Hezekiel 18

¹Ve Rabbin sözü bana gelip şöyle dedi:

²"Ey insanoğlu, İsrail oğulları arasında, 'Babalar koruk yedi ve çocukların dişleri kamaştı' diyerek bu atasözünü tekrarlamakla ne demek istiyorsunuz?

³Varlığım üzerine ant içerim ki, diyor Rab, bu atasözü İsrail'de bir daha asla söylenmeyecektir.

⁴Çünkü bütün canlar benimdir; babanın canı nasıl benimse, oğlun canı da öyle benimdir; günah işleyen can, ancak o ölecektir.

⁵Doğru olan, hak ve adaleti yerine getiren bir adama gelince:

⁶Dağlar üzerinde kurban yemekleri yemez, gözlerini İsrail evinin putlarına dikmez, komşusunun karısını kirletmez ve adet gören kadına yaklaşmaz;

⁷kimseye zorbalık etmez, borçlunun rehnini geri verir, hiçbir şeyi gasp etmez, ekmeğini aç olana verir ve çıplağın üzerini örter;

⁸parasını faizle vermez, tefecilik kazancı elde etmez, elini haksızlıktan uzak tutar, bir adamla komşusu arasında adilce hüküm verir;

⁹kurallarıma göre yürür ve onları yerine getirmek için buyruklarımı tutarsa; o doğrudur, kesinlikle yaşayacaktır, diyor Rab.

¹⁰Eğer bu adam, kan döken ve bu günahları işleyen zorba bir oğul babası olursa,

¹¹ve o oğul doğru babasının yolunda yürümez, aksine dağlar üzerinde yemek yer, komşusunun karısını kirletirse,

¹²yoksula ve düşküne zorbalık eder, gasp eder, rehni geri vermez, gözlerini putlara diker ve yasasızlık yaparsa,

¹³faizle para verir ve tefecilik kazancı elde ederse; bu adam yaşamayacaktır. Bütün bu yasasızlıkları yaptığı için kesinlikle öldürülecektir; kanı kendi üzerinde olacaktır.

¹⁴Ama eğer bu adamın bir oğlu olur da babasının işlediği bütün günahları görür, korkar ve bunlara benzer şeyler yapmazsa,

¹⁵dağlar üzerinde yemek yemez, gözlerini İsrail evinin putlarına dikmez, komşusunun karısını kirletmez,

¹⁶kimseye zorbalık etmez, rehin almaz, hiçbir şeyi gasp etmez, ekmeğini aç olana verir, çıplağın üzerini örter,

¹⁷elini haksızlıktan uzak tutar, faiz ya da tefecilik kazancı almaz, adaleti yerine getirir ve kurallarıma göre yürürse; babasının haksızlıkları yüzünden ölmeyecek, kesinlikle yaşayacaktır.

¹⁸Ama babası, şiddetle ezer, gasp eder ve halkımın arasında doğru olmayanı yaparsa, kendi haksızlığı içinde ölecektir.

¹⁹Siz ise, 'Oğul neden babasının haksızlığının cezasını çekmiyor?' diyorsunuz. Çünkü oğul doğruluk ve merhametle davrandı, bütün kurallarımı tuttu ve onları yerine getirdi; o kesinlikle yaşayacaktır.

²⁰Günah işleyen can ölecektir. Oğul babasının haksızlığının cezasını yüklenmeyecek, baba da oğlun haksızlığının cezasını yüklenmeyecektir. Doğrunun doğruluğu kendi üzerinde, kötünün kötülüğü de kendi üzerinde olacaktır.

²¹Ama kötü adam işlediği bütün kötülüklerden döner, bütün buyruklarımı tutar, doğruluk ve merhametle davranırsa, kesinlikle yaşayacak ve ölmeyecektir.

²²İşlediği isyanların hiçbiri ona karşı hatırlanmayacaktır; yaptığı doğruluk sayesinde yaşayacaktır.

²³Ben kötü adamın ölümünden mi hoşlanırım? diyor Rab. Onun kötü yolundan dönüp yaşamasını istemez miyim?

²⁴Ama doğru kişi doğruluğundan döner, haksızlık yapar ve kötü adamın yaptığı bütün kötülüklere göre davranırsa, yaptığı doğrulukların hiçbiri hatırlanmayacaktır; düştüğü isyan ve işlediği günahlar yüzünden, evet, onlar yüzünden ölecektir.

²⁵Siz ise, 'Rab'bin yolu doğru değil' diyorsunuz. Şimdi dinleyin, ey İsrail evi! Benim yolum mu doğru değil? Doğru olmayan sizin yollarınız değil mi?

²⁶Doğru kişi doğruluğundan döner, isyan eder ve ölürse, işlediği isyan yüzünden, evet, onun içinde ölecektir.

²⁷Kötü kişi yaptığı kötülükten döner, adalet ve doğruluğu yerine getirirse, canını korumuş olur.

²⁸Çünkü işlediği bütün isyanlardan döndü; kesinlikle yaşayacak, ölmeyecektir.

²⁹Buna rağmen İsrail evi, 'Rab'bin yolu doğru değil' diyor. Benim yolum mu doğru değil, ey İsrail evi? Doğru olmayan sizin yollarınız değil mi?

³⁰Bu yüzden ey İsrail evi, her birinizi kendi yoluna göre yargılayacağım, diyor Rab. Dönün, bütün isyanlarınızdan vazgeçin ki, haksızlık sizin için bir ceza olmasın.

³¹Bana karşı işlediğiniz bütün isyanları üzerinizden atın; kendinize yeni bir yürek ve yeni bir ruh edinin. Neden ölesiniz, ey İsrail evi?

³²Çünkü ben ölmekte olanın ölümünü istemem, diyor Rab.

¹ΚΑΙ ἐγένετο λόγος Κυρίου πρός με λέγων·

²υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου, τί ὑμῖν ἡ παραβολὴ αὕτη ἐν τοῖς υἱοῖς ᾿Ισραὴλ λέγοντες· οἱ πατέρες ἔφαγον ὄμφακα καὶ οἱ ὀδόντες τῶν τέκνων ἐγομφίασαν;

³ζῶ ἐγώ, λέγει Κύριος, ἐὰν γένηται ἔτι λεγομένη ἡ παραβολὴ αὕτη ἐν τῷ ᾿Ισραήλ·

⁴ὅτι πᾶσαι αἱ ψυχαὶ ἐμαί εἰσιν, ὃν τρόπον ἡ ψυχὴ τοῦ πατρός, οὕτως καὶ ἡ ψυχὴ τοῦ υἱοῦ, ἐμαί εἰσιν· ἡ ψυχὴ ἡ ἁμαρτάνουσα, αὕτη ἀποθανεῖται. -

⁵῾Ο δὲ ἄνθρωπος ὃς ἔσται δίκαιος, ὁ ποιῶν κρίμα καὶ δικαιοσύνην,

⁶ἐπὶ τῶν ὀρέων οὐ φάγεται καὶ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτοῦ οὐ μὴ ἐπάρῃ πρὸς τὰ ἐνθυμήματα οἴκου ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα τοῦ πλησίον αὐτοῦ οὐ μὴ μιάνῃ καὶ πρὸς γυναῖκα ἐν ἀφέδρῳ οὖσαν οὐ προσεγγιεῖ

⁷καὶ ἄνθρωπον οὐ μὴ καταδυναστεύσῃ, ἐνεχυρασμὸν ὀφείλοντος ἀποδώσει καὶ ἅρπαγμα οὐχ ἁρπᾶται, τὸν ἄρτον αὐτοῦ τῷ πεινῶντι δώσει καὶ γυμνὸν περιβαλεῖ

⁸καὶ τὸ ἀργύριον αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τόκῳ οὐ δώσει καὶ πλεονασμὸν οὐ λήψεται καὶ ἐξ ἀδικίας ἀποστρέψει τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ, κρίμα δίκαιον ποιήσει ἀνὰ μέσον ἀνδρὸς καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ πλησίον αὐτοῦ

⁹καὶ τοῖς προστάγμασί μου πεπόρευται καὶ τὰ δικαιώματά μου πεφύλακται τοῦ ποιῆσαι αὐτά· δίκαιος οὗτός ἐστι, ζωῇ ζήσεται, λέγει Κύριος. -

¹⁰Καὶ ἐὰν γεννήσῃ υἱὸν λοιμὸν ἐκχέοντα αἷμα καὶ ποιοῦντα ἁμαρτήματα,

¹¹ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ τοῦ δικαίου οὐκ ἐπορεύθη, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ὀρέων ἔφαγε καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα τοῦ πλησίον αὐτοῦ ἐμίανε

¹²καὶ πτωχὸν καὶ πένητα κατεδυνάστευσε καὶ ἅρπαγμα ἥρπασε καὶ ἐνεχυρασμὸν οὐκ ἀπέδωκε καὶ εἰς τὰ εἴδωλα ἔθετο τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτοῦ, ἀνομίαν πεποίηκε,

¹³μετὰ τόκου ἔδωκε καὶ πλεονασμὸν ἔλαβεν, οὗτος ζωῇ οὐ ζήσεται, πάσας τὰς ἀνομίας ταύτας ἐποίησε, θανάτῳ θανατωθήσεται, τὸ αἷμα αὐτοῦ ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸν ἔσται. -

¹⁴᾿Εὰν δὲ γεννήσῃ υἱόν, καὶ ἴδῃ πάσας τὰς ἁμαρτίας τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ, ἃς ἐποίησε, καὶ φοβηθῇ καὶ μὴ ποιήσῃ κατ᾿ αὐτάς,

¹⁵ἐπὶ τῶν ὀρέων οὐ βέβρωκε καὶ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἔθετο εἰς τὰ ἐνθυμήματα οἴκου ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα τοῦ πλησίον αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἐμίανε

¹⁶καὶ ἄνθρωπον οὐ κατεδυνάστευσε καὶ ἐνεχυρασμὸν οὐκ ἐνεχύρασε καὶ ἅρπαγμα οὐχ ἥρπασε, τὸν ἄρτον αὐτοῦ τῷ πεινῶντι ἔδωκε καὶ γυμνὸν περιέβαλε,

¹⁷καὶ ἀπὸ ἀδικίας ἀπέστρεψε τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ, τόκον οὐδὲ πλεονασμὸν οὐκ ἔλαβε, δικαιοσύνην ἐποίησε καὶ ἐν τοῖς προστάγμασί μου ἐπορεύθη, οὐ τελευτήσει ἐν ἀδικίαις πατρὸς αὐτοῦ, ζωῇ ζήσεται.

¹⁸ὁ δὲ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ ἐὰν θλίψει θλίψῃ καὶ ἁρπάσῃ ἅρπαγμα, ἐναντία ἐποίησεν ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ λαοῦ μου καὶ ἀποθανεῖται ἐν τῇ ἀδικίᾳ αὐτοῦ. -

¹⁹Καὶ ἐρεῖτε· τί ὅτι οὐκ ἔλαβε τὴν ἀδικίαν ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ πατρός; ὅτι ὁ υἱὸς δικαιοσύνην καὶ ἔλεος πεποίηκε, πάντα τὰ νόμιμά μου συνετήρησε καὶ ἐποίησεν αὐτά· ζωῇ ζήσεται.

²⁰ἡ δὲ ψυχὴ ἡ ἁμαρτάνουσα ἀποθανεῖται· ὁ δὲ υἱὸς οὐ λήψεται τὴν ἀδικίαν τοῦ πατρός, οὐδὲ ὁ πατὴρ λήψεται τὴν ἀδικίαν τοῦ υἱοῦ· δικαιοσύνη δικαίου ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸν ἔσται, καὶ ἀνομία ἀνόμου ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸν ἔσται.

²¹καὶ ὁ ἄνομος ἐὰν ἀποστρέψῃ ἐκ πασῶν τῶν ἀνομιῶν αὐτοῦ, ὧν ἐποίησε, καὶ φυλάξηται πάσας τὰς ἐντολάς μου καὶ ποιήσῃ δικαιοσύνην καὶ ἔλεος, ζωῇ ζήσεται καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀποθάνῃ.

²²πάντα τὰ παραπτώματα αὐτοῦ, ὅσα ἐποίησεν, οὐ μνησθήσεται, ἐν τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ αὐτοῦ, ᾗ ἐποίησε, ζήσεται.

²³μὴ θελήσει θελήσω τὸν θάνατον τοῦ ἀνόμου, λέγει Κύριος, ὡς τὸ ἀποστρέψαι αὐτὸν ἐκ τῆς ὁδοῦ τῆς πονηρᾶς καὶ ζῆν αὐτόν;

²⁴ἐν δὲ τῷ ἀποστρέψαι δίκαιον ἐκ τῆς δικαιοσύνης αὐτοῦ καὶ ποιῆσαι ἀδικίαν κατὰ πάσας τὰς ἀνομίας, ἃς ἐποίησεν ὁ ἄνομος, πᾶσαι αἱ δικαιοσύναι αὐτοῦ, ἃς ἐποίησεν, οὐ μὴ μνησθῶσιν· ἐν τῷ παραπτώματι αὐτοῦ, ᾧ παρέπεσε, καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις αὐτοῦ, αἷς ἥμαρτεν, ἐν αὐταῖς ἀποθανεῖται.

²⁵καὶ εἴπατε· οὐ κατευθύνει ἡ ὁδὸς Κυρίου. ἀκούσατε δὴ πᾶς ὁ οἶκος ᾿Ισραήλ· μὴ ἡ ὁδός μου οὐ κατευθύνει; οὐχὶ ἡ ὁδὸς ὑμῶν οὐ κατευθύνει;

²⁶ἐν τῷ ἀποστρέψαι τὸν δίκαιον ἐκ τῆς δικαιοσύνης αὐτοῦ καὶ ποιήσει παράπτωμα καὶ ἀποθάνῃ, ἐν τῷ παραπτώματι, ᾧ ἐποίησεν, ἐν αὐτῷ ἀποθανεῖται.

²⁷καὶ ἐν τῷ ἀποστρέψαι ἄνομον ἀπὸ τῆς ἀνομίας αὐτοῦ, ἧς ἐποίησε, καὶ ποιήσει κρίμα καὶ δικαιοσύνην, οὗτος τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ ἐφύλαξε

²⁸καὶ ἀπέστρεψεν ἐκ πασῶν τῶν ἀσεβειῶν αὐτοῦ, ὧν ἐποίησε, ζωῇ ζήσεται, οὐ μὴ ἀποθάνῃ.

²⁹καὶ λέγουσιν ὁ οἶκος τοῦ ᾿Ισραήλ· οὐ κατορθοῖ ἡ ὁδὸς Κυρίου. μὴ ἡ ὁδός μου οὐ κατορθοῖ, οἶκος ᾿Ισραήλ; οὐχὶ ἡ ὁδὸς ὑμῶν οὐ κατορθοῖ;

³⁰ἕκαστον κατὰ τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ κρινῶ ὑμᾶς, οἶκος ᾿Ισραήλ, λέγει Κύριος. ἐπιστράφητε καὶ ἀποστρέψατε ἐκ πασῶν τῶν ἀσεβειῶν ὑμῶν, καὶ οὐκ ἔσονται ὑμῖν εἰς κόλασιν ἀδικίας.

³¹ἀπορρίψατε ἀφ᾿ ἑαυτῶν πάσας τὰς ἀσεβείας ὑμῶν, ἃς ἠσεβήσατε εἰς ἐμὲ καὶ ποιήσατε ἑαυτοῖς καρδίαν καινὴν καὶ πνεῦμα καινόν· καὶ ἱνατί ἀποθνήσκετε, οἶκος ᾿Ισραήλ;

³²διότι οὐ θέλω τὸν θάνατον τοῦ ἀποθνήσκοντος, λέγει Κύριος.

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

²Son of man, what mean ye by this parable among the children of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten unripe grapes, and the children’s teeth have been set on edge?

³[As] I live, saith the Lord, surely this parable shall no more be spoken in Israel.

⁴For all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son, they are mine: the soul that sins, it shall die.

⁵But the man who shall be just, who executes judgment and righteousness,

⁶who shall not eat upon the mountains, and shall not at all lift up his eyes to the devices of the house of Israel, and shall not defile his neighbor’s wife, and shall not draw nigh to her that is removed,

⁷and shall not oppress any man, [but] shall return the pledge of the debtor, and shall be guilty of no plunder, shall give his bread to the hungry, and clothe the naked;

⁸and shall not lend his money upon usury, and shall not receive usurious increase, and shall turn back his hand from injustice, shall execute righteous judgment between a man and his neighbor,

⁹and has walked in my commandments and kept mine ordinances, to do them; he is righteous, he shall surely live, saith the Lord.

¹⁰And if he beget a mischievous son, shedding blood and committing sins,

¹¹who has not walked in the way of his righteous father, but has even eaten upon the mountains, and has defiled his neighbor’s wife,

¹²and has oppressed the poor and needy, and has committed robbery, and not restored a pledge, and has set his eyes upon idols, has wrought iniquities,

¹³has lent upon usury, and taken usurious increase; he shall by no means live: he has wrought all these iniquities; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

¹⁴And if he beget a son, and [the son] see all his father’s sins which he has wrought, and fear, and not do according to them,

¹⁵and [if he] has not eaten on the mountains, and has not set his eyes on the devices of the house of Israel, and has not defiled his neighbor’s wife,

¹⁶and has not oppressed a man, and has not retained the pledge, nor committed robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has clothed the naked,

¹⁷and has turned back his hand from unrighteousness, has not received interest or usurious increase, has wrought righteousness, and walked in mine ordinances; he shall not die for the iniquities of his father, he shall surely live.

¹⁸But if his father grievously afflict, or plunder, he has wrought enmity in the midst of my people, and shall die in his iniquity.

¹⁹But ye will say, Why has not the son borne the iniquity of the father? Because the son has wrought judgment and mercy, has kept all my statues, and done them, he shall surely live.

²⁰But the soul that sins shall die: and the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the iniquity of the transgressor shall be upon him.

²¹And if the transgressor turn away from all his iniquities which he has committed, and keep all my commandments, and do justice and mercy, he shall surely live, and shall no means die.

²²None of his trespasses which he has committed shall be remembered: in his righteousness which he has done he shall live.

²³Shall I at all desire death of the sinner, saith the Lord, as I [desire] that he should turn from [his] evil way, and live?

²⁴But when the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, according to all the transgressions which the transgressor has wrought, none of his righteousness which he has wrought shall be at all remembered: in his trespass wherein he has trespassed, and in his sins wherein he has sinned, in them shall he die.

²⁵Yet ye have said, The way of the Lord is not straight. Hear now, all the house of Israel; will not my way be straight? Is your way straight?

²⁶When the righteous turns away from his righteousness and commits a trespass, and dies in the trespass he has committed, he shall [even] die in it.

²⁷And when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and shall do judgment and justice, he has kept his soul,

²⁸and has turned away from all his ungodliness which he has committed: he shall surely live, he shall not die.

²⁹Yet the house of Israel say, The way of the Lord is not right. Is not my way right, O house of Israel? is not your way wrong?

³⁰I will judge you, O house of Israel, saith the Lord, each one according to his way: be converted, and turn from all your ungodliness, and it shall not become to you the punishment of iniquity.

³¹Cast away from yourselves all your ungodliness wherein ye have sinned against me; and make to yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why should ye die, O house of Israel?

³²For I desire not the death of him that dies, saith the Lord.