1 Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
Bwana asema hivi, Iko wapi hati ya talaka ya mama yenu, ambayo kwa hiyo naliachana naye? Au nimewauza ninyi kwa nani katika watu wanaoniwia? Ninyi mliuzwa kwa sababu ya maovu yenu; tena mama yenu ameachwa kwa sababu ya makosa yenu.
2 Wherefore, 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 stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
Basi, nilipokuja, mbona hapakuwa na mtu? Nilipoita, mbona hapakuwa na mtu aliyenijibu? Je! Mkono wangu ni mfupi, hata nisiweze kukomboa? Au je! Mimi sina nguvu za kuponya? Tazama, kwa kukemea kwangu naikausha bahari, mito ya maji naifanya kuwa jangwa; samaki wao wanuka kwa sababu hapana maji, nao wafa kwa kiu.
3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
Mimi nazivika mbingu weusi, nami nafanya nguo ya magunia kuwa kifuniko chao.
The Servant's Endowment
4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
Bwana MUNGU amenipa ulimi wa hao wafundishwao, nipate kujua jinsi ya kumtegemeza kwa maneno yeye aliyechoka, huniamsha asubuhi baada ya asubuhi; huniamsha, sikio langu lipate kusikia kama watu wafundishwao.
5 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
Bwana MUNGU amenizibua sikio langu, wala sikuwa mkaidi, wala sikurudi nyuma.
6 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.
Naliwatolea wapigao mgongo wangu, na wang'oao ndevu mashavu yangu; sikuficha uso wangu usipate fedheha na kutemewa mate.
7 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.
Maana Bwana MUNGU atanisaidia; kwa sababu hiyo sikutahayari, kwa sababu hiyo nimekaza uso wangu kama gumegume, nami najua ya kuwa sitaona haya.
8 He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
Yeye anipatiaye haki yangu yu karibu; ni nani atakayeshindana nami? Na tusimame pamoja; ni nani aliye hasimu yangu? Na anikaribie basi.
9 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
Tazama, Bwana MUNGU atanisaidia; ni nani atakayenihukumu kuwa mkosa? Tazama hao wote watachakaa kama vazi; nondo atawala.
10 Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
Ni nani miongoni mwenu amchaye Bwana, aitiiye sauti ya mtumishi wake? Yeye aendaye katika giza, wala hana nuru, naye alitumainia jina la Bwana, na kumtegemea Mungu wake.
11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
Tazama, ninyi nyote mwashao moto, mjifungiao hiyo mienge; endeni ninyi katika mwali wa moto wenu, na katikati ya mienge mliyoiwasha. Mtayapata haya kwa mkono wangu; mtalala kwa huzuni.
