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 Persia, Yahweh fulfilled his word that came from the mouth of Jeremiah, and stirred Cyrus's spirit. Cyrus' voice went out over his entire kingdom. This is what was written and spoken:
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.
“Cyrus, king of Persia, says: Yahweh, God of Heaven, gave me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he appointed me to build for him a house in Jerusalem 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.
Whoever is from his people (may his God be with him) may go up to Jerusalem and build a house for Yahweh, the God of Israel, the God who 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.”
People of any part of the kingdom where survivors of that land are living should provide them with silver and gold, possessions and animals, as well as a freewill offering for God's house 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 the heads of the ancestors' clans of Judah and Benjamin, the priests and Levites, and everyone whose spirit God stirred to go and build his house arose.
6 Wale waliowazunguka karibu waliwasaidia kwa kuwapa fedha na vitu vya dhahabu, mali, wanyama, vitu vya thamani, na kutoa kwa hiari.
Those around them supported their work with silver and gold objects, possessions, animals, valuables, and freewill offerings.
7 Mfalme Koreshi akarusu vitu ambavyo vilikuwa kwenye nyumba ya Yahwe, ambavyo Nebukadreza alitoa kutoka Yerusalem na kuviweka katika nyumba ya miungu yake.
Cyrus king of Persia also released the objects belonging to Yahweh's house that Nebuchadnezzar had brought from Jerusalem and put in his own gods' houses.
8 Koreshi akavikabidhi kwenye mikono ya Mithredathi mtunza fedha, ambaye akavitoa na kuhesabu kwa Sheshbaza, kiongozi wa Yuda
Cyrus put them into the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out for Sheshbazzar, Judea's leader.
9 Hii ilikuwa idadi yake: beseni thelathini za dhahabu, beseni elfu moja za fedha, beseni zingine ishirini na tisa,
This was their number: thirty gold basins, one thousand silver basins, twenty-nine other basins,
10 mabakuli thelathini ya dhahabu, mabakuli madogo ya fedha 410, na vitu elfu moja vya kuongezea.
thirty gold bowls, 410 small silver bowls, and one thousand additional objects.
11 Kulikuwa na vitu 5, 400 vya fedha na dhahabu. Sheshbaza akavileta vyote wakati wa uhamisho kutoka Babeli kwenda Yerusalem.
There were 5,400 gold and silver items in all. Sheshbazzar brought all of them when the exiles went from Babylon to Jerusalem.
