Wahebrania 3
1 Kwa hiyo ndugu watakatifu, mnaoshiriki mwito wa mbinguni, mtafakarini Yesu, mtume na Kuhani Mkuu wa ukiri wetu.
Therefore, Christian Brothers, you who, all alike, have received the Call from Heaven, fix your attention on Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our Religion.
2 Alikuwa mwaminifu kwa yeye aliyemweka, kama vile Mose alivyokuwa mwaminifu katika nyumba yote ya Mungu.
See how faithful he was to the God who appointed him, as Moses was in the whole House of God.
3 Yesu ameonekana anastahili heshima kubwa kuliko Mose, kama vile mjenzi wa nyumba alivyo wa heshima kubwa kuliko nyumba yenyewe.
He has been deemed worthy of far higher honour than Moses, just as the founder of the House is held in greater regard than the House itself.
4 Kwa kuwa kila nyumba hujengwa na mtu fulani, lakini Mungu ni mjenzi wa kila kitu.
For every House has its founder, and the founder of the universe is God.
5 Basi Mose kama mtumishi alikuwa mwaminifu katika nyumba yote ya Mungu, akishuhudia kwa yale ambayo yangetamkwa baadaye.
While the faithful service of Moses in the whole House of God was that of a servant, whose duty was to bear testimony to a Message still to come,
6 Lakini Kristo ni mwaminifu kama Mwana katika nyumba ya Mungu. Sisi ndio nyumba yake, kama tutashikilia sana ujasiri wetu na tumaini tunalojivunia.
the faithfulness of Christ was that of a Son set over the House of God. And we are his House — if only we retain, unshaken to the end, the courage and confidence inspired by our hope.
7 Kwa hiyo, kama Roho Mtakatifu asemavyo: “Leo, kama mkiisikia sauti yake,
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says — ‘If to-day you hear God’s voice,
8 msiifanye mioyo yenu migumu, kama mlivyofanya katika uasi, wakati ule wa kujaribiwa jangwani,
harden not your hearts, as when Israel provoked me On the day when they tried my patience in the desert,
9 ambapo baba zenu walinijaribu na kunipima ingawa kwa miaka arobaini walikuwa wameyaona matendo yangu.
Where your ancestors tried my forbearance, And saw my mighty deeds for forty years.
10 Hiyo ndiyo sababu nilikasirikia kizazi kile, nami nikasema, ‘Siku zote mioyo yao imepotoka, nao hawajazijua njia zangu.’
Therefore I was sorely vexed with that generation, And I said — “Their hearts are always straying; They have never learned my ways”;
11 Hivyo nikatangaza kwa kiapo katika hasira yangu, ‘Kamwe hawataingia rahani mwangu.’”
While in my wrath I swore — “They shall never enter upon my Rest.”’
12 Ndugu zangu, angalieni, asiwepo miongoni mwenu mtu mwenye moyo mwovu usioamini, unaojitenga na Mungu aliye hai.
Be careful, Brothers, that there is never found in any one of you a wicked and faithless heart, shown by his separating himself from the Living God.
13 Lakini mtiane moyo mtu na mwenzake kila siku, maadamu iitwapo Leo, ili asiwepo hata mmoja wenu mwenye kufanywa mgumu kwa udanganyifu wa dhambi.
Rather encourage one another daily — while there is a ‘To-day’ — to prevent any one among you from being hardened by the deceitfulness of Sin.
14 Kwa kuwa tumekuwa washiriki wa Kristo, kama tukishikamana tu kwa uthabiti na tumaini letu la kwanza hadi mwisho.
For we now all share in the Christ, if indeed we retain, unshaken to the end, the confidence that we had at the first.
15 Kama ilivyonenwa: “Leo, kama mkiisikia sauti yake, msiifanye mioyo yenu migumu kama mlivyofanya wakati wa kuasi.”
To use the words of Scripture — ‘If to-day you hear God’s voice, Harden not your hearts, as when Israel provoked me.’
16 Basi ni nani waliosikia lakini bado wakaasi? Je, si wale wote waliotoka Misri wakiongozwa na Mose?
Who were they who heard God speak and yet provoked him? Were not they all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?
17 Lakini ni nani aliowakasirikia miaka arobaini? Je, si wale waliofanya dhambi ambao miili yao ilianguka jangwani?
And with whom was it that God was sorely vexed for forty years? Was not it with those who had sinned, and who fell dead in the desert?
18 Ni nani hao ambao Mungu aliapa kuwa kamwe hawataingia rahani mwake isipokuwa ni wale waliokataa kutii?
And who were they to whom God swore that they should not enter upon his rest, if not those who had proved faithless?
19 Hivyo tunaona kwamba hawakuweza kuingia kwa sababu ya kutokuamini kwao.
We see, then, that they failed to enter upon it because of their want of faith.
