إشَعْياء 10

١ 1 وَيْلٌ لِلَّذِينَ يَسُنُّونَ شَرَائِعَ ظُلْمٍ، وَلِلْكَتَبَةِ الَّذِينَ يُسَجِّلُونَ أَحْكَامَ جَوْرٍ!

Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees

٢ 2 لِيَصُدُّوا الْبَائِسِينَ عَنِ الْعَدْلِ، وَيَسْلُبُوا مَسَاكِينَ شَعْبِي حَقَّهُمْ، لِتَكُونَ الأَرَامِلُ مَغْنَماً لَهُمْ، وَيَنْهَبُوا الْيَتَامَى.

to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

٣ 3 فَمَاذَا تَصْنَعُونَ فِي يَوْمِ الْعِقَابِ عِنْدَمَا تُقْبِلُ الْكَارِثَةُ مِنْ بَعِيدٍ؟ إِلَى مَنْ تَلْجَأُونَ طَلَباً لِلْعَوْنِ، وَأَيْنَ تُوْدِعُونَ ثَرْوَتَكُمْ؟

What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

٤ 4 لَا يَبْقَى شَيْءٌ سِوَى أَنْ تَجْثُوا بَيْنَ الأَسْرَى، وَتَسْقُطُوا بَيْنَ الْقَتْلَى. مِنْ أَجْلِ ذَلِكَ كُلِّهِ لَمْ يَرْتَدْ غَضَبُهُ وَمَا بَرِحَتْ يَدُهُ مَمْدُودَةً لِلْعِقَابِ.

They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

٥ 5 وَيْلٌ لِلأَشُّورِيِّينَ، قَضِيبِ غَضَبِي، الْحَامِلِينَ فِي أَيْدِيهِمْ عَصَا سَخَطِي.

Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

٦ 6 أُرْسِلُهُمْ ضِدَّ أُمَّةٍ مُنَافِقَةٍ، وَأُوْصِيهُمْ عَلَى شَعْبِي الَّذي غَضِبْتُ عَلَيْهِ، لِيَغْنَمُوا غَنَائِمَهُمْ وَيَسْتَوْلُوا عَلَى أَسْلابِهِمْ، وَيَطَأُوهُمْ كَمَا يَطَأُونَ الوَحْلَ.

I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

٧ 7 وَلَكِنَّ مَلِكَ أَشُّورَ لَا يَعْرِفُ أَنَّنِي أَنَا الَّذِي أَرْسَلْتُهُ، وَيَظُنُّ أَنَّهُ بِقُدْرَتِهِ قَدْ هَاجَمَ شَعْبِي، وَفِي نِيَّتِهِ أَنْ يُدَمِّرَ وَيَجْتَاحَ أُمَماً كَثِيرَةً.

However, he does not mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.

٨ 8 لأَنَّهُ يَقُولُ: أَلَيْسَ كُلُّ قُوَّادِي مُلُوكاً؟

For he says, “Are not all of my princes kings?

٩ 9 أَلَيْسَ مَصِيرُ كَلْنُو كَمَصِيرِ كَرْكَمِيشَ؟ أَوَ لَيْسَ مَآلُ حَمَاةَ كَمَآلِ أَرْفَادَ؟ أَلَيْسَتِ السَّامِرَةُ كَدِمَشْقَ؟

Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?”

١٠ 10 لَقَدْ قَضَيْتُ عَلَى مَمَالِكَ وَثَنِيَّةٍ أَصْنَامُهَا أَعْظَمُ مِنْ أَصْنَامِ أُورُشَلِيمَ وَالسَّامِرَةِ!

As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria,

١١ 11 أَفَلا أَقْضِي عَلَى أُورُشَلِيمَ وَأَصْنَامِهَا كَمَا قَضَيْتُ عَلَى السَّامِرَةِ وَأَصْنَامِهَا؟

shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

١٢ 12 وَلَكِنْ حَالَمَا يَنْتَهِي الرَّبُّ مِنْ عَمَلِهِ بِجَبَلِ صِهْيَوْنَ، فَإِنَّهُ سَيُعَاقِبُ مَلِكَ أَشُّورَ عَلَى غُرُورِ قَلْبِهِ وَتَشَامُخِ عَيْنَيْهِ،

Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks.

١٣ 13 لأَنَّهُ يَقُولُ: بِقُوَّةِ ذِرَاعِي قَدْ صَنَعْتُ هَذَا، وَبِحِكْمَتِي، لأَنَّنِي فَهِيمٌ! قَدْ نَقَلْتُ تُخُومَ الأُمَمِ، وَنَهَبْتُ كُنُوزَهُمْ، وَعَزَلْتُ الْجَالِسِينَ عَلَى الْعُرُوشِ كَمَا يَفْعَلُ ذُو الْبَطْشِ.

For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.

١٤ 14 وَكَمَا تَسْتَحْوِذُ يَدُ الإِنْسَانِ عَلَى الْعُشِّ، هَكَذَا اسْتَحْوَذَتْ يَدِي عَلَى ثَرْوَاتِ الشُّعُوبِ. وَكَمَا يَجْمَعُ الإِنْسَانُ الْبَيْضَ الْمَهْجُورَ، هَكَذَا جَمَعْتُ الأَرْضَ بِأَسْرِهَا، فَلَمْ يَجْرُؤْ أَحَدٌ أَنْ يُحَرِّكَ جَنَاحاً أَوْ يَفْتَحَ فَاهاً أَوْ يَنْبِسَ بِهَمْسَةٍ.

My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”

١٥ 15 أَتَزْهُو الْفَأْسُ عَلَى مَنْ يَقْطَعُ بِها، أَمْ يَتَعَظَّمُ الْمِنْشَارُ عَلَى مَنْ يَنْشُرُ بِهِ، وَكَأَنَّ الْقَضِيبَ يُحَرِّكُ رَافِعَهُ، أَوْ كَأَنَّ الْعَصَا تَرْفَعُ مَا لَيْسَ خَشَباً!

Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

١٦ 16 لِذَلِكَ فَإِنَّ الرَّبَّ الْقَدِيرَ سَيُفْشِي وَبَأً مُهْلِكاً بَيْنَ مُحَارِبِيهِ الشُّجْعَانِ، وَيُوْقِدُ تَحْتَ مَجْدِهِ وَقِيداً كَاشْتِعَالِ النَّارِ،

Therefore the Lord, GOD of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.

١٧ 17 فَيُصْبِحُ نُورُ إِسْرَائِيلَ نَاراً، وَقُدُّوسُهُ لَهِيباً، فَتَشْتَعِلُ وَتَلْتَهِمُ شَوْكَهُ وَحَسَكَهُ فِي يَوْمٍ وَاحِدٍ،

The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.

١٨ 18 فَيُدَمِّرُ الرَّبُّ مَجْدَ غَابَاتِهِ وَأَرْضِهِ الْخَصِيبَةِ، الرُّوحَ وَالْجَسَدَ مَعاً، فَتَكُونُ كَمَرِيضٍ تَذْوِي حَيَاتُهُ،

He will consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.

١٩ 19 وَلا يَتَبَقَّى مِنْ أَشْجَارِ الْغَابَةِ إِلّا قِلَّةٌ يُحْصِيهَا صَبِيٌّ.

The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number.

٢٠ 20 فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ لَا تَعُودُ بَقِيَّةُ إِسْرَائِيلَ وَالنَّاجُونَ مِنْهُمْ يَتَوَكَّلُونَ عَلَى مَنْ ضَرَبَهُمْ، بَلْ يَعْتَمِدُونَ عَلَى الرَّبِّ قُدُّوسِ إِسْرَائِيلَ بِالْحَقِّ.

It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

٢١ 21 وَتَرْجِعُ بَقِيَّةُ ذُرِّيَّةِ يَعْقُوبَ إِلَى الرَّبِّ الْقَدِيرِ.

A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

٢٢ 22 مَعَ أَنَّ شَعْبَكَ يَا إِسْرَائِيلُ كَرَمْلِ الْبَحْرِ، فَإِنَّ بَقِيَّةً فَقَطْ تَرْجِعُ، لأَنَّ اللهَ قَضَى بِفَنَائِهِمْ، وَقَضَاؤُهُ عَادِلٌ.

For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

٢٣ 23 فَالرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ يُجْرِي الْفَنَاءَ وَالْقَضَاءَ فِي وَسَطِ كُلِّ الأَرْضِ.

For the Lord, GOD of Armies, will make a full end, and that determined, throughout all the earth.

٢٤ 24 لِذَلِكَ هَكَذَا يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ القَدِيرُ: «يَا شَعْبِي الْمُقِيمَ فِي صِهْيَوْنَ، لَا تَخَفْ مِنْ أَشُورَ عِنْدَمَا يَضْرِبُكَ بِقَضِيبٍ، وَيَرْفَعُ عَلَيْكَ عَصَاهُ كَمَا فَعَلَ الْمِصْرِيُّونَ،

Therefore the Lord, GOD of Armies, says, “My people who dwell in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Egypt did.

٢٥ 25 فَإِنَّهُ عَمَّا قَلِيلٍ يَكْتَمِلُ سَخَطِي، وَيَنْصَبُّ غَضَبِي لإِبَادَتِهِمْ».

For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”

٢٦ 26 وَلا يَلْبَثُ الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ أَنْ يَهُزَّ عَلَيْهِ سَوْطاً كَمَا ضَرَبَ الْمِدْيَانِيِّينَ عِنْدَ صَخْرَةِ غُرَابٍ، وَيَرْفَعُ قَضِيبَهُ فَوْقَ الْبَحْرِ مِثْلَمَا فَعَلَ فِي مِصْرَ.

The LORD of Armies will stir up a scourge against him, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up like he did against Egypt.

٢٧ 27 فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ يَتَدَحْرَجُ حِمْلُهُ عَنْ كَتِفِكَ، وَيَتَحَطَّمُ نِيرُهُ عَنْ عُنُقِكَ لأَنَّ عُنُقَكَ أَصْبَحَ غَلِيظاً.

It will happen in that day that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.

٢٨ 28 هَا هُوَ جَيْشُ أَشُورَ مُقْبِلٌ؛ قَدْ وَصَلَ إِلَى عَيَّاثَ، وَاجْتَازَ بِمِجْرُونَ. وَضَعَ مَؤُونَتَهُ فِي مِخْمَاشَ.

He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage.

٢٩ 29 قَطَعُوا الْمَعْبَرَ، وَبَاتُوا فِي جَبَعَ. ارْتَعَدَ أَهْلُ الرَّامَةِ، وَهَرَبَ سُكَّانُ جِبْعَةَ شَاوُلَ.

They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled.

٣٠ 30 اصْرُخِي يَا بِنْتَ جَلِّيمَ، وَاسْمَعِي يَا لَيْشَةُ، وَأَجِيبِي يَا مَدِينَةَ عَنَاثُوثَ.

Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!

٣١ 31 هَرَبَ أَهْلُ مَدْمِنَةَ. فَرَّ سُكَّانُ جِيبِيمَ طَلَباً لِلنَّجَاةِ.

Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.

٣٢ 32 الْيَوْمَ يَتَوَقَّفُ فِي نُوبَ وَيَهُزُّ قَبْضَتَهُ عَلَى جَبَلِ بِنْتِ صِهْيَوْنَ، أَكَمَةِ أُورُشَلِيمَ.

This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

٣٣ 33 لَكِنَّ الرَّبَّ الْقَدِيرَ يُحَطِّمُ الأَغْصَانَ بِعُنْفُوَانٍ. فَكُلُّ مُتَطَاولٍ يُقْطَعُ، وَكُلُّ مٍتَشامِخٍ يُذَلُّ.

Behold, the Lord, GOD of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.

٣٤ 34 تُسْتَأْصَلُ أَجَمَاتُ الْغابَةِ بِفَأْسٍ، وَيَسْقُطُ لُبْنَانُ أَمَامَ جَبَّارٍ مَهُوبٍ.

He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.