Ezekiel 15

1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Ekigambo kya Mukama Katonda ne kinzijira, n’aŋŋamba nti,

2 “Son of man, what can be made from the stalk of a vine, compared to all the plants of the woods that are among the trees of the forests?

“Omwana w’omuntu, omuti gw’omuzabbibu gusinga gutya ettabi ery’omuti ku miti egy’omu kibira?

3 Can any wood be taken from it, so that it may be made into a work, or formed into a peg so as to hang some kind of vessel upon it?

Guvaamu omuti ogukolebwamu ekintu kyonna eky’omugaso? Kiyinzika ogukolamu eŋŋango ey’okuwanikako ekintu kyonna?

4 Behold, it is used in the fire as fuel. The fire consumes both its ends; and its middle is reduced to ashes. So how can it be useful for any work?

Bwe gusuulibwa mu muliro okuba enku, omuliro ne gugwokya eruuyi n’eruuyi, ne wakati ne wasiriira guba gukyaliko kye gugasa?

5 Even when it was whole, it was unsuitable for a work. How much more so, when fire has devoured it and burned it up, will nothing of it be useful?

Bwe guba nga tegwali gwa mugaso nga mulamba, olwo guyinza okubaako kye gugasa nga gwokebbwa mu muliro ne gusiriira?”

6 Therefore, thus says the Lord God: Like the stalk of the vine among the trees of the forests, which I have given to be devoured by fire, so will I deliver the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Mukama Katonda kyava ayogera nti, “Nga bwe njogedde ku muzabbibu mu miti egy’omu kibira, gwe ntadde mu muliro okuba enku, bwe ntyo bwe ndyokya abatuuze ba Yerusaalemi.

7 And I will set my face against them. They will go away from fire, and yet fire will consume them. And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I will have set my face against them,

Ndikyusa amaaso gange ne mbatunuulira, era ne bwe balidduka, omuliro gulibookya, era mulimanya nga nze Mukama Katonda.

8 and when I will have made their land impassable and desolate. For they have stood forth as transgressors, says the Lord God.”

Ndizisa ensi, kubanga tebabadde beesigwa, bw’ayogera Mukama Katonda.”