Zefania 2
1 Yaye un oganda maonge wichkuotni, chokreuru kaachiel, chokreuru kaachiel,
Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation that has no shame,
2 ka ndalo moseyier pok ochopo en odiechiengʼ ma ibiro teroue kuma bor ka mihudhwe mar cham. Adier, chokreuru kapok mirima mager mar Jehova Nyasaye obiro kuomu, kata kapok odiechiengʼ mar mirimbe ochopo.
before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD comes on you, before the day of the LORD’s anger comes on you.
3 Dwaruru Jehova Nyasaye, un ji duto mobolore manie piny, kendo un ji duto matimo gik ma chik dwaro. Dwaruru tim makare, kendo beduru gi chuny mobolore, nimar dipo ka uyudo kar konyruok, odiechiengno ma Jehova Nyasaye biro olo mirimbe kuom ji.
Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of the LORD’s anger.
4 Ji biro dar Gaza, kendo Ashkelon biro dongʼ gunda. Odiechiengʼ tir Ashdod ibiro weyo nono kendo Ekron ibiro pudh gi tiende.
For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up.
5 Yaye jo-Kereth modak e dho nam, mano kaka unune malit, yaye Kanaan, piny jo-Filistia, Jehova Nyasaye nikodu gi wach kama: “Abiro tieko chuth kendo onge ngʼama nodongʼ.”
Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The LORD’s word is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you until there is no inhabitant.
6 Piny mantiere e dho nam kama jo-Kereth odakie biro bedo kar jokwath kendo kama ogerie abich rombe.
The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.
7 Nobedi mar joma odongʼ mar dhood Juda; kanyo gini yudie lek ma gikwae. Godhiambo gibiro nindo e ute mag Ashkelon. Jehova Nyasaye ma Nyasachgi biro ritogi kendo obiro dwokonegi gweth mane ogwedhogigo.
The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will lie down in the evening, for the LORD, their God, will visit them and restore them.
8 “Asewinjo ayenje mag jo-Moab kod ajara mag jo-Amon, moseyanyo joga kendo obwogogi e lopgi.”
I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people and magnified themselves against their border.
9 Kuom mano, Jehova Nyasaye Maratego, ma Nyasach Israel osingore kawacho kama, “Adiera, Moab biro chalo gi Sodom, to jo-Amon kaka Gomora, piny modongʼ gunda mojwangʼ motimo bunge. Joga modongʼ noyakgi; kendo oganda modongʼ nokaw pinygi.”
Therefore, as I live, says the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.
10 Ma e kum ma jogi nonwangʼ kuom sunga margi, kendo kuom yanyo kendo jaro jo-Jehova Nyasaye Maratego.
This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of Armies.
11 Jehova Nyasaye biro bedo nigi malich ka oketho nyiseche duto e piny. Ogendini duto modak e alwora mar dho nembe duto nolame, ngʼato ka ngʼato nolame e pinygi owuon.
The LORD will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the shores of the nations.
12 “Yaye jo-Kush, un bende liganglana biro negou.”
You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword.
13 Enorie bade kuomu un joma odak yo nyandwat, kendo notiek Asuria, bende dala mar Nineve nodongʼ gunda mi nobed motwo ka piny motimo ongoro.
He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.
14 Kweth mag jamni biro nindo piny motimo kanyo, kod kit chwech mopogore opogore. Tula mar thim kod agak nobed gi nyasi. Ywakgi nowinjre ka wuok gie dirisni, kite moger godo udi nomukre mabiwre e dhoudi, kendo sirni nodongʼ kongʼiengore.
Herds will lie down in the middle of her, all kinds of animals. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.
15 Ma e dala maduongʼ mane odak gi kwe, kendo kogalore. Ne owacho e chunye niya, “An e kende kendo onge ngʼama ipimo koda.” To mano kaka koro odongʼ gunda, kama le mag bungu yweyoe. Ji duto makadho bute wuoro ka tangʼo lwetgi.
This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss and shake their fists.
