Mwet Nununku 10

1 Tukun misa lal Abimelech, Tola, wen natul Puah su ma natul Dodo, el tuyak in aksukosokyela mwet Israel. El mwet in sruf lal Issachar ac el muta in acn Shamir infulan eol in Ephraim.

After Abimelech there arose a ruler in Israel, Thola son of Phua the uncle of Abimelech, a man of Issachar, who dwelt in Samir of mount Ephraim:

2 El kol mwet Israel ke lusen yac longoul tolu. Na el misa, ac pukpuki el in acn Shamir.

And he judged Israel three and twenty years, and he died and was buried in Samir.

3 Tokol Tola, Jair, sie mwet Gilead, el kol mwet Israel yac longoul luo.

To him succeeded Jair the Galaadite, who judged Israel for two and twenty years.

4 Oasr wen tolngoul natul, ac oasr donkey tolngoul natulos elos kasrusr fac. Oasr siti tolngoul selos in acn Gilead, ac siti inge srakna pangpang siti sel Jair.

Having thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and were princes of thirty cities, which from his name were called Havoth Jair, that is, the towns of Jair, until this present day in the land of Galaad.

5 Jair el misa, ac pukpuki el in acn Kamon.

And Jair died: and was buried in the place which was called Camon.

6 Mwet Israel elos sifilpa oru ma koluk ye mutun LEUM GOD ke elos alu nu sin Baal ac Astarte, oayapa god lun mwet Syria, mwet Sidon, mwet Moab, mwet Ammon, ac mwet Philistia. Elos forla liki LEUM GOD ac tia sifil alu nu sel.

But the children of Israel, adding new sins to their old ones, did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served idols, Baalim and Astaroth, and the gods of Syria and of Sidon and of Moab and of the children of Ammon and of the Philistines: and they left the Lord, and did not serve him.

7 Na LEUM GOD El kasrkusrakak sin mwet Israel, ac El eisalosyang nu inpoun mwet Philistia ac mwet Ammon.

And the Lord being angry with them, delivered them into the hands of the Philistines and of the children of Ammon.

8 Ke lusen yac singoul oalkosr mwet inge elos akkeokye ac akongoiya mwet Israel su muta in facl lun mwet Amor kutulap in Infacl Jordan in acn Gilead.

And they were afflicted, and grievously oppressed for eighteen years, all they that dwelt beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorrhite, who is in Galaad:

9 Na mwet Ammon elos fahsr sasla Infacl Jordan ac mweuni pac mwet in sruf lal Judah, sruf lal Benjamin, ac sruf lal Ephraim. Ouinge mwet Israel elos muta in ongoiya lulap.

Insomuch that the children of Ammon passing over the Jordan, wasted Juda and Benjamin and Ephraim: and Israel was distressed exceedingly.

10 Mwet Israel elos wowoyak nu sin LEUM GOD ac fahk, “Kut orekma koluk ye motom ke kut forla liki kom, God lasr, ac alu nu sin Baal.”

And they cried to the Lord, and said: We have sinned against thee, because we have forsaken the Lord our God, and have served Baalim.

11 Pa inge ma LEUM GOD El fahk nu selos, “Mwet Egypt, mwet Amor, mwet Ammon, mwet Philistia,

And the Lord said to them: Did not the Egyptians and the Amorrhites, and the children of Ammon and the Philistines,

12 mwet Sidon, mwet Amalek, ac mwet Maon elos akkeokye kowos in pacl somla, ac kowos tuh wowoyak nu sik. Ya nga tuh tia molikowosla lukelos?

The Sidonians also and Amalec and Chanaan oppress you, and you cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand?

13 A kowos tuh forla likiyu ac alu nu sin god saya. Ke ma inge, nga ac fah tia sifil moli kowos.

And yet you have forsaken me, and have worshipped strange gods: therefore I will deliver you no more:

14 Fahla ac wowoyak nu sin god kowos sulela ingan. Lela elos in moli kowos ke pacl kowos sun ongoiya.”

Go and call upon the gods which you have chosen: let them deliver you in the time of distress.

15 A mwet Israel elos fahk nu sin LEUM GOD, “Pwaye, kut orekma koluk. Oru kutena ma kom lungsum in oru nu sesr, tusruktu nunak munas, molikutla misenge.”

And the children of Israel said to the Lord: We have sinned, do thou unto us whatsoever pleaseth thee: only deliver us this time.

16 Na elos sisla god lun mutunfacl saya su elos tuh alu nu se, ac elos alu nu sin LEUM GOD. Na El arulana pakomutalos mwet Israel, lah elos muta in ongoiya lulap.

And saying these things, they cast away out of their coasts all the idols of strange gods and served the Lord their God: and he was touched with their miseries.

17 Na mwet Ammon elos akoo in mweuni mwet Israel, ac elos tulokunak lohm nuknuk selos in acn Gilead. Mwet Israel elos fahsreni ac muta in acn Mizpah in acn Gilead pacna.

And the children of Ammon shouting together, pitched their tents in Galaad: against whom the children of Israel assembled themselves together and camped in Maspha.

18 Na mwet kol lun mwet Israel in kais sie sruf elos asiyuki sie sin sie ac fahk, “Su ac fah mwet kol lasr ke mweun se inge lain mwet Ammon? Mwet se na ma ac kol mweun se inge, el pa ac kol mwet nukewa in acn Gilead.”

And the princes of Galaad said one to another: Whosoever of us shall first begin to fight against the children of Ammon, he shall be the leader of the people of Galaad.