Isaías 29

1 Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around; 2 then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth.*29:2 or, Ariel 3 I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you. 4 You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.

5 But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly. 6 She will be visited by Yahweh of Armies with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire. 7 The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night. 8 It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn’t satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that.

9 Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers. 11 All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, "Read this, please;" and he says, "I can’t, for it is sealed;" 12 and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, "Read this, please;" and he says, "I can’t read."

13 The Lord said, "Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught; 14 therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden."

15 Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us?" and "Who knows us?" 16 You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay, that the thing made should say about him who made it, "He didn’t make me;" or the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no understanding"?

17 Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest? 18 In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness. 19 The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. 20 For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off— 21 who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for one who reproves in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

22 Therefore Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham, says concerning the house of Jacob: "Jacob shall no longer be ashamed, neither shall his face grow pale. 23 But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the middle of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel. 24 They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction."

Te Whakapaenga o Hiruhārama

1 Auē te mate mō Ariere, mō Ariere,

mō te pā i noho ai a Rāwiri!

Tāpiritia iho tētahi tau ki tētahi tau;

mahia ngā hākari i ngā wā e rite ai.

2 Hei reira raru ai i ahau a Ariere,

ā, ka pōuri, ka tangi;

ā, ka rite ia ki ahau ānō ko Ariere.

3 Ka nohoia atu anō koe e ahau, ā karapoi noa;

ka whakapaea koe ki te parepare,

ka ara anō i ahau he taiepa hei tatau ki a koe.

4 Ā, ka whakahokia iho koe, ka kōrero ake i te whenua;

ka iti anō tāu kupu i roto i te puehu;

ka rite tōu reo ki tō te tangata i te atua māori,

he mea puta ake i te whenua,

ka kohimu ake tāu kupu i roto i te puehu.

5 Ko te huihuinga ia o ōu hoariri ka rite ki te puehu ririki,

ā, ko te huihuinga o te hunga nanakia ki te pāpapa e rere atu ana.

Āe rā, ka hemorere tonu,

6 ka pā tā Ihowā o ngā mano ki a ia,

he whatitiri, he rū, he reo nui,

he tūkauati, he tūpuhi, he mura ahi e kā ana.

7 Ā, ka rite ki te moe, ki te rekanga kanohi o te pō

ngā iwi maha katoa e whawhai ana ki Ariere,

arā te hunga katoa e ngangare ana ki a ia, ki tōna pā kaha,

e whakatupu kino ana hoki i a ia.

8 Ka rite anō ki te tangata matekai e moe ana, nā, kei te kai ia;

heoi, kei te ohonga ake, e takoto kau ana tōna wairua;

ka rite hoki ki te tangata matewai e moe ana, nā, kei te inu ia;

te ohonga ake, kāhore he kaha, kei te hiahia anō tōna wairua;

ko te rite tērā o te hui o ngā iwi katoa

e whawhai ana ki Maunga Hiona.

9 E tū koutou, e mīharo;

e hari, ā, ka matapō;

e haurangi ana rātou, ehara ia i te wāina;

e hūrori ana, engari ehara i te wai kaha.

10 Nō te mea kua ringihia e Ihowā te wairua o te moe

au tonu ki runga ki a koutou,

kua oti anō i a ia te whakamoe ō koutou kanohi, ngā poropiti;

ko ō koutou rangatira, ko ngā matakite,

kua taupokina e ia.

11 Ā, ka rite ki a koutou te kitenga katoa ki ngā kupu o tētahi pukapuka i hīritia, e hoatu ana e ngā tāngata ki tētahi tangata mātau ki te kōrero pukapuka, ka mea atu, "Tēnā, kōrerotia tēnei", ā, ka mea mai ia, "E kore e taea e ahau, e hīri nā hoki." 12 Nā, ka hoatu taua pukapuka ki te mea kāhore nei e mātau ki te kōrero pukapuka; nā, ko te kīanga atu, "Tēnā, kōrerotia tēnei," anō rā ko ia, "Kāhore ahau e mātau ki te kōrero."

13 Nā, ka mea te Ariki:

"I te mea e whakatata ana mai te iwi nei ki ahau,

ā, e whakahōnore ana i ahau ki tō rātou māngai,

ki ō rātou ngutu, otiia e matara noa atu ana i ahau ō rātou ngākau,

ā, ko tō rātou wehi ki ahau

he mea whakaako e tā te tangata tohutohu.

14 Nā, ka tahuri ahau ki te mahi i tētahi mahi whakamīharo

ki waenganui i tēnei iwi,

he mahi whakamīharo rawa, he mīharo whakaharahara;

ka whakamōtītia hoki ngā whakaaro o ō rātou mea whakaaro nui,

ka ngaro te mātauranga o ō rātou mea mōhio."

15 Auē te mate mō te hunga e whai ana i te wāhi hōhonu,

kia ngaro ai tō rātou whakaaro i a Ihowā;

ā, kei te pōuri ā rātou mahi, e mea ana hoki,

"Ko wai e kite ana i a tātou?

Ko wai e mātau ana ki a tātou?"

16 Tā koutou whakaputa kē!

E kīia rānei te kaihanga rīhi he rite ki te paru?

E kī ake rānei te mea i hangā ki tōna kaihanga,

"Kīhai ahau i hangā e ia"?

E mea ake rānei te mea i mahia ki tōna kaimahi,

"Kāhore ōna mātauranga"?

He Tūmanako i te Wā Muri

17 He teka rānei he iti rawa nei te takiwā,

ā, ka puta kē a Repanōna hei māra whai hua,

ā, ka kīia te māra whai hua hei ngahere?

18 I taua rā ka rongo ngā turi

i ngā kupu o te pukapuka,

ka kite anō ngā kanohi o ngā matapō

i roto i te kākarauri, i te pōuri.

19 Ka neke ake anō te hari o te hunga māhaki ki a Ihowā,

ka koa anō ngā tāngata rawakore ki te Mea Tapu o Īharaira.

20 Kua mōtī hoki te tangata nanakia;

ā, ko te tangata whakahī, kua poto;

kua hātepea atu anō te hunga katoa i whanga ki te kino –

21 e whakatau hē nei ki te tangata e kōrero ana,

e whakatakoto rore nei mō te kairiri o te hē i te kūwaha;

ā, kāhore he rawa i whakapeaua kētia ai e rātou te tangata tika.

22 Nā, ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā, nāna nei a Āperahama i hoko, mō te whare o Hākopa:

"E kore a Hākopa e whakamā āianei,

e kore anō e kōmā tōna mata āianei.

23 Engari, kia kite ia i āna tamariki,

i te mahi a ōku ringa, i roto i a ia,

ka whakatapua e rātou tōku ingoa;

āe rā, ka whakatapua anō e rātou te Mea Tapu o Hākopa,

ā, ka wehi ki te Atua o Īharaira.

24 Ka mōhiotia anō te mātauranga e ngā wairua kotiti kē,

ā, ka ako te hunga amuamu ki te kupu mōhio."