Baebrania 12
1 Kwa eyo, kwa mana tumezungukwa na liunde likolo lya mashahidi, tutupe kila kilebe chatulemea pamope ni sambi yaibile yatuzingira kiurahisi. Tupange mbio kwa saburi katika mashindano yabekilwe nnongi yitu.
Seeing, therefore, that there is on every side of us such a throng of witnesses, let us also lay aside everything that hinders us, and the sin that clings about us, and run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,
2 Tugaelekeze minyo yitu kwa Yesu, ywabile mwanzilishi na ywaitimiza imani yitu, ambaye kwa ajili ya puraha ibekilwe nnongi ya ywastamili msalaba, mana atiidharau kiya yake, na tama pae luboko lwa kummalyo lwa iteo sa enzi sa Nnongo.
our eyes fixed on Jesus, the leader and perfect example of our faith, who, for the joy that lay before him, endured the cross, heedless of its shame, and now “has taken his seat at the right hand” of the throne of God.
3 Mana mumfikirie ywembe ywastamili maneno ga chuki boka kwa babile ni sambi, dhidi yake mwene ili panga muise kwaa muchokite au kuzimya mioyo yinu.
Weigh well the example of him who had to endure such opposition from “people who were sinning against themselves,” so that you should not grow weary or faint-hearted.
4 Mwataabika kewaa au teseka pamushindana na sambi kiasi cha ishiwa na mwai.
You have not yet, in your struggle with sin, resisted to the death;
5 Mwasahau kae kolo kutiwa mwoyo ambako kunabaelekeza kati bana analome: “Mwana wango. kana ugatole kwa wepesi maruda ga Ngwana, wala kana ukate tamaa paurekebishilwe ni ywembe.”
and you have forgotten the encouraging words which are addressed to you as God’s children – “My child, think not lightly of the Lord’s discipline, do not despond when he rebukes you;
6 Kwa mana Ngwana humwazibu yeyote ywaampendile, na kumwadhibu kila mwana ywabile ampokya kwaa.
For it is him whom he loves that he disciplines, and he chastises every child whom he acknowledges.”
7 Mustahimili majaribu kati kurudiwa. Nnongo hushughulika ni mwenga kati ywashughulika na bana, mana ni mwana gani ambae tate bake aweza kwaa kumwazibu?
It is for your discipline that you have to endure all this. God is dealing with you as his children. For where is there a child whom his father does not discipline?
8 Lakini mana ntopo adhibiwa, ambako twenga twabote twashiriki, bai ni mwenga ni haramu na bana bake kwaa.
If you are left without that discipline, in which all children share, it shows that you are bastards, and not true children.
9 Zaidi ya yote, tubile na tate bitu mu'dunia ba kutuazibu, na twatibaheshimiya. Je tupalikwa kwaa hata zaidi kumweshimu Tate ba kiroho na tama?
Further, when our earthly fathers disciplined us, we respected them. Should we not, then, much rather yield submission to the Father of souls, and live?
10 Hakika tate bitu batituazibu kwa miaka michunu kati yatibenekana sawa kwabe, lakini Nnongo utuazibu kwa faida yitu ili tushiriki utakatifu wake.
Our fathers disciplined us for only a short time and as seemed best to them; but God disciplines us for our true good, to enable us to share his holiness.
11 Ntopo azabu yaipuraisha kwa muda woo. Upangika na matamwe. Hata nyo, baadaye upambika tunda lya amani ya utauwa kwa balo bapundishilwe nabo.
No discipline is pleasant at the time; on the contrary, it is painful. But afterwards its fruit is seen in the peacefulness of a righteous life which is the lot of those who have been trained under it.
12 Kwa eyo muinue maboko ginu yailegea na kupanga magoti yinu gabile dhaifu kuwa gabile ni ngupu kae;
Therefore “lift again the down-dropped hands and straighten the weakened knees;
13 Munyoshe mapito ga nyayo yinu, ili panga yeyote ywabile mlemavu ayongoli kwaa upotevuni lakini apate kuponywa.
make straight paths for your feet,” so that the lame limb may not be put out of joint, but rather be cured.
14 Muipale amani na bandu bote, na utakatifu kae ambao bila huo ntopo ywamwona Ngwana.
Try earnestly to live at peace with everyone, and to attain to that purity without which no one will see the Lord.
15 Mube baangalifu ili panga abile kwaa ywatengwa kutalu na neema ga Nnongo, na panga iise kwaa shina lya uchungu lyalowa chipuka na kusababisha shida na kukerebuya benge.
Take care that no one fails to use the loving help of God, “that no bitterness is allowed to take root and spring up, and cause trouble,” and so poison the whole community.
16 Mulolekeye kuwa ntopo umalaya au mundu ywabile kwaa mtauwa kati yaa Esau, ambaye kwa sababu ya mlo umo atipemeya haki yake ya belekwa.
Take care that no one becomes immoral, or irreligious like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.
17 Kwa mana mutangite panga baadaye, atitamaniya kurithi baraka, atikanikiwa, kwa sababu apatike kwaa fursa ya tubu pamope ni tate bake, hata ingawa agapalike muno kwa machozi.
For you know that even afterwards, when he wished to claim his father’s blessing, he was rejected – for he never found an opportunity to repair his error – though he begged for the blessing with tears.
18 Kwa mana muisa kwaa katika kitombe ambazo waweza kwaa kamwa. Nnema watiyaka mwoto, libendo, kukatisha tamaa na dhoruba.
It is not to tangible “flaming fire” that you have drawn near, nor to “gloom, and darkness, and storm,
19 Mwaisa kwaa kwa lilobe lya tarumbeta, au kwa maneno gabokana na lilobe ambalo lyatisababisha kila baliyowine balobe kwaa neno lolote longela kwabe.
and the blast of a trumpet, and an audible voice.” Those who heard that voice entreated that they might hear no more,
20 Kwa mana baweza kwaa vumiliya chelo chaamuliwa: “Mana itei hata mnyama ywakamwile kitombe, lazima akombolwe ni maliwe.”
for they could not bear to think of the command – “If even an animal touches the mountain, it is to be stoned to death;”
21 Ya yogopeya muno yaagabweni Musa abayite, “Namuogopeya muno kiasi cha lendema.”
and so fearful was the sight that Moses said – “I tremble with fear.”
22 Baada yake, muisile pakitombe sa Sayuni na katika mji wa Nnongo ywabile nkoto, Yerusalemu ya kumaunde, na kwa malaika elfu komi batisherehekea.
No, but it is to Mount Zion that you have drawn near, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to countless hosts of angels,
23 Muisile katika kusanyiko lya abeleki ba kwanza bote, na kwa roho ya batakatifu ambao batikamilishwa,
to the festal gathering and assemblage of God’s firstborn whose names are enrolled in heaven, to God the judge of all people, to the spirits of the righteous who have attained perfection,
24 Muisile kwa Yesu mpatanishi ba agano lyaayambe, na kwa mwai yainyunyuzilwe ambayo ulongela mema zaidi kuliko mwai ya Habili.
to Jesus, the intermediary of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that tells of better things than the blood of Abel.
25 Linga kuwa kana uise ukamkataa yumo ywaalongela. Kwa kuwa mana batiepuka babile kunkataa yumo ywabile baonya dunia, kwa hakika twaepuka kwaa mana itei twakerebuka kutalu boka kwa yolo ywatukanya boka kumaunde.
Beware how you refuse to hear him who is speaking. For, if the Israelites did not escape punishment, when they refused to listen to him who taught them on earth the divine will, far worse will it be for us, if we turn away from him who is teaching us from heaven.
26 Kwa muda woo lilobe lyake lyatitikisa dunia. Lakini nambeambe atiahidi na longela, “Bado mara yenge kae nalowa tikisa kwaa dunia kichake, ila maunde kae.”
Then his voice shook the earth, but now his declaration is – “Still once more I will cause not only the earth to tremble, but also the heavens.”
27 Maneno aga, “Mara jimo kae,” ibonekeya kutoweshwa kwa ilebe ya ilendemeshwayo, ayee nga, ilebe ambayo iumbwile, ili panga yelo ilebe yalendema kwaa vibakie.
And those words “still once more” indicate the passing away of all that is shaken – that is, of all created things – in order that only what is unshaken may remain.
28 Kwa eyo, tupokii upwalume ambao ulendema kwaa, twapuraika katika hali ya kumwabudu Nnongo kwa yeketya pamope na nyenyekeya katika chelo.
Therefore, let us, who have received a kingdom that cannot be shaken, be thankful, and so offer acceptable worship to God, with awe and the deepest respect.
29 Kwa mana Nnongo witu ni mwoto waulyaa.
For our God is “a consuming fire.”
