Romans 9
1 [Now I would like to discuss the fact that most of my fellow Israelites have rejected Christ]. Because of my relationship with Christ, I say completely truthfully [what I will now tell you]. I am not lying [DOU]! My conscience confirms what I [say] because the Holy Spirit [controls it].
Nmaadi moamoani Kilisiti nni mii pua faama, U TIENU Fuoma yua teni ke n pali siedi moko saa li po moamoani.
2 [I tell you that] I grieve very greatly and deeply [DOU] [about my fellow Israelites].
N ye leni ti pabiidiciandi leni ti yanyagiciandi yogunu kuli.
3 I personally would be willing to let [God] curse me [and, as a result, be separated] from Christ, [if that would] help my fellow Israelites, my natural kinsmen, [to believe in Christ].
Kelima n bi baa sugini ki tua ti solindi yua ki paadi leni Kilisiti n kpiiba ya po, yaaba n kpi leni nni ti gbanandi nni.
4 We [Jews] are [Israelites, God’s chosen] descendants of [Jacob]. [God has always considered] us as his children [MET]. It was to our ancestors [that he used to appear] gloriously [while they were in the desert]. It was with them that [God made] covenants [several times]. It was to them [that God] gave the laws [at Sinai Mountain]. They were the ones [to whom God showed how they should] worship him. They were the ones [to whom God] promised many things, [especially that the Messiah would come from their race].
ISALELE buolu yaaba, U TIENU n den gandi ya nibuolu ki teni ke bi tua o bimoanmu, ki doagidi bi po O kpiagidi, ki kuani o ŋantaado leni ba ki teni ba O balimaama, ki doagidi bi po ban baa jaandi O maama, ki niani ba u ñoanianu.
5 It was our ancestors, [Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, whom God chose to found our nation]. And, [most importantly], it was from us Israelites that the Messiah received his human nature. [Nevertheless, most of my fellow Israelites have rejected Christ], who is the one who controls all things! He is God, the one who is worthy that we praise him forever! This is true! (OR, Amen!) (aiōn g165)
Li tie ti yaajanba puoli ŋuani, KILISITI moko den mali bi ya buolun nne ti gbanandi po, wani yua n die li bonla kuli; U TIENU n baa li ŋali ya yogunu kuli. AMINA! (aiōn g165)
6 [God promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that their descendants would all inherit his blessings]. But [although most of my fellow Israelites have rejected Christ], that does not [prove] that God has failed [to do] the things that he promised, because it is not all who are descended from Jacob and who [call themselves the people of] Israel whom [God considers] to be truly his people.
Laa go tie ke U TIENU maama ki go pia mayuli ka. Kelima yaaba n mali ki tie ISALELE puoli ŋuani, bi kuli ka tie ISALELE buolu yaaba moamoani.
7 And it is also not all of Abraham’s natural descendants that [God considers] to be his people. Instead, [God considers only some of them to be Abraham’s children]. [This agrees with what God told Abraham]: “It is Isaac, [not any of your(sg) other sons], whom [I] will consider [to be the true father of] your descendants.”
Kelima bi tie ABALAHAMA puoli ŋuani yeni naa teni ke bi tie o bimoanmu. Kelima U TIENU den yedi ABALAHAMA: Isaaka puoli ŋuani baa tie a buolu.
8 That means that it is not all the natural-born descendants [of Abraham] whom God [considers as] his children. Instead, it is those who [believed what God] promised whom [he] considers to be his children.
Lani n bua ki yedi ke laa tie yaaba n mali nani bi nisaaliba kuli mali maama ka tie U TIENU bila. Ama yaaba n mali nani U TIENU ñoanianu n bili maama n tie O buolu moamoani.
9 [You know that what God] promised [to Abraham] was this: “About this time [next year] Sarah [your wife] will bear a son [as a result of my enabling] [MTY] [her to do so].” [So Abraham knew that it was not through Ishmael, the son that he already had, that God would fulfill what he had promised him] (OR, [that his true descendants would come]).
Diidi U TIENU ñoanianu n tie na: u naa yogunu ya pundi n ba guani ki cua, Sala baa maa bonjaga.
10 And not only then did God show [that he did not determine who would be his true children according to who their ancestors were. He showed it again] when Rebecca conceived [twins] by our ancestor Isaac.
LANI bebe ka, Lobeka moko yaapo li den tie yeni leni O bilieda yaaba n den pia baa yendo, lani n tie ti yaaja Isaaka.
11 Before [the twins, Jacob and Esau], were born, when neither one had yet done anything good or bad, [God] said to Rebecca [about the twins she was to bear], “The older one shall later serve the younger one, [contrary to normal custom].” [God said this] in order that [we] might [clearly] understand that what he purposed [for people] was according to what he himself determined. That is, people’s [eternal destiny] does not depend on what they do. Instead, their destiny depends on [God], the one who chooses them.
ŋali ke bi daa den mali laa bila ke bi daa tieni yaala n ŋani bi yaala n bia, ke U TIENU den tuodi ki jagi yaala n ya ye, ki ŋua O gandima
ki naa ŋoadi a tuona, ama ki ŋua U TIENU yiinu, U TIENU den yedi Lobeka:
13 And [this teaching is] ([supported/shown to be true]) [by] what is written [in the Scriptures] {what [a prophet] recorded} [that God said]: “I favored Jacob, [the younger son]. I did not favor [HYP] Esau, [the older son].”
Han baa yuandi ki maa yua baa die ŋan baa kpa maa yua, nani lan diani maama: N den bua Jakoabo ki nani Esayu.
14 [Someone] might say, “(Is God unjust [by choosing the ones he wants to choose?/I think] that God is unjust [by choosing the ones he wants to choose!])” [RHQ] [I would reply], “[He is] certainly not [unjust]!”
Ti ba yedi lede? U TIENU ki tiegi bii? yeni ka.
15 God told Moses, “I will pity and help anyone whom I choose [DOU]!”
Kelima O den yedi Muusa: N baa gba mi niñima min bua ki ya gba yua yaa po mi niñima, N baa ya dingidi n pali min bua ki ya dingidi n pali yua ya po.
16 So [God chooses people], not because they want [God to choose them] or because they try hard [to do things so that he] will [accept them]. Instead he chooses people because he himself has mercy [on undeserving ones].
Lanwani laa ŋua o nilo n bua yaala, laa ŋua o mondili mo, ama li ŋua U TIENU niñingbadima.
17 [Moses] recorded [PRS] [that God had told] Pharaoh, “This is why I gave you [(sg)] authority [MTY]: It was in order that I might show [by how I oppose] you [how exceedingly] powerful I am, and in order that people everywhere [HYP] would hear about me [MTY].”
Li diani Falono moko yaa po ki yedi: min yini a ki teni ke a tua badiciamo yaala yaapo tie ke n bua ki doagidi n paalu kelima a yaapo ki go teni n yeli n ña ŋanduna kuli nni kelima a yaapo.
18 So [we conclude that God] kindly helps the ones he wants to act kindly towards. But he makes stubborn the ones [such as Pharaoh] that he wants [to make stubborn].
Lanwani U TIENU gba mi niñima wan bua ki ya gba yua yaapo mi niñima, ki go juagi wan bua ki juagi yua ya pali.
19 [One of] you may [object to this by] saying to me, “[Because God determines ahead of time everything that people do, that also implies that he wants us to do everything that we do]. (No one has resisted what God has willed!/Who has resisted what God has willed?) [RHQ] Therefore, (it would not be right that God would still condemn [a person for having sinned]!/why does God still condemn [a person for having sinned]?) [RHQ]”
Dalinba yi siiga yendo baa guani ki yedi nni: be yaapo ke U TIENU go fu leni ti? kelima ŋmee n ba fidi ki yie U yanbuama.
20 [I would reply that since] you [(sg)] are [just a] human being, (you do not [have any right at all to] criticize God!/[who are you to] say that what God does is wrong?) [RHQ] [As a potter is the one who creates a clay pot, God is the one who created you]. (A clay pot [MET] certainly would not [have a right to criticize] the potter by asking [PRS], “Why did you [(sg)] make me this way?”/Would a clay pot [have a right to criticize] the potter by asking [PRS], “Why did you [(sg)] make me this way?”) [RHQ]
Fini o nisaalo a tie ŋmee ki ba nia leni U TIENU? naani ban maa ya tiagu ba yedi yua n maa gu: be yaapo ke a maa nni nanda?
21 Instead, (the potter certainly has the right to [take] some clay and from one lump [of clay] make one pot that people will honor and [make another] one for ordinary purposes [MET]./does not a potter have the right to [take] some clay and from one lump [of clay] make one pot that people will honor and [make another] pot for ordinary purposes?) [MET, RHQ] [Similarly, God has the right to carry out what he purposes for people].
O maado ki pia li bali ki taa ku yoagu ki tieni wan bua yaala yo? O kan ñani yoagikonyenli nni ki ma ya tiagu n baa ye li tuonkpiagili po leni ya tiagu n baa ye li tuonfanli po yoo?
22 Although God desires to show that he is angry [about sin], and [although he desires to] make clear that he can powerfully [punish people who have sinned], he tolerated very patiently the people [MET] who caused him to be angry and who deserved to be destroyed (OR, who were made to be destroyed).
U TIENU mo den bua ki doagidi O pabienli ki teni bi niba n bandi O paalu. Lani yaapo n den juuni ke li waagi leni ya niba n tie nani ya tiadi n tie li tuonfanli po bani yaaba n den pundi U TIENU n cuo ki bolini ba.
23 [God has been patient] in order that he might make clear how very wonderfully [he acts toward those] [MET] whom he intended to act mercifully towards and whom he prepared ahead of time in order that they might [live] gloriously [in heaven].
U TIENU den tieni yeni ki baa doagidi O kpiagidi n yaba maama ya niba n tie nani wan den gbadi ya tiadi po mi niñima ya po wan den tuodi ki ŋanbi yaaba ke ban taani leni o O kpiagidi nni?
24 That means us whom he chose—not only [us] Jews but also non-Jews.
Lani n tie tinba wan yini yaaba. Waa yini ti yaaba n tie jufinba siiga bebe ka. Ama o go yini ti yaaba n kaa tie jufinba moko y siiga.
25 [These words that] Hosea wrote [MTY] that [God] said also (show that God has the right/[support God’s right]) [to choose from among both Jews and non-Jews] [MTY]: I will declare that many people who were not my people are now my people. I will declare that many people whom I did not love [HYP] before, I love now.
Nani wan yedi maama Ose tili nni: yaa nibuolu n kaa den tie n nibuolu, n baa yi ba n nibuolu, min kaa den bua ya nibuolu yeni, n baa yi ba n buakaaba.
26 And [another prophet wrote]: What will happen is that in the places where [God] told them before, “You are not my people,” in those same places [people] will declare truthfully that they are children of God, who is completely powerful.
Ban den tua ya nibuolu siiga, yii tie n nibuolu, lankani lige bi baa yi ba U TIENU yua n fo ya bijaba.
27 Isaiah also exclaimed concerning the Israelites: Even though the Israelites are [so many that no one can count them, like] sand [particles on the beach beside] the ocean, [only] a small part of them will be saved {[God] will save [only] a small part of them},
O sawalipualo Esayi moko kpaani ki maadi Isalele buolu maama ki yedi: ba Isalele buolu yaaba ya yaba nani mi ñincianma tanbiima yeni, nitianba bebe n baa faabi.
28 because the Lord will punish completely and speedily the [people who live on] this earth, as he said that he would do.
Kelima O DIEDO baa tieni wan den yedi yaala ki tinga nni ki juodi ke li kan waagi.
29 [Also, we can understand from what the prophet] Isaiah said [that God would not save] anyone if he did not show mercy: If the Lord, who controls everything in heaven, had not mercifully allowed some of our descendants to survive, we would have become like the people of [the cities of] Sodom and Gomorrah, who were [SIM, DOU] completely destroyed.
Li baa tie nani Esayi n kpa yedi maama: O Diedo U TIENU bi toatieba yudaano ya ki den cedi ti siiga nitianba sieni, ti den ba tua nani Sodoma yaaba yeni, ki go tua nani Gomola yaaba yeni.
30 We must conclude this: [RHQ] Although non-Jews did not search out [a way by which] God would erase the record of their sins, they actually found that way because they trusted [in what Christ did for them].
Lanwani ti baa yedi lede? bi nilanba yaaba n kaa liongi mi teginma, bani n baa li moamoansaali kelima li dandanli yaa po.
31 But although [the people of] Israel sought a basis [by which God would] erase the record of their sins, they did not succeed in [fulfilling the true purpose of the] laws [that God gave to Moses].
Ama Isalele buolu yaaba, yaaba n den lingi ki bua ki baa li moamoansaali kelima li balimaama kubima yaa po naa baa.
32 The reason [RHQ] [that they did not succeed] is that they did not trust that [God would provide a way to save them]. Instead, they were trying to do certain things [in order that God would accept them. Because they did not expect the Messiah to die, the Israelites] felt disgusted about [Jesus’ death, which is like] the stone [MET] on which people stumble.
Be yaapo, kelima baa den lingi ki baa baa kelima li dandanli yaa po, ama bi den lingi ki bua ki baa li kelima bi tuona po. Lani bi den tuudi li tantuudikaali.
33 This is what [a prophet] predicted when he wrote these words that [God said about the Messiah]: Listen! I am placing in Israel [MTY] [one who is like] a stone [MET] on which people will stumble. What he does will offend people [DOU]. Nevertheless, those who believe in him will not be disappointed.
Nani lan diani maama: Diidi n bili Siyono kani li tantuudikaali, yaa tancianli n ba teni bi niba n baa yeni. Ama yua n dugi o po kuli kan le i fe ŋali abada.
