¹And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, [that] Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built turrets against it round about.

¹ I go no, a koytaray jiiri yagganta ra, handu way, hando jirbi wayanta hane, kala Babila bonkoono Nebukadnezzar kaa, nga nda nga wongu jama, zama i ma wongu nda Urusalima. A n'a windi nda wongu. I na fu beeri gaabikooni yaŋ cina mo k'a windi.

²And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

² Hala Bonkoono Zedeciya jiiri way cindi fa i na kwaara windi nda wongu.

³On the ninth of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

³ Handu taaca, jirbi yagganta hane hara kankam kwaara ra hal i jaŋ ŋwaari laabo borey se.

⁴And the city was broken into; and all the men of war [fled] by night, by the way of the gate between the two walls, which [leads] to the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about); and they went the way toward the plain.

⁴ Alwaato din gaa i na fune te kwaara cinaro gaa. Yahuda soojey kulu mo zuru cino ra ka gana fonda kaŋ go meyo kaŋ go garu hinka game ra din gaa ka fatta, meyo kaŋ go bonkoono kalo jarga nooya. (Amma Kaldancey wongu jama goono ga kwaara windi; i goono ga wongu nd'a.) Bonkoono mo gana Gooru Beero fonda gaa haray.

⁵And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

⁵ Amma Kaldancey soojey na bonkoono ce banda gana k'a to Yeriko batama ra. Zedeciya soojey kulu say k'a naŋ.

⁶And they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon unto Riblah; and they pronounced judgment upon him,

⁶ Kal i na bonkoono di ka kond'a Babila bonkoono do Ribla ra, nga mo n'a ciiti.

⁷and slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with chains of brass, and carried him to Babylon.

⁷ I na Zedeciya izey wi a jine ka Zedeciya moy looti. I n'a haw da guuru-say sisiriyaŋ ka kond'a Babila.

⁸And in the fifth month, on the seventh of the month, which was in the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzar-adan, captain of the body-guard, servant of the king of Babylon, came unto Jerusalem;

⁸ Bonkoono Nebukadnezzar mayra jiiri way cindi yagganta, handu guwanta, hando zaari iyyanta hane, kala Nebuzaradan, batukoy jine bora, Babila bonkoono tamo kaa Urusalima.

⁹and he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; and every great [man's] house he burned with fire.

⁹ A na Rabbi windo nda bonkoono windo da Urusalima windey kulu ton. A na danji daŋ windi beerey kulu gaa.

¹⁰And all the army of the Chaldeans that were with the captain of the body-guard broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about.

¹⁰ Kaldancey soojey kulu mo kaŋ go batukoy jine bora banda na Urusalima birni cinarey bagu-bagu nangu kulu.

¹¹And Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard carried away captive the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the deserters that had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

¹¹ Borey mo kaŋ cindi kwaara ra, da ngey kaŋ yaŋ fay ka ye Babila bonkoono banda, da boro buuno cindo kulu, batukoy jine bora Nebuzaradan n'i ku ka kond'ey tamtaray.

¹²But the captain of the body-guard left of the poor of the land for vinedressers and husbandmen.

¹² Amma batukoy jina bora fay da alfukaarey laabo ra, i ma ciya reyzin* nya hansekoyaŋ da farkoyaŋ mo.

¹³And the brazen pillars that were in the house of Jehovah, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of Jehovah, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried the brass thereof to Babylon.

¹³ Kaldancey mo na guuru-say muuley kaŋ go Rabbi windo ra, da ganda jisiyaŋey, da guuru-say bango kaŋ go Rabbi windo ra bagu-bagu. I na guuru sayo sambu ka kond'a Babila.

¹⁴The cauldrons also and the shovels and the knives and the cups, and all the vessels of copper wherewith they ministered, they took away.

¹⁴ Kusey mo, da cambey, da fitilla korfo hanseyaŋ harey, da kawrey, da guuru-say jinay kulu kaŋ i ga goy te d'a, i n'i kulu ku.

¹⁵And the censers and the bowls, that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, the captain of the body-guard took away.

¹⁵ Danji kuyaŋ taasey da wura da nzarfu gaasey mo, batukoy jine bora n'i kulu ku.

¹⁶The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of Jehovah: for the brass of all these vessels there was no weight.

¹⁶ Muulu hinka mo, da hari jisiyaŋ haro, da ganda sinjiyaŋ hayey, kaŋ yaŋ Suleymanu te Rabbi windo se, da guuru-say jinay, woodin yaŋ kulu tiŋay, i baa da neesiyaŋ.

¹⁷The height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the capital upon it was brass, and the height of the capital three cubits; and the network and the pomegranates, upon the capital round about, all of brass: and similarly for the second pillar with the network.

¹⁷ Muulu fo kuuyaŋ kambe kar way cindi ahakku no, guuru-say tuk'ize mo go a boŋ. Tuk'izo kuuyaŋo mo, kambe kar hinza no, da taaru da garenad* tuuri ize himandiyaŋ a boŋ nangu kulu, guuru-say wane no. Muule hinkanta mo, yaadin no a bara, nga nda guuru-say taaru care banda.

¹⁸And the captain of the body-guard took Seraiah the high priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers.

¹⁸ Batukoy jine bora na alfaga beero Seraya sambu, da Alfa Zafaniya kaŋ ga dake a gaa, da me batuko hinza mo.

¹⁹And out of the city he took a chamberlain that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the captain of the host, who enrolled the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land that were found in the city.

¹⁹ Birno ra mo a sambu mantaw fo kaŋ i daŋ soojey boŋ, boro gu kaŋ yaŋ ga ti bonkoono saawarekasiney, wo kaŋ yaŋ i gar kwaara ra, da bora kaŋ ga hantum batukoy jine bora se, da wongu jama arkuso, nga kaŋ ga laabo jama margu, da boro waydu laabo jama ra, kaŋ yaŋ i n'i gar kwaara ra.

²⁰And Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah;

²⁰ Batukoy jine bora Nebuzaradan n'i sambu ka kond'ey Babila bonkoono do Ribla ra.

²¹and the king of Babylon smote them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his land.

²¹ Kala Babila bonkoono n'i kar k'i wi Ribla ra, Hamat laabo ra. Yaadin no a konda Yahuda ka daŋ tamtaray ra d'a k'i fay da ngey laabo.

²²And [as for] the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left behind, over them he appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan.

²² Amma borey kaŋ cindi Yahuda laabo ra sanni, ngey kaŋ yaŋ Babila bonkoono Nebukadnezzar naŋ, i boŋ a na Gedaliya Ahikam izo, Safan ize daŋ a m'i may.

²³And all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah, and they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, namely, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.

²³ I go no, alwaato kaŋ wongu margey jine borey kulu, ngey nda ngey borey maa baaru kaŋ Babila bonkoono na Gedaliya daŋ a ma dabari, kal i kaa Gedaliya do Mizpa ra. Ngey neeya: Isumeyla Netaniya izo, da Yohanan Kareya izo, da Seraya Tamhumet izo, Netofa boro no, da Yaazaniya Maaka boro izo, ngey nda ngey borey.

²⁴And Gedaliah swore unto them and to their men, and said to them, Fear not to be servants of the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.

²⁴ Gedaliya mo ze ngey nda ngey borey se ka ne: «Wa si humburu Kaldancey bannyey. W'araŋ gora te laabo ra, ka Babila bonkoono gana, araŋ ga goro baani mo.»

²⁵And it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal seed, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah.

²⁵ Amma a ciya, handu iyyanta ra, kala Isumeyla Netaniya izo, Elisama ize kaŋ ga ti fuula banda fo kaa, nga nda boro way nga banda. I na Gedaliya kar kal a bu, nga nda Yahudancey da Kaldancey kulu kaŋ yaŋ go a banda Mizpa ra.

²⁶And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces, arose and came to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.

²⁶ Jama kulu mo, za zankey gaa ka koy albeerey gaa, da wongu margey jine borey tun ka koy Misira, zama i ga humburu Kaldancey.

²⁷And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh of the month, [that] Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;

²⁷ I go no, Yahuda bonkoono Yehoyacin tamtara jiiri waranza cindi iyyanta ra, a handu way cindi hinkanta, zaari waranka cindi iyyanta hando ra, kala Babila bonkoono Ebil-Merodak jiiri sintina ra, a na Yahuda bonkoono Yehoyacin kaa kasu fuwo ra k'a beerandi.

²⁸and he spoke kindly to him, and set his seat above the seat of the kings that were with him in Babylon.

²⁸ A na gomni sanni ci a se, a n'a koytaray karga beerandi bonkooney kulu kargey kaŋ go a banda Babila ra boŋ.

²⁹And he changed his prison garments; and he ate bread before him continually all the days of his life;

²⁹ A n'a kasu bankaarayey kaa ka barmay a se afooyaŋ. A ga ŋwa Babila bonkoono jine waati kulu kal a fundo me.

³⁰and his allowance was a continual allowance given him by the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.

³⁰ Haŋ kaŋ a ga laami kulu ga fun bonkoono do, zama bonkoono g'a no nga baa waati kulu, zaari kulu kal a jirbey me.