Esela 9
1 Amalalu, Isala: ili fi ouligisu dunu mogili da nama sia: na misini, gobele salasu dunu amola Lifai dunu da dunu fi ilima na: iyado soge amo A: mone, Moua: be, Idibidi, Ga: ina: ne dunu, Hidaide dunu, Belisaide dunu, Yebiusaide dunu amola A: moulaide dunu ilima hame afafasu ilia sia: i. Ilia da amo dunu ilia wadela: idafa hou hamosu amoma fa: no bobogei dagoi.
Some time later after all this had happened, the leaders came and told me, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the people around us whose disgusting religious practices are similar to those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.
2 Yu dunu da ga fi uda labeba: le, Gode Ea hadigi fi dunu da wadela: lesi dagoi ba: i. Be Yu ouligisu dunu amola ouligisu hina dunu, ilia amola da ga fi uda laiba: le, ilia da amo wadela: i hou amo ganodini baligili wadela: i hamosu dunu agoai ba: i.
Some Israelites have even married women from these people, both themselves and their sons, mixing the holy race with these people of the land. Our leaders and officials are at the forefront of this sinful behavior.”
3 Na da amo sia: nababeba: le, se bagade nabi. Na abula gadelale, na dialuma hinabo amola mayabo mogili golole fasili, da: i dioi bagadewane esalu.
When I heard about this, I tore my clothes, pulled out some hair from my head and beard, and sat down, absolutely appalled.
4 Na da amanewane da: i dione esaloba, daeya galu Godema gobele salasu da doaga: i. Amalalu, dunu da na esaloba, na guba: le sisiga: le aligi. Ilia da Isala: ili Godema bagade beda: i. Bai Gode da mugululi asi buhagi dunu ilia wadela: i hou ba: i dagoi, amola Ea sia: ilia da nabi.
Everyone who respected the instructions of the God of Israel gathered around me because of this sin on the part of the exiles. I sat there shocked and appalled until the evening sacrifice.
5 Daeya gobele salasu hou da doaga: loba, na da ni musa: udigili esalua amoga da: i dione esalu, amoga wa: legadole, amola na abula gadelai ga: i amola na da muguni bugili, na Hina Godema lobo ligia gadole, Ema sia: ne gadoi.
At the evening sacrifice, I stood up from where I had been sitting in grief, with my clothes torn, and I kneeled down and held out my hands to the Lord my God.
6 Na da amane sia: i, “Na Gode! Na da bagadewane gogosia: iba: le, Dia hadigi amoma na dialuma molole gadomu hamedei agoane ba: sa. Ninia wadela: i hou da bagadedafa, fedege agoane bi hamone ninia dialuma baligili muagado heda: sa.
I prayed, “My God, I am so ashamed and embarrassed to come and pray to you, my God, because we are in over our heads in sin, and our guilt has risen to the heavens.
7 Musa: aowalali ilia fifi mana, wali wadela: i hou bu baligili bagadedafa ninia hamonana. Ninia wadela: i houba: le, ninia hina bagade dunu amola ninia gobele salasu dunu da ga fi hina bagade ilia baiga dafai dagoi. Ga fi dunu da ninia fi dunu medole legele, ilia liligi wamolai amola mogili udigili hawa: hamomusa: mugululi oule asi. Ninia wadela: i hou hamoiba: le, bagadewane gogosiasu, amola waha da amomane diala. Ninia Hina Gode!
From the time of our forefathers to now, we have been deeply guilty. Because of our sins, we, our kings, and our priests have been handed over to the kings of the earth, killed and taken prisoner, robbed and humiliated, just like we are today.
8 Waha, eso fonobahadi amoga, Di da ninima asigiba: le, ninia se iasu diasuga fisili masa: ne gadili asunasi, wali ninia da Dia hadigidafa soge amoga gaga: iwane esala. Di da wali ninima hadigi ganodini udigili lalusu amola gaheabolo esalusu ninima i dagoi.
Now for a short time the Lord our God has given us grace, preserving a few of us as a remnant, and giving us safety in his holy place. Our God has brightened our lives by giving us some relief from our slavery.
9 Nini da udigili se iasu diasua esalebe hawa: hamosu dunu agoai galu, be di da nini se iasu diasua esalebe hawa: hamoma: ne hame yolesi. Di da Besia hina bagade dunu ilia asigi dawa: su olelebeba: le, ilia da ninima asigisu. Ilia da nini hame fane legei. Be ninia da Dia Debolo musa: wadela: lesi dagoi, amo bu gagumusa: amola ninia Yuda soge amola Yelusaleme amo ganodini gaga: iwane esaloma: ne, ilia da logo doasi dagoi.
Though we are slaves, our God did not abandon us in our slavery, but he showed us his trustworthy love by making the kings of Persia kind to us, by reviving us so we could rebuild the Temple of our God and repair its ruined state, and by giving us a wall of protection around Judah and Jerusalem.
10 Be wali, Na Gode! Amo hou da doaga: beba: le, ninia da adi sia: ma: bela: ? Ninia da Dia sema amola hamoma: ne sia: i bu hame nabasu.
But now, our God, what do we have to say for ourselves after all this? For we have given up following your commands
11 Di da ilima olelebeba: le, Dia hawa: hamosu dunu amo balofede dunu, da amo sema amola hamoma: ne sia: i ninima olelei. Ilia da ninima adoi amane, soge amo ninia da gesowale fimu da ledo bagade soge. Ga: ina: ne dunu fi amo ganodini da wadela: i hou bagade hamobeba: le, soge huluanedafa da ledo bagade ba: i.
that you gave through your servants the prophets, telling us, ‘The land you are entering to become its owners is contaminated by the sins of its peoples, the disgusting religious practices that they have filled it with, from one side to the other.
12 Ilia da ninima amane sia: i, ‘Dilia da amo soge ganodini hahawane esalumusa: dawa: sea, amola amo ganodini diligaga fi da eso huluane hahawane esaloma: ne ilima imunusa: dawa: sea, dilia amo soge fi ilia uda maedafa lama, amola ilia muni labe hou amola hou huluanedafa mae fidima,’ balofede dunu da amane sia: i.
So do not let your daughters marry their sons, or allow their daughters marry your sons. Never make a peace or friendship treaty with them, so that you may live well and eat the good food the land produces, and give the land as an inheritance to your children forever.’
13 Ninia da wadela: i hou bagade hamobeba: le, se dabe iasu bagade lai. Be ninia Gode, ninia dawa: Di da nini hame fane legei, amola ninia wadela: i hou se dabe iasu defele ninima hame i.
Now that we are receiving all this punishment because of our sinful actions and our terrible guilt—though you, our God, have not punished us as much as our sins deserve, and have still given us this remnant—
14 Amaiba: le, ninia da abuliba: le da Dia hamoma: ne sia: i bu mae nabawane, amo wadela: i fi ilia uda lama: bela: ? Agoane hamosea, Dia ougi da heda: sea, nini huluane wadela: lesi dagoi ba: mu. Dunu afadafa esalebe hamedafa ba: mu.
shall we break your commandments once again and intermarry with the peoples who commit these disgusting religious practices? Wouldn't you become so angry with us that you would destroy us? No remnant would be left, not a single survivor.
15 Isala: ili Hina Gode! Di da moloidafa fofada: su dunu! Di da nini bogoma: ne hame fane legei! Ninia wadela: i hou Dima fofada: ne iaha! Ninia da Dia hadigi amoga misunu da ninima hamedei liligi agoai,” Esela da amane sia: ne gadoi.
Lord, God of Israel, you do what is right. Today we're all that is left, a remnant. We are before you in our guilt, but no one can stand before you because of it.”
