Isaiah 23
1 [I received] this message [from Yahweh] about Tyre [city]: You [sailors on] [APO] ships from Tarshish, weep, because [the harbor of] Tyre and all the houses [in the city] have been destroyed. The reports that you heard in Cyprus [island] about Tyre [are true].
Amo sia: da Daia moilai bai bagade ea hou olelesa. Dilia dusagai ouligisu dunu hano wayabo bagadega ahoabe! Da: i dioiba: le, dinana huma! Dilia moilai bai bagade amo da wadela: lesi dagoi. Ea diasu amola ea dusagai ouligibi hano sogebi da wadela: lesi dagoi. Dilia da Saibalase asili, buhagisia, amo sia: nabimu.
2 You people who live along the coast [near Tyre], and merchants of Sidon [city], mourn silently. Your sailors went across the seas [to many places like Tyre].
Dilia Saidone liligi ligisisu diasu ouligisu dunu! Didigia: ma!
3 They sailed across deep seas to buy grain in Egypt and [other] crops that are grown along the Nile [River]. Tyre became the city where people from [all] nations bought and sold goods.
Dilia da hano wayabo bagade degele, gagoma amo da Idibidi sogega fai amo bidi lamusa: , amola fifi asi gala ilima bidi lasu hamomusa: , dunu asunasi dagoi.
4 But now you people in Sidon should be ashamed, because [you trusted in Tyre], which has been a strong fortress [on an island] in the sea. [Tyre is like a woman who is saying], “[Now it is as though] I have not given birth to [any] children, or raised [any] sons or daughters.”
Saidone moilai bai bagade fi! Dilia da gogosia: i dagoi. Hano wayabo bagade amola wayabo lugudu bagadedafa da di da elea mano hame sia: sa. Ilia da amane sia: sa, “Na da mano hame. Na da dunu mano amola uda mano hame fofosu.”
5 When [the people of] Egypt hear what has happened to Tyre, they will grieve very much.
Dunu huluane, amola Idibidi dunu da Daia da wadela: lesi dagoi nabasea, fofogadigimu.
6 Sail to Tarshish [and tell them what happened]; weep, you people who live along the coast.
Dilia Founisia soge fi dunu! Se nababeba: le, huma! Siba: ini sogega hobeale masa: ne, logo hogoi helema.
7 [The people in] the very old city [of Tyre] were [RHQ] previously joyful. Traders [PRS] from Tyre established colonies in many distant nations.
Daia da hemonega hamone, hahawane ba: su. Be wali hahawane hame ba: sa. Daia moilai bai bagade fi da dunu amo hano wayabo degele, gaheabolo fi sogebi hahamoma: ne, asunasi. Be wali Daia da amo musa: gasa bagade amola hahawane moilai agoane hame ba: sa.
8 People from Tyre appointed kings [over other places]; their traders were wealthy; they were [as powerful and wealthy as] [MET] kings. [So], who [RHQ] caused the people of Tyre to experience this disaster?
Daia da musa: hina bagade ilia moilai. Amogawi esala hina bagade amoma osobo bagade fifi asi gala da baligiliwane nodosu. Be nowa da amo moilai noga: idafa amo wadela: musa: ilegebala: ?
9 It was the Commander of the armies of angels who did it; he did it in order to cause [you people in] Tyre not to be proud any more, to humiliate you men who are honored all over the world.
Hina Gode Bagadedafa da amo moilai wadela: musa: ilegei dagoi. Ilia da ilila: hamoiba: le, gasa fi hamosu. Amaiba: le, Hina Gode da amo gasa fi hou hedofamusa: , amola ilia dunu mimogo ilima eno dunu da nodosu amo fofonobomusa: , ilia moilai bai bagade wadela: musa: ilegei.
10 You people of Tarshish, you must grow crops in your land [instead of trading]; spread out over your land like [SIM] the Nile [River] spreads over the land [of Egypt] when it floods, because there is no harbor [in Tyre for your ships] now.
Dilia Siba: ini soge (amoga Founisia dunu da fimusa: asi) amo fi dunu dilia! Ifabi hamomusa: masa! Wali da dili gaga: ma: ne, dunu eno hame esala.
11 [It is as though] Yahweh stretched out his hand over the sea and shook the kingdoms of the earth. He commanded that in Phoenicia/Canaan all its fortresses must be destroyed.
Hina Gode da Ea lobo hano wayabo bagade amoga gadodili ilua: le, hina bagade ilia fi wadela: lesi dagoi. Ea sia: beba: le, Founisia bidi lasu moilai bai bagade bagohame da wadela: lesi.
12 He said to the people of Sidon, “You will never rejoice again, because you will be crushed; even if you flee to Cyprus [island], you will not escape destruction.”
Saidone moilai bai bagade fi! Dilia hahawane hou da ebelei dagoi amola dilia fi dunu da banenesi dagoi ba: sa. Amabela: ? Ilia da Saibalase sogega hobeama: bela: ? Be amogawi ilia da gaga: su hame ba: mu.
13 Think about what happened in Babylonia: the people who were in that land have disappeared. [The armies of] Assyria have caused that land to become a place where wild animals from the desert live. The Assyrians built dirt ramps to the top of the walls [of the city of Babylon]; [then they entered the city and] tore down the palaces and caused the city to become [a heap of] rubble.
(Asilia dunu hame be Ba: bilone dunu da sigua ohe fi Daia moilai bai bagade amo hasanasimusa: logo doasi dagoi. Ba: bilone dunu ilisu da moilai doagala: musa: diasu sedade gagula heda: i, amola Daia ea gaga: su gagoi mugululi, moilai bai bagade wadela: lesi dagoi.)
14 [So] wail, you [sailors on the] ships of Tarshish, because the harbor [in Tyre where your ships stop] is destroyed!
Dilia dusagai ouligisu dunu hano wayabo bagadega bila ahoabe! Se nababeba: le, huma! Moilai noga: i amo da dialoma: ne dilia da dafawaneyale dawa: i, amo da mugululi, wadela: lesi dagoi.
15 For seventy years, which is as long as kings usually live, people will forget about Tyre. [But then it will be rebuilt]. What will happen there will be like what happened to a prostitute in this song:
Eso da misunu, amoga Daia da gogolei dagoi ba: mu. Ode 70 amoga, (amo da hina bagade ea esalebe ode idi defele) dunu eno da Daia amo hame dawa: mu. Be ode 70 gidigisia, Daia da hina: da: i bidi lasu uda, amo ea hou da gesami amo ganodini dedei, amo defele ba: mu.
16 “You harlot, whom people had forgotten, play your harp well, and sing many songs, in order that people will remember you again.”
Gesami da agoane hea: sa: - “Di hame gagui hina: da: i bidi lasu uda! Dia sani baidama lale, moilai amo ganodini laloma. Hedema! Amola dia gesami amo dunu bu dima misa: ne bu hea: ma.”
17 [It is true that] after seventy years Yahweh will restore Tyre. Their merchants will again earn a lot of money by buying things from and selling things to many [other] nations [HYP].
Amo ode 70 gidigisia, Daia da ea musa: hawa: hamosu amoma buhagima: ne, Hina Gode da logo doasimu. Osobo bagade fifi asi gala huluane da ea bidi lasu liligi lamu.
18 [But] their profits will be given to Yahweh. [The merchants] will not hoard their money; instead, they will give it to Yahweh’s priests in order that they [can] buy food and nice clothes.
Ea bidi lasu hamobeba: le, muni lasea, amo muni e da Hina Godema ima: ne momodale ligiagamu. E da amo muni udigili hame ligisimu, be nowa da Hina Godema nodone sia: ne gadosa da amo muni amoga ilia ha: i manu amola abula bidi lamu.
