ජුලි 4, 2014

කියවීම

The Book of the Prophet Amos 8: 4-6, 9-12

8:4	මේ අහන්න, you who crush the poor and who make those in need of land to do without.
8:5	ඔබ කියන්නෙ, “When will the first day of the month be over, so we can sell our wares, and the sabbath, so we can open the grain: in order that we may decrease the measure, and increase the price, and substitute deceitful scales,
8:6	in order that we may possess the destitute with money, and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell even the refuse of the grain?”
8:9	ඒ දවස තුළ එය වනු ඇත, දෙවි සමිඳාණන් වහන්සේ වදාරන සේක, that the sun will decline at midday, and I will cause the earth to become dark on the day of light.
8:10	And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your hymns into lamentation. And I will put sackcloth over every one of your backs, and baldness on every head. And I will begin it like the mourning for an only-begotten son, and complete it like a bitter day.
8:11	බලන්න, the days pass, සමිඳාණන් වහන්සේ පවසයි, and I will send a famine on the earth: not a famine of bread, nor of thirst for water, but for hearing the word of the Lord.
8:12	And they will move even from sea to sea, and from the North all the way to the East. They will wander around seeking the word of the Lord, and they will not find it.

ශුභාරංචිය

මතෙව්ට අනුව ශුද්ධ වූ ශුභාරංචිය 9: 9-13

9:9	And when Jesus passed on from there, he saw, sitting at the tax office, a man named Matthew. ඔහු ඔහුට මෙසේ කීවේය, “Follow me.” And rising up, ඔහු ඔහු පසුපස ගියේය.
9:10	සහ එය සිදු විය, as he was sitting down to eat in the house, බලන්න, many tax collectors and sinners arrived, and they sat down to eat with Jesus and his disciples.
9:11	And the Pharisees, මේක දකිනවා, ඔහුගේ ගෝලයන්ට කීවේය, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
9:12	නමුත් යේසුස්, මේක අහලා, කිව්වා: “It is not those who are healthy who are in need of a physician, නමුත් රෝග ඇති අය.
9:13	ඉතින් එහෙනම්, go out and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the just, but sinners.”