Isaías 19

1 The burden of Egypt.

"Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt within it. 2 I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. 3 The spirit of the Egyptians will fail within them. I will destroy their counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards. 4 I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord. A fierce king will rule over them," says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

5 The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry. 6 The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away. 7 The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away, and be no more. 8 The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish. 9 Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded. 10 The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in soul.

11 The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, "I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings"? 12 Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt. 13 The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, those who are the cornerstone of her tribes. 14 Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit. 15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do. 16 In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble and fear because of the shaking of Yahweh of Armies’s hand, which he shakes over them. 17 The land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt. Everyone to whom mention is made of it will be afraid, because of the plans of Yahweh of Armies, which he determines against it. 18 In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of Armies. One will be called "The city of destruction."

19 In that day, there will be an altar to Yahweh in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to Yahweh at its border. 20 It will be for a sign and for a witness to Yahweh of Armies in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to Yahweh because of oppressors, and he will send them a savior and a defender, and he will deliver them. 21 Yahweh will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know Yahweh in that day. Yes, they will worship with sacrifice and offering, and will vow a vow to Yahweh, and will perform it. 22 Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.

23 In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.

24 In that day, Israel will be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing within the earth; 25 because Yahweh of Armies has blessed them, saying, "Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance."

He Poropititanga mō Īhipa

1 Ko te poropititanga mō Īhipa:

Tēnei a Ihowā te rere mai nei i runga i te kapua tere,

tae tonu ki Īhipa,

ā, ka oho ngā whakapakoko o Īhipa i tōna aroaro,

ngohe noa iho te ngākau o Īhipa i waenganui ōna.

2 "Ka whakaangahia anō e ahau ngā Īhipiana ki ngā Īhipiana,

ā, ka whawhai rātou ki tōna teina, ki tōna tuakana,

ki tōna hoa, ki tōna hoa,

te pā ki te pā, te kīngitanga ki te kīngitanga.

3 Nā, ka meinga te wairua o Īhipa kia kāhore noa iho i waenganui i a ia;

ka whakangaromia hoki e ahau ōna whakaaro;

ā, ka rapua e rātou he tikanga i ngā whakapakoko, i ngā tohunga whakawai,

i te hunga he atua māori nei ō rātou, i ngā matakite.

4 Ka tukua pūtia atu anō e ahau ngā Īhipiana

ki te ringa o te rangatira pakeke;

he kīngi taikaha anō te kīngi mō rātou,"

e ai tā te Ariki, tā Ihowā o ngā mano.

5 Ka kore haere hoki ngā wai o te moana,

ka mimiti, ka maroke te awa;

6 ā, ka piro ngā awa; ka mimiti,

ā, ka maroke ngā awa o Īhipa;

ka mate ngā kākaho me ngā raupō.

7 Ko ngā otaota i te taha o te Naera,

i te pareparenga o te Naera,

me ngā mea katoa i whakatōkia ki te taha o te Naera,

ka maroke, ka āia noatia atu, ka kore noa iho.

8 Ka tangi anō ngā kaihī ika;

ka auē te hunga katoa e maka ana i te matau ki roto ki te Naera,

ka pōuri anō ngā kaihora o ngā kupenga ki runga ki ngā wai.

9 Ka whakamā hoki ngā kaimahi o te muka pai,

rātou ko ngā kaiwhatu o ngā kākahu mā.

10 Ko ōna tūranga, mongamonga noa,

ka pōuri hoki ngā wairua o ngā kaimahi katoa e utua ana.

11 He tino wairangi ngā rangatira o Toana;

he tino pōauau hoki ngā whakaaro

o ngā kaiwhakatakoto whakaaro mōhio a Parao.

He pēhea rā tā koutou kī atu ki a Parao,

"He tama ahau nā te hunga whakaaro nui,

he tama nā ngā kīngi onamata"?

12 Tēnā, kei hea rātou, āu tāngata whakaaro nui?

Mā rātou e whakaatu ki a koe ināianei;

meinga kia mōhio rātou ki tā Ihowā o ngā mano

i whakatakoto ai mō Īhipa.

13 Kua whakakūaretia ngā rangatira o Toana,

kua tinihangatia ngā rangatira o Nopo;

pōhēhē iho a Īhipa i a rātou,

ko rātou nā anō te kōhatu o te kokonga o ngā iwi o reira.

14 Kua oti i a Ihowā te wairua whanokē te konatu

ki waenganui ōna;

ā, kua whakapōhēhētia e rātou a Īhipa i āna mahi katoa,

koia anō kei te tangata haurangi e kotiti kē ana,

e hūrori ana i roto i tōna ruaki.

15 Ka kāhore noa iho anō he mahi mā Īhipa,

hei mahinga mā te upoko, mā te hiawero,

mā te nīkau, mā te wīwī.

16 I taua rā ka rite a Īhipa ki te wahine, ka wehi ka pāwera i te rurutanga o te ringa o Ihowā o ngā mano, e rūrū ai ia ki tērā wāhi. 17 Ā, ka ai te whenua o Hūrā hei whakawehi mō Īhipa, ā, ko ngā tāngata katoa e whakahuatia atu ai ia, ka wehi, i te tikanga hoki kua takoto i a Ihowā o ngā mano mō reira.

Ka Manaakitia a Īhipa, a Ahiria, a Īharaira

18 I taua rā e rima ngā pā i te whenua o Īhipa, ko tō rāua reo ko te reo o Kanaana, ā, ko Ihowā o ngā mano tā rātou e oati ai; ko tētahi e huaina, "Ko te Pā o te Ngaromanga."

19 I taua rā ka tū he āta mā Ihowā i waenganui o te whenua o Īhipa, me te pou i te taha o tō reira rohe, he mea ki a Ihowā. 20 Ā hei tohu tērā, hei kaiwhakaatu mō Ihowā o ngā mano i te whenua o Īhipa; ka karanga hoki rātou ki a Ihowā, he mea mō ngā kaitūkino, ā, ka ungā e ia he kaiwhakaora ki a rātou, he kaiwawao; ā, māna rātou e whakaora. 21 Ā, ka mōhiotia a Ihowā e Īhipa, ka mōhiotia hoki a Ihowā e ngā Īhipiana i taua rā; āe rā ka mahia e rātou te patunga tapu me te whakahere; ka puaki hoki tā rātou kupu taurangi ki a Ihowā, ā, ka mana anō i a rātou. 22 Ka whiua anō a Īhipa e Ihowā, ka whiua, ka rongoātia anō e ia; ā, ka hoki mai rātou ki a Ihowā, ka tahuri anō ia ki tā rātou īnoi, ka rongoā i a rātou.

23 I taua rā ka takoto he ara i Īhipa ki Ahiria, ā, ka tae te Ahiriana ki Īhipa te Īhipiana anō ki Ahiria, ā, ka koropiko tahi te Īhipiana rāua ko te Ahiriana.

24 I taua rā hei tuatoru a Īharaira mō Īhipa, mō Ahiria, hei manaaki i waenganui o te whenua. 25 E manaakitia anō rātou e Ihowā o ngā mano, e kī ia, "Kia manaakitia a Īhipa, tāku iwi, a Ahiria, te mahi a ōku ringa, a Īharaira hoki, tōku kāinga tupu."