Yeşaya 2

¹Amos oğlu Yeşaya’ya Yahudiye ve Yeruşalim hakkında Rab’bin katından gelen söz şudur:

²Son günlerde Rab’bin dağı ve Tanrı’nın evi, dağların zirveleri üzerinde aşikâr kılınacak, tepelerin üzerinde yükseltilecektir; tüm uluslar ona akın edecektir.

³Birçok ulus yola çıkacak ve şöyle diyecektir: “Gelin, Rab’bin dağına, Yakup’in Tanrısı’nın evine çıkalım; O bize Kendi yolunu bildirecek ve biz de o yolda yürüyeceğiz.” Çünkü yasa Siyon’dan, Rab’bin sözü ise Yeruşalim’den çıkacaktır.

⁴Uluslar arasında yargıda bulunacak ve birçok halkı azarlayacaktır; kılıçlarını saban demirlerine, mızraklarını ise bağcı bıçaklarına dönüştürecekler. Ulus ulusa karşı kılıç kaldırmayacak, artık savaşmayı da asla öğrenmeyecekler.

⁵Ve şimdi, ey Yakup soyu, gelin, Rab’bin ışığında yürüyelim!

⁶Çünkü O, Kendi halkı olan İsrail soyunu bıraktı; çünkü ülkeleri başlangıçtan beri olduğu gibi pagan kehanetleriyle, yabancılarınki gibi doldu ve aralarında yabancı soydan pek çok çocuk doğdu.

⁷Ülkeleri gümüş ve altınla doldu, hazinelerinin sayısı belirsizdir; ülkeleri atlarla doldu, savaş arabalarının sayısı yoktur.

⁸Ülkeleri ellerinin işi olan iğrenç putlarla doldu; kendi parmaklarının yaptıkları nesnelere tapındılar.

⁹Sıradan insan eğildi ve soylu insan alçaltıldı; onları asla bağışlamayacağım.

¹⁰Şimdi kayaların arasına girin, Rab’bin dehşet verici huzurundan ve yüce gücünün görkeminden toprağa gizlenin; çünkü O, yeryüzünü un ufak etmek için ayağa kalkacaktır.

¹¹Çünkü Rab’bin gözleri yücededir, insan ise alçaktır; insanların kibri kırılacak ve o gün yalnız Rab yüceltilecektir.

¹²Çünkü Orduların Rabbinin günü, tüm küstahlar ve kibirliler, tüm kendini beğenmişler ve yüksektekiler üzerine gelecektir; hepsi alçaltılacaktır.

¹³Lübnan’ın tüm yüksek ve ulu sedir ağaçları üzerine ve Başan’ın tüm meşe ağaçları üzerine,

¹⁴tüm yüksek dağlar ve tüm ulu tepeler üzerine,

¹⁵tüm yüksek kuleler ve tüm yüksek surlar üzerine,

¹⁶denizin tüm gemileri ve tüm görkemli güzel gemiler üzerine gelecektir.

¹⁷Her insan alçaltılacak, insanların kibri yıkılacak ve o gün yalnız Rab yüceltilecektir.

¹⁸El yapımı tüm putları tamamen gizleyecekler;

¹⁹Rab’bin dehşet verici huzurundan ve yüce gücünün görkeminden, O yeryüzünü un ufak etmek için ayağa kalktığında, mağaralara, kayaların yarıklarına ve toprağın kovuklarına sığınacaklar.

²⁰O gün insan, tapınmak için yaptığı gümüş ve altın iğrenç putlarını boş şeylere ve yarasalara fırlatıp atacaktır;

²¹Rab’bin dehşet verici huzurundan ve yüce gücünün görkeminden, O yeryüzünü un ufak etmek için ayağa kalktığında, sert kayaların kovuklarına ve kayaların yarıklarına sığınmak için bunu yapacaktır.

¹Ο λόγος ὁ γενόμενος παρὰ Κυρίου πρὸς ῾Ησαΐαν υἱὸν ᾿Αμὼς περὶ τῆς ᾿Ιουδαίας καὶ περὶ ῾Ιερουσαλήμ.

²῞Οτι ἔσται ἐν ταῖς ἐσχάταις ἡμέραις ἐμφανὲς τὸ ὄρος Κυρίου καὶ ὁ οἶκος τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐπ᾿ ἄκρων τῶν ὀρέων καὶ ὑψωθήσεται ὑπεράνω τῶν βουνῶν· καὶ ἥξουσιν ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη,

³καὶ πορεύσονται ἔθνη πολλὰ καὶ ἐροῦσι· δεῦτε καὶ ἀναβῶμεν εἰς τὸ ὄρος Κυρίου καὶ εἰς τὸν οἶκον τοῦ Θεοῦ ᾿Ιακώβ, καὶ ἀναγγελεῖ ἡμῖν τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ, καὶ πορευσόμεθα ἐν αὐτῇ· ἐκ γὰρ Σιὼν ἐξελεύσεται νόμος καὶ λόγος Κυρίου ἐξ ῾Ιερουσαλήμ.

⁴καὶ κρινεῖ ἀναμέσον τῶν ἐθνῶν καὶ ἐλέγξει λαὸν πολύν, καὶ συγκόψουσι τὰς μαχαίρας αὐτῶν εἰς ἄροτρα καὶ τὰς ζιβύνας αὐτῶν εἰς δρέπανα, καὶ οὐ λήψεται ἔθνος ἐπ᾿ ἔθνος μάχαιραν, καὶ οὐ μὴ μάθωσιν ἔτι πολεμεῖν. -

⁵Καὶ νῦν, ὁ οἶκος ᾿Ιακώβ, δεῦτε πορευθῶμεν τῷ φωτὶ Κυρίου.

⁶ἀνῆκε γὰρ τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ τὸν οἶκον τοῦ ᾿Ισραήλ, ὅτι ἐνεπλήσθη ὡς τὸ ἀπ᾿ ἀρχῆς ἡ χώρα αὐτῶν κληδονισμῶν, ὡς ἡ τῶν ἀλλοφύλων, καὶ τέκνα πολλὰ ἀλλόφυλα ἐγενήθη αὐτοῖς.

⁷ἐνεπλήσθη γὰρ ἡ χώρα αὐτῶν ἀργυρίου καὶ χρυσίου, καὶ οὐκ ἦν ἀριθμὸς τῶν θησαυρῶν αὐτῶν· καὶ ἐνεπλήσθη ἡ γῆ ἵππων, καὶ οὐκ ἦν ἀριθμὸς τῶν ἁρμάτων αὐτῶν·

⁸καὶ ἐνεπλήσθη ἡ γῆ βδελυγμάτων τῶν ἔργων τῶν χειρῶν αὐτῶν, καὶ προσεκύνησαν, οἷς ἐποίησαν οἱ δάκτυλοι αὐτῶν·

⁹καὶ ἔκυψεν ἄνθρωπος, καὶ ἐταπεινώθη ἀνήρ, καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀνήσω αὐτούς.

¹⁰καὶ νῦν εἰσέλθετε εἰς τὰς πέτρας καὶ κρύπτεσθε εἰς τὴν γῆν ἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ φόβου Κυρίου καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς δόξης τῆς ἰσχύος αὐτοῦ, ὅταν ἀναστῇ θραῦσαι τὴν γῆν.

¹¹οἱ γὰρ ὀφθαλμοὶ Κυρίου ὑψηλοί, ὁ δὲ ἄνθρωπος ταπεινός· καὶ ταπεινωθήσεται τὸ ὕψος τῶν ἀνθρώπων, καὶ ὑψωθήσεται Κύριος μόνος ἐν τῇ ἡμέρα ἐκείνῃ.

¹²ἡμέρα γὰρ Κυρίου σαβαὼθ ἐπὶ πάντα ὑβριστὴν καὶ ὑπερήφανον καὶ ἐπὶ πάντα ὑψηλὸν καὶ μετέωρον, καὶ ταπεινωθήσονται,

¹³καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσαν κέδρον τοῦ Λιβάνου τῶν ὑψηλῶν καὶ μετεώρων καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶν δένδρον βαλάνου Βασὰν

¹⁴καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶν ὑψηλὸν ὄρος καὶ ἐπὶ πάντα βουνὸν ὑψηλὸν

¹⁵καὶ ἐπὶ πάντα πύργον ὑψηλὸν καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶν τεῖχος ὑψηλὸν

¹⁶καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶν πλοῖον θαλάσσης καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσαν θέαν πλοίων κάλλους.

¹⁷καὶ ταπεινωθήσεται πᾶς ἄνθρωπος, καὶ πεσεῖται ὕψος ἀνθρώπων, καὶ ὑψωθήσεται Κύριος μόνος ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ.

¹⁸καὶ τὰ χειροποίητα πάντα κατακρύψουσιν,

¹⁹εἰσενέγκαντες εἰς τὰ σπήλαια καὶ εἰς τὰς σχισμὰς τῶν πετρῶν καὶ εἰς τὰς τρώγλας τῆς γῆς ἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ φόβου Κυρίου καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς δόξης τῆς ἰσχύος αὐτοῦ, ὅταν ἀναστῇ θραῦσαι τὴν γῆν.

²⁰τῇ γὰρ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ ἐκβαλεῖ ἄνθρωπος τὰ βδελύγματα αὐτοῦ τὰ ἀργυρᾶ καὶ τὰ χρυσᾶ, ἃ ἐποίησαν προσκυνεῖν, τοῖς ματαίοις καὶ ταῖς νυκτερίσι,

²¹τοῦ εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τὰς τρώγλας τῆς στερεᾶς πέτρας καὶ εἰς τὰς σχισμὰς τῶν πετρῶν ἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ φόβου Κυρίου καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς δόξης τῆς ἰσχύος αὐτοῦ, ὅταν ἀναστῇ θραῦσαι τὴν γῆν. * Or, alien, see Appendix

¹The word which came to Esaias the son of Amos concerning Judea, and concerning Jerusalem.

²For in the last days the mountain of the Lord shall be glorious, and the house of God [shall be] on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall come to it.

³And many nations shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will tell us his way, and we will walk in it: for out of Sion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem.

⁴And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plow-shares, and their spears into sickles: and nation shall not take up sword against nation, neither shall they learn to war any more.

⁵And now, O house of Jacob, come, [and] let us walk in the light of the Lord.

⁶For he has forsaken his people the house of Israel, because their land is filled as at the beginning with divinations, as the [land] of the Philistines,* and many strange children were born to them.

⁷For their land is filled with silver and gold, and there was no number of their treasures; their land also is filled with horses, and there was no number of chariots.

⁸And the land is filled with abominations, [even] the works of their hands; and they have worshipped [the works] which their fingers made.

⁹And the mean man bowed down, and the great man was humbled: and I will not pardon them.

¹⁰Now therefore enter ye into the rocks, and hide yourselves in the earth, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth.

¹¹For the eyes of the Lord are high, but man is low; and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

¹²For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and haughty, and upon every one that is high and towering, and they shall be brought down;

¹³and upon every cedar of Libanus, of them that are high and towering, and upon every oak of Basan,

¹⁴and upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill,

¹⁵and upon every high tower, and upon every high wall,

¹⁶and upon every ship of the sea, and upon every display of fine ships.

¹⁷And every man shall be brought low, and the pride of men shall fall: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

¹⁸And they shall hide all [idols] made with hands,

¹⁹having carried [them] into the caves, and into the clefts of the rocks, and into the caverns of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth.

²⁰For in that day a man shall cast forth his silver and gold abominations, which they made [in order] to worship vanities and bats;

²¹to enter into the caverns of the solid rock, and into the clefts of the rocks, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth.