Isaiah 50
1 Thus says Jehovah, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, with which I have put her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities ye were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was put away.
Yahwe asema hivi, ''Kiko wapi cheti cha talaka ambacho nimempa tataka mama yako? na kwa nani niliowauza mimi? Tazama, umewauza kwa sababu ya dhambi zako, na kwa sababu ya uasi wako, na mama yako amepelekwa mbali.
2 Why, when I came, was there no man? When I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish stink because there is no water, and die for thirst.
Kwa nini nimekuja maana hakuna mtu pale? Kwa nini nimeita lakini hakuna aliyejibu? Je mkono wangu ni mfupi kukufidia wewe? Je hakuna nguvu katika ukombozi wngu kwako? Tazama, maonyo yangu, nimeikausha bahari; nimeufanya mto kuwa jangwa; samaki wake wamekufa na kuoza kwa kukosa maji.
3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
Nimelivisha giza; na ku kwa ngfunika nguo za magunia.''
4 The lord Jehovah has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning. He awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
Bwana Yahwe amenipa mimi lugha kama wale wanayofundishwa, ili kwamba nizungumze maneno ya kudumisha kwa yeye aliyechoka; huniamsha mimi asubuhi kwa asubuhi; huyaamsha masikio yangu kama wale wanofundisha.
5 The lord Jehovah has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, nor turned away backward.
Bwana Yahwe amefungua sikio langu, na sikuaasi, wala kurudi nyuma.
6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I did not hide my face from shame and spitting.
Niliwapa mgongo wangu wale wanaonipiga mimi, na shavu langu kwa wale wanaopokonya nje ndevu zangu; Sitouficha uso wangu kutokana na matendo ya aibu na kutema mate.
7 For the lord Jehovah will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame.
Maana Bwana Yahwe atanisaidia mimi; hivyo basi sitapatwa na aibu; hivyo nimeufanya uso wangu kama jiwe, maana ninajua kwamba sitaabishwa.
8 He is near who justifies me. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
Yeye aliye nitakasa mimi yu karibu. Ni nani atakayenipinga mimi? Basi na tusimame tufarijiane mmoja mmoja. Nani aliye mshitaki? Muache aje karibu na mimi.
9 Behold, the lord Jehovah will help me. Who is he who shall condemn me? Behold, all they shall grow old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
Tazama, Bwana Yahwe atanisaidia mimi. Nani atakayetangaza kuwa mimi ni mwenye hatia? Tazama, watavaa nje kama vazi; mdomo utawala wao juu.
10 Who is among you that fears Jehovah, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of Jehovah, and rely upon his God.
Ni nani miongoni mwenu anayemuogopa Yahwe? Ni nani anayehieshimu sauti ya Yahwe? Ni nani atakayetembea kwenye giza nene pasipo mwanga?
11 Behold, all ye who kindle a fire, who gird yourselves about with firebrands, walk ye in the flame of your fire, and among the brands that ye have kindled. This ye shall have from my hand. Ye shall lie down in sorrow.
Tazama, ninyi nyote mnaowasha, ni nani aliyewapa wenyewe kwa tochi: tembeni katika mwanga wa moto wenu na katika moto mliouwasha. Hili ndilo mlilopokea kutoka kwangu: utalala chini katika mahali pachungu.
