Yelemaia 12
1 Hina Gode! Na da Dima fofada: loba, Di da moloidafa ba: la: loba. Be na da moloidafa hou hisu hisu Dima adole ba: ma: mu. Abuliba: le wadela: i hamosu dunu da bagade gagui amola hahawane esalabala? Abuliba: le ogogosu wamolasu dunu da didili hamosala: ?
Yahweh, whenever I tell you that I am unhappy [about what is happening to me], you [always] act justly/fairly. So now allow me to ask about one more thing [that I do not understand]: Why are wicked people [often] very prosperous? Why do things go very well for dishonest/wicked people?
2 Di da amo wadela: i hamosu dunu bugisa. Ilia difi da gudu sa: ili, ilia heda: sa amola fage legesa. Ilia da ogogole eno dunuma Dia hou nodone sia: sa. Be ilia da Dima hame asigisa.
You allow them to prosper like [MET] trees that grow tall and bear [a lot of] fruit. They [always] say [MTY] good things about you, but their hearts are [really] far from you.
3 Be Hina Gode! Di da na hou dawa: Di da na hawa: hamosu ba: lala! Na da Dima bagade asigisa. Amo di dawa: Dunu da sibi medole legemusa: hiouginana ahoa, amo defele Dia amo wadela: i dunu hiouginana masa. Dia ili medole legemusa: eso ilegema! Amola ilia da amo esoga doaga: mane, Dia noga: le sosodo aligima!
But Yahweh, as for me, you know what is in my inner being. You see what I [do] and you are able to know what I am thinking. So drag away those [wicked] people, like [people drag away] sheep that they are going to butcher. Set them aside like sheep that are about to be slaughtered!
4 Eso habodane ninia soge da hafoga: i dagoi amola gisi sogebi huluane ganodini bioi dagoi ba: ma: bela: ? Ohe fi amola sio fi amola da bogogia: lala. Bai ninia fi dunu da wadela: le hamonana. Amola ilia da amane sia: daha, “Gode da ninia hamobe hame ba: lala.”
This land is [RHQ] becoming very dry and even the grass is withering. The wild animals and the birds have [all] died because the people are [very] wicked. [All that has happened] because the people have said, “Yahweh does not know what we are doing (OR, what will happen to us)!”
5 Hina Gode da amane sia: i, “Yelemaia! Di da dunu baligimusa: hehenanebeba: le, helesa. Di da habodane hosi baligimusa: hehenama: bela: ? Di da ifa hamedene umi amoga leloma: ne hame dawa: beba: le, habodane Yodane hano gadenene iwila amo ganodini leloma: bela: ?
[Then to show me that I needed to be prepared to endure even greater difficulties, Yahweh said to me], [“It is as though] you have become exhausted from racing against men; so how will you be able to race against horses? If you [stumble and] fall when you are running on open/bare/smooth ground, what will happen to you when you are running through the thornbushes near the Jordan [River]?
6 Dunu huluane, amola dia sosogodafa, diolalali da di hohonoi dagoi. Dunu eno da dima doagala: sea, ilia amola da dima doagala: musa: gilisisa. Ilia da dima asigi sia: sia: sea, ilia hou mae dafawaneyale dawa: ma.”
[Already] your brothers and [other members of] your own family oppose you. They (plot against/plan to do evil things to) you and they say bad things about you. So even if they say nice things about you, do not trust them!
7 Hina Gode da amane sia: sa, “Na da Isala: ili yolesi dagoi. Na ilegei fi amo Na da higale yolesi. Dunu fi amoma Na da asigisa, Na da ilia ha lai dunu amo ilia lobo da: iya ligisi dagoi.
I have abandoned my [Israeli] people, the people whom I chose to belong to me. I have allowed their enemies to conquer the Israeli people, whom I love.
8 Na ilegei fi da Nama baligi fa: su. Ilia da laione wa: me iwilaga esala defele Nama husu. Amaiba: le, wali Na da Na fi higasa.
My people have become to me like [SIM] a lion in the forest. [It is as though] they roar at me like a lion, so now I hate them.
9 Na ilegei fi dunu da sio afae amo da la: idi la: idi buhibaga doagala: i, amo defele ba: sa. Sigua ohe huluane, ilia amo moma: ne misa: ne wele sia: ma!
My chosen people have [RHQ] become like speckled hawks that are surrounded by vultures [waiting to eat their flesh after they are dead]. Tell all the wild animals to come and eat [the flesh of their corpses].
10 Ga fi ouligisu dunu bagohame da Na waini efe sagai wadela: lesi. Ilia da Na ifabi huluane amo ososa: gi. Na soge ida: iwane gala ilia wadela: lesili, bu hafoga: i soge agoane hamosu.
Many rulers [from other countries have come with their armies and] devastated/destroyed my people [whom I care for like a farmer takes care of his] vineyard. They have caused my beautiful land to become a barren desert where no one lives.
11 Na da Na soge ba: sea, wadela: i hafoga: i soge agoane ba: sa. Soge huluanedafa da wadela: i hafoga: i soge agoane hamoi, amola dunu huluane da amo asigiwane hame dawa: digisa.
They have caused it to become completely empty; [it is as though] I hear the land crying sadly/mournfully. The whole land is desolate, and no one (worries about/pays any attention to) it.
12 Hafoga: i agolo soge amoga dunu da gegele lamusa: maha. Na da soge huluane wadela: lesimusa: gegesu dunu asunasi dagoi. Dunu huluane da olofole esalumu hame dawa:
The soldiers [of our enemies] have marched across all the barren hilltops. But [I], Yahweh, am using those armies [MTY] to punish your land from one end to the other, and no one will escape.
13 Na fi dunu da widi hawa: bugi, be gagalobo fawane faisa. Ilia da gasa bagadewane hawa: hamoi, be bidi hame ba: i. Na da ilima ougi bagadeba: le, ilia sagai da ha: i manu hame legei.”
[It is as though] my people planted wheat, but now they are harvesting thorns. They have become very tired [because of much hard work], but they have gained nothing [from all that work]. They will be very disappointed because their harvests [will be very small], [and that will happen] because [I], Yahweh, am extremely angry [with them].”
14 Hina Gode da amane sia: sa, “Na da Isala: ili ilia na: iyado fi dunu ilima sia: gala. Bai ilia da soge amo Na da Na fi Isala: ili dunu ilima i, amo wadela: lesi dagoi. Dunu da bugi amo a: le fasibi defele, Na da amo dunu ilia soge amoga a: le fasimu. Na da Yuda fi dunu gaga: mu.
This is [also] what Yahweh said to me: “[I will punish] the evil nearby nations that have been trying to take away the land that I gave to my Israeli people, and I will force them to leave their own land. But I will throw the people of Judah out of their land, also.
15 Be Na da amo fi dunu fadegale fasili ga gaguli ahoasea, fa: no Na da bu ilima asigili, ilia sogedafa amoga bu oule masunu.
But later I will act mercifully toward those nations again, and I will bring them back to their own lands again. Each [clan] will come back to its own land.
16 Ilia da dafawanedafa Na fi dunu ilia sia: ne gadosu hou lalegagusia amola ‘Hina Gode da esala’ amo sia: dafawane ilegesea (musa: ilia da Na fi ilima Ba: iele ea dio amoma dafawane ilegema: ne sia: su olelei), amasea ilia da Na fidafa amoga gilisi dagoi ba: mu, amola ilia da hahawane bagade gaguiwane esalumu.
And if the people [of the other nations whose armies have invaded Israel] learn the [religious] customs of my people, and if they learn that I [am listening] when they solemnly promise that they will do something good, like they taught my people to believe that [their god] Baal [was listening] when they made solemn promises, I will cause them to become prosperous, and they also will be my people.
17 Be nowa fi da Na sia: hame nabasea, Na da amo fi fadegale fasili, wadela: lesimu. Na, Hina Gode da sia: i dagoi.”
But I will expel any nation whose people refuse to obey me, and I will destroy that nation and its people. [That will surely happen because I], Yahweh, have said it.”
