Keessa Deebii 28
1 Yoo ati guutumaan guutuutti Waaqayyo Waaqa keetiif ajajamtee ajajawwan isaa kanneen ani harʼa siif kennu of eeggannaadhaan duukaa buute, Waaqayyo Waaqni kee saboota lafa irra jiraatan hundaa olitti ol si qaba.
“If you do what Yahweh our God tells you to do and faithfully obey everything that I am today commanding you to do, he will cause you to become greater than any other nation on the earth.
2 Yoo ati Waaqayyo Waaqa keetiif ajajamte eebbi kun hundi siif taʼa; si faana deemas:
If you obey Yahweh, this is what he will do to bless you:
3 Ati magaalaatti ni eebbifamta; baadiyyaattis ni eebbifamta.
He will bless everything that you do when you are in the cities and he will bless everything that you do when you are [working] in the fields.
4 Iji gadameessa keetii, iji lafa keetii, iji horii keetii, jabbiin loon keetiitii fi korbeeyyiin bushaayee keetii ni eebbifamu.
He will bless you by giving you many children [IDM] and by giving you abundant crops, and plenty of cattle and sheep.
5 Guuboon keetii fi miʼi bukoo keetii ni eebbifamu.
He will bless you by causing you to have good harvests with plenty of grain [MTY] to make bread.
6 Ati yommuu galtu ni eebbifamta; yommuu baatus ni eebbifamta.
He will bless you [everywhere]—when you go out [of your houses] and when you come into [your houses].
7 Waaqayyo akka diinonni kee kanneen sitti kaʼan fuula kee duratti moʼataman ni godha. Isaan karaa tokkoon sitti dhufu, garuu karaa torbaan si baqatu.
Yahweh will enable you to defeat [the armies of] your enemies; they will attack you from one direction, but they will run away from you in seven/many directions.
8 Waaqayyo gombisaa keetii fi waan harki kee qabate hundatti eebba isaa ni erga. Waaqayyo Waaqni kee biyya siif kennu keessatti si eebbisa.
Yahweh will bless you [by filling] your barns [with grain], and he will bless all the work that you do; he will bless you in the land that he is giving to you.
9 Yoo ati ajaja Waaqayyo Waaqa keetii eegdee karaa isaa irra deddeebite, Waaqayyo akkuma kakuudhaan si abdachiisetti saba isaa qulqulluu godhee si dhaaba.
“If you obey all the commandments that Yahweh our God [has given to you] and if you conduct your lives as he wants you to do, you will continue to be his people, which is what he promised.
10 Ergasii saboonni lafa irra jiraatan hundi akka ati maqaa Waaqayyootiin waamamtu arganii si sodaatu.
“When all the people-groups on the earth will realize that you belong to [MTY] Yahweh, and they will be afraid of you.
11 Waaqayyo biyya siif kennuuf abbootii keetiif kakate keessatti ijoolleedhaan, jabbootaa fi midhaan lafaatiin sooruma irra dhangalaʼaa siif kenna.
“And Yahweh will cause you to prosper very much. He will give you many children [IDM], many cattle, and abundant crops in the land that he vowed to our ancestors that he would give to you.
12 Waaqayyo yeroodhaan lafa keetti bokkaa ergee hojii harka keetii hunda eebbisuuf gombisaa badhaadhummaa isaa jechuunis samiiwwan ni bana. Ati saboota hedduudhaaf ni liqeessita malee tokkoo isaanii irraa iyyuu hin liqeeffattu.
“When rain is needed, Yahweh will send it from where he stores it in the sky, and he will bless all your work, with the result that you [will be able to] lend money to many other nations, but you will not need to borrow [money from them].
13 Waaqayyo mataa si godha malee eegee si hin godhu. Ati yoo ajajawwan Waaqayyo Waaqa keetii kanneen ani harʼa siif kennu of eeggannaadhaan eegdee duukaa buute, yeroo hunda irra aanta malee jala hin aantu.
If you faithfully obey all of the commands of Yahweh our God that I am giving you today, Yahweh will cause your nation to be a leader among the nations, not inferior to them; you will always be prosperous and never be needy/poor [IDM].
14 Ati waaqota biraa duukaa buʼuu fi tajaajiluudhaan ajajawwan ani harʼa siif kennu kanneen irraa mirgattis bitaattis hin gorin.
[Yahweh will do all these things for you] if you do not turn away from [obeying] what I am commanding you today, and if you never worship or serve other gods.
15 Garuu yoo ati Waaqayyo Waaqa keetiif ajajamuu baattee ajajawwan isaatii fi qajeelchawwan isaa kanneen ani harʼa siif kennu hunda of eeggannaadhaan eeguu didde, abaarsawwan kunneen hundi si qaqqabu; si liqimsus:
But if you do not do what Yahweh our God is telling you to do, and if you do not faithfully obey all his rules and regulations that I am giving to you today, this is what he will do to curse you:
16 Ati magaalaatti ni abaaramta; baadiyyaattis ni abaaramta.
He will curse you when you are in the cities and he will curse you when you are [working] in the fields.
17 Guuboon kee ni abaarama; miʼi bukoo keetiis ni abaarama.
He will curse you by not allowing you to have good harvests with plenty of grain [MTY] to make bread.
18 Iji gadameessa keetii, iji lafa keetii, jabbiin loon keetiitii fi korbeeyyiin bushaayee keetii ni abaaramu.
He will curse you by giving you only a few children [IDM], by causing you to have poor crops, and by not enabling you to have many cattle and sheep.
19 Ati yommuu galtu ni abaaramta; yommuu baatu illee ni abaaramta.
He will curse you [everywhere]—when you go out [of your houses] and when you come into [your houses].
20 Ati sababii isa dhiiftee waan hamaa hojjetteef Waaqayyo hamma ati barbadooftee daftees lafa irraa dhabamtutti waan harki kee hojjetu hundaan abaarsa, joonjaʼuu fi dheekkamsa sitti erga.
If you do evil things and reject Yahweh, he will curse you by causing you to (be confused/not know what to do), and to be frustrated in everything that you do, until [your enemies] quickly and completely destroy you {you will be quickly and completely destroyed}.
21 Waaqayyo hamma biyya ati dhaaluuf itti galtu irraa si balleessutti dhukkubaan si dhaʼa.
Yahweh will cause you to experience terrible diseases, until not one of you remains alive in the land that you are about to enter and occupy.
22 Waaqayyo hamma ati lafa irraa dhabamtutti, dhukkuba nama huqqisuun, dhagna gubaa fi dhullaadhaan, hoʼa aduutii fi bona hamaadhaan, coollaguu fi waagiidhaan si dhaʼa.
Yahweh will strike/afflict you with diseases that shrivel your bodies, with fever, with inflammation/swelling. It will be extremely hot, and it will not rain. There will be scorching winds, and [Yahweh will cause] your crops to rot. All these things will strike you until you die.
23 Samiin mataa keetii olii naasii, lafti miilla kee jalaa sibiila taʼa.
There will be no rain [MET], [with the result that] the ground will be [as hard as] iron [MET].
24 Waaqayyo bokkaa lafa keetii awwaaraa fi daaraatti geeddara; kunis hamma ati baddutti samiidhaa sitti gad harcaʼa.
Instead of sending rain, Yahweh will send strong winds to blow sand and dust over your land, until your land is ruined.
25 Waaqayyo akka ati diina kee duratti moʼatamtu godha. Ati karaa tokkoon isaanitti dhufta; garuu karaa torbaan isaan duraa baqatta; mootummoota lafa irra jiran hundaaf waan kolfaa taata.
Yahweh will enable your enemies to defeat you; your soldiers will attack your enemies from one direction, but they will run away from your enemies in seven/many directions, and when the people of other nations see what is happening to you, they will say that it is horrible.
26 Reeffi kee simbirroota samii hundaa fi bineensota lafaatiif nyaata taʼa; namni sodaachisee isaan ariʼus hin jiraatu.
[You will die], and birds and wild animals will come and eat your corpses, and there will not be anyone to scare/shoo them away.
27 Waaqayyos dhukkuba ati hin fayyine jechuunis dhullaa biyya Gibxiitiin, iitaan, madaa malaʼuu fi cittoodhaan si dhiphisa.
Yahweh will cause you to have boils on your skin, like he caused the people of Egypt to have [many years ago]. He will cause you to have tumors, open sores, and your skin will itch, and there will be nothing that will cure those diseases.
28 Waaqayyo maraatummaadhaan, jaamummaa fi burjaajaʼuu sammuutiin si dhiphisa.
Yahweh will cause [some of] you to become insane; he will cause some of you to become blind, and he will cause [some of] your minds to become confused.
29 Ati guyyaa saafaa akka jaamaa dukkana keessa waa qaqqabatuutti deemta; wanni ati hojjettu hundinuu siif hin milkaaʼu; guyyuma guyyaan cunqurfamtee saamamta; kan si oolchus hin jiru.
[Because you will not be able to see where you are going], at midday you will (grope/feel your way) around with your hands, like people do in the darkness. You will continually be oppressed and robbed, and no one will help you.
30 Ati niitii kaadhimatta; garuu nama biraatu ishee wajjin ciisa. Mana ijaarratta; garuu keessa hin jiraattu. Wayinii dhaabbatta, garuu ija isaa hin nyaattu.
Some of you men will be engaged/promised to marry a young woman, but someone else will rape her. You will build houses, but you will never live in them. You will plant grapevines, but you will not eat the grapes; [someone else will eat them].
31 Sangaan kee fuula kee duratti qalama; garuu ati foon isaa irraa homaa hin nyaattu. Harreen kee humnaan sirraa fudhatama; siif hin deebifamus. Hoolonni kee diinota keetiif kennamu; namni isaan harkaa buusus hin jiru.
Your enemies will butcher your cattle while you watch them, and you will not get any of the meat to eat. They will drag away your donkeys while you watch them do it, and they will not give them back to you. They will take away your sheep; and no one will help you [rescue them].
32 Ilmaanii fi intallan kee namoota ormaatiif kennamu; iji kees guyyuma guyyaan isaan eeguudhaan fajaja; ati harka ol fudhachuuf humna hin qabaattu.
While you watch, your sons and daughters will be given to foreigners to become their slaves. Every day you will very sadly watch for your children to return, but (you will watch in vain/they will never return).
33 Oomisha lafa keetiitii fi humna keetii hunda namoonni ati hin beekne ni nyaatu; ati bara jireenya keetii guutuu cunqurfamtee jiraachuu malee homaa hin qabaattu.
People from a foreign nation will take all the crops that you worked hard to produce, and they will constantly treat you harshly and cruelly [DOU].
34 Wanni ati argitu hundi si maraacha.
The result will be that all these terrible things that you see/experience will cause you to become insane.
35 Waaqayyo faana miilla keetiitii jalqabee hamma gubbaa mataa keetii gaʼutti madaa hin fayyine kan nama dhiphisuun jilbaa fi miilla kee ni dhaʼa.
Yahweh will cause your legs [to be covered with] painful boils that cannot be healed, and you will have boils from the bottoms of your feet to the tops of your heads.
36 Waaqayyo siʼii fi mootii ati of irratti moosifte saboota ati yookaan abbootiin kee hin beekinitti ni kenna. Atis achitti waaqota biraa, waaqota mukaatii fi kan dhagaa ni waaqeffatta.
Yahweh will cause your king and the rest of you to be taken to another country, to a place in which you and your ancestors have never lived before, and there you will worship and serve gods that are made of wood or stone.
37 Saboota Waaqayyo itti si geessu hunda keessatti waan qaanii, kan kolfaatii fi kan quba itti qaban ni taata.
When the people-groups in nearby countries see what has happened to you, they will be shocked/horrified; they will make fun [DOU] of you.
38 Lafa qotiisaa kee keessa sanyii baayʼee facaafatta; garuu sababii hawwaannisni nyaatee fixuuf xinnoo walitti qabatta.
You will plant plenty of seeds in your fields, but you will reap only a small harvest, because locusts will eat the crops.
39 Atis wayinii dhaabdee kunuunsita; garuu waan raammoon nyaatuuf daadhii isaa hin dhugdu yookaan ija isaa hin cirattu.
You will plant grapevines and take care of them, but you will not pick any grapes to make wine, because worms will eat the vines.
40 Biyya kee guutuu keessaa muka ejersaa qabaatta; garuu waan iji isaa lafatti harcaʼuuf ati zayitii isaatti hin fayyadamtu.
Olive trees will grow everywhere in your land, but you will not get any olive oil to rub on your skin because the olives will drop [on the ground before they are ripe].
41 Ati ilmaanii fi intallan qabaatta; garuu isaan waan boojiʼamaniif kan kee hin taʼan.
You will have sons and daughters, but they will not stay with you, because they will be captured and taken away.
42 Mukaa fi oomisha lafa qotiisaa keetii hunda tuuta hawwaannisaatu fixa.
Swarms of locusts/insects will eat your crops and [the leaves of] all your trees.
43 Alagaan gidduu kee jiraatu si caalaa guddata; ati garuu gad deemta.
Foreigners who live in your land will become more and more [powerful], and you will become less and less [powerful].
44 Isatu siif liqeessa malee ati isaaf hin liqeessitu. Inni mataa taʼa; ati garuu eegee taata.
They will [have money to] lend to you, but you will not [have any money to] lend to them. They will be superior [IDM] to you, and you will be inferior to them [IDM].
45 Abaarsi kun hundinuu si qaqqaba. Ati waan Waaqayyo Waaqa keetiif hin ajajamnee fi waan ajajawwanii fi qajeelchawwan inni siif kenne hin eeginiif hamma ati baddutti abaarsi kun si biraa hin hafu; si fudhatas.
“You will experience all these disasters, and you will continue to experience them you until you are destroyed, if you do not do what Yahweh your God told you to do, and do not obey all the rules and regulations that he gave to you.
46 Isaan bara baraan siʼii fi sanyii keetti mallattoo fi dinqii taʼu.
“These disasters will warn [DOU] you and your descendants forever [about what happens to groups who disobey Yahweh].
47 Ati waan yeroo sooromaatti galataa fi gammachuudhaan Waaqayyo Waaqa kee hin tajaajiliniif,
“Because Yahweh blessed you abundantly in many ways, you should have served him very joyfully [DOU], but you did not do that.
48 beelaa fi dheebuudhaan, daaraa fi hiyyummaa hamaadhaan diinota Waaqayyo sitti kaasu ni tajaajilta. Inni hamma si balleessutti waanjoo sibiilaa morma keetti kaaʼa.
“Therefore, you will work for the enemies whom Yahweh will send to attack you. You will be hungry and thirsty; you will not have clothes to wear; and you will lack everything else that you need. And Yahweh will cause you to become slaves [MET] and work hard until he gets rid of you.
49 Waaqayyo biyya akka malee fagoo irraa, daarii lafaatiis saba akka risaa dafee gad buʼu kan ati afaan isaa hin beekne sitti kaasa;
“Yahweh will cause an army from very far away [HYP] to attack you, whose soldiers speak a language that you do not know/understand. They will swoop down on you [quickly] like an eagle [SIM] attacks its prey.
50 innis saba jaarsaaf ulfina hin kennine, kan daaʼimmaniif garaa hin laafnee fi kan akka malee sodaachisuu dha.
They will be fierce looking. They will not act mercifully toward anyone, not even young children and old people.
51 Isaanis hamma ati baddutti ija loon keetiitii fi ija lafa keetii ni nyaatu. Hamma ati barbadooftutti midhaan tokko iyyuu, daadhii wayinii haaraa yookaan zayitii, jabboota loon keetiitii fi korbeeyyii bushaayee keetii tokko illee siif hin dhiisan.
They will [kill and] eat your livestock, and they will eat your crops, and you will (starve/die because you do not have anything to eat). They will not leave for you any grain or wine or [olive] oil or cattle or sheep; and you will all die [from hunger].
52 Isaan magaalaa biyya keetii hunda hamma dallaawwan ittisaa kanneen ati amanattu jijjiganitti ni marsu; magaalaa biyya Waaqayyo Waaqni kee siif kennu keessa jiran hunda iyyuu ni marsu.
Your enemies will surround your towns throughout the land that Yahweh your God is about to give to you, and they will break down the high and strong walls [around your towns], walls which you trusted/thought would protect you.
53 Ati sababii dhiphina diinonni kee yeroo si marsanitti sitti fidaniitiif ija gudeeda keetii, foon ilmaanii fi intallan keetii kanneen Waaqayyo Waaqni kee siif kennee ni nyaatta.
“When your enemies are surrounding [your towns], you will be extremely hungry, with the result that you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters that Yahweh your God has given to you.
54 Namni gidduu keetii akka malee gara laafessaa fi garraamii taʼe iyyuu obboleessa isaatiif yookaan niitii isaa kan jaallatuuf yookaan ijoollee isaa warra hafaniif garaa hin laafu;
When your enemies have surrounded your towns, even the most gentle and sensitive men among you will want food very desperately, with the result that they will [kill their own children and] eat their flesh, because they will not have anything else to eat. They will not even share any of it with their brothers or wives whom they love very much or with any of their children who are still alive.
55 inni foon ijoollee isaa kan nyaachaa jiru irraa xinnoo ishee illee tokkoo isaaniitiif iyyuu hin kennu. Sababii dhiphina diinonni kee yeroo magaalaawwan kee hunda marsanitti sirraan gaʼaniitiif wanni isaaf hafe kanuma qofaatii.
56 Niitiin arjaa fi boontuun gidduu kee jiraattu kan sababii akka malee arjaa fi boontuu taateef miilla isheetiin lafa hin tuqne iyyuu dhirsa ishee kan jaallattutti, ilma isheetii fi intala isheetti illee ni hammaatti;
Even the most gentle and sensitive/kind women among you, who are very refined/rich with the result that they have never had to walk anywhere [HYP], will do the same thing. When your enemies have surrounded your towns, those women will be extremely hungry, with the result that after they give birth to a baby, they will secretly [kill it and] eat its flesh and also eat its afterbirth. And they will not share any of it with their husbands whom they love very much or with any of their other children.
57 isheen hobbaatii garaa isheetii baʼuu fi ijoollee deessu illee ni jibbiti. Sababiin isheen waan kana gootuufis yeroo marfamaa fi rakkinaatti, yommuu diinonni kee magaalaa kee keessatti si dhiphisanitti dhoksitee nyaachuuf jettee ti.
58 Yoo ati of eeggannaadhaan dubbiiwwan seera kanaa kanneen kitaaba kana keessatti barreeffaman hunda duukaa buʼuu dhiiftee maqaa Waaqayyo Waaqa keetii kabajamaa fi sodaachisaa sana sodaachuu baatte,
“If you do not faithfully obey all of the laws that I am writing, and if you do not revere Yahweh our glorious God [MTY],
59 Waaqayyo siʼii fi sanyii keetti dhaʼicha sodaachisaa, balaa dhiphisaa fi kan yeroo dheeraa turu, dhukkuba akka malee hamaa fi dafee hin fayyine ni erga.
he will [punish you by] causing you and your descendants to experience great afflictions and plagues which will last for many years.
60 Dhukkuboota Gibxi kanneen ati sodaattus sitti fida; isaanis ciniinanii sitti qabatu.
He will cause you to experience the plagues that he sent on the people of Egypt, and you will never be healed.
61 Akkasumas hamma ati dhabamtutti Waaqayyo dhukkubootaa fi rakkinnoota biraa kanneen Kitaaba Seeraa kana keessatti hin barreeffamin sitti fida.
He will also cause you to experience many other sicknesses and diseases that I have not talked about in these laws, until you all will die.
62 Isin sababii Waaqayyo Waaqa keessaniif ajajamuu diddaniif isin warra akka urjiiwwan samii baayʼattanii turtan keessaa xinnootu hafa.
You became as numerous as the stars in the sky, but only a few of you will remain alive, if you do not obey Yahweh your God.
63 Akkuma isin sooromsuu fi isin baayʼisuun Waaqayyo gammachiisu sana isin balleessuu fi isin barbadeessuunis isa gammachiisa. Isin biyya dhaaluuf itti galtan keessaa ni buqqaatu.
Yahweh was very happy to do good things for you and to cause you to become very numerous, but now he will be happy to ruin you and get rid of you. [Those of] you [who do not die from these plagues] will be snatched away from the land that you will soon be entering to possess.
64 Ergasiis Waaqayyo daarii lafaa tokko irraa hamma daarii lafaa kaaniitti saboota hunda gidduutti si bittinneessa. Ati achitti waaqota biraa, waaqota mukaatii fi kan dhagaa kanneen atii fi abbootiin kee hin beekin ni waaqeffatta.
“Yahweh will scatter you among many people-groups, all over the earth, and in those areas/places you will serve other gods that are made of wood or stone, gods which you and your ancestors have never known/worshiped.
65 Ati saboota sana gidduutti boqonnaa hin argattu; lafa kophee miilla keetii irra keeyyattu illee hin argattu. Achittis Waaqayyo sammuu dhiphatu, ija hawwiidhaan fajajuu fi garaa abdii kutatu siif kenna.
In those places you will be restless. Yahweh will cause you to be constantly worried/anxious, feel hopeless, and discouraged.
66 Ati halkanii guyyaa sodaadhaan qabamtee utuu lubbuun kee wabii hin argatin, yeroo hunda yaaddoodhaan jiraatta.
You will always be afraid that your enemies will kill you. You will be very fearful, all day and all night.
67 Sababii sodaa garaa kee guutuu sanaatii fi waan ija keetiin argitu sanaatiif ganama, “Utuu bariʼuu baatee!” galgala immoo, “Utuu dhiʼuu baatee!” jetta.
Because you will be very fearful/afraid because of the [terrible] things that you see, each morning you will say ‘I wish it were evening already!’ and each evening you will say ‘I wish it were morning already!’
68 Karaa ani ati lammata as hin deebitu siin jedheenis Waaqayyo dooniidhaan Gibxitti si deebisa. Achittis akka garboota dhiiraa dubartiitti diinota keessanitti gurguramuuf of dhiʼeessitu; garuu namni tokko iyyuu isin hin bitatu.
Yahweh will send [some of] you back to Egypt in ships, even though he promised that you would never [be forced to] go there again. There in Egypt you will try to sell yourselves to become slaves of your enemies [in order to have food to eat], but no one will buy you. [All those things will happen to you if you do not obey the laws that Yahweh is giving to you].”
