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Matig-a sing Ulo ang mga Israelinhon

48 “Pamati kamo nga mga kaliwat ni Jacob, kamo nga ginatawag Israel, kag naghalin sa tribo ni Juda. Nagasumpa kamo sa ngalan sang Ginoo, kag nagatawag kamo sa Dios sang Israel. Pero indi ini sinsero, kay indi matarong ang inyo kabuhi. Ginatawag pa ninyo ang inyo kaugalingon nga mga pumuluyo sang balaan nga siyudad kag nagasiling kamo nga nagasalig kamo sa Dios sang Israel, nga ang iya ngalan Ginoo nga Makagagahom.” Nagasiling siya sa inyo, “Gintagna ko na sang una kon ano ang matabo sa palaabuton. Kag sa hinali lang gintuman ko ini. Nahibaluan ko kon ano katig-a sang inyo ulo. Ang inyo liog daw pareho katig-a sang salsalon kag ang inyo agtang daw pareho katig-a sa saway. Amo gani nga ginsugid ko na nga daan sa inyo ang akon himuon. Sa wala pa ini matabo ginpahibalo ko na ini sa inyo agod indi kamo makasiling nga ang inyo mga dios-dios nga hinimo halin sa kahoy kag metal amo ang nagtagna kag nagtuman sini. Nabatian ninyo ang akon mga gintagna kag nakita ninyo ang katumanan sini, pero indi ninyo pagbatunon nga ako ang naghimo sini. Sugod subong sugiran ko kamo sang bag-o nga mga butang nga wala ko pa ginpahayag sa inyo; wala pa ninyo mahibaluan. Karon ko pa lang ini ginahimo kag wala pa sang una, agod indi kamo makasiling nga nahibaluan na ninyo ini. Wala kamo makabati ukon makaintiendi sini nga mga butang kay halin pa sang una nagpabungol-bungol kamo. Nahibaluan ko kon ano kamo ka maluibon, kay halin pa sang inyo pagkatawo mga rebelde na kamo. Para sa akon kadungganan, punggan ko ang akon kaakig sa inyo, agod indi kamo malaglag. 10 Pamati! Tinluan ko kamo, pero indi pareho sa ginahimo sa pilak, kay tinluan ko kamo paagi sa pag-antos. 11 Himuon ko ini para sa akon kadungganan. Indi gid ako magtugot nga mahuy-an ako kag mapadunggan ang iban nga dios.

12 “Pamati kamo sa akon, kamo nga taga-Israel nga akon ginpili. Ako ang Dios; ako ang ginsuguran kag ang katapusan sang tanan. 13 Ako mismo ang nagbutang sang pundasyon sang kalibutan kag naghumlad sang kalangitan. Kon magmando ako sa ila, ginatuman nila.

14 “Magtipon kamo tanan kag magpamati: Sin-o bala sa mga dios-dios ang nagtagna nga salakayon sang akon abyan[a] ang Babilonia sa pagtuman sang akon plano kontra sa sini nga nasyon? Wala gid! 15 Ako mismo ang naghambal kag nagtawag sa iya. Suguon ko siya kag magmadinalag-on siya sa iya himuon. 16 Magpalapit kamo sa akon kag pamatii ini: Halin sang ginsuguran wala ako naghambal sa tago, kag sang tion nga natabo ang akon mga ginhambal, ara ako.”

Kag karon ang Ginoong Dios kag ang iya Espiritu nagpadala sa akon sa pagsugid sini nga mensahi: 17 “Nagasiling ang Ginoo nga inyo Manluluwas, ang Balaan nga Dios sang Israel: Ako ang Ginoo nga inyo Dios nga nagtudlo sa inyo kon ano ang maayo para sa inyo kag nagtuytoy sa inyo sa husto nga dalan. 18 Kon nagpati lang kamo sa akon mga sugo, kuntani nag-ilig pareho sa suba ang mga kaayuhan sa inyo, kag nagsinunod-sunod lang kuntani ang inyo mga kadalag-an[b] pareho sa mga balod nga nagadapya sa higad. 19 Ang inyo mga kaliwat mangin pareho kuntani kadamo sa balas nga indi maisip, kag indi gid sila malaglag sa akon atubangan.”

20 Maghalin kamo sa Babilonia! Ibantala ninyo sing malipayon sa bug-os nga kalibutan[c] nga ginluwas sang Ginoo ang iya alagad, ang katawhan sang Israel.[d] 21 Wala sila pag-uhawa sang ginpangunahan sila sang Dios sa mga kamingawan, kay ginpatubod niya ang tubig sa bato para sa ila. Ginbuka niya ang bato kag nagsagawak ang tubig. 22 Pero nagasiling siya nga ang mga malaot indi makaangkon sang maayo nga kahimtangan.

Footnotes

  1. 48:14 abyan: Siguro si Haring Cyrus.
  2. 48:18 kadalag-an: ukon, pagkamatarong.
  3. 48:20 bug-os nga kalibutan: sa literal, pinakapunta sang kalibutan.
  4. 48:20 ang katawhan sang Israel: sa Hebreo, nga si Jacob.

Stubborn Israel

48 “Listen to this, you descendants of Jacob,
    you who are called by the name of Israel(A)
    and come from the line of Judah,(B)
you who take oaths(C) in the name of the Lord(D)
    and invoke(E) the God of Israel—
    but not in truth(F) or righteousness—
you who call yourselves citizens of the holy city(G)
    and claim to rely(H) on the God of Israel—
    the Lord Almighty is his name:(I)
I foretold the former things(J) long ago,
    my mouth announced(K) them and I made them known;
    then suddenly(L) I acted, and they came to pass.
For I knew how stubborn(M) you were;
    your neck muscles(N) were iron,
    your forehead(O) was bronze.
Therefore I told you these things long ago;
    before they happened I announced(P) them to you
so that you could not say,
    ‘My images brought them about;(Q)
    my wooden image and metal god ordained them.’
You have heard these things; look at them all.
    Will you not admit them?

“From now on I will tell you of new things,(R)
    of hidden things unknown to you.
They are created(S) now, and not long ago;(T)
    you have not heard of them before today.
So you cannot say,
    ‘Yes, I knew(U) of them.’
You have neither heard nor understood;(V)
    from of old your ears(W) have not been open.
Well do I know how treacherous(X) you are;
    you were called a rebel(Y) from birth.
For my own name’s sake(Z) I delay my wrath;(AA)
    for the sake of my praise I hold it back from you,
    so as not to destroy you completely.(AB)
10 See, I have refined(AC) you, though not as silver;
    I have tested(AD) you in the furnace(AE) of affliction.
11 For my own sake,(AF) for my own sake, I do this.
    How can I let myself be defamed?(AG)
    I will not yield my glory to another.(AH)

Israel Freed

12 “Listen(AI) to me, Jacob,
    Israel, whom I have called:(AJ)
I am he;(AK)
    I am the first and I am the last.(AL)
13 My own hand laid the foundations of the earth,(AM)
    and my right hand spread out the heavens;(AN)
when I summon them,
    they all stand up together.(AO)

14 “Come together,(AP) all of you, and listen:
    Which of the idols has foretold(AQ) these things?
The Lord’s chosen ally(AR)
    will carry out his purpose(AS) against Babylon;(AT)
    his arm will be against the Babylonians.[a]
15 I, even I, have spoken;
    yes, I have called(AU) him.
I will bring him,
    and he will succeed(AV) in his mission.

16 “Come near(AW) me and listen(AX) to this:

“From the first announcement I have not spoken in secret;(AY)
    at the time it happens, I am there.”

And now the Sovereign Lord(AZ) has sent(BA) me,
    endowed with his Spirit.(BB)

17 This is what the Lord says—
    your Redeemer,(BC) the Holy One(BD) of Israel:
“I am the Lord your God,
    who teaches(BE) you what is best for you,
    who directs(BF) you in the way(BG) you should go.
18 If only you had paid attention(BH) to my commands,
    your peace(BI) would have been like a river,(BJ)
    your well-being(BK) like the waves of the sea.
19 Your descendants(BL) would have been like the sand,(BM)
    your children like its numberless grains;(BN)
their name would never be blotted out(BO)
    nor destroyed from before me.”

20 Leave Babylon,
    flee(BP) from the Babylonians!
Announce this with shouts of joy(BQ)
    and proclaim it.
Send it out to the ends of the earth;(BR)
    say, “The Lord has redeemed(BS) his servant Jacob.”
21 They did not thirst(BT) when he led them through the deserts;
    he made water flow(BU) for them from the rock;
he split the rock
    and water gushed out.(BV)

22 “There is no peace,”(BW) says the Lord, “for the wicked.”(BX)

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 48:14 Or Chaldeans; also in verse 20

48 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.

For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The Lord of hosts is his name.

I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.

Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.

They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.

Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.

10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

11 For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.

12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.

13 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.

14 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The Lord hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.

15 I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

16 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me.

17 Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.

18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

20 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob.

21 And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

22 There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.