How Terrible for Those Who Feel Secure When They Shouldn’t
1How terrible it will be for you men
who are so contented on Mount Zion!
How terrible for you who feel secure
on the hill of Samaria!
You are famous men from the greatest nation.
The people of Israel come to you
for help and advice.
2Go and look at the city of Kalneh.
Go from there to the great city of Hamath.
Then go down to Gath in Philistia.
Are those places better off than your two kingdoms?
Is their land larger than yours?
3You are trying to avoid the time
when trouble will come.
But you are only bringing closer
the Assyrian rule of terror.
4You lie down on beds
that are decorated with ivory.
You rest on your couches.
You eat the best lambs
and the fattest calves.
5You pluck away on your harps as David did.
You play new songs on musical instruments.
6You drink wine by the bowlful.
You use the finest lotions.
But Joseph’s people will soon be destroyed.
And you aren’t even sad about it.
7So you will be among the first
to be taken away as prisoners.
You won’t be able to enjoy good food.
You won’t lie around on couches anymore.
The Lord Hates the Pride of Israel
8The Lord and King has made a promise in his own name. He is the Lord God who rules over all. He announces,
“I hate the pride of Jacob’s people.
I can’t stand their forts.
I will hand the city of Samaria
and everything in it over to their enemies.”
9Ten people might be left in one house. If they are, they will die there. 10Relatives might come to burn the dead bodies. If they do, they’ll have to carry them out of the house first. They might ask someone still hiding there, “Is anyone else here with you?” If the answer is no, the relatives will go on to say, “Be quiet! We must not pray in the Lord’s name.”
11That’s because the Lord has already given an order.
He will smash large houses to pieces.
He will crush small houses to bits.
12Horses don’t run on rocky ground.
People don’t plow the sea with oxen.
But you have turned fair treatment into poison.
You have turned the fruit of right living into bitterness.
13You are happy because you captured the town of Lo Debar.
You say, “We were strong enough to take Karnaim too.”
14But the Lord God rules over all. He announces, “People of Israel,
I will stir up a nation against you.
They will crush you from Lebo Hamath
all the way down to the Arabah Valley.”
Mukama anenya abali mu Mirembe
16:1 a Luk 6:24 b Is 32:9-11Zibasanze abo abateefiirayo mu Sayuuni,
n’abo abawulira emirembe ku lusozi lw’e Samaliya.
Mmwe abasajja abeekitiibwa ab’ensi enkulembeze,
abantu ba Isirayiri gye beeyuna.
26:2 a Lub 10:10 b 2Bk 18:34 c 2By 26:6 d Nak 3:8Mugende mulabe e Kalune;
muveeyo mulage mu Kamasi ekikulu,
ate era muserengete mu kibuga ky’Abafirisuuti eky’e Gaasi.
Basinga obwakabaka bwammwe obubiri?
Ensi yaabwe esinga eyammwe obunene?
36:3 Is 56:12; Am 9:10Mulindiriza olunaku olw’ekibi,
ate ne musembeza effugabbi.
46:4 Ez 34:2-3; Am 3:12Mugalamira ku bitanda ebyakolebwa mu masanga
ne muwummulira mu ntebe ennyonvu
nga muvaabira ennyama y’endiga
n’ey’ennyana ensava.
56:5 a Is 5:12; Am 5:23 b 1By 15:16Mwekubira ennanga nga Dawudi bwe yakolanga,
ne muyiiya n’ennyimba ku bivuga.
66:6 a Am 2:8 b Ez 9:4Mwekatankira wayini,
ne mwesiiga n’ebizigo ebirungi,
naye temukaabira kubonaabona kwa Yusufu.
7Noolwekyo mmwe mulisooka okugenda mu buwaŋŋanguse.
Era embaga zammwe n’okwewummuza birikoma.
86:8 a Lub 22:16; Beb 6:13 b Lv 26:30 c Zab 47:4 d Am 4:2 e Ma 32:19Mukama Katonda ow’Eggye alayidde, Mukama Katonda Ayinzabyonna agamba nti,
“Neetamiddwa amalala ga Yakobo,
nkyawa ebigo bye,
era nzija kuwaayo ekibuga
ne byonna ebikirimu eri abalabe baakyo.”
96:9 Am 5:3Era singa ennyumba eneeba ekyalinawo abasajja ekkumi abasigaddewo, nabo balifa. 106:10 a 1Sa 31:12 b Am 8:3Era singa ow’ekika akola ku by’okuziika, anaaba afulumya amagumba n’abuuza oba waliwo omuntu yenna eyeekwese munda mu nnyumba, oba alina gwe yeekwese naye, n’addamu nti, “Nedda,” olwo omuziisi anaamusirisa ng’agamba nti, “Sirika; tetwogera ku linnya lya Mukama.”
116:11 a Am 3:15 b Is 55:11Laba Mukama alagidde,
ennyumba ennene erimenyebwamenyebwa,
n’ennyumba entono erimenyebwamenyebwa.
126:12 a Kos 10:4 b Am 5:7Kisoboka embalaasi okuddukira ku mayinja?
Waali wabaddewo abalima ku mayinja n’enkumbi ezisikibwa ente?
Naye obwenkanya mubufudde obutwa
n’ekibala eky’obutuukirivu ne mukifuula ekikaawa.
136:13 Yob 8:15; Is 28:14-15Mwenyumiririza bwereere nti muli b’amaanyi olw’okuba nga mwawamba ekibuga Lodeba.
Mwogera nti, “Tetwawamba Kanayimu n’amaanyi gaffe?”
146:14 a Yer 5:15 b 1Bk 8:65 c Am 3:11Mukama Katonda ow’Eggye agamba nti,
“Ndibasindikira eggwanga libalumbe, mmwe ennyumba ya Isirayiri;
liribajooga ebbanga lyonna
okuva e Lebo Kamasi okutuuka mu kiwonvu kye Alaba.”
