Aisaia 17
1 Hina Gode da amane sia: i “Dama: sagase da moilai bai bagadedafa agoane bu hame ba: mu. E da wadela: lesi dagoi, isu legesu agoane ba: mu.
[I received] this message [from Yahweh] about Damascus [the capital of Syria]: “Listen carefully! Damascus will no longer be a city; it will be [only] a heap of ruins!
2 Silia moilai bai bagade huluane da wadela: lesi dagoiba: le, amo ganodini fa: no ahoanu dunu da hamedafa esalumu. Sibi amola bulamagau fawane da amo ganodini gisi manu, amola amo enoga sefasimu da hamedei ba: mu.
The towns near Aroer [city] will be abandoned. Flocks [of sheep] will [eat grass in the streets and] lie down there, and there will be no one to chase them away.
3 Isala: ili fi amo gaga: mu da hamedei ba: mu, amola Silia hina bagade da Dama: sagase moilai bai bagade ganodini hame ba: mu. Silia dunu bagahamedafa esalebe da Isala: ili dunu defele, gogosia: i dafawane ba: mu. Na, Hina Gode Bagadedafa, da sia: i dagoi.”
The cities in Israel will not have walls around them [to protect them]. The power of the kingdom of Damascus will be ended, and the few people who will remain in Damascus will be disgraced like the people in Israel were disgraced.” [That is what] the Commander of the armies of angels says.
4 Hina Gode da amane sia: i, “Isala: ili fi da wali gasa bagade. Be eso da misunu, amoga ilia gasa da ebelei dagoi ba: mu, amola ilia bagade gagui hou da afadenene, hamedafa gagui agoane ba: mu.
“At that time, Israel will become insignificant. It will be [like] [MET] a fat person who has become very thin.
5 Isala: ili da gagoma ifabi Lefa: ime soge ganodini amoga gagoma da faili, hedofale, nabado agoane dialebe agoane ba: mu.
The entire land will be like [SIM] a field where the harvesters have cut all the grain; there will be nothing left, like [SIM] the fields in the Rephaim Valley after all the crops have been harvested.
6 Dunu bagahame fawane esalebe ba: mu. Isala: ili soge da olife ifa amoga fage huluane da fai dagoi, be ifa gadodili fage afae afae o dudu amoda amoga fage afae afae dialebe, ea dunu fi da agoaiwane ba: mu. Na, Isala: ili Hina Gode, da sia: i dagoi.”
Only a few of the Israeli people will remain [MET], like [SIM] the few olives that remain on the top of a tree after the workers have caused all the other olives to fall [to the ground]. [There will be only] two or three olives in the top branches, [or] four or five olives on the other branches.” [That is what] the Commander of the armies of angels says.
7 Amo eso da doaga: sea, Isala: ili dunu da ilia Hahamosu dunu, Hadigi Isala: ili Gode Ema sinidigili, E da ili fidima: ne Ema adole ba: mu.
[Then], at that time, [you] people [of Israel] will (turn for help to/look up to) God, your creator, the Holy One of Israel.
8 Ilia da wali ‘oloda’ ilia loboga hamoi (amo da ogogosu uda ‘gode’ liligi A: sela dawa: digisu liligi amola amoga gabusiga: manoma gobemusa: hamoi) amoga dafawaneyale dawa: sa. Be amo esoga ilia da amo hou fisimu.
You will no [longer] seek to get help from your idols or worship the idols that you have made with your own hands [DOU]. You will never again bow down in front of the poles [where you worship the goddess] Asherah. You will never again worship at the shrines [that you have built for burning incense].
9 Amo eso da doaga: sea, noga: le gaga: i moilai da fisi dagoi ba: mu. Amola Haifa: ide amola A: moulaide dunu da musa: Isala: ili dunuma hobea: iba: le, ilia moilai bai bagade da fisi dagoi amola wadela: lesi dagoi ba: i, amo defele, Isala: ili moilai bai bagade da wadela: lesi dagoi ba: mu.
The largest cities in Israel will be abandoned, like the land that the Hiv and Amor people-groups abandoned (OR, like the forests that the [Canaan people-group] abandoned) when the Israelis [attacked them long ago]. No one will live there.
10 Isala: ili fi dunu! Dilia da Gode, dilia Gaga: su dunu, E da igi bagadedafa agoane dili gaga: sa, amo dilia da gogolei. Be Ema mae dawa: le, dilia da ga fi ogogosu ‘gode’ liligi ilima sia: ne gadomusa: , sema ifabi bugisa.
[That will happen] because you have stopped worshiping God who is [like] [MET] a huge rock under which you can be safe. You have forgotten that he is the one who can hide/protect you. So, [now] you plant very nice grapevines and [even] plant very expensive ones that come from other countries.
11 Be fedege agoane, amo bugi da hahabe dilia bugi amo ganodini sono heda: le, fage legela: loba, dilia da fage faimu hame ba: la: loba. Be bidi hamosu amola maedafa uhima: ne se nabasu fawane ba: mu.
[But] even if they sprout leaves on the day that you plant them, and even if they produce blossoms on that same morning, at harvest time, there will not be any grapes for you to pick. All that you will get is a lot of agony/misery.
12 Gasa bagade dunu fifi asi gala da gasa bagade fili, gegemusa: manebeba: le, hano wayabo bagade ea gafului bagade sia: defele naba.
Listen! [The armies of] many nations will roar like the sea roars. It will sound like the noise of crashing waves.
13 Ilia da hano gafului foga ahoabe defele manebe, be Gode da gagabole sia: beba: le, ilia da sinidigili hobeasa. Ilia da osobo su o gisi bioi, foga mini asi, amo ea ahoabe defele ba: sa.
But even though their loud roaring will be like the sound of crashing waves, when Yahweh rebukes them, they will run far away. They will flee like [SIM] chaff on the hills scatters when the wind [blows], like tumbleweeds scatter when a windstorm blows.
14 Daeya ilia manebeba: le, dunu huluane da beda: i bagade. Be hahabe doaga: sea, ilia da asi dagoi ba: mu. Nowa da ninia soge wadela: lesili, liligi huluane lamusa: dawa: sea, da agoaiwane wadela: lesili hamedafa ba: mu.
And, even though you people of Israel will be terrified, in the morning [your enemies] will all be gone/dead. That is what will happen to those who invade our land and [then] steal our possessions.
