Neno Dhidi Ya Dameski
117:1 Yer 49:23; Mdo 9:2; Kum 13:16; Zek 9:1; Mwa 14:15; Isa 25:2Neno kuhusu Dameski:
“Tazama, Dameski haitakuwa tena mji
bali itakuwa lundo la magofu.
217:2 Yer 7:33; Mik 4:4; Isa 5:17; 2Fal 10:33; Isa 7:21; 27:10; Eze 25:5; Law 26:6Miji ya Aroeri itaachwa
na itaachiwa mifugo ambayo italala huko,
bila yeyote wa kuyaogopesha.
317:3 Isa 7:8, 16; 21:16; Hos 9:11; Isa 8:4; Hos 10:14; Isa 25:2, 12Mji wenye ngome utatoweka kutoka Efraimu,
nao uweza wa ufalme kutoka Dameski;
mabaki ya Aramu yatakuwa
kama utukufu wa Waisraeli,”
asema Bwana Mwenye Nguvu Zote.
417:4 Isa 2:11; 10:16“Katika siku ile utukufu wa Yakobo utafifia,
unono wa mwili wake utadhoofika.
517:5 Yoe 3:13; Mt 13:30; Ufu 14:15-19; Isa 33:4; Yer 51:33; Ay 24:24; Yos 17:1517:5 Yos 17:15; 1Nya 11:15Itakuwa kama mvunaji akusanyavyo nafaka
na kuvuna nafaka kwa mikono yake,
kama wakati mtu aokotapo masazo ya masuke
katika Bonde la Warefai.
617:6 Kum 4:24; Isa 10:19; 27:12; 24:3Hata hivyo baadhi ya masazo yatabaki,
kama vile mti wa mzeituni unavyopigwa,
kukiachwa zeituni mbili au tatu juu ya matawi kileleni,
nne au tano katika matawi yazaayo sana,”
asema Bwana, Mungu wa Israeli.
717:7 Isa 9:13; 12:6; Zek 12:10; Mik 7:7; Isa 2:12; 10:20; Za 95:6Katika siku ile watu watamwangalia Muumba wao,
na kuelekeza macho yao kwa yule Aliye Mtakatifu wa Israeli.
817:8 2Nya 32:19; Ufu 9:20; 2Fal 17:10Hawataziangalia tena madhabahu,
kazi za mikono yao,
nao hawataheshimu nguzo za Ashera,17:8 Ashera hapa maana yake ni mungu mke aliyekuwa akiabudiwa pamoja na Baali.
na madhabahu za kufukizia uvumba zilizofanywa kwa mikono yao.
917:9 Isa 7:19Katika siku ile miji yao iliyo imara, ambayo waliihama kwa sababu ya Waisraeli, itakuwa kama mahali palipoachwa pa vichaka na magugu. Nayo yote itakuwa ukiwa.
1017:10 Eze 22:12; Hos 8:14; Za 68:19; Kum 6:12; Yer 2:32; Za 50:22Mmemsahau Mungu Mwokozi wenu,
hamkumkumbuka Mwamba aliye ngome yenu.
Kwa hiyo, hata ingawa mlipandikiza mimea iliyo mizuri sana
na kuotesha mizabibu ya kigeni,
1117:11 Za 90:6; Ay 4:8; Kum 28:39; Yer 10:19; 30:12; Law 26:30hata kama siku ile unapoipandikiza, unaifanya iote
na asubuhi ile ile unayoipanda, unaifanya ichipue,
hata hivyo mavuno yatakuwa kama si kitu
katika siku ile ya ugonjwa na maumivu yasiyoponyeka.
1217:12 Yer 6:23; Lk 21:25; Isa 41:11; Za 18:4; 46:6; Isa 8:7-9Lo! Ghadhabu ya mataifa mengi,
wanaghadhibika kama bahari iliyochafuka!
Lo! Makelele ya mataifa
wanavuma kama ngurumo za maji mengi!
1317:13 Kum 28:20; Isa 13:14; Ay 13:25; Dan 2:35; Za 65:7; 46:3; Ay 21:18Ingawa mataifa yanavuma kama ngurumo za maji yanayofanya mawimbi,
wakati anapoyakemea yanakimbia mbali,
yanafukuzwa mbele ya upepo kama makapi juu ya milima,
kama jani livingirishwapo na dhoruba.
1417:14 2Fal 19:35; Amu 5:31; Isa 29:5; 30:13; 33:18; 54:14Wakati wa jioni, hofu ya ghafula!
Kabla ya asubuhi, wametoweka!
Hili ndilo fungu la wale wanaotupora,
fungu la wale wanaotunyangʼanya mali zetu.
A Prophecy Against Damascus
1A prophecy against Damascus:
“See, Damascus will no longer be a city
but will become a heap of ruins.
2The cities of Aroer will be deserted
and left to flocks, which will lie down,
with no one to make them afraid.
3The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,
and royal power from Damascus;
the remnant of Aram will be
like the glory of the Israelites,”
declares the Lord Almighty.
4“In that day the glory of Jacob will fade;
the fat of his body will waste away.
5It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain,
gathering the grain in their arms—
as when someone gleans heads of grain
in the Valley of Rephaim.
6Yet some gleanings will remain,
as when an olive tree is beaten,
leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches,
four or five on the fruitful boughs,”
declares the Lord, the God of Israel.
7In that day people will look to their Maker
and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
8They will not look to the altars,
the work of their hands,
and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles17:8 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah
and the incense altars their fingers have made.
9In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth. And all will be desolation.
10You have forgotten God your Savior;
you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress.
Therefore, though you set out the finest plants
and plant imported vines,
11though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,
and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud,
yet the harvest will be as nothing
in the day of disease and incurable pain.
12Woe to the many nations that rage—
they rage like the raging sea!
Woe to the peoples who roar—
they roar like the roaring of great waters!
13Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters,
when he rebukes them they flee far away,
driven before the wind like chaff on the hills,
like tumbleweed before a gale.
14In the evening, sudden terror!
Before the morning, they are gone!
This is the portion of those who loot us,
the lot of those who plunder us.
