Isaiah 17
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
Ma e wach mane okor kuom Damaski: “Neuru, Damaski ok nochak obed dala maduongʼ, to obiro bedo pidhe mag gik mokethi.
2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
Mier madongo mag Aroer nodongʼ gunda nodongʼ kar nindo jamni kendo onge ngʼama nobwog-gi.
3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria; they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
Dala maduongʼ mochiel nolal nono koa Efraim nyaka kom loch man Damaski; jo-Aram manok modongʼ tekogi norum mana kaka mar jo-Israel norumo,” Jehova Nyasaye Maratego ema owacho.
4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
“E kindeno duongʼ mar Jakobo nolal; kendo nodok manok.
5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the standing corn, and his arm reapeth the ears; yea, it shall be as when one gleaneth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
Nochal mana ka jakeyo mabeto cham choko kamoro achiel bangʼe okayogi gi lwete mana kaka jahulo, hulo cham e Holo mar Refaim.
6 Yet there shall be left therein gleanings, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost branches of a fruitful tree, saith the LORD, the God of Israel.
Kaka cham dongʼ e puodho bangʼ hulo, e kaka olembe mag zeituni nodongʼ e yath kosepon, olembe ariyo kata adek nyalo dongʼ ewi bede yath mamalo kendo olembe angʼwen kata abich nyalo dongʼ e bedene monyaa,” Jehova Nyasaye ma Nyasach Israel ema owacho.
7 In that day shall a man look unto his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
E kindeno ji nongʼi Jachwechgi kendo gichom wengegi kuom Jal Maler mar Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall he have respect to that which his fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.
Ok gini ngʼi kende mag misango, kata kuom tije mag lwetgi, kendo ok ginibed gi luor ne sirni mag Ashera kata ne kende miwangʼoe ubani ma lwetgi oloso.
9 In that day shall his strong cities be as the forsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel: and it shall be a desolation.
E kindeno miechgi madongo mochiel motegno, mane giweyo nikech jo-Israel, biro chalo gi kuonde mojwangʼ motimo bunge kod buya kendo giduto ginidongʼ gunda.
10 For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore thou plantest pleasant plants, and settest it with strange slips:
Wiyi osewil gi Nyasachi ma jaresni; adier ok iseparo Lwanda ma en ohingani. Kuom mano kata ka ipidho cham mabeyo kendo ipidho mzabibu migolo e pinje ma oko,
11 In the day of thy planting thou hedgest it in, and in the morning thou makest thy seed to blossom: but the harvest fleeth away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
kata obedo ni chiengʼ mipidhogieno ema gidongoe kendo okinyi ma ipidhogieno ema gichiewoe, onge gima niyudi to makmana chandruok kod rem ma ok rum.
12 Ah, the uproar of many peoples, which roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!
Yaye, winjuru mahu mar ogendini mangʼeny, giwuo mana ka apaka mar nam! Yaye, winjuru koko mar ji, ka gimor mana ka apaka mar nam!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
Kata obedo ni gimor mana ka pi mogingore, to ka akwerogi to giniring ma gidhi mabor, mana machal gi mihudhwe mipiedho e gode ma yamo tero, kata ka yamo mar kalausi.
14 At eventide behold terror; [and] before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Kochopo odhiambo, kibaji nogogi apoya nono! To kapok piny oru, to ginilal nono! Ma e pok mar joma mayowa, kendo en e pok mar joma yakowa.
