Yeşaya 28

¹Vay kibrin tacına, Efrayim'in paralı askerlerine; verimli dağın tepesindeki görkeminden düşen çiçeğe, şarapsız sarhoş olanlara!

²İşte, Rab'bin öfkesi güçlü ve serttir; sığınağı olmayan, şiddetle yağan dolu gibidir; toprağı sürükleyen bol su kütlesi gibi, elleriyle ülkeye bir duraklama getirecektir.

³Ve ayaklar altında çiğnenecek kibrin tacı, Efrayim'in paralı askerleri.

⁴Ve yüksek dağın tepesindeki görkemli umudun düşen çiçeği, turfanda incir gibi olacak; onu gören biri, daha eline almadan önce onu yutmak isteyecektir.

⁵O gün Her Şeye Egemen Rab, halkımın geride kalanları için görkemli bir şekilde örülmüş umut tacı olacak.

⁶Adalet üzerine adalet ruhuyla ve yok etmeyi engelleyenin gücüyle geride bırakılacaklar.

⁷Çünkü bunlar da şarapla yoldan saptılar, içki yüzünden yollarını şaşırdılar; kahin ve peygamber içki yüzünden kendilerinden geçtiler, şarapta boğuldular, sarhoşluktan sendelediler, yoldan saptılar; işte bu bir sanrıdır.

⁸Bir lanet yiyip bitirecek bu tasarıyı; çünkü bu tasarı açgözlülük uğrunadır.

⁹Kötülükleri kime bildirdik ve bildiriyi kime duyurduk? Sütten kesilmiş, memeden koparılmış çocuklara mı?

¹⁰Sıkıntı üstüne sıkıntı bekle, umut üstüne umut; biraz daha, biraz daha.

¹¹Çünkü dudakların alaycı sözleriyle, yabancı bir dille konuşacaklar bu halka,

¹²Onlara şöyle diyecekler: "Aç olana dinlenme budur ve yıkım da budur." Ama dinlemek istemediler.

¹³Bu yüzden Rab Tanrı'nın sözü onlar için sıkıntı üstüne sıkıntı, umut üstüne umut, biraz daha, biraz daha olacak; öyle ki gitsinler, gerisin geri düşsünler, tehlikeye girsinler, kırılsınlar ve ele geçirilsinler.

¹⁴Bu yüzden Rab'bin sözünü dinleyin, ey sıkıntı çeken adamlar ve Yeruşalim'deki bu halkın önderleri!

¹⁵Çünkü şöyle dediniz: "Hades ile bir antlaşma yaptık, ölümle sözleştik; üzerimizden geçen o azgın fırtına bize ulaşmayacak; çünkü yalanı kendimize umut ettik ve yalanla örtüleceğiz."

¹⁶Bu yüzden Rab Rab şöyle diyor: "İşte, ben Siyon'un temellerine değerli, seçkin, onurlu bir köşe taşı yerleştiriyorum; onun temeline güvenen asla utandırılmayacak."

¹⁷Ve adaleti umut kılacağım, merhametimi ise terazilere koyacağım; yalana boş yere güvenenler ise düşecek, çünkü azgın fırtına sizi teğet geçmeyecek.

¹⁸Ölümle yaptığınız antlaşmayı iptal edecek, Hades'e olan umudunuz dayanmayacak; üzerinize gelen azgın fırtına estiğinde, onun altında çiğneneceksiniz.

¹⁹Her geçişinde sizi alıp götürecek; sabah sabah, gündüzün ve geceleyin geçecek; bu kötü bir umut olacak. Dinlemeyi öğrenin,

²⁰ey sıkıntı içinde olanlar! Sıkıştırılmış olarak savaşamayız, kendimiz ise sizi bir araya getirmek için zayıfız.

²¹Rab, tanrısızların dağı gibi ayağa kalkacak ve Gabaon Vadisi'nde öfkeyle işlerini yapacak, bu acılığın işidir; onun öfkesi yabancı gibi davranacak ve acılığı yabancı olacak.

²²Ve siz sevinmeyin, bağlarınız daha da güçlenmesin; çünkü Her Şeye Egemen Rab'den bütün dünya üzerinde gerçekleştireceği tamamlanmış ve kararlaştırılmış işleri duydum.

²³Kulak verin ve sesimi duyun; dikkat edin ve sözlerimi işitin.

²⁴Çiftçi bütün gün toprağı sürer mi? Ya da toprağı işlemeden önce tohumu hazırlar mı?

²⁵Toprağın yüzeyini düzledikten sonra biraz çörek otu veya kimyon ekmez mi ve tekrar sınırlarında buğday, arpa, darı ve kızıl buğday ekmez mi?

²⁶Ve Tanrın'ın yargısıyla eğitilecek ve sevineceksin.

²⁷Çünkü çörek otu sertlikle dövülmez, kimyonun üzerinden araba tekerleği geçirilmez; aksine çörek otu değnekle vurularak çıkarılır,

²⁸kimyon ise ekmekle yenir. Çünkü size sonsuza dek öfkeli kalmayacağım, öfkemin acı sesi sizi ezip geçmeyecek.

²⁹Bu harikalar da Her Şeye Egemen Rab'den çıktı; öğüt alın, boş teselliyi yüceltin.

¹ΟΥΑΙ τῷ στεφάνῳ τῆς ὕβρεως, οἱ μισθωτοὶ ᾿Εφραίμ· τὸ ἄνθος τὸ ἐκπεσὸν ἐκ τῆς δόξης ἐπὶ τῆς κορυφῆς τοῦ ὄρους τοῦ παχέος, οἱ μεθύοντες ἄνευ οἴνου.

²ἰδοὺ ἰσχυρὸν καὶ σκληρὸν ὁ θυμὸς Κυρίου ὡς χάλαζα καταφερομένη οὐκ ἔχουσα σκέπην, βίᾳ καταφερομένη· ὡς ὕδατος πολὺ πλῆθος σῦρον χώραν τῇ γῇ ποιήσει ἀνάπαυσιν ταῖς χερσί.

³καὶ τοῖς ποσὶ καταπατηθήσεται ὁ στέφανος τῆς ὕβρεως, οἱ μισθωτοὶ τοῦ ᾿Εφραίμ.

⁴καὶ ἔσται τὸ ἄνθος τὸ ἐκπεσὸν τῆς ἐλπίδος τῆς δόξης ἐπ᾿ ἄκρου τοῦ ὄρους τοῦ ὑψηλοῦ ὡς πρόδρομος σύκου, ὁ ἰδὼν αὐτό, πρὶν ἢ εἰς τὴν χεῖραν αὐτοῦ λαβεῖν, θελήσει αὐτὸ καταπιεῖν.

⁵τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ ἔσται Κύριος σαβαὼθ ὁ στέφανος τῆς ἐλπίδος ὁ πλακεὶς τῆς δόξης τῷ καταλειφθέντι μου λαῷ·

⁶καταλειφθήσονται ἐπὶ πνεύματι κρίσεως ἐπὶ κρίσιν καὶ ἰσχὺν κωλύων ἀνελεῖν.

⁷οὗτοι γὰρ οἴνω πεπλανημένοι εἰσίν, ἐπλανήθησαν διὰ τὸ σίκερα· ἱερεὺς καὶ προφήτης ἐξέστησαν διὰ τὸ σίκερα, κατεπόθησαν διὰ τὸν οἶνον, ἐσείσθησαν ἀπὸ τῆς μέθης, ἐπλανήθησαν· τοῦτ᾿ ἔστι φάσμα.

⁸ἀρὰ ἔδεται ταύτην τὴν βουλήν· αὕτη γὰρ ἡ βουλὴ ἕνεκεν πλεονεξίας.

⁹τίνι ἀνηγγείλαμεν κακὰ καὶ τίνι ἀνηγγείλαμεν ἀγγελίαν, οἱ ἀπογεγαλακτισμένοι ἀπὸ γάλακτος, οἱ ἀπεσπασμένοι ἀπὸ μαστοῦ;

¹⁰θλῖψιν ἐπὶ θλῖψιν προσδέχου, ἐλπίδα ἐπ᾿ ἐλπίδι, ἔτι μικρὸν ἔτι μικρὸν

¹¹διὰ φαυλισμὸν χειλέων διὰ γλώσσης ἑτέρας, ὅτι λαλήσουσι τῷ λαῷ τούτῳ

¹²λέγοντες αὐτῷ· τοῦτο τὸ ἀνάπαυμα τῷ πεινῶντι καὶ τοῦτο τὸ σύντριμμα, καὶ οὐκ ἠθέλησαν ἀκούειν.

¹³καὶ ἔσται αὐτοῖς τὸ λόγιον Κυρίου τοῦ Θεοῦ θλῖψις ἐπὶ θλῖψιν, ἐλπὶς ἐπ᾿ ἐλπίδι, ἔτι μικρὸν ἔτι μικρόν, ἵνα πορευθῶσι καὶ πέσωσιν εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω καὶ κινδυνεύσουσι καὶ συντριβήσονται καὶ ἁλώσονται.

¹⁴διὰ τοῦτο ἀκούσατε λόγον Κυρίου, ἄνδρες τεθλιμμένοι καὶ ἄρχοντες τοῦ λαοῦ τούτου τοῦ ἐν ᾿Ιερουσαλήμ·

¹⁵ὅτι εἴπατε· ἐποιήσαμεν διαθήκην μετὰ τοῦ ᾅδου καὶ μετὰ τοῦ θανάτου συνθήκας, καταιγὶς φερομένη ἐὰν παρέλθῃ οὐ μὴ ἔλθῃ ἐφ᾿ ἡμᾶς· ἐθήκαμεν ψεῦδος τὴν ἐλπίδα ἡμῶν καὶ τῷ ψεύδει σκεπασθησόμεθα.

¹⁶διὰ τοῦτο οὕτω λέγει Κύριος Κύριος· ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐμβαλῶ εἰς τὰ θεμέλια Σιὼν λίθον πολυτελῆ ἐκλεκτὸν ἀκρογωνιαῖον, ἔντιμον, εἰς τὰ θεμέλια αὐτῆς, καὶ ὁ πιστεύων ἐπ᾿ αὐτῷ οὐ μὴ καταισχυνθῇ.

¹⁷καὶ θήσω κρίσιν εἰς ἐλπίδα, ἡ δὲ ἐλεημοσύνη μου εἰς σταθμούς, καὶ οἱ πεποιθότες μάτην ψεύδει· ὅτι οὐ μὴ παρέλθῃ ὑμᾶς καταιγίς,

¹⁸μὴ καὶ ἀφέλῃ ὑμῶν τὴν διαθήκην τοῦ θανάτου, καὶ ἡ ἐλπὶς ὑμῶν ἡ πρὸς τὸν ᾅδην οὐ μὴ ἐμμείνῃ· καταιγὶς φερομένη ἐὰν ἐπέλθῃ, ἔσεσθε αὐτῇ εἰς καταπάτημα.

¹⁹ὅταν παρέλθῃ, λήψεται ὑμᾶς· πρωΐ πρωΐ παρελεύσεται ἡμέρας, καὶ ἐν νυκτὶ ἔσται ἐλπὶς πονηρά· μάθετε ἀκούειν,

²⁰στενοχωρούμενοι οὐ δυνάμεθα μάχεσθαι, αὐτοὶ δὲ ἀσθενοῦμεν τοῦ ὑμᾶς συναχθῆναι.

²¹ὥσπερ ὄρος ἀσεβῶν ἀναστήσεται Κύριος, καὶ ἔσται ἐν τῇ φάραγγι Γαβαών· μετὰ θυμοῦ ποιήσει τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ, πικρίας ἔργον· ὁ δὲ θυμὸς αὐτοῦ ἀλλοτρίως χρήσεται, καὶ ἡ πικρία αὐτοῦ ἀλλοτρία.

²²καὶ ὑμεῖς μὴ εὐφρανθείητε, μηδὲ ἰσχυσάτωσαν ὑμῶν οἱ δεσμοὶ διότι συντετελεσμένα καὶ συντετμημένα πράγματα ἤκουσα παρὰ Κυρίου σαβαώθ, ἃ ποιήσει ἐπὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν.

²³ἐνωτίζεσθε καὶ ἀκούετε τῆς φωνῆς μου, προσέχετε καὶ ἀκούεται τοὺς λόγους μου.

²⁴μὴ ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν ἀροτριάσει ὁ ἀροτριῶν; ἢ σπόρον προετοιμάσει πρὶν ἐργάσασθαι τὴν γῆν;

²⁵οὐχ ὅταν ὁμαλίσῃ τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτῆς, τότε σπείρει μικρὸν μελάνθιον ἢ κύμινον καὶ πάλιν σπείρει πυρὸν καὶ κριθὴν καὶ κέγχρον καὶ ζέαν ἐν τοῖς ὁρίοις σου;

²⁶καὶ παιδευθήσῃ κρίματι Θεοῦ σου καὶ εὐφρανθήσῃ.

²⁷οὐ γὰρ μετὰ σκληρότητος καθαίρεται τὸ μελάνθιον, οὐδὲ τροχὸς ἁμάξης περιάξει ἐπὶ τὸν κύμινον, ἀλλὰ ῥάβδῳ τινάσσεται τὸ μελάνθιον,

²⁸τὸ δὲ κύμινον μετὰ ἄρτου βρωθήσεται. οὐ γὰρ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ἐγώ εἰμι ὑμῖν ὀργισθήσομαι, οὐδὲ φωνὴ τῆς πικρίας μου καταπατήσει ὑμᾶς.

²⁹καὶ ταῦτα παρὰ Κυρίου σαβαὼθ ἐξῆλθε τὰ τέρατα· βουλεύσασθε, ὑψώσατε ματαίαν παράκλησιν.

¹Woe to the crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, the flower that has fallen from the glory of the top of the fertile mountain, they that are drunken without wine.

²Behold, the anger of the Lord is strong and severe, as descending hail where there is no shelter, violently descending; as a great body of water sweeping away the soil, he shall make rest for the land.

³The crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, shall be beaten down with the hands and with the feet.

⁴And the fading flower of the glorious hope on the top of the high mountain shall be as the early fig; he that sees it, before he takes it into his hand, will desire to swallow it down.

⁵In that day the Lord of hosts shall be the crown of hope, the woven [crown] of glory, to the remnant of the people.

⁶They shall be left in the spirit of judgment for judgment, and for the strength of them that hinder slaying.

⁷For these have trespassed through wine; they have erred through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are mad through strong drink, they are swallowed up by reason of wine, they have staggered through drunkenness; they have erred: this is [their] vision.

⁸A curse shall devour this counsel, for this [is their] counsel for the sake of covetousness.

⁹To whom have we reported evils? and to whom have we reported a message? [even to those] that are weaned from the milk, who are drawn from the breast.

¹⁰Accept thou affliction on affliction, hope upon hope: yet a little, [and] yet a little,

¹¹by reason of the contemptuous [words] of the lips, by means of another language: for they shall speak to this people, saying to them,

¹²This is the rest to him that is hungry, and this is the calamity: but they would not hear.

¹³Therefore the oracle of God shall be to them affliction on affliction, hope on hope, yet a little, [and] yet a little, that they may go and fall backward; and they shall be crushed and shall be in danger, and shall be taken.

¹⁴Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord, ye afflicted men, and ye princes of this people that is in Jerusalem.

¹⁵Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with Hades, and agreements with death; if the rushing storm should pass, it shall not come upon us: we have made falsehood our hope, and by falsehood shall we be protected:

¹⁶Therefore thus saith the Lord, [even] the Lord, Behold, I lay for the foundations of Sion a costly stone, a choice, a corner-stone, a precious [stone], for its foundations; and he that believes [on him] shall by no means be ashamed.

¹⁷And I will cause judgment [to be] for hope, and my compassion shall be for [just] measures, and ye that trust vainly in falsehood [shall fall]: for the storm shall by no means pass by you,

¹⁸except it also take away your covenant of death, and your trust in Hades shall by no means stand: if the rushing storm should come upon you, ye shall be beaten down by it.

¹⁹Whenever it shall pass by, it shall take you; morning by morning it shall pass by in the day, and in the night there shall be an evil hope. Learn to hear,

²⁰ye that are distressed; we cannot fight, but we are ourselves too weak for you to be gathered.

²¹The Lord shall rise up as a mountain of ungodly [men], and shall be in the valley of Gabaon; he shall perform his works with wrath, [even] a work of bitterness, and his wrath shall deal strangely, and his destruction shall be strange.

²²Therefore do not ye rejoice, neither let your bands be made strong; for I have heard of works finished and cut short by the Lord of hosts, which he will execute upon all the earth.

²³Hearken, and hear my voice; attend, and hear my words.

²⁴Will the ploughman plough all the day? or will he prepare the seed beforehand, before he tills the ground?

²⁵Does he not, when he has levelled the surface thereof, then sow the small black poppy, or cumin, and afterward sow wheat, and barley, and millet, and bread-corn in thy borders?

²⁶So thou shalt be chastened by the judgment of thy God, and shalt rejoice.

²⁷For the black poppy is not cleansed with harsh treatment, nor will a wagon-wheel pass over the cumin; but the black poppy is threshed with a rod, and the cumin shall be eaten with bread;

²⁸for I will not be wroth with you for ever, neither shall the voice of my anger crush you.

²⁹And these signs came forth from the Lord of hosts. Take counsel, exalt vain comfort.