Isaiah 48
1 “Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by the LORD’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness—
Mihainoa, ry taranak’ i Jakoba, dia ianareo izay antsoina amin’ ny anaran’ Isiraely sy avy amin’ ny loharanon’ i Joda, ianareo izay mianiana amin’ ny anaran’ i Jehovah ary mankalaza ny anaran’ Andriamanitry ny Isiraely, kanefa tsy araka ny marina, na araka ny hitsiny;
2 for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; the LORD of Armies is his name.
Fa milaza ny tenany ho avy amin’ ny tanana masìna izy ka miankina amin’ Andriamanitry ny Isiraely; Jehovah, Tompon’ ny maro, no anarany.
3 I have declared the former things from of old. Yes, they went out of my mouth, and I revealed them. I did them suddenly, and they happened.
Ny zavatra taloha dia efa voalazako hatramin’ ny fahiny, ary naloaky ny vavako izany sady nambarako; Tampoka no nanaovako izany, ary tonga izany.
4 Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;
Satria fantatro fa maditra ianao, ka ozaby ny hatokao, ary varahina ny handrinao,
5 therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I showed it to you; lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them. My engraved image and my molten image has commanded them.’
Dia nambarako taminao hatramin’ ny fahiny izany, eny, fony tsy mbola tonga aza izany, dia efa nambarako taminao rahateo, fandrao hataonao hoe: Ny sampiko no nanao izany, ary ny sarin-javatra voasokitra sy ny sarin-javatra an-idina no nandidy izany.
6 You have heard it. Now see all this. And you, will not you declare it? “I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known.
Efa renao, ka dia jereo izany rehetra izany, moa ianareo tsy hanambara izany va? Mampandre anao zava-baovao kosa Aho hatramin’ izao, dia zavatra miafina izay tsy fantatrao.
7 They are created now, and not from of old. Before today, you did not hear them, lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’
Vao izao no namoronana azy, fa tsy hatramin’ ny fahiny, ary tsy mbola nandre azy ianao talohan’ ny andro anio, fandrao ianao hanao hoe: Indro, ny efa fantatro ihany izany.
8 Yes, you did not hear. Yes, you did not know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened, for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.
Fa tsy nandre na nahalala ianao; Eny, hatramin’ ny fahiny aza no tsy mbola nisokatra ny sofinao; fa fantatro fa tena mpivadika ianao sady natao hoe mpiodina hatrany an-kibo.
9 For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger, and for my praise, I hold it back for you so that I do not cut you off.
Noho ny anarako dia ononiko ny fahatezerako, ary mba hiderana ahy dia manindry fo aminao Aho, mba tsy hamongorana anao.
10 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
Indro, nodioviko ianao, nefa tsy toy ny volafotsy; Efa nizaha toetra anao tao amin’ ny memy fahoriana Aho.
11 For my own sake, for my own sake, I will do it; for how would my name be profaned? I will not give my glory to another.
Noho ny tenako, eny, noho ny tenako ihany no anaovako izany; indrisy, lotoina ny anarako! Ary ny voninahitro tsy homeko ny hafa.
12 “Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last.
Mihainoa Ahy, ry Jakoba, sy y Isiraely izay nantsoiko: Tsy miova Aho; Izaho no voalohany, ary Izaho koa no farany.
13 Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens. when I call to them, they stand up together.
Eny, ny tanako no nanorina ny fanambanin’ ny tany, ary ny tanako ankavanana no namelatra ny lanitra; Raha antsoiko ireo, dia indray miseho avokoa.
14 “Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear! Who among them has declared these things? He whom the LORD loves will do what he likes to Babylon, and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.
Mivoria ianareo rehetra, ka mihainoa: Iza moa amin’ ireny no mba efa nanambara izany; ilay tian’ i Jehovah no hahefa ny sitrapony amin’ i Babylona ary ny sandriny ho amin’ ny Kaldeana.
15 I, even I, have spoken. Yes, I have called him. I have brought him and he shall make his way prosperous.
Izaho dia Izaho ihany no miteny sady miantso azy, nitondra azy Aho, ka hambinina ny lalany.
16 “Come near to me and hear this: “From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it happened, I was there.” Now the Lord GOD has sent me with his Spirit.
Manatona Ahy ianareo, ka mihainoa; hatramin’ ny taloha no efa tsy nitenenako tamin’ ny mangingina, hatry ny fony vao nisian’ ireo dia teo Aho, ary ankehitriny Jehovah Tompo no naniraka Ahy sy ny Fanahiny.
17 The LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
Izao no lazain’ i Jehovah, Mpanavotra anao, dia ny Iray Masin’ ny Isiraely: Izaho, Jehovah Andriamanitrao, no nampianatra anao hahita soa sady mitarika anao amin’ ny lalana tokony halehanao.
18 Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
Toy izay anie ianao mba nihaino ny didiko! Dia ho tonga tahaka ny ony ny fiadananao, ary ho tahaka ny onjan-dranomasina ny fahamarinanao,
19 Your offspring also would have been as the sand and the descendants of your body like its grains. His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.”
Ary ho tahaka ny fasika ny taranakao, ary ny aloaky ny kibonao ho tahaka ny sombim-pasika; Ny anarany tsy ho tapaka na ho foana eo anatrehako.
20 Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With the sound of joyful shouting announce this, tell it even to the end of the earth; say, “The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
Mivoaha hiala any Babylona; miezaha avy any amin’ ny Kaldeana; torio amin’ ny feo mahafaly, ary ambarao, ka aelezo hatrany amin’ ny faran’ ny tany, lazao hoe: Jehovah efa nanavotra an’ i Jakoba mpanompony.
21 They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts. He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them. He also split the rock and the waters gushed out.
Ary tsy nangetaheta ireo tamin’ ny nitondrany azy tany an-efitra; Nampiboiboika rano ho azy avy tamin’ ny vatolampy Izy, Eny, nampitresaka ny vatolampy Izy, ka dia nigororoana ny rano.
22 “There is no peace”, says the LORD, “for the wicked.”
Tsy misy fiadanana ho an’ ny ratsy fanahy, hoy Jehovah.
