Isaías 13

1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

2 Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. 3 I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones. 4 The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army for the battle. 5 They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

6 Wail, for Yahweh’s day is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty. 7 Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt. 8 They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame. 9 Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it. 10 For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine. 11 I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the arrogance of the terrible. 12 I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir. 13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger. 14 It will happen that like a hunted gazelle and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land. 15 Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword. 16 Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.

17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it. 18 Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children. 19 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 20 It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there. 21 But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there. 22 Hyenas will cry in their fortresses, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.

Te Kauwhautanga ki a Papurōna

1 Ko te poropititanga mō Papurōna i kitea e Ihāia tama a Āmoho.

2 Whakaarahia he kara ki runga ki te maunga horehore,

kia rahi te reo ki a rātou;

tāwhiritia atu te ringa kia haere mai ai rātou ki roto

ki ngā kūwaha o ngā rangatira.

3 Kua oti āku i whakatapu ai te whakahau,

kua karangatia anō hoki e ahau āku mārohirohi ki tōku riri,

arā āku e whakamanamana nui nei.

4 Ko te haruru o te huihui i runga i ngā maunga,

tōna rite kei tō te iwi nui!

He haruru, he ngangau nō te huihui

o ngā kīngitanga o ngā iwi!

E whakatakā ana e Ihowā o ngā mano

te ope mō te whawhai.

5 E haere mai nei rātou i tawhiti,

i te pito o te rangi,

a Ihowā me ngā patu a tōna riri,

ki te whakangaro i te whenua katoa!

6 Auē koutou, kua tata hoki te rā o Ihowā;

tērā e puta mai, ānō he whakangaromanga nā te Kaha Rawa!

7 Nō reira ka ngoikore ngā ringa katoa,

ka ngohe noa iho ngā ngākau katoa o ngā tāngata.

8 Ka ohorere anō rātou,

mau pū i te mamae, i te whakapōuri;

ko tō rātou mamae koia anō kei tō te wahine e whakawhānau ana.

Ka mīharo rātou tētahi ki tētahi,

ā, ko ō rātou mata, ānō he mura ahi.

9 Nanā, e haere mai nei te rā o Ihowā,

he kino, he riri, he whakatakariri e mura ana;

hei whakaururua i te whenua,

hei whakangaro atu hoki i reira i ōna tāngata hara.

10 Ko ngā whetū hoki o te rangi, ko ngā kāhui whetū anō hoki o reira,

kāhore e hōmai i tō rātou mārama.

Ka pōuri noa iho te rā i tōna haerenga mai,

kore ake hoki e titi te atarau.

11 Ka whiua anō e ahau te ao mō tō rātou kino,

te hunga kino hoki, mō tō rātou hē;

ka whakamutua hoki e ahau te whakapehapeha o te hunga whakakake,

ka whakahokia iho anō ki raro te whakapehapeha o te hunga kino.

12 Ka meinga anō e ahau kia nui atu te utu mō te tangata i tō te kōura pai;

āe rā, he tangata, kia nui atu i tō te kōura parakore o Ōpira.

13 Nā reira ka meinga e ahau ngā rangi kia wiri,

ka ruperupea atu anō te whenua i tōna wāhi,

he riri nō Ihowā o ngā mano,

he rā anō e mura ai tōna riri.

14 Ā, ka rite ki te anaterope e whāia ana,

ki ngā hipi kāhore nei ō rātou kaihuihui,

ka tahuri rātou ki tōna iwi, ki tōna iwi,

ka rere ki tōna whenua, ki tōna whenua.

15 Ko te hunga katoa e kitea ana, ka werohia;

ko te hunga katoa e hopukia ana, ka hinga i te hoari.

16 Ka tāia iho hoki ā rātou kōhungahunga

i tā rātou tirohanga;

ka pāhuatia ō rātou whare,

ka moea anō ā rātou wāhine.

17 Tēnei ahau te whakaoho atu nei i ngā Meri ki a rātou,

he hunga e kore nei e whakaaro ki te hiriwa;

nā, ko te kōura, e kore e matenuitia e rātou.

18 Ka tāia iho anō hoki ngā taitamariki e ā rātou kōpere, mongamonga noa;

e kore anō e tohungia ngā hua o te kōpū;

e kore ō rātou kanohi e manawapā ki ngā tamariki.

19 Ā, ko Papurōna, ko te korōria o ngā kīngitanga,

ko te mea ātaahua whakahirahira a ngā Karari,

tērā ia e rite ki tā te Atua hurihanga

i Horoma, i Komora.

20 E kore e nohoia ā ake ake,

e kore e waiho hei kāinga ā tēnā whakatupuranga, tēnā whakatupuranga;

e kore anō e whakatūria e te Ārapi tōna tēneti ki reira;

e kore anō a reira e waiho e ngā hēpara hei takotoranga mō ā rātou kāhui.

21 Engari, hei takotoranga a reira mō ngā kurī mohoao o te koraha;

ka kī hoki ō rātou whare i ngā kararehe pōuri;

ā, ka nohoia a reira e ngā otereti,

ka waiho hoki hei tūpekepeketanga mō ngā mea āhua koati.

22 Ka tangi anō hoki ngā wuruhi i roto i ō rātou whare kīngi,

me ngā kurī mohoao i roto i ō rātou whare ātaahua;

kua tata mai hoki tōna wā,

e kore anō ōna rā e roa.