Zacharias 10
1 Ask you of the Lord rain in season, the early and the latter: the Lord has given bright signs, and will give them abundant rain, to every one grass in the field.
Mwombeni Yahwe mvua nyakati za kipupwe - Yahwe afanyaye mvua ya radi - naye hufanya mvua inyeshe kwa kila mmoja na uoto kondeni.
2 For the speakers have uttered grievous things, and the diviners [have ] [seen] false visions, and they have spoken false dreams, they have given vain comfort: therefore have they fallen away like sheep, and been afflicted, because there was no healing.
Kwani sanamu za wenye nyumba husema uongo; waganga hunena uongo; wanasema ndoto za udanganyifu na hutoa faraja tupu, hivyo wapotea kama kondoo na wanaumia kwa sababu hakuna mchungaji.
3 Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I will visit the lambs; and the Lord God Almighty shall visit his flock, the house of Juda, and he shall make them as his goodly horse in war.
Gadhabu yangu inawaka dhidi ya wachungaji; ni mabeberu - viongozi - nitakao waadhibu. Yahwe wa majeshi atalihudumia pia kundi la kondoo wake, nyumba ya Yuda, na kuwafanya kama farasi wake wa vita!
4 And from him he looked, and from him he set [the battle in order], and from him [came] the bow in anger, [and] from him shall come forth every oppressor together.
Kutoka kwao litatoka jiwe kuu la pembeni; kutoka kwao kitatoka kigingi cha hema; kutoka kwao utatoka upinde wa vita; kutoka kwao watakuja viongozi wote kwa pamoja.
5 And they shall be as warriors treading clay in the ways in war; and they shall set the battle in array, because the Lord is with them, and the riders on horses shall be put to shame.
Watakuwa kama mashujaa wawakanyagao adui zao katika matope ya mitaani vitani; watafanya vita, kwa maana Yahwe yu pamoja nao, nao watawaabisha wapanda farasi wa vita.
6 And I will strengthen the house of Juda, and save the house of Joseph, and I will settle them; because I have loved them: and they shall be as [if] I had not cast them off: for I am the Lord their God, and I will hear them.
Nitaitia nguvu nyumba ya Yuda na kuiokoa nyumba ya Yusufu; kwani nitawarejesha na kuwahurumia. Watakuwa kama nilikuwa sijawaondoa, kwani mimi ni Yahwe Mungu wao, nami nitawaitikia.
7 And they shall be as the warriors of Ephraim, and their heart shall rejoice as with wine: and their children also shall see [it], and be glad; and their heart shall rejoice in the Lord.
Ndipo Efraimu atakapokuwa kama shujaa, na mioyo yao itafurahi kama kwa mvinyo; wana wao wataona na kufurahi. Mioyo yao itanifurahia!
8 I will make a sign to them, and gather them in; for I will redeem them, and they shall be multiplied according to their number before.
Nitawanong'oneza na kuwakusanya, kwani nitawaokoa, nao watakuwa wakuu kama walivyokuwa mwanzo!
9 And I will sow them among the people; and they that are afar off shall remember me: they shall nourish their children, and they shall return.
Niliwapanda kati ya watu, lakini watanikumbuka katika nchi ya mbali, hivyo wao na wana wao wataishi na kurejea.
10 And I will bring them again from the land of Egypt, and I will gather them in from among the Assyrians; and I will bring them into the land of Galaad and to Libanus; and there shall not even one of them be left behind.
Kwa maana nitawarejesha kutoka nchi ya Misri na kuwakusanya kutoka Ashuru. Nitawaleta katika nchi ya Gileadi na Lebanoni mpaka kutakapokuwa hakuna nafasi tena kwa ajili yao.
11 And they shall pass through a narrow sea, they shall strike the waves in the sea, and all the deep places of the rivers shall be dried up: and all the pride of the Assyrians shall be taken away, and the sceptre of Egypt shall be removed.
Nitapita katika bahari ya mateso yao; nitayapiga mawimbi ya bahari hiyo na nitavikausha vilindi vyote vya Nile. Utukufu wa Ashuru utashushwa chini, na fimbo ya Misri itakwenda mbali kutoka kwa Wamisri.
12 And I will strengthen them in the Lord their God; and they shall boast in his name, says the Lord.
Nitawatia nguvu katika mimi mwenyewe, nao watatembea katika jina langu - asema Yahwe.
