People’s Plans and God’s Plans
1How terrible it will be for those
who plan to harm others!
How terrible for those who make evil plans
before they even get out of bed!
As soon as daylight comes,
they carry out their plans.
That’s because they have the power to do it.
2If they want fields or houses,
they take them.
They cheat people out of their homes.
They rob them of their property.
3So the Lord says to them,
“I am planning to send trouble on you.
You will not be able to save yourselves from it.
You will not live so proudly anymore.
It will be a time of trouble.
4At that time people will make fun of you.
They will tease you by singing a song of sadness.
They will pretend to be you and say,
‘We are totally destroyed.
Our enemies have divided up our land.
The Lord has taken it away from us!
He has given our fields to those
who turned against us.’ ”
5So you won’t even have anyone left
in the Lord’s community
who can divide up the land for you.
Some Prophets Aren’t Really Prophets at All
6“Don’t prophesy,” the people’s prophets say.
“Don’t prophesy about bad things.
Nothing shameful is going to happen to us.”
7People of Jacob, should anyone say,
“The Lord is patient,
so he wouldn’t do things like that”?
The Lord replies, “What I promise brings good things
to those who lead honest lives.
8But lately my people have attacked one another
as if they were enemies.
You strip off the rich robes
from those who happen to pass by.
They thought they were as safe as men
returning from a battle they had won.
9You drive the women among my people
out of their pleasant homes.
You take away my blessing
from their children forever.
10Get up! Leave this land!
It is no longer your resting place.
You have made it ‘unclean.’
You have completely destroyed it.
11Suppose a prophet goes around telling lies.
And he prophesies that you will have
plenty of wine and beer.
Then that kind of prophet would be
just right for this nation!
The Lord Promises to Save His People
12“People of Jacob, I will gather all of you.
I will bring together
you who are still left alive in Israel.
I will gather you together like sheep in a pen.
You will be like a flock in its grasslands.
Your country will be filled with people.
13I will open the way for you to return.
I will march in front of you.
You will break through the city gates and go free.
I am your King. I will pass through the gates
in front of you.
I, the Lord, will lead the way.”
Mipango Ya Mwanadamu Na Ya Mungu
12:1 Isa 29:20; 32:7; Es 3:8, 9; Za 36:4; 7:11-14; Hos 7:6; Mwa 31:29Ole kwa wale wapangao uovu,
kwa wale wafanyao shauri la hila vitandani mwao!
Kunapopambazuka wanalitimiza
kwa sababu uko katika uwezo wao kutekeleza.
22:2 Isa 1:23; 5:8; Mit 30:14; Yer 22:17; 1Sam 8:14; Eze 46:18Wanatamani mashamba na kuyakamata,
pia nyumba na kuzichukua.
Wanamlaghai mwanaume nyumba yake,
mwanadamu mwenzake urithi wake.
32:3 Yer 18:11; 8:3; Amo 3:1-2; Isa 2:12Kwa hiyo, Bwana asema:
“Ninapanga maangamizi dhidi ya watu hawa,
ambayo hamwezi kujiokoa wenyewe.
Hamtatembea tena kwa majivuno,
kwa kuwa utakuwa ni wakati wa maafa.
42:4 Law 26:31; Yer 4:13; 6:12Siku hiyo watu watawadhihaki,
watawafanyia mzaha
kwa wimbo huu wa maombolezo:
‘Tumeangamizwa kabisa;
mali ya watu wangu imegawanywa.
Ameninyangʼanya!
Ametoa mashamba yetu kwa wasaliti.’ ”
52:5 Kum 32:8, 9, 13; Yos 18:4; Hes 34:13Kwa hiyo hutakuwa na yeyote katika kusanyiko la Bwana
wa kugawanya mashamba kwa kura.
Manabii Wa Uongo
62:6 Za 44:13; Yer 19:8; 18:16; 25:18; 29:18; Mik 6:16; Amo 2:12Manabii wao husema, “Usitabiri.
Usitabiri kuhusu vitu hivi;
aibu haitatupata.”
72:7 Za 119:65; 15:2; 84:11Je, ingesemwa, ee nyumba ya Yakobo:
“Je, Roho wa Bwana amekasirika?
Je, yeye hufanya vitu kama hivyo?”
“Je, maneno yangu hayamfanyii mema
yeye ambaye njia zake ni nyofu?
8Siku hizi watu wangu wameinuka
kama adui.
Unawavua joho la kitajiri wale wanaopita
pasipo kujali,
kama watu warudio kutoka vitani.
92:9 Yer 10:20Unawahamisha wanawake wa watu wangu
kutoka kwenye nyumba zao za kupendeza.
Unaondoa baraka yangu
kwa watoto wao milele.
102:10 Kum 12:9; Law 18:25-29; Za 106:38-39; Mao 4:15Inuka, nenda zako!
Kwa maana hapa sio mahali pako pa kupumzikia,
kwa sababu pametiwa unajisi,
pameharibiwa, wala hapatengenezeki tena.
112:11 2Nya 36:16; Yer 5:31; Law 10:9; Isa 30:10Ikiwa mwongo na mdanganyifu atakuja na kusema,
‘Nitawatabiria divai na pombe kwa wingi,’
angekuwa ndiye nabii
anayekubalika na watu hawa!
Ahadi Ya Ukombozi
122:12 Mik 4:6, 7; 5:7; 7:18; Isa 11:11; Sef 3:19; Neh 1:9“Hakika nitawakusanya ninyi nyote, ee Yakobo,
Hakika nitawaleta pamoja mabaki ya Israeli.
Nitawaleta pamoja kama kondoo ndani ya zizi,
kama kundi kwenye malisho yake,
mahali hapa patakuwa na msongamano wa watu.
132:13 Isa 52:12; 60:11Yeye afunguaye njia atawatangulia;
watapita kwenye lango na kutoka nje.
Mfalme wao atawatangulia,
Bwana atakuwa kiongozi.”
