Jona 1
1 Niheo am’ Ionà ana’ i Amitày ty tsara’ Iehovà, nanao ty hoe:
And there is a word of YHWH to Jonah son of Amittai, saying,
2 Miongaha, akia mb’e Ninevè, rova jabajaba mb’eo, le koiho; amy te mionjoñe añatrefako eo ty halò-tsere’ iareo.
“Rise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim against it that their wickedness has come up before Me.”
3 Fe niavotse t’Ionà nipotatsake mb’e Tarsise añe hienga ty fiatrefañe Iehovà naho nizotso mb’e Iafò mb’eo naharendreke sambo hionjoñe mb’e Tarsise añe; aa le finondro’e ty fañaveloa’e naho nijoñ’ ama’e ao hindreza’e mb’e Tarsise mb’eo hisitake ami’ty fiatrefañe am’ Iehovà.
And Jonah rises to flee to Tarshish from the face of YHWH, and goes down [to] Joppa, and finds a ship going [to] Tarshish, and he gives its fare, and goes down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the face of YHWH.
4 Fe nampivovo tio-bey amy riakey t’Iehovà, le nivalitaboak’ amy zao i riakey, kanao ho niporitsake i samboy.
And YHWH has cast a great wind on the sea, and there is a great storm in the sea, and the ship has reckoned to be broken;
5 Nangebahebak’ amy zao o mpiandriakeo, naho songa nikanjy ty ‘ndrahare’e, vaho nahifi’ iareo an-driak’ ao ty haraotse am-po’ i samboy ao, hañamaivañe aze. Fe nijoñe añ’ate’ i samboy t’Ionà; nandre, niròtse.
and the mariners are afraid, and they each cry to his god, and cast the goods that [are] in the ship into the sea, to make [it] light of them; and Jonah has gone down to the sides of the vessel, and he lies down, and is fast asleep.
6 Aa le niheo ama’e mb’eo ty talen-tsambo nanao ty hoe; Ino ty atao’o ry mpirotseo? Miongaha, kanjio o ‘ndrahare’oo, hera hiferenaiña’e tsy hihomake.
And the chief of the company draws near to him and says to him, “What are you [doing], O sleeper? Rise, call to your God, it may be God considers Himself of us, and we do not perish.”
7 Le nifanao ty hoe ondatio, Antao hanao parè handrendreke te ia ty tali’ o hekoheko zao aman-tika. Aa ie nanao kitsapake, le nitsatok’ am’ Ionà.
And they each say to his neighbor, “Come, and we cast lots, and we know on whose account this evil [is] on us.” And they cast lots, and the lot falls on Jonah.
8 Le hoe ty asa’ iareo ama’e, Ehe, itaroño, Ino ty nifetsaha’ o hankàñe zao amantika; Ino o tolon-draha’oo? Le boak’ aia v’iheo? Aia ty tane’o? naho karaza’ ondaty inoñe?
And they say to him, “Now declare to us, on whose account [is] this evil on us? What [is] your occupation, and where do you come from? What [is] your country, seeing you are not of this people?”
9 Le hoe re am’ iereo, nte-Evrè iraho, mpañeveñe am’ Iehovà, Andrianañaharen-dikerañe, Andrianamboatse i riakey naho i tane maikey.
And he says to them, “I—a Hebrew, and I fear YHWH, God of the heavens, who made the sea and the dry land.”
10 Nirevendreveñe amy zao ondatio, vaho hoe ty asa’ iareo tama’e, Ino o nanoa’o zao? Fa nifohi’ ondatio t’ie nibotriatse amy fiatrefañe Iehovà amy nisaontsia’ey.
And the men fear a great fear, and say to him, “What [is] this you have done!” For the men have known that he is fleeing from the face of YHWH, for he has told them.
11 Aa le hoe iereo tama’e, Hanoe’ay inon-drehe hampipendreñe i riakey? fe mbore nitabohazake ty fivalitaboaha’ i riakey.
And they say to him, “What do we do to you that the sea may cease from us, for the sea is more and more turbulent?”
12 Le hoe re am’ iereo, rambeso iraho, avokovokò an-driak’ ao; izay vaho ho pendreñe tsy ho ama’areo i riakey, fa apotako te izaho ty nahavia’ o tio-beio.
And he says to them, “Lift me up, and cast me into the sea, and the sea ceases from you; for I know that on my account this great storm [is] on you.”
13 Te mone nivèy mafe o lahilahio hihereñe mb’an-tane, fe tsy nimete; nidabadoa avao i riakey, nitròñe am’ iereo.
And the men row to turn back to the dry land, and are not able, for the sea is more and more turbulent against them.
14 Aa le nitoreove’ iereo am’ Iehovà ty hoe: Miambane ama’o zahay ry Iehovà, ehe, ko ampikoromahe’o ty ami’ty fiai’ t’indaty toy, vaho ko apo’o ama’ay ty lio-màliñe, amy te Ihe ry Iehovà ro manao ty satrin-arofo’o.
And they cry to YHWH, and say, “Ah, now, O YHWH, please do not let us perish for this man’s life, and do not lay innocent blood on us! For You, YHWH, as You have pleased, You have done.”
15 Rinambe’ iereo amy zao t’Ionà le nahifike an-driak’ ao; vaho nijihetse amy fitroña’ey i riakey.
And they lift up Jonah, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceases from its raging;
16 Vata’e nañeveñe am’ Iehovà ondatio naho nañenga soroñe am’ Iehovà vaho nifanta.
and the men fear YHWH [with] a great fear, and sacrifice a sacrifice to YHWH, and vow vows.
17 Ie amy zao fa nihentseñe’ Iehovà ty fiañe jabajaba nampigodrañe Ionà. Tam-pò’ i fiañey telo andro naho telo haleñe t’Ionà.
And YHWH appoints a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah is in the bowels of the fish three days and three nights.
