Wahebrania 4
1 Kwa hiyo, tunapaswa kuwa makini ili kwamba kati yenu asiwepo hata mmoja atakayeonekana kushindwa kufikia ahadi endelevu ya kuingia katika pumzika la Mungu.
Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.
2 Kwani tumekuwa na habari njema kuhusu pumziko la Mungu lililotangazwa kwetu kama Waisrael walivyokuwa nayo, lakini ujumbe huo haukuwasaidia wale ambao waliusikia bila kuunganisha imani kwa hilo.
For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.
3 Kwa sisi, ambao tumekwisha amini-sisi ndio miongoni tutakaoingia katika lile pumuziko, Kama inavyosema, “Kama nilivyoapa kwa hasira yangu, Hawataingia katika pumziko mwangu.” Alisema hili, ingawa kazi zote alizotengeneza zilikuwa zimekamilika tangu mwanzo wa ulimwengu.
For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 Kwani ameshasema sehemu fulani kuhusu siku ya saba, “Mungu alipumzika siku ya saba katika yote aliyoyafanya.”
For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, “God rested on the seventh day from all his works;”
5 Tena ameshasema, “Hawataingia kwenye pumziko langu.”
and in this place again, “They will not enter into my rest.”
6 Kwa sababu hiyo, tangu pumziko la Mungu bado ni akiba kwa ajili ya baadhi kuingia, na tangu Waisraeli wengi ambao walisikia habari njema kuhusu pumziko lake hawakuingia kwa sababu ya kutotii,
Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the good news was preached before failed to enter in because of disobedience,
7 Mungu aliweka tena siku fulani, iitwayo “Leo.” Yeye aliiongeza siku hii alipozungumza kupitia Daudi, ambaye alisema kwa muda mrefu baada ya yaliyosemwa kwanza, “Leo kama mtasikia sauti yake, msifanye mioyo yenu kuwa migumu.”
he again defines a certain day, “today”, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.”
8 Kwani kama Yoshua aliwapatia pumziko, Mungu asingelisema juu ya siku nyingine.
For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.
9 Kwa hiyo bado kuna Sabato ya pumziko iliyotunzwa kwa ajili ya watu wa Mungu.
There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
10 Kwani anayeingia katika pumziko la Mungu yeye mwenyewe pia amepumzika kutokana na matendo yake, kama Mungu alivyofanya katika yeye.
For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.
11 Kwa hiyo tuweni na shauku ya kuingia katika lile pumziko, ili kwamba asiwepo atakayeanguka katika aina ya uasi waliofanya.
Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
12 Kwa maana neno la Mungu li hai na lina nguvu na linaukali kuliko upanga wowote wenye makali kuwili. Na huchoma hata kufikia kugawanya nafsi na roho, na viungo kutika uboho. Na lenye kuweza kufahamu fikira za moyo nia yake.
For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
13 . Hakuna kilichoumbwa kilichojificha katika uso wa Mungu. Badala yake, kila kitu ni dhahiri na wazi kwa macho ya mmoja ambaye ni lazima tutoe hesabu.
There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.
14 Baadaye kuwa na kuhani mkuu aliyeingia katika mbingu, Yesu Mwana wa Mungu, kwa uimara tushikilie imani zetu.
Having then a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let’s hold tightly to our confession.
15 Kwa kuwa hatuna kuhani mkuu ambaye hawezi kuhisi huruma kwa ajili udhaifu wetu, lakini yeye ambaye kwa njia zote amekuwa akijaribiwa kama sisi, isipokuwa yeye ambaye hana dhambi.
For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
16 Na tuje kwa ujasiri katika kiti cha enzi cha neema, ili kwamba tupokee rehema na kupata neema ya kutusaidia wakati wa hitaji.
Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.
