¹I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

¹ Ay ga kay ay batuyaŋ nango do, Ay ma kay cinari kuuko boŋ, Ay ma guna ka di haŋ kaŋ no a ga ci ay se, Da haŋ kaŋ ay ga tu d'a a se ay ŋwaara boŋ.»

²Yahweh answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.

² Rabbi tu ay se ka ne: «Ma bangando hantum a ma fatta taray walhẽy gaa, Zama cawkwa ma du k'a caw ka zuru _ka konda baaro|_.

³For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

³ Zama bangando gonda alwaati jisante. A goono ga cahã mo k'a toonandi, A si tangari mo. Baa a gay kayna, hangan a se, Zama daahir a ga kaa, a si gay.

⁴Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

⁴ Guna a gonda boŋbeeray, Manti haŋ kaŋ ga saba no ka bare a bina ra. Amma boro kaŋ ciya adilante* _Irikoy jine|_, Nga cimbeero ra no a ga funa.

⁵Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. , and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

⁵ Oho, duvan* wo ga boŋbeeraykoy daŋ kambe hal a si goro nangu fo. A na nga laakal-zaara tafandi sanda buuyaŋ cine, A ga hima Alaahara mo, kaŋ si kungu. A ga dumey kulu margu nga bumbo do, A ma borey kundey dumi kulu gusam-gusam nga boŋ se.

⁶Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’

⁶ Woodin yaŋ kulu, i si misa fo te a boŋ, i si donda-caray yaasay te a boŋ, wala? I ma ne: ‹Kaari bora din kaŋ ga haŋ kaŋ manti a wane margu-margu! A ga nga boŋ arzakandi da tolmeyaŋ! Waati fo no a ga ban?›

⁷Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

⁷ Borey kaŋ yaŋ ga ni gana garaw, Manti i ga tun fap folloŋ? Borey kaŋ yaŋ ga ni ŋwa mo, Manti i ga tun jirbi, Ni ma ciya mo i se wongu arzaka fo?

⁸Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.

⁸ Za kaŋ ni na dumi boobo ku gumo, Borey dumi cindey mo ga ni ku borey kuro sabbay se, Da toonya kaŋ ni te laabo, Da birno, d'a ra gorokoy kulu se.

⁹Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

⁹ Kaari boro kaŋ ga riiba laalo ŋwa nga windo se, Zama nga ma du ka nga fito daŋ beene, Zama nga ma faaba masiiba laalo kambe ra!

¹⁰You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.

¹⁰ Ni na haawi candi ka kande ni windo se, Za kaŋ ni na dumi boobo pati, Ni na zunubi te mo ni fundo se.

¹¹For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.

¹¹ Zama cinaro ra no tondi ga jinde tunandi, Kataaku mo ga tu a se bundey ra.

¹²Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!

¹² Kaari nga kaŋ ga kwaara cina nda kuri ka birni sinji nda taali beeri!

¹³Behold, isn’t it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

¹³ Guna, manti Rabbi Kundeykoyo miila no kaŋ dumey goono ga taabi danji se, kaŋ dumey mo goono ga ngey boŋ fargandi hay fo yaamo sabbay se?

¹⁴For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.

¹⁴ Zama ndunnya ga aniya ka to da Rabbi darza bayray, Sanda mate kaŋ cine harey go ga teeko daabu.

¹⁵“Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!

¹⁵ Kaari nga kaŋ goono ga nga gorokasin no baji. Ni goono ga ni humburo dooru a se, a ma haŋ ka bugu zama ni ma du k'a gaa-koono guna se!

¹⁶You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink, and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh’s right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.

¹⁶ Manti darza no ni ga to d'a bo, amma haawi. Kala ni mo ma haŋ ka ni gaa-koono cabe. Rabbi kambe ŋwaari gaasiya ga bare ka ye ni do, Haawi kaŋ ga ziibi mo ga goro ni darza boŋ.

¹⁷For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.

¹⁷ Zama toonya kaŋ ni te Liban se din ga ni daabu. Ganji hamey kaŋ ni halaci mo ga ni humburandi borey kuro sabbay se, da toonya kaŋ ni te laabo, da birno, d'a ra gorokoy kulu se.

¹⁸“What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?

¹⁸ Man gaa himandi jabante nafa, Waato kaŋ a jabukwa n'a te? Sooguyaŋ tooru mo, tangari dondonandiko no, Man gaa a nafa kaŋ ga naŋ a goy-teero ma de a gaa, Hala nd'a ma tooruyaŋ kaŋ si salaŋ te?

¹⁹Woe to him who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ or to the mute stone, ‘Arise!’ Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in its midst.

¹⁹ Kaari nga kaŋ ga ne bundu se: ‹Ma mo hay!› A ma ne tondi beebe mo se: ‹Tun!› Woodin ga dondonandi no? Guna, i n'a taalam da wura nda nzarfu, Amma fulanzamyaŋ si no a ra, baa kayna.

²⁰But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”

²⁰ Amma Rabbi go nga fu hananta ra. Ndunnya kulu ma dangay a jine!»