De Postle Dem 27:4-33

⁴We gone on fom Sidon. Bot cause dey been a heapa breeze ginst we, we gone an sail by de islant name Cyprus, pon de side weh dey ain been much breeze.

⁵We cross de wata close ta Cilicia an Pamphylia an gone on ta Myra dey een Lycia.

⁶Een Myra de offisa find a big boat dat come fom Alexandria. De boat been gwine sail fa Italy, so e pit we pon dat boat.

⁷De boat beena gwine slow fa plenty day. E ain been easy, bot at las we manage fa git close ta a town name Cnidus. De scrong breeze ain leh we go de way we been wahn fa go, so we sail down by Crete islant weh de breeze ain da blow scrong. We pass close ta Salmone.

⁸De breeze beena blow mo scronga, so e ain been easy. Bot we keep close by de sho til we git ta a place name Fair Havens, close ta de city name Lasea.

⁹Now we done been loss tommuch time, cause e done been atta de day wen de Jew people beena hab dey fast dat yeah, an de wata been too rough. So Paul waan de oda people een de boat.

¹⁰E tell um say, “Oona me fren, A see dat we trabel now gwine mek we suffa tommuch wen we come outta yah. Dey gwine be plenty haam ta we, an de load, an de boat too. An dey gwine be loss ob life too.”

¹¹Bot de aamy offisa ain tek wa Paul say. E listen ta wa de boat captain an de man wa own de boat say.

¹²De haaba weh dey been ain been good fa stay een oba de winta time. So mos all de man dem been wahn fa sail outta dey an go on an try fa reach Phoenix. Dat been a haaba een Crete dat open ta de wata ta soutwest an ta de nortwest. Dey been wahn fa stay dey til de winta been pass.

¹³A leetle breeze fom de sout staat fa blow, an de man dem been tink dey kin sail like dey been plan. So dey loose de boat an sail um pass, close ta de sho ob Crete Islant.

¹⁴Purty soon, a big, big wind like a hurricane blow down fom de islant. Dey call dat wind de “Norteasta.”

¹⁵De wind shake de boat scrong. Dey try fa ton de boat fa go ginst de wind an sail ta Crete, bot de big wind ain leh we go dat way. So we ain try dat no mo, an we leh de wind tek de boat long.

¹⁶De breeze ain blow so bad wiles we beena pass sout ob a leetle islant name Cauda. Dey we manage fa fix de small lifeboat mo betta pon de big boat, bot dat ain been easy fa do.

¹⁷De man dem pull de lifeboat eenta de big boat. Den dey tie rope tight roun de big boat fa mek sho e ain gwine fall apaat. Sandbank been dey een de wata close ta de sho ob Libya, so dey been scaid dat de big boat gwine fasten dey pon de sandbank. Dey pull de sail down an leh de wind tek de boat long.

¹⁸De boat beena shake tommuch een de big storm. So de nex day, dey staat fa shrow way some ob de boat load eenta de wata.

¹⁹De tird day, dey tek an pull some ob de ting dem like sail an tackle fom eenside de boat an shrow um way eenta de wata.

²⁰Fa plenty day, we ain been able fa see de sun an we ain been able fa see de staa. An de wind keep on da blow scrong, til at las we beena tink we gwine dead fa sho.

²¹De man dem een de boat ain nyam nottin fa a long time. Paul stanop wen dey geda togeda an say, “Oona been spose fa tek wa A been tell oona, wen A say oona ain oughta sail fom Crete. Den we ain beena haffa suffa all dis damage an loss.

²²Bot now, A da beg oona, mus tek courage! Nobody ain gwine dead. Jes de boat gwine git stroy.

²³Las night de God dat A blongst ta an dat A da woshup, e sen e angel ta me. Dat angel come stan by me.

²⁴E say, ‘Paul, mus dohn feah! Ya haffa stanop fo Caesar een Rome. An God show e blessin. E done gii ya all dem dat da sail wid ya. Nobody ain gwine dead.’

²⁵So oona mus tek courage! Cause A trus God dat all e done tell me, e gwine happen jes like e say.

²⁶Bot de wind gwine blow we ta sho pon some islant.”

²⁷Pon de day dat mek foteen, een de night, de big wind still beena dribe de big boat cross de Mediterranean Sea. Een de middle ob de night time, de man dem dat beena wok dey een de boat been tink we beena come close ta sho.

²⁸So dey drop line fa medja, an dey find dat de wata been one hundud an twenty foot deep. Atta leetle wile, dey medja de wata gin, an dey find dat de wata been ninety foot deep.

²⁹De man dem dat wok een de boat been scaid dat de boat gwine smash op pontop ob dem big stone close ta de sho. So dey drop fo anka down eenta de wata fom de back ob de boat fa try fa mek de boat stop fa drift. An dey beena pray fa mek day clean.

³⁰Den de man dem dat beena wok een de big boat try fa scape fom dey. Dey leh down de small lifeboat dat been dey eenside de big boat pon de wata, an dey mek like dey gwine pit out some anka fom de front ob de boat.

³¹Paul tell de aamy offisa an de sodja dem say, “Ef dem man yah ain stay eenside de big boat, oona gwine dead!”

³²So de sodja dem cut de rope dat been tie fa hole de small lifeboat, an leh de lifeboat gone way eenta de wata.

³³Jes fo day clean, Paul beg all de man dem fa nyam, say, “Fa foteen day now oona beena wait, an oona ain nyam nottin.