Isaías 57

1 The righteous perish,

and no one lays it to heart.

Merciful men are taken away,

and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

2 He enters into peace.

They rest in their beds,

each one who walks in his uprightness.

3 "But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress,

you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes.

4 Whom do you mock?

Against whom do you make a wide mouth

and stick out your tongue?

Aren’t you children of disobedience

and offspring of falsehood,

5 you who inflame yourselves among the oaks,

under every green tree;

who kill the children in the valleys,

under the clefts of the rocks?

6 Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion.

They, they are your lot.

You have even poured a drink offering to them.

You have offered an offering.

Shall I be appeased for these things?

7 On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed.

You also went up there to offer sacrifice.

8 You have set up your memorial behind the doors and the posts,

for you have exposed yourself to someone besides me,

and have gone up.

You have enlarged your bed

and made a covenant for yourself with them.

You loved what you saw on their bed.

9 You went to the king with oil,

increased your perfumes,

sent your ambassadors far off,

and degraded yourself even to Sheol.*57:9 Sheol is the place of the dead.

10 You were wearied with the length of your ways;

yet you didn’t say, ‘It is in vain.’

You found a reviving of your strength;

therefore you weren’t faint.

11 "Whom have you dreaded and feared,

so that you lie,

and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart?

Haven’t I held my peace for a long time,

and you don’t fear me?

12 I will declare your righteousness;

and as for your works, they will not benefit you.

13 When you cry,

let those whom you have gathered deliver you,

but the wind will take them.

A breath will carry them all away,

but he who takes refuge in me will possess the land,

and will inherit my holy mountain."

14 He will say, "Build up, build up, prepare the way!

Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people."

15 For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity,

whose name is Holy, says:

"I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit,

to revive the spirit of the humble,

and to revive the heart of the contrite.

16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry;

for the spirit would faint before me,

and the souls whom I have made.

17 I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him.

I hid myself and was angry;

and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him.

I will lead him also,

and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

19 I create the fruit of the lips:

Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,"

says Yahweh; "and I will heal them."

20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea;

for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud.

21 "There is no peace", says my God,

"for the wicked."

Ka Whakawātia te Koropiko Whakapakoko

1 Ka riro ki te kore te tangata tika,

ā, kāhore e maharatia iho e te ngākau o tētahi tangata;

e tangohia atu anō hoki te hunga tohu tāngata;

tē mahara tētahi.

E tangohia atu ana te tangata tika kei kite i te hē.

2 Ka haere ia ki te rangimārie,

ka okioki rātou ki ō rātou takotoranga, ka haere tēnā, tēnā,

i runga i tōna whakaaro tapatahi.

3 "Ko koutou ia, awhi mai ki konei,

e ngā tama a te wahine mākutu,

e ngā uri o te tangata pūremu, o te wahine kairau.

4 He tākaro tā koutou ki a wai?

Ki a wai te hāmama nui o ō koutou māngai,

te whētero roa o te arero?

He teka ianei he whānau koutou nā te poka kē,

he uri nō te teka –

5 koutou, e tahu nā i ō koutou hiahia i waenga i ngā oki,

i raro i ngā rākau kōuru nui katoa;

e patu nā i ngā tamariki i ngā awaawa,

i raro i ngā pari kōhatu?

6 Kei ngā kōhatu māeneene o te awa tōu wāhi;

ko ēnā, ko ēnā te rota i a koe;

ringihia ana e koe he ringihanga ki ēnā,

whakaekea atu ana he whakahere.

E mārie rānei ahau ki ēnā?

7 I runga i te maunga tiketike, aua noa atu ki runga,

i hangā e koe tōu takotoranga,

piki ai ki reira ki te mea patunga tapu.

8 Kua oti anō tōu whakamahara te whakatū e koe

ki tua i te tatau, i ngā pou;

kua hura hoki koe i a koe ki tētahi atu,

ehara i ahau, kua piki ki runga;

kei te whakanui i tōu takotoranga,

whakaritea ana e koe he kawenata ki a rātou;

i matenuitia anō e koe tō rātou takotoranga

i te wāhi i kite ai koe.

9 I haere atu anō koe ki te kīngi, mea rawa ki te hinu,

whakanuia ana e koe āu hinu whakaranu;

ungā ana e koe āu karere ki tawhiti,

whakaititia ana koe e koe anō ki raro rawa ki te rēinga.

10 Māuiui ana koe i te roa o tōu ara;

otiia kāhore koe i mea, ‘Kāhore he manakohanga.’

Kua kitea e koe e nui haere ana tōu kaha;

koia koe tē ruha ai.

11 "I pāwera koe, i wehi i a wai,

i teka ai koe,

i kore ai e mahara ki ahau,

i kore ai tōu ngākau e mea mai?

Kīhai ianei ahau i whakarongo puku he wā roa i mua rā anō,

nā, kāhore ōu wehi ki ahau?

12 Māku e whakaatu tōu tika; tēnā ko āu mahi,

e kore koe e whai pai i ēnā.

13 Ka tangi koe, mā ōu huihui koe e whakaora!

Otiia, ka kāhakina rātou e te hau

ka riro katoa atu i te ngā.

Ko te tangata ia e whakawhirinaki ana ki ahau, mōna te whenua,

ka riro hoki i a ia tōku maunga tapu."

He Whakamārie mō te Hunga Pōuri

14 Ka kī anō ia:

"Opehia ake, opehia ake, whakapaia te ara,

hāpainga atu te tūtukitanga waewae i te ara o tāku iwi."

15 Ko te kupu hoki tēnei a te Mea Tiketike o Runga Rawa,

ko tōna kāinga nei kei ngā wā onamata, ko tōna ingoa ko Tapu:

"Ko te wāhi e noho nei ahau kei te tiketike, kei te tapu,

i te tangata he marū rawa tōna ngākau, he pāpaku,

hei whakahauora i te wairua o te hunga pāpaku,

hei whakahauora i te ngākau o ngā mea kua marū.

16 E kore hoki ahau e whawhai ā ake ake,

e kore anō e mau tonu tōku riri;

pēnā ka pēhia rawatia te wairua i tōku aroaro,

me ngā manawa i hangā e ahau.

17 He hē nō tōna apo taonga i riri ai ahau, i patu ai i a ia;

i huna ahau i tōku mata, i riri,

ā, haere kotiti kē ana ia i runga i te ara o tōna ngākau.

18 Kua kite ahau i ōna ara, ka rongoātia anō ia e ahau;

ka ārahi anō ahau i a ia, ka whakahoki anō i ngā whakamārietanga ki a ia,

ki ōna tāngata anō hoki e tangi ana;

19 ko ahau te kaihanga o ngā hua o ngā ngutu.

Ka mau, ka mau te rongo ki te hunga i tawhiti, ki te hunga i tata," e ai tā Ihowā;

"māku anō ia e rongoā."

20 Ko te hunga kino ia rite tonu ki te moana ngarungaru;

e kore e marino,

heoi kei te āia ake e ōna wai te puehu, te paru.

21 "Kāhore he maunga rongo ki te hunga kino," e ai tā tōku Atua.