Yeşaya 44

¹Ve şimdi dinle ey kulum Yakup ve seçtiğim İsrail!

²Seni yaratan ve seni ana rahminden şekillendiren Tanrı RAB şöyle diyor: "Hâlâ yardım alacaksın; korkma ey kulum Yakup ve seçtiğim, sevilmiş olan İsrail!

³Çünkü susuzluk içinde, kurak topraklarda yürüyenlere su vereceğim; Ruhumu senin soyunun üzerine ve bereketlerimi senin çocuklarının üzerine dökeceğim.

⁴Ve onlar suların ortasındaki otlar gibi, akan suların kenarındaki söğüt ağaçları gibi yeşerecekler.

⁵Biri, 'Ben Tanrı'ya aitim' diyecek, diğeri Yakup'un adıyla çağrılacak; bir başkası ise kendi eliyle 'Ben Tanrı'ya aitim' diye yazacak ve İsrail'in adıyla çağrılacaktır."

⁶İsrail'in Kralı ve onu kurtaran Orduların Tanrısı şöyle diyor: "Ben ilkim ve ben sondan sonrayım; benden başka Tanrı yoktur.

⁷Kim benim gibidir? Ayakta dursun, seslensin, bunu beyan etsin ve insanı çağlar öncesinden beri yarattığımdan bu yana benim için hazırlasın. Gelecek olanları, daha onlar gerçekleşmeden önce size bildirsinler.

⁸Kendinizi gizlemeyin ve yoldan sapıp yanılmayın; başlangıçtan beri size duyurmadım mı ve bildirmedim mi? Benden başka bir Tanrı olup olmadığına şahitlerim sizsiniz."

⁹Putlara şekil verenlerin ve onları oyanların hepsi o zaman yoktular; kendi arzularına göre yaptıkları o şeyler boşunadır ve kendilerine hiçbir fayda sağlamayacaktır; aksine, hepsi utanacaktır.

¹⁰Bir tanrıya şekil veren ve hiçbir işe yaramayan şeyleri oyanların hepsi,

¹¹ve var oldukları yerdeki herkes kuruyup gitti. İnsanlar arasından o sağırlar da bir araya gelsin ve birlikte dursunlar; hepsi birden utansın ve birlikte rezil olsun.

¹²Zanaatçı demiri biler, onu keserle işler, matkapla şekillendirir ve onu kendi güçlü koluyla biçimlendirir; ama acıkır ve halsiz düşer, su içmezse tükenir.

¹³Ahşabı seçen dülger onu ölçüyle ölçer, tutkalla birleştirip şekillendirir; ona bir adam biçimi ve insan güzelliği verir ki evde dursun.

¹⁴Ormandan ağaç keser; RAB'bin diktiği ve yağmurun büyüttüğü bir ağaç seçer,

¹⁵ki insanlar için yakacak olsun. Ondan bir parça alıp ısınır, odun yakıp onun üzerinde ekmek pişirirler; kalan kısmından ise kendilerine ilahlar yapıp onlara tapınırlar.

¹⁶Onun yarısını ateşte yakar, onun üzerinde ekmek pişirirler; onun üzerinde et kızartıp yer ve doyar. Isınınca da, "Ah, ne güzel ısındım, ateşin sıcaklığını gördüm" der.

¹⁷Kalan kısmından ise oyma bir ilah yapar, önünde yere kapanıp tapınır ve ona dua ederek, "Kurtar beni, çünkü sen benim tanrımsın" der.

¹⁸Düşünmeyi bilmediler; çünkü gözleriyle görmekten ve yürekleriyle anlamaktan mahrum bırakılacak şekilde körleştirildiler.

¹⁹Yüreğinde tartmadı, aklıyla düşünmedi ve bilgisiyle anlamadı ki, "Yarısını ateşte yaktım, kömürünün üzerinde ekmek pişirdim, et kızartıp yedim; şimdi onun kalanından iğrenç bir şey mi yaptım ve bir odun parçasına mı tapınırlar?" desin.

²⁰Bilin ki, onların yüreği küldür ve sapmaktadırlar; hiç kimse canını kurtaramaz. "Sağ elimdeki şey bir yalan değil mi?" demez misiniz?

²¹"Bunları hatırla ey Yakup ve İsrail, çünkü sen benim kulumsun! Seni kulum olasın diye ben şekillendirdim; ey İsrail, beni unutma!

²²İşte, isyanlarını bir bulut gibi, günahlarını bir karanlık gibi sildim; bana dön, çünkü seni fidyeyle kurtaracağım."

²³Sevinin ey gökler, çünkü Tanrı İsrail'e merhamet etti! Borazan çalın ey yeryüzünün temelleri! Ey dağlar, tepeler ve içlerindeki tüm ağaçlar, sevinçle haykırın! Çünkü Tanrı Yakup'u kurtardı ve İsrail'de yüceltilecektir.

²⁴Seni kurtaran ve seni ana rahminde şekillendiren RAB şöyle diyor: "Her şeyi tamamlayan, gökleri tek başına geren ve yeryüzünü sağlamlaştıran RAB benim.

²⁵Medyumların belirtilerini boşa çıkaran, yürekten gelen kehanetleri şaşırtan, bilgeleri geriye döndürüp onların danışmanlığını akılsızlığa çeviren başka kim var?

²⁶Kendi kulunun sözünü yerine getiren ve habercilerinin tasarısını doğrulayan O'dur. Yeruşalim'e, 'Sende yaşanacak' ve İdumeya kentlerine, 'İnşa edileceksiniz ve viraneleriniz yeniden yeşerecek' diyen O'dur.

²⁷Engine, 'Kuruyacaksın, nehirlerini kurutacağım' diyen O'dur.

²⁸Koreş'e, 'Bilgece davransın ve tüm isteklerimi yerine getirsin' diyen; Yeruşalim'e, 'İnşa edileceksin' ve kutsal tapınağıma, 'Temelin atılacak' diyen O'dur."

¹ΝΥΝ δὲ ἄκουσον, ᾿Ιακὼβ ὁ παῖς μου καὶ ᾿Ισραήλ, ὃν ἐξελεξάμην·

²οὕτω λέγει Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ὁ ποιήσας σε καὶ ὁ πλάσας σε ἐκ κοιλίας· ἔτι βοηθηθήσῃ, μὴ φοβοῦ, παῖς μου ᾿Ιακὼβ καὶ ἠγαπημένος ᾿Ισραήλ, ὃν ἐξελεξάμην.

³ὅτι ἐγὼ δώσω ὕδωρ ἐν δίψει τοῖς πορευομένοις ἐν ἀνύδρῳ, ἐπιθήσω τὸ πνεῦμά μου ἐπὶ τὸ σπέρμα σου καὶ τὰς εὐλογίας μου ἐπὶ τὰ τέκνα σου,

⁴καὶ ἀνατελοῦσιν ὡς ἀναμέσον ὕδατος χόρτος καὶ ὡς ἰτέα ἐπὶ παραρρέον ὕδωρ.

⁵οὕτος ἐρεῖ· τοῦ Θεοῦ εἰμι, καὶ οὗτος βοήσεται ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι ᾿Ιακώβ, καὶ ἕτερος ἐπιγράψει χειρὶ αὐτοῦ· τοῦ Θεοῦ εἰμι, καὶ ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι ᾿Ισραὴλ βοήσεται. -

⁶Οὕτως λέγει ὁ Θεὸς ὁ βασιλεὺς τοῦ ᾿Ισραὴλ ὁ ῥυσάμενος αὐτὸν Θεὸς σαβαώθ· ἐγὼ πρῶτος καὶ ἐγὼ μετὰ ταῦτα· πλὴν ἐμοῦ οὐκ ἔστι Θεός.

⁷τίς ὥσπερ ἐγώ; στήτω καὶ καλεσάτω καὶ ἀναγγειλάτω καὶ ἑτοιμασάτω μοι ἀφ᾿ οὗ ἐποίησα ἄνθρωπον εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα, καὶ τὰ ἐπερχόμενα πρὸ τοῦ ἐλθεῖν ἀναγγειλάτωσαν ὑμῖν.

⁸μὴ παρακαλύπτεσθε μηδὲ πλανᾶσθε· οὐκ ἀπ᾿ ἀρχῆς ἠνωτίσασθε καὶ ἀπήγγειλα ὑμῖν; μάρτυρες ὑμεῖς ἐστε, εἰ ἔτσι Θεὸς πλὴν ἐμοῦ·

⁹καὶ οὐκ ἦσαν τότε οἱ πλάσσοντες καὶ γλύφοντες πάντες μάταιοι οἱ ποιοῦντες τὰ καταθύμια αὐτῶν, ἃ οὐκ ὠφελήσει αὐτούς· ἀλλὰ αἰσχυνθήσονται

¹⁰πάντες οἱ πλάσσοντες Θεὸν καὶ γλύφοντες ἀνωφελῆ,

¹¹καὶ πάντες ὅθεν ἐγένοντο ἐξηράνθησαν, καὶ κωφοὶ ἀπὸ ἀνθρώπων συναχθήτωσαν πάντες καὶ στησάτωσαν ἅμα, ἐντραπήτωσαν καὶ αἰσχυνθήτωσαν ἅμα.

¹²ὅτι ὤξυνε τέκτων σίδηρον, σκεπάρνῳ εἰργάσατο αὐτὸ καὶ ἐν τερέτρῳ ἔστησεν αὐτό, εἰργάσατο αὐτὸ ἐν τῷ βραχίονι τῆς ἰσχύος αὐτοῦ· καὶ πεινάσει καὶ ἀσθενήσει καὶ οὐ μὴ πίῃ ὕδωρ.

¹³ἐκλεξάμενος τέκτων ξύλον ἔστησεν αὐτὸ ἐν μέτρῳ καὶ ἐν κόλλῃ ἐρρύθμισεν αὐτὸ καὶ ἐποίησεν αὐτὸ ὡς μορφὴν ἀνδρὸς καὶ ὡς ὡραιότητα ἀνθρώπου στῆσαι αὐτὸ ἐν οἴκῳ.

¹⁴ἔκοψε ξύλον ἐκ τοῦ δρυμοῦ, ὃ ἐφύτευσε Κύριος καὶ ὑετὸς ἐμήκυνεν,

¹⁵ἵνα ᾖ ἀνθρώποις εἰς καῦσιν· καὶ λαβὼν ἀπ᾿ αὐτοῦ ἐθερμάνθη, καὶ καύσαντες ἔπεψαν ἄρτους ἐπ᾿ αὐτῶν, τὸ δὲ λοιπὸν εἰργάσαντο θεούς, καὶ προσκυνοῦσιν αὐτοῖς.

¹⁶οὗ τὸ ἥμισυ αὐτοῦ κατέκαυσεν ἐν πυρὶ καὶ καύσαντες ἔπεψαν ἄρτους ἐπ᾿ αὐτῶν· καὶ ἐπ᾿ αὐτοῦ κρέας ὀπτήσας ἔφαγε καὶ ἐνεπλήσθη, καὶ θερμανθεὶς εἶπεν· ἡδύ μοι ὅτι ἐθερμάνθην καὶ εἶδον πῦρ.

¹⁷τὸ δὲ λοιπὸν ἐποίησεν εἰς θεὸν γλυπτὸν καὶ προσκυνεῖ αὐτῷ καὶ προσεύχεται λέγων· ἐξελοῦ με, ὅτι θεός μου εἶ σύ.

¹⁸οὐκ ἔγνωσαν φρονῆσαι, ὅτι ἀπημαυρώθησαν τοῦ βλέπειν τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς αὐτῶν καὶ τοῦ νοῆσαι τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτῶν.

¹⁹καὶ οὐκ ἐλογίσατο τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ οὐδὲ ἀνελογίσατο ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ αὐτοῦ οὐδὲ ἔγνω τῇ φρονήσει, ὅτι τὸ ἥμισυ αὐτοῦ κατέκαυσεν ἐν πυρὶ καὶ ἔπεψεν ἐπὶ τῶν ἀνθράκων αὐτοῦ ἄρτους καὶ ὀπτήσας κρέα ἔφαγε καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν αὐτοῦ εἰς βδέλυγμα ἐποίησε καὶ προσκυνοῦσιν αὐτῷ.

²⁰γνῶθι ὅτι σποδὸς ἡ καρδία αὐτῶν, καὶ πλανῶνται, καὶ οὐδεὶς δύναται ἐξελέσθαι τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ· ἴδετε, οὐκ ἐρεῖτε ὅτι ψεῦδος ἐν τῇ δεξιᾷ μου;

²¹Μνήσθητι ταῦτα ᾿Ιακὼβ καὶ ᾿Ισραήλ, ὅτι παῖς μου εἶ σύ· ἔπλασά σε παῖδά μου, καὶ σὺ ᾿Ισραὴλ μὴ ἐπιλανθάνου μου.

²²ἰδοὺ γὰρ ἀπήλειψα ὡς νεφέλην τὰς ἀνομίας σου καὶ ὡς γνόφον τὰς ἁμαρτίας σου· ἐπιστράφηθι πρός με, καὶ λυτρώσομαί σε.

²³εὐφράνθητε, οὐρανοί, ὅτι ἠλέησεν ὁ Θεός τὸν ᾿Ισραήλ· σαλπίσατε, τὰ θεμέλια τῆς γῆς, βοήσατε, ὄρη, εὐφροσύνην, οἱ βουνοὶ καὶ πάντα τὰ ξύλα τὰ ἐν αὐτοῖς, ὅτι ἐλυτρώσατο ὁ Θεὸς τὸν ᾿Ιακώβ, καὶ ᾿Ισραὴλ δοξασθήσεται.

²⁴Οὕτω λέγει Κύριος ὁ λυτρούμενός σε καὶ ὁ πλάσσων σε ἐκ κοιλίας· ἐγὼ Κύριος ὁ συντελῶν πάντα, ἐξέτεινα τὸν οὐρανὸν μόνος καὶ ἐστερέωσα τὴν γῆν.

²⁵τίς ἕτερος διασκεδάσει σημεῖα ἐγγαστριμύθων καὶ μαντείας ἀπὸ καρδίας, ἀποστρέφων φρονίμους εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω καὶ τὴν βουλὴν αὐτῶν μωραίνων

²⁶καὶ ἱστῶν ρῆμα παιδὸς αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν βουλὴν τῶν ἀγγέλων αὐτοῦ ἀληθεύων; ὁ λέγων τῇ ῾Ιερουσαλήμ· κατοικηθήσῃ καὶ ταῖς πόλεσι τῆς ᾿Ιδουμαίας· οἰκοδομηθήσεσθε, καὶ τὰ ἔρημα αὐτῆς ἀνατελεῖ·

²⁷ὁ λέγων τῇ ἀβύσσῳ· ἐρημωθήσῃ, καὶ τοὺς ποταμούς σου ξηρανῶ·

²⁸ὁ λέγων Κύρῳ φρονεῖν καὶ πάντα τὰ θελήματά μου ποιήσει· ὁ λέγων ῾Ιερουσαλήμ· οἰκοδομηθήσῃ, καὶ τὸν οἶκον τὸν ἅγιόν μου θεμελιώσω.

¹But now hear, Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen.

²Thus saith the Lord God that made thee, and he that formed thee from the womb; Thou shalt yet be helped: fear not, my servant Jacob; and beloved Israel, whom I have chosen.

³For I will give water to the thirsty that walk in a dry land: I will put my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessings upon thy children:

⁴and they shall spring up as grass between brooks, and as willows on [the banks of] running water.

⁵One shall say, I am God’s; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall write with his hand, I am God’s, and shall call himself by the name of Israel.

⁶Thus saith God the King of Israel, and the God of hosts that delivered him; I am the first, and I am hereafter: beside me there is no God.

⁷Who is like me? let him stand, and call, and declare, and prepare for me from the time that I made man for ever; and let them tell you the things that are coming before they arrive.

⁸Hide not yourselves, nor go astray: have ye not heard from the beginning, and [have not] I told you? ye are witnesses if there is a God beside me.

⁹But they that framed [false gods] did not then hearken; and they that graved [images] are all vain, performing their own desires, which shall not profit them, but they shall be ashamed

¹⁰that form a god, and all that grave worthless things:

¹¹and all by whom they were made are withered: yea, let all the deaf be gathered from [among] men, and let them stand together; and let them be ashamed and confounded together:

¹²For the artificer sharpens the iron; he fashions [the idol] with an axe, and fixes it with an awl, and fashions it with the strength of his arm: and he will be hungry and weak, and will drink no water.

¹³The artificer having chosen a piece of wood, marks it out with a rule, and fits it with glue, and makes it as the form of a man, and as the beauty of a man, to set it up in the house.

¹⁴He cuts wood out of the forest, which the Lord planted, [even] a pine tree, and the rain made it grow,

¹⁵that it might be for men to burn: and having taken part of it he warms himself; yea, they burn part of it, and bake loaves thereon; and [of] the rest they make for themselves gods, and they worship them.

¹⁶Half thereof he burns in the fire, and with half of it he bakes loaves on the coals; and having roasted flesh on it he eats, and is satisfied, and having warmed himself he says, I am comfortable, for I have warmed myself, and have seen the fire.

¹⁷And the rest he makes a graven god, and worships, and prays, saying, Deliver me; for thou art my God.

¹⁸They have no understanding to perceive; for they have been blinded so that they should not see with their eyes, nor perceive with their heart.

¹⁹And one has not considered in his mind, nor known in his understanding, that he has burnt up half of it in the fire, and baked loaves on the coals thereof and has roasted and eaten flesh, and of the rest of it he has made an abomination, and they worship it.

²⁰Know thou that their heart is ashes, and they err, and no one is able to deliver his soul: see, ye will not say, [There is a] lie in my right hand.

²¹Remember these things, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant; I have formed thee [to be] my servant: and do thou, Israel, not forget me.

²²For behold, I have blotted out as a cloud thy transgressions, and thy sin as darkness: turn to me, and I will redeem thee.

²³Rejoice, ye heavens; for God has had mercy upon Israel: sound the trumpet, ye foundations of the earth: ye mountains, shout [with] joy, ye hills, and all the trees therein: for God has redeemed Jacob, and Israel shall be glorified.

²⁴Thus saith the Lord that redeems thee, and who formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that performs all things: I stretched out the heaven alone, and established the earth.

²⁵Who else will frustrate the tokens of those that have divining spirits, and prophecies from the heart of [man]? turning the wise back, and making their counsel foolishness;

²⁶and confirming the word of his servant, and verifying the counsel of his messengers: who says to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Idumea, Ye shall be built, and her desert places shall spring forth.

²⁷Who says to the deep, Thou shalt be dried up, and I will dry up the rivers.

²⁸Who bids Cyrus be wise, and he shall perform all my will: who says to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built, and I will lay the foundation of my holy house.