Isaya 63
1 Ni nani huyu anayekuja kutoka Edomu, kutoka Bosra, mwenye mavazi yaliyotiwa madoa mekundu? Ni nani huyu, aliyevikwa joho la kifahari, anayetembea kwa ukuu wa nguvu zake? “Mimi ndimi, nisemaye katika haki, mwenye nguvu wa kuokoa.”
Who is this who comes from Edom, with blood-red robes from Bozrah? he whose clothing is fair, stepping with pride in his great strength? I whose glory is in the right, strong for salvation.
2 Kwa nini mavazi yako ni mekundu, kama ya yule akanyagaye shinikizo la zabibu?
Why is your clothing red, and why are your robes like those of one who is crushing the grapes?
3 “Nimekanyaga shinikizo la zabibu peke yangu; kutoka mataifa hakuna mtu aliyekuwa pamoja nami. Nimewaponda kwa miguu katika hasira yangu na kuwakanyaga chini katika ghadhabu yangu; damu yao ilitia matone kwenye mavazi yangu, na kutia madoa nguo zangu zote.
I have been crushing the grapes by myself, and of the peoples there was no man with me: in my wrath and in my passion, they were crushed under my feet; and my robes are marked with their life-blood, and all my clothing is red.
4 Kwa kuwa siku ya kisasi ilikuwa moyoni mwangu, mwaka wa ukombozi wangu umefika.
For the day of punishment is in my heart, and the year for the payment of the price for my people has come.
5 Nilitazama, lakini hakuwepo yeyote wa kunisaidia, nilishangaa kwa kuwa hakuwepo yeyote aliyetoa msaada; hivyo mkono wangu wenyewe ndio ulionifanyia wokovu, na ghadhabu yangu mwenyewe ndiyo iliyonitegemeza.
And I saw that there was no helper, and I was wondering that no one gave them support: so my arm did the work of salvation, and my wrath was my support.
6 Nilikanyaga mataifa kwa miguu katika hasira yangu, katika ghadhabu yangu niliwalewesha, na kumwaga damu yao juu ya ardhi.”
And in my passion the peoples were crushed under my feet, and broken in my wrath, and I put down their strength to the earth.
7 Nitasimulia juu ya wema wa Bwana, kwa matendo ambayo apaswa kusifiwa, sawasawa na yote ambayo Bwana ametenda kwa ajili yetu: naam, mambo mengi mema aliyoyatenda kwa ajili ya nyumba ya Israeli, sawasawa na huruma zake na wema wake mwingi.
I will give news of the mercies of the Lord, and his great acts, even all the things the Lord has done for us, in his great grace to the house of Israel; even all he has done for us in his unnumbered mercies.
8 Alisema, “Hakika wao ni watu wangu, wana ambao hawatanidanganya”; hivyo akawa Mwokozi wao.
For he said, Truly they are my people, children who will not be false: so he was their saviour out of all their trouble.
9 Katika taabu zao zote naye alitaabika, na malaika wa uso wake akawaokoa. Katika upendo wake na rehema zake aliwakomboa, akawainua na kuwachukua siku zote zilizopita.
It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.
10 Lakini waliasi, na kumhuzunisha Roho Mtakatifu wake. Hivyo aligeuka na kuwa adui yao, na yeye mwenyewe akapigana dhidi yao.
But they went against him, causing grief to his holy spirit: so he was turned against them, and made war on them.
11 Ndipo watu wake wakazikumbuka siku zilizopita, siku za Mose na watu wake: yuko wapi yeye aliyewaleta kupitia katikati ya bahari, pamoja na wachungaji wa kundi lake? Yuko wapi yule aliyeweka Roho wake Mtakatifu katikati yao,
Then the early days came to their minds, the days of Moses his servant: and they said, Where is he who made the keeper of his flock come up from the sea? where is he who put his holy spirit among them,
12 aliyetuma mkono wake uliotukuka wenye nguvu kuwa katika mkono wa kuume wa Mose, aliyegawa maji ya bahari mbele yao, ili kujipatia jina milele,
He who made the arm of his glory go at the right hand of Moses, by whom the waters were parted before them, to make himself an eternal name;
13 aliyewaongoza kupitia kwenye vilindi? Kama farasi katika nchi iliyo wazi, wao hawakujikwaa,
He who made them go through the deep waters, like a horse in the waste land?
14 kama ngʼombe washukao bondeni kwenye malisho, walipewa pumziko na Roho wa Bwana. Hivi ndivyo ulivyowaongoza watu wako ili kujipatia mwenyewe jina tukufu.
Like the cattle which go down into the valley, they went without falling, the spirit of the Lord guiding them: so you went before your people, to make yourself a great name.
15 Tazama chini kutoka mbinguni ukaone kutoka kiti chako cha enzi kilichoinuliwa juu, kitakatifu na kitukufu. Uko wapi wivu wako na uweza wako? Umetuzuilia wema wako na huruma zako.
Let your eyes be looking down from heaven, from your holy and beautiful house: where is your deep feeling, the working of your power? do not keep back the moving of your pity and your mercies:
16 Lakini wewe ni Baba yetu, ingawa Abrahamu hatufahamu sisi wala Israeli hatutambui; wewe, Ee Bwana, ndiwe Baba yetu, Mkombozi wetu tangu zamani za kale ndilo jina lako.
For you are our father, though Abraham has no knowledge of us, and Israel gives no thought to us: you, O Lord, are our father; from the earliest days you have taken up our cause.
17 Ee Bwana, kwa nini unatuacha twende mbali na njia zako, na kuifanya mioyo yetu migumu hata hatukukuheshimu? Rudi kwa ajili ya watumishi wako, yale makabila ambayo ni urithi wako.
O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.
18 Kwa maana kwa muda mfupi watu wako walimiliki mahali pako patakatifu, lakini sasa adui zetu wamepakanyaga mahali patakatifu pako.
Why have evil men gone over your holy place, so that it has been crushed under the feet of our haters?
19 Sisi tumekuwa kama wale ambao hujawatawala kamwe, kama wale ambao hawajaitwa kwa jina lako.
We have become as those who were never ruled by you, on whom your name was not named.
