Isaiah 25
1 O Yahweh! my God, thou art, I will exalt thee, I will praise thy Name, For thou hast done a wonderful thing, —Purposes of long ago Faithfulness in truth.
Nkosi unguNkulunkulu wami; ngizakuphakamisa, ngidumise ibizo lakho; ngoba wenzile okumangalisayo; amacebo akho endulo aluthembeko leqiniso.
2 For thou hast made, of a citadel, a mound, of a defenced city, a ruin, —palaces for foreigners to be no city, To times age-abiding, shall it not be built.
Ngoba wenzile umuzi waba yinqwaba; umuzi obiyelweyo ube lunxiwa; isigodlo sabezizwe singabi ngumuzi; kasiyikwakhiwa kuze kube nininini.
3 For this cause! shall glorify thee—a strong people, the city of tyrannous nations shall revere thee;
Ngenxa yalokho abantu abalamandla bazakudumisa; umuzi wezizwe ezilesihluku uzakwesaba.
4 For thou didst become A refuge to the weak. A refuge to the needy, when distress was upon him, —A shelter from the storm. A shade from the heat, When the blast of tyrants was like a storm against a wall.
Ngoba ubungamandla kumyanga, amandla kosweleyo ekuhluphekeni kwakhe, isiphephelo kuzulu lesiphepho, umthunzi ekutshiseni, lapho ukuvuthela kwabalolunya kunjengezulu lesiphepho emdulini.
5 As heat in a desert, the pomp of foreigners, wilt thou subdue, —Heat—with the shade of a cloud, The song of tyrants! become low.
Uzakwehlisa umsindo wabezizwe njengokutshisa endaweni eyomileyo; ukutshisa emthunzini weyezi; ingoma yabalolunya izathotshiswa.
6 Then will Yahweh of hosts prepare for all the peoples in this mountain, A banquet of fat things, A banquet of old wines, —Of fat things full of marrow, Of old wines well refined;
Lakulintaba iNkosi yamabandla izakwenzela abantu bonke idili lezinto ezinonileyo, idili lamawayini alenzece, lezinto ezinonileyo zigcwele umnkantsho, lamawayini alenzece acengekileyo.
7 And he will swallow up in this mountain, The mask of the veil, the veil that is upon all the peoples, —And the web that is woven over all the nations.
Izaginya kulintaba ubuso besembeso esembese bonke abantu, lesigubuzelo eselukiweyo phezu kwezizwe zonke.
8 Having swallowed up death itself victoriously, My Lord, Yahweh, will wipe away, tears from off all faces, —And the reproach of his own people, will he remove from off all the earth, For, Yahweh, hath spoken.
Izaginya ukufa ekunqobeni, leNkosi uJehova izakwesula inyembezi izisuse ebusweni bonke, isuse lehlazo labantu bayo emhlabeni wonke; ngoba iNkosi ikhulumile.
9 So shall it be said, in that day, Lo! our God, is this! We waited for him, that he might save us, —This, is Yahweh! We waited for him, Let us exult and rejoice in his salvation.
Kuzakuthiwa-ke ngalolosuku: Khangela, lo nguNkulunkulu wethu; silindele kuye, njalo uzasisindisa; le yiNkosi; siyilindele, sizathaba, sithokoze kusindiso lwayo.
10 For the hand of Yahweh will settle down in this mountain, —Then shall Moab be trodden down in its place, Like the treading down of a strawheap in the water of a dunghill;
Ngoba isandla seNkosi sizaphumula kulintaba, loMowabi uzanyathelelwa phansi kwayo, njengamahlanga abuthelelweyo enyathelelwa enqunjini yomquba.
11 Should he spread forth his hands in the midst thereof, As a swimmer spreadeth forth to swim, Then would be laid low his pride, together with the devices of his hands.
Njalo izakwelula izandla zayo phakathi kwakhe njengontshezayo ezelula ukuze antsheze; njalo izathobisa ukuzigqaja kwakhe kanye lokucathamela kwezandla zakhe.
12 Yea, the lofty stronghold of thy walls, Hath he brought down—Laid low—Levelled to the ground even unto the dust.
Lenqaba ephakemeyo yemiduli yakho izayidilizela phansi, iyehlisele phansi, iyifikise emhlabathini, ethulini.
