Isaiah 64
1 Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might flow down at your presence,
''Oh, ikiwa umeigawa kwa kuifungua mbingu na kushuka chini! Milima inetikisika mbele yako,
2 As when the melting fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil, to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!
ni kama vile moto uunguzao vichaka, moto uchemshao maji. Oh, jina lako lingejulikana kwa maadui wako, na ya kwamba mataifa yangetetemeka mbele yako!
3 When you did terrible things which we looked not for, you came down, the mountains flowed down at your presence.
Awali, ulipofanya mambo ya ajabu ambayo hatukuyategemea, ulishuka chini, milima ikatetemeka mbele zako.
4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen, O God, beside you, what he has prepared for him that waits for him.
Tangu nyakati za kale hakuna hata mmoja aliyesikia au kujua, wala jicho kuona Mungu yeyote karibu yake, ni nani afanyae mambo haya kwake anayemsubiri yeye.
5 You meet him that rejoices and works righteousness, those that remember you in your ways: behold, you are wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
Umekuja kuwasidia wale wanaofurahia kutenda yaliyo ya haki, wale wanaowaita kuwakumbusha njia zake na kumheshimu yeye. Ulipatwa na hasira tulipotenda dhambi. Katika njia zako daima tutakombolewa.
6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Maana sote tumekuwa kama mmoja aliye na unajisi, na matendo yetu ya haki yamekuwa kama hedhi kali. Sote tumenyauka kama majani; maovu yetu, ni kama upepo, unaotupeperusha sisi mbali.
7 And there is none that calls on your name, that stirs up himself to take hold of you: for you have hid your face from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities.
Hakuna hata mmoja anayeita jina lako, hakuna anayefanya jitihada za kukushika wewe; maana umeuficha uso wako mbali na sisi na kutufanya sisi kuwa takataka katika mkono wa maovu yetu.
8 But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
Na lakini, Yahwe, wewe ni baba yetu; sisi ni udongo. Wewe ni mfinyanzi wetu; sisi ni kazi ya mkono wako.
9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech you, we are all your people.
Usiwe na hasira kubwa, Yahwe, wala daima usikumbuke maovu dhidi yetu, tafadhali sisi sote, watu wako.
10 Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Miji yenu mitakatifu imekuwa jangwa; Sayuni imekuwa jangwa, Yerusalemu imekuwa ukiwa.
11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
Hekalu letu takatifu na zuri. mahali ambapo baba zetu walikusifu wewe, limeangamizwa kwa moto, na kila kilichokuwa karibu kiliharibiwa.
12 Will you refrain yourself for these things, O LORD? will you hold your peace, and afflict us very sore?
Je unawezaje kuendelea kumshika, Yahwe? Unawezaje kutulia kimya na kuendelea kutufedhehesha sisi?''
