Yeşaya 63

¹Kimdir bu Edom'dan gelen, giysileri Bozra'dan kızıllık içinde, kaftanıyla böyle görkemli, büyük bir güç ve şiddetle yürüyen? "Ben adalet ve kurtarıcı yargı hakkında konuşanım."

²Neden giysilerin kırmızı ve elbiselerin şarap cenderesinde çiğnenmiş olanınki gibi?

³"Çiğnenmiş olanla doluyum ve uluslardan yanımda hiçbir adam yoktu; onları öfkemle çiğnedim, toprak gibi ufaladım ve kanlarını toprağa indirdim."

⁴"Çünkü onlara öç alma günü geldi ve kurtuluş yılı hazırdır."

⁵"Baktım, yardım eden kimse yoktu; dikkat ettim, destek olan kimse yoktu; bu yüzden kolum onları kurtardı ve öfkem üzerime dikildi."

⁶"Onları gazabımla çiğnedim ve kanlarını toprağa indirdim."

⁷RAB'bin merhametini, bize karşılık verdiği her şeydeki RAB'bin yüce işlerini anacağım; RAB, İsrail evi için iyi bir yargıçtır, merhametine ve doğruluğunun çokluğuna göre üzerimize iyilik getirir.

⁸Ve O, "Onlar benim halkımdır, antlaşmayı kesinlikle bozmayacak çocuklardır" dedi; böylece onlara kurtarıcı oldu,

⁹çektikleri bütün sıkıntılardan. Onları kurtaran bir elçi ya da bir melek değil, bizzat RAB'bin kendisiydi; onları sevdiği ve onları esirgediği için onları kurtardı, onları fidyeyle kurtarıp yukarı kaldırdı ve sonsuzluğun tüm günleri boyunca yükseltti.

¹⁰Ama onlar itaatsizlik ettiler ve O'nun Kutsal Ruhu'nu öfkelendirdiler; bu yüzden onlara karşı düşmanlığa döndü ve kendisi onlara karşı savaştı.

¹¹O zaman sonsuz günleri, koyunların çobanını topraktan yukarı çıkaranı hatırladı: "Onların içine Kutsal Ruhu'nu koyan nerede?

¹²Görkemli koluyla Musa'yı sağ eliyle götüren nerede? Kendine sonsuz bir ad kazanmak için suları kendi önünde alt eden nerede?

¹³Çöldeki bir at gibi onları engin suların içinden geçiren ve onlar yorulmadılar;

¹⁴ovaya inen sürüler gibi, RAB'bin katından bir Ruh indi ve onlara yol gösterdi. Kendine görkemli bir ad kazanmak için halkına böylece yol gösterdin."

¹⁵Gökten geri dön ve kutsal ve görkemli konutundan gör; hani senin gayretin ve gücün? Hani bol merhametin ve şefkatin? Çünkü bize katlandın.

¹⁶Çünkü babamız sensin; İbrahim bizi bilmese, İsrail bizi tanımasa bile, sen, ya RAB, babamızsın; bizi kurtar, başlangıçtan beri adın üzerimizdedir.

¹⁷Neden bizi yollarından saptırdın, ya RAB? Senden korkmayalım diye yüreklerimizi neden katılaştırdın? Kulların uğruna, mirasın olan oymaklar uğruna geri dön.

¹⁸Kutsal dağını birazcık miras edinebilelim diye; bize karşı olanlar senin kutsal yerini çiğnediler.

¹⁹Bize hiç egemen olmadığın, adının üzerimize çağrılmadığı o en başlangıçtaki durum gibi olduk.

¹ΤΙΣ οὗτος ὁ παραγενόμενος ἐξ ᾿Εδώμ, ἐρύθημα ἱματίων ἐκ Βοσόρ, οὕτως ὡραῖος ἐν στολῇ βίᾳ μετὰ ἰσχύος; ἐγὼ διαλέγομαι δικαιοσύνην καὶ κρίσιν σωτηρίου.

²διατί σου ἐρυθρὰ τὰ ἱμάτια καὶ τὰ ἐνδύματά σου ὡς ἀπὸ πατητοῦ ληνοῦ;

³πλήρης καταπεπατημένης, καὶ τῶν ἐθνῶν οὐκ ἔστιν ἀνὴρ μετ᾿ ἐμοῦ, καὶ κατεπάτησα αὐτοὺς ἐν θυμῷ μου καὶ κατέθλασα αὐτοὺς ὡς γῆν καὶ κατήγαγον τὸ αἷμα αὐτῶν εἰς γῆν.

⁴ἡμέρα γὰρ ἀνταποδόσεως ἐπῆλθεν αὐτοῖς, καὶ ἐνιαυτὸς λυτρώσεως πάρεστι.

⁵καὶ ἐπέβλεψα, καὶ οὐδεὶς βοηθός· καὶ προσενόησα, καὶ οὐθεὶς ἀντελαμβάνετο· καὶ ἐρρύσατο αὐτοὺς ὁ βραχίων μου, καὶ ὁ θυμός μου ἐπέστη.

⁶καὶ κατεπάτησα αὐτοὺς τῇ ὀργῇ μου καὶ κατήγαγον τὸ αἷμα αὐτῶν εἰς γῆν. -

⁷Τὸν ἔλεον Κυρίου ἐμνήσθην, τὰς ἀρετὰς Κυρίου ἐν πᾶσιν, οἷς ἡμῖν ἀνταποδίδωσι· Κύριος κριτὴς ἀγαθὸς τῷ οἴκῳ ᾿Ισραήλ, ἐπάγει ἡμῖν κατὰ τὸ ἔλεος αὐτοῦ καὶ κατὰ τὸ πλῆθος τῆς δικαιοσύνης αὐτοῦ.

⁸καὶ εἶπεν· οὐχ ὁ λαός μου τέκνα οὐ μὴ ἀθετήσωσι; καὶ ἐγένετο αὐτοῖς εἰς σωτηρίαν

⁹ἐκ πάσης θλίψεως αὐτῶν. οὐ πρέσβυς οὐδὲ ἄγγελος, ἀλλ᾿ αὐτὸς Κύριος ἔσωσεν αὐτοὺς διὰ τὸ ἀγαπᾶν αὐτοὺς καὶ φείδεσθαι αὐτῶν· αὐτὸς ἐλυτρώσατο αὐτοὺς καὶ ἀνέλαβεν αὐτοὺς καὶ ὕψωσεν αὐτοὺς πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας τοῦ αἰῶνος.

¹⁰αὐτοὶ δὲ ἠπείθησαν καὶ παρώξυναν τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἐστράφη αὐτοῖς εἰς ἔχθραν, καὶ αὐτὸς ἐπολέμησεν αὐτούς.

¹¹καὶ ἐμνήσθη ἡμερῶν αἰωνίων ὁ ἀναβιβάσας ἐκ τῆς γῆς τὸν ποιμένα τῶν προβάτων· ποῦ ἔστιν ὁ θεὶς ἐν αὐτοῖς τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον;

¹²ὁ ἀγαγὼν τῇ δεξιᾷ Μωυσῆν, ὁ βραχίων τῆς δόξης αὐτοῦ; κατίσχυσεν ὕδωρ ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ ποιῆσαι ἑαυτῷ ὄνομα αἰώνιον.

¹³ἤγαγεν αὐτοὺς διὰ τῆς ἀβύσσου ὡς ἵππον δι᾿ ἐρήμου, καὶ οὐκ ἐκοπίασαν.

¹⁴καὶ ὡς κτήνη διὰ πεδίου, κατέβη πνεῦμα παρὰ Κυρίου καὶ ὡδήγησεν αὐτούς· οὕτως ἥγαγες τὸν λαόν σου ποιῆσαι σεαυτῷ ὄνομα δόξης. -

¹⁵᾿Επίστρεψον ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἰδὲ ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ ἁγίου σου καὶ δόξης· ποῦ ἐστιν ὁ ζῆλός σου καὶ ἡ ἰσχύς σου; ποῦ ἐστι τὸ πλῆθος τοῦ ἐλέους σου καὶ τῶν οἰκτιρμῶν σου, ὅτι ἀνέσχου ἡμῶν;

¹⁶σὺ γὰρ εἶ πατὴρ ἡμῶν, ὅτι ῾Αβραὰμ οὐκ ἔγνω ἡμᾶς, καὶ ᾿Ισραὴλ οὐκ ἐπέγνω ἡμᾶς, ἀλλὰ σύ, Κύριε, πατὴρ ἡμῶν· ῥῦσαι ἡμᾶς, ἀπ᾿ ἀρχῆς τὸ ὄνομά σου ἐφ᾿ ἡμᾶς ἐστι.

¹⁷τί ἐπλάνησας ἡμᾶς, Κύριε, ἀπὸ τῆς ὁδοῦ σου; ἐσκλήρυνα τὰς καρδίας ἡμῶν τοῦ μὴ φοβεῖσθαί σε; ἐπίστρεψον διὰ τοὺς δούλους σου, διὰ τὰς φυλὰς τῆς κληρονομίας σου,

¹⁸ἵνα μικρὸν κληρονομήσωμεν τοῦ ὄρους τοῦ ἁγίου σου, οἱ ὑπεναντίοι ἡμῶν κατεπάτησαν τὸ ἁγίασμά σου.

¹⁹ἐγενόμεθα ὡς τὸ ἀπ᾿ ἀρχῆς, ὅτε οὐκ ἦρξας ἡμῶν οὐδὲ ἐπεκλήθη τὸ ὄνομά σου ἐφ᾿ ἡμᾶς.

¹Who is this that is come from Edom, [with] red garments from Bosor? thus fair in his apparel, with mighty strength? I speak of righteousness and saving judgment.

²Wherefore are thy garments red, and thy raiment as [if fresh] from a trodden winepress?

³I am full of trodden [grape], and of the nations there is not a man with me; and I trampled them in my fury, and dashed them to pieces as earth, and brought down their blood to the earth.

⁴For the day of recompence has come upon them, and the year of redemption is at hand.

⁵And I looked, and there was no helper; and I observed, and none upheld: therefore my arm delivered them, and mine anger drew nigh.

⁶And I trampled them in mine anger, and brought down their blood to the earth.

⁷I remembered the mercy of the Lord, the praises of the Lord in all things wherein he recompenses us. The Lord is a good judge to the house of Israel; he deals with us according to his mercy, and according to the abundance of his righteousness.

⁸And he said, Is it not my people? the children surely will not be rebellious: and he became to them deliverance

⁹out of all their affliction: not an ambassador, nor a messenger, but himself saved them, because he loved them and spared them: he himself redeemed them, and took them up, and lifted them up all the days of old.

¹⁰But they disobeyed, and provoked his Holy Spirit: so he turned to be an enemy, he himself contended against them.

¹¹Then he remembered the ancient days, [saying], Where is he that brought up from the sea the shepherd of the sheep? where is he that put his Holy Spirit in them?

¹²who led Moses with his right hand, the arm of his glory? he forced the water [to separate] from before him, to make himself an everlasting name.

¹³He led them through the deep, as a horse through the wilderness, and they fainted not,

¹⁴and as cattle through a plain: the Spirit came down from the Lord, and guided them: thus thou leddest thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.

¹⁵Turn from heaven, and look from thy holy habitation and [from] thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength? where is the abundance of thy mercy and of thy compassions, that thou hast withholden thyself from us?

¹⁶For thou art our Father; for [though] Abraham knew us not, and Israel did not acknowledge us, yet do thou, O Lord, our Father, deliver us: thy name has been upon us from the beginning.

¹⁷Why hast thou caused us to err, O Lord, from thy way? [and] hast hardened our hearts, that we should not fear thee? Return for thy servants’ sake, for the sake of the tribes of thine inheritance,

¹⁸that we may inherit a small part of thy holy mountain.

¹⁹We are become as at the beginning, when thou didst not rule over us, and thy name was not called upon us.