Hezekiel 17

¹Ve Rab'bin sözü bana şöyle gelip dedi:

²"İnsanoğlu, bir öykü anlat ve İsrail hanedanına bir benzetme söyle.

³De ki, 'Egemen Rab şöyle diyor: Kanatları büyük, yayılımı geniş, pençelerle dolu, Lübnan'a girmek için liderliğe sahip olan o büyük kartal geldi ve sedir ağacının en seçkin dallarını aldı.

⁴Onun körpe filizlerinin uçlarını kopardı, onları Kenan ülkesine taşıdı ve surlarla çevrili bir kente yerleştirdi.

⁵Sonra o ülkenin tohumundan alıp bol sulu bir ovaya, bir fidan olarak dikti; onu özenle gözetilecek şekilde yerleştirdi.

⁶Tohum filizlendi ve göze çarpacak şekilde boyca küçük, zayıf bir asma oldu; dalları kendi üzerine doğru yöneldi, kökleri ise altında kaldı. Böylece bir asma haline geldi, sürgünler verdi ve yukarı tırmanan dallarını uzattı.

⁷Fakat büyük kanatlı, pençesi bol başka bir büyük kartal daha ortaya çıktı. Ve işte, bu asma dikildiği toprak yığınıyla birlikte kendisini sulasın diye köklerini ve dallarını ona doğru uzatarak ona sarıldı.

⁸Oysa filizler versin, meyve taşısın ve ulu bir asma olsun diye bol sulu, güzel bir ovada beslenmekteydi.'

⁹Bu yüzden de ki, 'Egemen Rab şöyle diyor: Bu asma başarılı olabilecek mi? Kartal onun körpe köklerini sökmeyecek, meyvesini çürütmeyecek mi? Yeni süren bütün yaprakları kuruyacak. Onu kökünden sökmek için ne güçlü bir kola ne de kalabalık bir halka gerek duyulacak.

¹⁰İşte, o beslenmektedir; ama başarılı olabilecek mi? Yakıcı çöl rüzgarı ona dokunur dokunmaz tamamen kurumayacak mı? Yeşerdiği toprak yığınıyla birlikte kuruyup gidecek.'"

¹¹Ve Rab'bin sözü bana şöyle gelip dedi:

¹²"İnsanoğlu, bu asi hanedana de ki: 'Bunların ne anlama geldiğini bilmiyor musunuz?' Onlara de ki: 'İşte, Babil kralı Yeruşalim'e geldi; onun kralını ve önderlerini alıp Babil'e, kendi yanına götürdü.

¹³Kraliyet soyundan biriyle antlaşma yaptı, onu yemin altına soktu ve ülkenin ileri gelenlerini de alıp götürdü.

¹⁴Öyle ki, krallık tamamen zayıf düşsün, bir daha asla yükselmesin; ancak onun antlaşmasını tutarak varlığını sürdürebilsin.

¹⁵Ama o, kendisine atlar ve büyük bir ordu sağlasın diye Mısır'a kendi elçilerini göndererek ona isyan etti. Bu adam başarılı olabilir mi? Karşıt şeyler yapan biri kurtulabilir mi? Antlaşmayı çiğneyen biri kurtulabilir mi?

¹⁶Egemen Rab diyor ki: Varlığım hakkı için, kendisini kral yapan, yeminini hiçe saydığı ve antlaşmasını çiğnediği o kralın ülkesinde, Babil'in ortasında onunla birlikte ölecektir.

¹⁷Canları yok etmek için hendekler kazıldığında ve kuşatma kuleleri inşa edildiğinde, Firavun büyük bir orduyla ve kalabalık bir halkla savaşta ona yardım edemeyecektir.

¹⁸Çünkü o, antlaşmayı çiğnemek için yemini hiçe saydı. İşte, elini vermiş olduğu halde bütün bunları yaptı; asla kurtulamayacaktır.'

¹⁹Bu yüzden Egemen Rab şöyle diyor: 'Varlığım hakkı için, hiçe saydığı yeminimi ve çiğnediği antlaşmamı kendi başına döndüreceğim.

²⁰Ağımı onun üzerine gereceğim ve o benim kuşatmamda yakalanacak.

²¹Onun bütün savaş saflarındakiler kılıçla düşecek, geride kalanlar ise her rüzgara doğru darmadağın edilecek. O zaman ben Rab'bin konuştuğumu anlayacaksınız.'

²²Egemen Rab şöyle diyor: 'Sedir ağacının seçkin dallarından ben kendim alacağım; onun özünün tepesindeki taze filizlerden birini koparıp yüksek ve yüce bir dağa dikeceğim.

²³Onu İsrail'in yüksek dağına yerleştireceğim; dallar sürecek, meyve verecek ve ulu bir sedir ağacı olacak. Her çeşit yaban hayvanı onun altında barınacak, kanatlı yaratıklar onun dallarının gölgesinde sığınacak ve onun dalları eski haline getirilecektir.

²⁴O zaman kırdaki bütün ağaçlar bilecek ki, yüksek ağacı alçaltan, alçak ağacı yükselten, yaş ağacı kurutan ve kuru ağacı yeşerten ben Rab'bim. Ben Rab söyledim ve yapacağım.'"

¹ΚΑΙ ἐγένετο λόγος Κυρίου πρός με λέγων·

²υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου, διήγησαι διήγημα καὶ εἰπὸν παραβολὴν πρὸς τὸν οἶκον τοῦ ᾿Ισραὴλ

³καὶ ἐρεῖς· τάδε λέγει Κύριος· ὁ ἀετὸς ὁ μέγας ὁ μεγαλοπτέρυγος, ὁ μακρὸς τῇ ἐκτάσει, πλήρης ὀνύχων, ὃς ἔχει τὸ ἥγημα εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τὸν Λίβανον καὶ ἔλαβε τὰ ἐπίλεκτα τῆς κέδρου,

⁴τὰ ἄκρα τῆς ἁπαλότητος ἀπέκνισε καὶ ἤνεγκεν αὐτὰ εἰς γῆν Χαναάν, εἰς πόλιν τετειχισμένην ἔθετο αὐτά.

⁵καὶ ἔλαβεν ἀπὸ τοῦ σπέρματος τῆς γῆς καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτὸ εἰς τὸ πεδίον φυτὸν ἐφ᾿ ὕδατι πολλῷ, ἐπιβλεπόμενον ἔταξεν αὐτό.

⁶καὶ ἀνέτειλε καὶ ἐγένετο εἰς ἄμπελον ἀσθενοῦσαν καὶ μικρὰν τῷ μεγέθει τοῦ ἐπιφαίνεσθαι αὐτήν· τὰ κλήματα αὐτῆς ἐπ᾿ αὐτὴν καὶ ῥίζαι αὐτῆς ὑποκάτω αὐτῆς ἦσαν. καὶ ἐγένετο εἰς ἄμπελον καὶ ἐποίησεν ἀπώρυγας καὶ ἐξέτεινε τὴν ἀναδενδράδα αὐτῆς.

⁷καὶ ἐγένετο ἀετὸς ἕτερος μέγας, μεγαλοπτέρυγος, πολὺς ὄνυξι, καὶ ἰδοὺ ἡ ἄμπελος αὕτη περιπεπλεγμένη πρὸς αὐτόν, καὶ ρίζαι αὐτῆς πρὸς αὐτόν, καὶ τὰ κλήματα αὐτῆς ἐξαπέστειλεν αὐτῷ τοῦ ποτίσαι αὐτὴν σὺν τῷ βώλῳ τῆς φυτείας αὐτῆς.

⁸εἰς πεδίον καλὸν ἐφ᾿ ὕδατι πολλῷ αὕτη πιαίνεται τοῦ ποιεῖν βλαστοὺς καὶ φέρειν καρπόν, τοῦ εἶναι εἰς ἄμπελον μεγάλην.

⁹διὰ τοῦτο εἰπόν· τάδε λέγει Κύριος· εἰ κατευθυνεῖ; οὐχὶ αἱ ρίζαι τῆς ἁπαλότητος αὐτῆς καὶ ὁ καρπὸς σαπήσεται, καὶ ξηρανθήσεται πάντα τὰ προανατέλλοντα αὐτῆς; καὶ οὐκ ἐν βραχίονι μεγάλῳ, οὐδὲ ἐν λαῷ πολλῷ τοῦ ἐκσπᾶσαι αὐτὴν ἐκ ριζῶν αὐτῆς·

¹⁰καὶ ἰδοὺ πιαίνεται· μὴ κατευθυνεῖ; οὐχὶ ἅμα τῷ ἅψασθαι αὐτῆς ἀνεμον τὸν καύσωνα ξηρανθήσεται; σὺν τῷ βώλῳ ἀνατολῆς αὐτῆς ξηρανθήσεται.

¹¹Καὶ ἐγένετο λόγος Κυρίου πρός με λέγων·

¹²υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου, εἰπὸν δὴ πρὸς τὸν οἶκον τὸν παραπικραίνοντα· οὐκ ἐπίστασθε τί ἦν ταῦτα; εἰπόν· ὅταν ἔλθῃ βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος ἐπὶ ῾Ιερουσαλήμ, καὶ λήψεται τὸν βασιλέα αὐτῆς καὶ τοὺς ἄρχοντας αὐτῆς καὶ ἄξῃ αὐτοὺς πρὸς ἑαυτὸν εἰς Βαβυλῶνα.

¹³καὶ λήψεται ἐκ τοῦ σπέρματος τῆς βασιλείας καὶ διαθήσεται πρὸς αὐτὸν διαθήκην καὶ εἰσάξει αὐτὸν ἐν ἀρᾷ, καὶ τοὺς ἡγεμόνας τῆς γῆς λήψεται

¹⁴τοῦ γενέσθαι εἰς βασιλείαν ἀσθενῆ τὸ καθόλου μὴ ἐπαίρεσθαι, τοῦ φυλάσσειν τὴν διαθήκην αὐτοῦ καὶ ἱστάνειν αὐτήν.

¹⁵καὶ ἀποστήσεται ἀπ᾿ αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἐξαποστέλλειν ἀγγέλους ἑαυτοῦ εἰς Αἴγυπτον, τοῦ δοῦναι αὐτῷ ἵππους καὶ λαὸν πολύν. εἰ κατευθυνεῖ; εἰ διασωθήσεται ὁ ποιῶν ἐναντία; καὶ παραβαίνων διαθήκην εἰ διασωθήσεται;

¹⁶ζῶ ἐγώ, λέγει Κύριος, ἐὰν μὴ ἐν ᾧ τόπῳ ὁ βασιλεὺς ὁ βασιλεύσας αὐτόν, ὃς ἠτίμωσε τὴν ἀράν μου καὶ ὃς παρέβη τὴν διαθήκην μου, μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ ἐν μέσῳ Βαβυλῶνος τελευτήσει.

¹⁷καὶ οὐκ ἐν δυνάμει μεγάλῃ οὐδὲ ἐν ὄχλῳ πολλῷ ποιήσει πρὸς αὐτὸν Φαραὼ πόλεμον, ἐν χαρακοβολίᾳ καὶ ἐν οἰκοδομῇ βελοστάσεων τοῦ ἐξᾶραι ψυχάς.

¹⁸καὶ ἠτίμωσεν ὁρκωμοσίαν τοῦ παραβῆναι διαθήκην, καὶ ἰδοὺ δέδωκε τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ καὶ πάντα ταῦτα ἐποίησεν αὐτῷ· μὴ σωθήσεται;

¹⁹διὰ τοῦτο εἰπόν· τάδε λέγει Κύριος· ζῶ ἐγὼ ἐὰν μὴ τὴν ὁρκωμοσίαν μου, ἣν ἠτίμωσε, καὶ τὴν διαθήκην μου, ἣν παρέβη, καὶ δώσω αὐτὰ εἰς κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ.

²⁰καὶ ἐκπετάσω ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸν τὸ δίκτυόν μου, καὶ ἁλώσεται ἐν τῇ περιοχῇ αὐτοῦ.

²¹ἐν πάσῃ παρατάξει αὐτοῦ ἐν ρομφαίᾳ πεσοῦνται, καὶ τοὺς καταλοίπους εἰς πάντα ἄνεμον διασπερῶ, καὶ ἐπιγνώσεσθε διότι ἐγὼ Κύριος λελάληκα. -

²²Διότι τάδε λέγει Κύριος· καὶ λήψομαι ἐγὼ ἐκ τῶν ἐκλεκτῶν τῆς κέδρου, ἐκ κορυφῆς καρδίας αὐτῶν ἀποκνιῶ καὶ καταφυτεύσω ἐγὼ ἐπ᾿ ὄρος ὑψηλόν·

²³καὶ κρεμάσω αὐτὸν ἐν ὄρει μετεώρῳ τῷ ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ καταφυτεύσω, καὶ ἐξοίσει βλαστὸν καὶ ποιήσει καρπὸν καὶ ἔσται εἰς κέδρον μεγάλην, καὶ ἀναπαύσεται ὑποκάτω αὐτοῦ πᾶν θηρίον, καὶ πᾶν πετεινὸν ὑπὸ τὴν σκιὰν αὐτοῦ ἀναπαύσεται, τὰ κλήματα αὐτοῦ ἀποκατασταθήσεται.

²⁴καὶ γνώσονται πάντα τὰ ξύλα τοῦ πεδίου διότι ἐγὼ Κύριος ὁ ταπεινῶν ξύλον ὑψηλὸν καὶ ὑψῶν ξύλον ταπεινὸν καὶ ξηραίνων ξύλον χλωρὸν καὶ ἀναθάλλων ξύλον ξηρόν· ἐγὼ Κύριος λελάληκα καὶ ποιήσω.

¹And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

²Son of man, relate a tale, and speak a parable to the house of Israel:

³and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord; A great eagle with large wings, spreading them out very far, with many claws, which has the design of entering into Libanus-- and he took the choice [branches] of the cedar:

⁴he cropped off the ends of the tender twigs, and brought them into the land of Chanaan; he laid them up in a walled city.

⁵And he took of the seed of the land, and sowed it in a field planted by much water; he set it in a conspicuous place.

⁶And it sprang up, and became a weak and little vine, so that the branches thereof appeared [upon] it, and its roots were under it: and it became a vine, and put forth shoots, and sent forth its tendrils.

⁷And there was another great eagle, with great wings and many claws: and, behold, this vine bent itself round toward him, and her roots [were turned] towards him, and she sent forth her branches towards him, that [he] might water her together with the growth of her plantation.

⁸She thrives in a fair field by much water, to produce shoots and bear fruit, that she might become a great vine.

⁹Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord; Shall it prosper? shall not the roots of her tender stem and her fruit be blighted? yea, all her early shoots shall be dried up, and [that] not by a mighty arm, nor by many people, to tear her up from her roots.

¹⁰And, behold, it thrives: shall it prosper? shall it not wither as soon as the east wind touches it? it shall be withered together with the growth of its shoots.

¹¹Moreover the word of the Lord came to me saying,

¹²Son of man, say now to the provoking house, Know ye not what these things were? say [to them], Whenever the king of Babylon shall come against Jerusalem, then he shall take her king and her princes, and shall take them home to Babylon.

¹³And he shall take of the seed royal, and shall make a covenant with him, and shall bind him with an oath: and he shall take the princes of the land:

¹⁴that it may become a weak kingdom, so as never to lift itself up, that he may keep his covenant, and establish it.

¹⁵And [if] he shall revolt from him, to send his messengers into Egypt, that [they] may give him horses and much people; shall he prosper? shall he that acts as an adversary be preserved? and shall he that transgresses the covenant be preserved?

¹⁶[As] I live, saith the Lord, verily in [the] place where the king is that made him king, who dishonoured my oath, and who broke my covenant, shall he die with him in the midst of Babylon.

¹⁷And Pharaoh shall make war upon him not with a large force or great multitude, in throwing up a mound, and in building of forts, to cut off souls.

¹⁸Whereas he has profaned the oath so as to break the covenant, when, behold, I engage his hand, and he has done all these things to him, he shall not escape.

¹⁹Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord; [As] I live, surely mine oath which he has profaned, and my covenant which he has transgressed, I will even recompense it upon his head.

²⁰And I will spread a net upon him, and he shall be caught in its snare.

²¹In every battle of his they shall fall by the sword, and I will scatter [his] remnant to every wind: and ye shall know that I the Lord have spoken it.

²²For thus saith the Lord; I will even take of the choice [branches] of the cedar from the top [thereof], I will crop off their hearts, and I will plant it on a high mountain:

²³and I will hang it on a lofty mountain of Israel: yea, I will plant it, and it shall put forth shoots, and shall bear fruit, and it shall be a great cedar: and every bird shall rest beneath it, even every fowl shall rest under its shadow: its branches shall be restored.

²⁴And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord that bring low the high tree, and exalt the low tree, and wither the green tree, and cause the dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have spoken, and will do [it].