٢ بطرس 2

١ 1 وَلَكِنْ، كَانَ أَيْضًا فِي ٱلشَّعْبِ أَنْبِيَاءُ كَذَبَةٌ، كَمَا سَيَكُونُ فِيكُمْ أَيْضًا مُعَلِّمُونَ كَذَبَةٌ، ٱلَّذِينَ يَدُسُّونَ بِدَعَ هَلَاكٍ. وَإِذْ هُمْ يُنْكِرُونَ ٱلرَّبَّ ٱلَّذِي ٱشْتَرَاهُمْ، يَجْلِبُونَ عَلَى أَنْفُسِهِمْ هَلَاكًا سَرِيعًا.

But in the world, there have been also false prophets, as there will likewise be false teachers among you, who will bring in destructive heresies, denying the Lord that bought them; thus bringing on themselves swift destruction.

٢ 2 وَسَيَتْبَعُ كَثِيرُونَ تَهْلُكَاتِهِمْ. ٱلَّذِينَ بِسَبَبِهِمْ يُجَدَّفُ عَلَى طَرِيقِ ٱلْحَقِّ.

And many will go after their profaneness; on account of whom, the way of truth will be reproached.

٣ 3 وَهُمْ فِي ٱلطَّمَعِ يَتَّجِرُونَ بِكُمْ بِأَقْوَالٍ مُصَنَّعَةٍ، ٱلَّذِينَ دَيْنُونَتُهُمْ مُنْذُ ٱلْقَدِيمِ لَا تَتَوَانَى، وَهَلَاكُهُمْ لَا يَنْعَسُ.

And, in the cupidity of raving words, they will make merchandise of you: whose judgment, of a long time, is not idle; and their destruction slumbereth not.

٤ 4 لِأَنَّهُ إِنْ كَانَ ٱللهُ لَمْ يُشْفِقْ عَلَى مَلَائِكَةٍ قَدْ أَخْطَأُوا، بَلْ فِي سَلَاسِلِ ٱلظَّلَامِ طَرَحَهُمْ فِي جَهَنَّمَ، وَسَلَّمَهُمْ مَحْرُوسِينَ لِلْقَضَاءِ، (Tartaroō g5020)

For, if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to the infernal regions in chains of darkness, and delivered them up to be kept unto the judgment of torture, (Tartaroō g5020)

٥ 5 وَلَمْ يُشْفِقْ عَلَى ٱلْعَالَمِ ٱلْقَدِيمِ، بَلْ إِنَّمَا حَفِظَ نُوحًا ثَامِنًا كَارِزًا لِلْبِرِّ، إِذْ جَلَبَ طُوفَانًا عَلَى عَالَمِ ٱلْفُجَّارِ.

and spared not the former world, but preserved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the wicked;

٦ 6 وَإِذْ رَمَّدَ مَدِينَتَيْ سَدُومَ وَعَمُورَةَ، حَكَمَ عَلَيْهِمَا بِٱلِٱنْقِلَابِ، وَاضِعًا عِبْرَةً لِلْعَتِيدِينَ أَنْ يَفْجُرُوا،

and burned up the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and condemned them by an overthrow, making them a demonstration to the wicked who should come after them;

٧ 7 وَأَنْقَذَ لُوطًا ٱلْبَارَّ، مَغْلُوبًا مِنْ سِيرَةِ ٱلْأَرْدِيَاءِ فِي ٱلدَّعَارَةِ.

and also delivered righteous Lot, who was tormented with the filthy conduct of the lawless;

٨ 8 إِذْ كَانَ ٱلْبَارُّ، بِٱلنَّظَرِ وَٱلسَّمْعِ وَهُوَ سَاكِنٌ بَيْنَهُمْ، يُعَذِّبُ يَوْمًا فَيَوْمًا نَفْسَهُ ٱلْبَارَّةَ بِٱلْأَفْعَالِ ٱلْأَثِيمَةِ.

for that upright man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing from day to day, was distressed in his righteous soul by their lawless deeds;

٩ 9 يَعْلَمُ ٱلرَّبُّ أَنْ يُنْقِذَ ٱلْأَتْقِيَاءَ مِنَ ٱلتَّجْرِبَةِ، وَيَحْفَظَ ٱلْأَثَمَةَ إِلَى يَوْمِ ٱلدِّينِ مُعَاقَبِينَ،

the Lord knoweth how to rescue from afflictions those who fear him; and he will reserve the wicked for the day of judgment to be tormented,

١٠ 10 وَلَا سِيَّمَا ٱلَّذِينَ يَذْهَبُونَ وَرَاءَ ٱلْجَسَدِ فِي شَهْوَةِ ٱلنَّجَاسَةِ، وَيَسْتَهِينُونَ بِٱلسِّيَادَةِ. جَسُورُونَ، مُعْجِبُونَ بِأَنْفُسِهِمْ، لَا يَرْتَعِبُونَ أَنْ يَفْتَرُوا عَلَى ذَوِي ٱلْأَمْجَادِ،

and especially them who go after the flesh in the lusts of pollution, and despise government. Daring and arrogant, they shudder not with awe while they blaspheme;

١١ 11 حَيْثُ مَلَائِكَةٌ- وَهُمْ أَعْظَمُ قُوَّةً وَقُدْرَةً - لَا يُقَدِّمُونَ عَلَيْهِمْ لَدَى ٱلرَّبِّ حُكْمَ ٱفْتِرَاءٍ.

whereas angels, greater than they in might and valor, bring not against them a reproachful denunciation.

١٢ 12 أَمَّا هَؤُلَاءِ فَكَحَيَوَانَاتٍ غَيْرِ نَاطِقَةٍ، طَبِيعِيَّةٍ، مَوْلُودَةٍ لِلصَّيْدِ وَٱلْهَلَاكِ، يَفْتَرُونَ عَلَى مَا يَجْهَلُونَ، فَسَيَهْلِكُونَ فِي فَسَادِهِمْ،

But these, like the dumb beasts that by nature are for slaughter and corruption, while reviling the things they know not, will perish in their own corruption;

١٣ 13 آخِذِينَ أُجْرَةَ ٱلْإِثْمِ. ٱلَّذِينَ يَحْسِبُونَ تَنَعُّمَ يَوْمٍ لَذَّةً. أَدْنَاسٌ وَعُيُوبٌ، يَتَنَعَّمُونَ فِي غُرُورِهِمْ صَانِعِينَ وَلَائِمَ مَعَكُمْ.

they being persons with whom iniquity is the reward of iniquity, and by them rioting in the daytime is accounted delightful; defiled and full of spots are they, indulging themselves at their ease, while they give themselves up to pleasure;

١٤ 14 لَهُمْ عُيُونٌ مَمْلُوَّةٌ فِسْقًا، لَا تَكُفُّ عَنِ ٱلْخَطِيَّةِ، خَادِعُونَ ٱلنُّفُوسَ غَيْرَ ٱلثَّابِتَةِ. لَهُمْ قَلْبٌ مُتَدَرِّبٌ فِي ٱلطَّمَعِ. أَوْلَادُ ٱللَّعْنَةِ.

having eyes that are full of adultery, and sins that never end; seducing unstable souls; and having a heart exercised in cupidity; children of malediction:

١٥ 15 قَدْ تَرَكُوا ٱلطَّرِيقَ ٱلْمُسْتَقِيمَ، فَضَلُّوا، تَابِعِينَ طَرِيقَ بَلْعَامَ بْنِ بَصُورَ ٱلَّذِي أَحَبَّ أُجْرَةَ ٱلْإِثْمِ.

and, having left the way of rectitude, they have wandered and gone in the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of iniquity,

١٦ 16 وَلَكِنَّهُ حَصَلَ عَلَى تَوْبِيخِ تَعَدِّيهِ، إِذْ مَنَعَ حَمَاقَةَ ٱلنَّبِيِّ حِمَارٌ أَعْجَمُ نَاطِقًا بِصَوْتِ إِنْسَانٍ.

and who had for the reprover of his transgression a dumb ass, which, speaking with the speech of men, rebuked the madness of the prophet.

١٧ 17 هَؤُلَاءِ هُمْ آبَارٌ بِلَا مَاءٍ، غُيُومٌ يَسُوقُهَا ٱلنَّوْءُ. ٱلَّذِينَ قَدْ حُفِظَ لَهُمْ قَتَامُ ٱلظَّلَامِ إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ. (questioned)

These are wells without water, clouds driven by a tempest, persons for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness.

١٨ 18 لِأَنَّهُمْ إِذْ يَنْطِقُونَ بِعَظَائِمِ ٱلْبُطْلِ، يَخْدَعُونَ بِشَهَوَاتِ ٱلْجَسَدِ فِي ٱلدَّعَارَةِ، مَنْ هَرَبَ قَلِيلًا مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ يَسِيرُونَ فِي ٱلضَّلَالِ،

For, while they utter astonishing vanity, they seduce, with obscene lusts of the flesh, them who have almost abandoned these that walk in error.

١٩ 19 وَاعِدِينَ إِيَّاهُمْ بِٱلْحُرِّيَّةِ، وَهُمْ أَنْفُسُهُمْ عَبِيدُ ٱلْفَسَادِ. لِأَنَّ مَا ٱنْغَلَبَ مِنْهُ أَحَدٌ، فَهُوَ لَهُ مُسْتَعْبَدٌ أَيْضًا!

And they promise them liberty, while they themselves are the slaves of corruption: for, by whatever thing a man is vanquished, to that is he enslaved.

٢٠ 20 لِأَنَّهُ إِذَا كَانُوا، بَعْدَمَا هَرَبُوا مِنْ نَجَاسَاتِ ٱلْعَالَمِ، بِمَعْرِفَةِ ٱلرَّبِّ وَٱلْمُخَلِّصِ يَسُوعَ ٱلْمَسِيحِ، يَرْتَبِكُونَ أَيْضًا فِيهَا، فَيَنْغَلِبُونَ، فَقَدْ صَارَتْ لَهُمُ ٱلْأَوَاخِرُ أَشَرَّ مِنَ ٱلْأَوَائِلِ.

For if, when they have escaped the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Redeemer Jesus the Messiah, they become again involved in the same, and are vanquished, their latter state is worse than the former.

٢١ 21 لِأَنَّهُ كَانَ خَيْرًا لَهُمْ لَوْ لَمْ يَعْرِفُوا طَرِيقَ ٱلْبِرِّ، مِنْ أَنَّهُمْ بَعْدَمَا عَرَفُوا، يَرْتَدُّونَ عَنِ ٱلْوَصِيَّةِ ٱلْمُقَدَّسَةِ ٱلْمُسَلَّمَةِ لَهُمْ.

For it would have been better for them, not to have known the way of righteousness, than after having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that was delivered to them.

٢٢ 22 قَدْ أَصَابَهُمْ مَا فِي ٱلْمَثَلِ ٱلصَّادِقِ: «كَلْبٌ قَدْ عَادَ إِلَى قَيْئِهِ»، وَ«خِنْزِيرَةٌ مُغْتَسِلَةٌ إِلَى مَرَاغَةِ ٱلْحَمْأَةِ».

But the true proverb hath happened to them: the dog returneth to his vomit and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.

Lot Flees as Sodom and Gomorrah Burn