Maika 3

1 Hanki nagra ama nanekema huana, Israeli nagatema ugotama hu'naza kva vahe'mota antahiho, e'i zana fatgo zanki havi zanki huta ko keta antahita hu'naze.

Then I said, “You Israeli [MTY] leaders, listen [to what I say]! You should certainly [RHQ] know what things are right [to do] [and what things are wrong],

2 Hianagi tamagra knare avu'ava zankura tamavesra nehuta, kefo avu'ava zama hu'zankuke tamave'nesie. Nagri vahe'mo'za ofri kasefa mani'nazageta zamavufaga eri tragatragu nehuta, zaferina zamiretira ame'a zamia eri hazori netraze.

but you hate what is good and you love what is evil. [You act like butchers]: [it is as though] you strip the skin off my people and [tear] the flesh from their bones.

3 Tamagra Nagri veamokizmi zamufga neneta, maka zamavufaga hakaneta eri vaga neraze. Ana nehuta zaferina zamia rufu netagita, afu me'ama osi kavofine ran kavofinema krenaku'ma tagahu osi'osi'ma hazaza nehaze.

[It is as though] you chop them into pieces like [SIM] meat [to be cooked] in a pot.

4 Ana nehuta kna zamo'ma tamagrite'ma ne-egeta Ra Anumzamo'ma tamaza hanigura zavi krafa nehazanagi, Ra Anumzamo'a eme tamaza osugahie. Na'ankure tamagra rama'a havi avu'avaza hu'nazankino avugosa, rukarahe nehuno ontamagegahie.

Then, [when you have troubles], you plead to Yahweh [to help you], but he will not answer you. At that time, he will turn away from you because of the evil things that you have done.”

5 Ra Anumzamo'a amanage huno nehie. Tamagra havige kasnampa kema nehaza vahe'mota, Nagri vahera zamavareta havi kante nevaze. Ana nehutma ne'zama tamamiza vahera fruge hunezmantaze. Hianagi ne'zama ontamamiza vahera, agafa hutma koro kea ha' vahe'mo'za tamazeri haviza hugahaze huta hunezmantaze.

This is what Yahweh says about your [false] prophets who are deceiving the people: “If someone gives them food, those prophets say that things will go well for him. But they declare war against anyone who does not give them food.

6 E'ina hu'negu tamagritera hanizamo eme refitesigeta hanimpi mani'neta mago'enena ava'nagna zana onketfa hugahaze. Ana hanigetma henkama fore'ma hania zankura mago'enena huamara osugahaze. Ana kasnampa kema nehaza vahe'mota masare manigahazanagi hanimpima maniaza huta manigahaze.

So [now it is as though] [MET] night will descend on you prophets; you will not receive any [more] visions. [It is as though] [MET] the sun will set for you; the time [when you are greatly honored] will end.

7 Ana'ma hanigetma henkama fore'ma hania zanku'ma havige kasnampa kema nehaza vahe'mota tusi tamagazegu nehuta kepri hugahaze. Na'ankure Anumzamo'a naneke tamirera kenona huoramigahie.

[Then] you (seers/people who predict what will happen in the future) [DOU] will be disgraced; you will cover your faces [because you will be ashamed], because when you ask me [what will happen], there will be no answer from me.”

8 Hianagi Ra Anumzamofo Avamumo'a nagripi emani viteno hankavea nenamie. Ana nehuno fatgo avu'ava zane fatgoma huno refkoma hu avu'avazanena naza hige'na kena antahina nehue. Ana nehuno nazeri hankanavetige'na Israeli vahe'motama keontahi avu'ava zama nehaza zanku'ene kumi tamigura, korora osu'na huama nehue.

But as for me, I am full of [God’s] power, [power] from the Spirit of Yahweh. I am courageous and strong to declare to the Israeli people [MTY, DOU] that they have sinned and rebelled [against Yahweh].

9 Israeli vahe'mokizmi kva vahe'mota tamagesa ante'neta ama nanekea antahiho. Fatgoma huno refko'ma hu avu'ava zankura tamavesra nehutma, fatgo avu'ava zana netretma akrahe karahe avu'avaza nehaza vahe mani'naze.

You leaders of the people [MTY] of Israel, listen to this! You hate [it when people do] what is just; and [when people say] what is true, you distort it, [saying it is false].

10 Hagi Jerusalemi kuma'ma eri agafama huta kinte'nazana, vahe'ma ahe fri avu'ava zamo'ene havi avu'ava zamo avite'nea agofetu kinte'naze.

[It is as though] you are building [houses in] Jerusalem on foundations that consist of murdering people and doing what is corrupt.

11 Tamagra kva vahe'mota keagama refko'ma hazana, masavema hu'za ramiza zago e'nerita, keaga refkoa nehaze. Tamagra pristi vahe'motane kasnampa vahe'motanena zagoma eritetage kasnampa nanekea nehuta vahera rempia hunezmize. Ana nehutma makamota huta Ra Anumzamo'a tagrane magoka mani'neankino hazenke zamo'a tagritera omegahie huta nehaze.

Your leaders make [favorable] decisions [only if they receive] bribes. Your priests teach people only if [those people] pay them [well]. Your [false] prophets require people to pay them to tell people what will happen [to them] in the future. Those prophets say, “Yahweh is telling us [what we should say], and [we say that] we will not experience any disasters.”

12 E'ina hu'negu kva vahe'motane, pristi vahe'motane kasnampa vahe'motanema hu'naza avu'ava zamofo hazenkea Ra Anumzamo'a Jerusalemi kumamofo agofetu anteno kumara eri haviza hanigeno, fragu vaziramino kugusopamo'ma hiaza huno hihi huno marerigahie. Ana hanigeno Saioni agonafima menima Anumzamofo mono noma me'nea agonafina, zafa tanopamo hageno refitegahie.

Because of what you [leaders do], Zion [Hill] will be plowed like a field; it will become a heap of ruins/rubble; the top of the hill, where the temple is [now], will be covered with bushes.