2 Chronicles 6
1 Then Solomon said, “YHWH said [He would] dwell in thick darkness,
| عِنْدَئِذٍ قَالَ سُلَيْمَانُ: «قَالَ الرَّبُّ إِنَّهُ يَسْكُنُ فِي الضَّبَابِ. | ١ |
2 and I have built a house of habitation for You, and a fixed place for Your dwelling for all ages.”
| وَلَكِنِّي بَنَيْتُ هَيْكَلاً رَائِعاً، مَقَرّاً لِسُكْنَاكَ إِلَى الأَبَدِ». | ٢ |
3 And the king turns around his face, and blesses the whole assembly of Israel, and the whole assembly of Israel is standing,
| ثُمَّ الْتَفَتَ الْمَلِكُ إِلَى كُلِّ جُمْهُورِ إِسْرَائِيلَ الْمَاثِلِ هُنَاكَ وَبَارَكَهُمْ، | ٣ |
4 and he says, “Blessed [is] YHWH, God of Israel, who has spoken with His mouth with my father David, and with His hands has fulfilled [it], saying,
| وَقَالَ: «تَبَارَكَ الرَّبُّ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ الَّذِي حَقَّقَ الْيَوْمَ مَا وَعَدَ بِهِ دَاوُدَ أَبِي قَائِلاً: | ٤ |
5 From the day that I brought out My people from the land of Egypt, I have not fixed on a city out of any of the tribes of Israel to build a house for my name being there, and I have not fixed on a man to be leader over My people Israel;
| مُنْذُ أَنْ أَخْرَجْتُ شَعْبِي إِسْرَائِيلَ مِنْ مِصْرَ لَمْ أَخْتَرْ مَدِينَةً مِنْ بَيْنِ مُدُنِ جَمِيعِ أَسْبَاطِ إِسْرَائِيلَ لِبِنَاءِ هَيْكَلٍ يَكُونُ عَلَيْهِ اسْمِي هُنَاكَ، وَلا اصْطَفَيْتُ رَجُلاً يَمْلِكُ عَلَى شَعْبِي إِسْرَائِيلَ | ٥ |
6 and I fix on Jerusalem for My Name being there, and I fix on David to be over My people Israel.
| سِوَى أُورُشَلِيمَ لِيَكُونَ اسْمِي فِيهَا، وَدَاوُدَ لِيَحْكُمَ عَلَى شَعْبِي إِسْرَائِيلَ. | ٦ |
7 And it is with the heart of my father David to build a house for the Name of YHWH God of Israel,
| وَقَدْ نَوَى أَبِي دَاوُدُ أَنْ يَبْنِيَ هَيْكَلاً لاِسْمِ الرَّبِّ إِلَهِ إِسْرَائِيلَ. | ٧ |
8 and YHWH says to my father David, Because that it has been with your heart to build a house for My Name, you have done well that it has been with your heart,
| فَقَالَ الرَّبُّ لَهُ: لَقَدْ أَحْسَنْتَ إِذْ نَوَيْتَ فِي قَلْبِكَ أَنْ تَبْنِيَ لِي هَيْكَلاً. | ٨ |
9 but you do not build the house, for your son who comes forth out from your loins, he builds the house for My Name.
| لَكِنْ لَسْتَ أَنْتَ مَنْ يَبْنِيهِ، بَلِ ابْنُكَ الْخَارِجُ مِنْ صُلْبِكَ هُوَ يَبْنِي الْهَيْكَلَ لاِسْمِي. | ٩ |
10 And YHWH establishes His word that He spoke, and I rise up in the stead of my father David, and sit on the throne of Israel, as YHWH spoke, and I build the house for the Name of YHWH, God of Israel,
| وَأَوْفَى الرَّبُّ بِمَا وَعَدَ، فَخَلَفْتُ أَنَا دَاوُدَ أَبِي عَلَى عَرْشِ إِسْرَائِيلَ كَمَا تَكَلَّمَ الرَّبُّ، وَأَقَمْتُ هَذَا الْهَيْكَلَ لاِسْمِ الرَّبِّ إِلَهِ إِسْرَائِيلَ. | ١٠ |
11 and I place the Ark there, where the covenant of YHWH [is] that He made with the sons of Israel.”
| وَوَضَعْتُ فِيهِ التَّابُوتَ الَّذِي يَضُمُّ عَهْدَ الرَّبِّ الَّذِي أَبْرَمَهُ مَعَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ». | ١١ |
12 And he stands before the altar of YHWH, in front of all the assembly of Israel, and spreads out his hand—
| وَانْتَصَبَ سُلَيْمَانُ أَمَامَ مَذْبَحِ الرَّبِّ، فِي مُوَاجَهَةِ كُلِّ جَمَاعَةِ إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَبَسَطَ يَدَيْهِ، | ١٢ |
13 for Solomon has made a scaffold of bronze, and puts it in the midst of the court, five cubits its length, and five cubits its breadth, and three cubits its height, and he stands on it, and kneels on his knees in front of all the assembly of Israel, and spreads forth his hands toward the heavens—
| لأَنَّ سُلَيْمَانَ كَانَ قَدْ صَنَعَ مِنْبَراً مِنْ نُحَاسٍ أَقَامَهُ فِي وَسَطِ الدَّارِ، طُولُهُ خَمْسُ أَذْرُعٍ (نَحْوَ مِتْرَيْنِ وَنِصْفِ الْمِتْرِ)، وَعَرْضُهُ خَمْسُ أَذْرُعٍ (نَحْوَ مِتْرَيْنِ وَنِصْفِ الْمِتْرِ)، وَارْتِفَاعُهُ ثَلاثُ أَذْرُعٍ (نَحْوَ مِتْرٍ وَنِصْفِ الْمِتْرِ)، فَوَقَفَ عَلَيْهِ أَوَّلاً، ثُمَّ جَثَا عَلَى رُكْبَتَيْهِ فِي مُوَاجَهَةِ كُلِّ جَمَاعَةِ إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَبَسَطَ يَدَيْهِ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ، | ١٣ |
14 and says, “O YHWH God of Israel, there is not like You a god in the heavens and in the earth, keeping the covenant and the kindness for Your servants who are walking before You with all their heart;
| وَقَالَ: «أَيُّهَا الرَّبُّ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ، لَيْسَ إِلَهٌ نَظِيرَكَ فِي السَّمَاءِ وَالأَرْضِ، أَنْتَ يَا مَنْ تُحَافِظُ عَلَى عَهْدِ الرَّحْمَةِ مَعَ عَبِيدِكَ السَّائِرِينَ أَمَامَكَ بِكُلِّ قُلُوبِهِمْ، | ١٤ |
15 who has kept for Your servant, my father David, that which You spoke to him; indeed, You speak with Your mouth, and with Your hand have fulfilled [it], as at this day.
| هَا قَدْ حَقَّقْتَ الْيَوْمَ لِعَبْدِكَ دَاوُدَ كُلَّ مَا وَعَدْتَهُ بِهِ، | ١٥ |
16 And now, O YHWH, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, that which You spoke to him, saying, A man of yours is never cut off from before My face, sitting on the throne of Israel—only, if your sons watch their way to walk in My law, as you have walked before Me.
| وَالآنَ أَيُّهَا الرَّبُّ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ أَوْفِ بِمَا وَعَدْتَ بِهِ عَبْدَكَ أبِي دَاوُدَ قَائِلاً: إِنْ حَذَا أَوْلادُكَ حَذْوَكَ، وَمَارَسُوا شَرِيعَتِي أَمَامِي، فَلَنْ يَخْلُوَ يَوْماً عَرْشُ إِسْرَائِيلَ مِنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ صُلْبِكَ يَجْلِسُ عَلَيْهِ. | ١٦ |
17 And now, O YHWH, God of Israel, let Your word be steadfast that You have spoken to Your servant, to David.
| وَالآنَ أَيُّهَا الرَّبُّ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ لِيَتَحَقَّقْ وَعْدُكَ هَذَا الَّذِي قَطَعْتَهُ لِعَبْدِكَ دَاوُدَ. | ١٧ |
18 For is it true [that] God dwells with man on the earth? Behold, the heavens, and the heavens of the heavens, do not contain You, how much less this house that I have built?
| لأَنَّهُ هَلْ يَسْكُنُ اللهُ حَقّاً مَعَ الإِنْسَانِ عَلَى الأَرْضِ؟ إِنْ كَانَتِ السَّمَاوَاتُ بَلِ السَّمَاوَاتُ الْعُلَى لَا تَسَعُكَ، فَكَمْ بِالأَحْرَى هَذَا الْهَيْكَلُ الَّذِي بَنَيْتُ! | ١٨ |
19 And You have turned to the prayer of Your servant, and to his supplication, O YHWH my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer that Your servant is praying before You,
| فَأَصْغِ إِلَى ابْتِهَالِ عَبْدِكَ وَإِلَى تَضَرُّعِهِ أَيُّهَا الرَّبُّ إِلَهِي، وَاسْتَجِبْ إِلَى اسْتِغَاثَتِي وَالصَّلاةِ الَّتِي يَرْفَعُهَا عَبْدُكَ أَمَامَكَ. | ١٩ |
20 for Your eyes being open toward this house by day and by night, toward the place that You have said to put Your Name there, to listen to the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.
| لِتَظَلَّ عَيْنَاكَ تَرْعَيَانِ هَذَا الْهَيْكَلَ نَهَاراً وَلَيْلاً، هَذَا الْمَوْضِعَ الَّذِي قُلْتَ عَنْهُ إِنَّكَ تَضَعُ اسْمَكَ فِيهِ، لِتَسْتَمِعَ إِلَى الصَّلاةِ الَّتِي يِتَضَرَّعُ بِها عَبْدُكَ فِي هَذَا الْمَوْضِعِ. | ٢٠ |
21 And You have listened to the supplications of Your servant, and of Your people Israel, that they pray toward this place, and You hear from the place of Your dwelling, from the heavens, and have listened, and forgiven.
| وَأَنْصِتْ لاِبْتِهَالاتِ عَبْدِكَ وَشَعْبِكَ إِسْرَائِيلَ الَّذِينَ يُصَلُّونَ فِي هَذَا الْمَوْضِعِ، فَاسْمَعْ أَنْتَ فِي مَقَرِّ سُكْنَاكَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ، وَمَتَى سَمِعْتَ فَاغْفِرْ (إِثْمَنَا) | ٢١ |
22 If a man sins against his neighbor, and he has lifted up an oath on him to cause him to swear, and the oath has come in before Your altar in this house—
| إِنْ أَخْطَأَ أَحَدٌ إِلَى صَاحِبِهِ وَأَوْجَبَ عَلَيْهِ الْيَمِينَ لِيُحَلِّفَهُ، فَحَضَرَ لِيَحْلِفَ أَمَامَ مَذْبَحِكَ فِي هَذَا الْهَيْكَلِ، | ٢٢ |
23 then You hear from the heavens, and have done, and have judged Your servants, to give back to the wicked, to put his way on his head, and to declare righteous the righteous, to give to him according to his righteousness.
| فَاسْتَمِعْ أَنْتَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ وَاعْمَلْ وَاقْضِ بَيْنَ عَبِيدِكَ، إِذْ تَدِينُ الْمُذْنِبَ، فَتُعَاقِبُهُ عَلَى شَرِّهِ وَتُنْصِفُ الْبَارَّ وَتُنْعِمُ عَلَيْهِ حَسَبَ بِرِّهِ. | ٢٣ |
24 And if Your people Israel is struck before an enemy because they sin against You, and they have turned back and confessed Your Name, and prayed and made supplication before You in this house—
| وَإذَا انْهَزَمَ شَعْبُكَ أَمَامَ عَدُوِّهِمْ مِنْ جَرَّاءِ خَطِيئَتِهِمْ ثُمَّ تَابُوا مُعْتَرِفِينَ بِاسْمِكَ وَصَلُّوا مُتَضَرِّعِينَ إِلَيْكَ فِي هَذَا الْهَيْكَلِ، | ٢٤ |
25 then You hear from the heavens and have forgiven the sin of Your people Israel, and caused them to return to the ground that You have given to them, and to their fathers.
| فَاسْتَجِبْ أَنْتَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ وَاصْفَحْ عَنْ خَطِيئَةِ شَعْبِكَ إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَأَرْجِعْهُ إِلَى الأَرْضِ الَّتِي وَهَبْتَهَا لِآبَائِهِمْ. | ٢٥ |
26 In the heavens being restrained and there is no rain because they sin against You, and they have prayed toward this place and confessed Your Name, [and] they turn back from their sin because You afflict them—
| إِذَا أُغْلِقَتْ أَبْوَابُ السَّمَاءِ وَانْحَبَسَ الْمَطَرُ لأَنَّ الشَّعْبَ قَدْ أَخْطَأَ إِلَيْكَ، ثُمَّ صَلَّى فِي هَذَا الْمَوْضِعِ مُعْتَرِفاً بِاسْمِكَ وَارْتَدَّ عَنْ خَطِيئَتِهِ لأَنَّكَ أَنْزَلْتَ بِهِ الْبَلاءَ. | ٢٦ |
27 then You hear in the heavens, and have forgiven the sin of Your servants, and of Your people Israel, because You direct them to the good way in which they walk, and have given rain on Your land that You have given to Your people for an inheritance.
| فَاسْتَجِبْ أَنْتَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ وَاصْفَحْ عَنْ خَطِيئَةِ عَبِيدِكَ وَشَعْبِكَ إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَعَلِّمْهُمْ سُبُلَ الْعَيْشِ بِاسْتِقَامَةٍ، وَأَمْطِرْ غَيْثاً عَلَى أَرْضِكَ الَّتِي وَهَبْتَهَا مِيرَاثاً لِشَعْبِكَ. | ٢٧ |
28 Famine, when it is in the land, [and] pestilence, when it is [in the land], blasting and mildew, locust and caterpillar, when they are [in the land], when its enemies have distressed it in the land—its gates, any plague and any sickness;
| وَإِنْ أَصَابَتِ الأَرْضَ مَجَاعَةٌ، أَوْ تَفَشَّى فِيهَا وَبَأٌ، أَوِ اعْتَرَتْهَا آفَاتٌ زِرَاعِيَّةٌ أَوْ جَفَافٌ، أَوْ غَزَاهَا الْجَرَادُ وَالْجُنْدُبُ، أَوْ إِذَا حَاصَرَ الشَّعْبَ عَدُوٌّ فِي مَدِينَةٍ مِنْ مُدُنِهِ، أَوْ حَلَّتْ بِهِ كَارِثَةٌ أَوْ مَرَضٌ، | ٢٨ |
29 any prayer, any supplication that is for any man, and for all Your people Israel, when they each know his own plague, and his own pain, and he has spread out his hands toward this house—
| فَحِينَ يُصَلِّي أَوْ يَتَضَرَّعُ إِلَيْكَ أَحَدٌ مِنَ الشَّعْبِ أَوْ شَعْبُكَ كُلُّهُ مُعْتَرِفاً بِخَطِيئَتِهِ وَبَاسِطاً يَدَيْهِ نَحْوَ هَذَا الْهَيْكَلِ | ٢٩ |
30 then You hear from the heavens, the settled place of Your dwelling, and have forgiven, and have given to each according to all his ways (because You know his heart, for You alone have known the heart of the sons of men),
| اسْتَجِبْ أَنْتَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مَقَرِّ سُكْنَاكَ، وَاصْفَحْ وَجَازِ كُلَّ إِنْسَانٍ بِمُقْتَضَى طُرُقِهِ، لأَنَّكَ تَعْرِفُ قَلْبَهُ، فَأَنْتَ وَحْدَكَ الْمُطَّلِعُ عَلَى دَخَائِلِ النَّاسِ، | ٣٠ |
31 so that they fear You, to walk in Your ways, all the days that they are living on the face of the ground that You have given to our fathers.
| لِكَيْ يَتَّقُوكَ وَيَسْلُكُوا فِي سُبُلِكَ كُلَّ الأَيَّامِ الَّتِي يَحْيَوْنَ فِيهَا عَلَى وَجْهِ الأَرْضِ الَّتِي وَهَبْتَهَا لِآبَائِنَا. | ٣١ |
32 And also, to the stranger who is not of Your people Israel, and he has come from a far-off land for the sake of Your great Name, and Your strong hand, and Your outstretched arm, and they have come in and prayed toward this house—
| وَمَتَى جَاءَ الْغَرِيبُ الَّذِي لَا يَنْتَمِي إِلَى شَعْبِكَ إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَالَّذِي قَدِمَ مِنْ أَرْضٍ بَعِيدَةٍ مِنْ أَجْلِ اسْمِكَ الْعَظِيمِ، وَلأَجْلِ مَا أَجْرَتْهُ يَدُكَ الْقَوِيَّةُ وَذِرَاعُكَ الْمُقْتَدِرَةُ، وَصَلَّى فِي هَذَا الْهَيْكَلِ، | ٣٢ |
33 then You hear from the heavens, from the settled place of Your dwelling, and have done according to all that the stranger calls to You for, so that all the peoples of the earth know Your Name, so as to fear You, as Your people Israel, and to know that Your Name is called on this house that I have built.
| فَاسْتَجِبْ أَنْتَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مَقَرِّ سُكْنَاكَ، وَافْعَلْ كُلَّ مَا يُنَاشِدُكَ بِهِ الْغَرِيبُ لِيُذَاعَ اسْمُكَ بَيْنَ كُلِّ أُمَمِ الأَرْضِ، فَيَخَافُوكَ كَمَا يَخَافُكَ شَعْبُكَ إِسْرَائِيلُ، وَلِيُدْرِكُوا أَنَّ اسْمَكَ قَدْ دُعِيَ عَلَى هَذَا الْبَيْتِ الَّذِي بَنَيْتُهُ. | ٣٣ |
34 When Your people go out to battle against its enemies in the way that You send them, and they have prayed to You [in] the way of this city that You have fixed on, and the house that I have built for Your Name—
| وَإذَا خَرَجَ شَعْبُكَ لِمُحَارَبَةِ عَدُوٍّ فِي أَيِّ مَكَانٍ تُرْسِلُهُمْ إِلَيْهِ، وَصَلُّوا إِلَيْكَ مُتَوَجِّهِينَ نَحْوَ الْمَدِينَةِ الَّتِي اخْتَرْتَهَا وَالْهَيْكَلِ الَّذِي بَنَيْتُهُ لاِسْمِكَ، | ٣٤ |
35 then You have heard their prayer and their supplication from the heavens, and have maintained their cause.
| فَاسْتَجِبْ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ صَلاتَهُمْ وَتَضَرُّعَهُمْ، وَانْصُرْ قَضِيَّتَهُمْ. | ٣٥ |
36 When they sin against You—for there is not a man who does not sin—and You have been angry with them, and have given them before an enemy, and their captors have taken them captive to a land far off or near;
| وَإذَا أَخْطَأُوا إِلَيْكَ، إِذْ لَيْسَ إِنْسَانٌ لَا يَأْثَمُ، وَغَضِبْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ وَأَسْلَمْتَهُمْ لِلْعَدُوِّ، فَسَبَاهُمْ آسِرُوهُمْ إِلَى دِيَارِهِمْ، بَعِيدَةً كَانَتْ أَمْ قَرِيبَةً، | ٣٦ |
37 and they have turned [it] back to their heart in the land to where they have been taken captive, and have turned back and made supplication to You in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have done wickedly;
| فَإِنْ تَابُوا فِي أَرْضِ سَبْيِهِمْ، وَرَجِعُوا مُتَضَرِّعِينَ إِلَيْكَ قَائِلِينَ: قَدْ أَخْطَأْنَا وَانْحَرَفْنَا وَأَذْنَبْنَا، | ٣٧ |
38 indeed, they have turned back to You with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their captivity, to where they have taken them captive, and they have prayed [in] the way of their land that You have given to their fathers, and of the city that You have chosen, and of the house that I have built for Your Name—
| وَتَابُوا حَقّاً مِنْ كُلِّ قُلُوبِهِمْ وَأَنْفُسِهِمْ وَهُمْ فِي دِيَارِ آسِرِيهِمْ، وَصَلُّوا إِلَيْكَ مُتَوَجِّهِينَ نَحْوَ أَرْضِهِمِ الَّتِي وَهَبْتَهَا لِآبَائِهِمْ، نَحْوَ الْمَدِينَةِ الَّتِي اخْتَرْتَهَا وَالْهَيْكَلِ الَّذِي بَنَيْتُهُ لاسْمِكَ، | ٣٨ |
39 then You have heard from the heavens, from the settled place of Your dwelling, their prayer and their supplications, and have maintained their cause, and forgiven Your people who have sinned against You.
| فَاسْتَجِبْ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ، مَقَرِّ سُكْنَاكَ، صَلاتَهُمْ وَتَضَرُّعَهُمْ، وَانْصُرْ قَضِيَّتَهُمْ، وَاصْفَحْ عَنْ خَطِيئَةِ شَعْبِكَ. | ٣٩ |
40 Now my God, I implore You, let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer of this place.
| لِتَكُنْ يَا إِلَهِي عَيْنَاكَ مَفْتُوحَتَيْنِ وَأُذُنَاكَ مُصْغِيَتَيْنِ لِلصَّلاةِ الْمَرْفُوعَةِ إِلَيْكَ مِنْ هَذَا الْهَيْكَلِ. | ٤٠ |
41 And now, rise, O YHWH God, to Your rest, You and the Ark of Your strength; Your priests, O YHWH God, are clothed with salvation, and Your saints rejoice in the goodness.
| وَالآنَ، انْهَضْ أَيُّهَا الرَّبُّ الإِلَهُ إِلَى مَكَانِ رَاحَتِكَ، أَنْتَ وَالتَّابُوتُ رَمْزُ عِزَّتِكَ. لِيَرْتَدِ، أَيُّهَا الرَّبُّ الإِلَهُ، كَهَنَتُكَ ثَوْبَ خَلاصِكَ، وَلْيَبْتَهِجْ أَتْقِيَاؤُكَ بِالْخَيْرِ. | ٤١ |
42 O YHWH God, do not turn back the face of Your anointed, be mindful of the kind acts of Your servant David.”
| أَيُّهَا الرَّبُّ الإِلَهُ، لَا تَرْفُضِ الْمَلِكَ، وَاذْكُرْ رَحْمَتَكَ الَّتِي وَعَدْتَ بِها دَاوُدَ عَبْدَكَ». | ٤٢ |
