Nahum 1:1-15
1 Wanfala strong message againstim Nineveh: Diswan hem buk wea storyim vision blo Nahum,* man from datfala taon Elkosh:
2 Jehovah hem God wea laekem pipol for worshipim hem nomoa, and hem savve pei bak.Jehovah savve pei bak and hem redi for showimaot kros blo hem.
Jehovah savve pei bak againstim olketa enemy blo hem,And hem keepim kros for olketa enemy blo hem.
3 Jehovah no savve kros kwiktaem and hem garem bigfala paoa,Bat Jehovah bae no hol bak for givim panis wea man fit for kasem.
Hem bae kam witim wind for distroe and big rain,And olketa cloud olsem dust andanit foot blo hem.
4 Hem tok strong lo sea, and hem mekem for drae.And hem mekem evri river wea ran for drae.
Olketa plant lo Bashan and Carmel gogo for drae,And olketa flaoa lo Lebanon gogo for drae.
5 Olketa maunten seksek bikos lo hem,And olketa hill melt.
Earth bae hem olobaot nao bikos lo feis blo hem,Witim land and evriwan wea stap lo hem.
6 Hu nao savve kam againstim hem taem hem kros?
And hu nao savve deal witim kros blo hem wea hot olsem fire?
Bae hem pourimaot kros blo hem olsem fire,And olketa bigfala ston bae smash bikos lo hem.
7 Jehovah hem gud, hem strongfala sef ples lo taem blo trabol.
Hem tingim* olketa wea kam lo hem for stap sef.
8 Hem bae iusim bigfala flood for barava distroem ples blo hem,*And olketa enemy blo Hem, darkness bae aftarem olketa.
9 Wat nao bae iufala planim againstim Jehovah?
Hem bae distroem evri samting.
Trabol bae no happen moa mek-tu taem.
10 Bikos olketa olsem nila grass wea grow raonem each other,And olketa olsem pipol wea drunk lo beer.*Bat olketa bae distroe olsem fire hem bonem drae grass.
11 Man wea mekem nogud plan againstim Jehovah bae kam from iu,Wea givim iusles advaes.
12 Diswan nao wanem Jehovah hem talem:
“Nomata olketa strong fogud and olketa barava staka,Bae mi katem daon olketa and bae olketa finis.*
Mi bin mekem iu* safa, bat bae mi no mekem iu safa enitaem moa.
13 And distaem bae mi brekem yoke* blo hem from iu,And bae mi brekem chain wea olketa taengem lo iu lo tufala haf.
14 Jehovah hem talem disfala komand abaotem iu,*‘Nem blo iu bae no stap moa.
Bae mi tekem aot olketa idol wea iu wakem and olketa metal statue* from haos* blo olketa god blo iu.
Mi bae wakem wanfala grev for iu, bikos iu iusles nomoa.’
15 Lukim! Antap lo olketa maunten hem leg blo man wea tekem kam gud nius,Man wea talemaot peace.
O Judah, celebratem olketa festival blo iu, keepim promis wea iu mekem,Bikos no enitaem moa rabis man bae kam attakim iu.
Hem bae barava distroe.”
Olketa footnote
^ Mining blo hem “Man for Comfortim.”
^ Or, “hem tek kea lo.” Heb., “savve lo.”
^ Diswan hem Nineveh.
^ Or, “beer wea olketa wakem from wheat.”
^ Or maet, “and hem bae go pas.”
^ Diswan hem Judah.
^ Lukim “Yoke” lo Dictionary.
^ Diswan hem Assyria.
^ Or, “metal wea olketa meltim for kamap statue.”
^ Or, “temple.”
