Waamuzi 7
1 Ndipo Yerubaali (yaani Gideoni) akainuka mapema, na watu wote waliokuwa pamoja naye, wakaweka kambi kando ya chemchemi ya Harodi. Kambi ya Midiani ilikuwa kaskazini mwao katika bonde karibu na kilima cha More.
Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. Midian’s camp was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
2 Bwana akamwambia Gideoni, Kuna askari wengi sana kwa mimi kukupa ushindi juu ya Wamidiani, ili Waisraeli wasijisifu juu yangu, wakisema, 'Nguvu zetu zimetuokoa'.
The LORD said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel brag against me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
3 Basi, tangaza masikioni mwa watu, ukisema, Yeyote anayeogopa, anayetetemeka, arudi na atoke katika mlima Gileadi. 'Basi, watu elfu ishirini na mbili wakaondoka, na elfu kumi wakabaki.
Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.
4 Bwana akamwambia Gideoni, 'Watu bado ni wengi sana. Wapeleke chini kwenye maji, na nitafanya idadi yao iwe ndogo kwa ajili yako. Kama nikisema, 'Huyu atakwenda pamoja nawe,' atakwenda pamoja nawe; lakini kama nikisema, 'Huyu hawezi kwenda pamoja nawe,' hatakwenda. '
The LORD said to Gideon, “There are still too many people. Bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. It shall be, that those whom I tell you, ‘This shall go with you,’ shall go with you; and whoever I tell you, ‘This shall not go with you,’ shall not go.”
5 Gideoni akawapeleka watu kwenye maji; Bwana akamwambia, “Ondoa kila mtu atakayelamba maji, kama mbwa alambavyo, kutoka kwa wale wanaopiga magoti na kunywa.”
So he brought down the people to the water; and the LORD said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.”
6 Wanaume mia tatu walilamba. Wengine wote walipiga magoti kunywa maji.
The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water.
7 Bwana akamwambia Gideoni, “Kwa watu hawa mia tatu waliokwisha kulamba maji, nitakuokoa na kukupa ushindi juu ya Wamidiani. Acha kila mtu arudi mahali pake.”
The LORD said to Gideon, “I will save you by the three hundred men who lapped, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, each to his own place.”
8 Kwa hiyo wale waliochaguliwa walichukua vifaa vyao na tarumbeta zao. Gideoni akawarudisha watu wote wa Israeli, kila mtu kwenda kwenye hema yake, lakini akawaweka watu mia tatu. Basi kambi ya Midiani ilikuwa chini yake katika bonde.
So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the rest of the men of Israel to their own tents, but retained the three hundred men; and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
9 Usiku huo huo Bwana akamwambia, “Simama! Kavamie kambi, kwa maana nitakupa ushindi juu yake.
That same night, the LORD said to him, “Arise, go down into the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand.
10 Lakini ikiwa unaogopa kushuka, shka kwenye kambi pamoja na Purh mtumishi wako,
But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp.
11 na usikilize kile wanachosema, na ujasiri wako utaimarishwa kushambulia kambi.” Basi Gidioni akaenda pamoja na Pura mtumishi wake, mpaka chini kwa walinzi wa kambi.
You will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened to go down into the camp.” Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp.
12 Wamidiani, Waamaleki, na watu wote wa mashariki walikaa karibu na bonde, wengi kama wingu la nzige. Ngamia zao walikuwa zaidi ya mawingu; walikuwa zaidi kuliko idadi ya mchanga katika bahari.
The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.
13 Gideoni alipofika huko, mtu alikuwa akimwambia mwenzake ndoto. Mtu huyo akasema, “Angalia! Niliota ndoto, na nikaona mkate wa shayiri umeanguka ndani ya kambi ya Midiani. Ukaja hemani, na kuipiga kwa nguvu sana hata ikaanguka chini ikapinduka na kulala chini. '
When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow. He said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”
14 Mtu mwingine akasema, 'Hii si kitu kingine isipokuwa upanga wa Gideoni (mwana wa Yoashi), Mwisraeli. Mungu amempa ushindi juu ya Midiani na jeshi lake lote. '
His fellow answered, “This is nothing other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered Midian into his hand, with all the army.”
15 Gideoni aliposikia habari ya ile ndoto na tafsiri yake, akainama chini na kuabudu. Alirudi kwenye kambi ya Israeli na kusema, “Simameni! Bwana ametupa ushindi juu ya jeshi la Midiani.”
It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, that he worshiped. Then he returned into the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for the LORD has delivered the army of Midian into your hand!”
16 Akawagawa watu mia tatu katika makundi matatu, na akawapa tarumbeta zote na mitungi tupu, na taa ndani ya kila mtungi.
He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
17 Akawaambia, 'Niangalieni mimi na kufanya yale ninayoyafanya. Tazama! Ninapofika kwenye mwisho wa kambi, ni lazima mfanye kile ninachofanya.
He said to them, “Watch me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you shall do.
18 Nitakapopiga tarumbeta, mimi na wote Mlio pamoja nami, basi mtapiga tarumbeta zenu katika kila upande wa kambi nzima na kupiga kelele, “Kwa Bwana na Gideoni!”
When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, ‘For the LORD and for Gideon!’”
19 Basi Gideoni na watu mia moja waliokuwa pamoja naye walifika mwisho wa kambi, hapo mwanzoni mwa saa ya kati. Wakati Wamidiani walikuwa wakibadilisha walinzi, walipiga tarumbeta na kuvunja mitungi iliyokuwa mikononi mwao.
So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch. Then they blew the trumpets and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
20 Vikosi vitatu vilipiga tarumbeta na kuvunja mitungi. Walikuwa na taa katika mikono yao ya kushoto na tarumbeta katika mikono yao ya kulia ili kuwapiga. Walipiga kelele, “Upanga wa Bwana na wa Gideoni.”
The three companies blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, “The sword of the LORD and of Gideon!”
21 Kila mtu alisimama mahali pake kando ya kambi na jeshi la Midiani likakimbia. Walipiga kelele na kukimbia
They each stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight.
22 Walipopiga tarumbeta mia tatu, Bwana akaweka upanga wa kila mtu wa Midiani dhidi ya wenzake na dhidi ya jeshi lake lote. Jeshi likimbia mpaka Bethshita kuelekea Serera, mpaka mpaka wa Abel Mehola, karibu na Tabathi.
They blew the three hundred trumpets, and the LORD set every man’s sword against his fellow and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
23 Watu wa Israeli kutoka Naftali, Asheri, na Manase wote waliitwa nje, nao wakawafuata Midiani.
The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued Midian.
24 Gideoni akatuma wajumbe katika nchi zote za mlima wa Efraimu, akisema, “Nenda chini dhidi ya Midiani na umiliki Mto Yordani mpaka Bethbara, ukawazuie.” Basi wanaume wote wa Efraimu walikusanyika pamoja na kuimiliki maji, mpaka Bethbara na Mto Yordani.
Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against Midian and take the waters before them as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan!” So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together and took the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan.
25 Wakawatwaa wakuu wawili wa Midiani, Orebu na Zeebu. Wakamwua Orebu kwenye mwamba wa Orebu, nao wakamwua Zeebu katika shinikizo la divai la Zeebu. Wakawafuata Wamidiani, wakamletea Gideoni vichwa vya Orebu na Zeebu, ng'ambo ya pili ya Yordani.
They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at Oreb’s rock, and Zeeb they killed at Zeeb’s wine press, as they pursued Midian. Then they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.
