Isaías 27

1 In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan, the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

2 In that day, sing to her, "A pleasant vineyard! 3 I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day. 4 Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together. 5 Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me."

6 In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit. 7 Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed? 8 In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind. 9 Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more. 10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches. 11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

12 It will happen in that day that Yahweh will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel.

13 It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

Te Whakaoranga o Īharaira

1 I taua rā,

ka patua e Ihowā ki tāna hoari mārō,

hoari nui, hoari kaha a Rewiatana,

te nākahi tere, a Rewiatana, te nākahi korohape;

ka tukitukia hoki e ia te tarakona i te moana.

2 I taua rā:

"He māra wāina, waiata atu koutou ki reira!

3 Ko ahau, ko Ihowā hei tiaki i a ia;

hono tonu tāku whakamākūkū;

ka tiakina e ahau i te pō,

i te ao, kei tūkinotia.

4 Kāhore he riri i roto i ahau.

He kore noa nō ngā tātarāmoa,

nō ngā tūmatakuru hei whawhai mai ki ahau!

Pēnei kua haere tonu atu ahau ki runga ki a rātou,

tahuna ngātahitia ake e ahau.

5 Kia hopukia mai rānei e ia tōku kaha,

kia houhia ai te rongo ki ahau;

āe rā, kia houhia anō tana rongo ki ahau."

6 Ā ngā rā e haere mai nei ka whai pakiaka ngā uri o Hākopa;

ka whai puāwai, ka kōpuku a Īharaira;

ā, ka kapi i a rātou te mata o te ao katoa i te hua.

7 I rite rānei tāna patu i a ia

ki tāna patunga i ōna kaipatu?

I rite rānei tōna whakamatenga

ki te whakamatenga o āna i whakamate ai?

8 He mea mēhua tāu ngangare ki a ia i tōna tukunga atu e koe;

kāwhakina ana ia e ia ki tāna hau pākaha

i te rā o te marangai.

9 Nā, ko tēnei hei muru i te hē o Hākopa;

ko ngā hua katoa ēnei o te tāhinga i tōna hara:

kia meinga e ia ngā kōhatu katoa o te āta

kia rite ki te kōhatu taioma, kurukuru rawa,

ā, kore ake ngā Aherimi me ngā whakapakoko e ara ake ake.

10 Kei te mokemoke hoki te pā taiepa,

he kāinga mahue, he mea whakarere,

he pērā i te koraha; kai ana te kūao kau i reira,

takoto ana i reira, pau ake i a ia ōna manga.

11 Ka memenge ōna peka, ka whatia atu;

ka haere mai ngā wāhine, tahuna ana e rātou ki te ahi.

Ehara hoki ia i te iwi e whai mahara ana;

nō reira e kore rātou e tohungia e tō rātou kaihanga,

e kore anō tō rātou kaiwhakaahua e aroha ki a rātou.

12 I taua rā ka tāia ngā hua e Ihowā i te waipuke o te awa, ā tae noa ki te awa o Īhipa, ā, ka kohikohia takitahitia koutou, e ngā tama a Īharaira. 13 I taua rā ka whakatangihia he tētere nui, ā, ka haere mai te hunga i tata te ngaro i te whenua o Ahiria, me te hunga i te whenua o Īhipa i peia atu; ā, ka koropiko rātou ki a Ihowā ki te maunga tapu, ki Hiruhārama.