Isaya 46
1 Beli anasujudu hadi nchi, Nebo anainama; sanamu zao zabebwa na wanyama wa mizigo. Vinyago hivi mnavyobeba kila mahali ni mzigo wa kulemea, mzigo kwa waliochoka.
Bel is broken, Nebo is destroyed: their idols are put upon beasts and cattle, your burdens of heavy weight even unto weariness.
2 Vinyago pamoja na wale wanaovibeba wanainama chini; hiyo miungu haiwezi kuwaokoa watu, wote wanakwenda utumwani pamoja.
They are consumed, and are broken together: they could not save him that carried them, and they themselves shall go into captivity.
3 “Nisikilizeni mimi, ee nyumba ya Yakobo, ninyi nyote mliobaki wa nyumba ya Israeli, ninyi ambao nimewategemeza tangu mlipotungwa mimba, nami nimewabeba tangu kuzaliwa kwenu.
Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who are carried by my bowels, are borne up by my womb.
4 Hata mpaka wakati wa uzee wenu na mvi, Mimi ndiye, Mimi ndiye nitakayewasaidia ninyi. Nimewahuluku, nami nitawabeba, nitawasaidia ninyi na kuwaokoa.
Even to your old age I am the same, and to your grey hairs I will carry you: I have made you, and I will bear: I will carry and will save.
5 “Mtanilinganisha na nani, au mtanihesabu kuwa sawa na nani? Ni nani mtakayenifananisha naye ili tuweze kulinganishwa?
To whom have you likened me, and made me equal, and compared me, and made me like?
6 Wengine humwaga dhahabu kutoka kwenye mifuko yao, na kupima fedha kwenye mizani; huajiri mfua dhahabu kutengeneza mungu, kisha huisujudia na kuiabudu.
You that contribute gold out of the bag, and weigh out silver in the scales: and hire a goldsmith to make a god: and they fall down and worship.
7 Huiinua mabegani na kuichukua; huiweka mahali pake, papo hapo ndipo isimamapo. Wala haiwezi kusogea kutoka mahali pale. Ingawa mtu huililia, haimjibu; haiwezi kumwokoa kwenye taabu zake.
They bear him on their shoulders and carry him, and set him in his piece, and he shall stand, and shall not stir out of his place. Yea, when they shall cry also unto him, he shall not hear: he shall not save them from tribulation.
8 “Kumbukeni hili, litieni akilini, liwekeni moyoni, enyi waasi.
Remember this, and be ashamed: return, ye transgressors, to the heart.
9 Kumbukeni mambo yaliyopita, yale ya zamani za kale; mimi ndimi Mungu, wala hakuna mwingine; mimi ndimi Mungu, wala hakuna mwingine aliye kama mimi.
Remember the former age, for I am God, and there is no God beside, neither is there the like to me:
10 Ni mimi nitangazaye mwisho tangu mwanzo, naam, tangu zamani za kale, mambo ambayo hayajatendeka. Ninasema: Kusudi langu ndilo litakalosimama, nami nitatenda mapenzi yangu yote.
Who shew from the beginning the things that shall be at last, and from ancient times the things that as yet are not done, saying: My counsel shall stand, and all my will shall be done:
11 Kutoka mashariki ninaita ndege awindaye; kutoka nchi ya mbali, mtu atakayetimiza kusudi langu. Lile ambalo nimelisema, ndilo nitakalolitimiza; lile nililolipanga, ndilo nitakalolitenda.
Who call a bird from the east, and from a far country the man of my own will, and I have spoken, and will bring it to pass: I have created, and I will do it.
12 Nisikilizeni, ninyi wenye mioyo migumu, ninyi mlio mbali na haki.
Hear me, O ye hardhearted, who are far from justice.
13 Ninaleta haki yangu karibu, haiko mbali; wala wokovu wangu hautachelewa. Nitawapa Sayuni wokovu, Israeli utukufu wangu.
I have brought my justice near, it shall not be afar off: and my salvation shall not tarry. I will give salvation in Sion, and my glory in Israel.
