Isaiah 59
1 Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear.
Taonani, mkono wa Yehova si waufupi kuti sungathe kupulumutsa, kapena khutu lake kuti ndilogontha kuti sangamve.
2 But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
Koma zoyipa zanu zakulekanitsani ndi Mulungu wanu; ndipo wakufulatirani chifukwa cha machimo anu, kotero Iye sadzamva.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.
Pakuti manja anu ali psuu ndi magazi. Munayipitsa zala zanu ndi zamphulupulu. Pakamwa panu payankhula zabodza, ndipo lilime lanu lanena zinthu zoyipa.
4 No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
Palibe amene akuyimba mnzake mlandu molungama, palibe amene akupita ku mlandu moona mtima. Iwo amadalira mawu opanda pake ndipo amayankhula mabodza; amalingalira za mphulupulu ndipo amachita zoyipa.
5 They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
Iwo amayikira mazira a mamba ndipo amaluka ukonde wakangawude. Aliyense amene adzadya mazira awo adzafa, ndipo ngati dzira limodzi lasweka limatulutsa mphiri.
6 Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.
Ukonde wawo wa kangawude sangawuvale ngati chovala; ndipo chimene apangacho sangachifunde. Ntchito zawo ndi zoyipa, ndipo amakonda kuchita zandewu ndi manja awo.
7 Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
Amathamangira kukachita zoyipa; sachedwa kupha anthu osalakwa. Maganizo awo ndi maganizo oyipa; kulikonse kumene amapita amasiyako bwinja ndi chiwonongeko.
8 They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.
Iwo sadziwa kuchita za mtendere; zonse zimene amachita nʼzopanda chilungamo. Njira zawo zonse nʼzokhotakhota; aliyense oyenda mʼnjira zimenezo sadzapeza mtendere.
9 Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
Anthu akuti, “Chifukwa cha zimenezi chilungamo chatitalikira; ndipo chipulumutso sichitifikira. Timafunafuna kuwala koma timangopeza mdima okhaokha; tinayembekezera kuyera koma timayenda mu mdima wandiweyani.
10 We grope for the wall like the blind. Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were twilight. Among those who are strong, we are like dead men.
Timapapasapapasa khoma ngati munthu wosaona, kuyangʼanayangʼana njira ngati anthu opanda maso. Timapunthwa dzuwa lili paliwombo ngati kuti ndi usiku; timakhala pansi mu mdima ngati anthu akufa.
11 We all roar like bears and moan sadly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Tonse timabangula ngati zimbalangondo: Timalira modandaula ngati nkhunda. Tinayembekezera kuweruza kolungama; koma sitikupeza. Timayembekezera chipulumutso koma chimakhala nafe kutali.”
12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:
Pakuti zolakwa zathu nʼzochuluka pamaso panu, ndipo machimo athu akutsutsana nafe. Zolakwa zathu zili ndi ife nthawi zonse ndipo tikuvomereza machimo athu:
13 transgressing and denying the LORD, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Tawukira ndi kumukana Yehova. Tafulatira Mulungu wathu, pa kupondereza anzathu ndi kupandukira Yehova, ndi pa kuyankhula mabodza amene tawaganiza mʼmitima mwathu.
14 Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter.
Motero kuweruza kolungama kwalekeka ndipo choonadi chili kutali ndi ife; kukhulupirika sikukupezekanso mʼmabwalo a milandu, ndipo kuona mtima sikukupezekanso mʼmenemo.
15 Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
Choonadi sichikupezeka kumeneko, ndipo wina akakana kuchita nawo zoyipa amapeza mavuto. Yehova anaziona zimenezi ndipo zinamunyansa kuti panalibe chiweruzo cholungama.
16 He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor. Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness sustained him.
Yehova anaona kuti panalibe ndi mmodzi yemwe, Iye anadabwa kuti panalibe ndi mmodzi yemwe woti nʼkupembedzera; Choncho mphamvu zake zomwe zinamuthandiza, ndipo anadzilimbitsa ndi kulungama kwake;
17 He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.
Iye anavala chilungamo ngati chovala chachitsulo chapachifuwa, ndipo kumutu kwake amavala chipewa chachipulumutso; anavala kulipsira ngati chovala ndipo anadzikuta ndi mkwiyo ngati chofunda.
18 According to their deeds, he will repay as appropriate: wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies. He will repay the islands their due.
Iye adzawabwezera chilango adani a anthu ake molingana ndi zimene anachita, adzaonetsa ukali kwa adani ake ndi kubwezera chilango odana naye. Adzalanga ngakhale okhala mayiko akutali.
19 So they will fear the LORD’s name from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which the LORD’s breath drives.
Choncho akadzabwera ngati madzi oyendetsedwa ndi mphepo yamphamvu yamkuntho. Anthu onse kuyambira kumadzulo mpaka kummawa adzaopa dzina la Yehova ndi ulemerero wake.
20 “A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,” says the LORD.
“Mpulumutsi adzabwera ku Ziyoni kudzapulumutsa anthu a fuko la Yakobo amene analapa machimo awo,” akutero Yehova.
21 “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says the LORD, “from now on and forever.”
Yehova akuti, “Kunena za pangano lake ndi iwo, Mzimu wanga umene uli pa inu, ndiponso mawu anga amene ndayika mʼkamwa mwanu sadzachoka mʼkamwa mwanu, kapena kuchoka mʼkamwa mwa ana anu, kapena mʼkamwa mwa zidzukulu zawo kuyambira tsopano mpaka kalekale,” akutero Yehova.
