Warumi 11
1 Su nkosiya, hashi, Mlungu kawalema wantu wakuwi? Ndala! Namweni neni Namwisraeli, mwiwuka gwa Aburahamu, yandawa muwukowu wa Benjamini.
I ask, then, “Has God rejected his people?” Heaven forbid! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 Mlungu kawalemiti ndiri wantu wakuwi, yakawasyaguliti kwanjira kwanja. Muvimana Mumalembu Mananagala ntambu galonga Eliya pakamlalamikiyiti Mlungu kuusu Israeli.
God has not rejected his people, whom he chose from the first. Have you forgotten the words of scripture in the story of Elijah – how he appeals to God against Israel?
3 “Mtuwa, womberi wawalaga wambuyi waku na kubomolanga shitalawanda shaku sha kutambikira, neni gweka yangu hera nsigala na womberi wankunsakula kundaga.”
“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have pulled down your altars, and I only am left; and now they are eager to take my life.”
4 Hashi, Mlungu kamwankuliti shishi? Yomberi kawankuliti, “Nulitulira namweni wantu elufu saba hawenimsuntamalira mlungu Baali.”
But what was the divine response? “I have kept for myself seven thousand who have never bowed the knee to Baal.”
5 Ndo ntambu yayiwera shipindi ashi vinu, kwana wantu wavuwa yagasigaliti, Mlungu kawasyaguliti toziya ya manemu gakuwi.
And so in our own time, too, there is to be found a remnant of our nation selected by God in love.
6 Usyagula wakuwi ulawirana na manemu gakuwi, kumbiti matendu gawu ndiri. Handa usyagula wa Mlungu menulitumbiri matendu ga wantu, manemu gakuwi megaweri manemu ndiri.
But if in love, then it is not as a result of obedience. Otherwise love would cease to be love.
7 Hashi vinu? Wantu wa Israeli wapatiti ndiri shilii shashiweriti wankushisakula, kumbiti woseri yawasyagulitwi washipatiti. Myoyu ya wamonga iweriti ikamala.
What follows from this? Why, that Israel as a nation failed to secure what it was seeking, while those whom God selected did secure it.
8 Malembu Mananagala ntambu yagalembwa, “Mlungu kayitenda myoyu yawu kuwera ikamala, Mpaka leru womberi masu gawu gaweza ndiri kuwona na makutu gawu gaweza ndiri kupikinira.”
The rest grew callous; as scripture says – “God has given them a deadness of mind – eyes that are not to see and ears that are not to hear – and it is so to this very day.”
9 Na Dawudi katakuliti, “Misambu yawu ziweri vyambiru vya kuwagomiziya, waguwi na womberi watozwi!
David, too, says – “May their feasts prove a snare and a trap to them – a hindrance and a retribution;
10 Masu gawu gaweri na luwindu, hapeni wawezi kuwona, na migongu yawu imindiki kwa kutabika mashaka goseri!”
may their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; and do you always make their backs to bend.”
11 Su nkosiya, hashi, Wayawudi walikwala mpaka wagamira nakamu? Ndala! Kulawirana na likosa lyawu, ulopoziya uwawizira wantu yawawera Wayawudi ndiri, kuwatenda Wayawudi wawawoneri weya womberi.
I ask then – “Was their stumbling to result in their fall?” Heaven forbid! On the contrary, through their falling away salvation has reached the Gentiles, to stir the rivalry of Israel.
12 Vidoda vya Wayawudi vitenda matekeleru gavuwa pasipanu na uhushu wa shirohu kwawu ujega matekeleru gavuwa kwa wantu yawawera Wayawudi ndiri. Shakapanu ukamilika wa Wayawudi haujegi matekeleru gavuwa nentu.
And, if their falling away has enriched the world, and their failure has enriched the Gentiles, how much more will result from their full restoration!
13 Su vinu nankutakula kwa mwenga wantu yawawera ndiri Wayawudi. Shipindi shoseri neni wera ntumintumi kwa wantu yawawera ndiri Wayawudi, nulitumbira lihengu lyaneni,
But I am speaking to you who were Gentiles.
14 mpati kuwatenda wanalushi wayagu wawawoneri weya na mpati kuwalopoziya wamu wawu.
Being myself an apostle to the Gentiles, I exalt my office, in the hope that I may stir my countrymen to rivalry, and so save some of them.
15 Womberi pawamlemiti Mlungu, wantu woseri wamonga yawaweriti wangondu wa Mlungu, womberi waweriti waganja wakuwi. Hashi, hayiweri ntambu hashi shipindi womberi pawajimilwa? Su wantu yawahowiti hawazyuki!
For, if their being cast aside has meant the reconciliation of the world, what will their reception mean, but life from the dead?
16 Handa shipandi sha kwanja sha libumunda shatumpananiti Mlungu, shakapanu libumunda lyoseri liwera lya Mlungu. Handa mishigira ya mtera payiwera miherepa, mitambi yakuwi iwera miherepa viraa.
If the first handful of dough is holy, so is the whole mass, and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 Mitambi yamu ya mizeyituni mushiwunga idumulitwi, lutambi lwa mizeyituni lya kuntundu liyalitwi pahala pawaliwusiyiti lutambi. Mwenga wantu yawawera ndiri wayawudi mulifana na lutambi lwa mizeyituni lya kuntundu na vinu mtenda pamuhera mumakaliru gagangamala ga shirohu ga Wayawudi.
Some, however, of the branches were broken off, and you, who were only a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and came to share with them the root which is the source of the richness of the cultivated olive.
18 Su namuwazarawu walii yawadumulitwi gambira mitambi. Hashi, gwenga guweri na mtiti? Gwenga gwa lutambi, guitanga ndiri mishigira, kumbiti mishigira ikutanga gwenga.
Yet do not exult over the other branches. But, if you do exult over them, remember that you do not support the root, but that the root supports you.
19 Kumbiti hagutakuli, “Yina, kumbiti mitambi idumulwa kuusu neni kutenderwa shumbakati.”
But branches, you will say, were broken off, so that I might be grafted in.
20 Ndo nakaka. Womberi wadumulitwi toziya wajimiriti ndiri, shipindi pagusigara pahala palii toziya gwenga gujimiri. Naguwera mtiti, kumbiti gumtili Mlungu.
True, it was because of their want of faith that they were broken off, and it is because of your faith that you are standing. Do not think too highly of yourself, but beware.
21 Payiwera Mlungu kawonera ndiri lusungu Wayawudi weni ndo gambira ntambi zya kwanjira, hashi gulihola hakakwoneri lusungu gwenga?
For, if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
22 Guliholi, su Mlungu ntambu yakawera muheri na mkalipa, yomberi kakalipa kwa walii yawaguwiti na muheri kwa gwenga payiwera pagwendereya mumuheri yakuwi. Handa pagwendereya ndiri, viraa gwenga hagudumulwi.
See, then, both the goodness and the severity of God – his severity towards those who fell, and his goodness towards you, provided that you continue to confide in that goodness; otherwise you, also, will be cut off.
23 Na wayawudi ntambu iraayi, pawaleka ukondola wawu wa moyu, hawayoshikerwi kayi, toziya Mlungu kana uwezu wa kuwayoshikera kayi.
And they, too, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in; for God has it in his power to graft them in again.
24 Mwenga wantu yamuwera Wayawudi ndiri, mulifana gambira lutambi lwa mizeyituni ntundu lyalidumulitwi, kumbiti myoshikerwi mumizyeyituni mushiwunga, pahala peni ndo paasili penu ndiri. Wayawudi kwa ntambu ndo gambira mizeyituni ya shiwunga, hashiweri shitwatira laisi nentu kwawu, Mlungu kuwayoshikera kayi mumtera gwawu.
If you were cut off from your natural stock – a wild olive – and were grafted, contrary to the course of nature, on a good olive, much more will they – the natural branches – be grafted back into their parent tree.
25 Waganja wangu, nfira muvimani unakaka yawulififiti namwiza kuliwona muwera na mahala nentu. Umsindu wa Wayawudi uweriti wa katepu hera, mpaka wantu wa Isi zimonga pawafira kuwera wamwizira Mlungu.
My friends, so that you don’t think too highly of yourselves, I want you to recognise the truth, hitherto hidden, that the callousness which has come over Israel is only partial, and will continue only until the whole Gentile world has been gathered in.
26 Na hangu ndo ntambu Israeli hayilopoziwi. Ntambu Malembu Mananagala galembwa, Mlopoziya hakizi kulawa Sayuni na hakauwusiyi ukondola wa shiyiwuku sha Yakobu.
And then all Israel will be saved. As scripture says – “From Zion will come the Deliverer; he will banish ungodliness from Jacob.
27 Hantendi lipatanu lyaneni na womberi panuviwusiya vidoda vyawu.
And they will see the fulfilment of my covenant, when I have taken away their sins.”
28 Toziya washilema Shisoweru Shiwagira, Wayawudi wawera wangondu wa mwenga wantu yamuwera Wayawudi ndiri. Toziya ya usyagula wa Mlungu, womberi ndo waganja wakuwi toziya ya wambuyi wawu.
From the standpoint of the good news, the Jews are God’s enemies for your sake; but from the standpoint of God’s selection, they are dear to him for the sake of the patriarchs.
29 Mlungu kagalambula ndiri maholu gakuwi kwa walii yawasyagulitwi na kutekelerwa.
For God never regrets his gifts or his call.
30 Pamakashu mwenga mumlemiti Mlungu, kumbiti vinu muwanka lusungu lya Mlungu, toziya Wayawudi walemiti kumjimira Mlungu.
Just as you at one time were disobedient to him, but have now found mercy in the day of their disobedience;
31 Ntambu iraa ayi kulawirana na lusungu lwampatiti mwenga, Wayawudi vinu wamlema Mlungu, su womberi viraa wawanki lusungu lwa Mlungu.
so, too, they have now become disobedient in your day of mercy, in order that they also in their turn may now find mercy.
32 Mlungu kawatatira wantu woseri muukondora wawu su kapati kuwawonera lusungu wantu woseri. (eleēsē g1653)
For God has given all alike over to disobedience, that to all alike he may show mercy. (eleēsē g1653)
33 Ulunda na luhala na mahala ga Mlungu ndo makulu nentu! Hashi, gaa yakaweza kugatakulira matakulika gakuwi? Hashi, gaa yakaweza kuyimana njira yakuwi?
Oh! The unfathomable wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments, how untraceable his ways! Yes –
34 Malembu Mananagala ntambu galembwa, “Hashi, gaa yakagamana maholu ga Mtuwa? Hashi, gaa yakaweza kuwera mshauli gwakuwi?
ho has ever comprehended the mind of the Lord? Who has ever become his counsellor?
35 Hashi, gaa yakamupananiti Mlungu shintu shoseri, su kamlipi kayi shintu ashi?”
Or who has first given to him, so that he may claim a reward?
