< Torati 29 >
1 Haya ni maneno ambayo Yahwe alimuamuru Musa kuwaambia watu wa Israeli katika nchi ya Moabu, maneno ambayo yaliongezwa katika agano alilolifanya pamoja nao kule Horebu.
These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he had made with them in Horeb.
2 Musa aliwaita Waisraeli wote na kuwaambia, “Mmeona kila kitu ambacho Yahwe alifanya mbele ya macho yenu katika nchi ya Misri kwa Farao, kwa watumishi wake wote, na kwa nchi yake yote –
And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye yourselves have seen all that the Lord hath done before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;
3 mateso makubwa ambayo macho yenu yaliona, ishara, pamoja na ile miujiza mikubwa.
The great proofs which thy eyes have seen, those great signs, and miracles:
4 Lakini mpaka leo Yahwe hajawapatia moyo wa kufahamu, macho ya kuona, au masikio ya kusikia.
Yet the Lord gave you not a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.
5 Nimewaongoza kwa miaka arobaini jangwani; mavazi yenu hayakuchakaa juu yenu, na ndala zenu hazikuchakaa miguuni mwenu.
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes did not fall worn out from off you, and thy shoe did not fall worn out from off thy foot.
6 Hamkula mkate wowote, na wala hamkunywa divai yoyote au kinywaji chochote chenye ulevi, ili kwamba muweze kujua kuwa mimi ni Yahwe Mungu wenu.
Bread have ye not eaten, and wine or strong drink have ye not drunk; in order that ye might understand that I am the Lord your God.
7 Mlipokuja mahali hapa, Sihoni, mfalme wa Heshboni, na Ogu, mfalme wa Bashani, walikuja dhidi yetu kutupiga, na tukawapiga.
And when ye came unto this place, Sichon the king of Cheshbon, and 'Og the king of Bashan went out against us unto battle, and we smote them:
8 Tulichukua ardhi yao na kuwapa kama urithi Wareubeni, kwa Wagadi, na kwa nusu ya kabila ya Manase.
And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of the Menassites.
9 Kwa hiyo shikilia maneno ya agano hili na kuyatenda, ili ufanikiwe katika kila kitu ufanyacho.
Keep ye therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
10 Nyie wote, mnasimama leo, mbele ya Yahwe Mungu wenu; machifu wenu, makabila yenu, wazee wenu, na maafisa wenu – wanaume wote wa Israeli,
Ye are standing this day, all of you, before the Lord your God; your heads of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,
11 watoto wenu, wake zenu, na wageni ambao wamo miongoni wa kambi yenu, kutoka kwa yule anayekata mbao zenu mpaka kwa yule atekaye maji.
Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in the midst of thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
12 Mpo hapa ili kwamba muingie katika agano la Yahwe Mungu wenu na katika kiapo ambacho Yahwe Mungu wako anafanya na wewe leo,
That thou shouldst enter into the covenant of the Lord thy God, and into his oath of denunciation, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day.
13 ili kwamba awafanye leo kuwa watu wake, na kwamba aweze kuwa Mungu kwa ajili yako, kama alivyonena kwako, na kama alivyoapa kwa mababu zako, kwa Abrahamu, kwa Isaka na kwa Yakobo.
In order to raise thee up today unto himself for a people, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath spoken unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
14 Kwa maana ninafanya agano hili na kiapo hiki sio na wewe tu –
And not with you alone do I make this covenant and this oath;
15 pamoja kila mtu aliyesimama hapa pamoja nasi leo mbele ya Yahwe Mungu wetu – bali na wale ambao hawapo pamoja nasi leo pia.
But with him that is standing here with us this day before the Lord our God, and with him that is not here with us this day.
16 Unajua jinsi tulivyoishi katika nchi ya Misri, na jinsi tulivyopenya miongoni mwa mataifa ambao uliwapita.
(For ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we passed through the nations through which ye have passed;
17 Mmeona sanamu zao zinazokera zilizotengenezwa kwa mbao na mawe, fedha na dhahabu, ambazo zilikuwa miongoni mwenu.
And ye saw their abominations, and their idols, of wood and stone, silver and gold, which they had with them: )
18 Hakikisha hakuna kati yenu mwanamume, mwanamke, ukoo, au kabila ambaye moyo wake unamuacha Yahwe Mungu wetu leo, ili kwenda na kuabudu miungu ya mataifa hayo. Hakikisha hakuna kati yenu mzizi utakaozaa nyongo na pakanga.
So that there may not be among you a man, or a woman, or a family, or a tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go to serve the gods of these nations; that there may not be among you a root that beareth abundantly poison and wormwood.
19 Wakati mtu huyo anaposikia maneno ya laana hii, atajifariji moyoni mwake na kusema, “Nitakuwa na amani, ingawa natembea katika ukaidi wa moyo wangu”. Hii itaangamiza ubichi pamoja na ukavu.
And it might come to pass, when he heareth the words of this denunciation, that he would bless himself in his heart, saying, There will be peace unto me, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart; in order that the indulgence of the passions may appease the thirst [for them]:
20 Yahwe hatamsamehe, lakini badala yake, hasira ya Yahwe na wivu wake utambanika mtu huyo, na laana zote zilizoandikwa katika kitabu hiki vitakuwa juu yake, na Yahwe ataliondoa jina lake kutoka mbinguni.
The Lord will not pardon him; but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and there shall rest upon him all the curse that is written in this book; and the Lord will blot out his name from under the heavens.
21 Yahwe atamuweka kando kwa ajili ya maafa kutoka katika makabila yote ya Israeli, kwa kuzingatia laana zote za agano ambazo zimeandikwa katika kitabu hiki cha sheria.
And the Lord will single him out unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the denunciations of the covenant which is written in this book of the law.
22 Kizazi kifuatacho, watoto wako watakaoinuka baada yako, na mgeni atakayekuja kutoka nchi ya mbali, watazungumza watakapoona mapigo juu ya nchi hii na magonjwa ambayo Yahwe ameyafanya yawe –
And the latest generation, your children that will rise up after you, and the stranger that will come from a far land, will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and its sufferings with which the Lord hath smitten it;
23 na watakapoona kuwa nchi yote imekuwa salfa na chumvi ichomayo, ambapo hakuna kitu kipandwacho au kuzaa matunda, ambapo hapaoti mmea wowote, kama anguko la Sodoma na Gomora, Adma na Seboimu, ambayo Yahwe aliangamiza katika ghadhabu na hasira yake –
[That] the whole soil thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning waste, which is not sown, and beareth not, and in which no kind of grass springeth up, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: —
24 watasema kwa pamoja na mataifa mengine, “Kwa nini Yahwe amefanya hili katika nchi hii? Joto ya hasira hii kali inamaanisha nini?”
Even all the nations will say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? whence the heat of this great anger?
25 Kisha watu watasema, “Ni kwa sababu walitelekeza agano la Yahwe, Mungu wa mababu zao, alilofanya nao alipowatoa kutoka Misri,
Then shall men say, Because they had forsaken the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt;
26 na kwa sababu waliondoka na kutumikia miungu mingine na kuzisujudu, miungu ambayo hawakujiua na ambayo hakuwapatia.
And they went and served other gods, and bowed down to them, gods which they knew not, and which he had not assigned unto them;
27 Kwa hiyo hasira ya Yahwe imewaka dhidi ya nchi hii, ili kuleta juu yake laana zote zilizoandikwa katika kitabu hiki.
And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it the entire curse that is written in this book;
28 Yahwe amewang’oa kutoka nchini kwao kwa hasira, kwa ghadhanu, na kwa ghadhabu kali, na kuwatupa katika nchi nyingine, leo.
And the Lord plucked them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and he cast them into another land, as it is this day.
29 Mambo ya siri ni ya Yahwe Mungu wetu pekee; lakini mambo yaliyofichuliwa ni ya kwetu milele pamoja na wazawa wetu, ili tufanye maneno yote ya sheria hii.
The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are publicly known belong unto us and to our children for ever, to do all the words of this law.