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 SPEAK the truth in Christ, I lie not, (my conscience also bearing witness to me in the Holy Ghost, )
2 ke nga fahk lah nga arulana asor yohk, ac keok lun insiuk tia ku in wanginla
that great is my sorrow and unceasing the anguish 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 could I myself wish that an anathema should be from Christ upon my brethren, my kinsmen according to the 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 gift of the law, and the sacred 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)
of whom are the fathers, and from whom as respecting the flesh Christ sprung, who is over all, the blessed God for evermore. Amen. (aiōn g165)
6 Nga tia fahk mu wuleang lun God tia akpwayeyuk; mweyen tia mwet Israel nukewa elos mwet sulosolla lun God.
Now it is not supposable that the word of God hath failed. For these are not all Israel, who 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 the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
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, not the children of the flesh, these are the children of God: but the children of the promise are accounted for the 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 the word of promise is this, At that time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
10 Ac tia ma inge mukena. Tuh wen luo natul Rebecca eltal papa sefanna, su Isaac, papa matu tumasr.
And not only so; but when Rebecca also had conception by one, even 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.
(though the children were not yet born, nor had done any thing good or evil, that according to the election of God the purpose might abide, not from works, but from him who called; )
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 unto her, “That the elder shall be servant to the younger.”
13 Oana Ma Simusla uh fahk, “Nga tuh lungse Jacob, a nga tia lungse Esau.”
As it is written, “Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.”
14 Na mea, kut ac fahk mu God El sesuwos? Mo, tiana ku.
What shall we say therefore? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
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 saith to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.”
16 Ke ma inge, ma nukewa orek fal nu ke kulang lun God, ac tia ke lungse ac orekma lun mwet.
Well then, it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God who sheweth 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 saith to Pharaoh, “That for this very end have I raised thee up, that I might display in thee my power, and that my name may be proclaimed 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.
Well then, he hath mercy on whom he will, but whom he will he hardeneth.
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?”
Wilt thou then say to me, Why yet doth he blame us? Who hath resisted his will?
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?”
Nay but, O man, who art thou that disputest against God? Shall the thing fashioned say to him that fashioned 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.
Hath not the potter power over the clay, from the same mass to make one vessel for an honourable use, and another for a dishonourable?
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.
But what if God, willing to display his wrath, and to make known what is possible with him, hath borne with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted for perdition:
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 the 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.
even us, whom he hath called, not only out of the Jews, but out of the Gentiles?
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 also he saith in Hosea, “I will call her which was not my people, my people; and her which was 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 unto them, ye are not my people; there shall they be called the 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 Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, “Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
28 tuh Leum El fah sa in wotela nununku lal ke faclu nufon.”
for he will finish the account, and cut it short in righteousness: because a concise account will the Lord make on 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.”
Even as Isaiah had said before, “Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left unto us a seed, we should have become as Sodom, and been made like unto 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 the Gentiles, who pursued not after righteousness, have attained unto righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith.
31 a mwet sulosolla lun God, su tuh suk sie ma sap in aksuwosyalos yurin God, elos tiana konauk.
But Israel, pursuing after the law of righteousness, hath not come up to the law of righteousness.
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”
And why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as by the works of the law. For they stumbled against that stone of stumbling;
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.”
as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence: and every one that believeth in him shall not be confounded.”
