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Ang Mensahi Parte sa Jerusalem

29 Nagsiling ang Ginoo, “Kaluluoy ang Jerusalem,[a] ang siyudad nga ginpuy-an ni David! Sige, magselebrar ini nga siyudad sang iya mga piesta kada tuig. Pero salakayon ko ini, kag magahinibi kag magapanalambiton ang iya sini mga pumuluyo. Kag para sa akon, ang bug-os nga siyudad mangin pareho sa halaran nga nabulit sang dugo.[b] Kibunon ko ang siyudad sang Jerusalem. Palibutan ko ini sang mga tore-tore sa pagsalakay sini, kag magatumpok ako sang mga duta sa kilid sang pader agod mataklas ini. Malaglag ini, kag mangin pareho sa isa ka murto nga nagapanawag halin sa idalom sang duta, nga ang iya tingog hungaw. Pero sa ulihi ang iya madamo nga mga kaaway mangin pareho sa yab-ok ukon upa nga palidon sang hangin. Gulpi lang ini matabo sa ila. Dumdumon sang Ginoo nga Makagagahom ang Jerusalem, kag magaabot siya nga may daguob, linog, ginahod, buhawi, bagyo, kag nagadabadaba nga kalayo. 7-8 Madula pareho sa isa ka damgo ang madamo nga mga nasyon nga nagasalakay sa Jerusalem[c] kag nagaguba sang mga pader sini. Pareho sila sa tawo nga nagadamgo nga nagakaon, pero pagbugtaw niya gutom siya, ukon pareho sa tawo nga nagadamgo nga nagainom, pero pagbugtaw niya uhaw siya.”

Kamo nga mga taga-Juda, buanga ninyo ang inyo kaugalingon kag magpakabuang kamo. Bulaga ninyo ang inyo kaugalingon kag magpakabulag kamo. Hubog kamo kag nagaduling-duling pero indi tungod sa bino. 10 Kay daw sa ginpatulog kamo sang Ginoo sing mahamuok. Gintabunan niya ang inyo mga ulo kag mga mata nga wala sing iban kundi ang inyo mga propeta.

11 Para sa inyo, ini tanan nga ginpahayag sa inyo daw sa libro nga sirado. Kon ipabasa mo ini sa tawo nga kahibalo magbasa, masiling siya, “Indi ko ina mabasa tungod kay sirado.” 12 Kag kon ipabasa mo sa indi kahibalo magbasa, masiling siya, “Indi ako kahibalo magbasa.”

13 Nagasiling ang Ginoo, “Ini nga katawhan nagadayaw kag nagapadungog sa akon sa baba lang, pero ang ila tagipusuon malayo sa akon. Kag ang ila pagsimba sa akon suno lang sa mga pagsulundan sang tawo. 14 Gani patingalahon ko liwat ang ini nga katawhan sang sunod-sunod nga makatilingala nga mga butang. Kag dulaon ko ang kaalam sang mga tawo nga maalam kag ang pag-intiendi sang mga may tinun-an.”

15 Kaluluoy kamo nga mga nagatago sang inyo mga plano sa Ginoo. Nagahimo kamo sang inyo mga buluhaton sa madulom, kag nagasiling kamo, “Wala sing may makakita ukon makahibalo sang aton ginahimo.” 16 Mga balingag kamo! Ginakabig ninyo nga daw sa kolon ang manughimo sang kolon.[d] Makasiling bala ang hinimo nga butang sa naghimo sa iya, “Indi ikaw ang naghimo sa akon?” Makasiling bala ang kolon sa nagporma sa iya, “Wala ikaw sang may nahibaluan?”

17 Sa indi madugay ang kagulangan sang Lebanon mangin mapatubason nga latagon, kag ang mapatubason nga latagon mangin kagulangan. 18 Sa sina nga tion, ang bungol makabati sa ginabasa nga libro. Kag ang bulag, nga ang iya lang makita amo ang kadulom, makakita. 19 Magakalipay liwat ang mga mapainubuson kag ang mga imol tungod sa Ginoo, ang Balaan nga Dios sang Israel. 20 Tungod kay madula ang mga mapintas kag nagapangyaguta nga mga tawo. Magakalamatay ang tanan nga mahilig sa pagpakasala 21 pati ang tanan nga nagaakusar sang indi matuod, ang mga nagapadihot agod makombinsi ang mga hukom, kag ang mga nagabinutig nga saksi agod indi mahatagan sang hustisya ang mga inosente.

22 Gani ang Ginoo, ang Dios nga nagluwas kay Abraham nagsiling parte sa mga kaliwat ni Jacob, “Sugod karon, wala na sila sing dapat ikahuya ukon kahadlukan. 23 Kay kon makita nila nga mga kaliwat ni Jacob ang akon mga binuhatan sa ila, tahuron nila ako, ang Balaan nga Dios ni Jacob, kag kilalahon nila ang akon pagkabalaan. Kahadlukan nila ako nga Dios sang Israel. 24 Ang mga nalibugan makaintiendi na sang kamatuoran, kag ang mga nagareklamo magakalipay na kon tudluan.”

Footnotes

  1. 29:1 Jerusalem: sa Hebreo, Ariel.
  2. 29:2 halaran nga nabulit sang dugo: sa Hebreo, Ariel.
  3. 29:7-8 Jerusalem: sa Hebreo, Bukid sang Zion.
  4. 29:16 Ginakabig… kolon: buot silingon, ginakabig nila nga daw sa tinuga ang Dios nga Manunuga.

Woe to David’s City

29 Woe(A) to you, Ariel, Ariel,(B)
    the city(C) where David settled!
Add year to year
    and let your cycle of festivals(D) go on.
Yet I will besiege Ariel;(E)
    she will mourn and lament,(F)
    she will be to me like an altar hearth.[a](G)
I will encamp against you on all sides;
    I will encircle(H) you with towers
    and set up my siege works(I) against you.
Brought low, you will speak from the ground;
    your speech will mumble(J) out of the dust.(K)
Your voice will come ghostlike(L) from the earth;
    out of the dust your speech will whisper.(M)

But your many enemies will become like fine dust,(N)
    the ruthless(O) hordes like blown chaff.(P)
Suddenly,(Q) in an instant,
    the Lord Almighty will come(R)
with thunder(S) and earthquake(T) and great noise,
    with windstorm and tempest(U) and flames of a devouring fire.(V)
Then the hordes of all the nations(W) that fight against Ariel,(X)
    that attack her and her fortress and besiege her,
will be as it is with a dream,(Y)
    with a vision in the night—
as when a hungry person dreams of eating,
    but awakens(Z) hungry still;
as when a thirsty person dreams of drinking,
    but awakens faint and thirsty still.(AA)
So will it be with the hordes of all the nations
    that fight against Mount Zion.(AB)

Be stunned and amazed,(AC)
    blind yourselves and be sightless;(AD)
be drunk,(AE) but not from wine,(AF)
    stagger,(AG) but not from beer.
10 The Lord has brought over you a deep sleep:(AH)
    He has sealed your eyes(AI) (the prophets);(AJ)
    he has covered your heads (the seers).(AK)

11 For you this whole vision(AL) is nothing but words sealed(AM) in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I can’t; it is sealed.” 12 Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I don’t know how to read.”

13 The Lord says:

“These people(AN) come near to me with their mouth
    and honor me with their lips,(AO)
    but their hearts are far from me.(AP)
Their worship of me
    is based on merely human rules they have been taught.[b](AQ)
14 Therefore once more I will astound these people
    with wonder upon wonder;(AR)
the wisdom of the wise(AS) will perish,
    the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.(AT)
15 Woe to those who go to great depths
    to hide(AU) their plans from the Lord,
who do their work in darkness and think,
    “Who sees us?(AV) Who will know?”(AW)
16 You turn things upside down,
    as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!(AX)
Shall what is formed say to the one who formed(AY) it,
    “You did not make me”?
Can the pot say to the potter,(AZ)
    “You know nothing”?(BA)

17 In a very short time,(BB) will not Lebanon(BC) be turned into a fertile field(BD)
    and the fertile field seem like a forest?(BE)
18 In that day(BF) the deaf(BG) will hear the words of the scroll,
    and out of gloom and darkness(BH)
    the eyes of the blind will see.(BI)
19 Once more the humble(BJ) will rejoice in the Lord;
    the needy(BK) will rejoice in the Holy One(BL) of Israel.
20 The ruthless(BM) will vanish,(BN)
    the mockers(BO) will disappear,
    and all who have an eye for evil(BP) will be cut down—
21 those who with a word make someone out to be guilty,
    who ensnare the defender in court(BQ)
    and with false testimony(BR) deprive the innocent of justice.(BS)

22 Therefore this is what the Lord, who redeemed(BT) Abraham,(BU) says to the descendants of Jacob:

“No longer will Jacob be ashamed;(BV)
    no longer will their faces grow pale.(BW)
23 When they see among them their children,(BX)
    the work of my hands,(BY)
they will keep my name holy;(BZ)
    they will acknowledge the holiness of the Holy One(CA) of Jacob,
    and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
24 Those who are wayward(CB) in spirit will gain understanding;(CC)
    those who complain will accept instruction.”(CD)

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 29:2 The Hebrew for altar hearth sounds like the Hebrew for Ariel.
  2. Isaiah 29:13 Hebrew; Septuagint They worship me in vain; / their teachings are merely human rules

29 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.

Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.

And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.

And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.

Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.

Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.

And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.

It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.

Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

10 For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.

11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:

12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.

19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:

21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

22 Therefore thus saith the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.

23 But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.

24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.