Yeşaya 46

¹Bel çöktü, Dagon paramparça oldu; onların oyma putları yaban hayvanlarına ve yük hayvanlarına yüklendi. Bunları, yorgun ve aç hayvana ağır birer yük gibi bağlı olarak taşıyorsunuz.

²Bitkin düşmüş, gücü tükenmiş olanlar kendilerini savaştan kurtaramayacaklar; kendileri de tutsak olup götürüldüler.

³Ey Yakup soyu ve İsrail'in geride kalan tüm halkı, beni dinleyin! Anne rahminden beri taşınan, çocukluğunuzdan beri eğitilen sizler,

⁴Yaşlılığınıza dek Ben O'yum; siz iyice yaşlanıncaya dek Ben O'yum. Size Ben katlanıyorum, sizi Ben yarattım ve Ben serbest bırakacağım; sizi kaldırıp kurtaracağım.

⁵Beni kime benzettiniz? Görün ve tasarlayın, ey yoldan sapanlar!

⁶Keseden bolca altın çıkaranlar ve gümüşü terazide tartanlar, bir kuyumcu kiralayıp el yapımı putlar yaptırırlar; sonra da önünde eğilip onlara tapınırlar.

⁷Onu omuzlarında taşıyıp götürürler; yerine koyduklarında ise orada kalır, asla kımıldamaz. Biri ona feryat etse de asla yanıt veremez, onu kötülüklerden asla kurtaramaz.

⁸Bunları hatırlayın ve inleyin; ey sapmış olanlar, tövbe edin, yüreğinize dönün!

⁹Ve geçmişte, çağlar öncesinden beri olup bitenleri hatırlayın. Çünkü Tanrı Benim, benden başkası yoktur.

¹⁰Sonu daha başlangıçtan, henüz gerçekleşmemiş olanları çok önceden bildiren ve hepsi birden tamamlanandır. Şöyle dedim: Tasarımım ayakta kalacak, tasarladığım her şeyi yapacağım.

¹¹Doğudan yırtıcı bir kuşu, uzak bir ülkeden tasarılarımı gerçekleştirecek olanı çağırıyorum. Ben söyledim ve getirdim; Ben yarattım ve yaptım; onu getirdim ve yolunu başarılı kıldım.

¹²Beni dinleyin, ey yüreğini kaybetmiş olanlar, doğruluktan uzak kalanlar!

¹³Doğruluğumu yakınlaştırdım, benden gelecek olan kurtuluş gecikmeyecektir. İsrail'e yücelik olsun diye Siyon'a kurtuluş bağışladım.

¹ΕΠΕΣΕ Βήλ, συνετρίβη Δαγών, ἐγένετο τὰ γλυπτὰ αὐτῶν εἰς θηρία καὶ κτήνη· αἴρετε αὐτὰ καταδεδεμένα ὡς φορτίον κοπιῶντι

²καὶ πεινῶντι, ἐκλελυμένῳ, οὐκ ἰσχύοντι ἅμα, οἳ οὐ δυνήσονται σωθῆναι ἀπὸ πολέμου, αὐτοὶ δὲ αἰχμάλωτοι ἤχθησαν.

³᾿Ακούετέ μου, οἶκος τοῦ ᾿Ιακὼβ καὶ πᾶν τὸ κατάλοιπον τοῦ ᾿Ισραήλ, οἱ αἰρόμενοι ἐκ κοιλίας καὶ παιδευόμενοι ἐκ παιδίου

⁴ἕως γήρους· ἐγώ εἰμι, καὶ ἕως ἂν καταγηράσητε, ἐγώ εἰμι· ἐγὼ ἀνέχομαι ὑμῶν, ἐγὼ ἐποίησα καὶ ἐγὼ ἀνήσω, ἐγὼ ἀναλήψομαι καὶ σώσω ὑμᾶς.

⁵τίνι με ὡμοιώσατε; ἴδετε, τεχνάσασθε, οἱ πλανώμενοι.

⁶οἱ συμβαλλόμενοι χρυσίον ἐκ μαρσιππίου καὶ ἀργύριον ἐν ζυγῷ, στήσουσιν ἐν σταθμῷ καὶ μισθωσάμενοι χρυσοχόον ἐποίησαν χειροποίητα, καὶ κύψαντες προσκυνοῦσιν αὐτοῖς.

⁷αἴρουσιν αὐτὸ ἐπὶ τοῦ ὤμου, καὶ πορεύονται· ἐὰν δὲ θῶσιν αὐτό, ἐπὶ τοῦ τόπου αὐτοῦ μένει, οὐ μὴ κινηθῇ· καὶ ὡς ἐὰν βοήσῃ πρὸς αὐτόν, οὐ μὴ εἰσακούσῃ, ἀπὸ κακῶν οὐ μὴ σώση αὐτόν.

⁸μνήσθητε ταῦτα καὶ στενάξατε, μετανοήσατε οἱ πεπλανημένοι, ἐπιστρέψατε τῇ καρδίᾳ,

⁹καὶ μνήσθητε τὰ πρότερα ἀπὸ τοῦ αἰῶνος, ὅτι ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ Θεός, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἔτι πλὴν ἐμοῦ

¹⁰ἀναγγέλλων πρότερον τὰ ἔσχατα πρὶν αὐτὰ γενέσθαι, καὶ ἅμα συνετελέσθη. καὶ εἶπα· πᾶσα ἡ βουλή μου στήσεται, καὶ πάντα, ὅσα βεβούλευμαι, ποιήσω·

¹¹καλῶν ἀπὸ ἀνατολῶν πετεινὸν καὶ ἀπὸ γῆς πόρρωθεν περὶ ὧν βεβούλευμαι, ἐλάλησα καὶ ἤγαγον, ἔκτισα καὶ ἐποίησα, ἤγαγον αὐτὸν καὶ εὐώδωσα τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ.

¹²ἀκούσατέ μου, οἱ ἀπολωλεκότες τὴν καρδίαν, οἱ μακρὰν ἀπὸ τῆς δικαιοσύνης.

¹³ἤγγισα τὴν δικαιοσύνην μου καὶ τὴν σωτηρίαν τὴν παρ᾿ ἐμοῦ οὐ βραδυνῶ· δέδωκα ἐν Σιὼν σωτηρίαν τῷ ᾿Ισραὴλ εἰς δόξασμα.

¹Bel has fallen, Nabo is broken to pieces, their graven images are gone to the wild beasts and the cattle: ye take them packed up as a burden to the weary, exhausted, hungry, and [at the same time] helpless man;

²who will not be able to save themselves from war, but they themselves are led [away] captive.

³Hear me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of Israel, who are borne [by me] from the womb, and taught [by me] from infancy, [even] to old age:

⁴I am [he]; and until ye shall have grown old, I am [he]: I bear you, I have made, and I will relieve, I will take up and save you.

⁵To whom have ye compared me? see, consider, ye that go astray.

⁶They that furnish gold out of a purse, and silver by weight, will weigh it in a scale, and they hire a goldsmith and make idols, and bow down, and worship them.

⁷They bear it upon the shoulder, and go; and if they put it upon its place, it remains, it cannot move: and whosoever shall cry to it, it cannot hear; it cannot save him from trouble.

⁸Remember ye these things, and groan: repent, ye that have gone astray, return in your heart;

⁹and remember the former things [that were] of old: for I am God, and there is none other beside me,

¹⁰telling beforehand the latter events before they come to pass, and they are accomplished together: and I said, all my counsel shall stand, and I will do all things that I have planned:

¹¹calling a bird from the east, and from a land afar off, for the things which I have planned: I have spoken, and brought [him]; I have created and made [him]; I have brought him, and prospered his way.

¹²Hearken to me, ye senseless ones, that are far from righteousness:

¹³I have brought near my righteousness, and I will not be slow with the salvation that is from me: I have given salvation in Sion to Israel for glory.