Obunnabbi Obufa ku Yerusaalemi
122:1 a Is 13:1 b Zab 125:2; Yer 21:13; Yo 3:2, 12, 14Obunnabbi obukwata ku Kiwonvu ky’Okwolesebwa:
Kiki ekikutawanya kaakano,
n’okulinnya n’olinnya waggulu ku busolya,
222:2 Is 32:13ggwe ekibuga ekijjudde oluyoogaano,
ggwe ekibuga eky’amasanyu era eky’ebinyumu?
Abantu bo abattibwa,
tebaafa kitala newaakubadde okufiira mu lutalo.
3Abakulembeze bo bonna baddukidde wamu;
bawambiddwa awatali kulwana.
Bonna baakwatibwa ne batwalibwa wamu nga basibe,
kubanga badduka.
422:4 a Is 15:3; Luk 19:41 b Yer 9:1Kyenava njogera nti, “Munveeko,
mundeke nkaabire ddala nnyo.
Temugezaako kunsaasira
olw’okuzikirizibwa kw’omuwala w’abantu bange.”
522:5 Kgb 1:5Mukama, Mukama Katonda ow’Eggye alina olunaku
olw’akatabanguko,
olw’okulinyirirwa n’entiisa mu Kiwonvu ky’Okwolesebwa;
olunaku olw’okumenya bbugwe,
n’okukaabirira ensozi.
622:6 a Is 21:2 b Yer 49:35 c 2Bk 16:9Eramu ayambalidde omufuko gw’obusaale,
n’atwala n’abavuzi b’amagaali ge n’embalaasi,
Kiri22:6 Kiri Kifo ekisangibwa mu Bwasuli asabuukulula engabo.
722:7 2By 32:1-2Ebiwonvu byo ebisinga obulungi bijjudde amagaali,
n’abeebagala embalaasi bassibbwa ku wankaaki.
822:8 a 2By 32:5 b 1Bk 7:2Okwerinda kwa Yuda kuggyiddwawo.
Ku lunaku olwo watunuulira
ebyokulwanyisa eby’omu Lubiri olw’Ekibira.
922:9 2By 32:4Walaba amabanga agaali mu kwerinda
kw’Ekibuga kya Dawudi,
wakuŋŋaanya amazzi
mu Kidiba eky’Emmanga.
10Wabala ebizimbe mu Yerusaalemi
n’omenya amayumba okusobola okunyweza bbugwe.
1122:11 a 2Bk 25:4; Yer 39:4 b 2By 32:4Wasima ekidiba omuterekebwa amazzi wakati w’ebisenge ebibiri,
n’okuŋŋaanya ag’ekidiba ekikadde,
naye tewatunuulira Oyo eyakisima,
wadde okussaamu ekitiibwa Oyo eyakiteekateeka mu biro eby’edda.
1222:12 a Yo 2:17 b Mi 1:16 c Yo 1:13Ku lunaku olwo Mukama Katonda ow’Eggye
yalangirira okukaaba n’okukuba ebiwoobe,
n’okwemwako enviiri
n’okwambala ebibukutu.
1322:13 a Is 5:22; 28:7-8; 56:12; Luk 17:26-29 b 1Ko 15:32*Naye laba, ssanyu na kujaguza,
okubaaga ente n’okutta endiga,
okulya ennyama n’okunywa envinnyo.
Mwogere nti, “Leka tulye, era tunywe
kubanga enkya tunaafa.”
1422:14 a Is 5:9 b Is 13:11; 26:21; 30:13-14; Ez 24:13Mukama ow’Eggye akimbikulidde n’aŋŋamba nti, “Ekibi kino tekirisonyiyibwa wadde okuggyibwawo okutuusa lw’olifa,” bw’ayogera Mukama Katonda ow’Eggye.
1522:15 2Bk 18:18; Is 36:3Bw’ati bw’ayogera Mukama Katonda ow’Eggye nti,
“Genda eri omuwanika oyo,
eri Sabuna avunaanyizibwa olubiri omugambe nti,
1622:16 Mat 27:60Okola ki wano era ani yakuwadde olukusa
okwetemera entaana wano,
n’otema n’amaanyi entaana yo waggulu mu lwazi,
ne weerongoosereza eyo ekifo eky’okuwummuliramu?
17“Weegendereze Mukama Katonda anaatera okukuvumbagira,
akuggyewo ggwe omusajja ow’amaanyi.
1822:18 Is 17:13Alikuzingazingako,
n’akukanyuga mu nsi engazi, nga bwe yandikanyuze omupiira ogusambwa.
Eyo gy’olifiira,
era eyo amagaali go ag’ekitiibwa gye galisigala,
ggwe ensonyi ez’ennyumba ya Mukama wo.
19Ndikuggya ku ntebe yo,
era oliggyibwa mu kifo kyo.
2022:20 2Bk 18:18; Is 36:3“Mu biro ebyo nditumya omuweereza wange Eriyakimu mutabani wa Kirukiya. 21Ndimwambaza ekyambalo kyo, ne munyweza n’olukoba lwo, ne mukwasa obuyinza bwo. Aliba kitaawe w’abo ababeera mu Yerusaalemi, n’eri ennyumba ya Yuda. 2222:22 a Kub 3:7 b Is 7:2 c Yob 12:14Ndimukwasa ekisumuluzo ky’ennyumba ya Dawudi; bw’aliggulawo tewaliba aggalawo, bw’aliggalawo tewaliba aggulawo. 2322:23 a Zek 10:4 b Ezr 9:8 c 1Sa 2:7-8; Yob 36:7Ndimunyweza mu kifo ng’enkondo ennene, era aliba ntebe ya kitiibwa eri ennyumba ya kitaawe. 24Ekitiibwa ky’ennyumba ye kiribeera ku nnyumba ye, ne ku zadde lye ne ku nda ye yonna, ne ku bintu bye ebinywerwamu, okuva ku bibya okutuuka ku nsumbi.”
2522:25 a nny 23 b Is 46:11; Mi 4:4Bw’ati bw’ayogera Katonda ow’Eggye nti, “Ku lunaku olwo, enkondo ennene eyakomererwa mu kifo n’enywera erisalibwa, n’eneguka, n’egwa, n’omugugu gw’ekutte gulisarwako.” Mukama ayogedde.
A prophecy about Jerusalem
1A prophecy against the Valley of Vision:
What troubles you now,
that you have all gone up on the roofs,
2you town so full of commotion,
you city of tumult and revelry?
Your slain were not killed by the sword,
nor did they die in battle.
3All your leaders have fled together;
they have been captured without using the bow.
All you who were caught were taken prisoner together,
having fled while the enemy was still far away.
4Therefore I said, ‘Turn away from me;
let me weep bitterly.
Do not try to console me
over the destruction of my people.’
5The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a day
of tumult and trampling and terror
in the Valley of Vision,
a day of battering down walls
and of crying out to the mountains.
6Elam takes up the quiver,
with her charioteers and horses;
Kir uncovers the shield.
7Your choicest valleys are full of chariots,
and horsemen are posted at the city gates.
8The Lord stripped away the defences of Judah,
and you looked in that day
to the weapons in the Palace of the Forest.
9You saw that the walls of the City of David
were broken through in many places;
you stored up water
in the Lower Pool.
10You counted the buildings in Jerusalem
and tore down houses to strengthen the wall.
11You built a reservoir between the two walls
for the water of the Old Pool,
but you did not look to the One who made it,
or have regard for the One who planned it long ago.
12The Lord, the Lord Almighty,
called you on that day
to weep and to wail,
to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth.
13But see, there is joy and revelry,
slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep,
eating of meat and drinking of wine!
‘Let us eat and drink,’ you say,
‘for tomorrow we die!’
14The Lord Almighty has revealed this in my hearing: ‘Till your dying day this sin will not be atoned for,’ says the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
15This is what the Lord, the Lord Almighty, says:
‘Go, say to this steward,
to Shebna the palace administrator:
16what are you doing here and who gave you permission
to cut out a grave for yourself here,
hewing your grave on the height
and chiselling your resting-place in the rock?
17‘Beware, the Lord is about to take firm hold of you
and hurl you away, you mighty man.
18He will roll you up tightly like a ball
and throw you into a large country.
There you will die
and there the chariots you were so proud of
will become a disgrace to your master’s house.
19I will depose you from your office,
and you will be ousted from your position.
20‘In that day I will summon my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah. 21I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash around him and hand your authority over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the people of Judah. 22I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David; what he opens no-one can shut, and what he shuts no-one can open. 23I will drive him like a peg into a firm place; he will become a seat22:23 Or throne of honour for the house of his father. 24All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots – all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.
25‘In that day,’ declares the Lord Almighty, ‘the peg driven into the firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down.’ The Lord has spoken.
