Isaya 42:22
Isaiah 42:22 · Biblica® Open Kiswahili Contemporary Version 2015
Lakini hili ni taifa lililoibwa na kutekwa nyara, wote wamenaswa katika mashimo, au wamefichwa katika magereza. Wamekuwa nyara, wala hapana yeyote awaokoaye. Wamefanywa mateka, wala hapana yeyote asemaye, “Warudishe.”
Isaiah 42:22 in English
Isaiah 42:22 · Berean Standard Bible
But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”
Context
20Mmeona vitu vingi, lakini hamkuzingatia;
masikio yenu yako wazi, lakini hamsikii chochote.” 21Ilimpendeza Bwana
kwa ajili ya haki yake
kufanya sheria yake kuwa kuu na tukufu. 22Lakini hili ni taifa lililoibwa na kutekwa nyara,
wote wamenaswa katika mashimo,
au wamefichwa katika magereza.
Wamekuwa nyara,
wala hapana yeyote awaokoaye.
Wamefanywa mateka,
wala hapana yeyote asemaye, “Warudishe.” 23Ni nani miongoni mwenu atakayesikiliza hili,
au atakayezingatia kwa makini katika wakati ujao? 24Ni nani aliyemtoa Yakobo kuwa mateka,
na Israeli kwa wateka nyara?
Je, hakuwa yeye, Bwana,
ambaye tumetenda dhambi dhidi yake?
Kwa kuwa hawakufuata njia zake,
hawakutii sheria zake.
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