Di Papa Comot From Im Pikin Wey No Dey Faithful
Everytin dark from start to finish. Festivals no go bring comfort, exile mean say dem go chop unclean food for Assyria, and dem call the prophet craze man. The hardest lines ask our Papa make e give Ephraim belle wey go dey miscarry. E end with people wey dey wander for inside the nations, and no promise follow am.
9 1No rejoice, Israel; no dey shout for joy like di nations. Because you no dey faithful, you don forsake your Papa; you don love wetin dem dey pay ashawo for every threshing floor.
2Threshing floor and winepress no go feed dem, and di new wine go fail dem. 3Dem no go remain for our Papa im land; Ephraim go return go Egypt, and for Assyria dem go chop food wey no clean. 4Dem no go pour wine offerings give our Papa, and dem sacrifice no go please am. Dem bread go be like di bread of people wey dey mourn; everybody wey chop am go become unclean. Because dem bread go only feed dem hunger; e no go enter di house of our Papa.
5Wetin you go do for di day of di feast wey dem don appoint, for di day of our Papa im festival? 6Because look—dem dey run comot from destruction, but Egypt go gather dem and Memphis go bury dem. Nettles go cover dem silver treasures; thorns go full dem tents.
7Di days of punishment don come; di days of reckoning don come—make Israel know am! Di prophet na fool, di man wey di spirit inspire don craze, because your sin plenty and your hostility plenty. 8Di prophet na di watchman of Ephraim, wey dey with my Papa; but bird trap dey for all im paths, and hostility dey for di house of im Papa. 9Dem don sink deep inside corruption, like for di days of Gibeah. E go remember dem wrongdoing; e go punish dem sins. a a v9 Gibeah na di place wey terrible gang rape happen wey cause tribal civil war — Israel im darkest hour (Judges 19–20).
10Like grapes for di wilderness na so I find Israel; like di first fruit wey dey for fig tree for im first season na so I see your ancestors. But dem come go Baal-peor and give demself to shame, and dem come become as detestable as di thing wey dem love. b b v10 For Baal-peor, Israel worship pagan god come fall into mass sexual immorality — dem first great betrayal for di promised land (Numbers 25). 11Ephraim im glory go fly comot like bird—no birth, no pregnancy, no conception. 12Even if dem raise dem children, I go take dem comot until nobody remain. Yes, wahala dey for dem when I turn my back from dem! 13Ephraim, as I don see, dem plant am like Tyre for meadow; but Ephraim must lead im children comot go di slaughter.
14Give dem, our Papa—wetin you go give dem? Give dem womb wey go miscarry and dry breasts.
15“All dem evil dey for Gilgal; na dia I reject dem because of dem evil deeds; I go drive dem comot from my house; I no go show dem my love again; all dem officials na rebels. 16Dem don strike Ephraim down; dem root don dry; dem no go bear fruit. Even if dem born, I go kill dem beloved children.”
17My Papa go reject dem because dem no listen to am; dem go become people wey dey waka wanda among di nations.
