Isaias 42
Ang Salita ng Dios (Tagalog Contemporary Bible)
Ang Lingkod ng Panginoon
42 Sinabi ng Panginoon, “Narito ang lingkod ko na aking pinalalakas ang loob. Pinili ko siya at nagagalak ako sa kanya. Sumasakanya ang aking Espiritu, at papairalin niya ang katarungan sa mga bansa. 2 Hindi siya sisigaw o magsasalita nang malakas sa mga lansangan. 3 Hindi niya pababayaan ang mahihina ang pananampalataya[a] at hindi niya tatalikuran ang mga nawalan ng pag-asa. Matapat niyang papairalin ang katarungan. 4 Hindi siya manghihina o mawawalan ng pag-asa hanggaʼt hindi niya lubusang napapairal ang katarungan sa buong mundo. Pati ang mga tao sa malalayong lugar[b] ay maghihintay sa kanyang mga turo.” 5 Ito ang sinabi ng Dios, ang Panginoon na lumikha ng langit na iniladlad niyang parang tela. Nilikha niya ang mundo at ang lahat ng naroroon. Siya rin ang nagbibigay ng buhay sa mga tao at sa lahat ng nilikhang nabubuhay sa mundo. 6 Sinabi niya sa kanyang lingkod, “Ako ang Panginoon na tumawag sa iyo para ipakita na akoʼy matuwid. Tutulungan at iingatan kita, at sa pamamagitan mo gagawa ako ng kasunduan sa mga tao. Gagawin kitang ilaw na magbibigay-liwanag sa mga bansa, 7 para imulat ang mga mata ng mga bulag, at magpalaya sa mga binihag na ikinulong sa madilim na bilangguan. 8 Ako ang Panginoon! Iyan ang aking pangalan! Hindi ko ibibigay kaninuman o sa mga dios-diosan ang aking karangalan at mga papuri na para sa akin. 9 Ang mga propesiya koʼy natupad at sasabihin ko ngayon ang mga bagong bagay bago pa ito mangyari.”
Awit ng Papuri sa Panginoon
10 Umawit kayo ng bagong awit sa Panginoon! Umawit kayo ng mga papuri sa kanya, kayong lahat na nasa mundo. Purihin ninyo siya, kayong mga naglalayag, kayong lahat ng mga nilikha sa dagat at kayong mga nakatira sa malalayong lugar. 11 Purihin ninyo siya, kayong mga bayan na nasa ilang at kayong mga taga-Kedar. Umawit kayo sa tuwa, kayong mga taga-Sela. Humiyaw kayo ng pagpupuri sa tuktok ng mga bundok. 12 Parangalan ninyo at purihin ang Panginoon kayong mga nasa malalayong lugar. 13 Sasalakay ang Panginoon na parang isang sundalo na handang-handa nang makipaglaban. Sisigaw siya bilang hudyat ng pagsalakay; at magtatagumpay siya laban sa kanyang mga kaaway. 14 Sinabi ng Panginoon, “Sa mahabang panahon nagsawalang-kibo ako at pinigilan ko ang aking sarili. Pero ngayon, ipadarama ko ang aking galit. Sisigaw ako na parang babaeng nanganganak. 15 Gigibain ko ang mga bundok at mga burol, at malalanta ang mga tanim. Patutuyuin ko ang mga ilog at mga dakong may tubig. 16 Aakayin ko ang mga mamamayan kong bulag sa katotohanan, sa daan na hindi pa nila nadadaanan. Liliwanagan ko ang dinaraanan nilang madilim at papantayin ko ang mga baku-bako sa landas na kanilang dinadaanan. Gagawin ko ito at hindi ko sila pababayaan. 17 Pero ang mga nagtitiwala sa mga dios-diosan, at ang mga itinuturing na dios ang kanilang mga rebulto ay tatakas dahil sa malaking kahihiyan.”
Ang Israel ay Parang Bingi at Bulag
18 Sinabi ng Panginoon sa kanyang mga mamamayan, “Kayong mga bingi at bulag, makinig kayo at tumingin! 19 Kayoʼy mga lingkod ko at mga pinili. Isinugo ko kayo bilang aking mga tagapagsalita, pero walang makakapantay sa inyong pagbibingi-bingihan at pagbubulag-bulagan. 20 Marami na kayong nakikita pero hindi ninyo pinapansin. Nakakarinig kayo pero ayaw ninyong makinig!”
21 Nais ng Panginoon na parangalan ang kanyang kautusan para ipakita na matuwid siya.[c] 22 Pero ngayon, ang kanyang mga mamamayan ay ninakawan, sinamsaman ng ari-arian, inihulog sa hukay o ipinasok sa bilangguan, at walang sinumang tumulong sa kanila. 23 Mayroon ba sa inyong gustong makinig o magbigay halaga mula ngayon sa inyong narinig? 24 Sino ang nagbigay ng pahintulot na nakawan at samsaman ng ari-arian ang Israel? Hindi baʼt ang Panginoon, na siyang pinagkasalaan natin? Sapagkat hindi natin sinunod ang mga pamamaraan niya at mga kautusan. 25 Kung kaya, ipinadama ng Panginoon ang matindi niyang galit sa atin sa pamamagitan ng pagpapahirap sa atin sa digmaan. Ang galit niyaʼy parang apoy na nakapalibot at sumusunog sa atin, pero hindi natin ito pinansin o inisip man lamang.
Isaiah 42
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Chapter 42
The Servant of the Lord
1 Here is my servant[a] whom I uphold,
my chosen one with whom I am pleased.
Upon him I have put my spirit;
he shall bring forth justice to the nations.(A)
2 He will not cry out, nor shout,
nor make his voice heard in the street.
3 A bruised reed[b] he will not break,
and a dimly burning wick he will not quench.
He will faithfully bring forth justice.
4 He will not grow dim or be bruised
until he establishes justice on the earth;
the coastlands[c] will wait for his teaching.
5 Thus says God, the Lord,
who created the heavens and stretched them out,
who spread out the earth and its produce,
Who gives breath to its people
and spirit to those who walk on it:
6 I, the Lord, have called you for justice,
I have grasped you by the hand;
I formed you, and set you
as a covenant for the people,
a light for the nations,(B)
7 To open the eyes of the blind,
to bring out prisoners from confinement,
and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness.
8 I am the Lord, Lord is my name;
my glory I give to no other,
nor my praise to idols.
9 See, the earlier things have come to pass,
new ones I now declare;
Before they spring forth
I announce them to you.
The Lord’s Purpose for Israel
10 Sing to the Lord a new song,
his praise from the ends of the earth:
Let the sea and what fills it resound,
the coastlands, and those who dwell in them.
11 Let the wilderness and its cities cry out,
the villages where Kedar[d] dwells;
Let the inhabitants of Sela exult,
and shout from the top of the mountains.
12 Let them give glory to the Lord,
and utter his praise in the coastlands.
13 The Lord goes forth like a warrior,
like a man of war he stirs up his fury;
He shouts out his battle cry,
against his enemies he shows his might:(C)
14 For a long time I have kept silent,
I have said nothing, holding myself back;
Now I cry out like a woman in labor,
gasping and panting.
15 [e]I will lay waste mountains and hills,
all their undergrowth I will dry up;
I will turn the rivers into marshes,
and the marshes I will dry up.(D)
16 I will lead the blind on a way they do not know;
by paths they do not know I will guide them.
I will turn darkness into light before them,
and make crooked ways straight.
These are my promises:
I made them, I will not forsake them.(E)
17 They shall be turned back in utter shame
who trust in idols;
Who say to molten images,
“You are our gods.”
18 You deaf ones, listen,[f]
you blind ones, look and see!
19 Who is blind but my servant,
or deaf like the messenger I send?
Who is blind like the one I restore,
blind like the servant of the Lord?
20 You see many things but do not observe;
ears open, but do not hear.
21 It was the Lord’s will for the sake of his justice
to make his teaching great and glorious.
22 This is a people[g] plundered and despoiled,
all of them trapped in holes,
hidden away in prisons.
They are taken as plunder, with no one to rescue them,
as spoil, with no one to say, “Give back!”
23 Who among you will give ear to this,
listen and pay attention from now on?
24 Who was it that gave Jacob to be despoiled,
Israel to the plunderers?[h]
Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned?
In his ways they refused to walk,
his teaching they would not heed.
25 So he poured out wrath upon them,
his anger, and the fury of battle;
It blazed all around them, yet they did not realize,
it burned them, but they did not take it to heart.
Footnotes
- 42:1–4 Servant: three other passages have been popularly called “servant of the Lord” poems: 49:1–7; 50:4–11; 52:13–53:12. Whether the servant is an individual or a collectivity is not clear (e.g., contrast 49:3 with 49:5). More important is the description of the mission of the servant. In the early Church and throughout Christian tradition, these poems have been applied to Christ; cf. Mt 12:18–21.
- 42:3 Bruised reed…: images to express the gentle manner of the servant’s mission.
- 42:4 Coastlands: for Israel, the world to the west: the islands and coastal nations of the Mediterranean.
- 42:11 Kedar: cf. note on 21:16. Sela: Petra, the capital of Edom.
- 42:15–16 Active once more, God will remove the obstacles that hinder the exiles’ return, and will lead them by new roads to Jerusalem; cf. 40:3–4.
- 42:18–20 The Lord rebukes his people for their failures, but their role and their mission endure: they remain his servant, his messenger to the nations.
- 42:22 A people: Israel in exile.
- 42:24 Plunderers: the Assyrians and Babylonians. We…they: the switch from first- to third-person speech, though puzzling, does not obscure the fact that “the people” is meant.
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