Yaawe la moolu diyaamuta
1 Moolu ko,
“Ali naa, ŋà muru Yaawe* kaŋ,
ate le ye ǹ dimindi,
a be ǹ jaara la le.
Ate le ye m̀ barama,
a be ǹ kendeyandi la le.
2 Tili fula ñaato,
a be m̀ murundi la ǹ ñaama le.
Tili sabanjaŋo,
a be ǹ wulindi la le, ŋà loo,
fo ǹ si baluu a ñaatiliŋo la.
3 Saayiŋ, ali ŋà ǹ na katoo daŋo bee ke,
ka Yaawe loŋ,
ka a la kuwo fahaamu.
A be naa ǹ kaŋ ne,
wo be koyiriŋ ne ko perekaanoo,
a be naa la ǹ kaŋ ne ko,
samaajiyo ka bankoo jiiboŋ ñaameŋ,
samaa foloo niŋ samaa labaŋ jiyo.”
Yaawe diyaamuta Banisirayila niŋ Yahuuda ye
4 Bari Yaawe ko:
“Ite Efurayimu*,
m be i la kuwo laa la ñaadii le?
Ite Yahuuda,
m be i ke la ñaadii le?
Ali la kanoo ka yeemaŋ ne ko tuutuwo,
a ka yeemaŋ ne waati kiliŋ ko komboo.
5 Wo le ye a tinna
ŋa n na annabiyomoolu kii naŋ ali kaŋ,
ka kiitiyo niŋ yankankatoo bankee ali ye.
N na kiitiyo fintita le ko tiloo.
6 N lafita kanu bambaloo le la,
a maŋ ke beeyaŋ sadaa* ti,
Alla loŋo diina jani sadaa ti.
7 “Ko a keta nuŋ ñaameŋ
Adama saatewo maafaŋo la,
Banisirayila ye kambeŋo tiñaa,
n niŋ ì ye meŋ siti.
Ì ye foroyaabaliyaa tiliŋ n na jee.
8 Kileyadi mu kuu kuruŋ kelaalu la saatewo le ti,
yeleboŋo ye a kosondi.
9 Ko suŋolu ka biti moolu kamma ñaameŋ,
piriisoolu* ka kumbeŋ ñoo kaŋ wo le ñaama.
Ì ka faaroo ke le hani Sekemu siloo kaŋ,
ì la ñiŋ kuu kuruŋolu mu malu kuu baa le ti.
10 Banisirayila kono,
ŋa kuu ñewundiŋo le je jee.
Efurayimu be cakayaa le kaŋ,
Banisirayila kosota.
11 “Ite Yahuuda,
i fanaa jarabi waatoo be siloo kaŋ ne.
The People's Insincere Repentance
1 The people say, “Let's return to the Lord! He has hurt us, but he will be sure to heal us; he has wounded us, but he will bandage our wounds, won't he? 2 In two or three days he will revive us, and we will live in his presence. 3 Let us try to know the Lord. He will come to us as surely as the day dawns, as surely as the spring rains fall upon the earth.”
4 But the Lord says, “Israel and Judah, what am I going to do with you? Your love for me disappears as quickly as morning mist; it is like dew, that vanishes early in the day. 5 That is why I have sent my prophets to you with my message of judgment and destruction. What I want from you is plain and clear: 6 I want your constant love, not your animal sacrifices. I would rather have my people know me than burn offerings to me.
7 “But as soon as they entered the land at Adam, they broke the covenant I had made with them. 8 Gilead is a city full of evil people and murderers. 9 The priests are like a gang of robbers who wait in ambush for someone. Even on the road to the holy place at Shechem they commit murder. And they do all this evil deliberately! 10 I have seen a horrible thing in Israel: my people have defiled themselves by worshiping idols.
11 “And as for you, people of Judah, I have set a time to punish you also for what you are doing.
