Romans 9
1 I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit
Taani Kiristtoosan tuma odays, worddotikke. Geeshsha Ayyaanay kaalethiya ta kahay taani worddotonnayssa taw markkattees.
2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
Ta wozanan Isra7eeletas daro qadhettaysinne qamma gallas qoppays.
3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh
Taani, ta ishata gisho, Kiristtoosappe shaakettada Xoossaa qanggethafe garssan de7idaakko dosaysishin.
4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
Entti Isra7eeleta, Xoossay entta ba nayta oothis, ba bonchchuwa enttaw qonccisis. Enttara caaqqis; higgiya enttaw immis. Entti Xoossaa goynnana tuma ogiya bessis; Xoossay ufayssa qaala enttaw immis.
5 of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen. (aiōn g165)
Entti yeletethan mayzata zare; qassi Kiristtoosi ashon entta zare gididi yis. Ubbaafe bolla gidida Xoossay merinaw galatetto. Amin7i! (aiōn g165)
6 But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.
Gidoshin, Xoossay gelida qaalay polettonna attis guussu gidenna. Isra7eele asa ubbay Xoossaa asi gidokkona.
7 Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”
Qassi Abrahaame zare ubbay Abrahaame nayta gidokkona. Xoossay Abrahames, “Ne zerethay Yisaaqa baggara xeegettana” yaagis.
8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.
Hessa guussay ashon yelettida nayti ubbay Xoossaa nayta gidokkona. Shin tuma Isra7eele nayti Xoossay Abrahames gelida qaalada yelettida nayta.
9 For this is a word of promise: “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”
Xoossay immana gidi gelida qaalay, “Taani wontto laythi hannoode yaana; Saarakka adde na7a yelana” yaageyssa.
10 Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.
Hessa xalaala gidonnashin, Irbbiqinne Yisaaqi yelida mentte adde naytabaa akeekite.
11 For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,
Entti yelettanaappe woykko iita woykko lo77o oothanaappe sinthe Xoossaa dooroy ooson gidonnashin xeessan gideyssa qonccisanaw,
12 it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”
“Bayray kaaluwas kiitettana” yaagidi Goday Irbbiqas odis.
13 Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
Hessika Geeshsha Maxaafan, “Yayqooba dosas, Eesawe ixxas” geetettidi xaafettis.
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!
Yaatin, nuuni woyganee? Xoossay ase asappe shaakkiyye? Gidenna.
15 For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
Goday Musekko, “Ta maaranaw koyidayssata maarana; ta qadhettanaw koyidayssatas qadhettana” yaagis.
16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
Hiza, Xoossaa dooroy asa shenen woykko ooson gidonnashin iya maarotethaana.
17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
Geeshsha Maxaafan, Gibxe kawuwakko, “Taani, ta wolqqaa nenan bessanawunne ta sunthay alame ubban erettana mela hessas nena kawothas” geetettidi xaafettis.
18 So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
Hiza, Xoossay maaranaw koyeyssa maarees; wozanaa muumisanaw koyeyssa wozanaa muumisees.
19 You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”
Hinttefe issoy, “Yaatin, Xoossay ase iita ooso gisho ays borii? Xoossaa sheniya ixxas gaanay oonee?” yaagidi oychchanaw dandda7ees.
20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
Shin ta ishaw, Xoossaara palamanaw neeni oonee? Urqqafe Medhettida miishey bana medhdhidayssa, “Tana hayssada oothada ays medhdhadi?” gidi oychchanaw dandda7ii?
21 Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?
Woykko urqqa medhdheyssi issi urqqafe issuwa bonchcho miishe, hankkuwa qassi tooshe miishe oothidi medhdhanaw maati baawe?
22 What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
Xoossay ba hanquwa bessanawunne ba wolqqaa erisanaw koyidi, pirddas giigida hanqo nayta daro genccan dandda7idaakko ne ay eray?
23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory—
Hessa I oothiday koyrottidi bonchchoos giigisida, ba doorida naytas ba bonchchuwa qonccisanassa.
24 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
Ayhude gidin, woykko Ayhude gidonna asa ubbay Xoossan doorettida.
25 As he says also in Hosea, “I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.”
Nabiya Hose7e maxaafan, “Ta ase gidonnayssata, ‘Ta ase’ gada xeegana. Ta siiqaboonna deriya, ‘Siiqetidayssata’ gada xeegana.
26 “It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”
Entti, ‘Ta ase gidekketa’ geetetti xeegettida bessan, ‘De7o Xoossaa nayta’ geetettidi xeegettana” yaagees.
27 Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;
Nabiya Isayaasi Isra7eele asaabaa, “Isra7eele asay abbaa gaxan de7iya shafiyada darikkoka, enttafe guutha asa xalaali attana.
28 for he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.”
Goday alamiya ubbaa bolla ellesidi polo pirddaa pirddana.”
29 As Isaiah has said before, “Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.”
Qassika Isayaasi, “Ubbaafe Wolqqaama Goday nuus guutha zerethi ashshonnabaa gidiyakko, nuuni Soodomenne Gamoora katamaada dhayanashin” yaagidi koyrottidi odis.
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
Yaatin, nu woyganee? Xillotethaa koyiboonna Ayhude gidonna asay ammanon xillotethi demmidosona.
31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
Shin xillotethako gathiya higgey de7iya Isra7eele asay xillotethi demmibookkona.
32 Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
Ays demmibookkonaa? Entti xillotethaa ammanon gidonnashin, ooson ekkanaw koyida gishossa. Yaaniya gisho, entti, “Dhubbiya shuchchan” dhubettidosona.
33 even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”
Geeshsha Maxaafan, “Taani Xiyoonen dhubbi kunddisiya shuchchaa wothana. Iyan ammaniyaa oonikka yeellatenna” geetettidi xaafettis.
