Yeşaya 23

¹Sur üzerine öngörü: Feryat edin ey Kartaca gemileri, çünkü o harap oldu ve artık Kitimlilerin diyarından gelen kimse yok; o tutsak olarak götürüldü.

²Kime benzedi bu adada yaşayanlar, denizi aşan o Fenike tüccarları?

³Bol sularda yol alan tüccarların soyu, ulusların tüccarları için içeri getirilen bir hasat gibi oldu.

⁴Utan ey Sidon, çünkü deniz konuştu; denizin kalesi şöyle dedi: "Ne doğum sancısı çektim ne doğurdum, ne genç erkekler büyüttüm ne de bakire kızlar yetiştirdim."

⁵Mısır bu haberi alınca, Sur için onları derin bir acı kavrayacak.

⁶Kartaca'ya gidin; feryat edin ey bu adada yaşayanlar!

⁷Teslim edilmeden önceki o eski gururunuz ve kibriniz bu muydu?

⁸Sur'a karşı bu kararı kim verdi? O daha mı aşağıdır, yoksa gücü mü yetmiyor? Onun tüccarları yeryüzünün soyluları ve önderleriydi.

⁹Orduların Rabbi, soyluların tüm kibrini kırmayı ve yeryüzündeki tüm yüceleri alçaltmayı kararlaştırdı.

¹⁰Toprağını işle, çünkü artık Kartaca'dan gemiler gelmiyor.

¹¹Kralları öfkelendiren elinin gücü artık denizde geçmiyor; Orduların Rabbi, Kenan'ın kalelerini yok etmek için buyruk verdi.

¹²Ve şöyle diyecekler: "Ey Sidon'un kızı, artık gururlanıp haksızlık etmeye devam etmeyeceksiniz; kalkıp Kitimlilere gitsen bile, orada da sana rahat huzur olmayacak."

¹³Keldanilerin diyarına gitsen de, orası da Asurlular tarafından viraneye çevrildi, orada da sana rahat huzur olmayacak; çünkü onun da surları yıkıldı.

¹⁴Feryat edin ey Kartaca gemileri, çünkü sığınağınız harap oldu!

¹⁵O gün gelecek, Sur yetmiş yıl boyunca, bir kralın ömrü, bir insanın ömrü kadar unutulacak; yetmiş yılın sonunda Sur, bir fahişenin şarkısı gibi olacak.

¹⁶"Liri eline al, dolaş şehri, ey unutulmuş fahişe kent! Güzel çal liri, çok şarkı söyle ki hatırlanasın."

¹⁷Yetmiş yılın sonunda Tanrı Sur'u ziyaret edecek ve o yine eski durumuna dönecek; yeryüzündeki bütün dünya krallıkları için bir ticaret yeri olacak.

¹⁸Onun ticareti ve kazancı Rabbe adanacak, kendileri için biriktirilmeyecek; aksine onun tüm ticareti, Rabbin huzurunda yaşayanların yemesi, içmesi, doyması ve Rabbin huzurunda bir anma sunusu olması için kullanılacak.

¹Τὸ ὅραμα Τύρου. - ΟΛΟΛΥΞΑΤΕ, πλοῖα Καρχηδόνος, ὅτι ἀπώλετο, καὶ οὐκέτι ἔρχονται ἐκ γῆς Κιτιαίων· ἦκται αἰχμάλωτος.

²τίνι ὅμοιοι γεγόνασιν οἱ ἐνοικοῦντες ἐν τῇ νήσῳ μετάβολοι Φοινίκης διαπερῶντες τὴν θάλασσαν

³ἐν ὕδατι πολλῷ, σπέρμα μεταβόλων; ὡς ἀμητοῦ εἰσφερομένου οἱ μετάβολοι τῶν ἐθνῶν.

⁴αἰσχύνθητι, Σιδών, εἶπεν ἡ θάλασσα. ἡ δὲ ἰσχὺς τῆς θαλάσσης εἶπεν· οὐκ ὤδινον οὐδὲ ἔτεκον οὐδὲ ἐξέθρεψα νεανίσκους οὐδὲ ὕψωσα παρθένους.

⁵ὅταν δὲ ἀκουστὸν γένηται Αἰγύπτῳ, λήψεται αὐτοὺς ὀδύνη περὶ Τύρου.

⁶ἀπέλθατε εἰς Καρχηδόνα, ὀλολύξατε, οἱ κατοικοῦντες ἐν τῇ νήσῳ ταύτῃ.

⁷οὐχ αὕτη ἦν ὑμῶν ἡ ὕβρις ἀπ᾿ ἀρχῆς πρὶν ἢ παραδοθῆναι αὐτήν;

⁸τίς ταῦτα ἐβούλευσεν ἐπὶ Τύρον; μὴ ἥσσων ἐστὶν ἢ οὐκ ἰσχύει; οἱ ἔμποροι αὐτῆς ἔνδοξοι, ἄρχοντες τῆς γῆς.

⁹Κύριος σαβαὼθ ἐβουλεύσατο παραλῦσαι πᾶσαν τὴν ὕβριν τῶν ἐνδόξων καὶ ἀτιμάσαι πᾶν ἔνδοξον ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.

¹⁰ἐργάζου τὴν γῆν σου, καὶ γὰρ πλοῖα οὐκέτι ἔρχεται ἐκ Καρχηδόνος.

¹¹ἡ δὲ χείρ σου οὐκέτι ἰσχύει κατὰ θάλασσαν, ἡ παροξύνουσα βασιλεῖς· Κύριος σαβαὼθ ἐνετείλατο περὶ Χαναὰν ἀπολέσαι αὐτῆς τὴν ἰσχύν.

¹²καὶ ἐροῦσιν· οὐκέτι οὐ μὴ προσθῆτε τοῦ ὑβρίζειν καὶ ἀδικεῖν τὴν θυγατέρα Σιδῶνος· καὶ ἐὰν ἀπέλθῃς εἰς Κιτιεῖς, οὐδὲ ἐκεῖ ἀνάπαυσις ἔσται σοι·

¹³καὶ εἰς γῆν Χαλδαίων, καὶ αὕτη ἠρήμωται ἀπὸ τῶν ᾿Ασσυρίων, οὐδὲ ἐκεῖ σοι ἀνάπαυσις ἔσται, ὅτι ὁ τοῖχος αὐτῆς πέπτωκεν.

¹⁴ὀλολύξατε, πλοῖα Καρχηδόνος, ὅτι ἀπόλωλε τὸ ὀχύρωμα ὑμῶν.

¹⁵καὶ ἔσται ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ καταλειφθήσεται Τύρος ἔτη ἑβδομήκοντα ὡς χρόνος βασιλέως, ὡς χρόνος ἀνθρώπου· καὶ ἔσται μετὰ ἑβδομήκοντα ἔτη, ἔσται Τύρος ὡς ᾆσμα πόρνης.

¹⁶λαβὲ κιθάραν, ῥέμβευσον, πόλις πόρνη ἐπιλελησμένη· καλῶς κιθάρισον, πολλὰ ᾆσον, ἵνα σου μνεία γένηται.

¹⁷καὶ ἔσται μετὰ τὰ ἑβδομήκοντα ἔτη, ἐπισκοπὴν ποιήσει ὁ Θεὸς Τύρου, καὶ πάλιν ἀποκατασταθήσεται εἰς τὸ ἀρχαῖον· καὶ ἔσται ἐμπόριον πάσαις ταῖς βασιλείας τῆς οἰκουμένης.

¹⁸καὶ ἔσται αὐτῆς ἡ ἐμπορία καὶ ὁ μισθὸς ἅγιον Κυρίῳ· οὐκ αὐτοῖς συναχθήσεται, ἀλλὰ τοῖς κατοικοῦσιν ἔναντι Κυρίου πᾶσα ἡ ἐμπορία αὐτῆς φαγεῖν καὶ πιεῖν καὶ ἐμπλησθῆναι εἰς συμβολὴν μνημόσυνον ἔναντι Κυρίου.

¹THE WORD CONCERNING TYRE. Howl, ye ships of Carthage; for she has perished, and [men] no longer arrive from the land of the Citians: she is led captive.

²To whom are the dwellers in the island become like, the merchants of Phoenice, passing over the sea

³in great waters, a generation of merchants? as when the harvest is gathered in, [so are] these traders with the nations.

⁴Be ashamed, O Sidon: the sea has said, yea, the strength of the sea has said, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, nor have I brought up young men, nor reared virgins.

⁵Moreover when it shall be heard in Egypt, sorrow shall seize them for Tyre.

⁶Depart ye to Carthage; howl, ye that dwell in this island.

⁷Was not this your pride from the beginning, before she was given up?

⁸Who has devised this counsel against Tyre Is she inferior? or has she no strength? her merchants were the glorious princes of the earth.

⁹The Lord of hosts has purposed to bring down all the pride of the glorious ones, and to disgrace every glorious thing on the earth.

¹⁰Till thy land; for ships no more come out of Carthage.

¹¹And thy hand prevails no more by sea, which troubled kings: the Lord of hosts has given a command concerning Chanaan, to destroy the strength thereof.

¹²And [men] shall say, Ye shall no longer at all continue to insult and injure the daughter of Sidon: and if thou depart to the Citians, neither there shalt thou have rest.

¹³And [if thou depart] to the land of the Chaldeans, this also is laid waste by the Assyrians, for her wall is fallen.

¹⁴Howl, ye ships of Carthage: for your strong hold is destroyed.

¹⁵And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] Tyre shall be left seventy years, as the time of a king, as the time of a man: and it shall come to pass after seventy years, [that] Tyre shall be as the song of a harlot.

¹⁶Take a harp, go about, O city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; play well on the harp, sing many [songs], that thou mayest be remembered.

¹⁷And it shall come to pass after the seventy years, [that] God will visit Tyre, and she shall be again restored to her primitive state, and she shall be a mart for all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

¹⁸And her trade and her gain shall be holiness to the Lord: it shall not be gathered for them, but for those that dwell before the Lord, [even] all her trade, to eat and drink and be filled, and for a covenant [and] a memorial before the Lord.