Isaia 27
1 Amy andro zay, le amy fibara’e mitrotrofiake ra’elahy naho maozatsey ty handilova’ Iehovà i fañaneñey, toe i mereñe mibotatsakey; ty fañaneñe, i mereñe mivanditsey; vaho ho vonoe’e i fañanen-driakey.
At that time, Yahweh will punish Leviathan, the swift-moving monster/dragon, that coiling serpent that lives in the sea. Yahweh will kill it with his sharp, huge, and powerful sword.
2 Ie tondroke i andro zay: Tetem-bahe fanjàka! Isabò!
At that time, [Yahweh will say], “You [Israeli people, who are like] [MET] a fruitful vineyard, must sing!
3 Izaho Iehovà ty miambeñe aze, tondrahako rano erike; ambenako haleñe naho handro tsy mone ho joieñe.
I will [protect you] [like a farmer] [MET] waters his crops carefully [in order that they will grow well]. I will guard you day and night, in order that no one harms you.
4 Tsy mifombo ty an-troko ao, Ie mea’e hisatse naho fatike iraho, le ho lialiako, haharoko forototoeñe.
I am no [longer] angry [with my people]; [if any of your enemies try to injure you like briers and thorns injure people] [MET], I will attack them [in battles]; I will get rid of them completely,
5 Naho tsy izay, ee te hiatoa’e ty haozarako, hifampilongo amako; ehe t’ie hifampirañetse amako.
unless they request me to protect them; I strongly invite them to make peace with me [DOU]!”
6 Ho tondroke ty andro te hamahatse t’Iakobe, hibotiboty naho hitaroke t’Israele; vaho ho tsitsi-kavokarañe ty an-tarehe’ ty tane toy.
There will be a time when the (descendants of Jacob/Israeli people) will [prosper like] a plant that has good roots; they will be like [MET] trees that bud and blossom and bear a lot of fruit; [what they do will bless] all the people in the world.
7 Linafa’e hao re manahake ty nandafa’e o nandafa azeo? He vinono re hambañe ami’ty nanjamane’e o namono azeo?
[But now I ask], has Yahweh punished us Israelis like he punished our enemies? Has he punished us as much as he punished them?
8 Fandroahañe, faneseañe mb’eo añe ty nihotakotaha’o am’ iereo; amy kofò’e mangosasàkey ty nampisitaha’e iareo amy andro’ i tioke atiñanañeiy.
[No, he has not done that], [but] he punished us Israeli people and (exiled us/forced us to leave our country); we were taken away from our land as though [SIM] we were struck by a windstorm from the east.
9 Fa izay ty hijebañe Iakobe ty amo tahi’eo, zao ty havokarañe handopolopo ty amy nañahàñe o hakeo’eoy: te ho fonga dorodemohe’e ty vato’ o kitrelio, tsy hitroatse ka o hazomangao naho o sare’ i àndroio.
Yahweh did that in order to punish us for our sins, and remove our guilt. As a result [of our being exiled], all the altars to other gods [in Israel] will be demolished, and we will be forgiven for the sins that we have committed. There will be no more poles for worshiping the goddess Asherah, or altars for burning incense to other gods; they will all be torn down.
10 Miereñereñe i rova soa-fikalañey, kialo koake naho naforintseñe manahake i fatrañey, ho fiandraza’ o anak’añombeo, eo ty andrea’ iareo, eo ty añolira’ iareo o tsampa’eo.
The cities that have strong walls around them will be empty; like the desert, they will have no one living in them. The houses will be abandoned, and the streets will be full of weeds. Calves will eat grass there and lie down there; they will chew up all the leaves on the trees.
11 Hapekañe o tsampa’e niforejejeo; homb’eo o rakembao handrehetse aze; amy t’ie tsy ondaty mahilala, aa le tsy hiferenaiña’ i Namboatse iareoy, tsy hitretreza’ i Nitsene iareoy.
[The Israeli people are like] [MET] dry branches on a tree; women break them off and use them to make fires [under their cooking pots]. Our Israeli people do not have any sense; so Yahweh, who created them, will not act mercifully toward them or be kind to them.
12 Ho tondroke amy andro zay te hanatake boak’ amy fikararaha’ i Oñey pak’ amy Toraha’ i Mitsraimey t’Iehovà, le hatontoñe kiraikiraike nahareo, ry ana’ Israeleo.
[However], there will be a time when Yahweh will gather them together [again; he will separate them from the people who have conquered them, like people] separate wheat from chaff. He will bring them [back to Israel], one by one, from [the land between] the Euphrates River [in the northeast] and the brook at the border of Egypt [in the southwest].
13 Le ho popoheñe amy andro zay ty antsiva jabajaba vaho hikovovoke mb’ etoa o nimotso an-tane’ i Asoreo naho o nampitsirantsiràñe an-tane Mitsraimeo hitalahoa’ iareo am’ Iehovà amy vohi-miavake e Ierosalaimey.
At that time, a trumpet will be blown very loudly. And those who were exiled to Assyria and Egypt and who almost died there will return to Jerusalem, to worship Yahweh on [Zion], his holy hill.
