Maiga 1
1 Youda: me amalu A: iha: se amalu Hesigaia, ilia da Yuda hina bagade esafulu. Amo esoga, Hina Gode da amo sia: ne iasu, Maigama iasi. Maiga ea fifi lasu da Moulesiede moilai. Hina Gode da Maigama, hou huluane amo da Samelia soge amola Yelusaleme moilai bai bagade amoma doaga: mu, amo olelei.
[I am] Micah. I am from [the town of] Moresheth [in Judah]. Yahweh gave me these [messages in] visions about Samaria and Jerusalem during the time when Jotham, [and then] Ahaz, and [then] Hezekiah, were the kings of Judah.
2 Dilia fifi asi gala huluane! Dilia osobo bagadega esalebe dunu huluane! Amo sia: nabima! Ouligisu Hina Gode da dilima diwaneya udidimu. Nabima! E da Ea Debolo Hebene ganodini gala, amoganini sia: sa.
You people everywhere on the earth, pay attention to this [DOU]! Yahweh our God is accusing you from his holy temple [in heaven].
3 Hina Gode da Ea Hadigi Sogebi amoganini gudu daha. E da gudu sa: ili, goumi alelaloi amo da: iba: le, lalumu.
He will come down [from heaven] and walk on the tops of the highest mountains.
4 Amasea, goumi da Eha ifa gamali agoane laluga nene daeane sa: imu. Goumi da daeane hano agoane agoloba: le aisa: imu.
[It will be as though] the mountains will melt under his [feet] like [SIM] wax [melts] in front of a fire, and like [SIM] water [disappears] when it rushes/flows down into a valley.
5 Isala: ili dunu ilia da wadela: le hamobeba: le amola Godema odoga: iba: le, amo se iasu hou huluane da doaga: i dagoi. Isala: ili fi ilia lelesu hou da nowama bai sia: ma: bela: ? Samelia mimogo moilai bai bagade hisu fawane! Yuda soge amo ganodini loboga hamoi ogogosu ‘gode’ma nodone sia: ne gadosu nowama bai sia: ma: bela: ? Yelusaleme fi ilima fawane bai sia: ma!
Those things will happen because of the terrible sins [DOU] that the people [MTY] of Israel, [the descendants of] Jacob, have committed. But it was [RHQ] [the people of] Samaria [city who persuaded all the people of] Israel to sin, and it was [RHQ] because the people of Jerusalem [set up altars to worship their gods] that [the other people of] Judah [were persuaded to worship idols on] their hilltops.
6 Amaiba: le, Hina Gode da amane sia: sa, “Na da Samelia moilai bai bagade amo mugululi, gugunufinisisu liligi gagadole legei fofoloi soge ganodini dialebe agoai ba: mu. E da sogebi waini efe sagamusa: agoai ba: mu. Na da moilai bai bagade mugului isu amo fagoa gudu gugudili salimu amola moilai bai bagade fa: i bai amo ba: ma: ne dogone fasimu.
So Yahweh will cause Samaria to become a heap [of rubble/ruins]; [it will be only] a field for planting vineyards. He will cause the stones of its [buildings] to roll down into the valley, and the foundations [of the buildings] will be uncovered.
7 Na da loboga hamoi ogogosu ‘gode’ noga: idafa amo huluane gagoudane fasimu. Na da liligi huluane amo ilia da debolo aie heda: i udama iasu, amo huluane laluga gobele salimu. Samelia fi da amo loboga hamoi liligi, ilia uda da mano noga: le lama: ne sia: ne gadosu hou amo ganodini fidima: ne lai. Be wali, Samelia ilia ha lai dunu da amo liligi eno sogega gaguli masunu. Amogawi, debolo aie heda: i uda eno ilia da amo liligima wadela: le sia: ne gadosu hou hamomu.
All the idols in Samaria will be smashed, and the gifts [given to prostitutes at the temples of their idols] will be destroyed in a fire. And because people paid prostitutes there, [their enemies will take away those idols and sell them] to get money to pay to prostitutes [in other countries].
8 Amalalu, Maiga da amane sia: i, “Amo hou da doaga: muba: le, na da da: i dione didigia: mu! Na da: i dioi oda ilia dawa: digima: ne, na da da: i nabado amola emo salasu mae salawane masunu. Na da sigua wa: me agoane husa lalumu, amola wida agoai huliya lalumu.
Because [Samaria will be destroyed], I will weep and wail. I will walk around (barefoot/without any sandals on my feet) and naked. I will howl like a jackal/wolf and screech like an owl,
9 Samelia ea fofa: gi da bahomu hamedei. Amola Yuda da amo defele se nabimu gadenesa. Amola na fi dunu esalebe Yelusaleme, amo ea logo holeiga, gugunufinisisu da doaga: i dagoi.
because Samaria will be completely destroyed [MET]; nothing can save that city. But the same thing will happen to Judah! [It is as though the enemy army] has [already] reached the city gates of Jerusalem, [the main city where] my people [live].
10 Nini da hasali dagoi! Be ninia ha lai dunu Ga: de moilai bai bagade ganodini esalebe ilima mae adoma! Dilia dinanebe amo ilia mae ba: ma: ma! Bede Lia: fala moilai bai bagade dunu fi! Dunu eno dilia baligili da: i dione hiawibi amo dawa: digima: ne, osobo gulu da: iya bebesoma!
Do not tell that to [our enemies] in Gath [city in Philistia]! Do not cry, [lest the people there find out what is happening]! [Instead, just] roll in the dirt in Beth-Leaphrah [because the name of that town means ‘house of dust].’
11 Dilia Sa: ife moilai bai bagade fi dunu! Dilia mugululi asi sogega, da: i nabado amola gogosia: iwane masa! Dunu da Sana: ne moilai bai bagadega esalebe da ilia moilai bai bagade gadili masunu beda: i bagade. Dilia da Bedisele fi ilia didigia: su nabasea, dilia da amo moilai ganodini gaga: su hamedafa ba: mu amo dawa: ma!
You people who live in Shaphir [town, whose name means ‘beautiful],’ naked and ashamed, you will be taken [to another country]. [You people in] Beth-Ezel [town] should mourn, [because] no one from Zaanan [town, whose name means ‘one who goes out],’ will go out to help you.
12 Ma: ilode moilai dunu da eno dunu ili fidima: ne gebewane asabole ouesala. Bai Hina Gode da gugunufinisisu amo Yelusaleme moilai bai bagadega gadenenesila misi.
[The name of] Maroth [town sounds like ‘bitterness];’ everyone there is anxiously waiting for good things to happen to them, but good things will not happen to them; instead, terrible things are about to happen to them, and it will soon happen at the gates of Jerusalem.
13 Dilia La: igisiga moilai bai bagade esalebe dunu! Dilia sa: liode amoga hosi bagesisima! Dilia da Isala: ili fi ilia wadela: i hou defele hamobeba: le, Yelusaleme fi dafama: ne hamoi.
You people of Lachish [city, whose name sounds like ‘team],’ hitch your horses to pull the chariots [in which you can ride to flee from your enemies]. The Israeli people rebelled against Yahweh, and you (imitated them/did the same evil things that they did), and that caused the people of Jerusalem [IDM] to start sinning, too.
14 Yuda fi dunu! Molesede Ga: de moilai amoma ‘asigibio’ sia: ma! Agesibi moilai bai bagade dunu ilia da Isala: ili hina bagade dunu amo hamedafa fidimu.
[You people of Judah], send a farewell gift to [the people] of Moresheth [town], [because their enemies will soon destroy it]. [The name of the town Aczib means ‘deception],’ and the kings of Israel [will soon find out that the people of that town] will deceive them.
15 Malisa moilai bai bagade fi dunu! Hina Gode da dili lale, dilima ha lai dunuma imunu. Ilia da dilia moilai bai bagade samogele lamu. Isala: ili ouligisu bisilua dunu ilia da asili, Adala: me magufu gelabo amoga wamolegela masunu.
[The name of your town of] Mareshah [means ‘conqueror],’ and Yahweh will [soon] send someone to conquer your town. [It will be necessary for] the great/glorious leaders of Israel to go [and hide in the cave at] Adullam [city].
16 Yuda fi dunu! Dilia dialuma hinabo amo dilia dogolegei mano amo iliha dinana damuma. Dilia dialuma hinabo dadamuni, busa: gi gianai ba: mu da defea. Bai dilia mano huluane da diliga susugulalu, mugululi asi dagoi ba: mu.
[You people of Judah], shave your heads [while you will be mourning], because your children whom you love will [soon] be (exiled/forced to leave you and go to another country).
