Ezekiel 15
1 Yahweh gave me another message. [He said],
HIKI mai la hoi ka olelo a Iehova ia'u i mai la,
2 “You human, the wood of a grapevine is certainly not [RHQ] more useful that the branches of the trees in a forest.
E ke keiki a ke kanaka, heaha ka oi o ke kumu waina mamua o ke kumu laau e ae, a mamua o ka lala laau iwaena o na laau o ka ululaau?
3 No one [RHQ] ever takes a branch of a grapevine and makes anything [useful] from it. No one [RHQ] even makes pegs from them to hang things on.
E laweia anei kauwahi laau ona e hana'i i kekahi hana? E lalau anei kanaka i kahi kui noloko o ia mea e kau aku i kekahi ipu malaila?
4 And after a branch of a grapevine is thrown into a fire, and the fire burns both ends and chars/scorches the branch in the middle, will it then be useful for anything?
Aia hoi, ua hooleiia ia iloko o ke ahi i wahie, a ua pau i ke ahi na welau elua ona, a wela hoi ka waena ona. He mea pono anei ia no ka hana?
5 No; if it was not useful for anything before it was burned, it certainly cannot [made into something] useful after the fire has burned and charred it.
Aia hoi, i kona okoa ana, aole pono ia no ka hana. A i ka pau ana i ke ahi, a wela hoi, ua pono anei ia no kahi hana?
6 Therefore, this is what [I], Yahweh the Lord, say: The wood of grapevines is useful only for fuel in a fire. Similarly, the people who live in [are useless].
Nolaila ke olelo nei Iehova ka Haku penei; E like me ke kumu waina iwaena o na kumu laau o ka ululaau a'u i haawi ai i ke ahi i wahie, pela o haawi aku ai au i na kanaka o Ierusalema.
7 I will reject [IDM] them. [It will be as though] they have escaped from a fire, but there will still be a fire that will burn them up. And when I punish [EUP] them, you [people who remain alive] will know that I, Yahweh, [have done it].
A e hooku e au i ko'u maka ia lakou; e puka lakou mai loko aku o kekahi ahi, a e pau lakou i kekahi ahi; a e ike oukou owau no Iehova i ko'u wa e hooku e ai i ko'u wahi maka ia lakou.
8 I will cause your country to become a wasteland because your people have not been loyal [to me. That is what I], Yahweh, the Lord, say.”
A e hooneoneo loa au i keia aina, no ka lakou hana hewa ana, wahi a Iehova ka Haku.
