Mwaliko Kwa Wenye Kiu
155:1 Mao 5:4; Mit 9:5; Ufu 3:18; Yer 2:31; Isa 35:7; Mt 5:6; Lk 5:21; Yn 4:14; Zek 14:8; Hos 14:4; Eze 47:1, 12“Njooni, ninyi nyote wenye kiu,
njooni kwenye maji;
nanyi ambao hamna fedha,
njooni, nunueni na mle!
Njooni, nunueni divai na maziwa
bila fedha na bila gharama.
255:2 Yer 12:13; Hag 1:6; Za 22:26; Mhu 6:2; Isa 49:4; Hos 4:10; 8:7Kwa nini kutumia fedha kwa kitu ambacho si chakula,
na kutaabikia kitu kisichoshibisha?
Sikilizeni, nisikilizeni mimi na mle kilicho kizuri,
nazo nafsi zenu zitafurahia utajiri wa unono.
355:3 Law 18:5; Yn 6:27; Mwa 9:16; Ebr 13:20; Mdo 13:34; Rum 10:5; Isa 54:10Tegeni sikio mje kwangu,
nisikieni mimi, ili nafsi zenu zipate kuishi.
Nitafanya agano la milele nanyi,
pendo la uaminifu nililomwahidi Daudi.
455:4 1Tim 6:13; 1Sam 13:14; Eze 34:23-24; Ebr 2:10; 2Nya 7:18Tazama, nimemfanya kuwa shahidi wa mataifa,
kiongozi na jemadari wa mataifa.
5Hakika utaita mataifa usiyoyajua,
nayo mataifa yale yasiyokujua yataharakisha kukujia,
kwa sababu ya Bwana Mungu wako,
yeye Aliye Mtakatifu wa Israeli,
kwa maana amekutukuza.”
655:6 Mdo 17:27; Za 32:6; Amo 5:14; Yer 33:3; Isa 9:13; Kum 4:29; 2Nya 15:2Mtafuteni Bwana maadamu anapatikana;
mwiteni maadamu yu karibu.
755:7 Yer 3:12; 26:3; Isa 32:7; Eze 18:32; 2Nya 6:21; 30:6; Eze 18:27-28Mtu mwovu na aiache njia yake,
na mtu mbaya na ayaache mawazo yake.
Yeye na amrudie Bwana, naye atamrehemu,
arudi kwa Mungu wetu, kwa kuwa atamsamehe bure kabisa.
855:8 Isa 53:6; Mik 4:12; Flp 2:5; 4:8“Kwa kuwa mawazo yangu si mawazo yenu,
wala njia zenu si njia zangu,”
asema Bwana.
955:9 Ay 11:8; Za 103:11; Hes 23:19; Isa 40:13-14“Kama vile mbingu zilivyo juu kuliko dunia,
ndivyo njia zangu zilivyo juu kuliko njia zenu
na mawazo yangu kuliko mawazo yenu.
1055:10 2Kor 9:10; Isa 30:23; Mwa 47:23; Za 67:6; Ay 14:9; Law 25:19Kama vile mvua na theluji
ishukavyo kutoka mbinguni,
nayo hairudi tena huko
bila kunywesha dunia
na kuichipusha na kuistawisha,
hivyo hutoa mbegu kwa mpanzi
na mkate kwa mlaji,
1155:11 Isa 54:10-13; 1Nya 16:33; Za 98:4; Isa 35:2; Za 65:12-13; 96:12-13; 98:8ndivyo lilivyo neno langu lile litokalo kinywani mwangu:
Halitanirudia tupu,
bali litatimiliza lile nililokusudia
na litafanikiwa katika kusudi lile nililolituma.
12Mtatoka nje kwa furaha
na kuongozwa kwa amani;
milima na vilima
vitapaza sauti kwa nyimbo mbele yenu,
nayo miti yote ya shambani
itapiga makofi.
1355:13 Hes 33:55; Za 102:12; Yer 32:20; Isa 5:6; 41:19; 63:12; Yer 33:9Badala ya kichaka cha miiba
itaota miti ya misunobari,
na badala ya michongoma
utaota mhadasi.55:13 Mhadasi ni aina ya mti ambao huota milimani karibu na Yerusalemu, hutoa harufu nzuri itumikayo kutengeneza manukato; kwa Kiebrania ni “hadas”, na ilikuwa inatumika kujenga vibanda wakati wa Sikukuu ya Vibanda (ona pia Neh 8:15).
Hili litakuwa jambo la kumpatia Bwana jina,
kwa ajili ya ishara ya milele,
ambayo haitaharibiwa.”
Invitation to the Thirsty
1“Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.
2Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and you will delight in the richest of fare.
3Give ear and come to me;
listen, that you may live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
my faithful love promised to David.
4See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,
a ruler and commander of the peoples.
5Surely you will summon nations you know not,
and nations you do not know will come running to you,
because of the Lord your God,
the Holy One of Israel,
for he has endowed you with splendor.”
6Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call on him while he is near.
7Let the wicked forsake their ways
and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
8“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
9“As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
11so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
12You will go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills
will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
will clap their hands.
13Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,
and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the Lord’s renown,
for an everlasting sign,
that will endure forever.”
