7 Vangi meatin keil houlu umai ven Sion keke vahi baptaes en keil. Ka Sion selus keih min hetetamen onen Siu keil koa umai veni vit, “!Ei, kami mivi vangi tetal tisa keil koa mimul mirili meatin keil en ongomi! ?Isei sel kat kami keke mivalohosai ran mahien koa Ahi hesani min kami?[f] 8 Hetahos imok keke, helamu, mihoumon sakien koa hetie lati keke miviles ran tisaen keil onami anatin. Ka minahitentei minahit, ‘Komai meherkurtei mahien veni Ebraham vi vati avu onomai ka Ahi rie lat komai mevi onen.’ Ka naviteni min kami keke koanek rovitei anatin, veni Ahi kilea vatie lat ahat keil ekek ka hesakin keil imai ihi ekek avahi havin Ebraham keil keke avahi meatin keil kati onen.[g] 9 Keitinek, Ahi sak mesein teiai onen tuai vatei lat vatiai keil koa arsontei heite koa tahos. Anatin, itei lat keil ka ison keil iha en ahang.”[h]
10 Ka vangi meatin keil enek avis Sion avit, “?Hesakini, komai mehoumon sa?”
11 Sion viteni min keil vit, “Munak tai en kami, eisin omon elu, hesan tai min meatin koa omon tovuol. Munak tai en kami, anien an mul, hesan tei min meatin sav koa an tovuol.”
12 Evus, meatin keil ten takis emun umai keke Sion vahi baptaes en keil, ka avisi avit, “?Tiser, mehoumon sa varei keke mevamal en meten Ahi?”[i]
13 Sakini, Sion viteni min keil vit, “Minalahtei mani ten takis nalin asa koa mengkatien ten kavmen viteni.”
14 Ka meatin tavaeen keil emun umai avisi avit, “?Ka mukave en komai? ?Mehoumon sa keke mevamal en meten Ahi?”
15 Navong meatin keil along tounah koa Sion mul viteni, amundemi houlu usili ral min sien ka aviteni min keil eris avit, “Vahesa Sion varei vi Mesaea koa Ahi vat kati keke hesani hemai.”
16 Navong Sion longe mukok, vit risi min keil vit, “Narvitei Mesaea. Inau namul navi baptaes en kami en oai enges. Ka kei koa hemai hekatau enau, kei hehi hetetamen imok helin nau, ka narvinvintei makulat sandel onen. Kei varei hehi baptaes en kami en Ninin Votut ka en ahang.[j][k] 17 Kei sak mesei tuai vatiti vas meatin vasi keil hesuval meatin koa kur savel keke vaso lelat uti uit vaha ran ingeite. Uti uit koa hetahos, helah ruaini heha en eim onen; ka ingeite keil teni, heniti en mari ahang koa sakras vamat.” 18 En sakien enek, Sion sel kat meatin keil ka vitehiten more longlongien onen Ahi min keil.
19 Ka navong Sion mul mumon umen onen, selus keih va kat asuv houlu Herod Antipas veni kur ahin onen tunali mai vi ahin onen, isen Herodias. Sion selus emun va kat Herod ven tounah sav vasi keil koa mumoni koa romaltei.[l] 20 Sakini, Herod mumon tounah tai koa tisa mok mulin tounah sav keil koa mumoni: kei viteni keke meatin tavaeen keil onen avaha avahuli kat Sion ka avasoni vaha en eim takeih.
- a Mat 3:1-12; Mak 1:1-8; Sion 1:19-28
- b Luk 1:80
- c Umen 13:24; 19:4
- d Aes 40:3-5
- e Luk 2:30-31; Umen 28:28; Taet 2:11
- f Mat 12:34; 23:33
- g Sion 8:39
- h Mat 7:19; Sion 15:6
- i Luk 7:29
- j Ahang koanek hean motein koakeil amusil kat revi Iesu, ka hean lin koakeil armusiltei.
- k Umen 13:25
- l Mat 14:3-4; Mak 6:17-18
- m Mat 3:13-17; Mak 1:9-11
- n Sion 1:32; Sen 22:2; Sam 2:7; Aes 42:1; Mat 12:18; 17:5; Mak 9:7; Luk 9:35; 2Pit 1:17
- o Mat 1:1-17
- p Luk 4:22; Sion 6:42
- q Esra 3:2
- r 1Saml 16:1,13
- s Rut 4:17-22
- t Sen 35:23
- u Sen 25:26
- v Sen 21:3
- w Sen 4:25–5:32
- x Sen 4:25