Isaiah 17
1 The burden of Damascus. “Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.
Uthenga wonena za Damasiko: “Taonani, mzinda wa Damasiko sudzakhalanso mzinda, koma udzasanduka bwinja.
2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid.
Mizinda ya Aroeri idzakhala yopanda anthu ndipo idzakhala ya ziweto, zimene zidzagona pansi popanda wina woziopseza.
3 The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says the LORD of Armies.
Ku Efereimu sikudzakhalanso linga, ndipo ku Damasiko sikudzakhalanso ufumu; Otsalira a ku Siriya adzachotsedwa ulemu monga anthu a ku Israeli,” akutero Yehova Wamphamvuzonse.
4 “It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.
“Tsiku limenelo ulemerero wa Yakobo udzazimirira; ndipo chuma chake chidzasanduka umphawi.
5 It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.
Israeli adzakhala ngati munda wa tirigu umene anatsiriza kukolola. Adzakhalanso ngati munda wa mʼchigwa cha Refaimu anthu atatha kukunkha ngala za tirigu.
6 Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree,” says the LORD, the God of Israel.
Komabe Aisraeli ochepa okha ndiwo ati adzatsale monga mʼmene zimatsalira zipatso ziwiri kapena zitatu pa nthambi ya pamwamba penipeni kapena zipatso zisanu pa nthambi za mʼmunsi mwa mtengo wa olivi akawugwedeza,” akutero Yehova, Mulungu wa Israeli.
7 In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
Tsiku limenelo anthu adzayangʼana Mlengi wawo ndipo adzatembenukira kwa Woyerayo wa Israeli.
8 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherah poles or the incense altars.
Iwo sadzakhulupiriranso maguwa ansembe, ntchito ya manja awo, ndipo sadzadaliranso mitengo ya mafano a Asera, ndiponso maguwa ofukizirapo lubani amene manja awo anapanga.
9 In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.
Tsiku limenelo mizinda yawo yamphamvu, imene anasiya chifukwa cha Aisraeli, idzakhala ngati malo osiyidwa kuti awirire ndi kumera ziyangoyango. Ndipo yonse idzakhala mabwinja.
10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.
Inu mwayiwalatu Mulungu Mpulumutsi wanu; simunakumbukire Thanthwe, linga lanu. Choncho, ngakhale munadzala mbewu zabwino, ndi kuyitanitsa kunja mitengo ya mpesa,
11 In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
nimuyembekeza kuti zikule tsiku lomwelo ndi kuphukira maluwa mmawa mwake, komabe zimenezi sizidzakupindulirani pa tsiku la mavuto.
12 Ah, the uproar of many peoples who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!
Aa, mkokomo wa anthu a mitundu yambiri, akusokosa ngati kukokoma kwa nyanja! Aa, phokoso la anthu a mitundu ina, akusokosa ngati mkokomo wa madzi amphamvu!
13 The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
Ngakhale ankhondo a mitundu ina akubwera ndi mkokomo ngati wa madzi ambiri, koma adzathawira kutali Mulungu akadzawadzudzula. Yehova adzawapirikitsa ngati mankhusu owuluka ndi mphepo pa phiri, ndi ngati fumbi la kamvuluvulu asanayambe.
14 At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.
Pofika nthawi yamadzulo zoopsa zidzayamba kuchitika, ndipo zidzakhala zitatha pofika mmawa. Izi ndizo zidzachitikire anthu otilanda zinthu, gawo la amene amatibera zinthu zathu.
