دوم سموئیل 1

1 پس از کشته شدن شائول، داوود عمالیقی‌ها را سرکوب کرد و به شهر صقلغ بازگشت و دو روز در آنجا ماند.

After Saul died, David [and the men who were with him] returned to Ziklag [town] after defeating the descendants of Amalek. They stayed in Ziklag for two days.

2 در روز سوم، ناگهان مردی از لشکر شائول با لباس پاره، در حالی که روی سرش خاک ریخته بود، آمد و در حضور داوود تعظیم نموده، به خاک افتاد.

On the third day, unexpectedly a man arrived there who had come from where Saul’s army was camped. He had torn his clothes and put dust on his head [to show that he was grieving]. He came to David, and prostrated himself on the ground [in front of David to show respect for him].

3 داوود از او پرسید: «از کجا آمده‌ای؟» جواب داد: «از اردوگاه اسرائیل فرار کرده‌ام.»

David asked him, “Where have you come from?” The man replied, “I escaped from where the Israeli army had been camped.”

4 داوود پرسید: «به من بگو چه اتفاقی افتاده است؟» جواب داد: «تمام سربازان ما فرار کرده‌اند. عدهٔ زیادی از افراد ما کشته و مجروح شده‌اند. شائول و پسرش یوناتان هم کشته شده‌اند!»

David asked him, “What happened? Tell me [about the battle]!” The man replied, “The Israeli soldiers ran away from the battle. Many of them were killed. And Saul and his son Jonathan (are dead/were also killed).”

5 داوود از او پرسید: «از کجا می‌دانی که شائول و پسرش یوناتان مرده‌اند؟»

David said to the young man, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”

6 گفت: «برحسب تصادف، در کوه جلبوع بودم که دیدم شائول به نیزهٔ خود تکیه داده بود و ارابه‌ها و سواران دشمن هر لحظه به او نزدیکتر می‌شدند.

The young man replied, “It happened that I was on Gilboa Mountain [where the battle occurred], and I saw Saul, leaning on his spear. The [enemy] chariots and their drivers had come very close to Saul.

7 وقتی شائول چشمش به من افتاد مرا صدا زد. گفتم: بله آقا.

Saul turned around and saw me, and he called out to me. I answered him and said, ‘What do you want me to do?’

8 پرسید:”کیستی؟“گفتم:”یک عَمالیقی.“

He replied, ‘Who are you?’ I replied, ‘I am a descendant of Amalek.’

9 آنگاه التماس کرد:”بیا و مرا بکش چون به سختی مجروح شده‌ام و می‌خواهم زودتر راحت شوم.“

Then he said to me, ‘Come over here and kill me. I am still alive, but I am enduring a lot of pain.’

10 پس من هم او را کشتم، چون می‌دانستم که زنده نمی‌ماند. تاج و بازوبندش را گرفتم و نزد آقای خویش آوردم.»

So I went to him and killed him, because I knew that he was wounded very badly and would (not continue to live/soon die). I took the crown that was on his head and the band/bracelet that was on his arm, and I have brought them to you.”

11 داوود و افرادش وقتی این خبر را شنیدند از شدت ناراحتی لباسهای خود را پاره کردند.

Then David and all the men who were with him tore their clothes [to show that they were very sad].

12 آنها برای شائول و پسرش یوناتان و قوم خداوند و به خاطر سربازان شهید اسرائیلی، تمام روز روزه گرفته، گریه کردند و به سوگواری پرداختند.

They mourned for Saul and his son Jonathan, and they cried and (fasted/abstained from eating food) until it was evening. They also mourned for all the army of Yahweh, and for all the Israeli people, because many of their soldiers had been killed in the battle [MTY].

13 آنگاه داوود به جوانی که این خبر را آورده بود گفت: «تو اهل کجا هستی؟» او جواب داد: «من یک عمالیقی هستم ولی در سرزمین شما زندگی می‌کنم.»

Then David asked the young man who had told him [about the battle], “Where are you from?” He replied, “My father is a descendant of Amalek, but we live in Israel.”

14 داوود به او گفت: «چطور جرأت کردی پادشاه برگزیدهٔ خداوند را بکشی؟»

David asked him, “(Why were you not afraid [that you would be punished if you] killed Saul, whom Yahweh had appointed [MTY] [to be the king]?/You should have been afraid [that you would be punished if you] killed Saul, whom Yahweh had appointed [MTY] [to be the king].) [RHQ]

15 سپس به یکی از افرادش دستور داد او را بکشد و آن مرد او را کشت.

You yourself said, ‘I killed the man whom Yahweh appointed to be the king.’ So you have caused yourself to be guilty [MTY] of causing your own death!” Then David summoned one of his soldiers and said to him, “Kill him!” So the soldier killed him by striking him [with a sword].

16 داوود گفت: «تو خودت باعث مرگت شدی، چون با زبان خودت اعتراف کردی که پادشاه برگزیدهٔ خداوند را کشته‌ای.»

17 آنگاه داوود این مرثیه را برای شائول و یوناتان نوشت و بعد دستور داد آن را به مردم یهودا تعلیم دهند. (کلمات این مرثیه در کتاب یاشَر نوشته شده است.)

Then David composed/wrote this sad song about Saul and Jonathan,

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and he commanded that it be taught to the people of Judah. [The song is called] ‘The Bow [and Arrow]’ and it has been written in the Book of Jashar:

19 «ای اسرائیل، جلال تو بر فراز تپه‌ها از بین رفت. دلاوران تو به خاک افتاده‌اند!

“You Israeli people, your glorious [MTY] leaders have been killed on the mountains! [It is very sad that] those mighty men have died!

20 «این را به فلسطینی‌ها نگویید، مبادا شادی کنند. این را از شهرهای جت و اشقلون مخفی بدارید، مبادا دختران خدانشناس فلسطین وجد نمایند.

“Do not tell it [to our enemies in the Philistia area]; do not tell to the people who live in Gath [city] what happened; do not proclaim it in the streets of Ashkelon [city], because if you tell them, [even] the women in that area will be happy; do not allow those (pagan women/women who do not know God) to rejoice.

21 «ای کوه جلبوع، کاش دیگر شبنم و باران بر تو نبارد، کاش دیگر محصول غله در دامنت نروید، زیرا در آنجا شائول و دلاوران اسرائیل مرده‌اند، از این پس، سپر شائول را روغن نخواهند مالید.

I hope/desire that there will be no rain or dew on the mountains of [the] Gilboa [area] [APO], and that no grain will grow in the fields there, because there the shield of Saul, the mighty [king], fell on the ground. No one rubbed [olive] oil on Saul’s shield;

22 «شائول و یوناتان، هر دو دشمنان نیرومند خود را کشتند و دست خالی از جنگ برنگشتند.

instead, it was stained with the blood of those whom he had killed, and the fat of mighty enemy soldiers was smeared on it. Jonathan [PRS] did not retreat carrying his bow [and arrows], and Saul always [defeated his enemies when he fought them] with his sword. [PRS, LIT]

23 شائول و یوناتان چقدر محبوب و نازنین بودند! در زندگی و در مرگ از هم جدا نشدند! از عقابها سریعتر و از شیرها تواناتر بودند!

“Saul and Jonathan were loved and they pleased many people. They were together [LIT] while they lived and when they died. [In battles] they were swifter than eagles and they were stronger than lions.

24 «ای زنان اسرائیل، برای شائول گریه کنید. او شما را با لباسهای زیبا و گرانبها می‌پوشانْد و با زر و زیور می‌آراست.

“You Israeli women, cry about Saul; He provided beautiful scarlet/red clothes for you and he gave you gold ornaments/jewelry to fasten on those clothes.

25 «یوناتان بر فراز تپه‌ها کشته شده است. دلاوران در میدان جنگ افتاده‌اند.

“[It is very sad that] this mighty soldier has died! Jonathan has been killed on the mountains/hills.

26 ای برادر من یوناتان، برای تو بسیار دلتنگم. چقدر تو را دوست داشتم! محبت تو برای من، عمیقتر از محبت زنان بود!

Jonathan, my dear friend, I grieve for you; you were very dear to me. You loved me in a wonderful manner; it was better than the way that a woman loves [her husband and her children].

27 «دلاوران به خاک افتاده و مرده‌اند. اسلحه آنها را به غنیمت برده‌اند.»

“It is very sad that those mighty men have died, and their weapons are now abandoned!