ဣဗြိဏး 11
1 ဝိၑွာသ အာၑံသိတာနာံ နိၑ္စယး, အဒၖၑျာနာံ ဝိၐယာဏာံ ဒရ္ၑနံ ဘဝတိ၊
Faith is the realisation of things hoped for — the proof of things not seen.
2 တေန ဝိၑွာသေန ပြာဉ္စော လောကား ပြာမာဏျံ ပြာပ္တဝန္တး၊
And it was for faith that the men of old were renowned.
3 အပရမ် ဤၑွရသျ ဝါကျေန ဇဂန္တျသၖဇျန္တ, ဒၖၐ္ဋဝသ္တူနိ စ ပြတျက္ၐဝသ္တုဘျော နောဒပဒျန္တဲတဒ် ဝယံ ဝိၑွာသေန ဗုဓျာမဟေ၊ (aiōn g165)
Faith enables us to perceive that the universe was created at the bidding of God — so that we know that what we see was not made out of visible things. (aiōn g165)
4 ဝိၑွာသေန ဟာဗိလ် ဤၑွရမုဒ္ဒိၑျ ကာဗိလး ၑြေၐ္ဌံ ဗလိဒါနံ ကၖတဝါန် တသ္မာစ္စေၑွရေဏ တသျ ဒါနာနျဓိ ပြမာဏေ ဒတ္တေ သ ဓာရ္မ္မိက ဣတျသျ ပြမာဏံ လဗ္ဓဝါန် တေန ဝိၑွာသေန စ သ မၖတး သန် အဒျာပိ ဘာၐတေ၊
Faith made the sacrifice which Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain’s, and won him renown as a righteous man, God himself establishing his renown by accepting his gifts; and it is by the example of his faith that Abel, though dead, still speaks.
5 ဝိၑွာသေန ဟနောက် ယထာ မၖတျုံ န ပၑျေတ် တထာ လောကာန္တရံ နီတး, တသျောဒ္ဒေၑၑ္စ ကေနာပိ န ပြာပိ ယတ ဤၑွရသ္တံ လောကာန္တရံ နီတဝါန်, တတ္ပြမာဏမိဒံ တသျ လောကာန္တရီကရဏာတ် ပူရွွံ သ ဤၑွရာယ ရောစိတဝါန် ဣတိ ပြမာဏံ ပြာပ္တဝါန်၊
Faith led to Enoch’s removal from earth, that he might not experience death. ‘He could not be found because God had removed him.’ For, before his removal, he was renowned as having pleased God;
6 ကိန္တု ဝိၑွာသံ ဝိနာ ကော'ပီၑွရာယ ရောစိတုံ န ၑက္နောတိ ယတ ဤၑွရော'သ္တိ သွာနွေၐိလောကေဘျး ပုရသ္ကာရံ ဒဒါတိ စေတိကထာယာမ် ဤၑွရၑရဏာဂတဲ ရွိၑွသိတဝျံ၊
but without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that God exists, and that he rewards those who seek for him.
7 အပရံ တဒါနီံ ယာနျဒၖၑျာနျာသန် တာနီၑွရေဏာဒိၐ္ဋး သန် နောဟော ဝိၑွာသေန ဘီတွာ သွပရိဇနာနာံ ရက္ၐာရ္ထံ ပေါတံ နိရ္မ္မိတဝါန် တေန စ ဇဂဇ္ဇနာနာံ ဒေါၐာန် ဒရ္ၑိတဝါန် ဝိၑွာသာတ် လဘျသျ ပုဏျသျာဓိကာရီ ဗဘူဝ စ၊
It was faith that enabled Noah, after he had received the divine warning about what could not then be foreseen, to build, in reverent obedience, an ark in which to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world, and became possessed of that righteousness which follows upon faith.
8 ဝိၑွာသေနေဗြာဟီမ် အာဟူတး သန် အာဇ္ဉာံ ဂၖဟီတွာ ယသျ သ္ထာနသျာဓိကာရသ္တေန ပြာပ္တဝျသ္တတ် သ္ထာနံ ပြသ္ထိတဝါန် ကိန္တု ပြသ္ထာနသမယေ က္က ယာမီတိ နာဇာနာတ်၊
It was faith that enabled Abraham to obey the Call that he received, and to set out for the place which he was afterwards to obtain as his own; and he set out not knowing where he was going.
9 ဝိၑွာသေန သ ပြတိဇ္ဉာတေ ဒေၑေ ပရဒေၑဝတ် ပြဝသန် တသျား ပြတိဇ္ဉာယား သမာနာံၑိဘျာမ် ဣသှာကာ ယာကူဗာ စ သဟ ဒူၐျဝါသျဘဝတ်၊
It was faith that made him go to live as an emigrant in the Promised Land — as in a strange country — living there in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who shared the promise with him.
10 ယသ္မာတ် သ ဤၑွရေဏ နိရ္မ္မိတံ သ္ထာပိတဉ္စ ဘိတ္တိမူလယုက္တံ နဂရံ ပြတျဲက္ၐတ၊
For he was looking for the City with the sure foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
11 အပရဉ္စ ဝိၑွာသေန သာရာ ဝယောတိကြာန္တာ သန္တျပိ ဂရ္ဘဓာရဏာယ ၑက္တိံ ပြာပျ ပုတြဝတျဘဝတ်, ယတး သာ ပြတိဇ္ဉာကာရိဏံ ဝိၑွာသျမ် အမနျတ၊
Again, it was faith that enabled Sarah to conceive (though she was past the age for child-bearing), because she felt sure that he who had given her the promise would not fail her.
12 တတော ဟေတော ရ္မၖတကလ္ပာဒ် ဧကသ္မာတ် ဇနာဒ် အာကာၑီယနက္ၐတြာဏီဝ ဂဏနာတီတား သမုဒြတီရသ္ထသိကတာ ဣဝ စာသံချာ လောကာ ဥတ္ပေဒိရေ၊
And so from one man — and that when his powers were dead — there sprang a people as numerous ‘as the stars in the heavens or the countless grains of sand upon the shore.’
13 ဧတေ သရွွေ ပြတိဇ္ဉာယား ဖလာနျပြာပျ ကေဝလံ ဒူရာတ် တာနိ နိရီက္ၐျ ဝန္ဒိတွာ စ, ပၖထိဝျာံ ဝယံ ဝိဒေၑိနး ပြဝါသိနၑ္စာသ္မဟ ဣတိ သွီကၖတျ ဝိၑွာသေန ပြာဏာန် တတျဇုး၊
All these died sustained by faith. They did not obtain the promised blessings, but they saw them from a distance and welcomed the sight, and they acknowledged themselves to be only aliens and strangers on the earth.
14 ယေ တု ဇနာ ဣတ္ထံ ကထယန္တိ တဲး ပဲတၖကဒေၑော 'သ္မာဘိရနွိၐျတ ဣတိ ပြကာၑျတေ၊
Those who speak thus show plainly that they are seeking their fatherland.
15 တေ ယသ္မာဒ် ဒေၑာတ် နိရ္ဂတာသ္တံ ယဒျသ္မရိၐျန် တရှိ ပရာဝရ္တ္တနာယ သမယမ် အလပ္သျန္တ၊
If they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they could have found opportunities to return.
16 ကိန္တု တေ သရွွောတ္ကၖၐ္ဋမ် အရ္ထတး သွရ္ဂီယံ ဒေၑမ် အာကာင်္က္ၐန္တိ တသ္မာဒ် ဤၑွရသ္တာနဓိ န လဇ္ဇမာနသ္တေၐာမ် ဤၑွရ ဣတိ နာမ ဂၖဟီတဝါန် ယတး သ တေၐာံ ကၖတေ နဂရမေကံ သံသ္ထာပိတဝါန်၊
But no, they were longing for a better, a heavenly, land! And therefore God was not ashamed to be called their God; indeed he had already prepared them a city.
17 အပရမ် ဣဗြာဟီမး ပရီက္ၐာယာံ ဇာတာယာံ သ ဝိၑွာသေနေသှာကမ် ဥတ္သသရ္ဇ,
It was faith that enabled Abraham, when put to the test, to offer Isaac as a sacrifice — he who had received the promises offering up his only son,
18 ဝသ္တုတ ဣသှာကိ တဝ ဝံၑော ဝိချာသျတ ဣတိ ဝါဂ် ယမဓိ ကထိတာ တမ် အဒွိတီယံ ပုတြံ ပြတိဇ္ဉာပြာပ္တး သ ဥတ္သသရ္ဇ၊
of whom it had been said — ‘It is through Isaac that there shall be descendants to bear thy name.’
19 ယတ ဤၑွရော မၖတာနပျုတ္ထာပယိတုံ ၑက္နောတီတိ သ မေနေ တသ္မာတ် သ ဥပမာရူပံ တံ လေဘေ၊
For he argued that God was able even to raise a man from the dead — and indeed, figuratively speaking, Abraham did receive Isaac back from the dead.
20 အပရမ် ဣသှာက် ဝိၑွာသေန ယာကူဗ် ဧၐာဝေ စ ဘာဝိဝိၐယာနဓျာၑိၐံ ဒဒေါ်၊
It was faith that enabled Isaac to bless Jacob and Esau, even with regard to the future.
21 အပရံ ယာကူဗ် မရဏကာလေ ဝိၑွာသေန ယူၐဖး ပုတြယောရေကဲကသ္မဲ ဇနာယာၑိၐံ ဒဒေါ် ယၐ္ဋျာ အဂြဘာဂေ သမာလမ္ဗျ ပြဏနာမ စ၊
Faith enabled Jacob, when dying, to give his blessing to each of the sons of Joseph, and ‘to bow himself in worship as he leant upon the top of his staff.’
22 အပရံ ယူၐဖ် စရမကာလေ ဝိၑွာသေနေသြာယေလွံၑီယာနာံ မိသရဒေၑာဒ် ဗဟိရ္ဂမနသျ ဝါစံ ဇဂါဒ နိဇာသ္ထီနိ စာဓိ သမာဒိဒေၑ၊
Faith caused Joseph, when his end was near, to speak of the future migration of the Israelites, and to give instructions with regard to his bones.
23 နဝဇာတော မူသာၑ္စ ဝိၑွာသာတ် တြာန် မာသာန် သွပိတၖဘျာမ် အဂေါပျတ ယတသ္တော် သွၑိၑုံ ပရမသုန္ဒရံ ဒၖၐ္ဋဝန္တော် ရာဇာဇ္ဉာဉ္စ န ၑင်္ကိတဝန္တော်၊
Faith caused the parents of Moses to hide the child for three months after his birth, for they saw that he was a beautiful child; and they would not respect the King’s order.
24 အပရံ ဝယးပြာပ္တော မူသာ ဝိၑွာသာတ် ဖိရော်ဏော ဒေါ်ဟိတြ ဣတိ နာမ နာင်္ဂီစကာရ၊
It was faith that caused Moses, when he was grown up, to refuse the title of ‘Son of a Daughter of Pharaoh.’
25 ယတး သ က္ၐဏိကာတ် ပါပဇသုခဘောဂါဒ် ဤၑွရသျ ပြဇာဘိး သာရ္ဒ္ဓံ ဒုးခဘောဂံ ဝဝြေ၊
He preferred sharing the hardships of God’s People to enjoying the short-lived pleasures of sin.
26 တထာ မိသရဒေၑီယနိဓိဘျး ခြီၐ္ဋနိမိတ္တာံ နိန္ဒာံ မဟတီံ သမ္ပတ္တိံ မေနေ ယတော ဟေတေား သ ပုရသ္ကာရဒါနမ် အပဲက္ၐတ၊
For he counted ‘the reproaches that are heaped upon the Christ’ of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, looking forward, as he did, to the reward awaiting him.
27 အပရံ သ ဝိၑွာသေန ရာဇ္ဉး ကြောဓာတ် န ဘီတွာ မိသရဒေၑံ ပရိတတျာဇ, ယတသ္တေနာဒၖၑျံ ဝီက္ၐမာဏေနေဝ ဓဲရျျမ် အာလမ္ဗိ၊
Faith caused him to leave Egypt, though undaunted by the King’s anger, for he was strengthened in his endurance by the vision of the invisible God.
28 အပရံ ပြထမဇာတာနာံ ဟန္တာ ယတ် သွီယလောကာန် န သ္ပၖၑေတ် တဒရ္ထံ သ ဝိၑွာသေန နိသ္တာရပရွွီယဗလိစ္ဆေဒနံ ရုဓိရသေစနဉ္စာနုၐ္ဌိတာဝါန်၊
Faith led him to institute the Passover and the Sprinkling of the Blood, so that the Destroyer might not touch the eldest children of the Israelites.
29 အပရံ တေ ဝိၑွာသာတ် သ္ထလေနေဝ သူဖ္သာဂရေဏ ဇဂ္မုး ကိန္တု မိသြီယလောကာသ္တတ် ကရ္တ္တုမ် ဥပကြမျ တောယေၐု မမဇ္ဇုး၊
Faith enabled the people to cross the Red Sea, as if it had been dry land, while the Egyptians, when they attempted to do so, were drowned.
30 အပရဉ္စ ဝိၑွာသာတ် တဲး သပ္တာဟံ ယာဝဒ် ယိရီဟေား ပြာစီရသျ ပြဒက္ၐိဏေ ကၖတေ တတ် နိပပါတ၊
Faith caused the walls of Jericho to fall after being encircled for seven days.
31 ဝိၑွာသာဒ် ရာဟဗ္နာမိကာ ဝေၑျာပိ ပြီတျာ စာရာန် အနုဂၖဟျာဝိၑွာသိဘိး သာရ္ဒ္ဓံ န ဝိနနာၑ၊
Faith saved Rahab, the prostitute, from perishing with the unbelievers, after she had entertained the spies with friendliness.
32 အဓိကံ ကိံ ကထယိၐျာမိ? ဂိဒိယောနော ဗာရကး ၑိမ္ၑောနော ယိပ္တဟော ဒါယူဒ် ၑိမူယေလော ဘဝိၐျဒွါဒိနၑ္စဲတေၐာံ ဝၖတ္တာန္တကထနာယ မမ သမယာဘာဝေါ ဘဝိၐျတိ၊
Need I add anything more? Time would fail me if I attempted to relate the stories of Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah, and those of David, Samuel, and the Prophets.
33 ဝိၑွာသာတ် တေ ရာဇျာနိ ဝၑီကၖတဝန္တော ဓရ္မ္မကရ္မ္မာဏိ သာဓိတဝန္တး ပြတိဇ္ဉာနာံ ဖလံ လဗ္ဓဝန္တး သိံဟာနာံ မုခါနိ ရုဒ္ဓဝန္တော
By their faith they subdued kingdoms, ruled righteously, gained the fulfilment of God’s promises, ‘shut the mouths of lions,’
34 ဝဟ္နေရ္ဒာဟံ နိရွွာပိတဝန္တး ခင်္ဂဓာရာဒ် ရက္ၐာံ ပြာပ္တဝန္တော ဒေါ်ရ္ဗ္ဗလျေ သဗလီကၖတာ ယုဒ္ဓေ ပရာကြမိဏော ဇာတား ပရေၐာံ သဲနျာနိ ဒဝယိတဝန္တၑ္စ၊
quelled the fury of the flames, escaped the edge of the sword, found strength in the hour of weakness, displayed their prowess in war, and routed hostile armies.
35 ယောၐိတး ပုနရုတ္ထာနေန မၖတာန် အာတ္မဇာန် လေဘိရေ, အပရေ စ ၑြေၐ္ဌောတ္ထာနသျ ပြာပ္တေရာၑယာ ရက္ၐာမ် အဂၖဟီတွာ တာဍနေန မၖတဝန္တး၊
Women received back their dead raised to life. Some were tortured on the wheel, and refused release in order that they might rise to a better life.
36 အပရေ တိရသ္ကာရဲး ကၑာဘိ ရ္ဗန္ဓနဲး ကာရယာ စ ပရီက္ၐိတား၊
Others had to face taunts and blows, and even chains and imprisonment.
37 ဗဟဝၑ္စ ပြသ္တရာဃာတဲ ရှတား ကရပတြဲ ရွာ ဝိဒီရ္ဏာ ယန္တြဲ ရွာ က္လိၐ္ဋား ခင်္ဂဓာရဲ ရွာ ဝျာပါဒိတား၊ တေ မေၐာဏာံ ဆာဂါနာံ ဝါ စရ္မ္မာဏိ ပရိဓာယ ဒီနား ပီဍိတာ ဒုးခါရ္တ္တာၑ္စာဘြာမျန်၊
They were stoned to death, they were tortured, they were swan asunder, they were put to the sword; they wandered about clothed in the skins of sheep or goats, destitute, persecuted, ill-used —
38 သံသာရော ယေၐာမ် အယောဂျသ္တေ နိရ္ဇနသ္ထာနေၐု ပရွွတေၐု ဂဟွရေၐု ပၖထိဝျာၑ္ဆိဒြေၐု စ ပရျျဋန်၊
men of whom the world was not worthy — roaming in lonely places, and on the mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground.
39 ဧတဲး သရွွဲ ရွိၑွာသာတ် ပြမာဏံ ပြာပိ ကိန္တု ပြတိဇ္ဉာယား ဖလံ န ပြာပိ၊
Yet, though they all won renown by their faith, they did not obtain the final fulfilment of God’s promise;
40 ယတသ္တေ ယထာသ္မာန် ဝိနာ သိဒ္ဓါ န ဘဝေယုသ္တထဲဝေၑွရေဏာသ္မာကံ ကၖတေ ၑြေၐ္ဌတရံ ကိမပိ နိရ္ဒိဒိၑေ၊
since God had in view some better thing for us, that they, apart from us, should not attain perfection.
