Isaiah 46
1 Bel is broken, Nebo is destroyed: their idols are put upon beasts and cattle, your burdens of heavy weight even unto weariness.
Beri avunnama, Nebo akutamye! Ebifaananyi bya bakatonda baabwe biteekeddwa ku nsolo ez’omu nsiko, era ne ku nte. Ebifaananyi bya bakatonda baabwe migugu mizito ddala ku ndogoyi ezikooye.
2 They are consumed, and are broken together: they could not save him that carried them, and they themselves shall go into captivity.
Bikutamye byonna bivuunamye. Tebiyinza kuyamba ku mbeera, byo byennyini bitwaliddwa mu busibe.
3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who are carried by my bowels, are borne up by my womb.
“Mumpulire mmwe, ennyumba ya Yakobo n’abantu bonna abasigaddewo mu nnyumba ya Isirayiri. Mmwe be nnalera okuva lwe mwava mu lubuto, be nasitula okuva lwe mwazaalibwa.
4 Even to your old age I am the same, and to your grey hairs I will carry you: I have made you, and I will bear: I will carry and will save.
Ne mu bukadde bwammwe nzija kusigala nga ye nze Nzuuyo. Ne bwe muliba mulina envi nnaabasitulanga. Nze nabakola era nze nnaabawekanga. Nnaabasitulanga era nnaabanunulanga.
5 To whom have you likened me, and made me equal, and compared me, and made me like?
“Ani gwe mulinfaananya era gwe mulinnenkanya era gwe mulingerageranyaako tufaanane?
6 You that contribute gold out of the bag, and weigh out silver in the scales: and hire a goldsmith to make a god: and they fall down and worship.
Eriyo abaggya zaabu ennyingi mu nsawo zaabwe ne bapima ne ffeeza ku minzaani. Olwo ne bapangisa omuweesi wa zaabu n’agiweesaamu katonda waabwe, ne bagwa wansi ne basinza.
7 They bear him on their shoulders and carry him, and set him in his piece, and he shall stand, and shall not stir out of his place. Yea, when they shall cry also unto him, he shall not hear: he shall not save them from tribulation.
Katonda waabwe ne bamusitulira ku kibegabega, ne bamuwa ekifo w’anaayimiriranga. N’ayimirira awo, n’atava mu kifo kye. Oli ne bw’amukaabirira tayinza kumuddamu, tayinza kumuwonya mu mitawaana gye.
8 Remember this, and be ashamed: return, ye transgressors, to the heart.
“Mujjukire kino mmwe, mulowooze mu mitima gyammwe. Mwekube mu kifuba, mmwe abajeemu.
9 Remember the former age, for I am God, and there is no God beside, neither is there the like to me:
Mujjukire ebigambo ebyasooka eby’edda ennyo. Kubanga nze Katonda, teri mulala. Nze Katonda, teri ali nga nze;
10 Who shew from the beginning the things that shall be at last, and from ancient times the things that as yet are not done, saying: My counsel shall stand, and all my will shall be done:
alanga ku ntandikwa ebigenda okubaawo. Okuva ku mirembe egy’edda ennyo, nalanga ebintu ebitannabaawo, nga ŋŋamba nti, ‘Enteekateeka zange zijja kubaawo era ndituukiriza byonna bye nategeka.’
11 Who call a bird from the east, and from a far country the man of my own will, and I have spoken, and will bring it to pass: I have created, and I will do it.
Mpita ekinyonyi ekikwakkula ebiramu ebirala. Omusajja ava ebuvanjuba mu nsi eyewala, anaakola bye njagala. Weewaawo njogedde era nnaatuukiriza. Nga bwe nategeka bwe nnaakola.
12 Hear me, O ye hardhearted, who are far from justice.
Mumpulirize mmwe abalina emitima emikakanyavu, abakyama ennyo ne bava mu kkubo ly’obutuukirivu.
13 I have brought my justice near, it shall not be afar off: and my salvation shall not tarry. I will give salvation in Sion, and my glory in Israel.
Nsembeza kumpi obutuukirivu bwange, tebuli wala. N’obulokozi bwange tebuulwewo. Ndireeta obulokozi mu Sayuuni, ne nzizaawo ekitiibwa kyange mu Isirayiri.”
