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Yawmsaub tus qhev

¹“Saib maj, kuv tus qhev uas kuv txhawb nqa,
tus uas kuv xaiv cia,
yog tus uas kuv txaus siab rau.
Kuv muab kuv tus Ntsuj Plig rau hauv nws,
nws yuav coj txojkev ua ncaj ua ncees
tshwm los rau ib tsoom tebchaws.
²Nws yuav tsis qw tsis tsa lub suab nrov,
thiab tsis ua rau luag hnov tom tej kev.
³Tus tauj deg uas lov lawm
nws yuav tsis muab tu,
tus teeb xeeb uas cig pluj pliv
nws yuav tsis muab tua.
Nws yuav coj txojkev ua ncaj ua ncees
tshwm los tiag tiag li.
⁴Nws yuav tsis qaug zog lossis ua siab yau
mus txog thaum nws tsa txojkev
ua ncaj ua ncees nyob ruaj khov
thoob plaws ntiajteb.
Tej tebchaws ntawm ntug hiavtxwv
tos rawv nws tej lus qhia.”

⁵Vajtswv yog Yawmsaub, yog tus uas tsim
lub ntuj thiab muab lub ntuj nthuav,
thiab nthuav lub ntiajteb
thiab txhua yam uas tawm hauv ntiajteb los,
thiab pub cua rau neeg ua pa,
thiab pub ntsuj plig rau cov uas
mus mus los los hauv ntiajteb,
nws hais li no tias,
⁶“Kuv yog Yawmsaub, kuv ua ncaj ncees,
kuv thiaj hu koj,
kuv tuav koj tes tsom kwm koj cia,
kuv pub koj ua lo lus cog tseg
rau ib tsoom neeg,
ua qhov kaj ci rau ib tsoom tebchaws,
⁷kom thiaj qheb tau
tus uas dig muag lub qhov muag,
thiab coj cov uas raug kaw
dim hauv nkuaj los,
thiab coj cov uas nyob qhov tsaus ntuj
tawm hauv tsev lojfaj los.
⁸Kuv yog Yawmsaub, no yog kuv lub npe,
kuv lub hwjchim ci ntsa iab
kuv tsis pub rau lwm tus,
thiab tej lus uas qhuas kuv
tsis pub rau tej dab mlom.
⁹Saib maj, tej uas dhau los kuj tiav tag lawm,
nimno kuv tshaj tawm tej yam tshiab,
ua ntej uas tej ntawd tsis tau tshwm los
kuv kuj piav rau nej mloog lawm.”

Zaj nkauj qhuas Yawmsaub

¹⁰Cia li hu zaj nkauj tshiab rau Yawmsaub,
cia li hu tej nkauj qhuas nws
tawm thoob qab ntuj kawg tuaj.
Cov uas mus rau hauv hiavtxwv
thiab txhua yam uas nyob hauv,
tej tebchaws ntawm ntug hiavtxwv
thiab tej neeg uas nyob ntawd 'e,
cia li qhuas nws.
¹¹Cia tej ntuj nrag teb do
thiab tej moos uas nyob hauv,
thiab tej zej zog uas cov neeg
Kheda nyob hauv, tsa lub suab.
Cia cov neeg uas nyob
hauv lub moos Xela hu nkauj xyiv fab,
cia lawv qw saum tej ncov roob tuaj.
¹²Cia lawv ua rau Yawmsaub tau koob meej,
cia lawv hu tej zaj nkauj qhuas nws
hauv tej tebchaws ntawm ntug hiavtxwv.
¹³Yawmsaub tawm mus
yam nkaus li tus uas siab loj siab tuab,
nws txhob nws lub zog kom kub siab lug
yam li tus tub rog.
Nws tsa suab qw, nws qw nrov,
nws ua nws lub hwjchim tshwm los
tawm tsam nws cov tshawj chim.
¹⁴“Kuv twb nyob twjywm ntev los lawm,
kuv nyob ntsiag to
thiab tswj kuv tus kheej cia.
Nimno kuv yuav qw yam nkaus li
tus pojniam uas mob plab yug menyuam,
kuv yuav ceeb nkaus thiab txog siav qhe.
¹⁵Kuv yuav muab tej roob thiab tej pov roob
tso tseg nyob do cuas,
thiab ua rau tej nroj tsuag saud qhuav tag.
Kuv yuav ua rau tej niag dej qhuav qhawv
tshwm tej thaj av hauv nruab nrab dej,
thiab ua rau tej pas dej qhuav.
¹⁶Kuv yuav cab cov dig muag taug txojkev
uas lawv tsis tau paub dua,
kuv yuav coj lawv taug tej kev
uas lawv tsis tau txeev taug.
Kuv yuav ua rau lawv lub hauv ntej
uas tsaus ntuj nti pom kev kaj lug,
thiab ua rau tej qhov zawj sib txig zos.
Tej no yog tej uas kuv yuav ua,
thiab kuv yuav tsis muab tso tseg.
¹⁷Lawv yuav raug muab tig rov qab
thiab yuav raug txaj muag kawg,
yog cov uas tso siab rau
tej dab mlom uas txaug,
yog cov uas hais rau tej dab mlom
uas nchuav tias, ‘Nej yog peb li timtswv.’ ”

Yixayee tsis mloog lus

¹⁸“Nej cov uas lag ntseg 'e, cia li mloog maj.
Nej cov uas dig muag 'e,
cia li tsa muag ntsia xwv nej thiaj li pom.
¹⁹Leejtwg dig muag yam li kuv tus qhev
lossis leejtwg lag ntseg yam li
kuv tus tub xa xov uas kuv txib mus?
Leejtwg dig muag yam li
tus uas muab cais rau kuv lawd,
lossis leejtwg dig muag
yam li Yawmsaub tus qhev?
²⁰Koj pom ntau yam
tiamsis koj tsis ua tib zoo saib,
koj qhov ntsej tsis lag los koj tsis hnov.”
²¹Vim yog saib rau Yawmsaub
txojkev ncaj ncees
Yawmsaub thiaj txaus siab tsa
nws txoj kevcai ua loj thiab muaj koob meej.
²²Tiamsis cov neeg no
raug tub sab nyiag thiab raug lws,
lawv txhua tus mag qhov taub
thiab raug muab zais rau hauv nkuaj.
Lawv raug luag lws
tsis muaj leejtwg tuaj cawm,
lawv raug luag txeeb mus
tsis muaj leejtwg hais tias,
“Muab thim rov qab.”
²³Nej cov leejtwg yuav tig ntsej mloog zaj no,
thiab yuav ua tib zoo mloog
rau yav tom hauv ntej?
²⁴Leejtwg muab Yakhauj cob
rau tus uas txeeb,
thiab muab Yixayee cob rau cov uas lws?
Tsis yog Yawmsaub
uas peb ua txhaum rau lov?
Lawv tsis kam taug nws txojkev
thiab tsis kam mloog nws txoj kevcai.
²⁵Yog li no nws thiaj nchuav
nws txojkev npau taws heev
thiab txojkev ua rog loj rau saum lawv.
Tej no ua rau lawv raug nplaim taws vij
los lawv tsis nkag siab,
tej no hlawv lawv los lawv tsis muab siab rau.

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The Servant of the Lord

¹“Behold! ⚓My Servant whom I uphold,
My Elect One in whom My soul ⚓delights!
⚓I have put My Spirit upon Him;
He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.
²He will not cry out, nor raise His voice,
Nor cause His voice to be heard in the street.
³A bruised reed He will not break,
And smoking flax He will not quench;
He will bring forth justice for truth.
⁴He will not fail nor be discouraged,
Till He has established justice in the earth;
⚓And the coastlands shall wait for His law.”
⁵Thus says God the Lord,
⚓Who created the heavens and stretched them out,
Who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it,
⚓Who gives breath to the people on it,
And spirit to those who walk on it:
⁶“I,⚓ the Lord, have called You in righteousness,
And will hold Your hand;
I will keep You ⚓and give You as a covenant to the people,
As ⚓a light to the Gentiles,
⁷⚓To open blind eyes,
To ⚓bring out prisoners from the prison,
Those who sit in ⚓darkness from the prison house.
⁸I am the Lord, that is My name;
And My ⚓glory I will not give to another,
Nor My praise to carved images.
⁹Behold, the former things have come to pass,
And new things I declare;
Before they spring forth I tell you of them.”

Praise to the Lord

¹⁰⚓Sing to the Lord a new song,
And His praise from the ends of the earth,
⚓You who go down to the sea, and all that is in it,
You coastlands and you inhabitants of them!
¹¹Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice,
The villages that Kedar inhabits.
Let the inhabitants of Sela sing,
Let them shout from the top of the mountains.
¹²Let them give glory to the Lord,
And declare His praise in the coastlands.
¹³The Lord shall go forth like a mighty man;
He shall stir up His zeal like a man of war.
He shall cry out, ⚓yes, shout aloud;
He shall prevail against His enemies.

Promise of the Lord’s Help

¹⁴“I have held My peace a long time,
I have been still and restrained Myself.
Now I will cry like a woman in labor,
I will pant and gasp at once.
¹⁵I will lay waste the mountains and hills,
And dry up all their vegetation;
I will make the rivers coastlands,
And I will dry up the pools.
¹⁶I will bring the blind by a way they did not know;
I will lead them in paths they have not known.
I will make darkness light before them,
And crooked places straight.
These things I will do for them,
And not forsake them.
¹⁷They shall be ⚓turned back,
They shall be greatly ashamed,
Who trust in carved images,
Who say to the molded images,
‘You are our gods.’
¹⁸“Hear, you deaf;
And look, you blind, that you may see.
¹⁹⚓Who is blind but My servant,
Or deaf as My messenger whom I send?
Who is blind as he who is perfect,
And blind as the Lord’s servant?
²⁰Seeing many things, ⚓but you do not observe;
Opening the ears, but he does not hear.”

Israel’s Obstinate Disobedience

²¹The Lord is well pleased for His righteousness’ sake;
He will exalt the law and make it honorable.
²²But this is a people robbed and plundered;
All of them are snared in holes,
And they are hidden in prison houses;
They are for prey, and no one delivers;
For plunder, and no one says, “Restore!”
²³Who among you will give ear to this?
Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
²⁴Who gave Jacob for plunder, and Israel to the robbers?
Was it not the Lord,
He against whom we have sinned?
⚓For they would not walk in His ways,
Nor were they obedient to His law.
²⁵Therefore He has poured on him the fury of His anger
And the strength of battle;
⚓It has set him on fire all around,
⚓Yet he did not know;
And it burned him,
Yet he did not take it to ⚓heart.