Isaya 26
1 Siku hiyo wimbo huu utaimbwa katika nchi ya Yuda: Tuna mji imara; Mungu amefanya wokovu katika kuta na ngome zake.
In that day, this canticle will be sung in the land of Judah. Within it will be set the city of our strength: Zion, a savior, a wall with a bulwark.
2 Fungua lango, ili mataifa yenye haki yaweze na yenye kutunza imani yaweze kuingia ndani.
Open the gates, and let the just people who guard the truth enter.
3 Akili mlionayo, mtamuhifadhi yeye katika amani kamili, maana anawamini ninyi.
The old error has gone away. You will serve peace: peace, for we have hoped in you.
4 Mwamini Yahwe daima; maana Yaha, Yahwe, ni mwamba wa milele.
You have trusted in the Lord for all eternity, in the Lord God almighty forever.
5 Maana atawashusha wale wote wenye kiburi; mji ulio juu atushusha chini, ataushusha chini kwenye aridhi; na ataulinganisha na mavumbi.
For he will bend down those living in the heights. He will bring low the lofty city. He will lower it, even to the ground. He will tear it down, even to the dust.
6 Utakanyagwakanyagwa chini na miguu ya walio masikini na wahitaji.
The foot will tread it down: the feet of the poor, the steps of the indigent.
7 Mapito ya mwenye haki yamenyooka, Wenye haki; mapito ya wenye haki umeyanyoosha.
The path of the just is upright; the difficult path of the just is right to walk in.
8 Ndio, kaika mapito ya hukumu yako, Yahwe, tunakusubiri wewe; jina lako na sifa zako ni matamanio yetu.
And in the path of your judgments, O Lord, we have endured for you. Your name and your remembrance are the desire of the soul.
9 Nimekutamani wewe wakati wa usiku; ndio, roho iliyo ndani yangu ina kutafuta kwa bidii. Pindi hukumu yako itakapokuja duniani, wenyeji wa duniani watajua kuhusu haki.
My soul has desired you in the night. But I will also watch for you with my spirit, in my inmost heart, from the morning. When you accomplish your judgments upon the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn justice.
10 Na tuonyeshe upendeleo kwa waovu, lakini hawatajifunza haki. katika nchi ya wanyofu anatenda maovu na haoni ukuu wa Yahwe.
Let us take pity on the impious one, but he will not learn justice. In the land of the holy ones, he has done iniquity, and so he will not see the glory of the Lord.
11 Yahwe, mkono wako umenyanyuliwa juu, lakini hawapati hizo taarifa. Lakini wataona bidii kwa watu na wataona aibu, kwa sababu idadi ya maadui watawatafuna.
Lord, let your hand be exalted, and let them not see it. May the envious people see and be confounded. And may fire devour your enemies.
12 Yahwe, utaleta amani kwetu, maana kweli, umekamilisha kazi zetu zote.
Lord, you will give us peace. For all our works have been wrought for us by you.
13 Yahwe Mungu wetu, viongozi wengine badala yako wametutawala sisi; Lakini tunalitukuza jina lako.
O Lord our God, other lords have possessed us apart from you, but in you alone let us remember your name.
14 Wamekufa, hawataishi tena; ni maremu hao, hawatafufuka tena. Kweli, umekuja kuwahukumu na kuwaharibu wao, na umefanya kila kumbukumbu kutoweka.
Let not the dead live; let not the giants rise up again. For this reason, you have visited and destroyed them, and you have perished all remembrance of them.
15 Umeliongeza taifa, Yahwe, umeliongeza taifa; umeheshimiwa; umeinuliwa katika mipaka yote ya nchi.
You have been lenient to the people, O Lord, lenient to the people. But have you been glorified? You have removed all the limits of the earth.
16 Yahwe, katika mateso yao walikuangalia wewe; walipatwa na wasiwasi katika maombi yao maana adhabu yako ilikuwa juu yao.
Lord, they have sought you in anguish. Your doctrine was with them, amid the tribulation of murmuring.
17 Kama mwanamke mjamzito anayekaribia kujifungua, hupatwa na uchungu na hulia kwa uchungu, hivyo ndivyo tulivyokuwa kabla, Bwana.
Like a woman who has conceived and is approaching the time for delivery, who, in anguish, cries out in her pains, so have we become before your face, O Lord.
18 Tulikuwa wajawazito, tumekuwa katika mateso, lakini ni kama tumeshajifungua katika akili zetu. Hatujauleta wokovu duniani, na wakazi wa duniani hawakuanguka.
We have conceived, and it is as if we were in labor, but we have given birth to wind. We have not brought forth salvation on the earth. For this reason, the inhabitants of the earth have not fallen.
19 Wafu wenu wataishi; watu wenu walio kufa watafufuka. Amka na uimbe kwa furaha, njie muishio mavumbini; maana umande wenu ni umande wa mwanga, na dunia itawaleta mbele wafu wake.
Your dead shall live. My slain will rise again. Be awakened, and give praise, you who live in the dust! For your dew is the dew of the light, and you shall be dragged down to the land of the giants, to ruination.
20 Enendeni, watu wangu, ingieni katika vyumba vyenu na mfunge mlango nyuma yenu; jificheni kwa mda mfupi, mpaka hasira itakapopita.
Go, my people! Enter your chambers. Close your doors behind you. Conceal yourselves for a very brief time, until the indignation has passed over you.
21 Maana, angalia, Yahwe anakaribia kutoka katika eneo lake kuwahadhibu watu waishio duniani kwa ajili ya makosa yao; dunia itaachia umwagaji wa damu, na hawatawaficha tena waliokufa.
For behold, the Lord will go forth from his place, so that he may visit the iniquity of each inhabitant of the earth against him. And the earth will reveal its blood, and it will no longer cover its slain.
