Oshigwana shi na eitedhululo lyiihelele
1 Aantu otaa ti: “Tu galukileni kOmuwa. Okwe tu dhenge, ihe ote tu aludha; ote tu ningi iilalo, ihe ota manga wo iilalo yetu. 2 Momasiku gaali nenge gatatu ote tu tululula omwenyo, notatu ka kala tu na omwenyo montaneho ye. 3 Natu tseyeni Omuwa. Ote ke ya kutse a fa eluwa tali tende; eeno shili, okwa fa omvula tayi tutike evi, sho tayi nyaganya.”
4 Ihe Omuwa ota ti: “Israel naJuda, otandi mu ningi ngiini? Ohole yeni yokuhola ndje, otayi pwine mbala ya fa osheentsi shongula; oya fa omume ndjoka tayi kaha ongulangula. 5 Omolwaashika onde mu tumine aahunganeki yandje nelaka lyepangulo nolyehanagulo. Shoka nda hala kune, osha yela noshi li puuyelele: 6 osho ohole ya kola, handjambo dhiimuna yeni. Onda hala, aantu yandje ya tseye ndje shi vule okulungunithila ndje omayambo.
7 “Ihe sho ye ya mevi puAdam, oya yono ehangano ndyoka nda hangana nayo. 8 Gilead osho oshilando shu udha aantu aawinayi naadhipagi. 9 Aayambi oya fa ongundu yaayugi mboka ya langela omuntu. Nomondjila yu uka keha eyapuki kuShekem, otaa dhipaga. Notaa longo uuwinayi mbuka ya manguluka nokuli! 10 Onda mono iihuna muIsrael; aantu yandje otayi inyateke pesimanekelo lyiimenka.
11 “Nomolwoye wo, oshigwana shaJuda, ondu utha ethimbo lyoku ku pangula omolwiilonga yoye.”
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.
