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1 ౧ న్యాయాధిపతులు పరిపాలించిన కాలంలో దేశంలో కరువు వచ్చింది. అప్పుడు యూదా దేశంలోని బేత్లెహేము నుండి ఒక వ్యక్తి తన భార్య, ఇద్దరు కొడుకులను తనతో తీసుకుని మోయాబు దేశానికి వలస వెళ్ళాడు.
၁ရှေးအခါကဣသရေလနိုင်ငံတွင် ဘုရင် မရှိသေးမီအချိန်၌ငတ်မွတ်ခေါင်းပါးခြင်း ဘေးဆိုက်ရောက်သဖြင့် ယုဒပြည်ဗက်လင်မြို့ သားဧလိမလက်သည် မိမိ၏ဇနီးနှင့်သား နှစ်ယောက်တို့ကိုခေါ်၍မောဘပြည်တွင်ခေတ္တ သွားရောက်နေထိုင်လေသည်။ သားနှစ်ယောက် တို့၏နာမည်များမှာမဟာလုန်နှင့်ခိလျှုန် ဖြစ်၏။ သူတို့သည်ဧဖရတ်သားချင်းစု ဝင်များတည်း။ မောဘပြည်တွင်သူတို့နေ ထိုင်လျက်ရှိစဉ်၊-
2 ౨ అతని పేరు ఎలీమెలెకు, అతని భార్య నయోమి. అతనికి మహ్లోను, కిల్యోను అనే ఇద్దరు కొడుకులు ఉన్నారు. వాళ్ళు యూదా దేశపు బేత్లెహేములో నివసించే ఎఫ్రాతా ప్రాంతం వారు. వాళ్ళు మోయాబు దేశానికి వెళ్లి అక్కడ నివసించారు.
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၃ဧလိမလက်ကွယ်လွန်သွားသဖြင့် နောမိ သည်သားနှစ်ယောက်နှင့်ကျန်ရစ်လေသည်။-
၄ထိုသားတို့သည်မောဘအမျိုးသမီးများ ဖြစ်ကြသောသြရပ၊ ရုသတို့နှင့်အိမ်ထောင် ကျကြ၏။ သူတို့သည်ထိုပြည်တွင်ဆယ်နှစ် ခန့်နေထိုင်ကြပြီးနောက်၊-
5 ౫ సుమారు పదేళ్లు గడచిన తరువాత మహ్లోను, కిల్యోను కూడా చనిపోయారు. నయోమి భర్త, కొడుకులను పోగొట్టుకుని ఒంటరిగా మిగిలింది.
၅မဟာလုန်နှင့်ခိလျှုန်တို့သည်လည်းကွယ်လွန် သွားကြပြန်၏။ သို့ဖြစ်၍နောမိသည်လင် သားမဲ့အထီးကျန်ဖြစ်လေတော့၏။
6 ౬ బేత్లెహేములో యెహోవా తన ప్రజలపై దయ చూపించి వారికి ఆహారం ఇస్తున్నాడని మోయాబు దేశంలో ఉన్న ఆమె విన్నది. కాబట్టి ఆమె మోయాబు దేశాన్ని విడిచి తన స్వదేశం వెళ్ళిపోవాలని తన కోడళ్ళతో సహా ప్రయాణం కట్టింది.
၆ကာလအတန်ကြာသောအခါ ထာဝရဘုရား သည်ကောက်ပဲသီးနှံအထွက်များစေခြင်းအား ဖြင့် မိမိ၏လူစုအားကောင်းချီးပေးတော်မူ ကြောင်းသတင်းကိုနောမိကြားရလေသည်။ သို့ ဖြစ်၍သူသည်မိမိ၏ချွေးမများနှင့်အတူ မောဘပြည်မှထွက်ခွာရန်အသင့်ပြင်လေ၏။-
၇ယုဒပြည်သို့စတင်ထွက်ခွာလာကြစဉ်၊-
8 ౮ అప్పుడు ఆమె తన ఇద్దరు కోడళ్ళతో ఇలా అంది. “మీరు మీ పుట్టిళ్ళకు తిరిగి వెళ్ళండి. చనిపోయిన నా కొడుకుల విషయంలో, నా విషయంలో మీరు నమ్మకంగా ఉన్నట్టే యెహోవా మీ పట్ల నమ్మకంగా ఉండి దయ చూపిస్తాడు గాక.
၈နောမိကချွေးမများအား``သင်တို့သည် ကိုယ့်မိခင်များအိမ်သို့ပြန်ကြလော့။ သင်တို့သည်ငါ၏အပေါ်၌သော်လည်းကောင်း၊ ကွယ်လွန်သွားသူတို့၏အပေါ်၌လည်းကောင်း ကျေးဇူးပြုခဲ့ကြသည်နည်းတူ ထာဝရဘုရားသည် သင်တို့အားကျေးဇူးပြုတော်မူပါစေသော။-
9 ౯ మీరిద్దరూ చక్కగా మళ్ళీ పెళ్ళిళ్ళు చేసుకుని మీ భర్తల ఇళ్ళల్లో సుఖంగా జీవించే స్థితి ప్రభువు దయచేస్తాడు గాక” అని చెప్పి ఆమె తన కోడళ్ళను ముద్దు పెట్టుకుంది.
၉ထာဝရဘုရားသည်သင်တို့နှစ်ယောက် စလုံးအား နောက်အိမ်ထောင်နှင့်ပျော်ရွှင်စွာ နေထိုင်ခွင့်ကိုပေးသနားတော်မူပါစေ သော'' ဟုဆို၏။ ဤသို့ဆိုပြီးလျှင်နောမိသည် သူတို့အား နမ်းရှုတ်နှုတ်ဆက်လေ၏။ သို့ရာတွင်သူတို့ သည်ငိုကြွေးလျက်၊-
၁၀``ကျွန်မတို့သည်အိမ်သို့မပြန်လိုပါ။ မိခင် နှင့်အတူ မိခင်၏အမျိုးသားများထံသို့ လိုက်ပါမည်'' ဟုဆိုကြ၏။
11 ౧౧ అప్పుడు నయోమి “నా బిడ్డలారా, మీరు వెనక్కి మళ్ళండి. మిమ్మల్ని పెళ్ళి చేసుకోడానికి ఇప్పుడు నా కడుపున కొడుకులు పుట్టరు గదా.
၁၁နောမိကလည်း``ငါ့သမီးတို့၊ ပြန်သွားကြ လော့။ အဘယ်ကြောင့်ငါနှင့်လိုက်လိုကြပါ သနည်း။ သင်တို့နှင့်လက်ထပ်ထိမ်းမြားရန် အတွက် ငါသည်နောက်ထပ်သားများကို မွေးဖွားပေးနိုင်ပါသလော။-
12 ౧౨ అమ్మాయిలూ, తిరిగి వెళ్ళండి. నేను ముసలిదాన్ని. మగ వాడితో ఇప్పుడు కాపురం చెయ్యలేను. ఒక వేళ నేను నమ్మకంతో ఈ రాత్రి నేను ఒక మగ వాడితో గడిపి కొడుకులను కనినప్పటికీ
၁၂အိမ်သို့ပြန်ကြလော့။ ငါသည်နောက်ထပ်အိမ် ထောင်ပြုရန်အရွယ်လွန်လေပြီ။ အကယ်၍ ငါ့မှာမျှော်လင့်စရာရှိသေးသဖြင့် ယခု ပင်အိမ်ထောင်ကျ၍သားများကိုရရှိသည် ဟုဆိုစေကာမူ၊-
13 ౧౩ వాళ్ళు పెద్దవాళ్లయ్యే వరకూ మీరు వేచి ఉంటారా? పెళ్లి చేసుకోకుండా వాళ్ళకోసం ఎదురు చూస్తూ ఉంటారా? నా బిడ్డలారా, అలా వద్దు. అలాంటి పరిస్థితి మీకంటే నాకే ఎక్కువ వేదన కలిగిస్తుంది, ఎందుకంటే యెహోవా నాకు విరోధి అయ్యాడు” అని వాళ్ళతో అంది.
၁၃သင်တို့သည်ထိုသားများကြီးပြင်းလာသည် တိုင်အောင် စောင့်ဆိုင်းနေကြပါမည်လော။ ယင်း သို့စောင့်ဆိုင်းကာနောက်အိမ်ထောင်မပြုဘဲနေ ကြပါမည်လော။ ငါ့သမီးတို့ဤသို့မဖြစ်နိုင် ကြောင်းကိုသင်တို့သိပါ၏။ ထာဝရဘုရား သည်ငါ့ကိုဒဏ်ခတ်တော်မူပြီဖြစ်၍ ငါသည် သင်တို့အတွက်အလွန်ဝမ်းနည်းပါ၏'' ဟု ဆို၏။
14 ౧౪ వాళ్ళు మళ్ళీ గట్టిగా ఏడ్చారు. అప్పుడు ఓర్పా తన అత్తను ముద్దు పెట్టుకుంది, రూతు ఆమెను అంటి పెట్టుకునే ఉంది.
၁၄သူတို့သည်လည်းတစ်ဖန်ငိုကြွေးကြ၏။ ထို နောက်သြရပသည် မိမိ၏ယောက္ခမအား နမ်းရှုတ်နှုတ်ဆက်ပြီးလျှင်အိမ်သို့ပြန်လေ၏။ ရုသမူကားမပြန်ဘဲနေ၏။-
15 ౧౫ అప్పుడు నయోమి “చూడు, నీ తోడికోడలు తిరిగి తన ప్రజల దగ్గరికీ తన దేవుళ్ళ దగ్గరికీ వెళ్ళిపోయింది. నువ్వు కూడా నీ తోడికోడలి వెంటే వెళ్ళు” అని రూతుతో చెప్పింది.
၁၅သို့ဖြစ်၍နောမိက``ရုသ၊ သင့်အစ်မသည် မိမိအမျိုးသားများ၊ မိမိ၏ဘုရားထံ သို့ပြန်သွားလေပြီ။ သင်သည်လည်းသူ နှင့်အတူပြန်သွားပါလော့'' ဟုပြော၏။
16 ౧౬ అందుకు రూతు “నీతో రావద్దనీ, నిన్ను విడిచిపొమ్మనీ నాకు చెప్పొద్దు. నువ్వు ఎక్కడికి వెళ్తావో నేనూ అక్కడికే వస్తాను. నువ్వు ఎక్కడ ఉంటావో నేనూ అక్కడే ఉంటాను. ఇకనుండి నీ ప్రజలే నా ప్రజలు. నీ దేవుడే నా దేవుడు.
၁၆သို့ရာတွင်ရုသက``မိခင်ကိုစွန့်ခွာရန် ကျွန်မ အားမတိုက်တွန်းပါနှင့်။ မိခင်နှင့်လိုက်ခွင့်ပြု ပါ။ ကျွန်မသည်မိခင်သွားရာသို့သွားပါ မည်။ မိခင်နေထိုင်ရာတွင်နေထိုင်ပါမည်။ မိခင်၏အမျိုးသားများသည်ကျွန်မ၏ အမျိုးသားများ၊ မိခင်၏ဘုရားသည် ကျွန်မ၏ဘုရားဖြစ်ပါမည်။-
17 ౧౭ నువ్వు ఎక్కడ చనిపోతావో నేనూ అక్కడే చనిపోతాను. అక్కడే నా సమాధి కూడా ఉంటుంది. చావు తప్ప ఇంకేదీ నన్ను నీ నుండి దూరం చేస్తే యెహోవా నన్ను శిక్షిస్తాడు గాక” అంది.
၁၇မိခင်သေရာအရပ်တွင်ကျွန်မသေပါ မည်။ ထိုအရပ်တွင်သင်္ဂြိုဟ်ခြင်းကိုခံပါမည်။ အကယ်၍ကျွန်မသည် သေခြင်းမှတစ်ပါး အခြားအကြောင်းတစ်ခုခုကြောင့် မိခင်နှင့် ခွဲခွာခဲ့လျှင်ဘုရားသခင်သည် ကျွန်မအား အဆိုးရွားဆုံးသောအပြစ်ဒဏ်ကိုပေး တော်မူပါစေသော'' ဟုပြန်ပြောလေသည်။
18 ౧౮ తనతో రావడానికే ఆమె నిశ్చయించుకున్నదని నయోమి గ్రహించినప్పుడు ఇక ఆమెతో ఆ విషయం మాట్లాడటం మానుకుంది.
၁၈မိမိနှင့်အတူလိုက်ရန် ရုသစိတ်ပိုင်းဖြတ် ထားကြောင်းနောမိသိသောအခါ ထပ်မံ မတိုက်တွန်းဘဲနေ၏။
19 ౧౯ కాబట్టి వాళ్ళిద్దరూ బేత్లెహేముకు ప్రయాణం సాగించారు. వాళ్ళు బేత్లెహేముకు వచ్చినప్పుడు ఆ ఊరు ఊరంతా ఎంతో ఆసక్తిగా గుమిగూడారు. ఊరి స్త్రీలు “ఈమె నయోమి కదా” అని చెప్పుకున్నారు.
၁၉သူတို့သည်ဗက်လင်မြို့သို့ရောက်သည်တိုင် အောင် ဆက်လက်သွားကြ၏။ သူတို့ရောက်ရှိ ကြသောအခါ တစ်မြို့လုံးလှုပ်လှုပ်ရှားရှား ဖြစ်လျက်အမျိုးသမီးများက``ဤသူ သည်အကယ်ပင်နောမိပေလော'' ဟုမေး မြန်းကြ၏။
20 ౨౦ అప్పుడు నయోమి “నన్ను నయోమి అని పిలవకండి, మారా అని పిలవండి. అమిత శక్తిశాలి నాకు చాలా వేదన కలిగించాడు.
၂၀နောမိကလည်း ``ငါ့ကို နောမိ'' ဟုသင်တို့ မခေါ်ကြပါနှင့်။ အနန္တတန်ခိုးရှင်ဘုရားသခင်သည် ငါ့အားခါးသီးစွာပြုတော်မူ ပြီဖြစ်၍ငါ့ကို`မာရ' ဟုခေါ်ကြပါလော့။-
21 ౨౧ నేను బాగా ఉన్న స్థితిలో ఇక్కడినుండి వెళ్ళాను. యెహోవా నన్ను ఖాళీ చేతులతో తిరిగి తీసుకువచ్చాడు. యెహోవా నాకు వ్యతిరేక సాక్షిగా నిలిచాడు. సర్వ శక్తిశాలి నన్ను బాధ పెట్టాడు. ఇదంతా చూసి కూడా నన్ను నయోమి అని పిలుస్తారెందుకు?” అని వారితో అంది.
၂၁ဤမြို့မှထွက်ခွာသွားစဉ်အခါက ငါ့မှာ အစုံအလင်ရှိသော်လည်း ယခုထာဝရ ဘုရားသည် ငါ့အားလက်ချည်းသက်သက် ပြန်လည်ပို့ဆောင်တော်မူလေပြီ။ အနန္တ တန်ခိုးရှင်ထာဝရဘုရားသည် အပြစ်ဒဏ် စီရင်တော်မူလျက်ဒုက္ခရောက်စေတော်မူ ပြီဖြစ်၍ ငါ့ကိုအဘယ်ကြောင့် `နောမိ' ဟု ခေါ်ကြပါသနည်း'' ဟုပြန်ပြောလေ၏။
22 ౨౨ ఆ విధంగా నయోమి, మోయాబీయురాలైన ఆమె కోడలు రూతు తిరిగి వచ్చారు. వారిద్దరూ బార్లీ పంట కోసే కాలం ఆరంభంలో బేత్లెహేము చేరుకున్నారు.
၂၂ဤကားနောမိသည် ချွေးမဖြစ်သူမောဘ အမျိုးသမီးရုသနှင့်အတူ မောဘပြည် မှပြန်လည်ရောက်ရှိလာပုံဖြစ်ပေသည်။ သူ တို့နှစ်ယောက်သည်မုယောစပါးရိတ်သိမ်း စအချိန်၌ ဗက်လင်မြို့သို့ရောက်ရှိလာ ကြသတည်း။
