Isaías 8

1 Yahweh said to me, "Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher Shalal Hash Baz’;*8:1 "Maher Shalal Hash Baz" means "quick to the plunder, swift to the prey". 2 and I will take for myself faithful witnesses to testify: Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah."

3 I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then Yahweh said to me, "Call his name ‘Maher Shalal Hash Baz.’ 4 For before the child knows how to say, ‘My father’ and ‘My mother,’ the riches of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried away by the king of Assyria."

5 Yahweh spoke to me yet again, saying, 6 "Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son; 7 now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks. 8 It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through. It will reach even to the neck. The stretching out of its wings will fill the width of your land, O Immanuel.

9 Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered! 10 Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us."

11 For Yahweh spoke this to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying, 12 "Don’t call a conspiracy all that this people call a conspiracy. Don’t fear their threats or be terrorized. 13 Yahweh of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread. 14 He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare. 15 Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured."

16 Wrap up the covenant. Seal the law among my disciples. 17 I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. 18 Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.

19 When they tell you, "Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter," shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living? 20 Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them. 21 They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse their king and their God. They will turn their faces upward, 22 then look to the earth and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

Te Tama a Ihāia hei Tohu ki te Iwi

1 I kī mai anō a Ihowā ki ahau, "Tīkina atu tētahi papa nui māu, ka tuhituhi ki runga, ki te pene a te tangata, mō Mahereharara Hapaha. 2 Nā, māku e mea ētahi kaiwhakaatu pono hei whakaatu mō tāku, arā a Uria tohunga rāua ko Tekaria tama a Teperekia."

3 Nā, ko tāku haerenga atu ki te poropiti wahine, kua hapū, whānau ake he tama. Kātahi a Ihowā ka kī mai ki ahau, "Huaina tōna ingoa ko Mahereharara Hapaha. 4 Nō te mea mōhio rawa ake te tamaiti ki te karanga, ‘E tōku pāpā, e tōku whaea,’ ka riro ngā taonga o Ramahiku, me ngā mea parakete o Hamaria i te aroaro o te kīngi o Ahiria."

Ka Haere mai nei te Kīngi o Ahiria

5 I kōrero mai anō a Ihowā ki ahau, i mea:

6 "Nā, kua paopao nei tēnei iwi

ki ngā wai āta rere o Hiroa,

ā, e koa ana ki a Retini

rāua ko te tama a Remaria;

7 nā, tēnei te tākina mai nei e te Ariki

ngā wai o te awa ki runga ki a rātou, he kaha, he nui,

arā te kīngi o Ahiria, me tōna korōria katoa.

Ka ngawhā anō ia ki runga i ōna pareparenga katoa,

ka pari anō hoki ki runga i ōna tahatika katoa.

8 Ka rere tonu atu ia ki a Hūrā; ka puhake atu,

ā, ka puta; ka pā ki te kakī rawa;

ā, ka kapi i te rohanga o ōna parirau te whānuitanga o tōu whenua,

e Emānuera!"

9 E anga, ka whakatupu raruraru, e ngā iwi,

ā, ka pakaru rikiriki koutou;

kia whai taringa hoki,

e te hunga katoa o ngā whenua i tawhiti;

whītiki, ā, ka pakaru rikiriki koutou;

whītiki, ā, ka mongamonga noa koutou.

10 Whakatakotoria he whakaaro, ā, ka taka noa iho;

kōrerotia te kupu, e kore anō e tū;

kei a mātou nei hoki te Atua.

11 Ko tā Ihowā kōrero hoki tēnei ki ahau i runga i te ringa kaha, me tāna whakaako anō i ahau kia kaua e haere i te ara o tēnei iwi; i kī mai:

12 "Kaua e kī, ‘He hē te whakatakotoria nei;’

i ngā mea katoa e kī atu ai tēnei iwi,

he hē te whakatakotoria nei;

kaua hoki e wehi i tā rātou e wehi ai,

kaua anō e pāwera ki reira.

13 Ko Ihowā o ngā mano,

ko ia tā koutou e whakatapu ai;

ko ia hei wehi mā koutou,

ko ia hei pāwera mā koutou.

14 Ā, ka ai ia hei wāhi tapu;

hei kōhatu tūtukitanga waewae ia,

hei kāmaka e hinga ai ngā whare e rua o Īharaira,

hei rore anō hoki, hei māhanga ki ngā tāngata o Hiruhārama.

15 He tokomaha anō hoki o rātou e tūtuki te waewae ki reira;

e hinga, pakaru iho,

e māhangatia, mau tonu iho."

Ngā Ākonga a Ihāia

16 Takaia te whakaaturanga,

hīritia te ture i roto i āku ākonga.

17 Ā, ka tatari ahau ki a Ihowā

e huna nei i tōna mata ki te whare o Hākopa,

ka tūmanako atu ki a ia.

18 Nanā, ko mātou ko ngā tamariki hōmai nei e Ihowā ki ahau hei tohu, hei mea whakamīharo i roto i a Īharaira, he mea nā Ihowā o ngā mano e noho nei i Maunga Hiona.

19 Nā, ki te mea mai rātou ki a koutou, "Me rapu tikanga koutou i te hunga he atua māori nei ō rātou, i ngā matakite, i te hunga e kōwhetewhete ana, e ngunguru ana. Kaua ianei tētahi iwi e rapu tikanga ki tō rātou Atua? Me rapu atu rānei rātou ki ngā mea mate mō ngā mea ora, 20 ki te ture, ki te whakaaturanga?"

Ki te kore e rite tā rātou kōrero ki tēnei kupu, inā, kāhore he ata mō rātou. 21 Ā, ka tika anō rātou nā reira, ruha noa iho, e mate ana i te kai. I a rātou ka mate nei i te kai, ka tupu te riri, ā, ka kangā e rātou tō rātou kīngi, me tō rātou Atua. Ā, ka tahuri ō rātou kanohi whakarunga; 22 ā, ka titiro rātou ki te whenua, nā, he whakapāwera, he pōuri, ko te pōruru o te mamae; ā, ka āia atu rātou ki roto ki te pōuri kerekere.