1Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!9.1 Oh…: Heb. Who will give my head, etc 2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. 3And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD. 4Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.9.4 neighbour: or, friend 5And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.9.5 deceive: or, mock 6Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD. 7Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people? 8Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.9.8 in heart: Heb. in the midst of him9.8 his wait: or, wait for him
9¶ Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? 10For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.9.10 habitations: or, pastures9.10 burned up: or, desolate9.10 both…: Heb. from the fowl even to, etc 11And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.9.11 desolate: Heb. desolation
12¶ Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through? 13And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; 14But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:9.14 imagination: or, stubbornness 15Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. 16I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
17¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come: 18And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. 19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out. 20Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation. 21For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets. 22Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
23¶ Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: 24But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
25¶ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;9.25 punish: Heb. visit upon 26Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.9.26 in the utmost…: Heb. cut off into corners, or, having the corners of their hair polled
1Aa, ndikanakonda kuti mutu wanga ukanakhala chitsime cha madzi,
ndi maso anga ngati kasupe wa misozi!
Ndikanalira usana ndi usiku
kulirira anthu anga amene aphedwa.
2Ndani adzandipatsa malo
ogona mʼchipululu
kuti ndiwasiye anthu anga
ndi kuwachokera kupita kutali;
pakuti onse ndi achigololo,
ndiponso gulu la anthu onyenga.
3“Amapinda lilime lawo ngati uta.
Mʼdzikomo mwadzaza
ndi mabodza okhaokha
osati zoonadi.
Amapitirirabe kuchita zoyipa;
ndipo sandidziwa Ine.”
Akutero Yehova.
4“Aliyense achenjere ndi abwenzi ake;
asadalire ngakhale abale ake.
Aliyense amafuna kumudyera mʼbale wake masuku pa mutu.
Choncho aliyense amachitira bwenzi lake ugogodi.
5Aliyense amamunamiza mʼbale wake
ndipo palibe amene amayankhula choonadi.
Anapazoloweza pakamwa pawo kunena zabodza;
amalimbika kuchita machimo.
6Iwe wakhalira mʼchinyengo
ndipo ukukana kundidziwa Ine,”
akutero Yehova.
7Nʼchifukwa chake Yehova Wamphamvuzonse akuti,
“Taonani, Ine ndidzawasungunula ngati chitsulo ndi kuwayesa.
Kodi ndingachite nawonso
bwanji chifukwa cha machimo awo?
8Lilime lawo lili ngati muvi wakuthwa;
limayankhula zachinyengo.
Aliyense ndi pakamwa pake amayankhula mawu achikondi kwa mnansi wake,
koma mu mtima mwake amakonzekera zomuchita chiwembu.
9Kodi ndilekerenji kuwalanga chifukwa cha zimenezi?
akutero Yehova.
‘Kodi ndisawulipsire
mtundu wotere wa anthu?’ ”
10Ndidzakhetsa misozi ndi kulira kwamphamvu chifukwa cha mapiri
ndipo ndidzadandaula chifukwa cha msipu wa ku chipululu.
Malo onsewo awonongeka ndipo palibe amene amapitako,
ndipo sikumveka kulira kwa ngʼombe.
Mbalame zamlengalenga zathawa
ndipo nyama zakuthengo zachokako.
11Ndipo Yehova anati, “Ndidzasandutsa Yerusalemu kukhala bwinja,
malo okhalamo ankhandwe;
ndipo ndidzawononga mizinda ya Yuda
kotero kuti palibe munthu amene adzakhalemo.”
12Ine ndinati, “Kodi munthu wanzeru ndani woti nʼkumvetsa zimenezi? Kodi ndani amene Yehova anayankhula naye zimenezi kuti akafotokozere ena? Nʼchifukwa chiyani dziko lawonongeka ndi kusanduka chipululu, mʼmene anthu sadutsamo?”
13Yehova anati, “Nʼchifukwa chakuti anthuwa analeka kutsata malamulo anga amene ndinawapatsa; sanandimvere kapena kuwasamala. 14Mʼmalo mwake, anatsatira zolakwa za mʼmitima yawo; anapembedza Abaala ngati momwe makolo awo anawaphunzitsira.” 15Tsono chimene Ine Yehova Wamphamvuzonse, Mulungu wa Israeli ndidzachite ndi anthu amenewa ndi ichi: “Ndidzawadyetsa chakudya cha ziphe ndi kuwamwetsa madzi a ndulu. 16Ndidzawabalalitsa pakati pa mitundu ya anthu imene iwowo kapena makolo awo sanayidziwe, ndipo ndidzawalondola ndi ankhondo mpaka nditawawononga.”
17Yehova Wamphamvuzonse akuti,
“Tsopano ganizirani! Muyitane akazi olira mwachisoni kuti abwere;
itanani akazi odziwa kulira bwino.”
18Anthu akuti, “Abwere mofulumira
kuti adzatilire
mpaka mʼmaso mwathu mutatuluka misozi
ndi kuti msidze zathu zinyowe ndi madzi.
19Kulira mwachisoni kukumveka kuchokera mu Ziyoni akuti,
‘Aa! Ife tawonongeka!
Tachita manyazi kwambiri!
Tiyenera kuchoka mʼdziko lathu
chifukwa atipirikitsa mʼnyumba zathu.’ ”
20Tsono inu amayi, imvani mawu a Yehova;
tcherani makutu anu kuti mumve mawu a Yehova.
Phunzitsani ana anu aakazi kulira mwachisoni;
aliyense aphunzitse mnzake nyimbo ya maliro.
21Imfa yatifikira kudzera mʼmazenera athu
ndipo yalowa mʼnyumba zathu zotetezedwa;
yapha ana athu mʼmisewu,
ndi achinyamata athu mʼmabwalo.
22Yehova anandiwuza kuti ndinene izi kuti,
“ ‘Mitembo ya anthu
idzakhala ili lambalamba ngati ndowe mʼminda,
ngati mapesi mʼmbuyo mwa wokolola,
popanda munthu woyitola.’ ”
23Yehova akuti,
“Munthu wanzeru asanyadire nzeru zake,
kapena munthu wamphamvu kunyadira nyonga zake,
kapena munthu wolemera kunyadira chuma chake,
24koma ngati munthu akufuna kunyadira, anyadire chinthu ichi:
kuti iye amamvetsa za Ine ndipo amandidziwa,
kuti ndine Yehova, amene ndimakonda chifundo,
chilungamo ndiponso ungwiro pa dziko lapansi.
Zimenezi ndizo ndimakondwera nazo,”
akutero Yehova.
25“Nthawi ikubwera,” akutero Yehova, “pamene ndidzalanga onse amene anachita mdulidwe koma mu mtima sasamala nʼkomwe. 26Ndidzalanga anthu a ku Igupto, Yuda, Edomu, Amoni, Mowabu, ndiponso onse amene amakhala kutali ku chipululu. Mitundu ina yonseyi ndi yosachita mdulidwe, ngakhalenso Aisraeli nawonso sanachite mdulidwe wa mu mtima.”
