SOMO LA MSINGI.

KUHUSU KUMWIBIA MUNGU.

MHUBIRI: FAUSTINE GUTAPAKA.

Malaki 3:7-14

[7]Tokea siku za baba zenu mmegeuka upande, mkayaacha maagizo yangu, wala hamkuyashika. Nirudieni mimi, nami nitawarudia ninyi, asema BWANA wa majeshi. Lakini ninyi mwasema, Turudi kwa namna gani? 

Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?

[8]Je! Mwanadamu atamwibia Mungu? Lakini ninyi mnaniibia mimi. Lakini ninyi mwasema, Tumekuibia kwa namna gani? Mmeniibia zaka na dhabihu. 

Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

[9]Ninyi mmelaaniwa kwa laana; maana mnaniibia mimi, naam, taifa hili lote. 

Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

[10]Leteni zaka kamili ghalani, ili kiwemo chakula katika nyumba yangu, mkanijaribu kwa njia hiyo, asema BWANA wa majeshi; mjue kama sitawafungulia madirisha ya mbinguni, na kuwamwagieni baraka, hata isiwepo nafasi ya kutosha, au la. 

Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

[11]Nami kwa ajili yenu nitamkemea yeye alaye, wala hataharibu mazao ya ardhi yenu; wala mzabibu wenu hautapukutisha matunda yake kabla ya wakati wake katika mashamba, asema BWANA wa majeshi. 

And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.

[12]Na mataifa yote watawaiteni heri; maana mtakuwa nchi ya kupendeza sana, asema BWANA wa majeshi. 

And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.

[13]Maneno yenu yamekuwa magumu juu yangu, asema BWANA. Lakini ninyi mwasema, Tumesema maneno juu yako kwa namna gani? 

Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?

[14]Mmesema, Kumtumikia Mungu hakuna faida; na, Tumepata faida gani kwa kuyashika maagizo yake, na kwa kwenda kwa huzuni mbele za BWANA wa majeshi? 

Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?