Yeşaya 49

¹Beni dinleyin ey adalar ve kulak verin ey uluslar! Bu söz uzun bir zaman boyunca sarsılmadan ayakta kalacaktır, diyor Rab. Annemin rahminden çağırdı adımı benim.

²Ağzımı keskin bir kılıç gibi yaptı ve beni elinin koruyucu gölgesi altında gizledi; beni seçkin bir ok yaptı ve beni kendi sadığında sakladı.

³Ve bana dedi ki: "Sen benim kulumsun ey İsrail ve senin sayende yüceltileceğim."

⁴Bense şöyle dedim: "Boş yere emek verdim, gücümü boşluk ve hiçlik uğruna tükettim; yine de hakkım Rab'bin katında ve emeğimin karşılığı Tanrımın huzurundadır."

⁵Ve şimdi, Yakup'u kendisine toplamak ve İsrail'i bir araya getirmek için beni rahimden kendisi için kul olarak biçimlendiren Rab şöyle diyor —Rab'bin huzurunda toplanacağım ve yüceltileceğim, ve Tanrım benim gücüm olacak—

⁶Ve bana dedi ki: "Yakup'un oymaklarını ayağa kaldırmak ve İsrail'in dağılmış olanlarını geri döndürmek için kulum olarak çağrılman senin için küçük bir şeydir; işte, yeryüzünün ucuna dek kurtuluşum olasın diye seni uluslara bir ışık, bir soy için antlaşma yaptım."

⁷Seni kurtaran Rab, İsrail'in Tanrısı şöyle diyor: "Kendi canını hor göreni, uluslarca iğrenç bulunanı, önderlerin kullarını kutsayın; krallar onu görecek ve ayağa kalkacak, önderler de Rab'bin hatırı için ona secde edecekler; çünkü İsrail'in Kutsalı sadıktır ve seni seçen O'dur."

⁸Rab şöyle diyor: "Lütuf zamanında sana kulak verdim ve kurtuluş gününde sana yardım ettim; seni biçimlendirdim ve ülkeyi imar edesin, viran kalmış mirasları mülk edinesin diye seni uluslara bir antlaşma olarak verdim,"

⁹tutsaklara, "Çıkın!" ve karanlıkta olanlara, "Ortaya çıkın!" diyesin diye. Yol boylarında otlayacaklar, her patikada otlakları olacak.

¹⁰Açıkmayacaklar, susamayacaklar; yakıcı çöl sıcağı ve güneş onlara çarpmayacak. Çünkü onlara merhamet eden kendilerini teselli edecek ve onları su pınarlarına götürecek.

¹¹Her dağı bir yol yapacağım ve her patikayı onlar için bir otlak haline getireceğim.

¹²İşte, bunlar uzaktan geliyor; kimileri kuzeyden, kimileri denizden, kimileri de Pers diyarından.

¹³Sevinin ey gökler ve coşsun yeryüzü! Dağlar sevinçle haykırsın! Çünkü Tanrı halkına merhamet etti ve halkının mazlumlarını teselli etti.

¹⁴Ama Siyon, "Rab beni terk etti ve Rab beni unuttu" dedi.

¹⁵Bir kadın emzikteki çocuğunu unutabilir mi, rahminin meyvesine merhamet etmemezlik eder mi? Kadınlar unutabilse bile, ben seni unutmayacağım, diyor Rab.

¹⁶İşte, ellerimin üzerine çizdim senin surlarını; sen her zaman gözümün önündesin.

¹⁷Seni yıkanlar tarafından tez zamanda inşa edileceksin; seni viran edenler ise senden çıkıp gidecekler.

¹⁸Gözlerini kaldırıp çevrene bak, hepsi bir araya gelip sana geliyorlar. "Varlığım hakkı için," diyor Rab, "onların hepsini bir süs gibi kuşanacaksın, bir gelinin takıları gibi onları üzerine takacaksın."

¹⁹Çünkü viranelerin, yıkıntıların ve çökmüş yerlerin, şimdi orada yaşayanlar yüzünden dar gelecek; seni yutanlar ise senden uzaklaşacaklar.

²⁰Çünkü kaybettiğin çocukların kulağına şöyle fısıldayacaklar: "Burası bana dar geliyor, yaşayabilmem için bana yer aç."

²¹Ve yüreğinde şöyle diyeceksin: "Bunları bana kim doğurdu? Ben çocuksuz ve duldum; bunları kim büyüttü? Ben yalnız kalmıştım, peki bunlar neredeydi?"

²²Egemen Rab şöyle diyor: "İşte, uluslara elimi kaldırıyorum, adalara sancağımı dikiyorum; oğullarını kucaklarında getirecekler, kızlarını omuzlarında taşıyacaklar,"

²³ve krallar sana babalık edecek, kraliçeleriyse sana dadılık yapacak. Yere kapanıp sana secde edecekler, ayaklarının tozunu yalayacaklar. O zaman benim Rab olduğumu anlayacaksın; bana umut bağlayanlar utandırılmayacak."

²⁴Bir devin elinden ganimet alınabilir mi? Ya da haksız yere tutsak edilen biri kurtulabilir mi?"

²⁵Rab şöyle diyor: "Bir devi tutsak eden bile ganimetini alacak, güçlü olanın elinden alan kurtulacak. Çünkü senin davanı ben savunacağım ve senin çocuklarını ben kurtaracağım."

²⁶Sana eziyet edenlere kendi etlerini yedireceğim, yeni şarap içer gibi kendi kanlarıyla sarhoş olacaklar. O zaman bütün insanlık anlayacak ki, seni kurtaran ve Yakup'un gücüne destek olan Rab benim."

¹ΑΚΟΥΣΑΤΕ μου, νῆσοι, καὶ προσέχετε, ἔθνη· διὰ χρόνου πολλοῦ στήσεται, λέγει Κύριος. ἐκ κοιλίας μητρός μου ἐκάλεσε τὸ ὄνομά μου

²καὶ ἔθηκε τὸ στόμα μου ὡσεὶ μάχαιραν ὀξεῖαν καὶ ὑπὸ τὴν σκέπην τῆς χειρὸς αὐτοῦ ἔκρυψέ με, ἔθηκέ με ὡς βέλος ἐκλεκτὸν καὶ ἐν τῇ φαρέτρᾳ αὐτοῦ ἔκρυψέ με.

³καὶ εἶπέ μοι· δοῦλός μου εἶ σύ, ᾿Ισραήλ, καὶ ἐν σοὶ δοξασθήσομαι.

⁴καὶ ἐγὼ εἶπα· κενῶς ἐκοπίασα, εἰς μάταιον καὶ εἰς οὐδὲν ἔδωκα τὴν ἰσχύν μου· διὰ τοῦτο ἡ κρίσις μου παρὰ Κυρίῳ, καὶ ὁ πόνος μου ἐναντίον τοῦ Θεοῦ μου.

⁵καὶ νῦν οὕτως λέγει Κύριος ὁ πλάσας με ἐκ κοιλίας δοῦλον ἑαυτῷ τοῦ συναγαγεῖν τὸν ᾿Ιακὼβ πρὸς αὐτὸν καὶ ᾿Ισραὴλ - συναχθήσομαι καὶ δοξασθήσομαι ἐναντίον Κυρίου, καὶ ὁ Θεός μου ἔσται μοι ἰσχὺς -

⁶καὶ εἶπέ μοι· μέγα σοί ἐστι τοῦ κληθῆναί σε παῖδά μου τοῦ στῆσαι τὰς φυλὰς ᾿Ιακὼβ καὶ τὴν διασπορὰν τοῦ ᾿Ισραὴλ ἐπιστρέψαι· ἰδοὺ δέδωκά σε εἰς διαθήκην γένους, εἰς φῶς ἐθνῶν τοῦ εἶναί σε εἰς σωτηρίαν ἕως ἐσχάτου τῆς γῆς. -

⁷Οὕτως λέγει Κύριος ὁ ῥυσάμενός σε, ὁ Θεὸς ᾿Ισραήλ· ἁγιάσατε τὸν φαυλίζοντα τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ, τὸν βδελυσσόμενον ὑπὸ τῶν ἐθνῶν τῶν δούλων τῶν ἀρχόντων· βασιλεῖς ὄψονται αὐτὸν καὶ ἀναστήσονται, ἄρχοντες καὶ προσκυνήσουσιν αὐτῷ ἕνεκεν Κυρίου· ὅτι πιστός ἐστιν ὁ ἅγιος ᾿Ισραήλ, καὶ ἐξελεξάμην σε.

⁸οὕτως λέγει Κύριος· καιρῷ δεκτῷ ἐπήκουσά σου καὶ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ σωτηρίας ἐβοήθησά σοι καὶ ἔπλασά σε καὶ ἔδωκά σε εἰς διαθήκην ἐθνῶν τοῦ καταστῆσαι τὴν γῆν καὶ κληρονομῆσαι κληρονομίας ἐρήμους,

⁹λέγοντα τοῖς ἐν δεσμοῖς· ἐξέλθετε, καὶ τοῖς ἐν τῷ σκότει· ἀνακαλυφθῆναι. ἐν πάσαις ταῖς ὁδοῖς βοσκηθήσονται, καὶ ἐν πάσαις ταῖς τρίβοις ἡ νομὴ αὐτῶν·

¹⁰οὐ πεινάσουσιν οὐδὲ διψήσουσιν, οὐδὲ πατάξει αὐτοὺς καύσων, οὐδὲ ὁ ἥλιος, ἀλλ᾿ ὁ ἐλεῶν αὐτοὺς παρακαλέσει καὶ διὰ πηγῶν ὑδάτων ἄξει αὐτούς·

¹¹καὶ θήσω πᾶν ὄρος εἰς ὁδὸν καὶ πᾶσαν τρίβον εἰς βόσκημα αὐτοῖς.

¹²ἰδοὺ οὗτοι πόρρωθεν ἔρχονται, οὗτοι ἀπὸ βορρᾶ καὶ οὗτοι ἀπὸ θαλάσσης, ἄλλοι δὲ ἐκ γῆς Περσῶν.

¹³εὐφραίνεσθαι, οὐρανοί, καὶ ἀγαλλιάσθω, ἡ γῆ, ρηξάτωσαν τὰ ὄρη εὐφροσύνην, ὅτι ἠλέησεν ὁ Θεὸς τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ τοὺς ταπεινοὺς τοῦ λαοῦ αὐτοῦ παρεκάλεσεν. -

¹⁴Εἶπε δὲ Σιών· ἐγκατέλιπέ με Κύριος, καὶ ὁ Κύριος ἐπελάθετό μου.

¹⁵μὴ ἐπιλήσεται γυνὴ τοῦ παιδίου αὐτῆς τοῦ μὴ ἐλεῆσαι τὰ ἔκγονα τῆς κοιλίας αὐτῆς; εἰ δὲ καὶ ταῦτα ἐπιλάθοιτο γυνή, ἀλλ᾿ ἐγὼ οὐκ ἐπιλήσομαί σου, εἶπε Κύριος.

¹⁶ἰδοὺ ἐπὶ τῶν χειρῶν μου ἐζωγράφηκά σου τὰ τείχη, καὶ ἐνώπιόν μου εἶ διαπαντός·

¹⁷καὶ ταχὺ οἰκοδομηθήσῃ ὑφ᾿ ὧν καθῃρέθης, καὶ οἱ ἐρημώσαντές σε ἐξελεύσονται ἐκ σοῦ.

¹⁸ἆρον κύκλῳ τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς σου καὶ ἰδὲ πάντας, ἰδοὺ συνήχθησαν καὶ ἤλθοσαν πρός σε· ζῶ ἐγώ, λέγει Κύριος, ὅτι πάντας αὐτοὺς ὡς κόσμον ἐνδύσῃ καὶ περιθήσῃ αὐτοὺς ὡς κόσμον νύμφης.

¹⁹ὅτι τὰ ἔρημά σου καὶ τὰ διεφθαρμένα καὶ τὰ πεπτωκότα νῦν στενοχωρήσει ἀπὸ τῶν κατοικούντων, καὶ μακρυνθήσονται ἀπὸ σοῦ οἱ καταπίνοντές σε.

²⁰ἐροῦσι γὰρ εἰς τὰ ὦτά σου οἱ υἱοί σου, οὓς ἀπολώλεκας· στενός μοι ὁ τόπος, ποίησόν μοι τόπον, ἵνα κατοικήσω.

²¹καὶ ἐρεῖς ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ σου· τίς ἐγέννησέ μοι τούτους; ἐγὼ δὲ ἄτεκνος καὶ χήρα, τούτους δὲ τίς ἐξέθρεψέ μοι; ἐγὼ δὲ κατελείφθην μόνη, οὗτοι δέ μοι ποῦ ἦσαν;

²²Οὕτως λέγει Κύριος Κύριος· ἰδοὺ αἴρω εἰς τὰ ἔθνη τὴν χεῖρά μου καὶ εἰς τὰς νήσους ἀρῶ σύσσημόν μου, καὶ ἄξουσι τοὺς υἱούς σου ἐν κόλπῳ, τὰς δὲ θυγατέρας σου ἐπ᾿ ὤμων ἀροῦσι,

²³καὶ ἔσονται βασιλεῖς τιθηνοί σου, αἱ δὲ ἄρχουσαι τροφοί σου· ἐπὶ πρόσωπον τῆς γῆς προσκυνήσουσί σε καὶ τὸν χοῦν τῶν ποδῶν σου λείξουσι· καὶ γνώσῃ ὅτι ἐγὼ Κύριος, καὶ οὐκ αἰσχυνθήσονται οἱ ὑπομένοντές με.

²⁴μὴ λήψεταί τις παρὰ γίγαντος σκῦλα; καὶ ἐὰν αἰχμαλωτεύσῃ τις ἀδίκως, σωθήσεται;

²⁵οὕτως λέγει Κύριος· ἐάν τις αἰχμαλωτεύσῃ γίγαντα, λήψεται σκύλα· λαμβάνων δὲ παρὰ ἰσχύοντος σωθήσεται· ἐγὼ δὲ τὴν κρίσιν σου κρινῶ, καὶ ἐγὼ τοὺς υἱούς σου ρύσομαι·

²⁶καὶ φάγονται οἱ θλίψαντές σε τὰς σάρκας αὐτῶν καὶ πίονται ὡς οἶνον νέον τὸ αἷμα αὐτῶν καὶ μεθυσθήσονται, καὶ αἰσθανθήσεται πᾶσα σάρξ ὅτι ἐγὼ Κύριος ὁ ρυσάμενός σε καὶ ἀντιλαμβανόμενος ἰσχύος ᾿Ιακώβ.

¹Hearken to me, ye islands; and attend, ye Gentiles; after a long time it shall come to pass, saith the Lord: from my mother’s womb he has called my name:

²and he has made my mouth as a sharp sword, and he has hid me under the shadow of his hand; he has made me as a choice shaft, and he has hid me in his quiver;

³and said to me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, and in thee I will be glorified.

⁴Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have given my strength for vanity and for nothing: therefore is my judgment with the Lord, and my labour before my God.

⁵And now, thus saith the Lord that formed me from the womb to be his own servant, to gather Jacob to him and Israel. I shall be gathered and glorified before the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.

⁶And he said to me, [It is] a great thing for thee to be called my servant, to establish the tribes of Jacob, and to recover the dispersion of Israel: behold, I have given thee for the covenant of a race, for a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation to the end of the earth.

⁷Thus saith the Lord that delivered thee, the God of Israel, Sanctify him that despises his life, him that is abhorred by the nations that are the servants of princes: kings shall behold him, and princes shall arise, and shall worship him, for the Lord’s sake: for the Holy One of Israel is faithful, and I have chosen thee.

⁸Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I succored thee: and I have formed thee, and given thee for a covenant of the nations, to establish the earth, and to cause to inherit the desert heritages:

⁹saying to them that are in bonds, Go forth; and [bidding] them that are in darkness shew themselves. They shall be fed in all the ways, and in all the paths [shall be] their pasture.

¹⁰They shall not hunger, neither shall they thirst; neither shall the heat nor the sun smite them; but he that has mercy on them shall comfort [them], and by fountains of waters shall he lead them.

¹¹And I will make every mountain a way, and every path a pasture to them.

¹²Behold, these shall come from far: [and] these from the north and the west, and others from the land of the Persians.

¹³Rejoice, ye heavens; and let the earth be glad: let the mountains break forth [with] joy; for the Lord has had mercy on his people, and has comforted the lowly ones of his people.

¹⁴But Sion said, The Lord has forsaken me, and, The Lord has forgotten me.

¹⁵Will a woman forget her child, so as not to have compassion upon the offspring of her womb? but if a woman should even forget these, yet I will not forget thee, saith the Lord.

¹⁶Behold, I have painted thy walls on my hands, and thou art continually before me.

¹⁷And thou shalt soon be built by those by whom thou were destroyed, and they that made thee desolate shall go forth of thee.

¹⁸Lift up thine eyes round about, and look on them all; behold, they are gathered together, and are come to thee. [As] I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt clothe thyself with them all as with an ornament, and put them on as a bride her attire.

¹⁹For thy desert and marred and ruined [places] shall now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that devoured thee shall be removed far from thee.

²⁰For thy sons whom thou hast lost shall say in thine ears, The place [is too] narrow for me: make room for me that I may dwell.

²¹And thou shalt say in thine heart, Who has begotten me these? whereas I [was] childless, and a widow; but who has brought up these for me? and I was left alone; but whence came these to me?

²²Thus saith the Lord, [even] the Lord, Behold, I lift up mine hand to the nations, and I will lift up my signal to the islands: and they shall bring thy sons in [their] bosom, and shall bear thy daughters on [their] shoulders.

²³And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their princesses thy nurses, they shall bow down to thee on the face of the earth, and shall lick the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord, and they that wait on me shall not be ashamed.

²⁴Will any one take spoils from a giant? and if one should take [a man] captive unjustly, shall he be delivered?

²⁵For thus saith the Lord, If one should take a giant captive, he shall take spoils, and he who takes [them] from a mighty [man] shall be delivered: for I will plead thy cause, and I will deliver thy children.

²⁶And they that afflicted thee shall eat their own flesh; and they shall drink their own blood as new wine, and shall be drunken: and all flesh shall perceive that I am the Lord that delivers thee, and that upholds the strength of Jacob.