Roma 11
1 a belle nani sa Kutelle wa nnari anit me? uwanya uso nani ba bara men wangnkuna Isiraila ri unuzu likura Ibrahim tutun lilem benjamin benjamin.
I ask, then, “Has God rejected his people?” Heaven forbid! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 Kutelle wa nnari anit me b, ale na awadi ananyinu nani, sa lyiru imon ille na inyarta wa bellin litin kitin Iliya na awa sau kuhulu kiti Kutelle abara anan Israila?
God has not rejected his people, whom he chose from the first. Have you forgotten the words of scripture in the story of Elijah – how he appeals to God against Israel?
3 Chikilari inna mollusu anit anan mbellu naufe ipucho tibagadife miyari chas nlawa tutun idin piziru nighe.
“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have pulled down your altars, and I only am left; and now they are eager to take my life.”
4 Kutellẹ wa tarda awaro: “nna chau litinighe nanilime amui kuzor alle na issa tumuno nin naluum mine kitin baale ba”.
But what was the divine response? “I have kept for myself seven thousand who have never bowed the knee to Baal.”
5 har nene re nnya ko kusa ufere mboullu Kutellẹ imon nggisin duk.
And so in our own time, too, there is to be found a remnant of our nation selected by God in love.
6 Vat nani andi barai ayii ubolluKutellẹ na bara katari ba andina nani ubollu Kutellẹ. di ubollu ba.
But if in love, then it is not as a result of obedience. Otherwise love would cease to be love.
7 Iyarighari tutungha? imon ule na an Isirale wa piziru iwa se iniba nnan feeru Kuteelẹ wase ngisine ghas.
What follows from this? Why, that Israel as a nation failed to secure what it was seeking, while those whom God selected did secure it.
8 Ud nafo na inyerte wabellin “Kutellẹwa nii nani Ifipnnun me min nyisi na nyeju kiti ba nin atuf ansalin nlanzu uliru udak kitin mon”
The rest grew callous; as scripture says – “God has given them a deadness of mind – eyes that are not to see and ears that are not to hear – and it is so to this very day.”
9 Dauda woro nenghe “na kutebul mine sokutaru libarda litala ntirzu a usọ atunu” kitimine.
David, too, says – “May their feasts prove a snare and a trap to them – a hindrance and a retribution;
10 Naiyizi mine uwo isirọ bara i wayeje kiti ko kome mine tumun
may their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; and do you always make their backs to bend.”
11 Awa bellin nani “iwa utirzo bara disua idiuwa?” uwa uso nani ba bara nan naudisu mine watii uduchu daa na nan nan nsalin yiru Kutellẹ baraifea nanin ayinasu liyarin.
I ask then – “Was their stumbling to result in their fall?” Heaven forbid! On the contrary, through their falling away salvation has reached the Gentiles, to stir the rivalry of Israel.
12 Andi uyi naseimon nachara diu mine uwalu mine umon nachara kiti nan ntanni nin malizin nacharaiworo use namon nachara.
And, if their falling away has enriched the world, and their failure has enriched the Gentiles, how much more will result from their full restoration!
13 Nene nin indin nliru nanghinu anan ntani kulle meng unan kadura na uda kiti nan ntanni Kutellẹ indin fọfigiri nin katanighe.
But I am speaking to you who were Gentiles.
14 mmoti mba nanzu amon nibinai issua. lagann alle na idi amon mine se utuch.
Being myself an apostle to the Gentiles, I exalt my office, in the hope that I may stir my countrymen to rivalry, and so save some of them.
15 An di unna rani alele unare ti tise umuni nati an nye '' Yagari useru mine ba ti uba so ulai ki nan kulle?''
For, if their being cast aside has meant the reconciliation of the world, what will their reception mean, but life from the dead?
16 An di kumat ifarri adi lau na nere iyip ma, an tillin di lau, annere ti langgye ba yitu. pucu tilangye ina.
If the first handful of dough is holy, so is the whole mass, and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 Iwadin woru i puco ton ti lang kuca, f, kucan zaitu kusho iwa shonfi na nya mine uba koswu nan gyinu mmari tiling tiling kuca zaintu,
Some, however, of the branches were broken off, and you, who were only a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and came to share with them the root which is the source of the richness of the cultivated olive.
18 yen je uwa fo figiri nin tilan gye. Asa uba fo figiri na fere nin tilang, na fe re ming ti langye ba, ama tilangyere min fi.
Yet do not exult over the other branches. But, if you do exult over them, remember that you do not support the root, but that the root supports you.
19 Uma/ uba nin woru, ''Ina n shono men ku nan nye.''
But branches, you will say, were broken off, so that I might be grafted in.
20 Kidegen nere/ kiden nere! Bara usalin nni kibinai mine iwa pucu tilangye, nin nani uyisa nan nya yenu fe sa uyenu. Nu uwa ganti liti fe kan ba, lanza fiu.
True, it was because of their want of faith that they were broken off, and it is because of your faith that you are standing. Do not think too highly of yourself, but beware.
21 Sasa na Kutelle wa sun tilang ti cine ba fe wang na awa sun fi ba.
For, if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
22 Yenen nene, imon i cine irka na Kutelle na su. Nlong ikot urinjaya Kutenlle wa wunun ale na iwa dui, inlong likot urinjaya Kutelle na dak ati mine uni wa ti ayi a shaeu me, sasa na ni ba, fe wan iwa wernu i finlo. `
See, then, both the goodness and the severity of God – his severity towards those who fell, and his goodness towards you, provided that you continue to confide in that goodness; otherwise you, also, will be cut off.
23 Iwasena ituna nan nya salin yinnu ibashonminu nan nya iba shunmunu nann nya. Bara Kutellẹ nwa nya apirun minu nnan nyẹ.
And they, too, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in; for God has it in his power to graft them in again.
24 fe wang iwa kalafi kiti kuchan nzaitu kusho, ko na litino me din nan nya kusho, ida munu fi nin kuchan nzaitun kilari, nafo na idin suzu belle anun na iyiru litinọ mine, ikuru ishominu kuwa.
If you were cut off from your natural stock – a wild olive – and were grafted, contrary to the course of nature, on a good olive, much more will they – the natural branches – be grafted back into their parent tree.
25 Linuana na iwa so lọn ba, nin nimon liyeshi, bari iwa yita nin yinnu nin kpiluzu nati mine; Israila nase ngbas bat nan nya mine, se na inase ukulu nannan tanni Kutellẹ.
My friends, so that you don’t think too highly of yourselves, I want you to recognise the truth, hitherto hidden, that the callousness which has come over Israel is only partial, and will continue only until the whole Gentile world has been gathered in.
26 Nanere vat nan Israile base utuchu, nafo na ina yerti: “unantuchu ba nuzu nnan nyan Zion; aba kallu udiru kutelle kitin Yakub.
And then all Israel will be saved. As scripture says – “From Zion will come the Deliverer; he will banish ungodliness from Jacob.
27 Likawali nigha lolẹ nan ghinu, nba kalu alapi mine.”
And they will see the fulfilment of my covenant, when I have taken away their sins.”
28 Nlon likot nbellen nliru Kutellẹ, ina nari ani bara anun, nlon likot bara uferu Kutellẹ, anan suuwari barian ka mine.
From the standpoint of the good news, the Jews are God’s enemies for your sake; but from the standpoint of God’s selection, they are dear to him for the sake of the patriarchs.
29 Bara na Kutellẹ wasa akpiliya kibinai mẹ nan nya fillu nin yichilu me ba.
For God never regrets his gifts or his call.
30 Nafo nin chizune ne na iwadi anan dortu Kutellẹ ba, ina se nkune kune Kutellẹ bara udortu me,
Just as you at one time were disobedient to him, but have now found mercy in the day of their disobedience;
31 Nene alẹ Ayahudawe iwa nari udortu Kutellẹ, iwa first nani nkune kune nafo na ina durso minu inung ma nene seru nkune kune.
so, too, they have now become disobedient in your day of mercy, in order that they also in their turn may now find mercy.
32 Kutellẹ na tursu kogha ku nin dirnun dortu me, bara adurọ in nkune kune kitin kogha. (eleēsē g1653)
For God has given all alike over to disobedience, that to all alike he may show mercy. (eleēsē g1653)
33 Kakama, ncham cham nimon nachara inyiru nin yinnu Ketellẹ! Ghari wasa a pizira nan nya nsharamẹ, Tibau me katin likara inyinnu!
Oh! The unfathomable wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments, how untraceable his ways! Yes –
34 “Ghari yiru kibinayi in Chikilarẹ? Sa ghari udon nkpiluzu in nliru me?
ho has ever comprehended the mind of the Lord? Who has ever become his counsellor?
35 Sa ghari na burun ana Kutellẹ imonimon, sa inan kpilla ina ghe?”
Or who has first given to him, so that he may claim a reward?
