Ezekiel 15
1 Yahweh gave me another message. [He said],
Yehova anayankhulanso nane kuti,
2 “You human, the wood of a grapevine is certainly not [RHQ] more useful that the branches of the trees in a forest.
“Iwe mwana wa munthu, kodi mtengo wamphesa umapambana bwanji mtengo wina uliwonse? Nthambi zake zimapambana bwanji nthambi ina iliyonse.
3 No one [RHQ] ever takes a branch of a grapevine and makes anything [useful] from it. No one [RHQ] even makes pegs from them to hang things on.
Mtengo umene uja nʼkupangira chiyani? Kodi anthu angathe kupangira chikhomo chokolekapo zinthu zawo?
4 And after a branch of a grapevine is thrown into a fire, and the fire burns both ends and chars/scorches the branch in the middle, will it then be useful for anything?
Taonani, ndi nkhuni chabe zosonkhera moto. Ukaponyedwa pa moto monga nkhuni ndi kuyaka mbali zonse ndi kusanduka makala, kodi ungagwiritsidwe ntchito ina iliyonse?
5 No; if it was not useful for anything before it was burned, it certainly cannot [made into something] useful after the fire has burned and charred it.
Ngati pamene unali wosapsa sukanatheka kuwugwiritsa ntchito, nanga bwanji utapserera ndi moto, adzawugwiritsa ntchito bwanji?
6 Therefore, this is what [I], Yahweh the Lord, say: The wood of grapevines is useful only for fuel in a fire. Similarly, the people who live in [are useless].
“Nʼchifukwa chake Ambuye Yehova akuti, ‘Mtengo wamphesa ndidzawuponya mʼmoto monga ndimachitira ndi mitengo ina ya ku nkhalango. Momwemonso ndidzachita ndi anthu a ku Yerusalemu.
7 I will reject [IDM] them. [It will be as though] they have escaped from a fire, but there will still be a fire that will burn them up. And when I punish [EUP] them, you [people who remain alive] will know that I, Yahweh, [have done it].
Ndidzawalanga pamenepo ngakhale iwo atuluka pa moto, motowo udzawatenthabe. Ndipo pamene ndidzatsutsana nawo, mudzadziwa kuti Ine ndine Yehova.
8 I will cause your country to become a wasteland because your people have not been loyal [to me. That is what I], Yahweh, the Lord, say.”
Ine ndidzasandutsa dziko kukhala chipululu chifukwa anthu akhala osakhulupirika, akutero Ambuye Yehova.’”
