Yeremya 29

¹Yabancılara karşı. Rab şöyle diyor:

²İşte, kuzeyden sular yükseliyor ve tufan gibi kaplayan bir kış seli olacak; ülkeyi ve onun doluluğunu, kenti ve orada yaşayanları su altında bırakacak. İnsanlar feryat edecek ve ülkede yaşayanların tümü feryat figan edecek.

³Onun hücumunun sesinden, ayaklarının toynaklarından, savaş arabalarının sarsıntısından ve tekerleklerinin yankısından ötürü babalar, ellerinin dermansızlığından çocuklarına dönüp bakamadılar.

⁴Çünkü bütün yabancıları yok edecek gün geliyor; Sur'u, Sayda'yı ve onlara yardım edenlerin tüm geri kalanlarını ortadan kaldıracağım. Çünkü Rab, adaların geri kalan sakinlerini tamamen yok edecek.

⁵Gazze'nin üzerine kellik geldi, Aşkelon ve Enakim devlerinin geri kalanları bir kenara atılıp yok edildi.

⁶Ey Rab'bin kılıcı, ne zamana kadar keseceksin? Ne zaman sakinleşeceksin? Kınına geri dön, dinlen ve dur.

⁷Nasıl sakinleşsin? Oysa Rab ona Aşkelon'a, deniz kıyılarına ve geri kalan ülkelere karşı harekete geçmesini buyurdu. İdumeya'ya. Rab şöyle diyor: Teman'da artık bilgelik kalmadı, akıllıların öğüdü yok oldu, bilgelikleri uzaklaşıp gitti.

⁸Onların yurdu aldatıldı. Yerleşmek için derinlere sığının, ey Dedan sakinleri! Çünkü onun üzerine felaketler getirdim, onu denetleyeceğim vakit geldi.

⁹Çünkü sana bağ bozumcuları geldi, geride hiçbir kalıntı bırakmayacaklar; gece gelen hırsızlar gibi ellerini üzerinize uzatacaklar.

¹⁰Çünkü ben Esav'ı aşağı çekip sürükledim, gizli yerlerini açığa çıkardım, gizlenmeye güçleri yetmeyecek; kardeşinin ve komşusunun eli yüzünden mahvoldular ve artık yoklar.

¹¹Yetimlerin geride bırakılsın ki yaşayasınız; ben de yaşayacağım, dulların da bana güvensinler.

¹²Çünkü Rab şöyle diyor: İşte, bu kâseyi içmek için bir hükmü olmayanlar bile onu içtiler; sen mi cezasız kalacaksın? Asla cezasız kalmayacaksın, kesinlikle içeceksin.

¹³Çünkü kendi üzerime ant içtim, diyor Rab; onun ortasında geçilmez bir yer, bir alay konusu ve lanet olacaksın; bütün kentleri sonsuza dek virane kalacak.

¹⁴Rab'den bir haber işittim, uluslara haberciler gönderildi: "Toplanın, ona karşı gelin, savaşa kalkın!" deniyor.

¹⁵Çünkü seni uluslar arasında küçük, insanlar arasında kolayca hor görülen biri kıldım.

¹⁶Senin alaycı oyunun seni ele verdi; yüreğinin küstahlığı kayaların kovuklarına yerleşti, yüksek tepenin gücünü ele geçirdi. Yuvanı kartal gibi yükseklerde kursan bile, seni oradan aşağı indireceğim.

¹⁷İdumeya geçilmez bir yer olacak; oradan geçen herkes dehşetle ıslık çalacak.

¹⁸Sodom, Gomora ve komşu sakinleri nasıl yıkıldıysa, diyor her şeye egemen olan Rab, orada da hiçbir insan oturmayacak, hiçbir insan oğlu orada yurt edinmeyecek.

¹⁹İşte, Şeria'nın ortasından çıkıp Aitham yurduna saldıran bir aslan gibi yükselecek; onları oradan hızla kovacağım. Onun üzerine genç yiğitleri atayın. Çünkü benim gibisi var mı? Bana kim karşı durabilir? Karşımda durabilecek o çoban kimdir?

²⁰Bu yüzden Rab'bin İdumeya için aldığı kararı, Teman sakinlerine karşı kurduğu tasarıları dinleyin: Sürünün en küçükleri bile silinip süpürülecek, onların yüzünden barınakları üzerlerine ıssız kılınacak.

²¹Onların düşüşünün sesinden yeryüzü sarsılıp korktu, senin çığlığın denizde işitildi.

²²İşte, bir kartal gibi bakacak ve kanatlarını onun kalelerine karşı gerecek; o gün İdumeya'nın yiğitlerinin yüreği, doğum sancısı çeken bir kadının yüreği gibi olacak.

¹᾿Επὶ τοὺς ἀλλοφύλους. - (Μασ. ΜΖ΄ 1-7) ΤΑΔΕ λέγει Κύριος·

²ἰδοὺ ὕδατα ἀναβαίνει ἀπὸ βορρᾶ καὶ ἔσται εἰς χειμάρρουν κατακλύζοντα καὶ κατακλύσει γῆν καὶ τὸ πλήρωμα αὐτῆς, πόλιν καὶ τοὺς κατοικοῦντας ἐν αὐτῇ· καὶ κεκράξονται οἱ ἄνθρωποι, καὶ ἀλαλάξουσιν ἅπαντες οἱ κατοικοῦντες τὴν γῆν.

³ἀπὸ φωνῆς ὁρμῆς αὐτοῦ, ἀπὸ τῶν ὁπλῶν τῶν ποδῶν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀπὸ σεισμοῦ τῶν ἁρμάτων αὐτοῦ, ἤχου τροχῶν αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἐπέστρεψαν πατέρες ἐφ’ υἱοὺς αὐτῶν ἀπὸ ἐκλύσεως χειρῶν αὐτῶν

⁴ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ ἐπερχομένῃ τοῦ ἀπολέσαι πάντας τοὺς ἀλλοφύλους. καὶ ἀφανιῶ τὴν Τύρον καὶ τὴν Σιδῶνα καὶ πάντας τοὺς καταλοίπους τῆς βοηθείας αὐτῶν, ὅτι ἐξολοθρεύσει Κύριος τοὺς καταλοίπους τῶν νήσων.

⁵ἥκει φαλάκρωμα ἐπὶ Γάζαν, ἀπερρίφη ᾿Ασκάλων καὶ οἱ κατάλοιποι ᾿Ενακίμ.

⁶ἕως τίνος κόψεις, ἡ μάχαιρα τοῦ Κυρίου; ἕως τίνος οὐχ ἡσυχάσεις; ἀποκατάστηθι εἰς τὸν κολεόν σου, ἀνάπαυσαι καὶ ἐπάρθητι.

⁷πῶς ἡσυχάσει; καὶ Κύριος ἐνετείλατο αὐτῇ ἐπὶ τὴν ᾿Ασκάλωνα καὶ ἐπὶ τὰς παραθαλασσίους, ἐπὶ τὰς καταλοίπους, ἐπεγερθῆναι. Τῇ ᾿Ιδουμαίᾳ (Μασ. ΜΘ´, 7–22 ). - Τάδε λέγει Κύριος· οὐκ ἔστιν ἔτι σοφία ἐν Θαιμάν, ἀπώλετο βουλὴ ἐκ συνετῶν, ᾤχετο σοφία αὐτῶν,

⁸ἠπατήθη ὁ τόπος αὐτῶν. βαθύνατε εἰς κάθισιν οἱ κατοικοῦντες ἐν Δαιδάν, ὅτι δύσκολα ἐποίησεν· ἤγαγον ἐπ’ αὐτὸν ἐν χρόνῳ, ᾧ ἐπεσκεψάμην ἐπ’ αὐτόν.

⁹ὅτι τρυγηταὶ ἦλθόν σοι, οἳ οὐ καταλείψουσί σοι κατάλειμμα· ὡς κλέπται ἐν νυκτὶ ἐπιθήσουσι χεῖρα αὐτῶν.

¹⁰ὅτι ἐγὼ κατέσυρα τὸν ῾Ησαῦ, ἀνεκάλυψα τά κρυπτὰ αὐτῶν, κρυβῆναι οὐ μὴ δύνωνται· ὤλοντο διά χεῖρα ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ καὶ γείτονος αὐτοῦ, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν

¹¹ὑπολείπεσθαι ὀρφανόν σου, ἵνα ζήσητε· καὶ ἐγὼ ζήσομαι, καὶ αἱ χῆραι ἐπ’ ἐμὲ πεποίθασιν.

¹²ὅτι τάδε εἶπε Κύριος· οἷς οὐκ ἦν νόμος πιεῖν τὸ ποτήριον, ἔπιον· καὶ σὺ ἀθῳωμένη οὐ μὴ ἀθῳωθῇς, ὅτι πίνων πίεσαι·

¹³ὅτι κατ’ ἐμαυτοῦ ὤμοσα, λέγει Κύριος, ὅτι εἰς ἄβατον καὶ εἰς ὀνειδισμὸν καὶ εἰς κατάρασιν ἔσῃ ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῆς, καὶ πᾶσαι αἱ πόλεις αὐτῆς ἔσονται ἔρημοι εἰς αἰῶνα.

¹⁴ἀκοὴν ἤκουσα παρὰ Κυρίου, καὶ ἀγγέλους εἰς ἔθνη ἀπέστειλε· συνάχθητε καὶ παραγένεσθε εἰς αὐτήν, ἀνάστητε εἰς πόλεμον.

¹⁵μικρὸν ἔδωκά σε ἐν ἔθνεσιν, εὐκαταφρόνητον ἐν ἀνθρώποις.

¹⁶ἡ παιγνία σου ἐνεχείρησέ σοι, ἰταμία καρδίας σου κατέλυσε τρυμαλιὰς πετρῶν, συνέλαβεν ἰσχὺν βουνοῦ ὑψηλοῦ· ὅτι ὕψωσεν ὥσπερ ἀετὸς νοσσιὰν αὐτοῦ, ἐκεῖθεν καθελῶ σε·

¹⁷καὶ ἔσται ἡ ᾿Ιδουμαία εἰς ἄβατον, πᾶς ὁ παραπορευόμενος ἐπ’ αὐτὴν συριεῖ.

¹⁸ὥσπερ κατεστράφη Σόδομα καὶ Γόμορρα καὶ αἱ πάροικοι αὐτῆς, εἶπε Κύριος παντοκράτωρ, οὐ μὴ καθίσει ἐκεῖ ἄνθρωπος, καὶ οὐ μὴ κατοικήσει ἐκεῖ υἱὸς ἀνθρώπου.

¹⁹ἰδοὺ ὥσπερ λέων ἀναβήσεται ἐκ μέσου τοῦ ᾿Ιορδάνου εἰς τόπον Αἰθάμ, ὅτι ταχὺ ἐκδιώξω αὐτοὺς ἀπ’ αὐτῆς· καὶ τοὺς νεανίσκους ἐπ’ αὐτὴν ἐπιστήσατε, ὅτι τίς ὥσπερ ἐγώ; καὶ τίς ἀντιστήσεταί μοι; καὶ τίς οὗτος ποιμήν, ὃς στήσεται κατὰ πρόσωπόν μου;

²⁰διὰ τοῦτο ἀκούσατε βουλὴν Κυρίου, ἣν ἐβουλεύσατο ἐπὶ τὴν ᾿Ιδουμαίαν, καὶ λογισμὸν αὐτοῦ, ὃν ἐλογίσατο ἐπὶ τοὺς κατοικοῦντας Θαιμάν· ἐὰν μὴ συμψηθῶσι τὰ ἐλάχιστα τῶν προβάτων, ἐὰν μὴ ἀβατωθῇ ἐπ’ αὐτοὺς κατάλυσις αὐτῶν·

²¹ὅτι ἀπὸ φωνῆς πτώσεως αὐτῶν ἐφοβήθη ἡ γῆ, καὶ κραυγή σου ἐν θαλάσσῃ ἠκούσθη.

²²ἰδοὺ ὥσπερ ἀετὸς ὄψεται καὶ ἐκτενεῖ τὰς πτέρυγας ἐπ’ ὀχυρώματα αὐτῆς· καὶ ἔσται ἡ καρδία τῶν ἰσχυρῶν τῆς ᾿Ιδουμαίας ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ ὡς καρδία γυναικὸς ὠδινούσης.

¹THUS SAITH THE LORD AGAINST THE PHILISTINES;

²Behold, waters come up from the north, and shall become a sweeping torrent, and it shall sweep away the land, and its fulness; the city, and them that dwell in it: and men shall cry and all that dwell in the land shall howl,

³at the sound of his rushing, at the sound of his hoofs, and at the rattling of his chariots, at the noise of his wheels: the fathers turned not to their children because of the weakness of their hands,

⁴in the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines: and I will utterly destroy Tyre and Sidon and all the rest of their allies: for the Lord will destroy the remaining inhabitants of the islands.

⁵Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ascalon is cast away, and the remnant of the Enakim.

⁶How long wilt thou smite, O sword of the Lord? how long will it be ere thou art quiet? return into thy sheath, rest, and be removed.

⁷How shall it be quiet, whereas the Lord has given it a commission against Ascalon, and against the regions on the sea-coast, to awake against the remaining countries!

⁷CONCERNING IDUMEA, thus saith the Lord; There is no longer wisdom in Thaeman, counsel has perished from the wise ones, their wisdom is gone,

⁸their place has been deceived. Dig deep for a dwelling, ye that inhabit Daedam, for he has wrought grievously: I brought trouble upon him in the time at which I visited him.

⁹For grape-gatherers are come, who shall not leave thee a remnant; as thieves by night, they shall lay their hand upon thy possessions.

¹⁰For I have stripped Esau, I have uncovered their secret places; they shall have no power to hide themselves, they have perished each by the hand of his brother, my neighbour, and it is impossible

¹¹for thy fatherless one to be left to live, but I shall live, and the widows trust in me.

¹²For thus saith the Lord; They who were not appointed to drink the cup have drunk it; and thou shalt by no means be cleared:

¹³for by myself I have sworn, saith the Lord, that thou shalt be in the midst of her an impassable land, and a reproach, and a curse; and all her cities shall be desert for ever.

¹⁴I have heard a report from the Lord, and he has sent messengers to the nations, saying, Assemble yourselves, and come against her; rise ye up to war.

¹⁵I have made thee small among the nations, utterly contemptible among men.

¹⁶Thine insolence has risen up against thee, the fierceness of thine heart has burst the holes of the rocks, it has seized upon the strength of a lofty hill; for as an eagle he set his nest on high: thence will I bring thee down.

¹⁷And Idumea shall be a desert: every one that passes by shall hiss at it.

¹⁸As Sodom was overthrown and Gomorrha and they that sojourned in her, saith the Lord Almighty, no man shall dwell there, nor shall any son of man inhabit there.

¹⁹Behold, he shall come up as a lion out of the midst of Jordan to the place of Ætham: for I will speedily drive them from it, and do ye set the young men against her: for who is like me? and who will withstand me? and who is this shepherd, who shall confront me?

²⁰Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he has framed against Idumea; and his device, which he has devised against the inhabitants of Thaeman: surely the least of the sheep shall be swept off; surely their dwelling shall be made desolate for them.

²¹For at the sound of their fall the earth was scared, and the cry of the sea was not heard.

²²Behold, he shall look upon her as an eagle, and spread forth his wings over her strongholds; and the heart of the mighty men of Idumea shall be in that day as the heart of a woman in her pangs.