1Thus said Yahweh: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
1 Yaa no Rabbi ci: Ma koy Yahuda bonkoono windo do ka sanno wo ci noodin:
2Say, Hear the word of Yahweh, king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates.
2 Ma ne: Ya Yahuda bonkoono kaŋ goono ga goro Dawda karga boŋ, nin da ni bannyey da ni talkey kaŋ yaŋ ga furo windi meyey wo gaa, wa maa Rabbi sanno.
3Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.
3 Yaa no Rabbi ci: Wa cimi ciiti te, wa adilitaray mo te. Araŋ ma boro kaŋ i kom faaba ka kaa toonyante kambe ra. Araŋ ma si toonye te yaw wala alatuumi wala wayboro kaŋ kurnye bu se. Araŋ ma si boro kaŋ sinda taali wi mo nango wo ra.
4For if you do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.
4 Zama hala day araŋ na woodin yaŋ te, bonkooney kaŋ yaŋ ga goro Dawda karga boŋ, ngey kaŋ yaŋ ga torkey da bariyey kaaru, i ga soobay ka furo windo wo meyey gaa, bonkoono da nga tamey da nga talkey kulu.
5But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself, says Yahweh, that this house shall become a desolation.
5 Amma d'araŋ wangu ka sanney din gana, ay ze d'ay boŋ, windo wo ga ciya kurmu. Yaadin no Rabbi ci.
6For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, the head of Lebanon. Yet surely I will make you a wilderness, cities which are not inhabited.
6 Zama yaa no Rabbi na Yahuda bonkoono dumo ciine te d'a: Ni ya danga Jileyad no ay se. Ni ya danga Liban boŋo mo no. Kulu nda yaadin saaji fimbi no ay ga ni ciya, Danga galluyaŋ kaŋ sinda goroko cine.
7I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
7 Ay ga borey kaŋ yaŋ ga ni halaci suuban, Boro fo kulu nda nga wongu jinayey. I ma ni sedre* darzakoyey beeri k'i catu danji ra.
8Many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has Yahweh done thus to this great city?
8 Ndunnya dumi boobo ga kaa ka bisa gallu woone gaa, I afo kulu ga ne nga gorokasino se: «Ifo se no Rabbi na woone te gallu bambata wo se?»
9Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them.
9 I ga tu mo ka ne: «To, zama i na Rabbi ngey Irikoyo sappa tunandi se no. I sududu de-koy fooyaŋ se ka may i se mo.»
10Don’t weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
10 Wa si hẽ buuko se, wa si bu baray te a se mo. Amma wa hẽeni korno te bora kaŋ koy din se, Zama a se ye ka kaa koyne. A si ye ka di laabo kaŋ ra i n'a hay din koyne.
11For thus says Yahweh touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went forth out of this place: He shall not return there any more.
11 Zama yaa no Rabbi ci Yahuda bonkoono Sallum Yosiya izo boŋ, kaŋ na koytaray ŋwa nga baabo Yosiya nango ra, Sallum din kaŋ jin ka fun nango wo ra. A ne: A si ye ka kaa hal abada.
12But in the place where they have led him captive, there shall he die, and he shall see this land no more.
12 Amma nango kaŋ i kond'a tamtaray din, noodin no a ga bu. A si ye ka di laabu woone koyne.
13Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;
13 Kaari bora kaŋ na nga windo cina adilitaray-jaŋay boŋ! Da nga fu-izey mo cimi-ciiti-jaŋay boŋ! Kaŋ na nga gorokasin goyandi, a man'a bana, A man'a no nga alhakko mo!
14who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
14 Bora ga ne: «Ay ga windi bambata cina ay boŋ se, Da jidan bisa kaŋ fu-izey ga hay. Ay m'a finetarey kaa, ay m'a daabu nda sedre bundu, K'a tuusu nda pantir ciray.»
15Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it was well with him.
15 Nin wo, ni ga mayray te zama se ni goono g'a gaaziga nda sedre bundu no, wala? Ni baaba, manti a ŋwa, a haŋ, A na cimi ciiti nda adilitaray te? A na nga ndunnya gora te baani samay waato din.
16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me? says Yahweh.
16 A ciiti borey kaŋ go laami ra da alfukaarey se, I goono ga baani goray te mo waato din. Manti woodin ga cabe kaŋ a g'ay bay? Yaadin no Rabbi ci.
17But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
17 Amma nin wo, ni moy da ni bina si hay kulu gaa kala ni zamba riiba, Ni ma wo kaŋ sinda taali wi, ni ma toonye te, Ni ma komyaŋ mo te.
18Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! They shall not lament for him, saying Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
18 Yaa no Rabbi ci Yahuda bonkoono Yehoyacim Yosiya izo boŋ: Borey si bu hẽeni te a sabbay se ka ne: «Kaari, ya ay nya-izo!» Wala: «Kaari, ay waymo!» I si bu hẽeni te a sabbay se mo ka ne: «Kaari, ya jine bora!» wala «Kaari, a darza!»
19He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
19 I g'a fiji farkay fijiyaŋ, kaŋ ga ti i m'a kurru ka furu Urusalima kwaara banda.
20Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are destroyed.
20 Ma koy ka kaaru Liban boŋ, ka soobay ka kuuwa, Ma ni jinda sambu gumo mo Basan ra, Ma kaaru Abarim boŋ mo ka kuuwa, Zama i na ni baakoy kulu tutubu.
21I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your way from your youth, that you didn’t obey my voice.
21 Ni bonkaana ra ay salaŋ ni se, amma ni ne: «Ay si hangan ni se!» Ni daa nooya za ni zankatara gaa, Ni ma wangu k'ay sanno gana.
22The wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity: surely then you will be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.
22 Haw faaru ga ni kurukoy kulu kuru, Ni baakoy mo ga koy tamtaray ra. Waato din gaa daahir haawi nda kayna ga ni di ni laalayaŋo kulu sabbay se.
23Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail!
23 Ya nin kaŋ ga goro Liban ra, Kaŋ ga ni fito te sedrey ra, Man gaa ni durayyaŋo kaŋ ni ga te misa, Waati kaŋ zaŋay ga ni di, Sanda wayboro kaŋ ga hay-zaŋay wane cine!
24As I live, says Yahweh, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, yet would I pluck you there;
24 Yaa no Rabbi ci: Ay ze d'ay fundo, baa day i ma ne Yahuda bonkoono Koniya, Yehoyacim izo ya korbay no ay kambe ŋwaaro gaa, kulu nda yaadin kala ya ni dagu ka kaa noodin.
25and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
25 Ay ga ni daŋ borey kaŋ yaŋ goono ga ni fundo ceeci kambe ra, da borey kaŋ yaŋ ni ga humburu kambe ra mo, kaŋ ga ti Babila bonkoono Nebukadnezzar kambe ra, da Kaldancey kambe ra mo.
26I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country, where you were not born; and there you will die.
26 Nin da ni nyaŋo kaŋ na ni hay, ay g'araŋ jindaw araŋ ma koy laabu fo ra, naŋ kaŋ i mana ni hay, noodin mo no araŋ ga bu.
27But to the land whereunto their soul longs to return, there shall they not return.
27 Amma laabo wo kaŋ i biney ga yalla-yalla nd'a ngey ma ye ka kaa a ra, i si ye ka kaa a ra koyne.
28Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel in which none delights? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they don’t know?
28 Koniya wo kusu bago kaŋ i ga dond'a no? Nga wo kusu no kaŋ boro kulu si ba r'a, wala? Ifo se no i n'a jindaw, nga nda nga banda. I n'i catu laabu kaŋ i si bay ra?
29O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Yahweh.
29 Ya laabo, ya laabo, ya laabo, ma maa Rabbi sanno.
30Thus says Yahweh, Write you this man childless, a man who shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.
30 Yaa no Rabbi ci: Ma hantum ka ne boro wo sinda banda, Boro wo si te albarka nga zamana ra, Zama a banda ra sinda baa afo kaŋ ga du ka goro Dawda karga boŋ, Ka mayray te Yahuda boŋ koyne hal abada.