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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.
၁တရား သူကြီးအုပ်စိုး သောကာလ ၊ တရံရောအခါ ဣသရေလပြည် ၌ အစာအာဟာရခေါင်းပါး ၍ ယုဒ ပြည် ဗက်လင် မြို့သား တယောက်သည်၊ မယား နှင့် သား နှစ် ယောက်ပါလျက် မောဘ ပြည် ၌ တည်းခို ခြင်းငှါ သွား ၏။
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.
၂ထိုသူ ၏အမည် ကား ဧလိမလက်။ မယား အမည် ကား နောမိ။ သား နှစ် ယောက်အမည် ကား မဟာလုန် နှင့် ခိလျုန် တည်း။ သူတို့သည် ယုဒ ပြည်၊ ဗက်လင် မြို့၊ ဧဖရတ် အရပ်သားဖြစ်လျက် ၊ မောဘ ပြည် သို့သွား ၍ နေ ကြ၏။
၃နောမိ ၏ခင်ပွန်း ဧလိမလက် သည်သေ ၍ မယား နှင့် သား နှစ် ယောက်တို့သည် ကျန်ရစ် ကြ၏။
၄သားတို့သည်မောဘ ပြည်သူဩရပ နှင့် ရုသ အမည် ရှိသောမိန်းမ နှစ်ယောက်တို့နှင့် စုံဘက် ခြင်းကိုပြု၍ ၊ ထို ပြည်မှာ ဆယ် နှစ် ခန့် မျှနေ ပြီးမှ၊
5 ౫ సుమారు పదేళ్లు గడచిన తరువాత మహ్లోను, కిల్యోను కూడా చనిపోయారు. నయోమి భర్త, కొడుకులను పోగొట్టుకుని ఒంటరిగా మిగిలింది.
၅ထိုသား နှစ် ယောက် မဟာလုန် နှင့် ခိလျုန် တို့သည် သေ ၍ နောမိ သည်သား မရှိ ၊ ခင်ပွန်း လည်း မရှိ ကျန်ရစ် လေ၏။
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.
၆တဖန် ထာဝရဘုရား သည်မိမိ လူ တို့ကိုအကြည့် အရှုကြွ၍ မုန့် ကိုပေး သနားတော်မူကြောင်းကို ထိုမိန်းမသည် မောဘ ပြည် ၌ ကြား သောအခါ ၊ မောဘ ပြည် မှ ပြန် သွားမည်ဟု ချွေးမ နှစ်ယောက်နှင့်အတူ ထ ၍၊
၇တည်းခိုရာအရပ် က ထွက် ပြီးလျှင် ယုဒ ပြည် သို့ ရောက် လိုသောငှါ သွား ကြ၏။
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.
၈သို့ရာတွင် ချွေးမ နှစ် ယောက်တို့အား ၊ သင်တို့သည် ကိုယ်အမိ အိမ် သို့ ပြန် သွား ကြလော့။ သေလွန် သောသူ၌ ၎င်း၊ ငါ ၌ ၎င်း ၊ ကျေးဇူးပြု သည်နှင့်အညီ ၊ ထာဝရဘုရား သည် သင် တို့၌ ကျေးဇူး ပြု တော်မူပါစေသော။
9 ౯ మీరిద్దరూ చక్కగా మళ్ళీ పెళ్ళిళ్ళు చేసుకుని మీ భర్తల ఇళ్ళల్లో సుఖంగా జీవించే స్థితి ప్రభువు దయచేస్తాడు గాక” అని చెప్పి ఆమె తన కోడళ్ళను ముద్దు పెట్టుకుంది.
၉သင် တို့နှစ်ယောက်သည် နောက်ရသောလင် အိမ် ၌ချမ်းသာ စွာနေရမည်အကြောင်းထာဝရဘုရား ကယ်မ သနားတော်မူပါစေသောဟုဆိုလျက် သူ တို့ကို နမ်း လေ၏။ သူတို့သည်လည်း ၊ အသံ ကိုလွှင့် ၍ ငိုကြွေး လျက်၊
၁၀အကယ် စင်စစ်အကျွန်ုပ်တို့သည် ကိုယ်တော် နှင့်အတူ ၊ ကိုယ်တော် ၏ အမျိုး ထံ သို့လိုက်သွား ပါမည်ဟု ဆို ကြ၏။
11 ౧౧ అప్పుడు నయోమి “నా బిడ్డలారా, మీరు వెనక్కి మళ్ళండి. మిమ్మల్ని పెళ్ళి చేసుకోడానికి ఇప్పుడు నా కడుపున కొడుకులు పుట్టరు గదా.
၁၁နောမိ ကလည်း ၊ ငါ့ သမီး တို့ပြန် သွားကြလော့။ ငါ နှင့်အတူ အဘယ်ကြောင့် လိုက် ရမည်နည်း။ သင် တို့လင် လျှာဘို့ ငါ ၏ဝမ်း ၌ သား ရှိသေးသလော။
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
၁၂ငါ့ သမီး တို့ပြန် သွားကြလော့။ ငါသည်အသက် အရွယ်လွန်၍လင် နှင့် မနေ သင့်။ သို့မဟုတ်မြော်လင့် စရာရှိသေးသည်ဟုငါဆို လျှင် ၎င်း၊ ယနေ့ည မှာလင် နေလျှင်၎င်း၊ သား တို့ကိုလည်း ဘွားမြင် လျှင်၎င်း၊
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.
၁၃ထိုသားတို့သည်ကြီးပွား သည်တိုင်အောင် ငံ့ နေလိမ့်မည်လော။ လင်မနေဘဲသူတို့ကို မြော်လင့်လိမ့်မည်လော။ ငါ့ သမီး တို့ထိုသို့မ ဖြစ် ရ။ ထာဝရဘုရား လက် တော်သည် ငါ ၌ ကန့်လန့် ရှိသည်ကို သင် တို့အတွက် ငါအလွန်ကြင်နာသောစိတ် ရှိသည်ဟုဆိုလေသော်၊
14 ౧౪ వాళ్ళు మళ్ళీ గట్టిగా ఏడ్చారు. అప్పుడు ఓర్పా తన అత్తను ముద్దు పెట్టుకుంది, రూతు ఆమెను అంటి పెట్టుకునే ఉంది.
၁၄သူတို့သည်တဖန် အသံ ကိုလွှင့် ၍ ငိုကြွေး ကြ၏။ ထိုအခါ ဩရပ သည်ယောက္ခမ ကို နမ်း ၍မိမိအမျိုးသားတို့ထံသွားသို့ပြန်သွား၏။ ရုသ မူကား ၊ ယောက္ခမ ၌ မှီဝဲ ဆည်းကပ်လျက်နေသေး၏။
15 ౧౫ అప్పుడు నయోమి “చూడు, నీ తోడికోడలు తిరిగి తన ప్రజల దగ్గరికీ తన దేవుళ్ళ దగ్గరికీ వెళ్ళిపోయింది. నువ్వు కూడా నీ తోడికోడలి వెంటే వెళ్ళు” అని రూతుతో చెప్పింది.
၁၅နောမိကလည်း၊ သင့် အစ်မ သည်အမျိုးသား ရင်းဘုရား ရင်းတို့ထံ သို့ပြန် သွားပြီ။ အစ်မ နောက် သို့ လိုက်သွား ပါဟုဆို သော်၊
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.
၁၆ရုသ က၊ ကျွန်မ သည် ကိုယ်တော် ကို မစွန့် ပါရစေနှင့်။ နောက် တော်သို့မလိုက်ဘဲ ပြန် သွားစေခြင်းငှါ မ ပြု ပါနှင့်။ ကိုယ်တော်သွား လေရာရာသို့ ကျွန်မလိုက် ပါမည်။ ကိုယ်တော်အိပ် လေရာရာ၌ ကျွန်မအိပ် ပါမည်။ ကိုယ်တော် အမျိုး သည် ကျွန်မ အမျိုး ၊ ကိုယ်တော် ဘုရား သည်ကျွန်မ ဘုရား ဖြစ်ပါစေ။
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.
၁၇ကိုယ်တော်သေ ရာအရပ်၌ ကျွန်မသေ ၍ သင်္ဂြိုဟ် ခံပါမည်။ သေ ခြင်းမှတပါး ၊ အခြားသောအမှုကြောင့် ကိုယ်တော် နှင့် ကျွန်မ ကွာ လျှင်၊ ထာဝရဘုရား သည် ကျွန်မ ၌ ထို မျှမကပြု တော်မူ ပါစေသောဟုပြန်ဆို၏။
18 ౧౮ తనతో రావడానికే ఆమె నిశ్చయించుకున్నదని నయోమి గ్రహించినప్పుడు ఇక ఆమెతో ఆ విషయం మాట్లాడటం మానుకుంది.
၁၈ရုသ သည်လိုက် ခြင်းငှါ ခိုင်ခံ့ သောစိတ်ရှိသည်ကို နောမိသည်သိမြင် သော်တိတ်ဆိတ် စွာနေလေ၏။
19 ౧౯ కాబట్టి వాళ్ళిద్దరూ బేత్లెహేముకు ప్రయాణం సాగించారు. వాళ్ళు బేత్లెహేముకు వచ్చినప్పుడు ఆ ఊరు ఊరంతా ఎంతో ఆసక్తిగా గుమిగూడారు. ఊరి స్త్రీలు “ఈమె నయోమి కదా” అని చెప్పుకున్నారు.
၁၉ထိုသူ နှစ် ယောက်တို့သည်ခရီးသွား ၍ဗက်လင် မြို့သို့ရောက် သောအခါ ၊ တမြို့လုံး အုတ်အုတ် ကျက်ကျက်ဖြစ်၍၊ ဤ သူကားနောမိ ဟုတ်သလောဟုမေး ကြ၏။
20 ౨౦ అప్పుడు నయోమి “నన్ను నయోమి అని పిలవకండి, మారా అని పిలవండి. అమిత శక్తిశాలి నాకు చాలా వేదన కలిగించాడు.
၂၀သူကလည်းနောမိ ဟူ၍မ ခေါ် ပါနှင့်။ မာရ ဟူ၍ခေါ် ပါ။ အနန္တ တန်ခိုးရှင်သည် ငါ့ အား အလွန် ခါး သောအရာကိုပေးတော်မူပြီ။
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.
၂၁ငါ သည်ကြွယ်ဝ ပြည့်စုံလျက်ထွက်သွား ၏။ ယခုမူကား ဆင်းရဲ လျက် တကိုယ်တည်းရှိမှ၊ ထာဝရဘုရား သည် ငါ့ ကိုပို့ပြန် တော်မူပြီ။ ထာဝရဘုရား သည် ငါ့ ကို နှိမ့်ချ၍ အနန္တ တန်ခိုးရှင်သည် ငါ့ ကို ဆင်းရဲ စေတော်မူသည်ဖြစ်၍၊ နောမိ အမည်ဖြင့် အဘယ်ကြောင့် ငါ့ ကို ခေါ် ကြသနည်းဟု ပြန်ပြော ၏။
22 ౨౨ ఆ విధంగా నయోమి, మోయాబీయురాలైన ఆమె కోడలు రూతు తిరిగి వచ్చారు. వారిద్దరూ బార్లీ పంట కోసే కాలం ఆరంభంలో బేత్లెహేము చేరుకున్నారు.
၂၂ထိုသို့ မောဘ ပြည် မှ လိုက်လာ သောမောဘ ပြည်သူချွေးမ ရုသ နှင့်အတူ နောမိ သည်ပြန် လာ၍ ၊ မုယော စပါးကိုရိတ် စ ကာလ၌ ဗက်လင် မြို့သို့ရောက် ကြ၏။
