Yeşaya 40

¹"Teselli edin, teselli edin halkımı," diyor Tanrı.

²Ey rahipler, Yeruşalim'in yüreğine konuşun, onu teselli edin; çünkü onun alçaltılmışlığı tamamına erdi, günahı çözüldü; çünkü o, Rab'bin elinden günahlarının çift karşılığını aldı.

³Çölde haykıranın bir sesi: "Rab'bin yolunu hazırlayın, Tanrımızın patikalarını düz yapın."

⁴Her vadi doldurulacak ve her dağ ve tepe alçaltılacak; bütün eğri olanlar düzlüğe ve engebeli yer pürüzsüz yollara dönecek.

⁵Ve Rab'bin yüceliği görünecek, ve her beden Tanrı'nın kurtarışını görecek; çünkü Rab konuştu.

⁶Diyen birinin sesi: "Haykır!" Ve dedim: "Ne haykırayım?" "Her beden ottur ve insanın her yüceliği otun çiçeği gibidir."

⁷Ot kurudu ve çiçek düştü,

⁸ama bizim Tanrımızın sözü sonsuza dek kalır.

⁹Yüksek bir dağa çık, ey Siyon'u müjdeleyen! Sesini güçle yükselt, ey Yeruşalim'i müjdeleyen! Yükseltin, korkmayın! Yahuda kentlerine söyle: "İşte Tanrınız!"

¹⁰İşte Rab Rab güçle geliyor ve pazısı egemenlikle; işte O'nun ödülü O'nunla birlikte ve işi O'nun önündedir.

¹¹Bir çoban gibi güdecek O'nun sürüsünü ve O'nun pazısıyla toplayacak kuzuları ve gebe olanları teselli edecek.

¹²Kim ölçtü eliyle suyu ve göğü karışla ve bütün yeryüzünü avuç dolusuyla? Kim tarttı dağları kantarla ve vadileri teraziyle?

¹³Kim bildi Rab'bin zihnini ve kim O'nun danışmanı oldu ki O'na öğretsin?

¹⁴Veya kime danıştı da o O'na öğretti? Veya kim gösterdi O'na adaleti? Veya anlayışın yolunu kim gösterdi O'na?

¹⁵Eğer bütün uluslar kovadan bir damla gibi ve terazinin dengesi gibi sayıldılarsa, ve tükürük gibi sayılacaklar.

¹⁶Lübnan ise yakılmaya yeterli değil, ve bütün dört ayaklılar bütünsel yakmalık sunuya yeterli değil.

¹⁷Ve bütün uluslar hiç gibidirler ve hiçliğe sayıldılar.

¹⁸Kime benzettiniz Rab'bi ve hangi benzerlikle benzettiniz O'nu?

¹⁹Bir tasvir mi yaptı zanaatkar, veya kuyumcu altını eriterek altınla mı kapladı onu, bir benzerlik mi hazırladı ona?

²⁰Çünkü marangoz çürümez bir ağaç seçer ve bilgece arar nasıl dikeceğini onun tasvirini, sarsılmamanız için.

²¹Bilmeyecek misiniz? Duymayacak mısınız? Başlangıçtan beri bildirilmedi mi size? Anlamadınız mı yeryüzünün temellerini?

²²Yeryüzünün dairesini elinde tutan O'dur, ve onda yaşayanlar çekirgeler gibidir; göğü bir kubbe gibi kuran ve oturmak için bir çadır gibi geren O'dur.

²³Önderleri hiçmiş gibi yönetmeye teslim eden, yeryüzünü ise hiç gibi yapandır.

²⁴Çünkü kesinlikle ne dikecekler, ne ekecekler, ne de onların kökü toprağa kök salacak; üzerlerine üfledi ve kurudular, ve kasırga onları çalı çırpı gibi alıp götürecek.

²⁵"Şimdi öyleyse beni kime benzettiniz ki yüceltileyim?" dedi Kutsal Olan.

²⁶Gözlerinizi yüksekliğe kaldırıp bakın ve görün, kim ortaya koydu bütün bunları? O'nun düzenini sayıyla çıkaran O, hepsini adıyla çağıracak; O'nun büyük yüceliğinden ve kudretinin gücünden ötürü senden hiçbir şey gizlenmedi.

²⁷Çünkü deme ey Yakup, ve ne diye konuştun ey İsrail: "Yolum Tanrı'dan gizlendi ve Tanrım hakkımı elimden aldı ve uzaklaştı?"

²⁸Ve şimdi bilmedin mi, yoksa duymadın mı? Ebedi Tanrı, yeryüzünün uçlarını inşa eden Tanrı, ne acıkacak ne de yorulacak, ve O'nun bilgeliğinin derinlemesine araştırılması yoktur.

²⁹Aç olanlara güç veren ve acı çekmeyenlere keder verendir.

³⁰Çünkü daha genç olanlar acıkacak ve genç yiğitler yorulacak, ve seçkinler güçsüz olacaklar.

³¹Ama Tanrı'ya umutla dayananlar güçlerini tazeleyecekler, kartallar gibi kanatlanacaklar, koşacaklar ve yorulmayacaklar, yürüyecekler ve acıkmayacaklar.

¹ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΕΙΤΕ παρακαλεῖτε τὸν λαόν μου, λέγει ὁ Θεός.

²ἱερεῖς, λαλήσατε εἰς τὴν καρδίαν ῾Ιερουσαλήμ, παρακαλέσατε αὐτήν· ὅτι ἐπλήσθη ἡ ταπείνωσις αὐτῆς, λέλυται αὐτῆς ἡ ἁμαρτία· ὅτι ἐδέξατο ἐκ χειρὸς Κυρίου διπλᾶ τὰ ἁμαρτήματα αὐτῆς.

³φωνὴ βοῶντος ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ· ἑτοιμάσατε τὴν ὁδὸν Κυρίου. εὐθείας ποιεῖτε τὰς τρίβους τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡμῶν.

⁴πᾶσα φάραγξ πληρωθήσεται καὶ πᾶν ὄρος καὶ βουνὸς ταπεινωθήσεται, καὶ ἔσται πάντα τὰ σκολιὰ εἰς εὐθεῖαν καὶ ἡ τραχεῖα εἰς ὁδοὺς λείας·

⁵καὶ ὀφθήσεται ἡ δόξα Κυρίου, καὶ ὄψεται πᾶσα σάρξ τὸ σωτήριον τοῦ Θεοῦ, ὅτι Κύριος ἐλάλησε.

⁶φωνὴ λέγοντος· βόησον· καὶ εἶπα· τί βοήσω; πᾶσα σάρξ χόρτος, καὶ πᾶσα δόξα ἀνθρώπου ὡς ἄνθος χόρτου·

⁷ἐξηράνθη ὁ χόρτος, καὶ τὸ ἄνθος ἐξέπεσε,

⁸τὸ δὲ ῥῆμα τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡμῶν μένει εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.

⁹ἐπ᾿ ὄρος ὑψηλὸν ἀνάβηθι, ὁ εὐαγγελιζόμενος Σιών· ὕψωσον ἐν ἰσχύϊ τὴν φωνή σου, ὁ εὐαγγελιζόμενος ῾Ιερουσαλήμ· ὑψώσατε, μὴ φοβεῖσθε· εἰπὸν ταῖς πόλεσιν ᾿Ιούδα· ἰδοὺ ὁ Θεὸς ὑμῶν.

¹⁰ἰδοὺ Κύριος Κύριος μετὰ ἰσχύος ἔρχεται καὶ ὁ βραχίων μετὰ κυρίας· ἰδοὺ ὁ μισθὸς αὐτοῦ μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸ ἔργον ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ.

¹¹ὡς ποιμὴν ποιμανεῖ τὸ ποίμνιον αὐτοῦ καὶ τῷ βραχίονι αὐτοῦ συνάξει ἄρνας καὶ ἐν γαστρὶ ἐχούσας παρακαλέσει.

¹²Τί ἐμέτρησε τῇ χειρὶ τὸ ὕδωρ καὶ τὸν οὐρανὸν σπιθαμῇ καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν δρακί; τίς ἔστησε τὰ ὄρη σταθμῷ καὶ τὰς νάπας ζυγῷ;

¹³τίς ἔγνω νοῦν Κυρίου, καὶ τίς αὐτοῦ σύμβουλος ἐγένετο, ὃς συμβιβᾷ αὐτόν;

¹⁴ἢ πρὸς τίνα συνεβουλεύσατο καὶ συνεβίβασεν αὐτόν; ἢ τίς ἔδειξεν αὐτῷ κρίσιν; ἢ ὁδὸν συνέσεως τίς ἔδειξεν αὐτῷ;

¹⁵εἰ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη ὡς σταγὼν ἀπὸ κάδου καὶ ὡς ροπὴ ζυγοῦ ἐλογίσθησαν καὶ ὡς σίελος λογισθήσονται·

¹⁶ὁ δὲ Λίβανος οὐχ ἱκανὸς εἰς καῦσιν, καὶ πάντα τὰ τετράποδα οὐχ ἱκανὰ εἰς ὁλοκάρπωσιν,

¹⁷καὶ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη ὡς οὐδέν εἰσι καὶ εἰς οὐθὲν ἐλογίσθησαν.

¹⁸τίνι ὡμοιώσατε Κύριον καὶ τίνι ὁμοιώματι ὡμοιώσατε αὐτόν;

¹⁹μὴ εἰκόνα ἐποίησε τέκτων, ἢ χρυσοχόος χωνεύσας χρυσίον περιεχρύσωσεν αὐτόν, ὁμοίωμα κατεσκεύασεν αὐτόν;

²⁰ξύλον γὰρ ἄσηπτον ἐκλέγεται τέκτων καὶ σοφῶς ζητεῖ πῶς στήσει εἰκόνα αὐτοῦ καὶ ἵνα μὴ σαλεύητε.

²¹οὐ γνώσεσθε; οὐκ ἀκούσεσθε; οὐκ ἀνηγγέλη ἐξ ἀρχῆς ὑμῖν; οὐκ ἔγνωτε τὰ θεμέλια τῆς γῆς;

²²ὁ κατέχων τὸν γῦρον τῆς γῆς, καὶ οἱ ἐνοικοῦντες ἐν αὐτῇ ὡς ἀκρίδες, ὁ στήσας ὡς καμάραν τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ διατείνας ὡς σκηνὴν κατοικεῖν,

²³ὁ διδοὺς ἄρχοντας ὡς οὐδὲν ἄρχειν, τὴν δὲ γῆν ὡς οὐδὲν ἐποίησεν.

²⁴οὐ γὰρ μὴ φυτεύσωσιν, οὐδὲ μὴ σπείρωσιν, οὐδὲ μὴ ριζωθῇ εἰς τὴν γῆν ἡ ρίζα αὐτῶν· ἔπνευσεν ἐπ᾿ αὐτοὺς καὶ ἐξηράνθησαν, καὶ καταιγὶς ὡς φρύγανα λήψεται αὐτούς.

²⁵νῦν οὖν τίνι με ὡμοιώσατε καὶ ὑψωθήσομαι; εἶπεν ὁ ἅγιος.

²⁶ἀναβλέψατε εἰς ὕψος τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ὑμῶν καὶ ἴδετε, τίς κατέδειξε ταῦτα πάντα; ὁ ἐκφέρων κατ᾿ ἀριθμὸν τὸν κόσμον αὐτοῦ πάντας ἐπ᾿ ὀνόματι καλέσει· ἀπὸ πολλῆς δόξης καὶ ἐν κράτει ἰσχύος αὐτοῦ οὐδέν σε ἔλαθε.

²⁷Μὴ γὰρ εἶπῃς, ᾿Ιακώβ, καὶ τί ἐλάλησας, ᾿Ισραήλ· ἀπεκρύβη ἡ ὁδός μου ἀπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ ὁ Θεός μου τὴν κρίσιν ἀφεῖλε καὶ ἀπέστη;

²⁸καὶ νῦν οὐκ ἔγνως εἰ μὴ ἤκουσας; Θεὸς αἰώνιος ὁ Θεὸς ὁ κατασκευάσας τὰ ἄκρα τῆς γῆς, οὐ πεινάσει, οὐδὲ κοπιάσει, οὐδέ ἐστιν ἐξεύρεσις τῆς φρονήσεως αὐτοῦ·

²⁹διδοὺς τοῖς πεινῶσιν ἰσχὺν καὶ τοῖς μὴ ὀδυνωμένοις λύπην.

³⁰πεινάσουσι γὰρ νεώτεροι, καὶ κοπιάσουσι νεανίσκοι, καὶ ἐκλεκτοὶ ἀνίσχυες ἔσονται·

³¹οἱ δὲ ὑπομένοντες τὸν Θεὸν ἀλλάξουσιν ἰσχύν, πτεροφυήσουιν ὡς ἀετοί, δραμοῦνται καὶ οὐ κοπιάσουσι, βαδιοῦνται καὶ οὐ πεινάσουσιν.

¹Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith God.

²Speak, ye priests, to the heart of Jerusalem; comfort her, for her humiliation is accomplished, her sin is put away: for she has received of the Lord’s hand double [the amount of] her sins.

³The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God.

⁴Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low: and all the crooked [ways] shall become straight, and the rough [places] plains.

⁵And the glory of the Lord shall appear, and all flesh shall see the salvation of God: for the Lord has spoken [it].

⁶The voice of one saying, Cry; and I said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass:

⁷The grass withers, and the flower fades:

⁸but the word of our God abides for ever.

⁹O thou that bringest glad tidings to Zion, go up on the high mountain; lift up thy voice with strength, thou that bringest glad tidings to Jerusalem; lift it up, fear not; say unto the cities of Juda, Behold your God!

¹⁰Behold the Lord! The Lord is coming with strength, and [his] arm is with power: behold, his reward is with him, and [his] work before him.

¹¹He shall tend his flock as a shepherd, and he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and shall soothe them that are with young.

¹²Who has measured the water in his hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the earth in a handful? Who has weighed the mountains in scales, and the forests in a balance?

¹³Who has known the mind of the Lord? and who has been his counsellor, to instruct him?

¹⁴Or with whom has he taken counsel, and he has instructed him? or who has taught him judgment, or who has taught him the way of understanding;

¹⁵since all the nations are counted as a drop from a bucket, and as the turning of a balance, [and] shall be counted as spittle?

¹⁶And Libanus is not enough to burn, nor all beasts enough for a whole-burnt offering:

¹⁷and all the nations are as nothing, and counted as nothing.

¹⁸To whom have ye compared the Lord? and with what likeness have ye compared him?

¹⁹Has not the artificer made an image, or the goldsmith having melted gold, gilt it over, [and] made it a similitude?

²⁰For the artificer chooses out a wood that will not rot, and will wisely enquire how he shall set up his image, and [that so] that it should not be moved.

²¹Will ye not know? will ye not hear? has it not been told you of old? Have ye not known the foundations of the earth?

²²[It is] he that comprehends the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants in it are as grasshoppers; he that set up the heaven as a chamber, and stretched [it] out as a tent to dwell in:

²³he that appoints princes to rule as nothing, and has made the earth as nothing.

²⁴For they shall not plant, neither shall they sow, neither shall their root be fixed in the ground: he has blown upon them, and they are withered, and a storm shall carry them away like sticks.

²⁵Now then to whom have ye compared me, that I may be exalted? saith the Holy One.

²⁶Lift up your eyes on high, and see, who has displayed all these things? [even] he that brings forth his host by number: he shall call them all by name by [means of his] great glory, and by the power of his might: nothing has escaped thee.

²⁷For say not thou, O Jacob, and why hast thou spoken, Israel, [saying], My way is hid from God, and my God has taken away [my] judgment, and has departed?

²⁸And now, hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? the eternal God, the God that formed the ends of the earth, shall not hunger, nor be weary, and there is no searching of his understanding.

²⁹He gives strength to the hungry, and sorrow to them that are not suffering.

³⁰For the young [men] shall hunger, and the youths shall be weary, and the choice [men] shall be powerless:

³¹but they that wait on God shall renew [their] strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not hunger.