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Samu-ễl Atỡng Cũai Proai I-sarel

¹Chơ Samu-ễl pai chóq máh cũai proai I-sarel neq: “Cứq khoiq táq moâm dũ ramứh máh anhia sễq cứq táq. Cứq khoiq chóh muoi noaq cũai yỗn cỡt puo tỗp anhia. ²Sanua anhia khoiq bữn puo dŏq cỡt cũai ayông anhia. Ma cứq khoiq thâu chơ, sóc la nheq pluac; mŏ cứq cớp con samiang cứq noâng ỡt cớp anhia. Tễ bo cứq noâng póng yỗn toau toâq sanua, cứq ayông níc anhia. ³Sanua cứq ỡt bân ntốq nâi. Khân cứq táq lôih ntrớu chóq anhia, pĩeiq lứq yỗn anhia cauq cứq sanua nâi toâp choâng moat Yiang Sursĩ, cớp choâng moat puo Ncháu khoiq rưoh. Cứq cơi ĩt ntroŏq tỡ la aséh dễn anhia tỡ? Cứq lôp tỡ la padâm anhia tỡ? Cứq khoiq roap ĩt práq noau chang tỡ? Khân cứq táq lôih muoi ramứh tễ máh santoiq cứq pai sanua, cứq bũi pahỡm culáh loah tễ máh ranáq cứq khoiq táq.”
⁴Máh cũai proai ta‑ỡi neq: “Achuaih tỡ nai lôp tỡ la padâm tỗp hếq! Cớp achuaih tỡ bữn ĩt acán ntrớu loâng tễ tỗp hếq.”
⁵Samu-ễl ta‑ỡi loah: “Tangái nâi, sễq Yiang Sursĩ cớp puo án khoiq rưoh dáng cớp hữm tễ ranáq nâi; tỗp anhia tỡ bữn ramóh muoi ranáq lôih ntrớu tễ cứq.”
Tỗp alới ta‑ỡi: “Lứq pĩeiq! Yiang Sursĩ hữm cớp dáng tê tễ máh ŏ́c ki.”
⁶Chơ Samu-ễl pai ễn neq: “Yiang Sursĩ toâp rưoh Môi-se cớp Arôn, cớp án toâp dững aloŏh achúc achiac anhia tễ cruang Ê-yip-tô. ⁷Sanua cóq anhia ỡt tayứng bân ntốq nâi voai, dŏq cứq partoâq loah pỡ Yiang Sursĩ máh ranáq anhia khoiq táq. Cứq ễ atỡng loah anhia dŏq anhia sanhữ loah máh ranáq Yiang Sursĩ khoiq chuai amoong tỗp anhia cớp achúc achiac anhia. ⁸Toâq Yacốp cớp nheq tữh dống sũ án toâq ỡt tâng cruang Ê-yip-tô, máh cũai Ê-yip-tô padâm alới sa‑ữi ramứh. Ma achúc achiac anhia sễq Yiang Sursĩ toâq chuai tỗp alới; chơ Yiang Sursĩ ớn Môi-se cớp Arôn toâq dững aloŏh anhia tễ cruang Ê-yip-tô, toau anhia bữn ayứng vil ỡt tâng ntốq nâi. ⁹Ma máh cũai proai khlĩr chíq Yiang Sursĩ, Ncháu alới. Yuaq ngkíq, Ncháu chiau tỗp alới yỗn tỗp Phi-li-tin, puo Mô-ap, cớp Si-sara la sốt tahan vil Hasôr. Tỗp ki chíl riap achúc achiac anhia. ¹⁰Chơ tỗp alới sễq Yiang Sursĩ chuai alới sĩa. Alới pai neq: ‘Tỗp hếq khoiq táq lôih, cớp khoiq nguai tễ anhia chơ, Yiang Sursĩ ơi. Hếq khoiq pỡq cucốh sang rup yiang Ba-al cớp yiang At-taret. Sễq anhia chuai tỗp hếq yỗn vớt tễ máh cũai par‑ũal hếq, chơ hếq ễ píh sang toam loah anhia.’
¹¹“Chơ Yiang Sursĩ ớn cũai toâq rachuai alới la neq: Kê-dien, Barac,⚓ cớp Yêp-thê; ma cũai parsốt tháng la cứq toâp. Hếq dũ náq chuai tỗp anhia yỗn vớt tễ cũai par‑ũal; chơ anhia bữn ỡt ien khễ loah. ¹²Ma toâq tỗp anhia hữm Nahat, la puo tỗp Amôn, ntôm toâq chíl anhia, chơ anhia táh chíq Yiang Sursĩ, la Puo anhia. Ma anhia noâng pai chóq cứq neq: ‘Tỗp hếq yoc ễ bữn puo dŏq cỡt sốt tỗp hếq.’
¹³“Nâi la puo tỗp anhia khoiq rưoh; cũai anhia ễq yỗn cỡt puo anhia. Sanua nâi Yiang Sursĩ yỗn tỗp anhia bữn puo chơ. ¹⁴Khân tỗp anhia yám noap Yiang Sursĩ, Ncháu anhia, cóq anhia táq ranáq án, trĩh cớp táq tapun dũ ŏ́c án patâp. Khân anhia cớp puo anhia táq puai dũ ŏ́c án patâp, lứq cỡt ranáq o yỗn tỗp anhia. ¹⁵Ma khân anhia tỡ bữn trĩh Yiang Sursĩ, cớp khân anhia lớn-sarlớn chóq máh ŏ́c án patâp, ngkíq án píh toâq chíl tỗp anhia cớp puo anhia. ¹⁶Yuaq ngkíq, cóq anhia tayứng bân ntốq nâi voai; chơ anhia têq bữn hữm ranáq toâr lứq Yiang Sursĩ ễ táq. ¹⁷Sanua la catữ susot, cỡt catữ ŏ́q mia, pĩeiq tỡ? Ma cứq ễ câu sễq yỗn anhia bữn dáng raloaih la anhia táq lôih toâr lứq chóq Yiang Sursĩ bo anhia sễq yoc ễ bữn puo.”
¹⁸Chơ Samu-ễl câu sễq tễ Yiang Sursĩ. Tâng tangái ki toâp Yiang Sursĩ yỗn bữn sưong crứm bubữr, cớp paloŏng mia hỡ. Ngkíq máh cũai proai sâng ngcŏh Yiang Sursĩ cớp Samu-ễl. ¹⁹Chơ máh cũai proai pai chóq Samu-ễl neq: “Achuaih ơi! Sễq achuaih câu sễq tễ Yiang Sursĩ, la Yiang achuaih, dŏq tỗp hếq têq bữn vớt tễ cuchĩt. Ngkíq sanua hếq khoiq dáng raloaih tễ máh ranáq hếq khoiq táq lôih; ma hỡn tễ ki ễn, tỗp hếq noâng táq lôih na sễq yoc ễ bữn puo.”
²⁰Samu-ễl ta‑ỡi: “Chỗi ngcŏh ntrớu! Tam anhia khoiq táq ranáq sâuq nâi, ma anhia chỗi chứng clĩ noâng tễ Yiang Sursĩ. Cóq anhia táq ống ranáq Yiang Sursĩ nheq tễ mứt pahỡm anhia. ²¹Anhia chỗi clŏ́c clu noâng cớp yiang tỡ cỡn lứq yiang. Yiang ki tỡ têq chuai anhia ntrớu, yuaq yiang ki la rup sâng cớp tỡ bữn khlữr ntrớu. ²²Yuaq Yiang Sursĩ tỡ ễq cũai ayê ra‑ac ramứh án, ngkíq án tỡ bữn táh anhia, yuaq án khoiq chanchớm samoât lứq ễ rưoh tỗp anhia yỗn cỡt proai án. ²³Ma Yiang Sursĩ tỡ yỗn cứq tangứt câu sễq án chuai tỗp anhia. Khân cứq tangứt, ki cỡt lôih chóq Yiang Sursĩ. Ma cứq ễ arĩen tỗp anhia yỗn dáng ranáq o cớp ranáq pĩeiq. ²⁴Cóq anhia tamứng cớp trĩh Yiang Sursĩ yỗn tanoang tapứng, cớp yỗn nheq tễ rangứh anhia. Cóq anhia sanhữ máh ranáq toâr lứq án khoiq táq yỗn anhia. ²⁵Ma khân anhia noâng táq níc ranáq lôih, chơ anhia cớp puo anhia pĩeiq lứq noau pupứt nheq.”

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Samuel’s Farewell Speech

¹Samuel said to all Israel, “I have listened to everything you said to me and have set a king over you. ²Now you have a king as your leader. As for me, I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have been your leader from my youth until this day. ³Here I stand. Testify against me in the presence of the Lord and his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated? Whom have I oppressed? From whose hand have I accepted a bribe to make me shut my eyes? If I have done any of these things, I will make it right.”
⁴“You have not cheated or oppressed us,” they replied. “You have not taken anything from anyone’s hand.”
⁵Samuel said to them, “The Lord is witness against you, and also his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand.”
“He is witness,” they said.
⁶Then Samuel said to the people, “It is the Lord who appointed Moses and Aaron and brought your ancestors up out of Egypt. ⁷Now then, stand here, because I am going to confront you with evidence before the Lord as to all the righteous acts performed by the Lord for you and your ancestors.
⁸“After Jacob entered Egypt, they cried to the Lord for help, and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your ancestors out of Egypt and settled them in this place.
⁹“But they forgot the Lord their God; so he sold them into the hand of Sisera, the commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines and the king of Moab, who fought against them. ¹⁰They cried out to the Lord and said, ‘We have sinned; we have forsaken the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtoreths. But now deliver us from the hands of our enemies, and we will serve you.’ ¹¹Then the Lord sent Jerub-Baal,⚓ Barak,⚓ Jephthah and Samuel,⚓ and he delivered you from the hands of your enemies all around you, so that you lived in safety.
¹²“But when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites was moving against you, you said to me, ‘No, we want a king to rule over us’—even though the Lord your God was your king. ¹³Now here is the king you have chosen, the one you asked for; see, the Lord has set a king over you. ¹⁴If you fear the Lord and serve and obey him and do not rebel against his commands, and if both you and the king who reigns over you follow the Lord your God—good! ¹⁵But if you do not obey the Lord, and if you rebel against his commands, his hand will be against you, as it was against your ancestors.
¹⁶“Now then, stand still and see this great thing the Lord is about to do before your eyes! ¹⁷Is it not wheat harvest now? I will call on the Lord to send thunder and rain. And you will realize what an evil thing you did in the eyes of the Lord when you asked for a king.”
¹⁸Then Samuel called on the Lord, and that same day the Lord sent thunder and rain. So all the people stood in awe of the Lord and of Samuel.
¹⁹The people all said to Samuel, “Pray to the Lord your God for your servants so that we will not die, for we have added to all our other sins the evil of asking for a king.”
²⁰“Do not be afraid,” Samuel replied. “You have done all this evil; yet do not turn away from the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart. ²¹Do not turn away after useless idols. They can do you no good, nor can they rescue you, because they are useless. ²²For the sake of his great name the Lord will not reject his people, because the Lord was pleased to make you his own. ²³As for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by failing to pray for you. And I will teach you the way that is good and right. ²⁴But be sure to fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things he has done for you. ²⁵Yet if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will perish.”