Isaías 17

1 The burden of Damascus.

"Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap. 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid. 3 The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel," says Yahweh of Armies.

4 "It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean. 5 It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim. 6 Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree," says Yahweh, the God of Israel. 7 In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel. 8 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherah poles or the incense altars. 9 In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation. 10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings. 11 In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

12 Ah, the uproar of many peoples who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations that rush like the rushing of mighty waters! 13 The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm. 14 At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.

He Poropititanga mō Ramahiku

1 Ko te poropititanga mō Ramahiku:

"Nanā, kua kore a Ramahiku hei pā;

ka pūranga kau.

2 Kua mahue ngā pā o Aroere;

mō ngā kāhui ērā, ka takoto rātou,

tē ai he kaiwhakawehi.

3 Ka kore anō he pā kaha mō Ēparaima,

he kīngitanga mō Ramahiku,

he toenga rānei o Hīria;

ka rite rātou ki te korōria o ngā tama a Īharaira,"

e ai tā Ihowā o ngā mano.

4 "Nā, i taua rā ka meinga te korōria o Hākopa kia tūpuhi,

ka hīroki haere hoki te ngako o ōna kikokiko.

5 Ā, ka rite ki tā te kaitapahi kohikohinga i te wīti,

ki te tapahanga hoki a ōna ringa i ngā hua wīti;

āe, ka rite ki te hamunga o ngā hua wīti

i te raorao i Repaima.

6 Otiia, e toe anō ētahi karepe hei hamunga;

ka rite ki te ruiruinga o te ōriwa –

e rua, e toru ngā ōriwa i te pito o tō runga rawa peka,

e whā, e rima

i te peka i waho rawa,

i te mea whai hua,"

e ai tā Ihowā, tā te Atua o Īharaira.

7 I taua rā ka titiro he tangata ki tōna Kaihanga,

ka anga ōna kanohi ki te Mea Tapu o Īharaira;

8 e kore anō e titiro ki ngā āta i hangā nei e ōna ringa,

e kore e anga ki te mea i mahia e ōna maihao,

ki ngā Aherimi rānei,

ki ngā whakapakoko rānei.

9 I taua rā ka rite ōna pā kaha ki te wāhi i whakarērea i te ngahere, i te tihi anō o te maunga, i whakarērea rā i te aroaro o ngā tama a Īharaira; nā, ko te ngaromanga.

10 Kua wareware hoki koe ki te Atua o tōu whakaoranga,

ā, kua kāhore i mahara ki te kāmaka o tōu kaha,

mō reira ka whakatupuria e koe he mea ātaahua,

ka whakatōkia anō ki te peka kē.

11 I te rā e whakatō ai koe, ka taiepatia e koe,

ā, i te ata matomato tonu tāu i whakatō ai;

i te rā ia o te pōuri, o te mamae ngau kino,

ka memeha atu te kotinga.

12 Ananā, te ngangau o ngā iwi maha,

e ngē ana ānō he haruru nō ngā moana!

Me te rere o ngā iwi, e wawā ana,

koia anō kei te turituri o ngā wai nunui!

13 Ānō ko te tāheke o ngā wai maha te haruru o ngā iwi;

otiia ka rīria rātou e ia, ā, ka rere ki tawhiti,

ka whāia, ānō he pāpapa nō ngā maunga i te upoko o te hau,

ānō he puehu āwhiowhio e āia ana e te tūpuhi.

14 I te ahiahi, nā, ko te pāwera!

Kīanō i pūao kua kore rātou.

Ko te wāhi tēnei mā te hunga e pāhua ana i a tātou,

ko te mea tēnei e wehea mā te hunga e muru ana i a tātou.