Ezra 1
1 Katika mwaka wa kwanza wa Koreshi, mfalme wa Uajemi, Yahwe akatimiza neno lake ambalo Yeremia alisema, na kuinua roho ya Koreshi. Sauti ya Koreshi ikasambaa na kusikika katika ufalme wake. Hiki ndicho kilichoandikwa na kusemwa:
In the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians: and he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and in writing also, saying:
2 “Koreshi, mfalme wa Uajemi, anasema: Yahwe, Mungu wa mbinguni, amenipa mimi ufalme wote wa dunia, na ameniteua mimi kumjengea yeye nyumba katika Yerusalem ya Yuda.
Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians: The Lord the God of heaven hath given to me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he hath charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judea.
3 Yeyote katika watu wake (Mungu awe pamoja naye) anaweza kwenda Yerusalem na kujenga nyumba kwa ajili ya Yahwe, Mungu wa Israel, Mungu ambaye yuko Yerusalem.
Who is there among you of all his people? His God be with him. Let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judea, and build the house of the Lord the God of Israel: he is the God that is in Jerusalem.
4 Watu wa kila sehemu katika ufalme waliosalia katika nchi na kuishi wanapaswa kuwapa wao fedha na dhahabu, mali na wanyama, pamoja na kutoa kwa hiari kwenye nyumba ya Mungu Yerusalem.”
And let all the rest in all places wheresoever they dwell, help him every man from his place. with silver and gold, and goods, and cattle, besides that which they offer freely to the temple of God, which is in Jerusalem.
5 Ndipo wakuu wa jamii ya Yuda na Benjamini, makuhani na walawi, na kila mmoja ambaye Roho wa Mungu alimwinua kuondoka na kujenga nyumba yake alisimama.
Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Juda and Benjamin, and the priests, and Levites, and every one whose spirit God had raised up, to go up to build the temple of the Lord, which was in Jerusalem.
6 Wale waliowazunguka karibu waliwasaidia kwa kuwapa fedha na vitu vya dhahabu, mali, wanyama, vitu vya thamani, na kutoa kwa hiari.
And all they that were round about, helped their hands with vessels of silver, and gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with furniture, besides what they had offered on their own accord.
7 Mfalme Koreshi akarusu vitu ambavyo vilikuwa kwenye nyumba ya Yahwe, ambavyo Nebukadreza alitoa kutoka Yerusalem na kuviweka katika nyumba ya miungu yake.
And king Cyrus brought forth the vessels of the temple of the Lord, which Nabuchodonosor had taken from Jerusalem, and had put them in the temple of his god.
8 Koreshi akavikabidhi kwenye mikono ya Mithredathi mtunza fedha, ambaye akavitoa na kuhesabu kwa Sheshbaza, kiongozi wa Yuda
Now Cyrus king of Persia brought them forth by the hand of Mithridates the son of Gazabar, and numbered them to Sassabasar the prince of Juda.
9 Hii ilikuwa idadi yake: beseni thelathini za dhahabu, beseni elfu moja za fedha, beseni zingine ishirini na tisa,
And this is the number of them: thirty bowls of gold, a thousand bowls of silver, nine and twenty knives, thirty cups of gold,
10 mabakuli thelathini ya dhahabu, mabakuli madogo ya fedha 410, na vitu elfu moja vya kuongezea.
Silver cups of a second sort, four hundred and ten: other vessels a thousand.
11 Kulikuwa na vitu 5, 400 vya fedha na dhahabu. Sheshbaza akavileta vyote wakati wa uhamisho kutoka Babeli kwenda Yerusalem.
All the vessels of gold and silver, five thousand four hundred: all these Sassabasar brought with them that came up from the captivity of Babylon to Jerusalem.
