Isaiah 13
1 Kas in fahkak se inge, su Isaiah wen natul Amoz el tuh eis sin God, ma ke acn Babylon.
The burden of Babylon which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.
2 Amakunak flag in mweun fin soko eol musrasra! Sapsap nu sin mwet mweun uh, ac kolak poum in sie akul nu selos in fahsryang ac mweuni mutunpot lun siti inse fulat sac.
Over the foggy mountain lift up a sign! Raise the voice, lift up the hand, and let the rulers enter through the gates!
3 LEUM GOD El pangon mwet mweun fulat ac ku lal nu ke sie mweun mutal, in kalyaelos su El kasrkusrak se.
In my wrath, I commanded my sanctified ones, and I called my strong ones, those who exult in my glory.
4 Porongo pusren wohwon fineol uh — pusren sie un mwet na lulap, pusren mutunfacl ac tokosrai ke elos toeni. LEUM GOD lun Un Mwet Mweun El akoo u lal nu ke mweun.
On the mountains, there is the voice of a multitude, as if of a numerous people, a voice with the sound of kings, of nations gathered together. For the Lord of hosts has given orders to soldiers of war,
5 Elos tuku liki acn loessula me, acn puspis ke saflaiyen faclu. In kasrkusrak lal, LEUM GOD El tuku in kunausla facl sac nufon.
to those who are arriving from a far off land, from the heights of the heavens. It is the Lord and the instruments of his fury, so that he may bring ruin to all the earth.
6 Kowos in tung ke keok! Len lun LEUM GOD apkuranme — len se ma El su ku liki ku El ac sukela ma nukewa.
Wail aloud! For the day of the Lord draws near! It will arrive like a devastation from the Lord.
7 Poun mwet nukewa ac fah munasla, ac inse pulaik lun mwet uh ac fah wanginla.
Because of it, every hand will fail, and every heart of man will waste away and be crushed.
8 Elos nukewa ac fah tuninfongla ac munasla ke waiok, oana sie mutan isus. Elos fah ngetani nu sie ke sangeng, ac mutalos fah srusrala ke mwekin.
Writhing and pain will seize them. They will be in pain, like a woman in labor. Each one will appear stupefied to his neighbor. Their countenances will be like faces which have been burned up.
9 Len lun LEUM GOD ac tuku — len in folo ke kasrkusrak ac ke fol lal. Faclu ac fah orekla sie acn mwesis, ac mwet orekma koluk nukewa ac fah sikiyukla.
Behold, the day of the Lord approaches: a cruel day, full of indignation and wrath and fury, which will place the earth in solitude and crush the sinners from it.
10 Kais sie itu ac u in itu nukewa fah tila saromrom. Faht uh ac fah lohsr pacl se el takak, ac ac fah wangin kalem lun malem.
For the stars of the heavens, in their splendor, will not display their light. The sun will be obscured at its rising, and the moon will not shine in her brightness.
11 LEUM GOD El fahk, “Nga ac fah use ongoiya lulap nu fin faclu ac kalyei mwet koluk nukewa ke ma koluk lalos. Nga ac akpusiselyalos nukewa su inse fulat, ac toanya nunak fulat nukewa lun mwet filang ac sulallal.
And I will act against the evils of the world, and against the impious for their iniquity. And I will cause the pride of the unfaithful to cease, and I will bring down the arrogance of the strong.
12 Mwet su ac painmoulla uh ac sesa liki gold wowo.
A man will be more precious than gold, and mankind will become like pure refined gold.
13 Nga fah oru kusrao in rarrar, ac faclu ac fah usrusrla liki acn oan we in len se ke nga, LEUM GOD Kulana, akkalemye kasrkusrak luk.
For this purpose, I will stir up heaven, and the earth will be moved from its place, because of the indignation of the Lord of hosts, because of the day of his furious wrath.
14 “Mwetsac su muta Babylon fah kaingla nu in facl selos sifacna — kaingelik oana deer kaingkin mwet sruh kosro, ku oana sheep wangin mwet shepherd la.
And they will be like a doe fleeing away, or like sheep; and there will be no one who may gather them together. Each one will turn to his own people, and every one will flee to his own land.
15 Kutena mwet su sruh ac fah fakfuki in misa.
All who are found will be killed, and all who are caught unaware will fall by the sword.
16 Elos ac tu ngetang ac wangin ma elos ku in oru ke tulik srisrik natulos ac fah puopo nwe ke misa, ac lohm selos wapiyuki, ac mutan kialos sruinkuiyuk sin mwet mweun uh.”
Their infants will be thrown down violently before their eyes. Their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be violated.
17 LEUM GOD El fahk, “Nga fah purakak mwet Media in mweuni acn Babylon. Wangin enenu lalos ke silver, ac elos tia mwel gold.
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them. They will not seek silver, nor desire gold.
18 Elos ac uniya mwet fusr ke mwe pisr natulos. Wangin pakomuta lalos nu sin tulik fusr ac tulik srisrik.
Instead, with their arrows, they will put the little children to death, and they will take no pity on breastfeeding women, and their eye will not spare their children.
19 Babylonia pa tokosrai se ma oasku oemeet uh, mwe konkin lun mwet we. Tusruktu nga, LEUM GOD, fah kunausla Babylon oana ke nga tuh oru nu sin Sodom ac Gomorrah!
And then Babylon, the glorious one among kingdoms, that famous pride of the Chaldeans, will be destroyed, even as the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 Wangin mwet ac fah sifilpa muta we. Mwet takusrkusr lun Arabia ac fah tia sifilpa tulokunak lohm nuknuk selos we, ac wangin mwet shepherd fah sifil kite un kosro natulos we.
It will not be inhabited, even unto the end, and it will not be reestablished, even from generation to generation. The Arab will not pitch his tents there, nor will the shepherds take rest there.
21 Ac fah sie acn sin kosro lemnak yen mwesis, ac yen in orek ahng lun won owl. Won ostrich ac fah muta we, ac nani lemnak fah yuwot yume fin mahnum we.
Instead, the wild beasts will rest there, and their houses will be filled with serpents, and ostriches will live there, and the hairy ones will leap about there.
22 Nien san, oayapa inkul fulat sin tokosra, fah sessesla ke pusren tung lun kosro lemnak uh. Pacl lun Babylon summa! Len lal akuranna safla.”
And the tawny owls will answer one another there, in its buildings, and the Sirens in its shrines of pleasure.
