Judges 2
1 Yahweh [appeared in the form of] an angel [and] went up from Gilgal to [a place that was later called] Bokim. He said [to the Israeli people], “I brought your [ancestors] up here from Egypt. I led them into this land that I solemnly promised to give to your ancestors. I said to them, ‘The agreement that I made with you, as for me, I will never (break it/say that it is ended).
| روزی فرشتهٔ خداوند از جلجال به بوکیم آمده، به قوم اسرائیل گفت: «من شما را از مصر به سرزمینی که وعدهٔ آن را به اجدادتان دادم آوردم و گفتم که هرگز عهدی را که با شما بسته‌ام نخواهم شکست، به شرطی که شما نیز با اقوامی که در سرزمین موعود هستند هم پیمان نشوید و مذبحهای آنها را خراب کنید؛ ولی شما اطاعت نکردید. |
2 But as for you, you must never make a peace agreement with the people who live in this land. You must tear down the altars [where they make sacrifices to idols].’ But you have not obeyed me.
3 So now, I am telling you that I will not expel [your enemies] as you advance. They will be like thorns in your sides. And [they] will try to trap you [by making you worship] their idols.”
| پس من نیز این قومها را از این سرزمین بیرون نمی‌کنم و آنها چون خار به پهلوی شما فرو خواهند رفت و خدایان ایشان چون تله شما را گرفتار خواهند کرد.» |
4 After he told that to all the Israelis, the people cried loudly.
| وقتی فرشته سخنان خود را به پایان رسانید، قوم اسرائیل با صدای بلند گریستند. |
5 They called that place Bokim, [which means ‘weeping’]. There they offered sacrifices to Yahweh.
| آنها آن مکان را بوکیم نامیده، در آنجا برای خداوند قربانی کردند. |
6 After Joshua sent the Israeli people away, each group went to possess the land that had been allotted to them.
| یوشع قوم اسرائیل را پس از ختم سخنرانی خود مرخص کرد و آنها رفتند تا زمینهایی را که به ایشان تعلق می‌گرفت، به تصرف خود درآورند. |
7 They served Yahweh as long as Joshua was alive, and as long as the elders, those who had seen all the great things that Yahweh had done for Israel, were alive.
| یوشع خدمتگزار خداوند، در سن صد و ده سالگی درگذشت و او را در ملکش در تمنه حارس واقع در کوهستان افرایم به طرف شمال کوه جاعش به خاک سپردند. قوم اسرائیل در طول زندگانی یوشع و نیز ریش‌سفیدان قوم که پس از او زنده مانده بودند و شخصاً اعمال شگفت‌انگیز خداوند را در حق اسرائیل دیده بودند، نسبت به خداوند وفادار ماندند. |
8 Then Yahweh’s servant Joshua died. He was 110 years old when he died.
9 They buried his body in the area he had received [from Moses], at Timnath-Serah, in the area where the descendants of Ephraim lived, north of Gaash Mountain.
10 After all the people died who lived at the same time as Joshua [EUP], a group of people grew up who did not know Yahweh, and did not know what great things he had done for the Israeli people.
| ولی سرانجام تمام مردم آن نسل مردند و نسل بعدی خداوند را فراموش کردند و هر آنچه که او برای قوم اسرائیل انجام داده بود، به یاد نیاوردند. |
11 They did things that Yahweh said were very evil. They worshiped [idols that represented the god] Baal and the goddess Astarte. They worshiped [DOU] the various gods that the people-groups around them worshiped. They stopped worshiping Yahweh, the God their ancestors worshiped, the one who had brought their ancestors out of Egypt. That caused Yahweh to be very angry.
| ایشان نسبت به خداوند گناه ورزیدند و به پرستش بتهای بعل روی آوردند. |
| آنها خداوند خدای پدران خود را که آنها را از مصر بیرون آورده بود ترک نموده، بتهای اقوام اطرافشان را عبادت و سجده می‌کردند، بنابراین خشم خداوند بر تمام اسرائیل افروخته شد، |
| زیرا آنها خداوند را ترک نموده، بتهای بعل و عشتاروت را عبادت کردند. |
14 So he allowed people from other groups to raid them and steal their crops and animals. They were no longer able to resist their enemies, and Yahweh allowed all their enemies around them to defeat them.
| پس خداوند آنها را به دست دشمنانشان سپرد تا غارت شوند، به حدی که توان مقابله با دشمنان را نداشتند. |
15 Whenever the Israelis went to fight [their enemies], Yahweh [MTY] was opposing them, and allowed their enemies to defeat them, just as he had promised he would do. So the Israelis were greatly distressed.
| هرگاه قوم اسرائیل با دشمنان می‌جنگیدند، خداوند بر ضد اسرائیل عمل می‌کرد، همان‌طور که قبلاً در این مورد هشدار داده و قسم خورده بود. اما وقتی که قوم به این وضع فلاکت‌بار دچار گردیدند |
16 Then Yahweh gave leaders to them. These leaders rescued the Israelis from the people who were raiding them.
| خداوند رهبرانی فرستاد تا ایشان را از دست دشمنانشان برهانند. |
17 But the Israelis still would not pay attention to their leaders. Instead, they went to the idols, [acting like] prostitutes [who gave themselves to men who were not their husbands] [MET], and they worshiped those idols. They were not like their ancestors. Their ancestors obeyed what Yahweh commanded, but their descendants quickly stopped behaving as their ancestors had behaved.
| ولی از رهبران نیز اطاعت ننمودند و با پرستش خدایان دیگر، نسبت به خداوند خیانت ورزیدند. آنها برخلاف اجدادشان عمل کردند و خیلی زود از پیروی خداوند سر باز زده، او را اطاعت ننمودند. |
18 Whenever Yahweh gave a leader to them, he helped that leader and enabled him to rescue the people from their enemies. He helped them like that as long as that leader was alive. Yahweh pitied them as they groaned because they were being oppressed and caused to suffer.
| هر یک از رهبران در طول عمر خود، به کمک خداوند قوم اسرائیل را از دست دشمنانشان می‌رهانید، زیرا خداوند به سبب نالهٔ قوم خود و ظلم و ستمی که بر آنها می‌شد، دلش بر آنها می‌سوخت و تا زمانی که آن رهبر زنده بود به آنها کمک می‌کرد. |
19 But after that leader died, the people went back to behaving in ways even more evil than their ancestors had behaved. They worshiped other gods and bowed down to them and did all [LIT] the things that they thought those gods wanted them to do.
| اما وقتی که آن رهبر می‌مرد، قوم به کارهای زشت خود برمی‌گشتند و حتی بدتر از نسل قبل رفتار می‌کردند. آنها باز به سوی خدایان بت‌پرستان روی آورده، جلوی آنها زانو می‌زدند و آنها را عبادت می‌نمودند و با سرسختی به پیروی از رسوم زشت بت‌پرستان ادامه می‌دادند. |
20 So Yahweh was very angry with the Israeli people. He said, “These people have disobeyed the agreement I made with their ancestors. They have not done what I told them to do.
| پس خشم خداوند بر بنی‌اسرائیل افروخته شد و فرمود: «چون این قوم پیمانی را که با پدران ایشان بستم شکسته‌اند و از من اطاعت نکرده‌اند، |
21 So I will no longer expel the people-groups that Joshua left in this land when he died.
| من نیز قبایلی را که هنگام فوت یوشع هنوز مغلوب نشده بودند، بیرون نخواهم کرد. |
22 I will use them to test the Israeli people to see whether they will do what I want them to do, as their ancestors did.”
| بلکه آنها را برای آزمودن قوم خود می‌گذارم تا ببینم آیا آنها چون پدران خود، مرا اطاعت خواهند کرد یا نه.» |
23 Yahweh had allowed those people-groups to stay in that land. He did not expel them by allowing Joshua [and his men] to defeat them.
| پس خداوند آن قبایل را در سرزمین کنعان واگذاشت. او ایشان را توسط یوشع به کلی شکست نداده بود و بعد از مرگ یوشع نیز فوری آنها را بیرون نکرد. |
