Men Ipru 12
1 ARI, pweki saunkadede pukat, me ras ong dapok kalaimun eu, me kapil pena kitail, kitail en meui sang katoutou patail o dip, me kin kolekole kitail, ap dadaurata tang ni weir, me mi mo’tail.
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 Ududial Iesus, me tapi pan o kaimwisoke pan atail poson, me sota kotin kupukupure peren me moa, ap kotin kanongama ni lopu, mamaleki kanamenokpa, ap kotidi ni pali maun en mol en Kot.
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 Komail tamanda i, me wonewei ni kaupa ren me dipan akan, pwe komail ender pangada o ngen omail ender luetala.
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 Pwe komail saikenta kelail ong en palian dip, me kareda kamela.
You have not yet, in your struggle with sin, resisted to the death;
5 O komail monokelar kamait pa’mail, me padaki ong komail ni tiak en seri: Nai ol, koe der rongarongan soreki kapung en Kaun o, o der luetalar ni a pan kotin kapung uk ala.
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 Pwe Kaun o kin kotin kame, me a kin pok ong o kin kaloke seri karos, me a pan sapwilimaneki.
For it is him whom he loves that he disciplines, and he chastises every child whom he acknowledges.”
7 A ma komail pan kanongama ong kalokolok, nan Kot kin kotin wiai ong komail duen ong sapwilim a kan. Pwe ia seri men, me sam a sota kin kaloke?
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 A ma komail sota pan kalokolok dueta irail karos, nan kaidin komail seri, pwe sota sam omail.
If you are left without that discipline, in which all children share, it shows that you are bastards, and not true children.
9 A ma sam atail en pali uduk kaloke kitail er, o kitail masak irail, iaduen, kitail sota pan peik kaualap ong Sam en ngen akan, pwen memaur kila?
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 Pwe irail kaloke kitail ran me malaulau, duen insen arail, a i pwen kamaui kitail la, pwe kitail en tungole kisan a saraui.
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 A kalokolok karos kaidin likamata peren, ni a pan lel ong kitail, pwe insensued, a mur a pan kareda wan pung o popol ong ir me anlar.
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 Komail ari kakelada pa o pukie omail luet akan.
Therefore “lift again the down-dropped hands and straighten the weakened knees;
13 O kakeki wei nä omail, pwe me sikilikil ender pirokala sang al o, a ren kelailada.
make straight paths for your feet,” so that the lame limb may not be put out of joint, but rather be cured.
14 Nantiong popol ong amen amen o saraui; a ma so, sota me pan kak kilang Kaun o.
Try earnestly to live at peace with everyone, and to attain to that purity without which no one will see the Lord.
15 O kalaka, pwe amen depa sota konodi mak en Kot, pwe karepen me sued ende pwaida, kawe komail, o me toto pan samin kila.
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 Pwe sota me pan nenek, de me sued amen due Esau, me netikila a soso ni kisin manga ta ieu.
Take care that no one becomes immoral, or irreligious like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.
17 Pwe komail asa, duen muri, ni a men ale pai, a lokidokilar, pwe a sota kak diar ansaun kalula, me a roporopeki pil en mas a.
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 Pwe komail sota lel nana, me aramas kak doke, o me ingkingkon, o pil sota lel wasa rotorot, o wasa pong, o melimel.
It is not to tangible “flaming fire” that you have drawn near, nor to “gloom, and darkness, and storm,
19 Pil sota lel ngil laud en koronete, de maod en lokaia, me irail, me rongadar, poeki, ender pur ong.
and the blast of a trumpet, and an audible voice.” Those who heard that voice entreated that they might hear no more,
20 Pwe re sota kak ong rong: O pil man amen, ma a pan sair nana o, a pan pakasuk.
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 Iduen kasansal a kamasak melel, pwe Moses masanier: I ap lomwineki o rerer.
and so fearful was the sight that Moses said – “I tremble with fear.”
22 A komail leler nana Sion, o kanim en Kot ieias, Ierusalem en lang, o pokon en tounlang ngederenia,
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 O momodisou meseni, me mar arail kileledier nanlang, o ren Kot saunkapung en karos, o ren ngen en me pung kan me unsokelar.
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 O ren Iesus sauntom en inau kap o ntan usup, me mau sang en Apel.
to Jesus, the intermediary of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that tells of better things than the blood of Abel.
25 Komail kalaka, pwe komail depa sikinwei, me kin mamasani. Pwe ma irail sota kak pitila, me sikin wei i, me kotin padapadak ong irail nin sappa, nan melel, kitail sota pan kak pitila, ma kitail pan sikin wei i, me masan dong kitail sang nanlang.
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 I ansau o kapitie kamokidada sappa. A met a kotin inauki masani: I pan pil kamokidada kaidin sappa eta, pwe pil nanlang.
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 A iet wewe en: I pan pil: Me mokidadar pan kawukila, pwe iei dipisou me wiauier, pwen ir, me sota kamokidada, en mimieta.
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 Kitail pan ale wei eu, me sota pan kak mokidada, i me kitail en dodok ong Kot duen me kon ong i, ni makelekel o masak.
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 Pwe atail Kot kisiniai ngkon.
For our God is “a consuming fire.”
