Ezekieli 8
1 Tsiku lachisanu la mwezi wachisanu ndi chimodzi, mʼchaka chachisanu ndi chimodzi, ndinakhala mʼnyumba mwanga pamodzi ndi akuluakulu a ku Yuda. Tsono mphamvu za Ambuye Yehova zinandifikira.
In the sixth year, on the fifth day of the sixth month, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me; and there the hand of the Lord GOD fell upon me.
2 Nditayangʼana ndinangoona chinthu chooneka ngati munthu. Kuchokera pamene pamaoneka ngati chiwuno chake kumatsika mʼmunsi anali ngati moto, ndipo kuchokera mʼchiwuno kukwera mmwamba amaoneka mowala ngati mkuwa wonyezimira.
Then I looked and saw a figure like that of a man. From His waist down His appearance was like fire, and from His waist up He was as bright as the gleam of amber.
3 Iye anatambasula chinthu chooneka ngati dzanja ndipo anagwira tsitsi la pamutu panga. Nthawi yomweyo Mzimu unandikweza mlengalenga. Tsono ndikumachita ngati ndikuona Mulungu kutulo, Mzimu uja unapita nane ku Yerusalemu nundiyika pa khomo la chipata chamʼkati choyangʼana kumpoto. Kumeneko kunali fano limene limaputa mkwiyo wa Mulungu.
He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes jealousy was seated.
4 Kumeneko ndinaona ulemerero wa Mulungu wa Israeli ngati momwe ndinaonera mʼmasomphenya mʼchigwa muja.
And there I saw the glory of the God of Israel, like the vision I had seen in the plain.
5 Tsono Yehova anandiwuza kuti, “Iwe mwana wa munthu, tayangʼana kumpoto.” Choncho ndinayangʼana kumpoto ndipo ndinaona pa khomo la chipata pafupi ndi guwa lansembe ndinaona fano loputa mkwiyo wa Mulungu lija.
“Son of man,” He said to me, “now lift up your eyes to the north.” So I lifted up my eyes to the north, and in the entrance north of the Altar Gate I saw this idol of jealousy.
6 Ndipo Yehova anandifunsa kuti, “Iwe mwana wa munthu, kodi ukuona zimene akuchitazi, zonyansa zazikulu zimene Aisraeli akuchita kuno, zinthu zondichotsa Ine kumalo anga opatulika? Koma iwe udzaona zinthu zimene zili zonyansa kwambiri.”
“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what they are doing—the great abominations that the house of Israel is committing—to drive Me far from My sanctuary? Yet you will see even greater abominations.”
7 Kenaka Iye anandipititsa ku khomo lolowera ku bwalo la Nyumba ya Mulungu. Nditayangʼanitsitsa ndinangoona dzenje pa khomapo.
Then He brought me to the entrance to the court, and I looked and saw a hole in the wall.
8 Yehova anandiwuza kuti, “Iwe mwana wa munthu, tsopano bowola pa khomapo.” Ndinabowoladi pa khomapo ndipo ndinapezapo khomo.
“Son of man,” He told me, “dig through the wall.” So I dug through the wall and discovered a doorway.
9 Ndipo Yehova anandiwuza kuti, “Lowa, ndipo ona zinthu zonyansa zimene akuchita pamenepa.”
Then He said to me, “Go in and see the wicked abominations they are committing here.”
10 Motero Ine ndinalowa ndi kuyangʼana, ndipo ndinaona pa makoma onse zithunzi za zinthu zosiyanasiyana zokwawa pansi, za nyama zonyansa ndiponso za mafano onse amene Aisraeli ankapembedza.
So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel.
11 Patsogolo pa zimenezi panayima akuluakulu makumi asanu ndi awiri a Aisraeli, ndipo Yaazaniya mwana wa Safani anali atayima pakati pawo. Aliyense wa iwo anali ndi chofukizira lubani mʼdzanja lake ndipo utsi wa fungo lokoma la lubani unkafuka.
Before them stood seventy elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising.
12 Tsono Yehova anandifunsa kuti, “Iwe mwana wa munthu, kodi waona zimene akuluakulu a Aisraeli akuchita mu mdima, aliyense akupembedza fano lakelake mʼnyumbamo? Iwo akuti, ‘Yehova sakutiona; Yehova walisiya dziko!’
“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”
13 Iye anandiwuzanso kuti, ‘Iwe udzawaonanso akuchita zinthu zonyansa kwambiri.’”
Again, He told me, “You will see them committing even greater abominations.”
14 Kenaka anapita nane pa khomo la ku khomo la chipata cha Nyumba ya Mulungu choyangʼana kumpoto, ndipo kumeneko ndinaona akazi ena atakhala pansi, akulira mulungu wawo wotchedwa Tamuzi.
Then He brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz.
15 Yehova anandifunsa kuti, “Iwe mwana wa munthu, kodi ukuziona zimenezi? Iwe udzaona zinthu zimene zili zonyansa kwambiri kuposa izi.”
“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Yet you will see even greater abominations than these.”
16 Kenaka Iye anapita nane mʼkati mwa bwalo la Nyumba ya Yehova. Kumeneko ku khomo lolowera ku Nyumba ya Yehova pakati pa khonde ndi guwa lansembe, panali amuna 25. Anafulatira Nyumba ya Mulungu wa Yehova ndipo nkhope zawo zinaloza kummawa, ndipo ankapembedza dzuwa choyangʼana kummawa.
So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.
17 Yehova anandifunsa kuti, “Iwe mwana wa munthu, kodi waziona zimenezi? Kodi nʼchinthu chopepuka kuti anthu a ku Yuda azichita zonyansa zimene akuchitazi pano? Kodi afike mpaka pomafalitsa za ndewu mʼdziko lonse? Iwotu akuwutsa ukali wanga. Akundipsetsa mtima ndi zochita zawo!
“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the branch to their nose!
18 Choncho Ine ndidzawalanga ndili wokwiya. Sindidzawamvera chisoni kapena kuwaleka. Ngakhale atandifuwulira mʼmakutu mwanga sindidzawamvera.”
Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”
