Ezekiel 16
1 Yahweh gave me another message. He said,
Hina Gode da nama bu amane sia: i,
2 “You human, cause the people of Jerusalem to think about their detestable behavior.
“Dunu egefe! Yelusaleme fi ilia wadela: i hou hamoi, amo ilima olelema.
3 Say to them, ‘This is what Yahweh the Lord says to you people of Jerusalem: [It is as though you are a woman who] [MET] was born in the country where the Canaan people-group lived. [It is as though] [MET] your father belonged to the Amor people-group and your mother belonged to the Heth people-group.
Ilima Ouligisudafa Hina Gode Ea sia: amane adosima, “Di da Ga: ina: ne soge ganodini lalelegei. Dia ada da A: moulaide dunu amola dia ame da Hidaide uda galu.
4 [It is as though] [MET] on the day that you were born, your umbilical cord was not cut, and your body was not washed in water, and it was not rubbed with salt or wrapped in strips of cloth, [like Israeli babies always are].
Di da lalelegeloba, enoga da dia semogofo i hame damui, amola hano hame unasi, amola sali legele hame doga: i, amola abulaga hame sosonesi.
5 No one pitied you or acted kindly toward you by doing those things for you. Instead, [it was as though] [MET] you were thrown into a field, because on the day that you were born, you were despised {everyone despised you}.
Eno dunu da dima hame asigiba: le, amo liligi dima hame hamoi. Di lalelegeloba, enoga dima hame asigisu. Ilia da di hame fufuaga galagai.
6 Then [it was as though] [MET] I passed by and saw you lying in your own blood and kicking. And while you lay there kicking in your own blood, I said to you, “I want you to remain alive!”
Amalalu, Na baligisa ba: loba, di da dia maga: me da: iya soiya lalebe ba: i. Di da maga: mega dedeboi, be Na da di bogoma: ne hame yolesi.
7 [It was as though] I caused you to grow up, like plants in the field grow; you grew up and became tall and became like [MET] a very beautiful jewel. [It was as though] [MET] your breasts (formed/became large), and your hair became long, although you were still naked [DOU].
Di da sagai noga: le alebe amo defele alema: ne, Na da di fidisu. Di da noga: le dene, gasa hamone, a:fini noga: i agoane dei. Dia dodo da noga: le misi ba: i, amola dia dialuma hinabo da heda: i ba: i, be di da: i nabado fawane ba: i.
8 When I saw you several years later, [it was as though] [MET] I saw that you were old enough to have sex [EUP]. So [it was as though] [MET] I spread the corner of my robe over [to symbolize that I would marry you], with the result that you were no longer naked. I solemnly promised [that I would marry you] and made a marriage agreement with you, and you became my wife. That is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say.
Na da bu baligisa ba: loba: , di da gawa fimu eso da doaga: i dagoi ba: i. Na da dia da: i nabado amo Na abulaga dedebosili, di lamusa: ilegei. Dafawane! Na da di lamusa: dafawane dima ilegei amola di da bu Na fi hamoi.” Ouligisu Hina Gode da amane sia: sa.
9 [And then it was as though] [MET] I bathed you and washed the blood from you and put ointment on your body.
“Amalalu, Na da hano dili, dia da: iba: le maga: me amo dodofei dagoi. Amalu, Na olife susuligi dia da: iba: le unasi.
10 [It was as though] [MET] I put a fine linen robe on you and gave you other expensive clothes. I put an embroidered dress on you and put leather sandals on your feet.
Na da abula nodomene dedei dima gaga: nesi, amola emo salasu bulamagau gadofoga hamoi, amola abula odagia ga: su, amola abula enemei dima i.
11 [It was as though] [MET] I put bracelets on your arms and a necklace around your neck. Those things all had nice jewels fastened to them.
Na da di nina: hamoma: ne, igi ida: iwane amoga hahamoi galogoa ga: si, amola lobo fasele fei dima i.
12 I put a gold ring in your nose and fastened earrings to your ears and put a beautiful crown on your head.
Na dima migibi amola gegalu i, amola habuga ida: iwane figima: ne i.
13 So [it was as though] you wore gold and silver ornaments. You had clothes made from fine (linen/white cloth) and other expensive embroidered material/cloth. You ate [bread made from] fine flour, honey, and olive oil. You became very beautiful, like [MET] a queen.
Na da silifa amola gouli nina: hamosu liligi, amola abula nodomene dedei dima i. Di da agi ida: iwane amola agime hano amola olife susuligi amola hahawane nasu. Dia nina: hamoi da nenemegi hadigi agoai ba: i. Amola di da hina bagade uda agoane ba: i.
14 You were very beautiful, with the result that people in other nations heard about you, because they knew that I, Yahweh the Lord, am the one who had caused you to become very beautiful.
Na da di noga: ledafa nina: hamoi dagoiba: le, fifi asi gala huluane da dima nodosu.” Ouligisu Hina Gode da amane sia: sa.
15 But [it was as though] [MET] you realized that because people knew that you were very beautiful, you could [earn a lot of money by] becoming a prostitute. [It was as though] you had sex with [EUP] every man who came along, and they all enjoyed your beauty.
“Be dia da dia nina: hamoi dawa: beba: le, amoga hidale, dunuga hanama: ne dunu bagohame gilisili golasu.
16 [It was as though] you took some of your clothes to make beautifully decorated shrines, and that is where you had sex with those men. Those things should certainly never occur!
Di da dia abula ida: iwane mogili, amoga dia ogogosu sia: ne gadosu sogebi amo nina: hamosu. Amola di da hina: da: i bidi lasu uda defele, dia da: i amo dunu bagohame ilima iasu.
17 You took the fine gold and silver jewelry that I gave you, and you made male idols for yourself, in order to have sex with them.
Silifa amola gouli ida: iwane Na dima i, amo di da lale, dunu agoaila hahamone, amoga wadela: i adole lasu hou hamosu.
18 You took some of your embroidered clothes to put on those idols, and you burned oil and incense in front of them [to honor them].
Di da abula nodomene dedei Na dima i, amo lale, ogogole loboga hamoi ogogosu ‘gode’ ilima idiniginisi. Amola olife susuligi amola gabusiga: manoma Na dima i, amo di da ogogosu loboga hamoi ‘gode’ ilima i dagoi.
19 And the [bread that was made from] fine flour and the olive oil and honey that I gave to you to eat, you offered to be a fragrant sacrifice to those idols. I, Yahweh the Lord, declare that is what happened.
Na da noga: idafa ha: i manu amo agi amola olife susuligi amola gabusiga: manoma dima i. Be amo di da ogogosu loboga hamoi ‘gode’ dima nodoma: ne, gobele salasu hou hamosu.” Ouligisu Hina Gode da amane sia: sa,
20 And you even took your sons and daughters who were [as though they were] [MET] my children, and sacrificed them to be food for the idols. That was much worse [RHQ] than your becoming a prostitute.
“Amalalu, di da dunu mano amola uda mano lalelegei (amo mano da Na mano galu) amo lale, ogogosu ‘gode’ ilima gobele salasu. Di da Na yolesiagaiba: le, amo hou da wadela: idafa.
21 You slaughtered [those who were like] [MET] my children, and offered them to be sacrifices to the gods!
Be di da amo hou baligili, Na manolali lale, ogogosu ‘gode’ ilima gobele salasu, amo da baligiliwane wadela: idafa.
22 All during the time when you were acting like a prostitute and doing other detestable things, you did not think about the time when [it was as though] you were very young, naked [DOU], lying in your own blood and kicking.
Di manohadi esoga, di da da: i nabado, amola dia maga: me da: iya soiya lalebe ba: i. Be di da wadela: i adole lasu bagade hamoi amola amo esoga, dia manohadi eso hou gogolei.
23 So I, Yahweh the Lord, declare that terrible things will happen to you. In addition to all the other wicked things that you did,
Ouligisu Hina Gode da amane sia: i, “Di da dafawane wadela: lesi dagoi ba: mu! Di da amo wadela: i hou huluane hamoi.
24 you built a shrine to worship idols in every [city] square/plaza.
Amalalu, di da logo huluane ilia bega: , ogogosu ‘gode’ma sia: ne gadosu sogebi gagui amola wadela: i adole lasu hou hamosu.
25 At the beginning of every street you built a shrine, and showed people your beautiful body, offering it to have sex with every man who walked by, becoming a better known prostitute every day.
Di da dia nina: hamoi amo fafu da: iya hiougili asi. Dunu huluane di baligisia, dina: da: i ilima iasu. Amola eso huluane baligili adole lasu hou hamosu.
26 [It was as though] [MET] you had sex with men from Egypt who were eager to have sex with you, men who lived near to Israel. You caused me to become very angry because you became more eager to have sex with more and more of them.
Di da hi hanai bagade hamosu Idibidi dunu, ilia di amola gilisili golama: ne, logo doasi. Amola Na ougima: ne, wadela: i adole lasu hamosu.
27 So I punished [IDM] you and caused your enemies to capture some of your country. I enabled your greedy enemies from Philistia to defeat you; and even they were shocked because of your disgraceful behavior.
Wali Na da dilima se ima: ne, amola dilima Na hahawane fidisu hou bu samogema: ne, Na da Na lobo gaguia gadoi dagoi. Filisidini dunu da dilia wadela: i houba: le, dili higasa. Na da dili ilia lobo da: iya yolesi dagoi.
28 [It was as though] you had sex with soldiers from Assyria, too, because you always wanted more sex. And after that, you still were not satisfied.
Di da eno dunuma gilisili golai. Be dia hanai da hame gumiba: le, di da Asilia dunu ilima gilisili golamusa: asi. Di da ilima gilisili golai, be ilia da dia hanai amo hame gumi.
29 So you also had sex [with soldiers from] Babylonia, a country full of merchants/businessmen, but even that did not satisfy you.
Di da bidi lasu Ba: bilone dunu amola gilisili golai. Be amoga amola di da gumi hame ba: i.
30 I, Yahweh the Lord, declare that when you did all those things, acting like [MET] a bold prostitute, you were showing that you were ready to do anything that you wanted to [IDM].
Ouligisu Hina Gode da amane sia: sa, “Di da amo hou mae gogosiane, hina: da: i bidi lasu uda defele hamosu.
31 When you built shrines to worship idols on every street corner and in every city square/plaza, you were not like a prostitute: Prostitutes charge money, but you refused to take money for what you did.
Moilai logo huluane amoga di da ogogosu ‘gode’ sia: ne gadosu sogebi gagusa, amola wadela: i adole lasu hou hamosa. Be di da hina: da: i bidi lasu uda, amo defele, muni lamusa: , hame hamosa.
32 You are like [MET] a woman who commits adultery: You prefer to [have sex with] strangers rather than with your husband.
Di da uda amo da egoa ema mae magesa: ili, degabo ba: i ga fi dunu amola gilisili golasa, amo defele hamosa.
33 Prostitutes are paid, but [it is as though] you give gifts to all your lovers; you bribe them to come to you from everywhere to have sex with you.
Dunu eno da hina: da: i bidi lasu uda ema bidi iaha. Be di da eno dunu amola ga fi dunu sedaga esala, amo ilia dima misini, gilisili golama: ne, liligi amola bidi amola ilima iasu.
34 So although you act like [MET] a prostitute, you are not like other prostitutes: No one needs to request you to have sex [EUP] with them. You are the opposite of other prostitutes; instead of them giving any money to you, you give men money to have sex with you.
Di da sasagesu uda hisu agoane gala. Di da amo hou hamoma: ne, dunu eno da hame logei. Amoga dia da bidi hame lai. Di da eno dunu di wadela: ma: ne, ilima bidi iasu. Dafawane! Di da hisu!”
35 Therefore, [you people of] Jerusalem, who are like a prostitute [MET], listen to what I, Yahweh the Lord, am saying about you!
Wali Yelusaleme, sasagesu uda di! Hina Gode Ea sia: be nabima!
36 I say that [what you have done is as though] [MET] you took off your clothes and acted like a prostitute and had sex with men who are not your husband. [What I mean is that you have been worshiping] detestable idols, and you have murdered [MTY] your own children to be sacrifices to them.
Ouligisu Hina Gode da amane sia: sa, “Di da hina: da: i lasu uda defele, dia abula huluane gisa: le, dima hanai dunu amola dia wadela: idafa loboga hamoi ‘gode’ ilima dia da: i udigili iasu. Amola dia mano amo gobele salimusa: , medole legei.
37 So [what I am going to do is as though] I will gather those who you think have loved you and those whom you hated. I will gather them around you [to attack you], and [what I will do is as though] I will strip your clothes off you, and they will see you when you are completely naked.
Dia amo hamobeba: le, Na da musa: dima hanai dunu, amo mogili dia hanai amola mogili dia higa: i, amo gilisilisimu. Ilia da di sisiga: le, lelefulia, Na da di nabado leloma: ne, dia abula gisa: mu.
38 I will punish you like women who commit adultery and who murder people [MTY] are punished. I will get revenge on you and get rid of you because I am extremely angry with you.
Di da wadela: i adole lasu hou amola medole legesu hou hamobeba: le, Na da baligiliwane ougili, dima fofada: nanu, di bogoma: ne se imunu.
39 I will allow [your enemies who you thought] loved you [IRO] to defeat you, and they will tear down your shrines. [It will be as though] they will strip off your fancy clothes and take away your fine jewelry and cause you to be completely naked [DOU].
Na da di ilia lobo da: iya yolesimu. Ilia sogebi amoga di da wadela: i adole lasu amola ogogosu ‘gode’ ilima sia: ne gadosu hamosu, amo ilia da gadelale salimu. Ilia da dia abula amola nina: hamoma: ne igi noga: i, amo lale gasea, di da da: i nabadodafa yolesi ba: mu
40 They will bring a mob to attack you, and that mob will throw stones at you and cut you to pieces with their swords.
Ilia da di igiga medoma: ne, dunu gilisili ougima: ne ha lamu. Ilia da ilia gobiheiga, di dadamuni fofonobomu.
41 They will burn down your houses and punish you while many women are watching. I will cause your acting like a prostitute and paying your lovers to have sex with you to end.
Ilia da dilia diasu huluane gobele salimu. Amola uda bagohame da dia se nabasu ba: ma: ne, ilia da logo doasimu. Na da dia wadela: i adole lasu logo hedofamu amola dia dima hanai dunu ilima liligi imunu logo hedofamu.
42 Then I will no longer be angry [DOU] with you. I will stop being jealous [because of your worshiping gods other than me only].
Amasea, Na ougi da gumi dagoi ba: mu, amola Na da olofole esalumu. Na da bu ougi amola mudasu hame hamomu.
43 You have forgotten [the wonderful things that I did for you] in previous years [MET]. You have caused me to become extremely angry because of all the [evil things] that you have done. In addition to all the other detestable things that you did, you committed many sexual sins. So I, Yahweh the Lord, declare that I will punish you [IDM] for doing those things.
Di da a: finia, Na da dima hou noga: iwane hamoi. Be di da amo gogolei. Be dia hamobeba: le, Na da ougi ba: i. Amaiba: le, Na da dia hamobeba: le, dima se dabe iasu. Di da wadela: i hou bagade hamoi dagoi. Be abuliba: le wadela: i adole lasu hou amola gilisili hamobela: ?” Ouligisu Hina Gode da sia: i dagoi.
44 People who [like to] quote proverbs will quote this proverb about you: “[behave] like their mothers [behave].”
Hina Gode da amane sia: i, “Yelusaleme fi! Dunu eno da dia hou dawa: beba: le, amo malasu sia: mu, “Idiwi da eme defele ba: sa.
45 You are like your mother; [it was as though] she detested her husband and her children. You are like your sisters, who also despised their husbands and their children. [It was as though] [MET] your father belonged to the Amor people-group and your mother belonged to the Heth people-group.
Yelusaleme! Di da dafawane dia ame ea mano esala! E da ea egoama amola manoma baligiliwane hagasu. Di da dia dalusi ilia hou defele, egoa amola mano hagasu. Di amola dia dalusi moilai bai bagade da Hidaide eme amola A: moulaide eda esalu.
46 And [it was as though] [MET] your older sister was Samaria, and she and her daughters lived to the north of you, and [it was as though] your younger sister was Sodom, and she and her daughters lived to the south of you.
Dia aba da Samelia moilai bai bagade gadi (north) gala. E da moilai fonobahadi amola gilisili esala. Amola diaeya da Sodame moilai bai bagade goegadi (south) gala. E amola da moilai fonobahadi gilisili esala.
47 You not only imitated all [DOU] their detestable behavior, but you quickly became more sinful than they were.
Di da elea hou amoma fa: no bobogele, ela wadela: i hou defele hamosu. Be amo baligili, di da elea wadela: i hou bagade baligisu.”
48 I, Yahweh the Lord, solemnly declare that as surely as I am alive, [the people who lived in] [MTY] Sodom and other nearby cities never did the detestable things that you [people in Jerusalem and other places in Judah] have done.
Ouligisudafa Hina Gode da amane sia: sa, ‘Dafawane! Na da Fifi Ahoanusu Gode! Amola Na da dafawane sia: sa! Dia wadela: i hou da diaeya Sodame, amola ea uda mano (moilai fonobahadi sisiga: le diala) ilia wadela: i hou amo bagadewane baligi dagoi.
49 These are the sins [the people who lived in] Sodom, who were like your sister [MET]: The people who lived there and in nearby cities were arrogant. In spite of having more food to eat than they needed, they refused to help the poor and needy [DOU] people among them.
Sodame moilai bai bagade amola ea uda mano ilia da ha: i manu bagade gaguiba: le, amola olofole esalebeba: le, bagade gasa fili hidasu. Be ilia da hame gagui dunu amo noga: le hame ouligisu.
50 The people of Sodom and nearby cities [MET] were proud and did detestable things in my presence, so I got rid of them when I saw what they had been doing.
Di noga: le dawa: ! Ilia da hidale, hou amoma Na da higasa, amola hame nabasu hou hamobeba: le, Na da ili gugunufinisi dagoi.
51 Also, [the people of] Samaria did not commit half as many sins as you have committed. You have done more disgusting things than they have done. You cause the people of Samaria to appear to be good, compared to you.
Samelia da wadela: le hamoi. Be dia wadela: i hou da ea wadela: i hou bagadedafa baligi. Dia wadela: i hou amola dia dalusi elea hou defele ba: sea, elea hou da fedege agoane noga: i ba: sa, be dia hou da wadela: idafa ba: sa.
52 Your sins are worse than their sins, so they seem to be less wicked than you are. So I will punish you more than I punished them. As a result, you will be ashamed and disgraced [DOU].
Wali di da bagade gogosia: i dagoi. Amola di da gogosia: i mae fisili, ahoanumu. Dia wadela: i hou amola dia dalusi elea hou defele ba: sea, elea hou da fedege agoane noga: i ba: sa, be dia hou da wadela: idafa ba: sa. Amaiba: le, di gogosiane dialuma fili sa: ili, masa. Bai dia hamobeba: le, dia dalusi ela wadela: i hou defemusa: ba: sea, elea hou da noga: iwane ba: sa.
53 However, [some day] I will [the people of] Sodom and Samaria and the cities near to them [MET] to prosper again. And I will cause you to prosper again, too.
Hina Gode da Yelusaleme amoma amane sia: i, “Na da Sodame amola ea sisiga: i moilai, amola Samelia amola ea sisiga: i moilai, amo bu gagui gadole ela da bu bagade gagui agoane ba: mu. Dafawane! Na da di amola gagui gadole, di da bu bagade gagui ba: mu.
54 You will be very ashamed [DOU] of the wicked things that you have done, and that will cause the people of those cities to be encouraged.
Di da dia hou dawa: beba: le, bagade gogosiamu. Amasea, dia gogosia: i amola da: i nabado ba: beba: le, dia dalusi ela da bagade gagui agoane esalebe amo dawa: beba: le, hahawane ba: mu.
55 [The people of] Sodom and Samaria will prosper again, and you and the people in nearby cities will prosper also.
Ela da bu bagade gagui agoane ba: mu. Amola Na da di amola dia sisiga: le dialebe moilai amola gaguia gadomu.
56 You (sneered at/despised) [the people of] Sodom when you were proud,
Dia gasa fi esalebe eso amoga, di da Sodame amoma lalasogole oufesega: su.
57 before it was revealed that you were very wicked. And now [the people of] Edom and [the people of] Philistia all insult you and despise you.
Amo esoga, dia wadela: i hou da wamolegei dialu. Be wali dia hou da odagiaba: le, di da Sodame fi defele ba: sa. Amola wali Idome dunu amola Filisidini dunu, amola dia eno na: iyado fi amolalia dima higasa, amo ilia da dima lalasogole oufesega: sa.
58 And you are being punished for all your immoral behavior and other detestable things that you do.
Di da wadela: idafa hou amola iyasu hou hamobeba: le, se nabimu,” Hina Gode da sia: i dagoi.
59 This is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say: I will continue to punish you like you deserve to be punished, because by rejecting the agreement that I made with you, you have despised that solemn agreement that you promised to obey.
Ouligisu Hina Gode da amane sia: sa, “Na da dia hamobe defele, dima se bidi imunu. Bai di da dia sia: i ilegei amo fisu amola Na gousa: su wadela: lesi.
60 But I will not forget the agreement that I made with you long ago [MET], and I will make an agreement with you that will endure forever.
Be di da a: finia, Na da dima gousa: su hamoi. Amo Na da hame fimu. Amola Na da gaheabolo gousa: su amo da mae dagole dialoma: ne, dima hamomu.
61 Then you will think about what you have done, and you will be ashamed about those things when you welcome [the people of] Sodom and Samaria, cities which are like [MET] older and younger sisters to you people of Jerusalem. I will [put them under your control by] causing them to become like [MET] your daughters, but they will not have the same agreement that I will make with you.
Na da dia aba amola diaeya dima bu iasea, di da dia musa: wadela: i hou hamobe dawa: beba: le, gogosiamu. Na da dima gousa: su hamoi amo ganodini agoane hame sia: i. Be Na da dia aba amola diaeya amo dima uda mano agoane esaloma: ne, dima imunu.
62 I will establish my agreement with you, and you will know that I, Yahweh, [have the power to do what I say that I will do].
Na da dima gousa: su hamoi amo gaheabolo agoane bu hahamomu. Amasea, Na da Hina Gode, amo di da dawa: mu.
63 Then when I have forgiven you for all your sins, you will think about all the sins that you committed and you will be ashamed, and you will never again [boast about them], because you will be humiliated.’”
Na da dia wadela: i hou hamoi huluane, amo gogolema: ne olofomu. Be di da amo bu dawa: le, gogosiabeba: le, dia lafi dagamu gogolemu.” Ouligisudafa Hina Gode da sia: i dagoi.
