Isaías 25

1 Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth. 2 For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built. 3 Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you. 4 For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall. 5 As the heat in a dry place you will bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low.

6 In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat,*25:6 literally, fat things a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines. 7 He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations. 8 He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

9 It shall be said in that day, "Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!" 10 For Yahweh’s hand will rest in this mountain.

Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill. 11 He will spread out his hands in the middle of it, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands. 12 He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

He Hīmene Whakamoemiti

1 E Ihowā, ko koe tōku Atua;

ka whakanuia koe e ahau,

ka whakamoemititia e ahau tōu ingoa;

he mahi whakamīharo hoki āu,

arā ko ngā whakaaro i takoto nei i mua,

i runga i te pono, i te tika.

2 Kua meinga hoki e koe te pā hei pūranga;

te pā kaha, hei ururua;

te whare kīngi o ngā tāngata kē, kore iho tērā pā;

e kore e hangā ā ake ake.

3 Nā, ka whakakorōriatia koe e te iwi kaha,

ka wehi te pā o ngā iwi nanakia i a koe.

4 Hei pā kaha hoki koe mō te ware,

hei pā kaha mō te rawakore i tōna hēnga,

hei whakaruru kei mate i te tūpuhi,

hei whakahauhau mō te werawera.

Ina rite te hau o te hunga nanakia

ki te tūpuhi e āki mai ana ki te taiepa.

5 Ka rite ki te mahana i te wāhi maroke te ngangau o ngā tāngata kē

ka whakahokia iho nei e koe.

Ka rite ki te mahana i ngā wā e whakamarumarua ana e te kapua,

ka iti iho te waiata a te hunga nanakia.

6 Ā, ka tukua e Ihowā o ngā mano

he hākari mā ngā iwi katoa ki runga ki tēnei maunga,

he mea mōmona, he wāina nganga hei hākari,

he mea mōmona, kī tonu i te hinu wheua,

he wāina nganga, tatari rawa.

7 Ka whakakāhoretia anō e ia i runga i tēnei maunga

te mata o te hīpoki e hīpoki nei i ngā iwi katoa,

me te taupoki e taupoki nei i ngā tauiwi katoa.

8 Kua horomia e ia te mate ake ake;

ā, ka horoia e te Ariki, e Ihowā, ngā roimata

o ngā kanohi katoa,

ka whakakāhoretia anō e ia te whakahāwea ki tāna iwi

puta noa i te whenua;

nā Ihowā nei hoki te kupu.

9 Ko te kupu anō tēnei i taua rā,

"Nanā, ko tō tātou Atua tēnei;

i tatari tātou ki a ia, ka ora anō tātou i a ia.

Ko Ihowā tēnei; i tatari tātou ki a ia;

ka hari tātou, ka koa ki tāna whakaoranga."

10 Nō te mea ka okioki te ringa o Ihowā ki tēnei maunga,

ā, ka takahia a Moapa ki raro i tōna wāhi,

me te kakau wīti e takahia ana ki te wai o te pūranga paru.

11 Ā, ka totoro ōna ringa i waenganui o reira pērā me te kaikauhoe

e toro ana i ōna ringa ina kauhoe ia;

ka tukua hoki ki raro tōna whakapehapeha me ngā mahi a ōna ringa.

12 Nā, ko te wāhi kaha o te pourewa tiketike o ōu taiepa,

kua tukua iho e ia,

takoto rawa, pā rawa ki te whenua,

ki te puehu rawa.