Ezayi 24
1 Seyè a pral souke tè a, li pral ravaje l'. Li pral boulvèse l'. Tout moun ki rete sou tè a pral kouri gaye toupatou.
Some day, Yahweh is going to destroy everything on the earth. He will devastate it and cause it to become a desert and scatter its people.
2 Tout moun pral pase, prèt yo kou moun nan pèp la, esklav yo kou mèt yo, sèvant yo kou metrès yo, sa k'ap vann kou sa k'ap achte, sa k'ap bay ponya kou sa k'ap pran ponya, sa k'ap bay kredi kou sa k'ap pran kredi.
He will scatter everyone— priests and common people, servants and their masters, maids and their mistresses, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, people who owe money and people who are owed money.
3 Yo pral ravaje tout tè a, yo pral piye tout bagay. Seyè a fin pale, se sa ki pou rive.
Nothing that is worth anything will be left on earth; everything valuable will be destroyed. [That will surely happen because] Yahweh has said it.
4 Tout moun sou latè nan lapenn. Yo pa kapab ankò. Pèp la ap plenn, y'ap deperi. Chèf yo ap plenn ansanm ak rès pèp la.
[Everything on] the earth will dry up and die [DOU]; its important people will become weak and unimportant.
5 Moun yo pa respekte peyi Bondye a. Yo pa koute lòd Bondye ba yo. Yo derefize fè sa l' te mande yo fè a, yo derefize obeyi kòmandman Bondye yo. Yo pa kenbe kontra li te fè ak yo pou tout tan an.
The earth has become unacceptable to Yahweh because the people who live on it have disobeyed his laws; they have rejected the agreement that he intended to last forever.
6 Se poutèt sa madichon ap fini ak latè: moun ki rete sou latè ap peye pou sa yo te fè ki mal. Y'ap deperi grenn pa grenn. Se yon ti ponyen ki rete.
Therefore, [Yahweh] will curse the earth; the people who live on it must be punished because of the sins that they have committed. They will be destroyed by fire, and [only a] few people will remain [alive].
7 Pye rezen yo ap fennen. Ou pa ka jwenn diven. Tout moun ki te konn fè fèt yo ap plenn.
The grapevines will wither, and there will be no [grapes to make] wine. All [the people] who were previously happy will then groan and mourn.
8 Yo pa bat tanbou ankò. Pa gen gwo fèt ankò. Yo pa jwe gita ankò.
People will no longer play cheerful songs with tambourines, people will no longer play joyfully on their harps, and people will no longer shout noisily [during their celebrations].
9 Nanpwen chante ankò lè y'ap bwè diven. Gwòg vin anmè nan bouch gwògmann yo.
People will no longer sing while they drink wine, and [all] their alcoholic drinks will taste bitter.
10 Pa gen moun nan lavil la. Yo kite kay yo ap tonbe. Tout pòt kay fèmen, moun pa antre la ankò.
[Towns and] cities will be desolate; every house will be locked to prevent thieves from entering.
11 Nan tout lari moun ap rele paske nanpwen diven ankò. Pa gen fèt rejwisans ankò. Nanpwen kè kontan nan peyi a.
[Mobs] will gather in the streets, wanting wine; no one on the earth will be happy [DOU] any more.
12 Lavil la ap fini, ata pòtay yo fin kraze.
Cities will be ruined and [all] their gates will be battered/broken into pieces.
13 Se konsa sa pral ye nan tout peyi sou latè. Se va tankou apre rekòt lè y'ap gole dènye oliv ki rete nan pye oliv yo, lè y'ap fè grapyay apre rekòt rezen an.
It will be like that all over the earth: [there will only be a few people still alive], like what happens when [workers] beat all the olives off a tree [and there are only a few left], [or] when they harvest the grapes and there are only a few left [on the vines].
14 Sa ki chape yo pral rele, yo pral chante byen fò ak kè kontan. Y'ap rete bò solèy kouche a, yo pral di jan Seyè a gen pouvwa.
But [those who are left alive] will sing joyfully; people [in nations] to the west [of Israel] will declare that Yahweh is very great;
15 Konsa tou, moun ki rete bò solèy leve pral fè lwanj Seyè a. Moun ki rete sou zile nan lanmè a pral fè chante pou Seyè a, Bondye pèp Izrayèl la.
people in nations to the east [of Israel will also] praise Yahweh [MTY]; in countries across the sea, people will praise Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis [worship].
16 Byen lwen nan dènye bout latè, nou tande y'ap chante, y'ap fè lwanj pou moun ki mache dwat yo. Men mwen menm, mwen di: Pa gen rechap pou mwen! Pa gen chape pou mwen! Gade nan kisa m' ye! Trèt yo ap trayi moun toujou! Chak jou y'ap trayi moun pi rèd!
We will hear [people] in the most distant places on the earth singing praise to [Yahweh], the [truly] righteous one. But [now], I am [SYN] very sad. Weep for me, [because] I have become thin and weak. Terrible things are happening! Treacherous [people still] betray/deceive others everywhere [DOU].
17 Nou menm ki rete sou latè, se kè sere, se gwo twou, se pèlen ki pare pou nou!
You people all over the earth, you will be terrified, and you will fall into deep pits and traps/snares.
18 Moun k'ap kouri lè y'a tande rèl moun ki pè yo pral tonbe nan twou. Moun k'ap moute soti nan twou pral pran nan pèlen. Paske gwo lapli a pral tonbe sot nan syèl la. Fondasyon latè pral pran tranble.
Those who [try to] flee because they are terrified will fall into [deep] pits, and those who climb out of the pits will be caught by traps/snares. The sky will split open and torrents [SIM] [of rain will fall]; the foundations of the earth will shake.
19 Latè pral fann, l'ap pete fè miyèt moso. L'ap tranble, l'ap souke tout kò l'.
The earth will split apart and be shattered; it will shake violently.
20 Latè pral balanse tankou moun sou. Li pral souke tankou yon ti joupa lè van ap soufle fò. Peche lèzòm yo peze lou sou li: l'ap tonbe, li p'ap janm ka leve ankò.
[It will be as though] the earth will stagger like [SIM] a drunk; it will shake like [SIM] a hut [shakes in a windstorm]. It will collapse and not [be able to] rise again, [because] the guilt of the people who rebel [against Yahweh] is very great.
21 Jou sa a, Seyè a pral pini zanj yo ki anwo nan syèl la, l'ap pini tout chèf k'ap gouvènen sou latè.
At that time, Yahweh will punish the [wicked] powerful beings in the skies and the wicked kings on the earth.
22 L'ap mete yo ansanm nan prizon nan yon tonm. L'ap fèmen yo nan kacho. Apre yon bon tan, l'ap pini yo.
They will [all] be gathered together and thrown into a dungeon/pit. They will be shut/locked in that dungeon/pit, and later they will be punished.
23 lalin lan pral vin tou nwa. Solèy la p'ap klere ankò, paske Seyè ki gen tout pouvwa a pral sèl wa. Li pral gouvènen nan lavil Jerizalèm sou tèt mòn Siyon an. Tout chèf fanmi pèp li a pral wè gwo pouvwa li.
At that time the light of the moon and the sun will be lessened; [it will be as though] they are ashamed [in the presence of] Yahweh, because he, the Commander of the armies of angels, will rule gloriously (on Zion Hill/in Jerusalem), in the presence of the leaders [of his people].
