Yeşaya 59

¹Rab'bin eli kurtarmaya güç yetiremeyecek kadar aciz midir, ya da kulağı işitmeyecek kadar ağırlaşmış mıdır?

²Bilakis, günahlarınız sizinle Tanrı'nız arasına girmekte ve yüzünü sizden çevirmesine sebep olmaktadır ki size merhamet etmesin.

³Çünkü elleriniz kanla lekelenmiş, parmaklarınız günahlar içinde kalmıştır; dudaklarınız yasa tanımazlık konuşmuş ve diliniz adaletsizlik tasarlamaktadır.

⁴Kimse adil olanı konuşmuyor ve gerçek bir yargı bulunmuyor; boş şeylere güvenip anlamsız sözler söylüyorlar, çünkü acıya gebe kalıp yasa dışılık doğuruyorlar.

⁵Engerek yumurtaları çatlatıyor ve örümcek ağı dokuyorlar; onların yumurtalarından yemeye yeltenen kişi, onu kırdığında içinde boş bir yumurta ve bir kobra bulur.

⁶Dokudukları ağ giysi olmaya yetmez, kendi işleriyle de örtünemezler; çünkü onların işleri yasa tanımazlık işleridir.

⁷Ayakları kötülüğe koşar, kan dökmek için acele ederler; düşünceleri akılsızların düşünceleridir, yollarında yıkım ve ıstırap vardır.

⁸Barış yolunu bilmezler ve yollarında adalet yoktur; yürüdükleri patikalar saptırılmıştır, orada yürüyen hiç kimse barış nedir bilmez.

⁹Bu yüzden yargı onlardan uzaklaştı ve doğruluk onlara erişmeyecektir; ışık beklerlerken karanlık oldu, aydınlık beklerken zifiri karanlıkta yürüdüler.

¹⁰Körler gibi duvarı el yordamıyla arayacaklar, gözleri olmayanlar gibi el yordamıyla ilerleyecekler; öğle vaktinde gece yarısındaymış gibi tökezleyecekler, ölenler gibi inleyecekler.

¹¹Bir ayı ve bir güvercin gibi hep birlikte yürüyecekler; adalet bekledik ama yok, kurtuluş bizden çok uzaklaştı.

¹²Çünkü senin önünde yasa dışılığımız çoktur ve günahlarımız bize karşı durdu; çünkü yasa dışılıklarımız içimizdedir ve haksızlıklarımızı biliyoruz.

¹³Tanrısızlık ettik, yalan söyledik ve Tanrımızın ardınca gitmekten döndük; adaletsiz şeyler konuştuk ve itaatsizlik ettik, gebe kalıp yüreğimizden haksız sözler tasarladık.

¹⁴Yargıyı geriye döndürdük ve doğruluk uzakta durdu; çünkü onların sokaklarında gerçek tüketildi ve doğru yoldan ilerleyemediler.

¹⁵Gerçek ortadan kaldırıldı ve anlamak için olan zihinlerini başka yöne çevirdiler; Rab bunu gördü ve adalet olmaması O'nun hoşuna gitmedi.

¹⁶Baktı ve kimse yoktu; dikkatle inceledi ama yardım edecek kimse bulunmadı. Bu yüzden kendi koluyla onları korudu ve merhametiyle destekledi.

¹⁷Doğruluğu bir zırh gibi kuşandı, başına kurtuluş miğferini taktı; öç giysisine büründü ve pelerinini üzerine attı,

¹⁸karşı gelenlere bir utanç ödemesi olarak karşılığını ödeyecek olan biri gibi.

¹⁹Böylece batıdakiler Rab'bin adından, gün doğusundakiler de O'nun görkemli adından korkacaklar; çünkü Rab'den gelen öfke şiddetli bir nehir gibi gelecek, gazapla gelecek.

²⁰Kurtarıcı, Siyon uğruna gelecek ve Yakup'tan tanrısızlıkları uzaklaştıracaktır.

²¹"Onlarla yapacağım antlaşmam şudur" diyor Rab: "Senin üzerinde olan benim Ruhum ve senin ağzına koyduğum sözlerim; senin ağzından, soyunun ağzından ve onların soyunun ağzından şimdiden ve sonsuza dek eksilmeyecektir" diyor Rab.

¹ΜΗ οὐκ ἰσχύει ἡ χεὶρ Κυρίου τοῦ σῶσαί; ἢ ἐβάρυνε τὸ οὖς αὐτοῦ τοῦ μὴ εἰσακοῦσαι;

²ἀλλὰ τὰ ἁμαρτήματα ὑμῶν διϊστῶσιν ἀναμέσον ὑμῶν καὶ ἀναμέσον τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ διὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας ὑμῶν ἀπέστρεψε τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ ἀφ᾿ ὑμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐλεῆσαι.

³αἱ γὰρ χεῖρες ὑμῶν μεμολυσμέναι αἵματι καὶ οἱ δάκτυλοι ὑμῶν ἐν ἁμαρτίαις, τὰ δὲ χείλη ὑμῶν ἐλάλησεν ἀνομίαν, καὶ ἡ γλῶσσα ὑμῶν ἀδικίαν μελετᾷ.

⁴οὐθεὶς λαλεῖ δίκαια, οὐδέ ἐστι κρίσις ἀληθινή· πεποίθασιν ἐπὶ ματαίοις καὶ λαλοῦσι κενά, ὅτι κύουσι πόνον καὶ τίκτουσιν ἀνομίαν.

⁵ὠὰ ἀσπίδων ἔρρηξαν καὶ ἱστὸν ἀράχνης ὑφαίνουσι· καὶ ὁ μέλλων τῶν ὠῶν αὐτῶν φαγεῖν συντρίψας οὔριον εὗρε, καὶ ἐν αὐτῷ βασιλίσκος.

⁶ὁ ἱστὸς αὐτῶν οὐκ ἔσται εἰς ἱμάτιον, οὐδὲ μὴ περιβάλωνται ἀπὸ τῶν ἔργων αὐτῶν· τὰ γὰρ ἔργα αὐτῶν ἔργα ἀνομίας.

⁷οἱ δὲ πόδες αὐτῶν ἐπὶ πονηρίαν τρέχουσι, ταχινοὶ ἐκχέαι αἷμα· καὶ οἱ διαλογισμοὶ αὐτῶν διαλογισμοὶ ἀφρόνων, σύντριμμα καὶ ταλαιπωρία ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς αὐτῶν.

⁸καὶ ὁδὸν εἰρήνης οὐκ οἴδασι, καὶ οὐκ ἔστι κρίσις ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς αὐτῶν· αἱ γὰρ τρίβοι αὐτῶν διεστραμμέναι, ἃς διοδεύουσι, καὶ οὐκ οἴδασιν εἰρήνην.

⁹διὰ τοῦτο ἀπέστη ἡ κρίσις ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν, καὶ οὐ μὴ καταλάβῃ αὐτοὺς δικαιοσύνη· ὑπομεινάντων αὐτῶν φῶς ἐγένετο αὐτοῖς σκότος, μείναντες αὐγὴν ἐν ἀωρίᾳ περιεπάτησαν.

¹⁰ψηλαφήσουσιν ὡς τυφλοὶ τοῖχον καὶ ὡς οὐχ ὑπαρχόντων ὀφθαλμῶν ψηλαφήσουσι· καὶ πεσοῦνται ἐν μεσημβρίᾳ ὡς ἐν μεσονυκτίῳ, ὡς ἀποθνήσκοντες στενάξουσιν,

¹¹ὡς ἄρκος καὶ ὡς περιστερὰ ἅμα πορεύσονται· ἀνεμείναμεν κρίσιν, καὶ οὐκ ἔστι· σωτηρία μακρὰν ἀφέστηκεν ἀφ᾿ ἡμῶν.

¹²πολλὴ γὰρ ἡ ἀνομία ἐναντίον σου, καὶ αἱ ἁμαρτίαι ἡμῶν ἀντέστησαν ἡμῖν· αἱ γὰρ ἀνομίαι ἡμῶν ἐν ἡμῖν, καὶ τὰ ἀδικήματα ἡμῶν ἔγνωμεν.

¹³ἠσεβήσαμεν καὶ ἐψευσάμεθα καὶ ἀπέστημεν ἀπὸ ὄπισθεν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡμῶν· ἐλαλήσαμεν ἄδικα καὶ ἠπειθήσαμεν, ἐκύομεν καὶ ἐμελετήσαμεν ἀπὸ καρδίας ἡμῶν λόγους ἀδίκους·

¹⁴καὶ ἀπεστήσαμεν ὀπίσω τὴν κρίσιν, καὶ ἡ δικαιοσύνη μακρὰν ἀφέστηκεν, ὅτι κατηναλώθη ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς αὐτῶν ἡ ἀλήθεια, καὶ δι᾿ εὐθείας οὐκ ἐδύναντο διελθεῖν.

¹⁵καὶ ἡ ἀλήθεια ᾖρται, καὶ μετέστησαν τὴν διάνοιαν τοῦ συνιέναι· καὶ εἶδε Κύριος, καὶ οὐκ ἤρεσεν αὐτῷ, ὅτι οὐκ ἦν κρίσις.

¹⁶καὶ εἶδε καὶ οὐκ ἦν ἀνήρ, καὶ κατενόησε καὶ οὐκ ἦν ὁ ἀντιληψόμενος, καὶ ἠμύνατο αὐτοὺς τῷ βραχίονι αὐτοῦ καὶ τῇ ἐλεημοσύνῃ ἐστηρίσατο.

¹⁷καὶ ἐνεδύσατο δικαιοσύνην ὡς θώρακα καὶ περιέθετο περικεφαλαίαν σωτηρίου ἐπὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς καὶ περιεβάλετο ἱμάτιον ἐκδικήσεως καὶ τὸ περιβόλαιον

¹⁸ὡς ἀνταποδώσων ἀνταπόδοσιν ὄνειδος τοῖς ὑπεναντίοις.

¹⁹καὶ φοβηθήσονται οἱ ἀπὸ δυσμῶν τὸ ὄνομα Κυρίου καὶ οἱ ἀπ᾿ ἀνατολῶν ἡλίου τὸ ὄνομα τὸ ἔνδοξον· ἥξει γὰρ ὡς ποταμὸς βίαιος ἡ ὀργὴ παρὰ Κυρίου, ἥξει μετὰ θυμοῦ.

²⁰καὶ ἥξει ἕνεκεν Σιὼν ὁ ῥυόμενος καὶ ἀποστρέψει ἀσεβείας ἀπὸ ᾿Ιακώβ.

²¹καὶ αὕτη αὐτοῖς ἡ παρ᾿ ἐμοῦ διαθήκη, εἶπε Κύριος· τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἐμόν, ὅ ἐστιν ἐπὶ σοί, καὶ τὰ ρήματα, ἃ ἔδωκα εἰς τὸ στόμα σου, οὐ μὴ ἐκλίπῃ ἐκ τοῦ στόματός σου καὶ ἐκ τοῦ στόματος τοῦ σπέρματός σου· εἶπε γὰρ Κύριος, ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν καὶ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.

¹Has the hand of the Lord no power to save? or has he made his ear heavy, so that he should not hear?

²Nay, your iniquities separate between you and God, and because of your sins has he turned away [his] face from you, so as not to have mercy [upon you].

³For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with sins; your lips also have spoken iniquity, and your tongue meditates unrighteousness.

⁴None speaks justly, neither is there true judgment: they trust in vanities, and speak empty [words]; for they conceive trouble, and bring forth iniquity.

⁵They have hatched asps’ eggs, and weave a spider’s web: and he that is going to eat of their eggs, having crushed an addled egg, has found also in it a basilisk.

⁶Their web shall not become a garment, nor shall they at all clothe themselves with their works; for their works are works of iniquity.

⁷And their feet run to wickedness, swift to shed blood; their thoughts also are thoughts of murder; destruction and misery are in their ways;

⁸and the way of peace they know not, neither is there judgment in their ways; for their paths by which they go are crooked, and they know not peace.

⁹Therefore has judgment departed from them, and righteousness shall not overtake them: while they waited for light, darkness came upon them; while they waited for brightness, they walked in perplexity.

¹⁰They shall feel for the wall as blind [men], and shall feel [for it] as if they had no eyes: and they shall feel at noon-day as at midnight; they shall groan as dying men.

¹¹They shall proceed together as a bear and as a dove: we have waited for judgment, and there is no salvation, it is gone far from us.

¹²For our iniquity is great before thee, and our sins have risen up against us: for our iniquities are in us, and we know our unrighteous deeds.

¹³We have sinned, and dealt falsely, and revolted from our God: we have spoken unrighteous words, and have been disobedient; we have conceived and uttered from our heart unrighteous words.

¹⁴And we have turned judgment back, and righteousness has departed afar off: for truth is consumed in their ways, and they could not pass by a straight [path].

¹⁵And truth has been taken away, and they have turned aside [their] mind from understanding. And the Lord saw it, and it pleased him not that there was no judgment.

¹⁶And he looked, and there was no man, and he observed, and there was none to help: so he defended them with his arm, and stablished [them] with [his] mercy.

¹⁷And he put on righteousness as a breast-plate, and placed the helmet of salvation on his head; and he clothed himself with the garment of vengeance, and with his cloak,

¹⁸as one about to render a recompence, [even] reproach to his adversaries.

¹⁹So shall they of the west fear the name of the Lord, and they [that come] from the rising of the sun his glorious name: for the wrath of the Lord shall come as a mighty river, it shall come with fury.

²⁰And the deliverer shall come for Sion’s sake, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

²¹And this shall be my covenant with them, said the Lord; My Spirit which is upon thee, and the words which I have put in thy mouth, shall never fail from thy mouth, nor from the mouth of thy seed, for the Lord has spoken it, henceforth and for ever.