Yelemaia 47
1 Idibidi hina bagade da Ga: isa moilai bai bagade amoga doagala: i. Be hidadea, Hina Gode da Filisidini fi ilia hou nama olelei.
Yahweh gave to the prophet Jeremiah a message about the people of Philistia. [The message was given to me] before Gaza [city in Philistia] was captured by [the army of] Egypt.
2 E da amane sia: i, “Ba: ma! Gagoe (north) sogega hano da heda: le, hano bagade heda: i defele dalebe ba: mu. Hano da soge huluane, liligi amola moilai amola dunu amogawi esala, amo huluane dedebomu. Dunu da ili fidima: ne wele sia: mu. Amola osobo bagade dunu huluane da ha: giwane dinanebe ba: mu.
This is what Yahweh said: “[An army] [MET] will be coming from the northeast that will cover the land like a flood. They will destroy the land and everything in it; [they will destroy] people and cities. People will scream; everyone in the land will wail.
3 Ilia da hosi ilia ahoa emo goba: heda: be agoai nabimu, amola sa: liode emo sisiga: iilia genena: genena: be nabimu. Eda da ilia mano gaga: musa: hame sinidigimu. Ilialobo da ilia afodili bodola: le gudusa.
[They will hear] the sound of the hooves of the [enemy] horses, and [they will hear] the rumble/noise of the wheels [of their enemies’] chariots. Men [will run away; ] they will not stop to help their children; they will be completely weak and helpless [MTY].
4 Filisidini soge ea wadela: mu eso da doaga: i dagoi. Daia amola Saidone moilai bai bagade da ilima fidimusa: logo ga: i dagoi ba: mu. Na, Hina Gode, da Filisidini dunu (amo da Galidi oga amoga misi) amo huluane wadela: lesimu.
It will be the time for all the people of Philistia to be destroyed, and the time to prevent the remaining soldiers from helping [the people of] Tyre and Sidon [cities]. [I, ] Yahweh, will get rid of the people of Philistia, those whose ancestors [long ago] came from Crete [island].
5 Ga: isa moilai bai bagade dunu huluane da da: i dioi bagade naba. Amola A: siegelone moilai bai bagade fi dunu da ouiya: le esala. Filisidini dunu eno huluane da habowali seda didigia: ma: bela: ?
[The people of] Gaza will be humiliated; they will shave off all the hair on their heads [to indicate that they are ashamed]. The [people of] [city] will all be silent [because they will be mourning]. [All you people who live] along the coast [of the Mediterranean Sea] who are still alive, how long [RHQ] will you gash yourselves [because you are mourning]?”
6 Dilia da amane wele sia: sa, ‘Hina Gode! Dia se iasu gobihei sedade da eso habowali seda hedofalaloma: bela: ? Amo ea salasu ganodini, helefima: ne, salima!”
[The people of Philistia say, ] “Yahweh, when [RHQ] will you [tell our enemies to stop killing us with] [PRS] their swords? Tell them to [PRS] put them back into their sheaths and keep them there!”
7 Be Na da amo gobihei hawa: hamoma: ne sia: i dagoiba: le, e da helefimu hamedei ba: sa. Na da ema e da A: siegelone dunu fi hano wayabo bagade bega: esala, ilima doagala: musa: sia: i dagoi.”
But it would not be right [RHQ] for their swords to stay there, because Yahweh has commanded their enemies [to do something more]; Yahweh intends to tell them to attack [all the people living in] Ashkelon and [in other cities] along the coast.
