Isaya 19 – NEN & NIV

Kiswahili Contemporary Version (Neno: Bibilia Takatifu)

Isaya 19:1-25

Unabii Kuhusu Misri

119:1 Yer 43:12; Yoe 3:19; Kut 12:12; 2Sam 22:10; Yos 2:11; Isa 20:3; Kum 10:14; Isa 13:1Neno kuhusu Misri:

Tazama, Bwana amepanda juu ya wingu liendalo kwa haraka

naye anakuja Misri.

Sanamu za Misri zinatetemeka mbele yake,

nayo mioyo ya Wamisri inayeyuka ndani yao.

219:2 Amu 7:22; 12:4; Mk 13:8; Mt 10:21, 36; 24:7; 2Nya 15:6; Lk 21:10“Nitamchochea Mmisri dhidi ya Mmisri,

ndugu atapigana dhidi ya ndugu,

jirani dhidi ya jirani,

mji dhidi ya mji,

ufalme dhidi ya ufalme.

319:3 Law 19:31; Dan 2:2, 10; Za 18:45; Ay 5:12; 2Nya 10:13; Isa 47:13Wamisri watakufa moyo,

na nitaibatilisha mipango yao.

Watatafuta ushauri kwa sanamu na kwa roho za waliokufa,

kwa waaguzi na kwa wale waongeao na mizimu.

419:4 Yer 46:26; Eze 32:11; 29:19; Isa 20:4Nitawatia Wamisri

mikononi mwa bwana mkatili

na mfalme mkali atatawala juu yao,”

asema Bwana, Bwana Mwenye Nguvu Zote.

519:5 Isa 44:27; Yer 50:38; 2Sam 14:14Maji ya mito yatakauka,

chini ya mto kutakauka kwa jua.

619:6 Kut 7:18; Eze 30:12; Isa 37:25; 15:6; Mwa 41:2; Ay 8:11Mifereji itanuka;

vijito vya Misri vitapungua

na kukauka.

Mafunjo na nyasi vitanyauka,

719:7 Kum 29:23; Isa 23:3; Zek 10:11; Hes 11:5pia mimea iliyoko kando ya Mto Naili,

pale mto unapomwaga maji baharini.

Kila shamba lililopandwa kando ya Mto Naili litakauka,

litapeperushwa na kutoweka kabisa.

819:8 Hes 11:5; Amo 4:2; Hab 1:15; Eze 47:10Wavuvi watalia na kuomboleza,

wale wote watupao ndoano katika Mto Naili,

watadhoofika kwa majonzi.

919:9 Mit 7:16; Eze 16:10; 27:7; Yos 2:10Wale watu wafanyao kazi ya kitani kilichochambuliwa watakata tamaa,

wafumaji wa kitani safi watavunjika moyo.

10Wafanyao kazi ya kufuma nguo watahuzunishwa,

nao vibarua wataugua moyoni.

1119:11 Hes 13:22; 1Fal 4:30; Mdo 7:22; Mwa 41:37Maafisa wa Soani ni wapumbavu kabisa,

washauri wa Farao wenye busara wanatoa ushauri wa kijinga.

Unawezaje kumwambia Farao,

“Mimi ni mmojawapo wa watu wenye hekima,

mwanafunzi wa wafalme wa zamani”?

1219:12 1Kor 1:20; Isa 41:22-23; Rum 9:17; Isa 14:24Wako wapi sasa watu wako wenye hekima?

Wao wakuonyeshe na kukufahamisha

ni nini Bwana Mwenye Nguvu Zote

amepanga dhidi ya Misri.

1319:13 Yer 2:16; Hos 9:6; Hes 13:22; Yer 46:14-19; Eze 30:13-16; Za 118:22Maafisa wa Soani wamekuwa wapumbavu,

viongozi wa Memfisi19:13 Memfisi kwa Kiebrania ni Nofu. wamedanganyika,

walio mawe ya pembe ya taifa lake

wameipotosha Misri.

1419:14 Mit 12:8; Mt 17:17; Za 107:27Bwana amewamwagia

roho ya kizunguzungu;

wanaifanya Misri iyumbayumbe

katika yale yote inayoyafanya,

kama vile mlevi ayumbayumbavyo

katika kutapika kwake.

1519:15 Isa 9:14Misri haiwezi kufanya kitu chochote,

cha kichwa wala cha mkia,

cha tawi la mtende wala cha tete.

1619:16 Isa 2:17; 11:10; Nah 3:13; Kum 2:25Katika siku ile Wamisri watakuwa kama wanawake. Watatetemeka kwa hofu mbele ya mkono wa Bwana Mwenye Nguvu Zote anaoinua dhidi yao. 1719:17 Mwa 35:5; Isa 14:24Nayo nchi ya Yuda itawatia hofu Wamisri, kila mmoja atakayetajiwa Yuda ataingiwa na hofu, kwa sababu ya kile ambacho Bwana Mwenye Nguvu Zote anapanga dhidi yao.

1819:18 Za 22:27; Yer 4:2; 43:13; Isa 10:20; 24:12; 32:19; Sef 3:9; Yer 44:1; Isa 48:1Katika siku hiyo miji mitano ya Misri, itazungumza lugha ya Kanaani, na kuapa kumtii Bwana Mwenye Nguvu Zote. Mji mmojawapo utaitwa Mji wa Uharibifu.19:18 Yaani Heliopoli (Mji wa Jua).

1919:19 Yos 22:10; Kut 24:4; Za 68:18; Mwa 12:7; 28:18; Isa 10:20; Za 68:31Katika siku hiyo patakuwepo madhabahu ya Bwana katikati ya Misri na mnara wa kumbukumbu kwa Bwana kwenye mpaka wa Misri. 2019:20 Isa 25:9; 49:24-26; Yos 4:20; Mwa 21:30; Amu 2:18; Kum 28:29Itakuwa alama na ushahidi kwa ajili ya Bwana Mwenye Nguvu Zote katika nchi ya Misri. Watakapomlilia Bwana kwa sababu ya watesi wao, Mungu atawapelekea mwokozi na mtetezi, naye atawaokoa. 2119:21 Isa 11:9; 43:10; 56:7; Mwa 27:29; Za 86:9; Hes 30:2; Kum 23:21Hivyo Bwana atajijulisha mwenyewe kwa Wamisri, nao katika siku hiyo watamkubali Bwana. Wataabudu kwa kumtolea dhabihu na sadaka za nafaka, watamwekea Bwana nadhiri na kuzitimiza. 2219:22 Kut 12:23; 11:10; Ebr 12:11; Eze 33:11; Yoe 2:13; Kum 32:39; Isa 45:14; Hos 10:2Bwana ataipiga Misri kwa tauni; atawapiga na kuwaponya. Watamgeukia Bwana, naye atayasikia maombi yao na kuwaponya.

2319:23 Isa 11:15-16; 20:6; 27:13; 66:23; Mik 7:12; Mwa 27:29Katika siku hiyo kutakuwepo na njia kuu kutoka Misri hadi Ashuru. Waashuru watakwenda Misri, na Wamisri watakwenda Ashuru. Wamisri na Waashuru wataabudu pamoja. 2419:24 Isa 11:11; Mwa 12:2Katika siku hiyo Israeli itakuwa ya tatu, pamoja na Misri na Ashuru, nao watakuwa baraka kwa dunia. 2519:25 Za 87:4; 100:3; Efe 2:10; Kut 34:9; Yer 30:22; Hos 2:23; Mwa 12:3; Isa 29:23; 43:7Bwana Mwenye Nguvu Zote atawabariki, akisema, “Baraka iwe kwa Misri watu wangu, kwa Ashuru kazi ya mikono yangu, na kwa Israeli urithi wangu.”

New International Version

Isaiah 19:1-25

A Prophecy Against Egypt

1A prophecy against Egypt:

See, the Lord rides on a swift cloud

and is coming to Egypt.

The idols of Egypt tremble before him,

and the hearts of the Egyptians melt with fear.

2“I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian—

brother will fight against brother,

neighbor against neighbor,

city against city,

kingdom against kingdom.

3The Egyptians will lose heart,

and I will bring their plans to nothing;

they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead,

the mediums and the spiritists.

4I will hand the Egyptians over

to the power of a cruel master,

and a fierce king will rule over them,”

declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

5The waters of the river will dry up,

and the riverbed will be parched and dry.

6The canals will stink;

the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up.

The reeds and rushes will wither,

7also the plants along the Nile,

at the mouth of the river.

Every sown field along the Nile

will become parched, will blow away and be no more.

8The fishermen will groan and lament,

all who cast hooks into the Nile;

those who throw nets on the water

will pine away.

9Those who work with combed flax will despair,

the weavers of fine linen will lose hope.

10The workers in cloth will be dejected,

and all the wage earners will be sick at heart.

11The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools;

the wise counselors of Pharaoh give senseless advice.

How can you say to Pharaoh,

“I am one of the wise men,

a disciple of the ancient kings”?

12Where are your wise men now?

Let them show you and make known

what the Lord Almighty

has planned against Egypt.

13The officials of Zoan have become fools,

the leaders of Memphis are deceived;

the cornerstones of her peoples

have led Egypt astray.

14The Lord has poured into them

a spirit of dizziness;

they make Egypt stagger in all that she does,

as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.

15There is nothing Egypt can do—

head or tail, palm branch or reed.

16In that day the Egyptians will become weaklings. They will shudder with fear at the uplifted hand that the Lord Almighty raises against them. 17And the land of Judah will bring terror to the Egyptians; everyone to whom Judah is mentioned will be terrified, because of what the Lord Almighty is planning against them.

18In that day five cities in Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the Lord Almighty. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.19:18 Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls, Symmachus and Vulgate; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text City of Destruction

19In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the heart of Egypt, and a monument to the Lord at its border. 20It will be a sign and witness to the Lord Almighty in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the Lord because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and he will rescue them. 21So the Lord will make himself known to the Egyptians, and in that day they will acknowledge the Lord. They will worship with sacrifices and grain offerings; they will make vows to the Lord and keep them. 22The Lord will strike Egypt with a plague; he will strike them and heal them. They will turn to the Lord, and he will respond to their pleas and heal them.

23In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together. 24In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing19:24 Or Assyria, whose names will be used in blessings (see Gen. 48:20); or Assyria, who will be seen by others as blessed on the earth. 25The Lord Almighty will bless them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria my handiwork, and Israel my inheritance.”