Torati 32
1 Tega sikio, enyi mbingu, na niruhusu kuzungumza.
Attend, O heaven, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words out of my mouth.
2 Acha dunia isikie maneno ya kinywa changu. Acha mafundisho yangu yamwagike chini kama mvua, acha usemi wangu udondoke kama umande, kama mvua tulivu juu ya majani laini, na kama mvua za manyunyu juu ya mimea.
Let my speech be looked for as the rain, and my words come down as dew, as the shower upon the herbage, and as snow upon the grass.
3 Kwa maana nitatangaza jina la Yahwe, na kumpatia ukuu Mungu wetu.
For I have called on the name of the Lord: assign you greatness to our God.
4 Mwamba, kazi yake ni kamili; kwa maana njia zake ni za haki. Yeye ni Mungu mwaminifu, hana udhalimu. Yeye ni wa haki na mwadilifu.
[As for God], his works [are] true, and all his ways [are] judgement: God [is] faithful, and there is no unrighteousness [in him]; just and holy [is] the Lord.
5 Wamefanya yaliyo maovu dhidi yake. Wao sio watoto wake. Ni aibu kwao. Wao ni kizazi kiovu na kilichopindika.
They have sinned, not [pleasing] him; spotted children, a froward and perverse generation.
6 Je! Unamzawadia Yahwe kwa njia hii, enyi watu wapumbavu na msiojitambua? Je! yeye si baba yenu, yule ambaye aliwaumba? Aliwaumba na kuwaimarisha.
Do you thus recompense the Lord? [is the] people thus foolish and unwise? did not he himself your father purchase you, and make you, and form you?
7 Kumbukeni siku zile za zamani, tafakari juu ya miaka mingi ya nyuma. Muulize baba yako naye atakuonyesha, wazee wako nao watakuambia.
Remember the days of old, consider the years for past ages: ask your father, and he shall relate to you, your elders, and they shall tell you.
8 Pale ambapo Aliye Juu alipowapatia mataifa urithi wao – alipowagawa wanadamu wote, na kuweka mipaka ya watu, na alipoimarisha idadi ya miungu yao.
When the Most High divided the nations, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of God.
9 Kwa maana fungu la Yahwe ni watu wake; Yakobo ni mgao wa urithi wake.
And his people Jacob became the portion of the Lord, Israel was the line of his inheritance.
10 Alimpata katika nchi ya jangwa, na katika jangwa kame na livumalo upepo; alimkinga na kumtunza, alimlinda kama mboni ya jicho lake.
He maintained him in the wilderness, in burning thirst and a dry land: he led him about and instructed him, and kept him as the apple of an eye.
11 Kama tai akichungaye kiota chake na kupiga piga mabawa juu ya makinda yake, Yahwe alitandaza mabawa yake na kuwachukua, na kuwabeba kwenye mapapatio yake.
As an eagle would watch over his brood, and yearns over his young, receives them having spread his wings, and takes them up on his back:
12 Yahwe pekee alimuongoza, hapakuwa na mungu mgeni pamoja naye.
the Lord alone led them, there was no strange god with them.
13 Alimfanya aendeshe katika maeneo ya juu ya nchi, na alimlisha matunda ya mbugani; alimrutubisha kwa asali kutoka kwenye jiwe, na mafuta kutoka kwenye mwamba mgumu sana.
He brought them up on the strength of the land; he fed them with the fruits of the fields; they sucked honey out of the rock, and oil out of the solid rock.
14 Alikula siagi kutoka katika kundi na kunywa maziwa kutoka katika kundi la mifugo, pamoja na mafuta ya wanakondoo, kondoo dume wa Bashani na mbuzi, pamoja na ngano safi kabisa – nawe ulikunywa divai itokayo povu iliyotengenezwa kwa juisi ya mizabibu.
Butter of cows, and milk of sheep, with the fat of lambs and rams, of calves and kids, with fat of kidneys of wheat; and he drank wine, the blood of the grape.
15 Lakini Yeshuruni akakua kwa unene na kupiga mateke – ulikua kwa unene, ulikua mnene sana, na ulikuwa umekula ujazo wako – alimuacha Mungu aliyemuumba, na kukataa Mwamba wa wokovu wake.
So Jacob ate and was filled, and the beloved one kicked; he grew fat, he became thick and broad: then he forsook the God that made him, and departed from God his Saviour.
16 Walimfanya Yahwe apatwe wivu kwa miungu yao ya ajabu; kwa maudhi yao walimkasirisha.
They provoked me to anger with strange gods; with their abominations they bitterly angered me.
17 Walitoa dhabihu kwa mapepo, ambayo sio Mungu – miungu ambayo hawajaijua, miungu ambayo imejitokeza hivi karibuni, miungu ambayo mababu zenu hawakuogopa.
They sacrificed to devils, and not to God; to gods whom they knew not: new and fresh [gods] came in, whom their fathers knew not.
18 Umetelekeza Mwamba, ambao ulikuwa baba yako, na ukasahau Mungu aliyekuzaa.
You have forsaken God that begot you, and forgotten God who feeds you.
19 Yahwe aliliona hili na kuwakataa, kwa sababu watoto wake wa kiume na mabinti zake walimchokoza.
And the Lord saw, and was jealous; and was provoked by the anger of his sons and daughters,
20 “Nitaficha uso wangu kwao”, alisema, “nami nitaona mwisho wao utakuaje; maana wao ni kazazi kaidi, watoto ambao sio waaminifu.
and said, I will turn away my face from them, and will show what shall happen to them in the last days; for it is a perverse generation, sons in whom is no faith.
21 Wamenifanya kuwa na wivu kwa kile ambacho sio mungu na kunikasirisha kwa mambo yao yasiyo na maana. Nitawafanya waone wivu kwa wale ambao sio taifa; nitawakasirisha kwa taifa pumbavu.
They have provoked me to jealousy with [that which is] not God, they have exasperated me with their idols; and I will provoke them to jealousy with them that are no nation, I will anger them with a nation void of understanding.
22 Kwa maana moto kuwashwa kwa hasira yangu na inawaka hadi chini mwa Sheoli; inameza ulimwengu na mavuno yake; inawasha moto misingi ya milima. (Sheol h7585)
For a fire has been kindled out of my wrath, it shall burn to hell below; it shall devour the land, and the fruits of it; it shall set on fire the foundations of the mountains. (Sheol h7585)
23 Nitarundia maafa juu yao; nitafyatua mishale yangu yote kwao;
I will gather evils upon them, and will fight with my weapons against them.
24 Watapotea kwa njaa na kumezwa kwa joto liwakalo na uharibifu mchungu; nitatuma kwao meno ya wanyama wa mwituni, pamoja na sumu ya vitu vitambaao mavumbini.
[They shall be] consumed with hunger and the devouring of birds, and there shall be irremediable destruction: I will send forth against them the teeth of wild beasts, with the rage of [serpents] creeping on the ground.
25 Nje panga litawatwaa, na ndani ya vyumba hofu kuu itafanya hivyo. Wote mwanamume kijana na bikra nitawaangamiza, mchanga anyonyaye, na mwanamume mwenye mvi.
Without, the sword shall bereave them of children, and terror [shall issue] out of the secret chambers; the young man shall perish with the virgin, the suckling with him who has grown old.
26 Nilisema nitawasambaza mbali, kwamba nitafanya kumbukumbu yao kukoma miongoni mwa wanadamu.
I said, I will scatter them, and I will cause their memorial to cease from amongst men.
27 Isingekuwa kwamba naogopa uchokozi wa adui, na kwamba adui zake wangehukumu kimakosa, na kwamba wangesema, “Mkono wetu umeinuliwa,” ningefanya haya yote.
Were it not for the wrath of the enemy, lest they should live long, lest their enemies should combine against them; lest they should say, Our own high arm, and not the Lord, has done all these things.
28 Kwa maana Israeli ni taifa linalopungukiwa na hekima, na hakuna ufahamu ndani mwao.
It is a nation that has lost counsel, neither is there understanding in them.
29 Ah laiti wangekuwa na hekima, wangeelewa hili, na kuzingatia ujio wa hatima yao!
They had not sense to understand: let them reserve these things against the time to come.
30 Inawezekanaje mmoja kufukuza maelfu, na wawili kuweka makumi elfu mbioni, isipokuwa Mwamba wao hajawauza, na Yahwe hajawaachilia kwao?
How should one pursue a thousand, and two rout tens of thousands, if God had not sold them, and the Lord delivered them up?
31 Kwa maana mwamba wa maadui zetu si kama Mwamba wetu, kama vile maadui zetu wanavyokiri.
For their gods are not as our God, but our enemies [are] void of understanding.
32 Kwa maana mzabibu wao unatoka kwenye mzabibu wa Sodoma, na kwenye mashamba ya Gomorra; na zabibu zake ni zabibu za sumu; vishada vyao ni vichungu.
For their vine [is] of the vine of Sodom, and their vine-branch of Gomorrha: their grape [is] a grape of gall, their cluster [is] one of bitterness.
33 Mvinyo yao ni sumu ya nyoka na sumu katili ya nyoka.
Their wine [is] the rage of serpents, and the incurable rage of asps.
34 Huu mpango haujafichwa kwangu kwa siri, na kufungwa kabisa katika hazina zangu?
Behold! are not these things stored up by me, and sealed amongst my treasures?
35 Kisasi ni changu kutoa, na fidia, katika muda mguu wao utakapotereza; kwa maana siku ya maafa kwao ipo karibu, na vitu vitakavyokuja juu yao vitaharakisha kutendeka.
In the day of vengeance I will recompense, whenever their foot shall be tripped up; for the day of their destruction [is] near to them, and the judgements at hand are close upon you.
36 Kwa maana Yahwe atatoa haki kwa watu wake, na atawahurumia watumishi wake. Atahakikisha kuwa nguvu yao imetoweka, na hakuna atakayesalia, iwe watumwa au watu huru.
For the Lord shall judge his people, and shall be comforted over his servants; for he saw that they were utterly weakened, and failed in the hostile invasion, and were become feeble:
37 Kisha atasema, “wako wapi miungu yao, mwamba ambao wamekimbilia? –
and the Lord said, Where are their gods on whom they trusted?
38 miungu iliyokula sadaka zao nene na kunywa mvinyo wa sadaka zao za kinywaji? Na wainuke na kukusaidia; na wawe ulinzi kwako.
the fat of whose sacrifices you ate, and you drank the wine of their drink-offerings? let them arise and help you, and be your protectors.
39 Tazama sasa mimi, hata mimi, ni Mungu, na kwamba hakuna mungu tofauti yangu; ninaua, na ninaleta uhai; ninajeruhi, na ninaponya, na hakuna mtu atakayekuokoa kutoka kwa uwezo wangu.
Behold, behold that I am [he], and there is no god beside me: I kill, and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal; and there is none who shall deliver out of my hands.
40 Kwa maana ninainua mikono yangu mbinguni na kusema, “Niishivyo milele, nitatenda.
For I will lift up my hand to heaven, and swear by my right hand, and I will say, I live for ever.
41 Nitakapong’oa panga langu lingaaro, na mkono wangu utakapoanza kuleta haki, nitalipiza kisasi juu ya maadui zangu, na kuwalipa wale wote wanichukiao.
For I will sharpen my sword like lightning, and my hand shall take hold of judgement; and I will render judgement to my enemies, and will recompense them that hate me.
42 Nitafanya mishale yangu kulewa na damu, na panga langu litameza nyama kwa damu ya waliouawa na mateka, na kutoka kwa vichwa vya viongozi wa adui.”
I will make my weapons drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, [it shall glut itself] with the blood of the wounded, and from the captivity of the heads of [their] enemies that rule over them.
43 Furahi, enyi mataifa, na watu wa Mungu, kwa maana atalipiza kisasi damu ya watumishi wake; atalipiza kisasi juu ya maadui zake, naye atafanya upatanisho kwa ajili ya nchi yake, kwa watu wake.
Rejoice, you heavens, with him, and let all the angels of God worship him; rejoice you Gentiles, with his people, and let all the sons of God strengthen themselves in him; for he will avenge the blood of his sons, and he will render vengeance, and recompense justice to his enemies, and will reward them that hate him; and the Lord shall purge the land of his people.
44 Musa alikuja na kunena maneno yote ya wimbo huu masikioni mwa watu, yeye na Yoshua mwana wa Nuni.
And Moses wrote this song in that day, and taught it to the children of Israel; and Moses went in and spoke all the words of this law in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the [son] of Naue.
45 Kisha Musa alimaliza kunena maneno haya yote kwa Israeli yote.
And Moses finished speaking to all Israel.
46 Aliwaambia, “Imarisheni akili yenu kwa haya maneno ambayo nimewashuhudia kwenu leo, ili kwamba muwaamuru watoto wenu kuyashika, maneno yote ya sheria hii.
And he said to them, Take heed with your heart to all these words, which I testify to you this day, which you shall command your sons, to observe and do all the words of this law.
47 Kwa maana hili si jambo dogo kwako, kwa sababu ni uzima wako, na kupitia jambo hili utarefusha siku zako katika nchi ambayo unakwenda juu ya Yordani kumiliki.”
For this [is] no vain word to you; for it [is] your life, and because of this word you shall live long upon the land, into which you go over Jordan to inherit it.
48 Yahwe alizungumza na Musa katika siku hiyo hiyo na kusema,
And the Lord spoke to Moses in this day, saying,
49 “Nenda katika usawa huu wa milima wa Abarimu, juu ya mlima wa Nebo, ambao upo katika nchi ya Moabu, mkabala na Yeriko. Utatazama nchi ya Kanani, ambayo ninawapatia watu wa Israeli kama miliki yao.
Go up to the mount Abarim, this mountain Nabau which is in the land of Moab over against Jericho, and behold the land of Chanaan, which I give to the sons of Israel:
50 Utakufa katika mlima utakaopanda, na utakusanywa kwa watu wako, kama Haruni Muisraeli mwenzako alivyokufa juu ya mlima wa Hori na kukusanywa kwa watu wake. Hii
and die in the mount whither you go up, and be added to your people; as Aaron your brother died in mount Or, and was added to his people.
51 itatendeka kwa sababu haukuwa mwaminifu kwangu miongoni mwa watu wa Israeli katika maji ya Meriba kule Kadeshi, katika jangwa la Zini; kwa sababu haukunitendea utukufu na heshima miongoni mwa watu wa Israeli.
Because you disobeyed my word amongst the children of Israel, at the waters of strife of Cades in the wilderness of Sin; because you sanctified me not amongst the sons of Israel.
52 Kwa maana utaona nchi mbele yako, lakini hautakwenda kule, katika nchi ninayowapatia watu wa Israeli.”
You shall see the land before [you], but you shall not enter into it.
