Mpitsara 7
1 Dia nifoha maraina koa Jerobala (Gideona izany) sy ny vahoaka rehetra teo aminy ka nitoby teo akaikin’ ny loharano Haroda; ary ny tobin’ ny Midiana kosa teo avarany, teo an-dohasaha anilan’ ny havoana More.
And Jerubba‘al (he [is] Gideon) rises early, and all the people who [are] with him, and they encamp by the well of Harod, and the camp of Midian has been on the south of him, on the height of Moreh, in the valley.
2 Ary hoy Jehovah tamin’ i Gideona: Maro loatra ny vahoaka eo aminao, ka tsy hanolotra ny Midiana eo an-tànany Aho, fandrao hirehareha amiko ny Isiraely ka hanao hoe: Ny tanako ihany no namonjy ahy.
And YHWH says to Gideon, “The people who [are] with you [are] too many for My giving Midian into their hand, lest Israel beautify itself against Me, saying, My hand has given salvation to me;
3 Koa ankehitriny andeha miantso eo anatrehan’ ny vahoaka hoe: Na iza na iza no matahotra sy mangovitra, aoka izy hiverina ka hiala amin’ ny tany havoan’ i Gileada. Dia niverina ny olona roa arivo sy roa alina; fa ny iray alina no sisa.
and now, please call in the ears of the people, saying, Whoever [is] afraid and trembling, let him turn back and go early from Mount Gilead”; and there return twenty-two thousand of the people, and ten thousand have been left.
4 Fa hoy Jehovah tamin’ i Gideona: Mbola maro ihany ny olona; koa ampidino ho eo amin’ ny rano izy, ary eo no hizahako toetra azy ho anao; ary izay holazaiko aminao hoe: Io no hiaraka aminao, dia izy no hiaraka aminao; ary izay rehetra holazaiko aminao hoe: Io no tsy hiaraka aminao, dia izy kosa no tsy hiaraka aminao.
And YHWH says to Gideon, “The people [are] yet too many; bring them down to the water, and I refine him for you there; and it has been, he of whom I say to you, This goes with you—he goes with you; and any of whom I say to you, This does not go with you—he does not go.”
5 Ary dia nampidinin’ i Gideona ho eo amin’ ny rano ny olona; ary hoy Jehovah taminy: Izay rehetra milelaka rano amin’ ny lelany tahaka ny filelaky ny amboa dia atokàny, ary izay rehetra mandohalika kosa hisotro dia atokàny koa.
And he brings the people down to the water, and YHWH says to Gideon, “Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue as the dog laps—you set him apart; also everyone who bows on his knees to drink.”
6 Ary telon-jato lahy no isan’ izay nanainga ny tànany tamin’ ny vavany ka nilelaka; fa ny olona sisa rehetra dia nandohalika hisotro rano.
And the number of those lapping with their hand to their mouth is three hundred men, and all the rest of the people have bowed down on their knees to drink water.
7 Ary hoy Jehovah tamin’ i Gideona: Ny telon-jato lahy izay nilelaka rano no hamonjeko anareo ka hanolorako ny Midiana eo an-tananao; fa aoka ny olona sisa rehetra samy hody any amin’ ny fonenany avy.
And YHWH says to Gideon, “I save you by the three hundred men who are lapping, and have given Midian into your hand, and all the people go, each to his place.”
8 Ary ny olona nitondra vatsy sy ny anjomarany teny an-tànany; ary ny Isiraely sisa dia nalefany hody samy ho any amin’ ny lainy avy, fa ny telon-jato lahy ihany no nohazoniny; ary ny tobin’ ny Midiana dia teo ambaniny teo an-dohasaha.
And the people take the provision in their hand, and their horns, and he has sent every man of Israel away, each to his tents; and he has kept hold on the three hundred men, and the camp of Midian has been by him at the lower part of the valley.
9 Ary tamin’ izany alina izany dia hoy Jehovah tamin’ i Gideona: Mitsangàna, midìna ho any amin’ ny toby ianao; fa efa natolotro eo an-tananao io.
And it comes to pass, on that night, that YHWH says to him, “Rise, go down into the camp, for I have given it into your hand;
10 Fa raha matahotra hidina ianao, dia aoka hidina miaraka aminao ho any amin’ ny toby Pora zatovonao;
and if you are afraid to go down—go down, you and your young man Phurah, to the camp,
11 dia ho renao izay lazain’ ny olona, ary rehefa afaka izany, dia hampaherezina ny tananao hidinanao any amin’ ny toby. Dia nidina niaraka tamin’ i Pora zatovony izy ho any an-tsisin’ ny olona efa voaomana hiady, izay teo amin’ ny toby.
and you have heard what they speak, and afterward your hands are strengthened, and you have gone down against the camp.” And he goes down, he and his young man Phurah, to the extremity of the fifties who [are] in the camp;
12 Ary ny Midiana sy ny Amalekita ary ny zanaky ny atsinanana rehetra dia nandry teny an-dohasaha, tahaka ny valala ny hamarony; ary tsy hita isa ny ramevany, tahaka ny fasika any amoron-dranomasina ny hamarony.
and Midian, and Amalek, and all the sons of the east are lying in the valley, as the locust for multitude, and of their camels there is no number, as sand which [is] on the seashore for multitude.
13 Ary raha tonga tao Gideona, indro, nisy lehilahy nilaza nofy tamin’ ny namany ka nanao hoe: Nanonofy aho, ka, indro, nisy mofo vary hordea nikodiadia ho eo amin’ ny tobin’ ny Midìna ka nankamin’ ny lay anankiray, dia nampiongana ka nampivadika azy, ka dia nipetraka teo ny lay.
And Gideon comes in, and behold, a man is recounting a dream to his companion, and says, “Behold, I have dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley-bread is turning itself over into the camp of Midian, and it comes to the tent, and strikes it, and it falls, and turns it upwards, and the tent has fallen.”
14 Dia namaly ilay namany ka nanao hoe: Tsy zavatra hafa izany, fa ny sabatr’ i Gideona, zanak’ i Joasy, lehilahy Isiraelita, mihitsy: efa natolotr’ Andriamanitra eo an-tànany ny Midiana sy ny toby rehetra.
And his companion answers and says, “This is nothing except the sword of Gideon son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given Midian and all the camp into his hand.”
15 Ary rehefa ren’ i Gideona ny filàzany ny nofy sy ny heviny, dia nivavaka izy; ary niverina ho any amin’ ny tobin’ ny Isiraely izy ka nanao hoe: Mitsangàna, fa efa natolotr’ i Jehovah eo an-tananareo ny tobin’ ny Midiana.
And it comes to pass, when Gideon hears the narration of the dream and its interpretation, that he bows himself, and turns back to the camp of Israel, and says, “Rise, for YHWH has given the camp of Midian into your hand.”
16 Dia nozarainy telo toko ny telon-jato lahy, ary samy nomeny anjomara iray avy ho eny an-tànany ary siny tsy nisy rano sy fanilo tao anatin’ ny siny.
And he divides the three hundred men [into] three detachments, and puts horns into the hand of all of them, and empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
17 Dia hoy izy taminy: Mijere ahy ianareo, ka manaova araka izay ataoko; ary, indro, raha mankany amin’ ny sisin’ ny toby aho, dia izay ataoko ihany no mba ataovinareo koa.
And he says to them, “Look at me, and thus do; and behold, I am coming into the extremity of the camp—and it has been—as I do so you do;
18 Raha mitsoka ny anjomara izaho sy izay miaraka amiko, dia mba mitsofa ny anjomara manodidina ny toby rehetra koa ianareo, ka miantsoa hoe: An’ i Jehovah sy Gideona!
and I have blown with a horn—I and all who [are] with me, and you have blown with horns, even you, around all the camp, and have said, For YHWH and for Gideon!”
19 Dia nankany amin’ ny sisin’ ny toby tamin’ ny fiandohan’ ny fiambenana faharoa Gideona sy ny zato lahy izay teo aminy; raha vao nalatsaka ny fiambenana; dia nitsoka ny anjomara ireo sady namaky ny siny teny an-tanany.
And Gideon comes—and the hundred men who [are] with him—into the extremity of the camp, [at] the beginning of the middle watch (they had just posted watchmen), and they blow with horns—also dashing in pieces the pitchers which [are] in their hand;
20 Dia mba nitsoka ny anjomara avokoa ny telo toko sady namaky ny sininy, ka nihazona ny fanilo teny an-tànany ankavia ary ny anjomara teny an-tànany ankavanana mba hotsofiny; dia niantso hoe izy: Ny sabatr’ i Jehovah sy Gideona!
and the three detachments blow with horns, and break the pitchers, and keep hold with their left hand on the lamps, and with their right hand on the horns to blow, and they cry, “The sword of YHWH and of Gideon!”
21 Ary samy nijanona teo amin’ ny fitoerany avy manodidina ny toby izy rehetra; dia nihazakazaka ny miaramila rehetra ka ninananana sady nandositra.
And they each stand in his place, around the camp, and all the camp runs, and they shout, and flee;
22 Dia nitsoka ny anjomara ny telon-jato lahy, ary nampifamelezin’ i Jehovah tamin’ ny sabatra ny miaramila eran’ ny toby rehetra, dia nandositra hatrany Beti-sita izy ka hatrany Zereraha sy hatramin’ ny fari-tanin’ i Abela-mehola akaiky an’ i Tabata.
and the three hundred blow the horns, and YHWH sets the sword of each against his companion, even through all the camp; and the camp flees to Beth-Shittah, at Zererath, to the border of Abel-Meholah, by Tabbath.
23 Dia nivory ny lehilahy amin’ ny Isiraely avy tamin’ ny Naftaly sy ny Asera ary ny Manase rehetra ka nanenjika ny Midiana.
And the men of Israel are called from Naphtali, and from Asher, and from all Manasseh, and pursue after Midian.
24 Ary Gideona naniraka olona hitety ny tany havoan’ i Efraima rehetra ka nanao hoe: Midìna hisakana ny Midiana, ka vonjeo ny rano eo alohany hatrany Beti-bara sy Jordana. Dia nivory ny lehilahy rehetra amin’ ny Efraima ka namonjy ny rano hatrany Beti-bara sy Jordana.
And Gideon has sent messengers into all the hill-country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down to meet Midian, and capture the waters from them as far as Beth-Barah, and the Jordan”; and every man of Ephraim is called, and they capture the waters as far as Beth-Barah, and the Jordan,
25 Ary nisambotra ny andriana roa lahy amin’ ny Midiana izy, dia Oreba sy Zeba, ary Oreba novonoiny teo ambonin’ ny vatolampin’ i Oreba, ary Zeba novonoiny teo amin’ ny famiazam-boalobok’ i Zeba, dia nanenjika ny Midiana izy; ary ny lohan’ i Oreba sy Zeba dia nentiny tany amin’ i Gideona tany an-dafin’ i Jordana.
and they capture two of the heads of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb, and slay Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and they have slain Zeeb at the wine-vat of Zeeb, and they pursue into Midian; and they have brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.
