Wahebrania 3
1 Kwa hiyo, ndugu watakatifu, washiriki wa wito wa mbinguni, mumfikiri Yesu, Mtume na Kuhani Mkuu wa ukiri wetu.
Therefore, my Christian friends, 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 Mungu aliyemteua, kama Musa alivyokuwa mwaminifu pia 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 Kwa kuwa Yesu amehesabiwa kuwa na heshima kubwa kuliko aliyokuwa nayo Musa, kwa sababu yule anayejenga nyumba anahesabiwa kuwa na heshima kubwa kuliko nyumba yenyewe.
He has been deemed worthy of far higher honor 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 yule anayejenga kila kitu ni Mungu.
For every house has its founder, and the founder of the universe is God.
5 Hakika Musa alikuwa mwaminifu kama mtumishi katika nyumba yote ya Mungu, akitoa ushuhuda kuhusu mambo yatakayosemwa wakati ujao.
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 Mwana katika usimamizi wa nyumba ya Mungu. Sisi ni nyumba yake kama tutashikilia haraka katika kujiamini na fahari ya kujiamini.
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, ni kama Roho Mtakatifu asemavyo, “Leo, kama utasikia sauti yake,
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says – ‘If today you hear God’s voice,
8 Usiufanye moyo wako kuwa mgumu kama Waisraeli walivyofanya katika uasi, katika wakati wa kujaribiwa nyikani.
harden not your hearts, as when Israel provoked me on the day when they tried my patience in the desert,
9 Huu ulikuwa wakati ambao baba zenu waliniasi kwa kunijaribu, na wakati, kwa miaka arobaini, waliona matendo yangu.
Where your ancestors tried my forbearance, and saw my mighty deeds for forty years.
10 Kwa hiyo sikufurahishwa na kizazi hicho. Nilisema, 'Wanapotea kila mara katika mioyo yao, na hawajui 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 Ni kama vile nilivyoapa katika hasira yangu: hawataiingia raha yangu.”
While in my wrath I swore – “They will never enter upon my rest.”’
12 Muwe waangalifu, ndugu, ili kwamba usije ukawepo moyo mwovu wa kutokuamini kwa mmoja wenu, moyo ambao utakwenda mbali na Mungu aliye hai.
Be careful, friends, that there is never found in anyone of you a wicked and faithless heart, shown by that person separating themselves from the living God.
13 Badala yake, mhamasishane kila siku kila mmoja na mwenzie, ili kila iitwapo leo mtamani, ili kwamba mmoja kati yenu asifanywe kuwa mgumu kwa udanganyifu wa dhambi.
Rather encourage one another daily – while there is a today – to prevent anyone among you from being hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
14 Kwa maana tumekuwa washiriki wa Kristo ikiwa tutashikamana na uthabiti wetu kwa nguvu katika yeye kutoka mwanzo 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 Kuhusu hili imekwisha kusemwa, “Leo kama mtaisikiliza sauti yake, msiifanye mioyo yenu kuwa migumu, kama Waisraeli walivyofanya wakati wa uasi.”
To use the words of scripture – ‘If today you hear God’s voice, harden not your hearts, as when Israel provoked me.’
16 Ni akina nani hao waliomsikia Mungu na kuasi? Hawakuwa wale wote ambao Musa alikuwa amewaongoza kutoka Misri?
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 Na kina nani ambao Mungu aliwakasirikia kwa miaka arobaini? Siyo pamoja na wale waliotenda dhambi, ambao miili yao iliyokufa ililala 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 akina nani aliowaapia Mungu kwamba hawataingia katika raha yake, kama siyo wale ambao hawakumtii yeye?
And who were they to whom God swore that they should not enter upon his rest, if not those who had proved faithless?
19 Tunaona kwamba hawakuweza kuingia katika raha yake kwa sababu ya kutokuamini.
We see, then, that they failed to enter upon it because of their want of faith.
