Yelemaia 10
1 Isala: ili fi dunu! Hina Gode Ea sia: dilima sia: i amo nabima!
Listen to the message the Lord is sending to you, people of Israel.
2 E da amane sia: sa, “Eno ga fi dunu ilia hou amoma mae fa: no bobogema! Dilia da mu amo ganodini fofogadigisu dawa: ma: ne hahamosu ba: sea, mae beda: ma! Eno fifi asi gala da beda: mu be dilia mae beda: ma!
This is what the Lord says: Don't adopt the practices of other nations. Don't be terrified as they are by signs in the heavens that they interpret as predicting disaster.
3 Amo dunu ilia sia: ne gadosu hou da hamedei. Ilia da iwilaga ifa damuni fasili, ifa hahamosu dunu da amo osole dedesa.
The religious beliefs of the peoples are pointless. They chop down a tree in the forest and a craftsman carves the wood with a tool to make an idol.
4 Ilia da amo silifa amola gouli amoga nina: hamosa. Amo da dafasa: besa: le, ilia da gafesi amoga dabagala: sa.
They decorate it with silver and gold, and nail it down with a hammer so it won't fall over.
5 Amo udigili loboga hamoi liligi da sio beda: ma: ne liligi ifabia legei agoane ba: sa. Ilia da sia: mu gogolesa. Amola masunu gogoleiba: le, enoga gaguli ahoa. Ilima mae beda: ma! Bai amo udigili liligi da dili wadela: lesimu da hamedei. Amola dilima hahawane hou iasimusa: hame dawa:”
Just like a scarecrow in a field of cucumbers, their idols can't speak. They have to be carried around because they can't walk. You don't have to be afraid of them because they can't hurt you—and they can't do you any good either.
6 Hina Gode! Dunu eno Di agoai da hamedafa esala. Bai Di da Bagadedafa! Amola Dia Dio da gasa bagadedafa!
There's no one like you, Lord! You are so great! You are incredibly powerful!
7 Di da fifi asi gala huluanedafa ilima Hina Bagade. Dunu huluane da Dima nodomu da defea. Fifi asi gala huluane amo ganodini da bagade dawa: su dunu amola hina bagade dunu. Be ilia da Di agoai hamedafa. Di da huluane baligisa.
Everyone should respect you, King of the nations. This is how you should be treated. There's no one like you among all the wise men of every nation and kingdom.
8 Ilia huluane da gagaoui agoai. Ilia da ifaga hamoi ogogosu ‘gode’ ilima dawa: su lamu da hamedei.
Yet these “wise men” are completely foolish and stupid, because they think they can be taught by useless idols made of wood!
9 Ilia loboga hamoi ‘gode’ da silifa (Siba: ini sogega lai) amola gouli (Iufa: se moilai bai bagadega lai) amoga dedeboi. Bagade dawa: su dedesu dunu da amo hahamoi. Amola bagade dawa: su abula amunisu dunu da yoi amola haisewe abula amuni ilima gasisanasisa.
Sheets of hammered silver are shipped in from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, to be used by craftsmen and metalworkers. These idols are dressed in clothes of blue and purple made by experts.
10 Be Di, Hina Gode, Di fawane da Godedafa. Di da Godedafa Esala. Amola Di da Mae Bogole Fifi Ahoanusu Hina Bagade. Di da ougi galea, osobo bagade da fofogosa. Amola fifi asi gala dunu huluane da bagade beda: sa.
But the Lord is the only true God. He is the living God and eternal King. The earth shakes when he is angry; the nations can't withstand his fury.
11 (Dilia Isala: ili dunu! Fifi asi gala huluane amane olelema, “Ogogosu ‘gode’ da osobo bagade amola mu hame hahamoi. Ilia huluane da wadela: lesi dagoi ba: mu. Ilia da osobo bagadega hame dialebe ba: mu.”)
This is what you are to tell the nations: “These gods, who didn't make either the heavens or the earth, will be wiped out from this earth and from under these heavens.”
12 Hina Gode da Ea gasaga osobo bagade hahamoi. Ea bagade dawa: su amoga E da osobo bagade hahamoi amola mu fadegale gai.
It was God who made the earth by his power. He created the world by his wisdom and by his understanding he put the heavens in place.
13 Ea sia: beba: le, hano muagado gadodili dialebe da gosa. E da osobo bagade bega: bega: amoga mumobi gaguli misini, gilisisa. E da gibu ganodini ha: ha: na nene gala: ma: ne hamosa. E da Ea liligi ligisisu amoga fo asula ahoa.
The waters of the heavens rain down with a roar at his command. He makes the clouds to rise all over the earth. He makes lightning to accompany rain, and sends the wind from his storehouses.
14 Dunu da amo gasa bagade hou ba: beba: le, gagaoui agoane ahoa. Dunu da ogogosu loboga hamoi ‘gode’ hamosa, amo ilia dafawaneyale dawa: su hou da hamedei ba: sa. Bai ilia loboga hamoi ogogosu ‘gode’ da hame esala amola hamedei liligi gala.
Everyone is stupid; they don't know anything. Every metalworker is embarrassed by the idols they make. For their images made of molten metal are fraudulent—they're not alive!
15 Ilia da hamedei liligi. Amola dunu da ili higamu da defea. Hina Gode da ili wadela: musa: masea, ilia da wadela: lesi dagoi ba: mu.
They are useless, an object to be laughed at. They will be destroyed at the time of their punishment.
16 Be Ya: igobe ea Gode da ili agoai hame. E da liligi huluane hahamoi dagoi. E da Isala: ili, Ea fidafa amo hamoma: ne ilegei. Ea Dio da Hina Gode Bagadedafa.
The God of Jacob is not like these idols, for he is the Creator of everything, and Israel is the tribe that belongs to him. The Lord Almighty is his name.
17 Yelusaleme dunu! Ha lai da dilima doagala: lala. Dilia liligi momagema!
You people living in Jerusalem under siege, get all your things together ready to leave,
18 Hina Gode da dili amo dilia sogega mugululi ga fadegale fasimu. E da dili gougoudane, dilia afae dili soge ganodini esalebe hame ba: mu. Hina Gode da sia: i dagoi.
because this is what the Lord says: Look! Right now I'm about to throw out the people living in this country, bringing them trouble they will really feel.
19 Yelusaleme fi dunu da amane digini wele sia: i, “Ninia da se bagade nabi. Ninia fa: ginisi da uhimu hame dawa: Ninia da amo se nabasu ganodini baligimu dawa: i be hamedei.
The people of Jerusalem responded, “We're suffering terribly because we've been badly hurt—our injuries are really serious. We thought it wouldn't be that bad and that we could bear it.
20 Ninia abula diasu da wadela: lesi dagoi. Efe amo da abula diasu la: gi da damui dagoi. Ninia mano huluane da asi dagoi. Ninia abula diasu bu gaguma: ne da dunu hame gala. Logo ga: su abula gosagisimu da dunu hame.”
Our tents have been destroyed; all our ropes have been broken. Our children have been taken from us and are no more. We don't have anyone left to put up our tents or hang our curtains.”
21 Na da bu adole i, “Ninia ouligisu dunu da gagaoui gala. Ilia da dafai dagoi, amola ninia dunu huluane da afagogoi dagoi ba: sa. Bai ouligisu dunu da Hina Gode Ea fada: i sia: lama: ne amo Ema hame adole ba: sa.
The “shepherds” have become stupid—they don't ask the Lord for advice. That's why they have failed, and all their flock has been scattered.
22 Nabima! Sia: da doaga: i dagoi. Fi bagade gagoe (north) gala amo ganodini ha lasu bagade naba. Ilia dadi gagui da Yuda soge wadela: lalu, amo da hafoga: i dunu hame esalebe soge agoane ba: mu. Amola amo ganodini, sigua wa: me fawane esalebe ba: mu.”
Listen to the news that an noisy army is invading from a country to the north. The towns of Judah will be knocked down, they will be places where only jackals live.
23 Hina Gode! Na dawa: ! Dunu afae afae huluane da ema misunu hou amoma ouligisu hame gala. E da ea esalusu amoma hina hame gala.
I realize, Lord, that people don't control their own lives—no one really knows how to choose their way.
24 Hina Gode! Dia fi dunu ilia hou afadenene hahamoma! Be se iasu baligili ninima mae ima. Amola Dia ougiba: le se baligili mae ima. Bai ninia udigili bogosa: besa: le, ninima asigima.
Please discipline me fairly, Lord—not while you're angry, otherwise you'll kill me!
25 Di sinidigili, fifi asi gala amo da Dima higale nodone hame sia: ne gadosa, ilima ougima. Bai ilia da Dia fi dunu medole legei dagoi. Ilia da nini wadela: lesidafa, amola ilia da ninia soge wadela: lesilalu fisili asi.
Pour out your fury on the nations that don't recognize you as God, and on their families that don't worship you. For they have completely destroyed the Israelites, wiping us out. They have devastated our country.
