Isaiah 27
1 In that day the LORD with his keen and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he will slay the dragon that [is] in the sea.
Katika siku ile, Bwana ataadhibu kwa upanga wake, upanga wake mkali, mkubwa na wenye nguvu, ataadhibu Lewiathani yule nyoka apitaye kwa mwendo laini, Lewiathani yule nyoka mwenye kujipinda; atamuua joka huyo mkubwa sana wa baharini.
2 In that day sing ye to her, A vineyard of red wine.
Katika siku ile: “Imbeni kuhusu shamba la mizabibu lililozaa:
3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest [any] hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
Mimi, Bwana, ninalitunza, nalinyweshea maji mfululizo. Ninalichunga usiku na mchana ili mtu yeyote asije akalidhuru.
4 Fury [is] not in me: who would set the briers [and] thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
Mimi sijakasirika. Licha pangekuwepo michongoma na miiba kunikabili! Ningepambana dhidi yake katika vita, ningeliichoma moto yote.
5 Or let him take hold of my strength, [that] he may make peace with me, [and] he shall make peace with me.
Au niwaache waje kwangu kwa ajili ya kupata kimbilio, wao na wafanye amani nami, naam, wafanye amani nami.”
6 He shall cause them that descend from Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
Katika siku zijazo, Yakobo atatia mizizi, Israeli atatoa chipukizi na kuchanua maua, naye atajaza ulimwengu wote kwa matunda.
7 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? [or] is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
Je, Bwana amempiga vile alivyowapiga wale waliompiga? Je, yeye ameuawa vile walivyouawa wale waliomuua yeye?
8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
Kwa vita na kwa kumfukuza unapingana naye: kwa mshindo wake mkali anamfukuza, kama siku ile uvumapo upepo wa mashariki.
9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this [is] all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalk-stones that are beaten asunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
Kwa hili, basi, hatia ya Yakobo itafanyiwa upatanisho, nalo hili litakuwa matunda ya utimilizo wa kuondolewa kwa dhambi yake: Wakati atakapoyafanya mawe yote ya madhabahu kuwa kama mawe ya chokaa yaliyopondwa vipande vipande, hakuna nguzo za Ashera au madhabahu za kufukizia uvumba zitakazobaki zimesimama.
10 Yet the fortified city [shall be] desolate, [and] the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume its branches.
Mji ulio na boma umebaki ukiwa, makao yaliyotelekezwa, yaliyoachwa kama jangwa. Huko ndama hulisha, huko hujilaza, wanakwanyua matawi yake.
11 When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come [and] set them on fire: for it [is] a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.
Wakati vijiti vyake vimekauka, huvunjwa nao wanawake huja na kuwasha navyo moto. Kwa kuwa hili ni taifa lisilo na ufahamu, kwa hiyo yeye aliyewafanya hana huruma juu yao, Muumba wao hawaonyeshi fadhili.
12 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall gather from the channel of the river to the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
Katika siku ile Bwana atapura kutoka matiririko ya Mto Frati hadi Kijito cha Misri, nanyi ee Waisraeli, mtakusanywa mmoja mmoja.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD on the holy mount at Jerusalem.
Katika siku ile tarumbeta kubwa italia. Wale waliokuwa wakiangamia katika nchi ya Ashuru, nao wale waliokuwa uhamishoni katika nchi ya Misri watakuja na kumwabudu Bwana katika mlima mtakatifu huko Yerusalemu.
