Isaías 47

1 "Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon.

Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans.

For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.

2 Take the millstones and grind flour.

Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs,

and wade through the rivers.

3 Your nakedness will be uncovered.

Yes, your shame will be seen.

I will take vengeance,

and will spare no one."

4 Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name,

is the Holy One of Israel.

5 "Sit in silence, and go into darkness,

daughter of the Chaldeans.

For you shall no longer be called

the mistress of kingdoms.

6 I was angry with my people.

I profaned my inheritance

and gave them into your hand.

You showed them no mercy.

You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.

7 You said, ‘I will be a princess forever,’

so that you didn’t lay these things to your heart,

nor did you remember the results.

8 "Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures,

who sit securely,

who say in your heart,

‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.

I won’t sit as a widow,

neither will I know the loss of children.’

9 But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day:

the loss of children and widowhood.

They will come on you in their full measure,

in the multitude of your sorceries,

and the great abundance of your enchantments.

10 For you have trusted in your wickedness.

You have said, ‘No one sees me.’

Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you.

You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’

11 Therefore disaster will come on you.

You won’t know when it dawns.

Mischief will fall on you.

You won’t be able to put it away.

Desolation will come on you suddenly,

which you don’t understand.

12 "Stand now with your enchantments

and with the multitude of your sorceries,

in which you have labored from your youth,

as if you might profit,

as if you might prevail.

13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels.

Now let the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators stand up and save you from the things that will happen to you.

14 Behold, they are like stubble.

The fire will burn them.

They won’t deliver themselves from the power of the flame.

It won’t be a coal to warm at

or a fire to sit by.

15 The things that you labored in will be like this:

those who have trafficked with you from your youth will each wander in his own way.

There will be no one to save you.

He Whakawātanga ki Papurōna

1 "Haere iho, e noho ki te puehu,

e te tamāhine wāhina a Papurōna!

E noho ki te whenua, kāhore he torōna,

e te tamāhine a ngā Karari!

E kore hoki koe e kīia i muri

he kiri angiangi, he whakatarapī.

2 E mau ki ngā kōhatu mira, hurihia he parāoa;

tangohia ake tōu ārai,

huhua ake te waewae, kia takoto kau te hūhā;

e whiti i ngā awa.

3 Ka kitea ōu wāhi e takoto tahanga ana,

āe rā, ka kitea tōu mea e whakamā ai koe.

Ka rapu utu ahau,

e kore anō e whakaae ki tētahi tangata.

4 Ko tō tātou kaihoko – ko Ihowā o ngā mano tōna ingoa –

ko te Mea Tapu o Īharaira.

5 "Noho kupukore, haere ki te pōuri,

e te tamāhine a ngā Karari;

e kore hoki koe e kīia i muri,

ko te wahine rangatira o ngā kīngitanga.

6 I riri ahau ki tāku iwi,

i whakapokea tōku kāinga tupu;

tukua ana e ahau ki tōu ringa;

kīhai i puta tōu aroha ki a rātou,

whakataimahatia rawatia iho e koe tāu ioka

ki te kaumātua.

7 I mea anō koe, ‘Hei wahine rangatira ahau ake ake,’

nā, kīhai noa iho tōu ngākau i mea ki ēnei mea;

kīhai koe i mahara ki tōna mutunga.

8 "Nā, whakarongo āianei ki tēnei,

e te wahine e whai nā ki ngā āhuareka,

e noho kore wehi nā,

e mea nā i roto i tōu ngākau,

‘Tēnei ahau, kāhore atu hoki, ko ahau anake;

e kore ahau e noho pouaru,

e kore ahau e mōhio ki te matenga o ngā tamariki.’

9 Otirā, ka pā whakarere ēnei

e rua ki a koe i te rā kotahi:

te matenga o ngā tamariki, te pouarutanga;

ka pā ēnei ki a koe i tōna tōnuitanga,

ahakoa te nui o āu mahi mākutu,

te maha rawa o āu whaiwhaiā.

10 I whakawhirinaki hoki koe ki tōu kino,

i mea, ‘Kāhore he kaititiro mōku.’

Ko ōu whakaaro nui me tōu mōhio,

nā ēnā koe i whakangau kē;

i mea ai koe i tōu ngākau,

‘Ko ahau tēnei, kāhore kē atu, ko ahau anake.’

11 Mō reira ka tae mai te kino ki a koe,

e kore tōna putanga e mōhiotia e koe,

ka taka anō te hē ki a koe,

e kore e taea e koe te karo;

ka tae hohoro mai anō ki a koe te whakangaro,

e kore e mōhiotia e koe.

12 "Tēnā rā, e tū, me āu whaiwhaiā,

me āu mākutu maha,

i mahia rā e koe i tōu tamarikitanga ake,

me kāhore koe e whai pai,

me kāhore tāu e taea.

13 Kua hōhā koe i te maha o ngā whakaaro i whakatakotoria e koe.

Tēnā rā, kia tū ngā kaiwhakaaro ki ngā rangi,

ngā kaititiro ki ngā whetū,

ngā mea mōhio ki ngā marama,

kia whakaorangia koe e rātou

i ngā mea meāke tūpono ki a koe.

14 Nanā, ka rite rātou ki te kakau wīti,

ka wera i te ahi;

e kore rātou e ora i te ngaunga a te ahi;

ehara i te ngārahu hei whakamahanatanga,

ehara hoki i te ahi hei painatanga.

15 Nā, ka pērā ngā mea ki a koe, i mahi ai koe ki reira;

ko te hunga i hokohoko ki a koe mai i tōu taitamarikitanga,

ka kotiti atu rātou ki tōna wāhi, ki tōna wāhi;

kāhore he kaiwhakaora mōu."