Baroma 9
1 Ao Iseraele, batho ba me! Ao, bakaulengwe ba me ba Sejuta! Ke eletsa thata jang gore lo tle mo go Keresete. Pelo ya me e tshwenyegile ebile ke hutsahala mo go botlhoko thata bosigo le motshegare ka ntlha ya lona. Keresete o a itse le Mowa O O Boitshepo o itse gore ga ke ake fa ke re ke eletsa go atlholelwa loso lwa bosakhutleng fa e le gore go ka lo boloka.
I speak truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit, that
I have great grief and unceasing anguish in my heart.
For I could wish to be myself accursed and cast out from Christ in behalf of my brethren, my kinsmen as to the flesh;
4 Modimo o lo neetse mo go golo, mme lo santse lo sa o dumele. O lo tsere jaaka batho ba one ba ba itshenketsweng, jalo wa lo etelela pele ka leru le le phatshimang la kgalalelo wa bo wa lo bolelela ka fa o batlang go lo segofatsa ka teng. O lo neetse melao ya one ya botshelo jwa malatsi otlhe gore lo itse se o batlang lo se dira. O lo neile tshwanelo ya go mo obamela, wa ba wa lo naya ditsholofetso tse dikgolo.
who are Israelites; whom God adopted as sons, whose was the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the service of the sanctuary, and the promises;
5 Borraeno e ne e le badiredi ba bagolo ba Modimo, le Keresete e ne e le mongwe wa lona, e le Mojuta ka fa tlholegong ya gagwe, ene yo jaanong a busang dilo tsotlhe. A go bakwe Modimo ka bosakhutleng! (aiōn g165)
whose are the fathers, and from whom, as to the flesh, was the Christ. He who is over all, God, be blessed for ever! Amen. (aiōn g165)
6 Jalo he, a Modimo ga o a kgona go diragatsa ditsholofetso tsa one mo Bajuteng? Nnyaa! (Gonne ditsholofetso tse ke tsa ba e leng Bajuta tota). Mme ga se gore mongwe le mongwe yo o tsaletsweng mo go ba ntlo ya Sejuta ke Mojuta wa boammaaruri!
Not as though the word of God hath failed; for not all they that are of Israel are Israel;
7 Lebaka la gore ba tswa mo go Aberahame ga le ba dire bana ba ga Aberahame tota. Gonne Dikwalo tsa re ditsholofetso tse ke tsa ga morwa Aberahame ebong Isake le losika lwa gagawe, le fa Aberahame a ne a na le bana ba bangwe gape!
nor because they are descendants of Abraham are they all children; but, “Thy offspring shall be reckoned from Isaac.”
8 Mo ga go reye gore bana botlhe ba ga Aberahame ke ba Modimo, fa e se fela ba ba dumelang tsholofetso ya poloko e o e solofeditseng Aberahame.
That is, not the children by natural descent are children of God, but the children to whom the promise is made are accounted as the offspring.
9 Gonne Modimo o ne o solofeditse wa re, “Mo ngwageng e e tlang wena le Sara ke tlaa lo naya ngwana wa mosimane.”
For the word of promise is this: “At this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.”
10 Mme morago ga dingwaga, fa morwawe, Isake, a setse a godile ebile a nyetse, le Rebeka mosadi wa gagwe a tlaa tloga a mo tsholela mawelana, Modimo o ne wa raya Rebeka wa re, Esawe ngwana yo o tlaa tsalwang pele, o tlaa nna motlhanka wa ga Jakoba, lewelana la gagwe.
And not only so, but also when Rebecca had conceived by one man, our father Isaac,
11 Jaaka mafoko a lokwalo a re, “Ke tlhophile go segofatsa Jakoba, mme e seng Esawe.”
before the children were born, or had done any thing good or evil, to the end that God's purpose according to election might stand, not depending on works, but on the will of him that calleth,
12 Mme Modimo o ne wa bua jaana pele ga bana ba tsholwa, pele ga ba dira se se molemo kgotsa se se bosula.
it was said to her, “The elder shall serve the younger:”
13 Se se supa gore Modimo o ne wa dira se o neng o se ikaeletse go tsweng kwa tshimologong; e ne e se ka ntlha ya se bana ba se dirileng mme e ne e le ka ntlha ya se Modimo o se batlileng wa se itlhophela.
as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
14 A Modimo o ne o sa kgetholole? Nnyaa ga go a nna jalo.
What then shall we say? Is there injustice with God? Far be it!
15 Gonne Modimo o ne o reile Moshe wa re, “Fa ke batla go nna pelonomi mo go mongwe, ke tlaa dira jalo. Gape ke tlaa utlwela botlhoko le fa e le mang yo ke batlang go mo utlwela botlhoko.”
For he saith to Moses, “On whom I have mercy, on him will I have mercy; and on whom I have compassion, on him will I have compassion.”
16 Jalo he, masego a Modimo ga a bonwe ka ntlha ya gore motho mongwe o ikaelela go nna nao kgotsa ka ntlha ya gore o dira thata gore a nne nao. A bonwa ke ba Modimo o ba tlhomogelang pelo.
So then it dependeth not on him that willeth, nor on him that runneth, but on God who showeth mercy.
17 Farwe, Kgosi ya Egepeto, e ne e le sekai sa boammaaruri jo. Gonne Modimo o ne wa mmolelela gore o mo neetse bogosi jwa Egepeto ka maikaelelo a go supa nonofo ya one e e boitshegang ka ene: gore lefatshe lotlhe le tle le utlwe kaga leina la Modimo le le galalelang.
For the Scripture saith to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose did I raise thee up, that I might show forth my power in thee, and that my name might be made known in all the earth.”
18 Jalo a lo a lemoga, Modimo o siametse bangwe, fela ka gore o batla go ba siamela, gape o dira gore ba bangwe ba gane go reetsa.
So then he hath mercy on whom he will, and hardeneth whom he will.
19 Jaanong ke eng fa Modimo o ba bona molato wa go tlhoka go reetsa? A ga baa dira se o dirileng gore ba se dire?
Hence thou wilt say to me, Why then doth he still find fault? for who resisteth his will?
20 Nnyaa, se rialo. O mang wena yo o tshwa-yang Modimo diphoso? A selo se se dirilweng se ka raya yo o se dirileng sa re, “Ke eng fa o ntirile jaana?”
Nay but, O man, who art thou that makest answer to God? Shall the thing that is wrought say to the workman, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Fa mmopi wa dinkgwana a bopa nkgwana ka mmopa, a ga a na tshwanelo ya go dirisa lone lekwete leo fela la mmopa go dira nkgwana e nngwe ntle, gore e dirisiwe mo go tlhomeng dithunya, mme e nngwe e dirisiwe go latlhela matlakala mo teng?
Hath not the potter a right out of the same lump of clay to make one vessel for an honorable use, and another for a dishonorable?
22 A Modimo ga o na tshwanelo e e itekane-tseng go supa bogale jwa one le nonofo mo go ba ba tshwanetseng go senngwa, ba o ntseng o le pelotelele mo go bone mo nakong e yotlhe?
What if God endured with much patience vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, purposing to manifest his wrath and to make known his power;
23 Gape o na le tshwanelo ya go tshola bangwe fela jaaka rona, ba re diretsweng go tshola dikhumo tsa one tsa kgalalelo, le fa re ka ne re le Bajuta kgotsa Badichaba, le go re siamela gore mongwe le mongwe a kgone go bona ka fa kgalalelo ya one e leng kgolo thata ka teng.
purposing also to make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory,
whom he also called, even us, not only from among the Jews, but also from among the gentiles?
25 Gakologelwang se seporofeto sa ga Hosea se se buang? Teng mo go Hosea Modimo wa re o tlaa itshenkela bana ba bangwe (ba ba sa tsweng mo lwapeng lwa one lwa Sejuta), o ba rate, le fa ope a ise a ke a ba rate.
as he also saith in Hosea, “I will call that my people, which was not my people; and her beloved, that was not beloved.
26 Mme baheitane, ba ka bone go kileng ga twe, “Ga lo batho ba me, ba tlaa bidiwa bana ba Modimo o o tshelang.”
And it shall be, that 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 Isaia moporofiti o ne a goeletsa kaga Bajuta a re, “Le fa ba ka ne ba le didikadike, ke palonyana fela e e seng kae e e bolokwang.
But Isaiah crieth out concerning Israel, “Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
28 Gonne Morena o tlaa diragatsa katlholo ya gagwe mo lefatsheng, ka bofefo a khutlisa ditiro tsa gagwe, a di khutshwafatsa ka bomolemo.”
For he is accomplishing his word and speedily fulfilling it in righteousness; for a speedily fulfilled word will the Lord execute upon the earth.”
29 Mme ke jaaka Isaia a rile, “Fela fa e ne e se ka kutlwelobotlhoko ya Modimo Bajuta botlhe ba ne ba tlaa nyelela.”
And as Isaiah hath said before, “Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we should have become as Sodom, and been made like Gomorrah.”
30 Jaanong he, re tlaa reng kaga dilo tse? Re tlaa bua jaana re re, “Modimo o neetse Badichaba sebaka sa go gololwa ka tumelo, le fa tota ba ne ba ntse ba sa batle Modimo ka tlhwaafalo.
What then shall we say? That the gentiles, who did not strive after righteousness, obtained righteousness, but a righteousness which is of faith;
31 Mme Bajuta, ba ba neng ba leka ka thata yotlhe go siama mo Modimong ka go tshegetsa melao ya one, ga ba a ka ba bona poloko.
while Israel, which strove after a law of righteousness, did not attain to a law of righteousness.
32 Ke ka ntlha yang? Ke ka ntlha ya gore ba ne ba leka go bolokwa ka go tshegetsa molao le go itshiamisa ka bo bone mo boemong jwa go ikaega mo tumelong. Ba kgopilwe ke lentswe le legolo le le kgopang.
Why? Because they did not strive for it by faith, but as being by works. For they stumbled against the stone of stumbling;
33 Modimo o ba tlhagisitse ka se mo Dikwalong fa o re, ‘Ke beile Lefika mo tseleng ya Bajuta, mme ba le bantsi ba tlaa kgotswa mo go lone, ebong Jesu. Ba ba dumelang mo go ene ga ba kitla ba tlhajwa ke ditlhong.’”
as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence; and he that believeth in him shall not be put to shame.”
