U-Isaya 50
1 Itsho njalo iNkosi: Ingaphi incwadi yesehlukaniso kanyoko engamlahla ngayo? Loba ngubani kubakweledisi bami engilithengise kuye? Khangelani, lathengiswa ngenxa yobubi benu, langenxa yeziphambeko zenu unyoko walahlwa.
Thus says the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have you sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
2 Kungani ekufikeni kwami kwakungelamuntu? Ngibiza, kodwa engekho ophendulayo? Isandla sami sifinyeziwe lokufinyezwa yini ukuthi singehlenge? Kumbe kakulamandla kimi okukhulula yini? Khangela ngokukhuza kwami ngomisa ulwandle, ngenza imifula ibe yinkangala; izinhlanzi zayo zibe levumba ngoba kungelamanzi, zife ngenxa yokoma.
Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinks, because there is no water, and dies for thirst.
3 Ngigqokisa amazulu ngobumnyama, ngenze isaka libe yisembeso sawo.
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
4 INkosi uJehova inginike ulimi lwabafundileyo, ukuze ngazi ukukhuluma ilizwi ngesikhathi esifaneleyo kokhatheleyo. Iyavuka ukusa ngokusa; ivusa indlebe yami, ukuze ngizwe njengabafundileyo.
The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as the learned.
5 INkosi uJehova ivule indlebe yami, njalo mina kangibanga lenkani, kangibuyelanga emuva.
The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
6 Nganika umhlana wami kubatshayi, lezihlathi zami kulabo abacutha indevu; kangifihlanga ubuso bami ehlazweni elikhulu lamathe.
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
7 Ngoba iNkosi uJehova izangisiza; ngakho-ke kangiyangiswa; ngakho-ke ngimise ubuso bami njengensengetshe, njalo ngiyazi ukuthi kangiyikuyangeka.
For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
8 Useduze yena ongilungisisayo. Ngubani ongalwisana lami? Kasime ndawonye. Ngubani ummangaleli wami? Kasondele kimi.
He is near that justifies me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is my adversary? let him come near to me.
9 Khangela, iNkosi uJehova izangisiza; ngubani ozangilahla? Khangela, bonke bazaguga njengesembatho; inundu izabadla.
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? see, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
10 Ngubani phakathi kwenu oyesabayo iNkosi, olalela ilizwi lenceku yayo, ohamba emnyameni, njalo engelakukhanya? Kathembele ebizweni leNkosi, eyame kuNkulunkulu wakhe.
Who is among you that fears the LORD, that obeys the voice of his servant, that walks in darkness, and has no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay on his God.
11 Khangelani, lina lonke eliphemba umlilo, elizigombolozela ngenhlansi: Hambani ekukhanyeni komlilo wenu, lenhlansini elizibasileyo. Lokhu kuzakwenzakala kini kuvela esandleni sami; lizalala phansi ngobuhlungu.
Behold, all you that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that you have kindled. This shall you have of my hand; you shall lie down in sorrow.
