ʻIsaia 17
Tongan Bible, Revised West VersionTranslation
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1Ko e tala mamafa ʻoku kau ki Tamasikusi. “Vakai kuo toʻo atu ʻa Tamasikusi ke ʻoua naʻa kei kolo ia, ka e hoko ia ko e potu tuʻunga fale maumau.
1The burden of Damascus. “Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.
2Kuo liʻaki ʻae ngaahi kolo ʻo ʻAloeli: ʻe ʻoe fanga manu ia, pea te nau tokoto ai, pea ʻe ʻikai ha taha ke fakamanavahēʻi ʻakinautolu.
2The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid.
3ʻOku pehē ʻe Sihova ʻoe ngaahi kautau, ʻE ngata ʻae kolo ʻi ʻIfalemi, mo e puleʻanga ʻo Tamasikusi, pea mo e toenga kakai ʻo Silia: te nau hangē ko e ongoongolelei ʻoe fānau ʻa ʻIsileli.
3The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says the LORD of Armies.
4Pea ʻi he ʻaho ko ia ʻe hoko ʻo pehē, ʻe fakasiʻisiʻi ʻae ongoongolelei ʻo Sēkope, pea ʻe fakaʻaʻau ke tutue ʻae ngako ʻo hono sino.
4“It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.
5Pea ʻe hangē ia ko e tānaki ʻe he tangata ututaʻu ʻene koane, pea tuʻusi hono fua ʻaki hono nima; pea ʻe hangē ia ko ia ʻoku tānaki ʻae fua ʻi he teleʻa ʻo Lifeimi.
5It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.
6¶ “Ka e fakatoe ʻi ai ʻae fua ʻoe vaine, ʻo hangē ko e lulululu ʻae ʻakau ko e ʻolive, ko e foʻi fua ʻe ua pe tolu ʻi ʻolunga ʻi he vaʻa taupotu ki ʻolunga, ko e fā pe nima ʻi he ngaahi vaʻa taukakapa ʻo ia ʻoku fua, ʻoku pehē ʻe Sihova ko e ʻOtua ʻo ʻIsileli.
6Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree,” says the LORD, the God of Israel.
7ʻI he ʻaho ko ia ʻe hanga hake ʻae tangata ki hono Tupuʻanga, pea ʻe tokanga ʻa hono mata ki he tokotaha māʻoniʻoni ʻo ʻIsileli.
7In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
8Pea ʻe ʻikai te ne sio ki he ngaahi feilaulauʻanga, ko e ngāue ʻa hono nima, pe tokanga ki he meʻa kuo ngaohi ʻe hono louhiʻi nima, ki he ngaahi vao tapu, pe ko e ngaahi tamapua.
8They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherah poles or the incense altars.
9¶ “ʻI he ʻaho ko ia ʻe tatau hono ngaahi kolo mālohi mo ha vaʻa kuo liʻaki, mo ha vaʻa māʻolunga, ʻaia naʻa nau tuku koeʻuhi ko e fānau ʻa ʻIsileli: pea ʻe ʻi ai ʻae fakaʻauha.
9In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.
10Ko e meʻa ʻi hoʻo fakangalongaloʻi ʻae ʻOtua ʻo hoʻo moʻui, pea taʻemanatu ki he maka ʻo ho mālohi, ko ia te ke tō ʻae ngaahi ʻakau toulekeleka, pea tō mo ia ʻae ngaahi ʻakau mei he fonua kehe:
10For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.
11ʻI he ʻaho ko ia te ke ngaohi hoʻo ʻakau ke tupu, pea ʻi he pongipongi te ke ngaohi hoʻo tenga ke moʻui: ka e hoko ʻae ututaʻu ko e fokotuʻunga ʻi he ʻaho ʻoe mamahi, ko e mamahi taʻeʻiaihaʻamanaki lelei.
11In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12¶ “ʻE malaʻia ʻae fakataha lahi ʻoe kakai tokolahi, ʻoku longoaʻa ʻo hangē ko e ʻuʻulu ʻoe tahi; pea ʻi he feʻohofi ʻoe ngaahi puleʻanga, ʻoku ʻoho ʻo hangē ko e ʻoho ʻoe ngaahi vai lahi ʻaupito!
12Ah, the uproar of many peoples who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!
13ʻE feʻohofi ʻae ngaahi puleʻanga ʻo hangē ko e ʻoho ʻoe ngaahi vai lahi: ka e lolomi ʻakinautolu ʻe he ʻOtua , pea te nau hola ki he mamaʻo, pea ʻe tulia ʻakinautolu ʻo hangē ko e mohuku mōmoa ʻoe ngaahi moʻunga ʻoku vilingia ʻi he matangi, pea hangē ko e fisiʻiʻakau ʻi he ʻao ʻoe ʻahiohio.
13The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
14Pea vakai ko e ongosia ʻi he efiafi poʻuli; pea ʻi he teʻeki hoko ʻae pongipongi kuo ʻikai ia. Ko eni ʻae ʻinasi ʻokinautolu ʻoku fakamālohiʻi ʻakitautolu, mo e ʻinasi ʻokinautolu ʻoku kaihaʻasiʻi ʻakitautolu.”
14At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.
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