Ekumaido lokulidilululifa
1 Otava ti: “Efraim, ohandi ku ningi ngahelipi, akutu Juda, ohandi ku ningi shike, eshi ohole yeni i li ngaashi oshilemo shongula, nongaashi omume tai yaumuka diva? 2 Nge pa pita omafiku avali, Oye te ku nyumuna, mefiku etitatu Oye te tu pendula, opo fye tu kale nomwenyo koshipala shaye. 3 Ndele natu shiiveni hano, heeno, natu lalakaneni okushiiva Omwene. Ye ote uya shili, ngaashi etendo leluwa, ndele ote ke uya kufye ngaashi odula, ngaashi odula yokulombo, ei tai tutike edu.”
4 Akutu Efraim, ohandi ku ningi ngahelipi, akutu Juda, ohandi ku ningi shike, eshi ohole yeni i li ngaashi oshilemo shongula, nongaashi omume tai yaumuka diva? 5 Onghee nee nde va dengifa kovaxunganeki, nde va dipaifa neendjovo domokanya kange. Etokolo lange li li poluhaela ngaashi ouyelele wongula. 6 Osheshi efilonghenda nda hala, hayambo. Okushiiva Kalunga nda hala, osheshi ku dule omaxwikiloyambo.
7 Ndelenee ova nyona ehangano ngaashi Adam; opo tuu va efa nge. 8 Gilead oshilando shovakolokoshi, shi yadi eenghatu dohonde. 9 Nongudu yovapristeli oi li ngaashi oimhulu ya holamena. Ohava dipaele mondjila yaSekem, heeno, ova longa oilonga yoixuna. 10 Mepata laIsrael nda mona mo oilonga yoixuna: omu noluhaelo laEfraim. Israel okwe linyateka. 11 Naave yo Juda, wa nuninwa eteyo, Ame ngeenge handi lundulula okukala kwoshiwana shange.
1 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. 3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
4 ¶ O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. 5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth. 6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. 8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood. 9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness. 10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. 11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.
