Ezayi 41
1 “Peyi kot lanmè yo, koute Mwen an silans e kite pèp yo renouvele fòs yo. Kite yo vin parèt pa devan, konsa, kite yo pale. Annou reyini ansanm pou fè jijman.
Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
2 Kilès ki te fè leve yon k ap soti nan lès? Kilès ki te rele li vin kanpe a pye nan ladwati la? Li livre nasyon yo devan li e Li fè wa yo soumèt; li fè yo tankou pousyè ak nepe li, tankou pay k ap chase pa van devan banza li.
Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
3 Li kouri dèyè yo, e Li pase san danje, menm nan yon chemen kote li pa t konn pase ak pye li.
He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.
4 Se kilès ki te fè sa a e ki te acheve li; ki te rele fè parèt tout jenerasyon yo soti nan kòmansman? Mwen, SENYÈ a, se premye a ak dènye a. Mwen se Li.”
Who has wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
5 Peyi kot yo te wè e yo gen lakrent; dènye pwent latè yo tranble. Yo rapwoche; yo rive.
The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.
6 Chak moun ap ede vwazen li. Yo di a frè yo: “Pran kouraj!”
They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.
7 Konsa, bòs atizan an ankouraje bòs fonn metal la. Sila ki fè metal vin poli ak mato a ankouraje sila k ap bat fè a. Li di a sila k ap soude a: “Li bon”. Li kloure li ak klou pou l rete nan plas li.
So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smoothes with the hammer him that stroke the anvil, saying, It is ready for the soldering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
8 Men ou menm, O Israël, sèvitè Mwen an, Jacob ke M te chwazi a, desandan Abraham nan, zami Mwen an;
But you, Israel, are my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
9 ou menm, ke M te pran soti nan tout ekstremite latè yo, e te rele soti nan kote pi izole yo pou te di ou: ‘Ou se sèvitè Mwen. Mwen te chwazi ou e Mwen pa t rejte ou.’
You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called you from the chief men thereof, and said unto you, You are my servant; I have chosen you, and not cast you away.
10 Pa pè, paske Mwen avèk ou. Pa gade toupatou ak kè twouble, paske Mwen se Bondye ou. Mwen va fòtifye ou. Anverite Mwen va bay ou sekou. Anverite Mwen va bay ou soutyen ak men ladwati, men dwat Mwen.
Fear you not; for I am with you: be not dismayed; for I am your God: I will strengthen you; yea, I will help you; yea, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
11 Gade byen, tout sila ki fache ak ou yo va vin wont e dezonore. Sila k ap pran pòz kont ou yo va vin konsi se pa anyen e yo va peri.
Behold, all they that were incensed against you shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with you shall perish.
12 Ou va chache sila k ap fè pwoblèm ak ou yo, men ou p ap jwenn yo. Sila ki fè lagè ak ou yo va vin konsi se pa anyen e yo p ap egziste ankò.
You shall seek them, and shall not find them, even them that contended with you: they that war against you shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nothing.
13 Paske Mwen se SENYÈ a, Bondye ou a, ki soutni men dwat Ou, ki di ou, pa pè, Mwen va ba ou sekou.
For I the LORD your God will hold your right hand, saying unto you, Fear not; I will help you.
14 “Pinga ou pè, ou menm, vètè Jacob la, nou menm mesye Israël yo. Mwen va ede nou”, deklare SENYÈ a. “Redanmtè ou a se Sila Ki Sen an Israël la.
Fear not, you worm Jacob, and all of you men of Israel; I will help you, says the LORD, and your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
15 Gade byen, Mwen te fè ou vin yon zouti tounèf, byen file tou de bò, pou kraze vannen rekòlt la. Ou va vannen mòn yo, kraze yo fen, e fè kolin yo vin tankou pay.
Behold, I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff.
16 Ou va vannen yo; van a va pote yo ale e tanpèt va gaye yo. Men ou va rejwi nan SENYÈ a; ou va fè lwanj Sila Ki Sen an Israël la.
You shall fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and you shall rejoice in the LORD, and shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17 Aflije yo ak malere yo ap chache dlo, men nanpwen; lang yo sèch ak swaf la. Mwen menm, SENYÈ a, va reponn yo. Mwen, Bondye Israël la p ap abandone yo.
When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue fails for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
18 Mwen va ouvri rivyè yo sou wotè ki vid yo ak sous nan mitan vale yo. Mwen va fè dezè a vin yon letan dlo, e tè sèch la yon fontèn dlo.
I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
19 Mwen va plase pye sèd nan dezè a, pye akasya, ak pye jasmen ak pye doliv. Mwen va mete pye pichpen nan dezè a ansanm ak pye bwadòm;
I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
20 pou yo ka wè, vin rekonèt, reflechi e ranmase bon konprann ansanm, ke men SENYÈ a te fè sa, ke Sila Ki Sen an Israël te kreye li a.
That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.
21 “Prezante ka nou yo”, pale SENYÈ a. “Pote gwo diskou nou yo”, pale Wa a Jacob la.
Produce your cause, says the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, says the King of Jacob.
22 Mennen fè yo vin parèt e deklare a nou menm sa ki va rive! Epi pou evenman lontan yo, deklare kisa yo te ye, pou nou ka konsidere yo, e konnen kijan y ap sòti. Oswa, anonse a nou menm sa k ap vini an.
Let them bring them forth, and show us what shall happen: let them show the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things in order to come.
23 Deklare bagay ki va vin rive apre yo, pou nou ka konnen ke se dye nou ye. Anverite, fè byen, oswa fè mal, pou nou ka gade toupatou ansanm ak kè twouble.
Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that all of you are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
24 Gade byen, nou pou ryen e zèv nou yo pa pou anyen. Sila ki pito nou an se yon abominnasyon.
Behold, all of you are of nothing, and your work of nothing: an abomination is he that chooses you.
25 Mwen te fè leve yon moun soti nan nò e li vin parèt; depi nan solèy leve a, li va rele non Mwen; li va vini sou chèf yo, kon sou mòtye, tankou bòs kanari mache sou ajil.
I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon mortar, and as the potter treads clay.
26 Se kilès ki te deklare sa depi nan kòmansman an, pou nou ta ka konnen? Oswa depi tan ansyen yo, pou nou ta kapab di: “Li se vrè”? San dout, pa t gen moun ki te deklare sa; san dout, pa t gen moun ki te pwoklame sa; san dout, pa t gen moun ki te tande pawòl sila yo.
Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know? and in time past, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that shows, yea, there is none that declares, yea, there is none that hears your words.
27 Mwen se premye pou di a Sion: ‘Men vwala, men yo la;’ epi a Jérusalem: ‘Mwen va voye yon mesaje bòn nouvèl’.
The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that brings good tidings.
28 Men lè M gade, nanpwen pèsòn e pa gen konseye pami yo, ki, si M te mande, ta kapab bay yon repons.
For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
29 Gade byen, yo tout fo. Zèv yo san valè. Imaj fonn yo se van ak konfizyon.
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
