Isaías 40

1 "Comfort, comfort my people," says your God. 2 "Speak comfortably to Jerusalem, and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins."

3 The voice of one who calls out,

"Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness!

Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

4 Every valley shall be exalted,

and every mountain and hill shall be made low.

The uneven shall be made level,

and the rough places a plain.

5 Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed,

and all flesh shall see it together;

for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it."

6 The voice of one saying, "Cry out!"

One said, "What shall I cry?"

"All flesh is like grass,

and all its glory is like the flower of the field.

7 The grass withers,

the flower fades,

because Yahweh’s breath blows on it.

Surely the people are like grass.

8 The grass withers,

the flower fades;

but the word of our God stands forever."

9 You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain.

You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength!

Lift it up! Don’t be afraid!

Say to the cities of Judah, "Behold, your God!"

10 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one,

and his arm will rule for him.

Behold, his reward is with him,

and his recompense before him.

11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd.

He will gather the lambs in his arm,

and carry them in his bosom.

He will gently lead those who have their young.

12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,

and marked off the sky with his span,

and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket,

and weighed the mountains in scales,

and the hills in a balance?

13 Who has directed Yahweh’s Spirit,

or has taught him as his counselor?

14 Who did he take counsel with,

and who instructed him,

and taught him in the path of justice,

and taught him knowledge,

and showed him the way of understanding?

15 Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket,

and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance.

Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

16 Lebanon is not sufficient to burn,

nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.

17 All the nations are like nothing before him.

They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

18 To whom then will you liken God?

Or what likeness will you compare to him?

19 A workman has cast an image,

and the goldsmith overlays it with gold,

and casts silver chains for it.

20 He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot.

He seeks a skillful workman to set up a carved image for him that will not be moved.

21 Haven’t you known?

Haven’t you heard?

Haven’t you been told from the beginning?

Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth?

22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,

and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;

who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,

and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,

23 who brings princes to nothing,

who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.

24 They are planted scarcely.

They are sown scarcely.

Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground.

He merely blows on them, and they wither,

and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

25 "To whom then will you liken me?

Who is my equal?" says the Holy One.

26 Lift up your eyes on high,

and see who has created these,

who brings out their army by number.

He calls them all by name.

By the greatness of his might,

and because he is strong in power,

not one is lacking.

27 Why do you say, Jacob,

and speak, Israel,

"My way is hidden from Yahweh,

and the justice due me is disregarded by my God"?

28 Haven’t you known?

Haven’t you heard?

The everlasting God, Yahweh,

the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint.

He isn’t weary.

His understanding is unsearchable.

29 He gives power to the weak.

He increases the strength of him who has no might.

30 Even the youths faint and get weary,

and the young men utterly fall;

31 but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength.

They will mount up with wings like eagles.

They will run, and not be weary.

They will walk, and not faint.

Ka Whakamārietia te Iwi a Ihowā

1 Whakamārietia, whakamārietia tāku iwi,

e ai tā tō koutou Atua.

2 Kōrero i runga i te whakamārie ki Hiruhārama,

karanga ki a ia,

kua mutu tāna whawhai,

kua murua tōna hē;

i haere rua hoki tā te ringa o Ihowā

ki a ia hei utu mō ōna hara katoa.

3 He reo nō tētahi e karanga ana:

"Whakapaia e koutou i te koraha te huarahi o Ihowā,

whakatikaia i te tītōhea he ara nui mō tō tātou Atua.

4 Ko ngā raorao katoa ka whakarewaina ake,

ko ngā maunga katoa me ngā pukepuke, ka whakapāpakutia iho;

ko ngā wāhi kōpikopiko ka meinga kia tika,

ko ngā wāhi taratara kia papatairite.

5 Ka whakapuakina anō te korōria o Ihowā,

ā, ka kite ngātahi ngā kikokiko katoa;

he mea kōrero hoki tēnei nā te māngai o Ihowā."

6 I mea mai te reo o tētahi, "Karanga!"

Ā, ka mea tētahi, "Ko te aha kia karangatia e ahau?"

"He tarutaru ngā kikokiko katoa,

ā, ko tōna pai katoa, rite tonu ki te puāwai o te pārae.

7 Ko te tarutaru ka maroke, ko te puāwai ka memenge,

nō te mea e hāngia ana e te Wairua o Ihowā;

he pono, he tarutaru te iwi.

8 Ko te tarutaru e maroke, ko te puāwai e memenge;

ko te kupu ia a tō tātou Atua, tū tonu."

9 E koe, e te kaikawe o te rongo pai ki Hiona,

e piki ki te maunga tiketike.

E koe, e te kaikawe o te rongo pai ki Hiruhārama,

whakaarahia tōu reo, kia kaha;

whakaarahia, kaua hei wehi;

kōrero atu ki ngā pā o Hūrā,

"Nanā, tō koutou Atua!"

10 Nanā, ka haere mai te Ariki, a Ihowā, i runga i te kaha,

ka whakahaerea anō tōna kīngitanga e tōna ringa;

nā, ko te utu mōna kei a ia anō,

kei tōna aroaro te wāhi māna.

11 Ka rite ki tā te hēpara tāna whāngai i tāna kāhui,

ka whakaminea ngā reme e tōna ringa,

ka hikitia ki tōna uma,

ka āta ārahina ngā mea e whakangote ana.

12 Nā wai i mēhua ngā wai ki te kapu o tōna ringa,

he whanganga ringaringa anō tāna rūri mō ngā rangi.

Whaowhina ake e ia te puehu o te whenua ki te mēhua,

ko ngā maunga, pāunatia ana e ia ki te pāuna ringaringa,

ko ngā pukepuke ki te pāuna papa?

13 Nā wai tā te Wairua o Ihowā i tika ai?

Ko wai rānei tāna kaiwhakatakoto whakaaro hei whakaako i a ia?

14 Ko wai tōna hoa whakatakoto whakaaro

hei tohutohu i a ia ki te ara o te whakawā,

hei whakaako i a ia ki te mātauranga,

hei whakakite i te ara o te mōhio ki a ia?

15 Nanā, ko ngā iwi, ānō he pata wai i roto i te pere!

Ki tā te whakaaro he puehu ririki rātou i te pāuna;

nanā, ko ngā motu, maua ake e ia, he mea ririki rawa te rite.

16 E kore anō e ranea a Repanōna mō te ahi,

me ngā kararehe hoki o reira, e kore e ranea hei tahunga tinana.

17 Ko ngā iwi katoa, he kore noa iho i tōna aroaro;

iti iho rātou i te kāhore,

he horihori kau i tōna whakaaro.

18 Nā, ka whakaritea e koutou te Atua ki a wai?

He aha hoki te āhua e whakaahuatia ai ia e koutou?

19 Ko te whakapakoko, nā te kaimahi ia i whakarewa,

nā te kaitahu i whakakikorua ki te kōura,

ā, hangā ana mō reira he mekameka hiriwa.

20 Ko te tangata, he rawakore rawa ia ki te hoatu whakahere pērā,

whiriwhiria ana e ia he rākau e kore e pirau;

rapua ana e ia he kaimahi mōhio māna,

hei hanga i tētahi whakapakoko e kore e nekenekehia.

21 Kāhore ianei koutou i mōhio?

Kāhore koutou i rongo?

Kāhore ianei i kōrerotia ki a koutou i te tīmatanga?

Kāhore ianei koutou i mātau i ngā whakatūranga rā anō o te whenua?

22 Ko ia te noho ana i runga i te porohita o te whenua,

ā, ko ō reira tāngata, ānō he māwhitiwhiti;

ko ngā rangi, horahia ana e ia ānō he kākahu tauārai,

horahia ana e ia ānō he tēneti hei nohoanga;

23 ko ngā rangatira, whakahokia iho e ia ki te kāhore;

ko ngā kaiwhakawā o te whenua,

meinga ana e ia hei mea horihori noa iho.

24 Āe rā, kāhore rātou i whakatōkia;

āe rā, kāhore rātou i ruia;

āe rā, kāhore tō rātou take i whai pakiaka ki te whenua;

ka pupuhi hoki ia ki a rātou, ā, ka maroke rātou;

ka rite ki te kakau wīti, ka kāwhakina e te paroro.

25 "Nā, ki tā koutou, kei tō wai he āhua mōku?

Ka rite rānei ahau ki a wai?" e ai tā te Mea Tapu.

26 E ara ō koutou kanohi ki runga titiro ai:

Nā wai ēnei mea i hanga?

Nā wai ō rātou mano i whakaputa mai he mea tatau tonu;

karangatia ana e ia ngā ingoa o rātou katoa,

māroro rawa, pakari tonu te kaha;

e kore tētahi e ngaro.

27 He aha koe i kōrero ai, e Hākopa,

i mea ai, e Īharaira,

"Kua hunā tōku ara ki a Ihowā,

kua mahue i tōku Atua tōku whakawā"?

28 Kāhore koe i mōhio?

Kāhore koe i rongo,

ko te Atua onamata, ko Ihowā,

ko te Kaihanga o ngā pito o te whenua.

E kore ia e ngenge, e kore ia e māuiui?

E kore tōna mātauranga e taea te rapu.

29 E hōmai ana e ia he kaha ki te hunga ngenge;

ā, whakanuia ana e ia te pakari o te mea ngoikore.

30 Ahakoa ko ngā taitamariki, ka ngenge tonu, ka māuiui,

ā, ko ngā taitama, ka hinga rawa.

31 Tēnā ko te hunga e tatari ana ki a Ihowā,

puta hou ana he kaha mō rātou;

kake ana rātou ki runga; ko ngā parirau, koia ānō kei o ngā ēkara;

ka rere rātou, ā, e kore e māuiui;

ka haere, ā, e kore e ngenge.