Judges 2
1 The LORD’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I brought you out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to give your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you.
| وَاجْتَازَ مَلاكُ الرَّبِّ مِنَ الْجِلْجَالِ إِلَى بُوكِيمَ وَقَالَ: «لَقَدْ أَخْرَجْتُكُمْ مِنْ مِصْرَ وَجِئْتُ بِكُمْ إِلَى الأَرْضِ الَّتِي حَلَفْتُ أَنْ أَهَبَهَا لِآبَائِكُمْ، وَقُلْتُ: لَا أَنْقُضُ عَهْدِي مَعَكُمْ إِلَى الأَبَدِ، | ١ |
2 You shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You shall break down their altars.’ But you have not listened to my voice. Why have you done this?
| وَأَمَرْتُكُمْ أَنْ لَا تَقْطَعُوا عَهْداً مَعَ أَهْلِ هَذِهِ الأَرْضِ، وَأَنْ تَهْدِمُوا مَذَابِحَهُمْ. غَيْرَ أَنَّكُمْ لَمْ تُطِيعُوا صَوْتِي. فَلِمَاذَا فَعَلْتُمْ هَذَا؟ | ٢ |
3 Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’”
| لِذَلِكَ قُلْتُ أَيْضاً: لَا أَطْرُدُهُمْ مِنْ أَمَامِكُمْ، فَيُصْبِحُوا شَوْكاً فِي جُنُوبِكُمْ، وَتَكُونُ آلِهَتُهُمْ لَكُمْ شَرَكاً». | ٣ |
4 When the LORD’s angel spoke these words to all the children of Israel, the people lifted up their voice and wept.
| فَمَا إِنْ نَطَقَ مَلاكُ الرَّبِّ بِهَذَا الْكَلامِ أَمَامَ جَمِيعِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ حَتَّى رَفَعَ الشَّعْبُ صَوْتَهُ بِالْبُكَاءِ. | ٤ |
5 They called the name of that place Bochim, and they sacrificed there to the LORD.
| وَدَعَوْا اسْمَ ذَلِكَ الْمَوْضِعِ بُوكِيمَ (وَمَعْنَاهُ: الْبَاكُونَ) وَقَدَّمُوا هُنَاكَ ذَبَائِحَ لِلرَّبِّ. | ٥ |
6 Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel each went to his inheritance to possess the land.
| وَصَرَفَ يَشُوعُ الشَّعْبَ، فَمَضَى كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ لامْتِلاكِ مِيرَاثِهِ. | ٦ |
7 The people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of the LORD that he had worked for Israel.
| وَظَلَّ الشَّعْبُ يَعْبُدُ الرَّبَّ طَوَالَ حَيَاةِ يَشُوعَ، وَكُلَّ أَيَّامِ الشُّيُوخِ الَّذِينَ عَمَّرُوا طَوِيلاً بَعْدَ مَوْتِهِ، وَالَّذِينَ شَهِدُوا كُلَّ الْمُعْجِزَاتِ الْخَارِقَةِ الَّتِي أَجْرَاهَا الرَّبُّ مِنْ أَجْلِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ. | ٧ |
8 Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred ten years old.
| وَمَاتَ يَشُوعُ بْنُ نُونَ عَبْدُ الرَّبِّ وَقَدْ بَلَغَ مِنَ الْعُمْرِ مِئَةً وَعَشْرَ سَنَوَاتٍ، | ٨ |
9 They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.
| فَدَفَنُوهُ فِي حُدُودِ أَمْلاكِهِ فِي تِمْنَةَ حَارَسَ فِي جَبَلِ أَفْرَايِمَ شِمَالِيَّ جَبَلِ جَاعَشَ. | ٩ |
10 After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know the LORD, nor the work which he had done for Israel.
| وَكَذَلِكَ مَاتَ أَيْضاً كُلُّ جِيلِ يَشُوعَ، وَأَعْقَبَهُمْ جِيلٌ آخَرُ لَمْ يَعْرِفِ الرَّبَّ وَلا كُلَّ أَعْمَالِهِ الَّتِي أَجْرَاهَا مِنْ أَجْلِ إِسْرَائِيلَ. | ١٠ |
11 The children of Israel did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, and served the Baals.
| وَاقْتَرَفَ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ الشَّرَّ فِي عَيْنَيِ الرَّبِّ وَعَبَدُوا الْبَعْلِيمَ، | ١١ |
12 They abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; and they provoked the LORD to anger.
| وَنَبَذُوا الرَّبَّ إِلَهَ آبَائِهِمِ الَّذِي أَخْرَجَهُمْ مِنْ دِيَارِ مِصْرَ، وَغَوَوْا وَرَاءَ آلِهَةٍ أُخْرَى مِنْ أَوْثَانِ الشُّعُوبِ الْمُحِيطَةِ بِهِمْ، وَسَجَدُوا لَهَا، فَأَغَاظُوا الرَّبَّ. | ١٢ |
13 They abandoned the LORD, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
| تَرَكُوا الرَّبَّ وَعَبَدُوا الْبَعْلَ وَعَشْتَارُوثَ. | ١٣ |
14 The LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.
| فَاحْتَدَمَ غَضَبُ الرَّبِّ عَلَى إِسْرَائِيلَ وَتَرَكَهُمْ تَحْتَ رَحْمَةِ النَّاهِبِينَ الْغُزَاةِ. وَأَسْلَمَهُمْ إِلَى أَعْدَائِهِمِ الْمُحِيطِينَ بِهِمْ فَعَجَزُوا عَنْ مُقَاوَمَتِهِمْ. | ١٤ |
15 Wherever they went out, the LORD’s hand was against them for evil, as the LORD had spoken, and as the LORD had sworn to them; and they were very distressed.
| وَحَيْثُمَا خَرَجُوا لِخَوْضِ الْحَرْبِ كَانَ الرَّبُّ ضِدَّهُمْ فَيَنْكَسِرُونَ، تَمَاماً كَمَا سَبَقَ وَحَذَّرَهُمْ، فَاعْتَرَاهُمْ ضِيقٌ عَظِيمٌ جِدّاً. | ١٥ |
16 The LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
| وَأَقَامَ الرَّبُّ مِنْ بَيْنِهِمْ قُضَاةً فَأَنْقَذُوهُمْ مِنْ أَيْدِي غُزَاتِهِمْ. | ١٦ |
17 Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they prostituted themselves to other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They quickly turned away from the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the LORD’s commandments. They didn’t do so.
| غَيْرَ أَنَّهُمْ عَصَوْا قُضَاتَهُمْ أَيْضاً، وَخَانُوا الرَّبَّ إِذْ عَبَدُوا آلِهَةً أُخْرَى وَسَجَدُوا لَهَا، وَتَحَوَّلُوا سَرِيعاً عَنِ الطَّرِيقِ الَّتِي سَلَكَهَا آبَاؤُهُمْ إِطَاعَةً لِوَصَايَا الرَّبِّ. | ١٧ |
18 When the LORD raised up judges for them, then the LORD was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved the LORD because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.
| وَفِي كُلِّ مَرَّةٍ كَانَ الرَّبُّ يُقِيمُ قَاضِياً كَانَ يُؤَيِّدُه بِقُوَّةٍ طَوَالَ حَيَاتِهِ فَيُخَلِّصُ الشَّعْبَ مِنْ عُبُودِيَّةِ أَعْدَائِهِ إِذْ يُشْفِقُ الرَّبُّ عَلَيْهِمْ مِمَّا يُذِيقُهُمْ مُضَايِقُوهُمْ وَظَالِمُوهُمْ مِنْ عَذَابٍ؛ فَكَانَ الرَّبُّ يُنْقِذُهُمْ طَوَالَ حَيَاةِ الْقَاضِي. | ١٨ |
19 But when the judge was dead, they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers in following other gods to serve them and to bow down to them. They didn’t cease what they were doing, or give up their stubborn ways.
| وَلَكِنْ مَا إِنْ يَمُوتُ الْقَاضِي حَتَّى يَرْتَدُّوا عَنِ الرَّبِّ وَيَتَفَاقَمَ فَسَادُهُمْ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ تَفَاقُمِ فَسَادِ آبَائِهِمْ بِالسَّعْيِ وَرَاءَ آلِهَةٍ أُخْرَى لِيَعْبُدُوهَا وَيَسْجُدُوا لَهَا. لَمْ يَرْتَدِعُوا عَنْ أَفْعَالِهِمْ وَسُلُوكِهِمِ الْعَنِيدِ. | ١٩ |
20 The LORD’s anger burned against Israel; and he said, “Because this nation transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to my voice,
| فَاحْتَدَمَ غَضَبُ الرَّبِّ عَلَى إِسْرَائِيلَ وَقَالَ: «مِنْ حَيْثُ إِنَّ هَذَا الشَّعْبَ قَدْ نَقَضَ عَهْدِي الَّذِي عَقَدْتُهُ مَعَ آبَائِهِمْ، وَعَصَوْنِي، | ٢٠ |
21 I also will no longer drive out any of the nations that Joshua left when he died from before them;
| فَإِنِّي لَنْ أَطْرُدَ مِنْ أَمَامِهِمْ أَيَّ إِنْسَانٍ مِنَ الأُمَمِ الَّذِينَ تَرَكَهُمْ يَشُوعُ عِنْدَ مَوْتِهِ. | ٢١ |
22 that by them I may test Israel, to see if they will keep the LORD’s way to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.”
| بَلْ سَأُبْقِي عَلَيْهِمْ لأَمْتَحِنَ بِهِمْ إِسْرَائِيلَ، لأَرَى أَيَحْفَظُونَ طَرِيقِي لِيَسْلُكُوا فِيهَا كَمَا حَفِظَهَا آبَاؤُهُمْ أَمْ لا». | ٢٢ |
23 So the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily. He didn’t deliver them into Joshua’s hand.
| وَهَكَذَا تَرَكَ الرَّبُّ أُولَئِكَ الأُمَمَ وَلَمْ يَتَعَجَّلْ بِطَرْدِهِمْ وَلَمْ يُخْضِعْهُمْ لِيَشُوعَ. | ٢٣ |
