Rome 9
1 Nga kaskas pwayena. Nga ma lun Christ, ac nga tia kikiap. Nunak lun insiuk, su kolyuk sin Ngun Mutal, akpwayeye nu sik lah nga tia kikiap
I say [the] truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in [the] Holy Spirit,
2 ke nga fahk lah nga arulana asor yohk, ac keok lun insiuk tia ku in wanginla
that I have great grief and uninterrupted pain in my heart,
3 ke sripen mwet srahk sifacna, mwet Jew! Ke sripalos nga kena tuh ngan sifacna eisyuyang nu ye selnga lun God ac sriyukla liki Christ, fin ac tuh ku in kasrelos.
for I have wished, I myself, to be a curse from the Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to flesh;
4 Elos mwet sulosolla lun God; El oru tuh elos in ma natul ac sang wolana lal nu selos; El oakiya wulela saok lal yorolos ac sang nu selos Ma Sap; alu pwaye oasr selos; elos eis wuleang puspis sin God;
who are Israelites; whose [is] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the service, and the promises;
5 elos tuku ke fwilin tulik nutin papa matu pwengpeng lun mwet Israel; ac Christ, ke el moul in luman mwet, el ma pac wialos. Lela God, su Leum fin ma nukewa, in kaksakinyuk nwe tok! Amen. (aiōn g165)
whose [are] the fathers; and of whom, as according to flesh, [is] the Christ, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. (aiōn g165)
6 Nga tia fahk mu wuleang lun God tia akpwayeyuk; mweyen tia mwet Israel nukewa elos mwet sulosolla lun God.
Not however as though the word of God had failed; for not all [are] Israel which [are] of Israel;
7 Tia pac fwilin tulik nukewa natul Abraham pa tulik nutin God. Tuh God El fahk nu sel Abraham, “Isaac pa ac sot fwilin tulik nutum ma nga wuleot nu sum.”
nor because they are seed of Abraham [are] all children: but, In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee.
8 Kalmen ma se inge pa tulik ma isus ke ouiya lun mwet, elos tia pangpang tulik nutin God; a tulik ma isusla ke sripen wuleang lun God, elos inge pa fwilin tulik na pwaye natul.
That is, [they that are] the children of the flesh, these [are] not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed.
9 Mweyen wuleang lun God tuh orekla ke kas inge: “Ke pacl fal nga fah foloko, ac Sarah el fah oswela sie wen.”
For this word [is] of promise, According to this time I will come, and there shall be a son to Sarah.
10 Ac tia ma inge mukena. Tuh wen luo natul Rebecca eltal papa sefanna, su Isaac, papa matu tumasr.
And not only [that], but Rebecca having conceived by one, Isaac our father,
11 Meet liki eltal isusla ku oru kutena ma wo ku koluk, God El oru sulela lal sifacna ac akkalemye lah siena sin tulik luo ah pa ac akfalye sripa lal.
[the children] indeed being not yet born, or having done anything good or worthless (that the purpose of God according to election might abide, not of works, but of him that calls),
12 Ouinge El fahk nu sel Rebecca mu, “El su matu fah kulansupu el su fusr.” Na pa kalem lah sulela se inge orekla fal nu ke pang lun God, ac tia ke sripen kutena ma eltal oru.
it was said to her, The greater shall serve the less:
13 Oana Ma Simusla uh fahk, “Nga tuh lungse Jacob, a nga tia lungse Esau.”
according as it is written, I have loved Jacob, and I have hated Esau.
14 Na mea, kut ac fahk mu God El sesuwos? Mo, tiana ku.
What shall we say then? [Is there] unrighteousness with God? Far be the thought.
15 Tuh El fahk nu sel Moses, “Nga fah kulang nu sin kutena su nga lungse kulang nu se; nga fah pakoten nu sin kutena su nga lungse pakomuta.”
For he says to Moses, I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy, and I will feel compassion for whom I will feel compassion.
16 Ke ma inge, ma nukewa orek fal nu ke kulang lun God, ac tia ke lungse ac orekma lun mwet.
So then [it is] not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shews mercy.
17 Tuh Ma Simusla fahk nu sin tokosra lun acn Egypt, “Nga orekom in tokosra tuh nga fah orekmakin kom in akkalemye ku luk, ac tuh pweng keik fah sulkakinyukelik fin faclu nufon.”
For the scripture says to Pharaoh, For this very thing I have raised thee up from amongst [men], that I might thus shew in thee my power, and so that my name should be declared in all the earth.
18 Ouinge, God El fin lungse kulang nu sin sie mwet, na El oru oana lungse lal, ac El fin lungse akupaye insien sie mwet, na El oru oapana.
So then, to whom he will he shews mercy, and whom he will he hardens.
19 Sahp sie suwos ac siyuk sik, “Fin ouinge, na efu ku God Elan nununku mwet uh ke ma koluk lalos? Mea, oasr mwet ku in lain lungse lun God?”
Thou wilt say to me then, Why does he yet find fault? for who resists his purpose?
20 Na su kom an, mwet kawuk luk, tuh kom in kaskas lain God? Sie ahlu orekla ke fohk kle tia ku in kusen siyuk nu sin mwet se ma oralla, “Efu ku kom oreyula in lumah se inge?”
Aye, but thou, O man, who art thou that answerest again to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that has formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Tuh mwet se ma orala ahlu sac, oasr suwohs lal in orekmakin kle sac oana lemlem lal, ac in oru ahlu luo ke srukwal in kle sefanna — sie ma nu ke len lulap mukena, ac sie ma in orekmakinyuk len nukewa.
Or has not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make one vessel to honour, and another to dishonour?
22 In ouiya se pacna inge, God El tuh lungse akkalemye mulat lal, ac oru tuh ku lal in eteyuk. Tusruktu El arulana mongfisrasr in mutangalos su sripauk kasrkusrak lal, su El akola in kunauselosla.
And if God, minded to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction;
23 Ac El oayapa lungse akkalemye kasrpen wolana lal, su El ase nu sesr su El pakomuta. Aok, El nuna akola meet tuh kut in eis wolana lal.
and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory,
24 Na kut pa mwet su El pangon uh, tia inmasrlon mwet Jew mukena a oayapa inmasrlon mwet sayen mwet Jew.
us, whom he has also called, not only from amongst [the] Jews, but also from amongst [the] nations?
25 Pa inge ma El fahk in book lal Hosea: “Mwet su tia ma luk meet, Nga fah pangon ‘Mwet Luk.’ Mutanfahl ma nga tia lungse meet, Nga fah pangon ‘Mwet Kulo Luk.’
As he says also in Hosea, I will call not-my-people My people; and the-not-beloved Beloved.
26 Ac in acn se na ma fwackyang nu selos, ‘Kowos tia mwet luk,’ Elos ac fah pangpang wen nutin God moul.”
And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, Ye [are] not my people, there shall they be called Sons of [the] living God.
27 Ac Isaiah el fahkak ke mwet Israel mu: “Pisen mwet Israel finne arulana pukanten oana puk weacn uh, tusruktu mwet pu na selos ac fah moulla;
But Esaias cries concerning Israel, Should the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved:
28 tuh Leum El fah sa in wotela nununku lal ke faclu nufon.”
for [he] is bringing the matter to an end, and [cutting [it] short in righteousness; because] a cutting short of the matter will [the] Lord accomplish upon the earth.
29 Ac oana ke Isaiah el tuh fahk meet, “Leum God Kulana El funu tia filiya kutu sin mwet ke fwilin tulik natusr in moul na, kut lukun kunausyukla oana acn Sodom, ku oana acn Gomorrah.”
And according as Esaias said before, Unless [the] Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and made like even as Gomorrha.
30 Na mea kut fah fahk? Mwet sayen mwet Jew, su tia srike elos in suwohs yurin God, aksuwosyeyuk elos ke sripen lulalfongi lalos;
What then shall we say? That [they of the] nations, who did not follow after righteousness, have attained righteousness, but [the] righteousness that is on the principle of faith.
31 a mwet sulosolla lun God, su tuh suk sie ma sap in aksuwosyalos yurin God, elos tiana konauk.
But Israel, pursuing after a law of righteousness, has not attained to [that] law.
32 Ac efu ku ouinge? Mweyen elos nunku mu elos ac moulla ke sripen orekma lalos, ac tia ke sripen lulalfongi. Ke ma inge elos ikori fin “eot in tukulkul”
Wherefore? Because [it was] not on the principle of faith, but as of works. They have stumbled at the stumblingstone,
33 su Ma Simusla kaskaskin: “Liye, Nga likiya in Zion sie eot Su fah oru mwet in tukulkul, Sie eot su fah oru elos ikori. Tusruktu elos su lulalfongi in el fah tiana toasrla.”
according as it is written, Behold, I place in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence: and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed.
