Roome 9
1 Taani Kiristtoosan tuma odays, worddotikke. Geeshsha Ayyaanay kaalethiya ta kahay taani worddotonnayssa taw markkattees.
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
2 Ta wozanan Isra7eeletas daro qadhettaysinne qamma gallas qoppays.
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
3 Taani, ta ishata gisho, Kiristtoosappe shaakettada Xoossaa qanggethafe garssan de7idaakko dosaysishin.
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
4 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.
Who are Israelites; to whom pertains the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
5 Entti yeletethan mayzata zare; qassi Kiristtoosi ashon entta zare gididi yis. Ubbaafe bolla gidida Xoossay merinaw galatetto. Amin7i! (aiōn g165)
Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. (aiōn g165)
6 Gidoshin, Xoossay gelida qaalay polettonna attis guussu gidenna. Isra7eele asa ubbay Xoossaa asi gidokkona.
Not as though the word of God has taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
7 Qassi Abrahaame zare ubbay Abrahaame nayta gidokkona. Xoossay Abrahames, “Ne zerethay Yisaaqa baggara xeegettana” yaagis.
Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall your seed be called.
8 Hessa guussay ashon yelettida nayti ubbay Xoossaa nayta gidokkona. Shin tuma Isra7eele nayti Xoossay Abrahames gelida qaalada yelettida nayta.
That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
9 Xoossay immana gidi gelida qaalay, “Taani wontto laythi hannoode yaana; Saarakka adde na7a yelana” yaageyssa.
For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
10 Hessa xalaala gidonnashin, Irbbiqinne Yisaaqi yelida mentte adde naytabaa akeekite.
And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
11 Entti yelettanaappe woykko iita woykko lo77o oothanaappe sinthe Xoossaa dooroy ooson gidonnashin xeessan gideyssa qonccisanaw,
(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calls; )
12 “Bayray kaaluwas kiitettana” yaagidi Goday Irbbiqas odis.
It was said to her, The elder shall serve the younger.
13 Hessika Geeshsha Maxaafan, “Yayqooba dosas, Eesawe ixxas” geetettidi xaafettis.
As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14 Yaatin, nuuni woyganee? Xoossay ase asappe shaakkiyye? Gidenna.
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
15 Goday Musekko, “Ta maaranaw koyidayssata maarana; ta qadhettanaw koyidayssatas qadhettana” yaagis.
For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 Hiza, Xoossaa dooroy asa shenen woykko ooson gidonnashin iya maarotethaana.
So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy.
17 Geeshsha Maxaafan, Gibxe kawuwakko, “Taani, ta wolqqaa nenan bessanawunne ta sunthay alame ubban erettana mela hessas nena kawothas” geetettidi xaafettis.
For the scripture says to Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
18 Hiza, Xoossay maaranaw koyeyssa maarees; wozanaa muumisanaw koyeyssa wozanaa muumisees.
Therefore has he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardens.
19 Hinttefe issoy, “Yaatin, Xoossay ase iita ooso gisho ays borii? Xoossaa sheniya ixxas gaanay oonee?” yaagidi oychchanaw dandda7ees.
You will say then to me, Why does he yet find fault? For who has resisted his will?
20 Shin ta ishaw, Xoossaara palamanaw neeni oonee? Urqqafe Medhettida miishey bana medhdhidayssa, “Tana hayssada oothada ays medhdhadi?” gidi oychchanaw dandda7ii?
No but, O man, who are you that reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus?
21 Woykko urqqa medhdheyssi issi urqqafe issuwa bonchcho miishe, hankkuwa qassi tooshe miishe oothidi medhdhanaw maati baawe?
Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel to honor, and another to dishonor?
22 Xoossay ba hanquwa bessanawunne ba wolqqaa erisanaw koyidi, pirddas giigida hanqo nayta daro genccan dandda7idaakko ne ay eray?
What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 Hessa I oothiday koyrottidi bonchchoos giigisida, ba doorida naytas ba bonchchuwa qonccisanassa.
And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared to glory,
24 Ayhude gidin, woykko Ayhude gidonna asa ubbay Xoossan doorettida.
Even us, whom he has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25 Nabiya Hose7e maxaafan, “Ta ase gidonnayssata, ‘Ta ase’ gada xeegana. Ta siiqaboonna deriya, ‘Siiqetidayssata’ gada xeegana.
As he says also in Hosea, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
26 Entti, ‘Ta ase gidekketa’ geetetti xeegettida bessan, ‘De7o Xoossaa nayta’ geetettidi xeegettana” yaagees.
And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
27 Nabiya Isayaasi Isra7eele asaabaa, “Isra7eele asay abbaa gaxan de7iya shafiyada darikkoka, enttafe guutha asa xalaali attana.
Isaiah also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
28 Goday alamiya ubbaa bolla ellesidi polo pirddaa pirddana.”
For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make on the earth.
29 Qassika Isayaasi, “Ubbaafe Wolqqaama Goday nuus guutha zerethi ashshonnabaa gidiyakko, nuuni Soodomenne Gamoora katamaada dhayanashin” yaagidi koyrottidi odis.
And as Isaiah said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like to Gomorrha.
30 Yaatin, nu woyganee? Xillotethaa koyiboonna Ayhude gidonna asay ammanon xillotethi demmidosona.
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
31 Shin xillotethako gathiya higgey de7iya Isra7eele asay xillotethi demmibookkona.
But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.
32 Ays demmibookkonaa? Entti xillotethaa ammanon gidonnashin, ooson ekkanaw koyida gishossa. Yaaniya gisho, entti, “Dhubbiya shuchchan” dhubettidosona.
Why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone;
33 Geeshsha Maxaafan, “Taani Xiyoonen dhubbi kunddisiya shuchchaa wothana. Iyan ammaniyaa oonikka yeellatenna” geetettidi xaafettis.
As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling stone and rock of offense: and whoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.
