إشَعْياء 8

١ 1 ثُمَّ قَالَ الرَّبُّ لِي: «خُذْ لِنَفْسِكَ لَوْحاً كَبِيراً، وَاكْتُبْ عَلَيْهِ بِحُرُوفٍ وَاضِحَةٍ’مَهَيْرَ شَلالَ حَاشَ بَزَ‘(بِمَعْنَى مُسْرِعٍ إِلَى الْغَنِيمَةِ).»

Then the Lord told me, “Get a large tablet and write on it in with an ordinary pen, ‘Maher-shalal-hash-baz.’

٢ 2 فَاخْتَرْتُ لِنَفْسِي شَاهِدَيْنِ أَمِينَيْنِ، هُمَا أُورِيَّا الْكَاهِنُ وَزَكَرِيَّا بْنُ يَبْرَخْيَا.

I will need Uriah the priest and Zechariah, son of Jeberekiah, to be my trustworthy witnesses.”

٣ 3 ثُمَّ عَاشَرْتُ النَّبِيَّةَ فَحَمَلَتْ وَأَنْجَبَتِ ابْناً. فَقَالَ لِي الرَّبُّ: «ادْعُ اسْمَهُ مَهَيْرَ شَلالَ حَاشَ بَزَ،

Then I slept with my wife the prophetess, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. The Lord told me, “Call him Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

٤ 4 وَقَبْلَ أَنْ يَعْرِفَ الصَّبِيُّ كَيْفَ يُنَادِي: يَا أَبِي أَوْ يَا أُمِّي، تُحْمَلُ ثَرْوَةُ دِمَشْقَ وَغَنَائِمُ السَّامِرَةِ أَمَامَ مَلِكِ أَشُّورَ».

For even before the boy knows how to say ‘Daddy’ or ‘Mommy,’ the king of Assyria will carry off Damascus' wealth and Samaria's possessions.”

٥ 5 ثُمَّ كَلَّمَنِي الرَّبُّ ثَانِيَةً قَائِلاً:

Then the Lord spoke to me again, saying,

٦ 6 «مِنْ حَيْثُ إِنَّ هَذَا الشَّعْبَ قَدْ رَفَضَ مِيَاهَ شِيلُوهَ الجَارِيَةَ الْهَادِئَةَ، وَتَهَافَتُوا عَلَى رَصِينَ وَفَقْحَ بْنِ رَمَلْيَا،

“Because this people has rejected the waters of Shiloah that gently flow and instead have rejoiced with Rezin and Remaliah's son,

٧ 7 فَإِنَّ الرَّبَّ مُزْمِعٌ أَنْ يُغْرِقَهُمْ بِمِيَاهِ النَّهْرِ الفَيَّاضَةِ، أَيْ مَلِكِ أَشُّورَ بِكُلِّ جَبَرُوتِهِ، فَيَكُونُ (كَنَهْرِ الفُرَاتِ) يَطْغَى جَيَشَانُهُ عَلَى جَدَاوِلِهِ وَيَفِيضُ عَلَى ضِفَافِهِ

the Lord is going to bring the powerful floodwaters of the Euphrates River against them—the king of Assyria with all his glorious army. It will flood all its channels and overflow all its banks.

٨ 8 فَيَكْتَسِحُ أَرْضَ يَهُوذَا، وَيَطْفُو مُرْتَفِعاً إِلَى الأَعْنَاقِ، وَتَنْتَشِرُ جُيُوشُهُ فِي عَرْضِ أَرْضِكَ يَا عِمَّانُوئِيلُ».

It will sweep on into Judah, overflowing and flooding through, reaching up to the neck. Like outspread wings it will engulf the whole of your land, Immanuel!

٩ 9 افْعَلُوا مَا شِئْتُمْ أَيُّهَا الشُّعُوبُ وَانْهَزِمُوا. أَصْغِي يَا جَمِيعَ أَقَاصِي الأَرْضِ. تَأَهَّبُوا لِلْمَعْرَكَةِ وَانْهَزِمُوا.

Pay attention, you nations, and be smashed! Listen, all you distant lands, get ready, but you will be smashed. Get ready, but you will be smashed.

١٠ 10 تَشَاوَرُوا مَعاً وَلَكِنْ عَلَى غَيْرِ طَائِلٍ، ارْسِمُوا الْخُطَطَ فَلا تَتَحَقَّقَ لأَنَّ اللهَ مَعْنَا.

You can plan your strategy, but it will be foiled; you can say what you're intending, but it won't happen, for God is with us.”

١١ 11 لأَنَّ الرَّبَّ خَاطَبَنِي حِينَ وَضَعَ يَدَهُ عَلَيَّ وَأَنْذَرَنِي أَنْ لَا أَسْلُكَ فِي طَرِيقِ هَذَا الشَّعْبِ قَائِلاً:

For this is what the Lord told me, holding me with a strong hand, instructing me not to follow the way of this people. He said,

١٢ 12 «لا تَقُلْ إِنَّهَا مُؤَامَرَةٌ لِكُلِّ مَا يَدَّعِي هَذَا الشَّعْبُ أَنَّهُ مُؤَامَرَةٌ. لَا تَخْشَ مَا يَخْشَوْنَ وَلا تَخَفْ.

Don't call a conspiracy everything that these people call a conspiracy. Don't fear what they fear. Don't be overawed!

١٣ 13 قَدِّسُوا الرَّبَّ الْقَدِيرَ لأَنَّهُ هُوَ خَوْفُكُمْ وَرَهْبَتُكُمْ،

The Lord Almighty is the one you should see as holy. He is the one you should fear, he is the one you should be in awe of.

١٤ 14 فَيَكُونَ لَكُمْ مَقْدِساً. أَمَّا لِبَيْتَيْ إِسْرَائِيلَ، فَيَكُونُ حَجَرَ صَدْمَةٍ وَصَخْرَةَ عَثْرَةٍ، وَفَخّاً وَشَرَكاً لِسَاكِنِي أُورُشَلِيمَ،

He will be a sanctuary for you. But to the royal families of both Israel and Judah he will be a stone they trip over and a rock that makes them stumble, a trap and a snare to the people who live in Jerusalem.

١٥ 15 فَيَعْثُرُ بِها كَثِيرُونَ وَيَسْقُطُونَ وَيَتَحَطَّمُونَ وَيَقَعُونَ فِي الْفَخِّ وَيُقْتَنَصُونَ».

Many people will stumble over them. They will fall and be broken. They will be trapped and caught.

١٦ 16 فَادَّخِرِ الشَّهَادَةَ وَأَوْدِعِ الشَّرِيعَةَ فِي قُلُوبِ تَلامِيذِي.

Safeguard this testimony, seal these instructions—they are for my disciples.

١٧ 17 سَأَنْتَظِرُ الرَّبَّ الَّذِي يَحْجُبُ وَجْهَهُ عَنْ بَيْتِ يَعْقُوبَ وَأَتَوَكَّلُ عَلَيْهِ.

I will wait for the Lord, the one who is hiding his face from Jacob's descendants. I will wait in hope for him.

١٨ 18 انْظُرُوا هَا أَنَا وَالأَبْنَاءُ الَّذِينَ رَزَقَنِي إِيَّاهُمُ الرَّبُّ، آيَاتٍ وَمُعْجِزَاتٍ فِي إِسْرَائِيلَ مِنْ عِنْدِ الرَّبِّ الْقَدِيرِ السَّاكِنِ فِي جَبَلِ صِهْيَوْنَ.

Look, I'm here, together with the children the Lord has given me. They are signs and wonders in Israel from the Lord Almighty, who lives on Mount Zion.

١٩ 19 وَعِنْدَمَا يَقُولُ النَّاسُ لَكَ: اسْأَلْ أَصْحَابَ التَّوَابِعِ وَالْعَرَّافِينَ الْمُتَهَامِسِينَ الْمُجَمْجِمِينَ قُلْ: أَلَيْسَ عَلَى الشَّعْبِ أَنْ يَسْأَلَ إِلَهَهُ؟ أَعَلَيْهِمْ أَنْ يَسْأَلُوا الأَمْوَاتَ عَنِ الأَحْيَاءِ؟

When someone suggests to you, “Go and ask mediums and spiritists who whisper and mutter,” shouldn't people ask their God? Why should they ask the dead on behalf of the living?

٢٠ 20 فَإِلَى الشَّرِيعَةِ وَإِلَى الشَّهَادَةِ: وَمَنْ لَا يَنْطِقْ بِمِثْلِ هَذَا الْقَوْلِ، فَلا فَجْرَ لَهُ.

Go and examine God's law and his instructions! If what they say doesn't correspond with God's word, there will be no dawn for them.

٢١ 21 فَإِنَّهُمْ يَتِيهُونَ فِي الأَرْضِ مُكْتَئِبِينَ جَائِعِينَ، وَعِنْدَمَا يَعُضُّهُمُ الْجُوعُ بِنَابِهِ يَأْخُذُهُمُ الْغَضَبُ وَيَلْعَنُونَ مَلِكَهُمْ وَإِلَهَهُمْ وَيَلْتَفِتُونَ إِلَى الْعَلاءِ،

They will wander round the country, depressed and hungry. When they are starving they will become furious, and looking up they will curse their king and their God.

٢٢ 22 ثُمَّ يَنْظُرُونَ إِلَى الأَرْضِ فَلا يَجِدُونَ سِوَى الْكَرْبِ وَالظُّلْمَةِ وَالضَّنْكِ وَالْعَذَابِ، وَيُطْرَدُونَ إِلَى الظَّلامِ.

Then they will look towards the earth and see only misery and gloom and agonizing depression, and they will be thrown out into the darkness.