Isaiah 27
1 In that day the Lord with his sore and great and mightie sword shall visite Liuiathan, that pearcing serpent, euen Liuiathan, that crooked serpent, and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
Ngalolosuku iNkosi ngenkemba yayo elukhuni lenkulu lelamandla izajezisa uLeviyathani, inyoka ebalekayo, ngitsho uLeviyathani inyoka egoqanayo, ibulale umgobho oselwandle.
2 In that daye sing of the vineyarde of redde wine.
Ngalolosuku hlabelelani ngaso isivini sewayini elibomvu.
3 I the Lord doe keepe it: I will water it euery moment: least any assaile it, I will keepe it night and day.
Mina Nkosi, ngiyasilondoloza, ngiyasithelela isikhathi sonke; hlezi kube khona osonayo ngisilondoloze ebusuku lemini.
4 Anger is not in mee: who would set the briers and the thornes against me in battel? I would go through them, I would burne them together.
Ukuthukuthela kakukho kimi. Ngubani ongabeka ukhula oluhlabayo lameva kumelane lami empini? Bengizamatsha ngidabule phakathi kwakho, ngikutshise kanyekanye.
5 Or will he feele my strength, that he may make peace with me, and be at one with me?
Kumbe kabambelele emandleni ami, enze ukuthula lami; uzakwenza ukuthula lami.
6 Hereafter, Iaakob shall take roote: Israel shall florish and growe, and the world shall be filled with fruite.
Izakwenza abavela koJakobe bagxile, uIsrayeli uzahluma, akhahlele, agcwalise ubuso bomhlaba ngezithelo.
7 Hath hee smitten him as hee smote those that smote him? or is hee slaine according to the slaughter of them that were slaine by him?
Imtshayile yini njengokutshaya kwayo oyitshayayo? Ubulewe yini njengokubulawa kwababuleweyo bakhe?
8 In measure in the branches thereof wilt thou contende with it, when he bloweth with his rough winde in the day of the East winde.
Ngesilinganiso ekukuxotsheni izaphikisana lakho; izakususa ngomoya wayo olukhuni ngosuku lomoya wempumalanga.
9 By this therefore shall the iniquitie of Iaakob be purged, and this is all the fruit, the taking away of his sinne: whe he shall make all the stones of the altars, as chalke stones broken in pieces, that the groues and images may not stand vp.
Ngakho ngalokhu isiphambeko sikaJakobe sizahlawulelwa; lalokhu kuyisithelo sonke sokususa isono sakhe, lapho esenza ukuthi wonke amatshe elathi abe njengamatshe ekalaga avuthuziweyo, izixuku lamalathi elanga kakuyikuma.
10 Yet the defenced citie shalbe desolate, and the habitation shalbe forsaken, and left like a wildernes. There shall the calfe feede, and there shall he lie, and consume the branches thereof.
Ngoba umuzi obiyelweyo uzakuba wodwa, indawo yokuhlala ixotshwe, itshiywe njengenkangala; lapho ithole lizakudla khona, lilale khona, liqede izingatsha zawo.
11 When the boughes of it are drie, they shalbe broken: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of none vnderstading: therefore hee that made them, shall not haue compassion of them, and he that formed them, shall haue no mercie on them.
Lapho ingatsha zawo sezomile zizakwephulwa; abesifazana beze bazibase; ngoba kabasibantu abaqedisisayo; ngakho-ke lowo owabenzayo kayikubahawukela, lowababumbayo kayikubatshengisa umusa.
12 And in that day shall the Lord thresh from the chanell of the Riuer vnto the riuer of Egypt, and ye shalbe gathered, one by one, O children of Israel.
Kuzakuthi-ke ngalolosuku iNkosi ibhule kusukela esifudlaneni somfula kuze kube semfuleni weGibhithe; lina-ke lizabuthwa ngamunye ngamunye, bantwana bakoIsrayeli.
13 In that day also shall the great trumpet be blowen, and they shall come, which perished in the land of Asshur: and they that were chased into the lande of Egypt, and they shall worship the Lord in the holy Mount at Ierusalem.
Kuzakuthi-ke ngalolosuku kuvuthelwe uphondo olukhulu, lalabo ababebhubhe elizweni leAsiriya labaxotshelwe elizweni leGibhithe, bazabuya bayikhonze iNkosi entabeni engcwele eJerusalema.
