Segalaia 11
1 Lebanone soge! Lalu da dia dolo ifa ulagima: ne, dia logo gagai doasima!
[You people of] [APO] Lebanon [should] open your gates, [because you will not be able to stop] fire from burning your cedar [trees]!
2 ‘Saibalase’ ifa! Dilia dima amola didiga: ma! Dolo ifa da dafai dagoi. Amo hadigi ifa huluane da wadela: lesi dagoi. Ba: isia: ne soge ‘ouge’ ifa! Dilia amola dima amola didiga: ma! Iwila digai da abusa: i dagoi ba: sa.
Your cypress/pine [trees] [APO] should [also] wail because the cedar [trees] have been cut down. Those glorious/great trees have been destroyed. The oak trees in the Bashan [region] should also wail, because the other trees in the forest have been cut down.
3 Ouligisu dunu da se bagade nababeba: le, wele disa. Ilia hadigi da asi dagoi. Laione wa: me ilia ha: giwane gesenebe nabima! Ilia iwila fifi lasu Yodane Hano bega: dialu da wadela: lesi dagoi!
And listen to the shepherds crying because the fertile pastures have been ruined. Listen to the lions roar; they roar because the delightful forest [where they live] near the Jordan [River] has been ruined.
4 Na Hina Gode da nama amane sia: i, “Di sibi ouligisu dunu defele, adoba: ma! Di da sibi amo da enoga medole legemu gadenei, amo ouligimusa: adoba: ma!
This is what Yahweh my God said [to me]: “[I want you to] become a shepherd for a flock [of sheep that are about] to be slaughtered.
5 Amo sibi ilia gagui dunu da ili medole legemu, be se dabe hame laha. Ilia da sibi ilia hu bidi lale, amane sia: daha, ‘Hina Godema nodoma! Ninia da bagade gagui gala.’ Amola sibi ilia ouligisu dunu amolawane da ilima hame asigisa.”
The people who are going to buy the sheep will kill the sheep, and they will not be punished. Those who are selling the sheep say, ‘[I] praise Yahweh, [because] I will become rich!’ Even the shepherds do not feel sorry for the sheep.
6 (Hina Gode da amane sia: i, “Na da wali weganini osobo bagade dunuma hame asigimu. Na Nisu da ouligisu dunu amo da ilia gasaga dunu huluane ouligima: ne asunasimu. Amo ouligisu dunu da osobo bagade gugunufinisimu. Amola Na da osobo bagade dunu amo ouligisu dunu ilia gasaga hame gaga: mu.”)
And similarly, I no longer feel sorry for the people of this country. I am going to allow many of them [HYP] to be captured by other people or by their king. Those who capture them will ruin this country, and I will not rescue any [of the people].”
7 Dunu amo da sibi bidiga lasu amola bidiga lama: ne legesu da na hawa: hamoma: ne hiougi. Amola na da sibi amo da medole legemu gadenei, ilia sibi ouligisu hamoi. Na da ifa daba: aduna lai. Ifa daba: afae amoga na da ‘Udigili Hahawane Iasu Hou’ dio asuli. Na da enoma, ‘Madela’ dio asuli. Amola na da sibi wa: i ouligi.
So I became the shepherd of a flock [of sheep that were about] to be slaughtered [for their meat to be sold] to the dealers. [I took good care of the sheep, even the ones that were the weakest sheep. Then] I took two [shepherds’] /walking sticks). I named the one [staff] ‘Kindness’ and the other [staff] ‘Union’. And I took good care of the sheep.
8 Sibi ouligisu dunu eno udiana da nama higabeba: le, na da momaboi ba: i. Na da oubi afae amoga ili huluane fadegale fasi.
But the three shepherds [who had been working with me] detested me, and I became impatient with them. Within one month I (dismissed/got rid of) those shepherds.
9 Amalalu, na da sibi wa: i ilima amane sia: i, “Na da bu dilia ouligisu dunu hame ganumu. Dilia da bogomu galea, defea, bogoma! Dilia da wadela: lesimu galea, defea, wadela: lesi dagoi ba: mu da defea. Amola hame bogoi esalebe, da ili gobele wadela: lesimu.”
So I said [to the dealers], “I will no [longer] be the shepherd. I will allow the ones that are dying to die. I will allow the ones that are getting lost to get lost. And I will not prevent those that remain from destroying each other.”
10 Amalalu, na da ifa daba: ea dio amo ‘Udigili Hahawane Iasu Hou’ amo lale fi. Amo fedege agoane da Hina Gode Ea fifi asi gala huluane ilima Gousa: su Hamoi amo fi dagoi.
Then I took the staff that I had named ‘Kindness’ and I broke it. [That showed that Yahweh] was annulling/canceling the agreement that he had made with all the people-groups.
11 Amaiba: le, amo esoha Hina Gode Ea Gousa: su da fisiagai dagoi ba: i. Dunu amo da sibi bidiga lasu amola bidiga lama: ne legesu da na ba: lalu. Hina Gode da na hamobe ganodini ilima sia: dalebe, amo ilia da dawa: i galu.
So that agreement was ended immediately. And the men who bought and sold sheep who were watching me knew [by seeing what I was doing] that I was giving them a message from Yahweh.
12 Na da ilima amane sia: i, “Dilia da hanai galea, nama na hawa: hamosu bidi ima. Be hame imunu galea, dili gagulaligima!” Amaiba: le, ilia da na hawa: hamoi dabe, silifa fage 30 agoane nama i.
I told them, “If you think it is what you should do, pay me [for taking care of the sheep]. If you do not think that is what you should do, do not pay me.” So they paid me [only] 30 pieces of silver.
13 Hina Gode da nama amane sia: i, “Amo silifa fage Debolo diasu muni salasu ganodini salima!” Amaiba: le, na da silifa fage 30 lale (na bidi lamu defei da silifa fage 30 fawane, ilia da dawa: i) amola Debolo diasu muni salasu ganodini sali.
Then Yahweh said to me, “[That is a ridiculously small amount of money that they have paid you]! [So] throw it to the man who makes clay pots!” So I took the silver to the temple of Yahweh, and I threw it in the chest where the offerings/money is kept.
14 Amalalu, na da eno ifa daba: ea dio amo ‘Madela’ amo fi. Amalalu, Isala: ili amola Yuda madela galu da mogi dagoi ba: i.
Then I broke my second staff, [the one that I named] ‘Union’. That [indicated that] Judah and Israel would no longer be united.
15 Amalalu, Hina Gode da nama amane sia: i, “Bu enowane, sibi ouligisu dunu ea hou defele adoba: ma! Be wali wadela: i sibi ouligisu dunu defele adoba: ma!
Then Yahweh said to me, “Take again the things that a foolish shepherd uses,
16 Na da Na sibi wa: i ouligima: ne, ouligisu dunu ilegei. Be Na sibi da wadela: sa: besa: le, e da Na sibi hamedafa fidisa. E da sibi fisi amo hame hogosa, amola se nabi amo hame uhinisisa, amola hame bogoi esalebe sibi ilima ha: i hame iaha. Be amomane e da sibi sefenadafa amo ilia hu naha amola ilia emo ifi duga: le fasisa.
because I am going to appoint a new king for the people, [one who will not take care of my people. He will be like a foolish shepherd]: [MET] He will not take care of those who are dying, those who are very young, those who have been injured, or those who do not have enough food. Instead, he will [treat them very cruelly, like a shepherd who would] [MET] kill and eat the best sheep and tear off their hoofs.
17 Amo wadela: i hamedei sibi ouligisu dunu da wadela: lesi dagoi ba: mu. E da sibi wa: i amo fisiagai dagoi. Gegesu da ea gasa amo wadela: lesimu. Ea lobo da lologomu amola ea sidafadi da dofoi dagoi ba: mu.”
But terrible things will happen to that foolish/useless king who abandons the people [MET] over whom he rules. [His enemies] will strike his arm and his right eye with their swords. [The result will be that] he will have no strength in his arm, and his right eye will become completely blind.”
