Isaya 49:4
Isaiah 49:4 · Biblica® Open Kiswahili Contemporary Version 2015
Lakini nilisema, “Nimetumika bure, nimetumia nguvu zangu bure bila faida. Hata hivyo linalonistahili liko mkononi mwa Bwana, nao ujira wangu uko kwa Mungu wangu.”
Isaiah 49:4 in English
Isaiah 49:4 · Berean Standard Bible
But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent My strength in futility and vanity; yet My vindication is with the LORD, and My reward is with My God.”
Context
2Akafanya kinywa changu kuwa kama upanga ulionolewa,
katika uvuli wa mkono wake akanificha;
akanifanya kuwa mshale uliosuguliwa,
na kunificha katika podo lake. 3Akaniambia, “Wewe u mtumishi wangu,
Israeli, ambaye katika yeye
nitaonyesha utukufu wangu.” 4Lakini nilisema, “Nimetumika bure,
nimetumia nguvu zangu bure bila faida.
Hata hivyo linalonistahili liko mkononi mwa Bwana,
nao ujira wangu uko kwa Mungu wangu.” 5Sasa Bwana asema:
yeye aliyeniumba tumboni kuwa mtumishi wake,
kumrudisha tena Yakobo kwake
na kumkusanyia Israeli,
kwa maana nimepata heshima machoni pa Bwana,
naye Mungu wangu amekuwa nguvu yangu; 6yeye asema:
“Je, ni jambo dogo sana wewe kuwa mtumishi wangu
ili kurejeza makabila ya Yakobo,
na kuwarudisha wale Waisraeli niliowahifadhi?
Pia nitakufanya uwe nuru kwa ajili ya watu wa Mataifa,
ili upate kuleta wokovu wangu hata miisho ya dunia.”
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