< Isaiah 28 >

1 Terrible things will happen to [Samaria city, the capital of Israel]! It is on a hill above a fertile valley; the people who live there, who get drunk by drinking too much wine, are very proud; it is a beautiful and glorious city, but some day that beauty will disappear like [MET] a flower that wilts and dries up.
وای بر تاج تکبر میگساران افرایم وبرگل پژمرده زیبایی جلال وی، که بر سر وادی بارور مغلوبان شراب است.۱
2 Listen to this: Yahweh will cause a great army to attack Samaria. Their soldiers will be like [SIM] a huge hailstorm [or] a very strong wind; they will be everywhere, like the water of a huge flood, and they will smash to the ground [the buildings in Samaria].
اینک خداوند کسی زورآور و توانا دارد که مثل تگرگ شدید و طوفان مهلک و مانند سیل آبهای زورآورسرشار، آن را به زور بر زمین خواهد انداخت.۲
3 The people of Samaria are proud, but everything that the drunks who live there think is wonderful/glorious will be trampled on by their enemies.
وتاج تکبر میگساران افرایم زیر پایها پایمال خواهد شد.۳
4 [Yes], Samaria is beautiful, set on a hill above a fertile valley, but that beauty will disappear like [MET] a flower that wilts and dries up. Whenever someone sees a good fig at the beginning of the season [when figs become ripe], he quickly picks and eats it; [similarly, when the enemies of Israel see all the beautiful things in Samaria], [they will quickly conquer the city and take away all those things].
و گل پژمرده زیبایی جلال وی که بر سر وادی بارور است مثل نوبر انجیرها قبل ازتابستان خواهد بود که چون بیننده آن را بیندوقتی که هنوز در دستش باشد آن را فرو می‌برد.۴
5 At that time, the Commander of the armies of angels will be [like] a glorious wreath of flowers for [us] Israeli people who are still alive [after being exiled].
و در آن روز یهوه صبایوت به جهت بقیه قوم خویش تاج جلال و افسر جمال خواهد بود.۵
6 He will cause our judges to want to do what is fair/just when they decide people’s cases. He will enable the soldiers who stand at the city gates to strongly defend [the city when our enemies attack it].
وروح انصاف برای آنانی که به داوری می‌نشینند وقوت برای آنانی که جنگ را به دروازه هابرمی گردانند (خواهد بود).۶
7 [But now, ] our leaders stagger/stumble because they have drunk a lot of wine and [other] alcoholic drinks. The priests and prophets also stagger because of drinking a lot of wine and other alcoholic drinks. They are not able to think right; they see visions but they cannot understand what they mean; they are unable to decide things correctly.
ولکن اینان نیز از شراب گمراه شده‌اند و ازمسکرات سرگشته گردیده‌اند. هم کاهن و هم نبی از مسکرات گمراه شده‌اند و از شراب بلعیده گردیده‌اند. از مسکرات سرگشته شده‌اند و دررویا گمراه گردیده‌اند و در داوری مبهوت گشته‌اند.۷
8 All their tables are covered with [their] vomit; filth is everywhere.
زیرا که همه سفره‌ها از قی و نجاست پر گردیده و جایی نمانده است.۸
9 They ridicule Yahweh saying, “Who does he think that he is teaching? Why is he talking to us like this? [Does he think that] we are little children who have recently been weaned?
کدام را معرفت خواهد آموخت و اخبار را به که خواهد فهمانید؟ آیا نه آنانی را که از شیر بازداشته و از پستانها گرفته شده‌اند؟۹
10 [He continually tells us], ‘Do this, do that;’ first he tells us one rule, then another rule, he tells us only one line at a time.”
زیرا که حکم بر حکم و حکم بر حکم، قانون بر قانون وقانون بر قانون اینجا اندکی و آنجا اندکی خواهدبود.۱۰
11 So now, Yahweh will need to force them to listen to [Assyrians] speaking to them in a language that they do not understand.
زیرا که با لبهای الکن و زبان غریب با این قوم تکلم خواهد نمود.۱۱
12 Yahweh told his people [long ago], “[This is] a place where you can rest; you are exhausted [from all your travels through the desert], but you will be able to rest [in this land].” But they refused to pay attention to what he said.
که به ایشان گفت: «راحت همین است. پس خسته شدگان را مستریح سازید و آرامی همین است.» امانخواستند که بشنوند.۱۲
13 So Yahweh continues to tell the people of Samaria, one line at a time, “Do this, do that,” first one rule and then another rule. But because [of their ignoring what God said], they will be attacked and defeated; they will be wounded and snared and captured.
و کلام خداوند برای ایشان حکم بر حکم و حکم برحکم، قانون برقانون و قانون بر قانون اینجا اندکی و آنجا اندکی خواهد بود تا بروند و به پشت افتاده، منکسرگردند و به دام افتاده، گرفتار شوند.۱۳
14 Because of [what will happen in Samaria], you rulers in Jerusalem who make fun of me, listen to this message from Yahweh:
بنابراین‌ای مردان استهزا کننده و‌ای حاکمان این قوم که دراورشلیم‌اند کلام خداوند را بشنوید.۱۴
15 You [boast] saying, “We have made an alliance with [the leaders of Egypt], so we will not be killed [in battles]; we will never go to the place where the dead people are. When the [army of Assyria] attacks us, they will never defeat us, because we have made [an agreement with Egypt] to protect us!” [But that agreement consists of] a lot of lies [DOU]. (Sheol h7585)
از آنجاکه گفته‌اید با موت عهد بسته‌ایم و با هاویه همداستان شده‌ایم، پس چون تازیانه مهلک بگذرد به ما نخواهد رسید زیرا که دروغها راملجای خود نمودیم و خویشتن را زیر مکرمستور ساختیم. (Sheol h7585)۱۵
16 Therefore, Yahweh [our] Lord says this: “Listen to this! I am going to place in Jerusalem [someone who is like] [MET] a foundation stone, [he is like] a stone that has been tested [to determine if it is solid]. [He will be like] a valuable cornerstone around which it will be safe to build a house; and whoever trusts in him will never be disappointed.
بنابراین خداوند یهوه چنین می‌گوید: «اینک در صهیون سنگ بنیادی نهادم یعنی سنگ آزموده و سنگ زاویه‌ای گرانبها و اساس محکم پس هر‌که ایمان آورد تعجیل نخواهد نمود.۱۶
17 I will test you [people of Jerusalem] to find out if you will act justly and righteously [like] [MET] someone uses a plumb line [to determine if a wall is straight and vertical]. But because your agreement [with Egypt] to protect you [was made by leaders] lying to each other and deceiving each other, you will be defeated and taken away [from your country] by [an army that will come against you like] [MET] a flood.
وانصاف را ریسمان می‌گردانم و عدالت را ترازو وتگرگ ملجای دروغ را خواهد رفت و آبها ستر راخواهد برد.۱۷
18 I will annul/destroy the agreement that you made [with the leaders of Egypt]. You thought that [because of that agreement] you would not be killed, and you would not go to the place where the dead are. [But] when the vast [army of Assyria] overwhelms you like a flood, they will trample you into the ground. (Sheol h7585)
و عهد شما با موت باطل خواهدشد و میثاق شما با هاویه ثابت نخواهد ماند وچون تازیانه شدید بگذرد شما از آن پایمال خواهید شد. (Sheol h7585)۱۸
19 Their soldiers will come during the morning, at noontime, and at night, and they will carry you all away.” And when you understand this message, you will be terrified.
هر وقت که بگذرد شما را گرفتارخواهد ساخت زیرا که هر بامداد هم در روز و هم در شب خواهد گذشت و فهمیدن اخبار باعث هیبت محض خواهد شد.»۱۹
20 [You have heard people say], “Your bed is very short, you will not be able to sleep in it; your blankets are very narrow; they will not cover you!” [That means for you that your agreement with Egypt is not going to save you].
زیرا که بسترکوتاه تر است از آنکه کسی بر آن دراز شود ولحاف تنگ تر است از آنکه کسی خویشتن رابپوشاند.۲۰
21 Yahweh will come [and cause you to be defeated]; he will do to you like he did to the army of Philistia at Perizim Mountain and like he did to the Amor people-group at Gibeon Valley. What he will do will be [very] strange and unusual [DOU].
زیرا خداوند چنانکه در کوه فراصیم (کرد) خواهد برخاست و چنانکه در وادی جبعون (نمود) خشمناک خواهد شد، تا کار خودیعنی کار عجیب خود را بجا آورد و عمل خویش یعنی عمل غریب خویش را به انجام رساند.۲۱
22 The Commander of the armies of angels has told me that he is going to destroy the entire land. So do not ridicule [what I say any more], because if you do that he will punish you [even] more severely.
پس الان استهزا منمایید مبادا بندهای شمامحکم گردد، زیرا هلاکت و تقدیری را که ازجانب خداوند یهوه صبایوت بر تمامی زمین می‌آید شنیده‌ام.۲۲
23 Listen [IDM] to what I say; pay attention carefully.
گوش گیرید و آواز مرا بشنوید و متوجه شده، کلام مرا استماع نمایید.۲۳
24 When a farmer plows some ground, does he never plant seeds [RHQ]? Does he continue to plow it and never plant anything [RHQ]?
آیا برزگر، همه روز به جهت تخم پاشیدن شیار می‌کند و آیا همه وقت زمین خود را می‌شکافد و هموار می‌نماید؟۲۴
25 No, he makes the ground very level, and then he plants seeds— dill and cumin and wheat and barley. He plants each kind of seed in the correct manner.
آیا بعد از آنکه رویش را هموار کرد گشنیز رانمی پاشد و زیره را نمی افشاند و گندم را درشیارها و جو را در جای معین و ذرت را درحدودش نمی گذارد؟۲۵
26 [He does that] because God has taught him the correct way to do it.
زیرا که خدایش او را به راستی می‌آموزد و او را تعلیم می‌دهد.۲۶
27 [Farmers] never thresh caraway/dill with a heavy sledge/club; instead, they beat it only with a stick. [Farmers] never thresh cumin by driving a cart over it; instead, they hit it [only] with a rod.
چونکه گشنیز با گردون تیز کوبیده نمی شود و چرخ ارابه بر زیره گردانیده نمی گردد، بلکه گشنیز به عصا وزیره به چوب تکانیده می‌شود.۲۷
28 And grain for baking bread is crushed easily, so the farmers do not continue to pound it for a long time. They sometimes cause their horses to pull a cart over it [to thresh it], [but] doing that does not grind the grain.
گندم آردمی شود زیرا که آن را همیشه خرمن کوبی نمی کندو هرچند چرخ ارابه و اسبان خود را بر آن بگرداندآن را خرد نمی کند.۲۸
29 The Commander of the armies of angels gives [us] wonderful advice [about how to do things]; he causes [us] to be very wise. [So what the farmers do is very smart/wise, but what your leaders are doing is very stupid].
این نیز از جانب یهوه صبایوت که عجیب الرای و عظیم الحکمت است صادر می‌گردد.۲۹

< Isaiah 28 >