ישעה 10
| הוי החקקים חקקי און ומכתבים עמל כתבו | 1 |
Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:
| להטות מדין דלים ולגזל משפט עניי עמי--להיות אלמנות שללם ואת יתומים יבזו | 2 |
Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.
| ומה תעשו ליום פקדה ולשואה ממרחק תבוא על מי תנוסו לעזרה ואנה תעזבו כבודכם | 3 |
And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the destruction which is coming from far? to whom will you go for help, and what will become of your glory?
| בלתי כרע תחת אסיר ותחת הרוגים יפלו בכל זאת לא שב אפו ועוד ידו נטויה | 4 |
... For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
| הוי אשור שבט אפי ומטה הוא בידם זעמי | 5 |
Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!
| בגוי חנף אשלחנו ועל עם עברתי אצונו--לשלל שלל ולבז בז ולשימו (ולשומו) מרמס כחמר חוצות | 6 |
I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.
| והוא לא כן ידמה ולבבו לא כן יחשב כי להשמיד בלבבו ולהכרית גוים לא מעט | 7 |
But this is not what is in his mind, and this is not his design; but his purpose is destruction, and the cutting off of more and more nations.
| כי יאמר הלא שרי יחדו מלכים | 8 |
For he says, Are not all my captains kings?
| הלא ככרכמיש כלנו אם לא כארפד חמת אם לא כדמשק שמרון | 9 |
Will not the fate of Calno be like that of Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
| כאשר מצאה ידי לממלכת האליל ופסיליהם מירושלם ומשמרון | 10 |
As my hand has come on the kingdoms of the images, whose pictured images were more in number than those of Jerusalem and Samaria;
| הלא כאשר עשיתי לשמרון--ולאליליה כן אעשה לירושלם ולעצביה | 11 |
So, as I have done to Samaria and her images, I will do to Jerusalem and her images.
| והיה כי יבצע אדני את כל מעשהו בהר ציון ובירושלם--אפקד על פרי גדל לבב מלך אשור ועל תפארת רום עיניו | 12 |
For this cause it will be that, when the purpose of the Lord against Mount Zion and Jerusalem is complete, I will send punishment on the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his uplifted eyes.
| כי אמר בכח ידי עשיתי ובחכמתי כי נבנותי ואסיר גבולת עמים ועתידתיהם (ועתודתיהם) שושתי ואוריד כאביר יושבים | 13 |
For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my knowledge, for I am wise: and I have taken away the limits of the peoples' lands, and the stores of their wealth have become mine; and I have made towns low in the dust, sending destruction on those living in them;
| ותמצא כקן ידי לחיל העמים וכאסף ביצים עזבות כל הארץ אני אספתי ולא היה נדד כנף ופצה פה ומצפצף | 14 |
And I have put my hands on the wealth of the peoples, as on the place where a bird has put her eggs; and as a man may take the eggs from which a bird has gone, so I have taken all the earth for myself: and not a wing was moved, and not a mouth gave out a sound.
| היתפאר הגרזן על החצב בו אם יתגדל המשור על מניפו כהניף שבט ואת מרימיו כהרים מטה לא עץ | 15 |
Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.
| לכן ישלח האדון יהוה צבאות במשמניו--רזון ותחת כבדו יקד יקד כיקוד אש | 16 |
For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, will make his fat become wasted; and in his inner parts a fire will be lighted like a burning flame.
| והיה אור ישראל לאש וקדושו ללהבה ובערה ואכלה שיתו ושמירו--ביום אחד | 17 |
And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: wasting and burning up his thorns in one day.
| וכבוד יערו וכרמלו מנפש ועד בשר יכלה והיה כמסס נסס | 18 |
And he will put an end to the glory of his woods and of his planted fields, soul and body together; and it will be as when a man is wasted by disease.
| ושאר עץ יערו מספר יהיו ונער יכתבם | 19 |
And the rest of the trees of his wood will be small in number, so that a child may put them down in writing.
| והיה ביום ההוא לא יוסיף עוד שאר ישראל ופליטת בית יעקב להשען על מכהו ונשען על יהוה קדוש ישראל--באמת | 20 |
And it will be in that day that the rest of Israel, and those of Jacob who have come safely through these troubles, will no longer go for help to him whose rod was on their back, but their faith will be in the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
| שאר ישוב שאר יעקב--אל אל גבור | 21 |
The rest, even the rest of Jacob, will come back to the Strong God.
| כי אם יהיה עמך ישראל כחול הים--שאר ישוב בו כליון חרוץ שוטף צדקה | 22 |
For though your people, O Israel, are as the sand of the sea, only a small number will come back: for the destruction is fixed, overflowing in righteousness.
| כי כלה ונחרצה--אדני יהוה צבאות עשה בקרב כל הארץ | 23 |
For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to make destruction complete in all the land.
| לכן כה אמר אדני יהוה צבאות אל תירא עמי ישב ציון מאשור בשבט יככה ומטהו ישא עליך בדרך מצרים | 24 |
For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, says, O my people living in Zion, have no fear of the Assyrian, even if his rod comes on your back, and his stick is lifted up as in Egypt.
| כי עוד מעט מזער וכלה זעם ואפי על תבליתם | 25 |
For in a very short time my passion will be over, and my wrath will be turned to their destruction.
| ועורר עליו יהוה צבאות שוט כמכת מדין בצור עורב ומטהו על הים ונשאו בדרך מצרים | 26 |
And the Lord of armies will be shaking a whip against him, as when he overcame Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be lifted up against them as it was against the Egyptians.
| והיה ביום ההוא יסור סבלו מעל שכמך ועלו מעל צוארך וחבל על מפני שמן | 27 |
And in that day the weight which he put on your back will be taken away, and his yoke broken from off your neck.
| בא על עית עבר במגרון למכמש יפקיד כליו | 28 |
He has gone up from Pene-Rimmon, he has come to Aiath; he has gone past Migron, at Michmash he puts his forces in order.
| עברו מעברה גבע מלון לנו חרדה הרמה--גבעת שאול נסה | 29 |
They have gone across the mountain; Geba will be our resting-place tonight, they say: Ramah is shaking with fear; Gibeah of Saul has gone in flight.
| צהלי קולך בת גלים הקשיבי לישה עניה ענתות | 30 |
Give a loud cry, daughter of Gallim; let Laishah give ear; let Anathoth give answer to her.
| נדדה מדמנה ישבי הגבים העיזו | 31 |
Madmenah has gone; the men of Gebim are putting their goods in a safe place.
| עוד היום בנב לעמד ינפף ידו הר בית (בת) ציון גבעת ירושלם | 32 |
This very day he is stopping at Nob; he is shaking his hand against the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
| הנה האדון יהוה צבאות מסעף פארה במערצה ורמי הקומה גדועים והגבהים ישפלו | 33 |
See, the Lord, the Lord of armies, is cutting off his branches with a great noise, and his strong ones are falling and his high ones are coming down.
| ונקף סבכי היער בברזל והלבנון באדיר יפול | 34 |
And he is cutting down the thick places of the wood with an axe, and Lebanon with its tall trees is coming down.
