့် နာ သော အကောင်ကို ယဇ် ပူဇော်လျှင် အပြစ် ရှိသည် မ ဟုတ်လော။ မြို့ဝန် မင်းအား ဆက် ပါလော့။ မင်း၏စိတ် နှင့် တွေ့လိမ့်မည်လော။ သင့် မျက်နှာ ကို ထောက်လိမ့်မည် လော ဟု ကောင်းကင်ဗိုလ်ခြေ အရှင် ထာဝရဘုရား မိန့် တော်မူ၏။
౮గుడ్డి దాన్ని బలిగా అర్పించినప్పుడు అది దోషమే కదా. కుంటి దాన్ని, జబ్బు పడిన దాన్ని అర్పించినప్పుడు అది దోషం కాదా? అలాంటి వాటిని మీ యజమానికి ఇస్తే అతడు మిమ్మల్ని స్వీకరిస్తాడా? మిమ్మల్ని కనికరిస్తాడా?” అని సేనల ప్రభువైన యెహోవా అడుగుతున్నాడు.
9 ၉ ယခု မှာ ဘုရား သခင်သည် ငါ တို့ကို ကယ်မ သနားတော်မူမည်အကြောင်း ၊ ထာဝရဘုရားရှေ့ တော်၌ ဆုတောင်း ကြပါလော့။ သင် တို့လက်ခံသောကြောင့်ဤသို့ ပြုတတ်ကြ၏။ သင် တို့မျက်နှာ ကို ထောက်ရမည်လောဟု ကောင်းကင်ဗိုလ်ခြေ အရှင် ထာဝရဘုရား မိန့် တော်မူ၏။
౯ఇప్పుడు దయ చూపమని ఆయనను ప్రాధేయపడండి. మీరే గదా ఆయనను అవమాన పరచారు. మీరు చేసిన పనులను బట్టి మీలో ఎవరినైనా ఆయన స్వీకరిస్తాడా? అని సేనల ప్రభువైన యెహోవా అడుగుతున్నాడు.
10 ၁၀ သင် တို့တွင် အဘယ်သူ သည် ငါ့တံခါး တို့ကို ပိတ် လိမ့်မည်နည်း။ သင်တို့သည် ငါ့ ယဇ် ပလ္လင်ပေါ်မှာ မီး ကို အချည်းနှီး မ ညှိရကြ။ သင် တို့ကို ငါ အလို မ ရှိ၊ သင် တို့ပြု သောပူဇော် သက္ကာကို ငါ လက်မ ခံဟု ကောင်းကင်ဗိုလ်ခြေ အရှင် ထာဝရဘုရား မိန့် တော်မူ၏။
౧౦“మీరు నా బలిపీఠం మీద వ్యర్థంగా నిప్పు రాజబెట్టకుండా మీలో ఒకడు నా ఆలయం ద్వారాలు మూసివేస్తే ఎంత బాగుండేది? మీరంటే నాకు ఇష్టం లేదు, మీరు అర్పించే నైవేద్యాలను నేను స్వీకరించను” అని సేనల ప్రభువైన యెహోవా చెబుతున్నాడు.
11 ၁၁ နေ ထွက် ရာအရပ်မှ သည် နေဝင် ရာအရပ်တိုင်အောင် တပါးအမျိုးသား တို့တွင် ငါ ၏နာမ တော်သည် ကြီးမြတ် ရလိမ့်မည်။ ခပ်သိမ်း သော အရပ် တို့၌ နံ့သာ ပေါင်း ကို ငါ ၏နာမ တော်အား မီးရှို့၍ ၊ သန့်ရှင်း သော ပူဇော် သက္ကာကို ဆက်ကပ် ရကြလိမ့်မည်။ ငါ ၏နာမ တော်သည် တပါးအမျိုးသား တို့တွင် ကြီးမြတ် ရလိမ့်မည်ဟု ကောင်းကင် ဗိုလ်ခြေ အရှင် ထာဝရဘုရား မိန့် တော်မူ၏။
౧౧తూర్పు దిక్కు నుండి పడమర దిక్కు వరకూ ఇతర దేశాల ప్రజల్లో నా పేరును అంతా గౌరవిస్తారు. అన్ని ప్రాంతాల్లో నా పేరుకు ధూప నైవేద్యాలు, పవిత్రమైన అర్పణలు అర్పిస్తారు. అన్య దేశాల ప్రజల్లో నా పేరును ఉన్నతంగా ఎంచుతారు. అని సేనల ప్రభువైన యెహోవా చెబుతున్నాడు.
12 ၁၂ သင် တို့က၊ ထာဝရ ဘုရား၏ စားပွဲ တော်သည် ညစ်ညူး ၏။ တင်ထားသော ဘောဇဉ်ပူဇော်သက္ကာသည် ယုတ်မာ ၏ဟုဆို သောကြောင့် စားပွဲ တော်ကို ရှုတ်ချ ကြပြီ။
౧౨మీరైతే యెహోవా బల్ల అపవిత్రమని, దాని మీద ఉంచిన ఆహారం నీచమైనదని అనుకుంటూ దానికి అవమానం కలిగిస్తున్నారు.
13 ၁၃ တဖန်သင်တို့က၊ အမှုတော်ကို ဆောင်ရွက်၍ ပင်ပန်း စွတကားဟုဆို လျက် ၊ ကဲ့ရဲ့ သံကို ပြုတတ်ကြသည် ဟု ကောင်းကင်ဗိုလ်ခြေ အရှင် ထာဝရဘုရား မိန့် တော်မူ၏။ လု ယူသောအကောင်၊ ခြေ ဆွံ့သောအကောင်၊ နာ သောအကောင်ကို ဆောင် ခဲ့ကြပြီ။ ထိုသို့သော ပူဇော် သက္ကာကို ဆောင် ခဲ့ကြပြီတကား။ သင် တို့လက် မှ ငါခံရ မည် လောဟု ထာဝရဘုရား မေး တော်မူ၏။
౧౩అయ్యో, ఇదంతా చేయడం వ్యర్ధమని ఆ బల్లను తిరస్కరిస్తున్నారు అని ఆయన సెలవిస్తున్నాడు. ఇది సేనల ప్రభువైన యెహోవా వాక్కు. దోచుకున్నదానినీ, కుంటిదానినీ, జబ్బు గలదానినీ మీరు తీసుకువచ్చి బలిగా అర్పించినప్పుడు అలాంటి వాటిని నేను స్వీకరిస్తానా? అని యెహోవా అడుగుతున్నాడు.
14 ၁၄ သစ္စာ ဂတိထားပြီးမှ မိမိ သိုး စု၌ အထီး ရှိ လျက်ပင် လှည့်စား ၍ ၊ ထာဝရ ဘုရားအား ချို့တဲ့ သော အကောင်ကို ယဇ် ပူဇော်သောသူသည် အမင်္ဂလာ ရှိစေသတည်း။ ငါ သည် ကြီးမြတ် သော ရှင်ဘုရင် ဖြစ်၏။ ငါ ၏ နာမ တော်သည် လူ အမျိုးမျိုးတို့တွင် ကြောက်မက် ဖွယ်ဖြစ် ရမည်ဟု ကောင်းကင်ဗိုလ်ခြေ အရှင် ထာဝရဘုရား မိန့် တော်မူ၏။
౧౪నేను ఘనమైన గొప్ప రాజును. అన్య దేశాల ప్రజల్లో నా పేరంటే భయం. యెహోవాకు మొక్కుబడి చెల్లించడానికి మగ జంతువు ఉన్నప్పటికీ జబ్బు పడిన దాన్ని అర్పించే వంచకుడు శాపానికి గురి అవుతాడు.
