¹Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

¹Sisi tunalo kundi hili kubwa la mashahidi mbele yetu. Kwa hiyo tuondoe kila kizuizi kinachotuzuia, na dhambi ile inayotung'ang'ania. Tupige mbio kwa uvumilivu katika mashindano yaliyowekwa mbele yetu.

²looking to the author and perfecter of faith — Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him — did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

²Tumwelekee Yesu ambaye ndiye aliyeianzisha imani yetu na ambaye ataikamilisha. Kwa ajili ya furaha iliyokuwa inamngojea, yeye alivumilia kifo msalabani, bila kujali juu ya aibu yake, na sasa anaketi upande wa kulia wa kiti cha enzi cha Mungu.

³for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls — being faint.

³Fikirini juu ya mambo yaliyompata Yesu, jinsi alivyostahimili upinzani mkubwa kwa watu wenye dhambi. Basi, msife moyo, wala msikate tamaa.

⁴Not yet unto blood did ye resist — with the sin striving;

⁴Maana katika kupambana na dhambi, ninyi hamjapigana mpaka kiasi cha kumwaga damu yenu.

⁵and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,

⁵Je, mmesahau yale maneno ya kutia moyo ambayo Mungu anawataja ninyi kuwa wanawe? "Mwanangu, usidharau adhabu ya Bwana, wala usife moyo anapokukanya.

⁶for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;`

⁶Maana Bwana humwadhibu kila anayempenda, humpinga kila anayekubali kuwa mwanae."

⁷if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?

⁷Vumilieni adhabu kwani ni mafundisho; Mungu huwatendea ninyi kama wanawe. Maana ni mwana gani asiyeadhibiwa na baba yake?

⁸and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.

⁸Lakini msipoadhibiwa kama wana wengine, basi, ninyi si wanawe, bali ni wana haramu.

⁹Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising [us], and we were reverencing [them]; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?

⁹Zaidi ya hayo sisi tunawaheshimu wazazi wetu waliotuzaa hata wanapotuadhibu. Basi, tunapaswa kumtii zaidi Baba yetu wa kiroho ili tupate kuishi.

¹⁰for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;

¹⁰Wazazi wetu hapa duniani walituadhibu kwa muda, kama wao wenyewe walivyoona kuwa vema; lakini Mungu anatuadhibu kwa ajili ya faida yetu wenyewe, tupate kuushiriki utakatifu wake.

¹¹and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it — it doth yield.

¹¹Kuadhibiwa si jambo la kufurahisha bali la kuhuzunisha. Lakini wale waliofunzwa kuwa na nidhamu mwishowe watavuna tuzo la amani kutoka katika maisha adili!

¹²Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up;

¹²Basi, inueni mikono yenu inayolegea na kuimarisha magoti yenu yaliyo dhaifu.

¹³and straight paths make for your feet, that that which is lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed;

¹³Endeleeni kutembea katika njia iliyonyoka, ili kile kilicholemaa kisiumizwe, bali kiponywe.

¹⁴peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,

¹⁴Jitahidini kuishi kwa amani na watu wote. Ishini maisha ya utakatifu, kwa sababu hakuna mtu atakayemwona Bwana bila ya maisha kama hayo.

¹⁵looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;

¹⁵Jitahidini sana mtu yeyote asije akapoteza neema ya Mungu. Muwe waangalifu ili mti mchungu usizuke kati yenu na kuwaua wengi kwa sumu yake.

¹⁶lest any one be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food did sell his birthright,

¹⁶Jihadharini ili miongoni mwenu pasiwe na mtu mwasherati au mtu asiyemcha Mungu kama Esau, aliyeuza haki yake ya mzaliwa wa kwanza kwa mlo mmoja.

¹⁷for ye know that also afterwards, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for a place of reformation he found not, though with tears having sought it.

¹⁷Ninyi mnafahamu kwamba hata alipotaka kuipata tena ile baraka iliyokuwa yake, alikataliwa, maana hakupata tena nafasi ya kutubu, ingawa aliitafuta kwa machozi.

¹⁸For ye came not near to the mount touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

¹⁸Ninyi hamkuwasili mlimani Sinai, ambao unaweza kushikika kama walivyofanya watu wa Israeli, hamkufika kwenye moto uwakao, penye giza, tufani,

¹⁹and a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of sayings, which those having heard did entreat that a word might not be added to them,

¹⁹mvumo wa tarumbeta na sauti ya maneno. Wale waliosikia sauti hiyo waliomba wasisikie tena neno jingine,

²⁰for they were not bearing that which is commanded, `And if a beast may touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or with an arrow shot through,`

²⁰kwani hawakuweza kustahimili amri iliyotolewa: "Atakayegusa mlima huu, hata kama ni mnyama, atapigwa mawe."

²¹and, (so terrible was the sight,) Moses said, `I am fearful exceedingly, and trembling.`

²¹Hayo yote yalionekana ya kutisha mno, hata Mose akasema, "Naogopa na kutetemeka."

²²But, ye came to Mount Zion, and to a city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers,

²²Lakini ninyi mmefika katika mlima wa Sioni, kwenye mji wa Mungu aliye hai. Mmefika Yerusalemu, mji wa mbinguni, ambapo wamekusanyika malaika elfu nyingi wasiohesabika.

²³to the company and assembly of the first-born in heaven enrolled, and to God the judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men made perfect,

²³Mmefika kwenye kusanyiko kubwa la wazaliwa wa kwanza wa Mungu, ambao majina yao yameandikwa mbinguni. Mnasimama mbele ya Mungu aliye hakimu wa wote, na mbele ya roho za watu waadilifu waliofanywa kuwa wakamilifu.

²⁴and to a mediator of a new covenant — Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel!

²⁴Mmefika kwa Yesu ambaye ameratibisha agano jipya, na ambaye damu yake iliyomwagika inasema mambo mema zaidi kuliko ile ya Abeli.

²⁵See, may ye not refuse him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who upon earth was divinely speaking — much less we who do turn away from him who [speaketh] from heaven,

²⁵Basi, jihadharini msije mkakataa kumsikiliza yeye ambaye anasema nanyi. Kama wale walikataa kumsikiliza yule aliyewaonya hapa duniani hawakuokoka, sisi tutawezaje kuokoka kama tukikataa kumsikiliza yule anayetuonya kutoka mbinguni?

²⁶whose voice the earth shook then, and now hath he promised, saying, `Yet once — I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven;`

²⁶Wakati ule sauti ilitetemesha nchi, lakini sasa ameahidi: "Nitatetemesha nchi tena, lakini si nchi tu bali pia mbingu."

²⁷and this — `Yet once` — doth make evident the removal of the things shaken, as of things having been made, that the things not shaken may remain;

²⁷Neno hili: "tena" linatuonyesha kwamba vitu vyote vilivyoumbwa vitatetemeshwa na kutoweka ili vibaki vile visivyotetemeshwa.

²⁸wherefore, a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and religious fear;

²⁸Sisi basi, na tushukuru kwani tunapokea utawala usiotikisika. Tuwe na shukrani na kumwabudu Mungu kwa namna itakayompendeza, kwa ibada na hofu;

²⁹for also our God [is] a consuming fire.

²⁹maana Mungu wetu kweli ni moto mkali unaoteketeza.