A Last Appeal
1 These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
Haya ndiyo maneno ya agano Bwana alilomwamuru Musa alifanye na wana wa Israeli katika nchi ya Moabu, pamoja na agano alilofanya nao Horebu.
2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;
Musa akawaita Israeli wote akawaambia, Mmeyaona yote Bwana aliyomfanya Farao katika nchi ya Misri mbele ya macho yenu, yeye na watumwa wake wote, na nchi yake yote;
3 the great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
yale majaribu makuu yaliyoyaona macho yako; hizo ishara, na ile miujiza mikuu;
4 yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
lakini Bwana hakuwapa moyo wa kujua, wala macho ya kuona, wala masikio ya kusikia, hata leo hivi.
5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
Nami miaka arobaini nimewaongoza jangwani; nguo zenu hazikuchakaa juu yenu, wala kiatu chako hakikuchakaa katika mguu wako.
6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
Hamkula mkate, wala hamkunywa divai, wala kileo; ili mpate kujua kwamba Mimi ndimi Bwana, Mungu wenu.
7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:
Nanyi mlipokuja mahali hapa, walitutokea kupigana juu yetu Sihoni mfalme wa Heshboni, na Ogu mfalme wa Bashani, tukawapiga;
8 and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
tukaitwaa nchi yao, nayo tukawapa Wareubeni, na Wagadi, na nusu ya kabila ya Manase, iwe urithi.
9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
Shikeni basi maneno ya agano hili myafanye, ili mfanikiwe katika yote mfanyayo.
10 Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,
Leo mmesimama nyote mbele za Bwana, Mungu wenu; wakuu wenu, na kabila zenu, na wazee wenu, na maakida wenu, waume wote wa Israeli,
11 your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
vijana vyenu, na wake wenu, na mgeni wako aliye kati ya kituo chako, tokea mchanjaji wa kuni zako hata mtekaji wa maji yako;
12 that thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:
ili uingie katika agano la Bwana, Mungu wako, na kiapo chake, afanyacho nawe Bwana, Mungu wako, hivi leo;
13 that he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
apate kukuweka leo uwe taifa kwake naye apate kuwa Mungu kwako, kama alivyokuambia, na kama alivyowaapia baba zako, Ibrahimu, na Isaka, na Yakobo.
14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
Wala sifanyi na ninyi peke yenu agano hili na kiapo hiki;
15 but with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
ila na yeye aliyesimama hapa nasi hivi leo mbele ya Bwana, Mungu wetu, na yeye naye asiyekuwapo pamoja nasi leo;
16 (for ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;
(kwani mwajua mlivyoketi nchi ya Misri, na tulivyo kuja katikati ya mataifa hayo mliyopita katikati yao;
17 and ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
nanyi mliona machukizo yao, na sanamu zao, miti na mawe, fedha na dhahabu, zilizokuwako kwao;)
18 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
asiwe mtu katikati yenu, mume wala mke, wala jamaa, wala kabila, ageukaye moyo wake leo amwache Bwana, Mungu wetu, kwenda kuitumikia miungu ya mataifa hayo; lisiwe katikati yenu shina lizaalo uchungu na pakanga;
19 and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
ikawa asikiapo maneno ya laana hii, ajibarikie mtu huyo moyoni mwake, na kusema, Nitakuwa katika amani, nijapotembea katika upotoe wa moyo wangu kwa kuangamiza mbichi na kavu;
20 the LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
Bwana hatamsamehe mtu huyo, lakini wakati huo hasira ya Bwana na wivu wake vitafuka moshi juu ya mtu yule, na laana yote iliyoandikwa katika kitabu hiki itamkalia juu yake, na Bwana atalifuta jina lake chini ya mbingu.
21 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:
Bwana atamtenga kwa uovu, kutoka kabila zote za Israeli, kwa laana zote za agano lililoandikwa katika chuo hiki cha torati.
22 so that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;
Na kizazi cha baadaye, wanenu watakaoinuka baada yenu, na mgeni atakayekuja kutoka nchi ya mbali, watasema, watakapoyaona mapigo ya nchi ile, na magonjwa aliyoitia Bwana;
23 and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
ya kuwa nchi yake nzima ni kibiriti, na chumvi, na kuteketea, haipandwi, wala haizai, wala nyasi hazimei humo, kama mapinduko ya Sodoma na Gomora, Adma na Seboimu, aliyoipindua Bwana kwa ghadhabu yake na hasira zake;
24 even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
mataifa yote watasema, Mbona Bwana ameifanyia hivi nchi hii? Ni nini maana yake hari ya hasira hizi kubwa?
25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
Ndipo watakaposema watu, Ni kwa kuwa waliacha agano la Bwana, Mungu wa baba zao, alilofanya nao hapo alipowatoa katika nchi ya Misri;
26 for they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
wakaenda wakatumikia miungu mingine, wakaiabudu miungu wasiyoijua, asiyowapa yeye;
27 and the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
ndipo ikawashwa hasira ya Bwana juu ya nchi hii, kwa kuleta juu yake laana yote iliyoandikwa katika kitabu hiki;
28 and the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
Bwana akawang'oa katika nchi yao kwa hasira, na ghadhabu, na makamio makuu, akawatupa waende nchi nyingine, kama hivi leo.
29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Mambo ya siri ni ya Bwana, Mungu wetu; lakini mambo yaliyofunuliwa ni yetu sisi na watoto wetu milele, ili tuyafanye maneno yote ya sheria hii.
