Foinikia tashi hunganekwa
1 Ndika ehunganeko tali popi Tiro.
Takumeni nokulila ne aanasikepa yokuSpania! Oshilandotulilo sheni Tiro osha hanagulwa po; omagumbo nomatulilo gasho kage po we. Onkundana ndjika oye ya zile kuKipro, sho ya li taa galukile kegumbo. 2 Lilaganeni, ne aahalithi yokuSidoni! Omwa tumine aantu, 3 ya tokole efuta ya ka shingithe nokulanda iilya kuEgipiti nokupindika niigwana ayihe.
4 Shilando Sidon, sa ohoni! Efuta, omeya ganandjandja muule wago, otage ku idhimbike e taga ti: “Kandi na nando aanona. Moshitheta shandje ine pulumutha omumati nenge omukadhona.”
5 Nokuli Aayegipiti otaa ka kakama e taa haluka, uuna taa kundana kutya Tiro osha hanagulwa po.
6 Takumeni nokulila, ne Aafoinikia! Indeni ontuku kuSpania! 7 Otashi vulika ngiini kutya shika osho oshilando Tiro shomashambudho, shoka sha dhikilwe nalenale? Oshilando shika osho tuu shoka sha tumine aatembukili komavi gokokule kombanda yefuta? 8 Olye ngoka a dhiladhila a etele Tiro omupya gwa tya ngawo, oshilando oshiyamba shoka aahalithi yasho ya li aawagona, aanenentu kombanda yevi? 9 Omuwa Omunankondoawike okwe shi dhiladhila, opo a hulithe po einomo lyawo mushoka ya ningi nokufupipika aanenentu yamo.
10 Ne aantu yomiitembukilwa muSpania, tamekeni okulonga omapya. Kaku na we ngoka te mu gamene. 11 Omuwa okwa taganekele efuta okwooko kwe e ta teya po iilongo. Okwa tokola okuhanagulitha po omapopilongulu gaFoinikia. 12 Shilando ngoye Sidon, elago lyoye olya hula, naantu yoye taa hepekwa. Nando ya ye ontuku kuKipro, itaa ka hupa.
13 (Oya li Aababilonia, kaye shi Aayassur, mboka ya longekidhile iithitukuti ompito yokuya kuTiro. Aababilonia oyo ya tungu ooshungo dhekondekela, ya kumuna po omapopilongulu gaTiro nokuhanagula po oshilando.)
14 Lileni nokutakuma, ne aanasikepa yokuSpania! Oshilando mwi inekela osha hanagulwa po.
15 Ethimbo otali ya, uuna Tiro tashi ka dhimbiwa omimvo omilongo heyali, dhi thike pomasiku gomukwaniilwa gumwe. Omimvo ndhoka nge dha piti, Tiro otashi ka ninga, ngaashi oshiimbo shopauhonda tashi ti:
16 “Kutha okaharpa koye, endagula nomukunda,
ngoye ohonda ya dhimbiwa!
Hika nawa, imba natango,
opo aalumentu ye ku dhimbulukwe!”
17 Omimvo omilongo heyali nge dha piti po, Omuwa ota ka galulila Tiro omapindiko gasho omakulu, nosho tashi ki ishingitha kiilongo ayihe yomuuyuni. 18 Iimaliwa mbyoka tashi ke yi likola mehalitho, otayi ka yoololelwa Omuwa. Itashi ki ingungunina nando osha, ihe mboka haa longele Omuwa, oyo taa ku utha iimaliwa yasho yokulanda iikulya nomizalo taye dhi pumbwa.
A Message about Phoenicia
1 This is a message about Tyre.
Howl with grief, you sailors out on the ocean! Your home port of Tyre has been destroyed; its houses and its harbor are in ruins. As your ships return from Cyprus, you learn the news. 2 Wail, you merchants of Sidon! You sent agents 3 across the sea to buy and sell the grain that grew in Egypt and to do business with all the nations.
4 City of Sidon, you are disgraced! The sea and the great ocean depths disown you and say, “I never had any children. I never raised sons or daughters.”
5 Even the Egyptians will be shocked and dismayed when they learn that Tyre has been destroyed.
6 Howl with grief, you people of Phoenicia! Try to escape to Spain! 7 Can this be the joyful city of Tyre, founded so long ago? Is this the city that sent settlers across the sea to establish colonies? 8 Who was it that planned to bring all this on Tyre, that imperial city, whose merchant princes were the most honored men on earth? 9 The Lord Almighty planned it. He planned it in order to put an end to their pride in what they had done and to humiliate their honored ones.
10 Go and farm the land, you people in the colonies in Spain! There is no one to protect you any more. 11 The Lord has stretched out his hand over the sea and overthrown kingdoms. He has commanded that the Phoenician centers of commerce be destroyed. 12 City of Sidon, your happiness has ended, and your people are oppressed. Even if they escape to Cyprus, they will still not be safe.
13 (It was the Babylonians, not the Assyrians, who let the wild animals overrun Tyre. It was the Babylonians who put up siege towers, tore down the fortifications of Tyre, and left the city in ruins. )
14 Howl with grief, you sailors out on the ocean! The city you relied on has been destroyed.
15 A time is coming when Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the lifetime of a king. When those years are over, Tyre will be like the prostitute in the song:
16 Take your harp, go round the town,
you poor forgotten whore!
Play and sing your songs again
to bring men back once more.
17 When the seventy years are over, the Lord will let Tyre go back to her old trade, and she will hire herself out to all the kingdoms of the world. 18 The money she earns by commerce will be dedicated to the Lord. She will not store it away, but those who worship the Lord will use her money to buy the food and the clothing they need.
