Daniel 6
1 King Darius decided to divide his kingdom into 120 provinces. He appointed a governor to rule each province.
Hina bagade Da: liase da ouligisu dunu 120 amo ea ouligisu fi amo ganodini fi dialu ouligimusa: ilegei.
2 He also appointed me and two other men to be administrators, to supervise the governors and to be sure that they did the king’s work [properly], in order that the king would not have to worry about anything.
Amola e da amo ouligisu dunu boboga amo ilia hawa: hamosu amo ouligima: ne, e da Da: niele amola dunu aduna eno ilegei dagoi.
3 I soon showed that I was (more capable/able to do the work better) than all the other administrators and the governors. Because of that, the king planned to appoint me to be in charge of the entire empire.
Amola hina bagade, ea sodoloba, Da: niele ea hawa: hamosu da eno ouligisu ilia hawa: hamosu baligi dagoi. Amaiba: le, Da: liase da Da: niele ema Besia sogega ouligisu bisilua ilegemusa: dawa: i galu.
4 Then, the [other] administrators and the governors [became jealous. So they began to] try to find something that they could criticize about the way I was working for the king. But I always did my work faithfully and honestly, and was never lazy. So they could not find anything to criticize.
Amalalu, ouligisu dunu eno ilia da mudale ba: i. Ilia da Da: niele amo dafama: ne adoba: su logo hogolalu. Be amo fofada: su, amo ganodini da Da: niele ea giadofai afae hame ba: i. Amola Da: niele e da moloidafa dunuba: le, ea hawa: hamosu da noga: idafa ba: i. Amola e da afae hamedafa giadofasu.
5 They concluded, “The only way we can find something for which we can criticize Daniel will be something concerning the laws that his god [his given him].”
Ilia ilisu amane sia: dasu, “Ninia da Da: niele ea hawa: hamosu amo ganodini giadofai hame ba: mu. Be Da: niele da Gode Ea sema amoga fa: no bobogesa. Amaiba: le, ninia da amo hou ganodini dafama: ne adoba: su hogomu da defea.”
6 So the administrators and governors went as one group to the king and said, “(Your Majesty/O king), we wish that you will live a long time!
Amaiba: le, ilia asili da hina bagade amo ba: la asili, ema amane sia: i, “Hina bagade, Da: liase! Di da eso huluane noga: le esalalalumu da defea!”
7 [We] administrators and governors and district governors and advisors and other officials have all agreed that you should make a law that everyone must obey. We want you to command that for the next thirty days people may pray only to you. If anyone prays to anyone else, either to a human or to a god, he must be thrown into [a pit of] lions.
Ninia dia soge eagene dunu huluane, amo ninia da gilisili sia: dalu agoane sia: sa: i dagoi. Dia sema gasa bagade hamoma. Amola ninia hanai da dia dunu huluanema olelema. Dia sema agoane legema, amo eso 30 amoga, dunu huludafa da ‘gode’ huluane amola dunu huluane ilima mae sia: ne gadole esaloma: ne sia: ma. Ilia da dima fawane sia: ne gadoma: ne sia: ma. Amola dunu afaega, amo sema legebe go wadela: lisisia, dia dadi gagui dunu da amo dunu laione wa: me uli dogoi amo ganodini galagudumu, amo di sia: ne ilegema.”
8 And because laws made by [our governments of] Media and Persia cannot be changed, [we want] you, [the head of our government], to sign it.”
“Defea, hina bagade! Di amo sema ilegema amola dia dio dedema. Amalalu, amo sema da Midia amola Besia amo dunu fi ilia sema bagade ba: mu. Amola amo sema afadenemu da hamedeiwane ba: mu.
9 So King Darius [wrote] the law and signed it.
Amalalu, Da: liase da amo sema ilegei. Ilia da sema dedene amola Da: liase da amoma gasa ima: ne ea dio dedei dagoi.
10 But when I found out that [the king] had [written and] signed that law, I went home. I knelt down in my upstairs room and prayed. I looked toward Jerusalem, and the windows were open [with the result that everyone could see me while I was praying]. I prayed three times each day, just as I always did, thanking God.
Da: niele da amo sema legei nababeba: le, e da wale gadole asili, ea diasuga asi. Ea diasu ganodini amo sesei gadodili dialebe ba: i. Amo ganodini fo misa: ne agenesi amo da Yelusaleme moilai bai bagadega, ga ba: legai. Ea eso huluane hou amo defele, e da muguni bugili, Godema sia: ne gadosu. E da eso afae amoga udiana agoane sia: ne gadoi.
11 The officials went together [to my house] and they saw me praying and requesting God to help me.
Da: nielema ha lai dunu da Da: niele amo Godema sia: ne gadolalebe ba: loba,
12 So they returned to the king and said to him, “[Do you remember] that you wrote a law stating that for the next thirty days people may pray only to you, and if anyone prays to anyone else, either to a human or to a god, he will be thrown into [a pit of] lions?” The king replied, “[Yes, that is the law that I wrote]. It is a law of [our governments of] Media and Persia, which cannot be canceled.”
ilia da asili, ilia hina bagadema Da: niele ea hou fofada: musa: asi. Ilia da ema amane sia: i, “Hina bagade! Dia da sema legele, dio dedei dagoi. Di da sema agoane legei, amo eso 30 amoga, dunu huludafa da ‘gode’ huluane amola dunu huluane ilima mae sia: ne gadole esaloma: ne sia: i. Ilia da dima fawane sia: ne gadoma: ne sia: i. Amola dunu afaega, amo sema legebe go wadela: lisisia, dia dadi gagui dunu da amo dunu laione wa: me uli dogoi amo ganodini galagudumu, amo di sia: i,” ilia sia: i. Amo sia: nababeba: le, hina bagade da amane sia: i, “Dafawane! Amo sema hamoi da gasa bagadedafa. Amo da Midia amola Besia ninia sema. Amola afadenemu da hamedei.”
13 Then they said to the king, “Well, that [man] Daniel, one of the men who were brought from Judah, is not paying any attention to you or the law that you [signed]. He prays [to his god] three times each day!”
Amalalu, ilia da Da: liase ema amane sia: i, “Yuda mugululi asi dunu afae amo Da: niele, amo dunu e da dia sia: amo gua: ne fasi dagoi. Amola eso huluane e da ea Godema eso afaega udiana agoane sia: ne gadolala.
14 When the king heard that, he was very distressed. He tried to find a way to save me. All the rest of that day he tried to think of a way to rescue me.
Hina bagade da amo sia: nababeba: le, e da da: i dioi bagade ba: i. Amola e da Da: niele gaga: musa: dawa: i galu. E da Da: nielema fidisu logo eno olelemusa: dadawa: laloba, eso sa: i.
15 [In the evening, many of] [HYP] the officials went together to the king and said, “(Your Majesty/O king), you know that [our governments of] Media and Persia have declared that no law that the king signs can be canceled/changed. [So Daniel must be thrown to the lions!]”
Amola daeya agoane Da: nielema ha lai dunu da ema misini, amane sia: i, “Hina bagade! Di dawa: ! Ninia Midia fi amola Besia fi amo ninia hou amo ganodini, adi sema amo hina bagade legemusa: dawa: lalu amo sema da mae afadenene amaiwane dialumu!”
16 So the king gave the order, and his servants brought me and threw me into a pit where the lions [were]. [Before they threw me in], the king said to me, “I hope/wish that your God, whom you worship regularly, will rescue you!”
Amaiba: le, Da: liase da ea dadi gagui ilima ilia Da: niele afugili oule asili, laione wa: me ilia diasu dogoi amo ganodini galaguduma: ne sia: i. Amola e da Da: nielema amane sia: i, “Di da dia Gode Ea hawa: hamosu hahawane hamonana. E da di gaga: mu da defea.”
17 They rolled a huge stone across the entrance to the pit. Then the king [fastened a string across the entrance and put wax at each end, and stamped the wax with] the seal from his [ring] and the seals [of the rings] of his officials, in order that no one could [secretly] rescue me.
Ilia da Da: niele amo laione wa: me uli dogoi amogili sanasi dagoi. Amalalu ilia igi bagade afae lale logo amoga ga: si dagoi. Amola, hina bagade da ea amola ea eagene ouligisu dunu ilia gobele ilegesu liligi amo igi da: iya ado ligisi. Dunu enoga wamo Da: niele fidisa: besa: le, agoane hamoi.
18 Then the king returned to his palace. That night he refused to eat any food. He would not allow anyone to entertain him [because he did not want to be happy, with the result that he would forget about me. And that night] he was unable to sleep [because he was worried about me].
Fa: no, hina bagade da hi diasuga bu ogobele misini, amo gasi ganodini e da ha: i mae nawane esalu. Amola dunu amola uda ema hahawane sia: mae sia: ma: ne sia: i. Amola e da afae hamedafa golale ba: i.
19 At dawn the next morning, the king got up and went quickly to the pit where the lions were.
Hahabedafa hina bagade da wa: legadole, hedolodafa asili, laione wa: me uli dogoiga doaga: i.
20 When he came near it, he was very worried. He called out, “Daniel, you who serve the all-powerful God! Was your God, whom you worship regularly, able to save you from the lions?”
Amoga: i doaga: lalu, e da beda: iwane Da: nielema amane wei, “Da: niele! Di da eso huluane esalebe Gode amo Ea noga: i hawa: hamosu dunu. Gode da di amo laione wa: mega mae gasomoma: ne di gaga: musa: defele ba: bela: ?”
21 I answered, “(Your Majesty/O king), I hope that you will live a long time!
Da: niele da laione wa: me uli dogoi ganodini esala, ema amane sia: i, “Hina bagade! Di eso huluane esalalalumu da defea.
22 [Yes], my God sent his angel to shut the lions’ mouths, in order that they would not harm me! [He did that] because [he knows that] I have done nothing that he thinks is wrong. And, (Your Majesty/O king), I never did anything wrong to you!”
Gode Ea a: igele dunu asunasili amo misini, da laione wa: me ilia lafi ga: i. Gode da na hou amo ganodini, giadofai hame ba: beba: le, amola dima wadela: i hou hame hamoiba: le amoga E da na noga: le fidi.
23 The king was extremely happy, and he commanded [his servants] to lift me out of the pit. [When they did that, they] saw that the lions had not wounded me at all. [God had protected me] because I trusted in him.
Hina bagade da hahawane bagadedafa ba: i. Amananoba, e da ilima amane sia: i, “Da: niele lale gadodili oule masa!” Ilia e gadodili oule asili, ea da: iga se lai ganabeya: le hogoi be hame ba: i. Bai e da Godema dafawaneyale dawa: beba: le, agoane hamoi.
24 Then the king commanded that the men who had accused me should be seized and be thrown, along with their wives and children, into the pit where the lions were. [When they were thrown into the pit], the lions leaped on them and crushed their bones before they fell onto the bottom of the pit!
Amalalu, hina bagade da sia: beba: le, dadi gagui da dunu amo da Da: nielema fofada: i, amo amola ilia uda amola mano, huluane laione wa: me uli dogoiga galagudui. Amola sanasinanoba, uli dogoiga daloba, hedolodafa laione wa: me ilia da soaga: la: gadole, ilia gasa huluane goudane sasali.
25 Then King Darius wrote [this message and sent it throughout his kingdom] to the people of every people-group and nation and from all language groups: “I wish/hope that everything is going very well with you!
Amalalu, hina bagade Da: liase da dunu amola uda fifi asi gala amola sia: hisu hisu ilima meloa dedene i, amane, “Na dilima asigi sia: sia: sa.
26 I command that everyone in my kingdom should fear and revere the God that Daniel [worships]. He is the all-powerful God, and he will live forever. His kingdom will never be destroyed; he will rule forever.
Na ouligibiga esalebe fi dunu amola uda! Dilia na sia: goe noga: le nabima. Dilia da Da: niele ea Gode amo Ea Dio bagade nodone gaguia gadoma. Amo Gode da eso huluane esalalalumu. E da Hina Bagade eso huluane fifi ahoanumu. Amola Ea gasa da hamedafa fisili, eso huluane amanewane dialumu.
27 He rescues and saves [his people]. He performs all kinds of miracles in heaven and on the earth. He rescued Daniel from the power of the lions!”
E da dunu amola uda mae se lama: ne gaga: musa: dawa: E da Hebene amola osobo bagade amo ganodini musa: hame ba: su amola dawa: digima: ne olelesu gasa bagade hou hamonana. E da Da: niele amo laione wa: me amoga mae gasomoma: ne gaga: i dagoi.
28 So I was successful [all] during the time that Darius ruled and during the time that Cyrus, [the King] of Persia, ruled.
Amola Da: liase e hina bagade esalebe eso amogalu da Sailase (Besia dunu) da ea sogebi lai dagoi. Amo eso huluane ganodini Da: niele da hahawane ouligisu mimogo dunu bagadedafa esalu.
