Romawa 11
1 Mi tre ndi Rji kama ni ndji mu? Ani to bre tie to kima. Ime mi ndji u Israila, ih'bu Ibrahim u grji Banyomi.
I say, then, Has God rejected his people? It can not be. For I am an Israelite, of the posterity of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 Irji na kama ni ndji ma waa he ni guci toh mba na. Ka bi toh kpye a lan tre'a hla nitu Iliya, wa a nji (kara) Israila hi ni Rji'a?
God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Know you not what the scripture says, in regard to Elijah? how he intercedes with God against Israel, saying:
3 A tre di Bachi, ba wu annabawa me, da zi koh me me, Ahi me ni kankrji mu mi don. Naki basi wa ba wuh me.
Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thy altars, and I am left alone, and they seek: my life.
4 Naki u Rji ka kasa u da tre gye? A tre di mi hei ni di dubu tagban wa mi zi ba nitu mu. Wa bana kudran ni Ba'al na.
But what says the answer of God to him? I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.
5 Ko naki me ni toh i ibru bari ba he ni ndindi.
Thus, then, at the present time also, there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6 U ani taa ni zizi, wa'a ana la ni ndu na. Ani tana tokima, u zizi nala hi zizina.
And if the election is by grace, it is no longer by works; otherwise grace is no longer grace.
7 Wa hi ngye? Ikpye wa Israila ba wa bana fe na, u bi a ba chu ba'a ba fe, imbru ba ba sen tu.
What then? Israel has not obtained that which he seeks; but the chosen have obtained it, and the rest have been hardened to this day,
8 Na ba han Rji no ba ibrji u meme wa bana toh shishi hei, aman bana toh na, iton hei aman bana wo na har ye ni vi kima.
as it is written: God has given them a spirit of stupor, eyes with which they can not see, and ears with which they can not hear.
9 Dauda a tre di du teburin ba du kam ti rjirji u vu labe, ba troko, du kam ti tita u kub za ni kpye u rju hla ni ba.
And David says: Let their table become a trap, and a net, and a snare, and a recompense to them;
10 Du shishi ba ti bwu duba na toh na, du gon ba ta dran chuchu.
let their eyes be darkened, so that they may not see, and let them bow down their back always.
11 Mi tre ndu ba k'bu za da joku? Ndu kpye nakima la tie na. Nakima k'ma hi ni gon mba yi a ndu gbujbu ye ni bi ko hra ni ndu yo ba tie ngu.
I say, then, Have they stumbled, in order that they may fall? It can not be. But rather, through their fall, salvation has come to the Gentiles, to excite them to jealousy.
12 Inde zizaa wa ba kam hi ni kogon, aji klen ye ni bi kora, ni hei kwatancin nikon ma ani hei, inde ba ye ni klekle?
Now, if their fall be the riches of the world, and their loss be the riches of the Gentiles, how much more shall their full acceptance be the riches of the world?
13 Ziza'a mi si tre ni yi, biyi wa bi kora, naki ime i mi hiu ton du hi ni kora, misi wurwo ni mi du mu.
For I speak to you, Gentiles; inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I do honor to my ministry,
14 Ani bi dume you mri yah bi hwu, duta kpa bari ba chuwo.
if, by any means, I may excite to jealousy those who are my flesh, and save some of them.
15 Inde kaba, ani ji shu tu bi ni gbugbulu in kpa ba ani hei ni hei? Ani kamti vri ni mi kwu?
For, if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the reception of them be, but life from the dead?
16 U klo bi mumla bata bi mumu'uma wa ba nymo tie gble ma ni bi ngame. U inja kukron bata tsratsra me, ba ilan ma ba ba he tokima.
Now, if the first fruit is holy, the mass is holy also: and if the root is holy, the branches are holy also.
17 U ilan bari u kukron bana nzi hlega, u biyi mba bina kukron Zaitun, wa ba fe nimi mba, u bina he ni gado bii ni ba, u bi ye ni mi nja zaitun a,
And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, have been grafted in among them, and partake with them of the root and fatness of the olive,
18 to, bika na gangban ni tu lan ba na. Bita gangban, ana bi yi mba ti njinja na, wa hi nja'a mba nji yi.
boast not against the branches; but if you boast, boast not that you bear the root, but that the root bears you.
19 U bi tre din “Ba nzi lan ba ni ndu ba fe me ni mima.
You will say then: The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
20 Wa i a njanji, naki wa njanji ba na hei na, i ki sa i baka zi ba ni mi wo, bika kri gbagban ni mi njanji bi. Na ban tubi zan na ahei na, aman bika klu sissri.
Well; on account of unbelief they were broken off; but you stand by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear.
21 Naki inde Rji na don wo u njanji na, to ana don yi na.
For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed, lest he spare not you.
22 Bika toh iri du bi tsanani u Rji. Niwo ri tsanani ni ye ni Yahudawa biwa ba joku. U ndindi u Rji ye ni yu'u, inde bi si zre nimi didima ba na zu yi na, aman inde bi kabi ba zu yi.
Behold, then, the goodness and severity of God: toward them that fell; severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise, you also shall be cut off.
23 Nakima inde ba na guci ni mi njanji bana, ba vu ba sur ni mi kukron nakima Rji na iya la vu ba.
And they, also, if they continue not in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
24 Inde ba chu u rhu nimi kokron zaitun mi ji, har wa bi du ba ka'u kabi nimi kukron zaitun u wu'u wo u njanji.
For if you were cut out from an olive-tree that is wild by nature, and were grafted, against nature, into a good olive, how much more shall these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive?
25 Mri yah mi ni son du yi ji hei ni mi bwu na, game ni gbugbulu i du yi na hei ni toh ni mi mre bi, gbugbulu hi sen tu ni Israila, har bi korta ba ri ni me.
For I do not wish you, brethren, to be ignorant of this mystery―lest you be wise in your own conceit―that blindness has happened to Israel in part, till the full number of the Gentiles shall have come in.
26 Ahei naki Israila ba wawu bau ba gbujub, nadi ba han. Ni mi Sihiyona wa ani kpa chuwo ani rjhu. Ani wur iri hle ni mi Yakubu,
And so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written: There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
27 Wa i ni kam ti chunyu mu ni ba, na di mi wur mi wur lahtre ba hle ga.
And this is my covenant with them, when I shall take away their sins.
28 Ni nhma bari ni tu bishara, ba bi kran ni bi, nitu kon ri, ni tu chu u Rji ba bi son ni tu bati.
As it respects the gospel, they are enemies of God for your sakes; but as it respects their election, they are beloved for the fathers sakes:
29 Na baye-baye ni you u Rji hana ya ka ba sran na.
for God’s gifts and calling are irrevocable.
30 Biyi me ni sen bina ta hu tre Rji na, naki ziza'a bi kpa didi nitu lahtre ba.
For as you formerly did not believe God, but now have obtained mercy through their unbelief;
31 Ni koh kima Yahudawa biyi ba kam ti bi sen tu, ni tu didi wa ba tsro ta, baba me ba kpa didi ziza'a.
so, also, these have not now believed, that through the mercy shown to you, they also may obtain mercy.
For God has delivered them all over to unbelief, that he may have mercy on them all. (eleēsē g1653)
33 Ina misali juju ikle ni toh, ni toh iri u Rji. Hukunche-hukunche ma ba zan guci bichika, ikoh ma ba zan guci toh.
O the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
34 Nakima, ahi nghan ni no Bachi i mre? a nghan ni ni tre?
For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or, who has been his counsellor?
35 Naki a nghan guci no Rji kpie du han wu?
Or, who has first given to him, and received from him a recompense?
