1Thus 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. 2Wherefore, 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. 3I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
4The 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.
5¶ The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. 6I 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.
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. 8He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.50.8 mine…: Heb. the master of my cause? 9Behold, 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.
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. 11Behold, 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.
Dhambi Ya Israeli Na Utii Wa Mtumishi
150:1 Kum 24:1; Mk 10:4; Mt 18:25; Amu 3:8; Hos 2:2; Mt 19:7; Neh 5:5; Isa 1:25Hili ndilo asemalo Bwana:
“Iko wapi hati ya talaka ya mama yako
ambayo kwayo niliachana naye?
Au nimewauza ninyi kwa nani
miongoni mwa watu wanaonidai?
Kwa ajili ya dhambi zenu mliuzwa,
kwa sababu ya makosa, mama yenu aliachwa.
250:2 Mwa 18:14; Kut 14:22; Hes 11:23; 1Sam 8:19; Isa 41:28; Za 68:35; Yer 14:9Nilipokuja, kwa nini hakuwepo hata mmoja?
Nilipoita, kwa nini hakuwepo hata mmoja wa kujibu?
Je, mkono wangu ni mfupi mno hata nisiweze kuwakomboa?
Je, mimi sina nguvu za kukuokoa?
Kwa kukemea tu naikausha bahari,
naigeuza mito ya maji kuwa jangwa;
samaki wake wanaoza kwa kukosa maji
na kufa kwa ajili ya kiu.
350:3 Isa 5:30; Ufu 6:12; Kut 10:21Ninalivika anga weusi na kufanya nguo ya gunia
kuwa kifuniko chake.”
450:4 Kut 4:11-12; Za 88:13; Mt 7:29; Isa 40:29; Mt 11:28Bwana Mwenyezi amenipa ulimi uliofundishwa,
ili kujua neno limtegemezalo aliyechoka.
Huniamsha asubuhi kwa asubuhi,
huamsha sikio langu lisikie kama mtu afundishwaye.
550:5 Isa 35:5; Eze 2:8; Ebr 10:5; Isa 48:16; Eze 24:3; Mdo 26:19; Mt 26:39Bwana Mwenyezi amezibua masikio yangu,
nami sikuwa mwasi,
wala sikurudi nyuma.
650:6 Mt 27:30; Isa 53:5; Mao 3:30; Hes 12:14; Mt 26:67; Mk 14:65Niliwapa mgongo wangu wale wanipigao,
mashavu yangu wale wangʼoao ndevu zangu;
sikuuficha uso wangu kutokana na fedheha
na kutemewa mate.
750:7 Isa 41:10; Rum 8:31; Eze 3:8-9; Isa 48:16; 28:16; 29:22Kwa sababu Bwana Mwenyezi ananisaidia,
sitatahayarika.
Kwa hiyo nimekaza uso wangu kama jiwe la gumegume,
nami ninajua sitaaibika.
850:8 Ay 13:19; Rum 8:32-34; 1Kor 4:4; Isa 26:2; 49:4Yeye anipatiaye haki yangu yu karibu.
Ni nani basi atakayeleta mashtaka dhidi yangu?
Tukabiliane uso kwa uso!
Mshtaki wangu ni nani?
Ni nani aliye mshtaki wangu?
950:9 Ay 13:28; Isa 41:10; Ebr 1:11-12; Rum 8:1, 34; Isa 51:8Ni Bwana Mwenyezi anisaidiaye mimi.
Ni nani huyo atakayenihukumu?
Wote watachakaa kama vazi,
nondo watawala wawamalize.
1050:10 2Nya 20:20; Isa 49:3; 26:4; 1:19; Hag 1:12; Mdo 26:18; Isa 10:20Ni nani miongoni mwenu amchaye Bwana,
na kulitii neno la mtumishi wake?
Yeye atembeaye gizani,
yeye asiye na nuru,
na alitumainie jina la Bwana,
na amtegemee Mungu wake.
1150:11 Mit 26:18; Yak 3:6; Ay 15:20; Isa 65:13-15; Kum 21:22-23Lakini sasa, ninyi nyote mnaowasha mioto,
na kupeana mienge iwakayo ninyi kwa ninyi,
nendeni, tembeeni katika nuru ya moto wenu
na ya mienge mliyoiwasha.
Hili ndilo mtakalolipokea kutoka mkononi mwangu:
Mtalala chini kwa mateso makali.
