Woe to David’s City
1Woe to you, Ariel, Ariel,
the city where David settled!
Add year to year
and let your cycle of festivals go on.
2Yet I will besiege Ariel;
she will mourn and lament,
she will be to me like an altar hearth.29:2 The Hebrew for altar hearth sounds like the Hebrew for Ariel.
3I will encamp against you on all sides;
I will encircle you with towers
and set up my siege works against you.
4Brought low, you will speak from the ground;
your speech will mumble out of the dust.
Your voice will come ghostlike from the earth;
out of the dust your speech will whisper.
5But your many enemies will become like fine dust,
the ruthless hordes like blown chaff.
Suddenly, in an instant,
6the Lord Almighty will come
with thunder and earthquake and great noise,
with windstorm and tempest and flames of a devouring fire.
7Then the hordes of all the nations that fight against Ariel,
that attack her and her fortress and besiege her,
will be as it is with a dream,
with a vision in the night—
8as when a hungry person dreams of eating,
but awakens hungry still;
as when a thirsty person dreams of drinking,
but awakens faint and thirsty still.
So will it be with the hordes of all the nations
that fight against Mount Zion.
9Be stunned and amazed,
blind yourselves and be sightless;
be drunk, but not from wine,
stagger, but not from beer.
10The Lord has brought over you a deep sleep:
He has sealed your eyes (the prophets);
he has covered your heads (the seers).
11For you this whole vision is nothing but words sealed in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I can’t; it is sealed.” 12Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I don’t know how to read.”
13The Lord says:
“These people come near to me with their mouth
and honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
Their worship of me
is based on merely human rules they have been taught.29:13 Hebrew; Septuagint They worship me in vain; / their teachings are merely human rules
14Therefore once more I will astound these people
with wonder upon wonder;
the wisdom of the wise will perish,
the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.”
15Woe to those who go to great depths
to hide their plans from the Lord,
who do their work in darkness and think,
“Who sees us? Who will know?”
16You turn things upside down,
as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!
Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,
“You did not make me”?
Can the pot say to the potter,
“You know nothing”?
17In a very short time, will not Lebanon be turned into a fertile field
and the fertile field seem like a forest?
18In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll,
and out of gloom and darkness
the eyes of the blind will see.
19Once more the humble will rejoice in the Lord;
the needy will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20The ruthless will vanish,
the mockers will disappear,
and all who have an eye for evil will be cut down—
21those who with a word make someone out to be guilty,
who ensnare the defender in court
and with false testimony deprive the innocent of justice.
22Therefore this is what the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, says to the descendants of Jacob:
“No longer will Jacob be ashamed;
no longer will their faces grow pale.
23When they see among them their children,
the work of my hands,
they will keep my name holy;
they will acknowledge the holiness of the Holy One of Jacob,
and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
24Those who are wayward in spirit will gain understanding;
those who complain will accept instruction.”
Zikusanze Ekibuga kya Dawudi
129:1 a Is 22:12-13 b 2Sa 5:9 c Is 1:14Zikusanze ggwe Alyeri29:1 Alyeri lye linnya eryaweebwa Yerusaalemi.,
Alyeri ekibuga Dawudi kye yabeeramu,
yongera omwaka ku mwaka,
n’entuuko zo ez’embaga zigende mu maaso.
229:2 Is 3:26; Kgb 2:5Wabula ndizingiza Alyeri,
alikuba ebiwoobe era alikungubaga,
era aliba gye ndi ng’ekyoto kya Alyeri.
329:3 Luk 19:43-44Ndikuba olusiisira okukwetooloola wonna,
era ndikwetoolooza eminaala,
ne nkusaako ebifunvu.
429:4 Is 8:19Olikkakkanyizibwa era olyogera ng’oli mu ttaka,
n’ebigambo byo biriwulikika nga biri wansi nnyo ng’oli mu nfuufu.
Eddoboozi lyo liriba ng’ery’oyo aliko akazimu nga liva mu ttaka,
n’ebigambo byo biriba bya kyama nga biva mu nfuufu.
529:5 a Is 17:13 b Is 17:14; 1Bs 5:3Naye abalabe bo abangi
baliba ng’enfuufu eweweddwa,
n’ebibinja by’abakozi b’ebibi abasingayo obubi
bibe ng’ebisasiro ebifuumuuka.
629:6 Mat 24:7; Mak 13:8; Luk 21:11; Kub 11:19Amangwago mu kaseera katono Mukama Katonda ow’Eggye alikukyalira
mu kubwatuuka ne mu musisi,
ne mu ddoboozi ery’omwanguka,
ne mu kibuyaga ne mu nnimi z’omuliro omukambwe oguzikiriza.
729:7 a Mi 4:11-12; Zek 12:9 b Yob 20:8Awo ebibinja by’amawanga gonna ebirwana ne Alyeri birimulumba,
birirumba n’ekigo kye ne bimutaayiza;
kiriba ng’ekirooto,
ng’okwolesebwa mu kiro
829:8 Zab 73:20ng’omuntu alumwa enjala bw’aloota ng’alya
naye bw’agolokoka n’asigala ng’akyalumwa enjala;
oba ng’omuntu alumwa ennyonta bw’aloota ng’anywa
naye n’agolokoka nga munafu ng’akyalumwa ennyonta.
Ekyo kye kirituuka ku bibinja by’amawanga gonna
agalwana n’Olusozi Sayuuni.
929:9 a Is 51:17 b Is 51:21-22Muwuniikirire era mwewuunye
Muzibirire era muzibe amaaso;
Batamiire, naye si na nvinnyo,
batagala, naye si lwa mwenge.
1029:10 a Zab 69:23; Is 6:9-10; Bar 11:8* b Mi 3:6 c 1Sa 9:9Mukama akuwadde otulo tungi,
azibye amaaso gammwe bannabbi,
era abisse emitwe gyammwe abalabi.
1129:11 Is 8:16; Mat 13:11; Kub 5:1-2Okwolesebwa kuno kwonna tekulina makulu gy’oli okuggyako okuba ebigambo ebissibwako akabonero mu muzingo. Omuzingo bw’oguwa omuntu, asobola okusoma n’omugamba nti, “Nkwegayiridde kino kisome,” ajja kukuddamu nti, “Sisobola, kuliko akabonero.” 12Oba omuzingo bw’oguwa omuntu atasobola kusoma, n’omugamba nti, “Nkwegayiridde kino kisome,” ajja kukuddamu nti, “Simanyi kusoma.”
1329:13 a Ez 33:31 b Mat 15:8-9*; Mak 7:6-7*; Bak 2:22Mukama agamba nti,
“Abantu bano bansemberera n’akamwa kaabwe,
ne banzisaamu ekitiibwa n’emimwa gyabwe,
naye ng’emitima gyabwe gindi wala.
Okunsinza kwe bansinza,
biragiro abantu bye baayigiriza.
1429:14 a Kbk 1:5 b Yer 8:9; 49:7 c Is 6:9-10; 1Ko 1:19*Noolwekyo, laba ŋŋenda kwewuunyisa abantu bano.
Amagezi g’abagezi galizikirira,
n’okutegeera kw’abategeevu
kuliggwaawo.”
1529:15 a Zab 10:11-13; 94:7; Is 57:12 b Yob 22:13Zibasanze abo abakola kyonna kye basobola
okukweka Mukama enteekateeka zaabwe,
abo abakola emirimu gyabwe mu kizikiza nga bagamba nti,
“Ani atulaba? Ani alimanya?”
1629:16 Is 45:9; 64:8; Bar 9:20-21*Mufuula ebintu
ne birabika ng’omubumbi alowoozebwa okwenkanankana n’ebbumba.
Ekyakolebwa kiyinza okwogera ku eyakikola nti,
“Teyankola”?
Ensuwa eyinza okugamba omubumbi nti,
“Talina ky’amanyi”?
1729:17 a Zab 84:6 b Is 32:15Mu kiseera kitono, Lebanooni tekirifuulibwa nnimiro ngimu,
n’ennimiro engimu n’erabika ng’ekibira?
1829:18 a Mak 7:37 b Is 32:3; 35:5; Mat 11:5Mu biro ebyo abaggavu b’amatu baliwulira ebigambo by’omuzingo,
n’amaaso g’abazibe galizibuka okuva mu kiseera ekizibu ne mu kizikiza.
1929:19 a Is 61:1; Mat 5:5; 11:29 b Is 14:30; Mat 11:5; Yak 1:9; 2:5Abawombeefu balisanyukira mu Mukama nate,
n’abeetaaga balisanyukira mu Mutukuvu wa Isirayiri.
2029:20 a Is 28:22 b Is 59:4; Mi 2:1Weewaawo asinga obubi aliggwaawo,
n’omunyoomi alibula,
n’abo bonna abeesunga okukola obutali butuukirivu,
2129:21 a Am 5:10, 15 b Is 5:23; 32:7abo abakozesa ebigambo okufuula omuntu omusobya,
abatega eyeerwanako mu mbuga z’amateeka, abawa obujulizi obw’obulimba,
ne baleetera abataliiko musango obutawulirwa mu mbuga z’amateeka, balisalibwako.
2229:22 a Is 41:8; 63:16 b Is 49:23Noolwekyo Mukama eyanunula Ibulayimu bw’ati bw’ayogera eri ennyumba ya Yakobo nti,
Yakobo taliddayo kuswazibwa,
n’obwenyi bwabwe tebulisiiwuuka.
2329:23 a Is 49:20-26 b Is 19:25Bwe baliraba omulimu gw’emikono gyange mu baana baabwe,
balikuuma erinnya lyange nga ttukuvu.
Balikakasa obutuukirivu bw’Omutukuvu wa Yakobo
era baliyimirira
ne beewuunya Katonda wa Isirayiri.
2429:24 a Is 28:7; Beb 5:2 b Is 41:20; 60:16 c Is 30:21Abo abaabula mu mwoyo balifuna okutegeera,
n’abo abeemulugunya balikkiriza okuyigirizibwa.
