Yeremiya 9
1 Aa, ndikanakonda kuti mutu wanga ukanakhala chitsime cha madzi, ndi maso anga ngati kasupe wa misozi! Ndikanalira usana ndi usiku kulirira anthu anga amene aphedwa.
If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!
2 Ndani adzandipatsa malo ogona mʼchipululu kuti ndiwasiye anthu anga ndi kuwachokera kupita kutali; pakuti onse ndi achigololo, ndiponso gulu la anthu onyenga.
If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.
3 “Amapinda lilime lawo ngati uta. Mʼdzikomo mwadzaza ndi mabodza okhaokha osati zoonadi. Amapitirirabe kuchita zoyipa; ndipo sandidziwa Ine.” Akutero Yehova.
Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.
4 “Aliyense achenjere ndi abwenzi ake; asadalire ngakhale abale ake. Aliyense amafuna kumudyera mʼbale wake masuku pa mutu. Choncho aliyense amachitira bwenzi lake ugogodi.
Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil.
5 Aliyense amamunamiza mʼbale wake ndipo palibe amene amayankhula choonadi. Anapazoloweza pakamwa pawo kunena zabodza; amalimbika kuchita machimo.
Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.
6 Iwe wakhalira mʼchinyengo ndipo ukukana kundidziwa Ine,” akutero Yehova.
There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.
7 Nʼchifukwa chake Yehova Wamphamvuzonse akuti, “Taonani, Ine ndidzawasungunula ngati chitsulo ndi kuwayesa. Kodi ndingachite nawonso bwanji chifukwa cha machimo awo?
So the Lord of armies has said, See, I will make them soft in the fire and put them to the test; this I will do because of their evil-doing.
8 Lilime lawo lili ngati muvi wakuthwa; limayankhula zachinyengo. Aliyense ndi pakamwa pake amayankhula mawu achikondi kwa mnansi wake, koma mu mtima mwake amakonzekera zomuchita chiwembu.
His tongue is an arrow causing death; the words of his mouth are deceit: he says words of peace to his neighbour, but in his heart he is waiting secretly for him.
9 Kodi ndilekerenji kuwalanga chifukwa cha zimenezi? akutero Yehova. ‘Kodi ndisawulipsire mtundu wotere wa anthu?’”
Am I not to send punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?
10 Ndidzakhetsa misozi ndi kulira kwamphamvu chifukwa cha mapiri ndipo ndidzadandaula chifukwa cha msipu wa ku chipululu. Malo onsewo awonongeka ndipo palibe amene amapitako, ndipo sikumveka kulira kwa ngʼombe. Mbalame zamlengalenga zathawa ndipo nyama zakuthengo zachokako.
Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.
11 Ndipo Yehova anati, “Ndidzasandutsa Yerusalemu kukhala bwinja, malo okhalamo ankhandwe; ndipo ndidzawononga mizinda ya Yuda kotero kuti palibe munthu amene adzakhalemo.”
And I will make Jerusalem a mass of broken stones, the living-place of jackals; and I will make the towns of Judah a waste, with no man living there.
12 Ine ndinati, “Kodi munthu wanzeru ndani woti nʼkumvetsa zimenezi? Kodi ndani amene Yehova anayankhula naye zimenezi kuti akafotokozere ena? Nʼchifukwa chiyani dziko lawonongeka ndi kusanduka chipululu, mʼmene anthu sadutsamo?”
Who is the wise man able to see this? who is he to whom the word of the Lord has come, so that he may make it clear? why is the land given to destruction and burned up like a waste place, so that no one goes through?
13 Yehova anati, “Nʼchifukwa chakuti anthuwa analeka kutsata malamulo anga amene ndinawapatsa; sanandimvere kapena kuwasamala.
And the Lord said, Because they have given up my law which I put before them, giving no attention to my voice and not being guided by it;
14 Mʼmalo mwake, anatsatira zolakwa za mʼmitima yawo; anapembedza Abaala ngati momwe makolo awo anawaphunzitsira.”
But they have been walking in the pride of their hearts, going after the Baals, as their fathers gave them teaching.
15 Tsono chimene Ine Yehova Wamphamvuzonse, Mulungu wa Israeli ndidzachite ndi anthu amenewa ndi ichi: “Ndidzawadyetsa chakudya cha ziphe ndi kuwamwetsa madzi a ndulu.
So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, I will give them, even this people, bitter plants for food and bitter water for drink.
16 Ndidzawabalalitsa pakati pa mitundu ya anthu imene iwowo kapena makolo awo sanayidziwe, ndipo ndidzawalondola ndi ankhondo mpaka nditawawononga.”
And I will send them wandering among the nations, among people strange to them and to their fathers: and I will send the sword after them till I have put an end to them.
17 Yehova Wamphamvuzonse akuti, “Tsopano ganizirani! Muyitane akazi olira mwachisoni kuti abwere; itanani akazi odziwa kulira bwino.”
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Take thought and send for the weeping women, so that they may come; and send for the wise women, so that they may come:
18 Anthu akuti, “Abwere mofulumira kuti adzatilire mpaka mʼmaso mwathu mutatuluka misozi ndi kuti msidze zathu zinyowe ndi madzi.
Let them quickly make cries of sorrow for us, so that drops may be flowing from our eyes till they are streaming with water.
19 Kulira mwachisoni kukumveka kuchokera mu Ziyoni akuti, ‘Aa! Ife tawonongeka! Tachita manyazi kwambiri! Tiyenera kuchoka mʼdziko lathu chifukwa atipirikitsa mʼnyumba zathu.’”
For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.
20 Tsono inu amayi, imvani mawu a Yehova; tcherani makutu anu kuti mumve mawu a Yehova. Phunzitsani ana anu aakazi kulira mwachisoni; aliyense aphunzitse mnzake nyimbo ya maliro.
But even now, give ear to the word of the Lord, O you women; let your ears be open to the word of his mouth, training your daughters to give cries of sorrow, everyone teaching her neighbour a song of grief.
21 Imfa yatifikira kudzera mʼmazenera athu ndipo yalowa mʼnyumba zathu zotetezedwa; yapha ana athu mʼmisewu, ndi achinyamata athu mʼmabwalo.
For death has come up into our windows, forcing its way into our great houses; cutting off the children in the streets and the young men in the wide places.
22 Yehova anandiwuza kuti ndinene izi kuti, “‘Mitembo ya anthu idzakhala ili lambalamba ngati ndowe mʼminda, ngati mapesi mʼmbuyo mwa wokolola, popanda munthu woyitola.’”
The bodies of men will be falling like waste on the open fields, and like grain dropped by the grain-cutter, and no one will take them up.
23 Yehova akuti, “Munthu wanzeru asanyadire nzeru zake, kapena munthu wamphamvu kunyadira nyonga zake, kapena munthu wolemera kunyadira chuma chake,
This is the word of the Lord: Let not the wise man take pride in his wisdom, or the strong man in his strength, or the man of wealth in his wealth:
24 koma ngati munthu akufuna kunyadira, anyadire chinthu ichi: kuti iye amamvetsa za Ine ndipo amandidziwa, kuti ndine Yehova, amene ndimakonda chifundo, chilungamo ndiponso ungwiro pa dziko lapansi. Zimenezi ndizo ndimakondwera nazo,” akutero Yehova.
But if any man has pride, let it be in this, that he has the wisdom to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord, working mercy, giving true decisions, and doing righteousness in the earth: for in these things I have delight, says the Lord.
25 “Nthawi ikubwera,” akutero Yehova, “pamene ndidzalanga onse amene anachita mdulidwe koma mu mtima sasamala nʼkomwe.
See, the day is coming, says the Lord, when I will send punishment on all those who have circumcision in the flesh;
26 Ndidzalanga anthu a ku Igupto, Yuda, Edomu, Amoni, Mowabu, ndiponso onse amene amakhala kutali ku chipululu. Mitundu ina yonseyi ndi yosachita mdulidwe, ngakhalenso Aisraeli nawonso sanachite mdulidwe wa mu mtima.”
On Egypt and on Judah and on Edom and on the children of Ammon and on Moab and on all who have the ends of their hair cut, who are living in the waste land: for all these nations and all the people of Israel are without circumcision in their hearts.
