¹ Kaari birni kurikoyo! Kaŋ go toonante da tangari da toonye kulu, A si fay da komyaŋ mo.

¹Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart.

² Barzu yooje go no, da torko kangey kosongo, Da bariyey kaŋ ga taakama, da torkey kaŋ ga sar!

²The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,

³ Bari-karey go ga zurandi, takuba go ga nyalaw, Yaaji go ga nyalaw ka te sansariyaŋ mo. Borey kaŋ yaŋ i wi, jama bambata no. Buukoy te gusam beeri, I sinda me, kala kwaara borey go ga kati buukoy gaa.

³the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,

⁴ Woodin ga te kaaruwa sogo wo kaaruwatara baayaŋ sabbay se, Nga kaŋ ga ti ziimataray nya, Nga kaŋ ga ndunnya dumey neera nga zina do, Da kundey mo a ziimatara do haray.

⁴because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.

⁵ Guna, ay ga gaaba da nin, Yaadin no Rabbi Kundeykoyo ci. Ay ga ni gunde daabiro feeri mo hala ni moyduma jine. Ay ga ni gaa-koono cabe dumey se, Ni haawi mo, ay g'a bangandi mayrayey se.

⁵“Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.

⁶ Ay ga ziibi kaŋ ga ciya fanta hari gusam ni boŋ, Ay ma ni ciya hari laalo, Ay ma ni sinji mo ka te gomdo hari.

⁶I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.

⁷ Ay ga naŋ mo boro kulu kaŋ na ni guna ma sosoro ka fun ni do, i ma ne: «Ninawiya ciya kurmu! May no ga hẽ a sabbay se? Kuray woofo haray no ay ga kunfakoyaŋ ceeci ni se?»

⁷It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”

⁸ Mate no, ni bisa No-Amon, Nga kaŋ goro Nil harey do haray? Harey go g'a windi, a wongu fu beero ga ti teeko, A birni cinarey mo teeku no.

⁸Are you better than No-Amon, or, Thebes who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?

⁹ Etiyopi da Misira, dumey kaŋ sinda me, Ngey no ga ti a gaabo. Libi nda Lud, ngey mo a gaakoyaŋ no.

⁹Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.

¹⁰ Kulu nda yaadin, i n'a kaa nga laabo ra. A koy ka furo tamtaray ra, I n'a izey kulu soote-soote ganda fondey kulu boŋ. I na kurne catu a jine borey boŋ, I n'a boro beerey kulu haw da sisiriyaŋ.

¹⁰Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

¹¹ Ni mo, ni ga bugu, ni ga goro tugante, Ni ga tuguyaŋ do ceeci mo ibarey sabbay se.

¹¹You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

¹² Ni wongu fuwey kulu ga ciya sanda jeejay* nya nda nga hayyaŋ sintina. D'i n'i kokobe, kala izey ma kaŋ ngey ŋwaakoy me ra.

¹²All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

¹³ Guna, ni borey kaŋ go ni bindo ra ya wayboroyaŋ no. Ni kwaara meyey feeri gumo ni ibarey se, Danji n'i karangaley ŋwa mo.

¹³Behold, your troops in your midst are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.

¹⁴ Ma hari guru jirbey kaŋ wongu ga ni koli ka windi sabbay se. Ma ni wongu fuwey gaabandi. Ma furo laabu diibanta ra, Ma botoga taamu, ma fareeje gombo di.

¹⁴Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.

¹⁵ Noodin no danji ga ni ŋwa ka ban, Takuba ga ni beeri ka zeeri, A ma ni ŋwa mo sanda do. Kala ni ma naŋ ni ma baa sanda maram-fanda cine, Ni ma baa sanda do ciray cine mo.

¹⁵There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.

¹⁶ Ni na ni dillaŋey tonton ka bisa beene handariyayzey baayaŋ cine -- sanda maram-fanda kaŋ ga ŋwa ka ban, A ma deesi ka dira.

¹⁶You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.

¹⁷ Ni batukoy ga hima sanda do cine, Ni wongu jine borey mo ga hima sanda do-ize zugulu, Kaŋ yaŋ ga naagu-naagu windi casey gaa waati kaŋ cine hargu go no. Amma saaya kaŋ wayna fun ka koy beene, I ga tun ka deesi, Boro kulu si bay mo nangu kaŋ i koy.

¹⁷Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

¹⁸ Ya Assiriya koyo, ni hawjiyey goono ga jirbi. Ni boro beerey goono ga kani, Ni jama go say-sayante tondi kuukey boŋ, I sinda marguko mo.

¹⁸Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.

¹⁹ A si du ka te i ma ni dooro safar, Ni marayyaŋo si yay. Boro kulu kaŋ maa ni baaru ga kobi ni sabbay se, Zama may boŋ no ni laalayaŋo mana gana han kulu?

¹⁹There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty?