1He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!
1 Guna, tondi kuukey boŋ baaru hanno kandekwa cey neeya, Kaŋ goono ga laakal kanay fe! Ya nin Yahuda, ma haggoy da ni batey. Ma ni sartey toonandi, Zama boro laalo si ye ka gana ni do koyne, A ga ban no parkatak!
2For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches.
2 _Ya Ninawiya|_, halacikwa tun ni se! Ma haggoy da wongu fu, ma fonda batandi, Ma haw daŋ ni boŋ ra, Ma ni hino gaabandi gumo nda cimi.
3The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.
3 Zama Rabbi ga ye ka kande Yakuba darza, Danga Israyla* _waato|_ darza cine, Baa kaŋ wongu-ŋwakoy n'i kaa koonu, I n'i reyzin* tiksey kambey halaci mo.
4The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the broad ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings.
4 A wongaarey korayey ciya icirayyaŋ, I gonda bankaaray moni ngey gaa. Wongu torkey go ga nyaale nda guuru-kwaaray ngey soolayaŋ zaaro ra. Wongaarey go ga sipres* bundu yaaji zinji gumo.
5He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.
5 Wongu torkey goono ga follo fondey ra, I goono ga zuru ka windi batama tafey ra. I diyaŋ ga hima sanda yulbeyaŋ, I ga zuru sanda maliyaŋ mo.
6The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
6 A ga nga wongaari beerey ce, I goono ga kati ngey dirawey ra, I goono ga cahã ka koy a cinaro gaa haray, I na kosaray mo soola.
7It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.
7 Isa meyey fiti, faada mo manne.
8But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one looks back.
8 Haya wo kaŋ sinji waato, sohõ i n'a kaa koonu, I n'a ku ka dira nd'a. A koŋŋey go ga hẽ sanda koloŋayyaŋ, I goono ga ngey gandey di _bine saray sabbay se.|_
9Take the spoil of silver. Take the spoil of gold, for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.
9 Waato Ninawiya ga hima sanda bangu cine, Amma sohõ i goono ga zuru. I goono ga ne: «Wa kay! Wa kay!» Amma boro kulu si no kaŋ ga zagu ka guna.
10She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.
10 Wa nzarfu ku! Wa wura ku! Zama jinay jisantey kaŋ gonda nooru boobo sinda me.
11Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion’s cubs, and no one made them afraid?
11 A go koonu no, hay kulu si, kurmu mo no! Bine kulu goono ga jaŋ gaabi, Kangey goono ga kar care gaa. Foyra go borey kulu gaahamey ra, I kulu yaley bare.
12The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.
12 Man muusu beerey tondi guuso, Muus'izey kuray do, Nango kaŋ muusu aro da nga wayo ga bar-bare, Da muus'izey mo? Boro kulu si no mo kaŋ g'i humburandi.
13“Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.”
13 Muuso ga tooru-tooru haŋ kaŋ ga wasa a izey se, A ga koote mo nga muusu wayey se. A ma nga tondi guusey toonandi nda duure, A ma tuguyaŋey do mo toonandi da buukoyaŋ.
14 Rabbi Kundeykoyo ne: A go, ay ga gaaba nda nin, Ay ga ni torkey ton dullu ra, Takuba mo ga ni muus'izey ŋwa. Ay ga ni duura fondey kulu daabu ndunnya ra, I si ye ka maa ni diyey jinde koyne.