Jesus eye Omupristeri wetu Otjiuru
1 Nepu enanḓengu tjinene, ndi matu hungire oro ndi: Eṱe tu nOmupristeri Otjiuru ngwa kakara pehi kokunene kwotjihavero tjouhona wounenenene wa Ndjambi meyuru. 2 Eye u karera otja Omupristeri Otjiuru mOtjouyapukeyapuke, okutja mOndanda yatjiri yOmaturiro, ndja tungwa i Muhona, nu ndi ha tungirwe i omundu.
3 Omupristeri auhe Otjiuru u zikirwa okupunguhira Ndjambi oviyandjewa nozombunguhiro zovinamuinyo. Omupristeri wetu Otjiuru wina ope sokukarera notjiṋa okupunguha. 4 Neye andakuzu u ri kombanda yehi, katja rira omupristeri oparukaze, tjinga ape novapristeri mbe punguha oviyandjewa otja kOmatwako wOvajuda. 5 Otjiungura tji ve ungura otja ovapristeri otjo otjisanekero notjizire uriri tjaimbi vyomeyuru. Moses tja rakizirwe i Ndjambi okutunga Ondanda yOmahakaeneno, Ndjambi wa tjere ku ye: “Tjevera nawa kutja u i tunge otja kotjisanekero tji wa raisirwa kondundu.” 6 Nungwari nambano Jesus wa pewa otjiungura tjoupristeri otjinene komeho pu ihi otjawo, otja omerikutiropamwe eye nga tjita pokati ka Ndjambi notjiwaṋa tje punga aye ri omasemba komeho, owo tjinga aya zikamisiwa kombanda yomakwizikiro omawa komeho.
7 Omerikutiropamwe inga omatenga andakuzu kaya ri notjipo, inga oyetjavari katjaye rira ohepero. 8 Nungwari Ndjambi wa tena otjiwaṋa tje na tja ku tjo:
“Tara, omayuva maye ya, Muhona ma tja nai,
ami mu me tjiti omerikutiropamwe omape notjiwaṋa tja Israel notja Juda.
9 Owo kaye nokusana nomerikutiropamwe ngu mba tjitire nooihe mukururume,
meyuva ndi ndi mbe ve kamburire pomake ne ve pitisa mehi ra Engipte.
Owo va teyere omerikutiropamwe wandje,
nami otji mbe ve imbirahi.
10 Nambano inga onge ri omerikutiropamwe ngu me tjiti notjiwaṋa tja Israel
momayuva ngu maye ya, Muhona ma tja nai:
Ami me twa mo omatwako wandje momeripura wawo,
nu me ye tjanga momitima vyawo.
Ami me rire Ndjambi wawo,
nowo mave rire otjiwaṋa tjandje.
11 Kape na umwe wawo ngu ma hongo omuraranganda
poo omuzamumwe we ama tja:
‘Tjiwa Muhona!’
Orondu owo avehe maave kendjitjiwa,
okuza kouṱiṱi nga kovanene.
12 Meve isire ouhasemba wawo,
nu hi nokuuhara ame rizemburuka nozongatukiro zawo.”
13 Ndjambi tji ma hungire omerikutiropamwe omape okutja wa hahiza inga omakuru, nu atjihe tji tja kurupa natji rire ovinyaze matji zengi tjimanga.
A Better Promise
1 What I mean is we have a high priest who sits at the right side of God's great throne in heaven. 2 He also serves as the priest in the most holy place inside the real tent there in heaven. This tent of worship was set up by the Lord, not by humans.
3 Since all priests must offer gifts and sacrifices, Christ also needed to have something to offer. 4 If he were here on earth, he would not be a priest at all, because here the Law appoints other priests to offer sacrifices. 5 But the tent where they serve is just a copy and a shadow of the real one in heaven. Before Moses made the tent, he was told, “Be sure to make it exactly like the pattern you were shown on the mountain!” 6 Now Christ has been appointed to serve as a priest in a much better way, and he has given us much assurance of a better agreement.
7 If the first agreement with God had been all right, there would not have been any need for another one. 8 But the Lord found fault with it and said,
“I tell you the time will come,
when I will make
a new agreement
with the people of Israel
and the people of Judah.
9 It won't be like the agreement
that I made
with their ancestors,
when I took them by the hand
and led them out of Egypt.
They broke their agreement
with me,
and I stopped caring
about them!
10 “But now I tell the people
of Israel
this is my new agreement:
‘The time will come
when I, the Lord,
will write my laws
on their minds and hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be
my people.
11 Not one of them
will have to teach another
to know me, their Lord.’
“All of them will know me,
no matter who they are.
12 I will treat them with kindness,
even though they are wicked.
I will forget their sins.”
13 When the Lord talks about a new agreement, he means that the first one is out of date. And anything that is old and useless will soon disappear.
