Yeremya 31

¹Moab hakkında. Rab şöyle söyledi: "Vay Nebo’nun haline, çünkü mahvoldu! Karyatayim ele geçirildi, Amat utandırıldı ve yenilgiye uğratıldı.

²Artık Moab için şifa yoktur, Heşbon’da böbürlenme kalmadı; ona karşı kötülük tasarladılar: 'Onu bir ulus olmaktan çıkaralım' dediler. Sen de tamamen susturulacaksın, kılıç senin de ardına düşecek.

³Horonayim’den feryat edenlerin sesi yükseliyor: Yıkım ve büyük bir parçalanma var!

⁴Moab parçalandı; feryadını Zoar’a kadar duyurun.

⁵Çünkü Luhit ağlayışla doldu, Horonayim yolunda ağlaya ağlaya çıkıyorlar; yıkımın acı feryadını işittiniz.

⁶Kaçın ve canlarınızı kurtarın! Çöldeki yaban eşeği gibi olacaksınız.

⁷Surlarına güvendiğin için sen de ele geçirileceksin; Kemoş, kahinleri ve önderleriyle birlikte sürgüne gönderilecek.

⁸Yıkım her kentin üzerine çökecek, tek bir kent bile kurtulamayacak; vadi yok olacak, ova yerle bir edilecek; çünkü Rab böyle söyledi.

⁹Moab’a işaretler verin, çünkü dokunulmayla tutuşacaktır; kentleri viraneye dönecek, içlerinde yaşayan kimse kalmayacak.

¹⁰Rab’bin işini ihmalkarlıkla yapan lanetlidir! Kılıcını kan dökmekten alıkoyan lanetlidir!

¹¹Moab gençliğinden beri rahattı ve kendi görkemine güveniyordu; kaptan kaba boşaltılmadı, hiç sürgüne gitmedi. Bu yüzden tadı kendisinde kaldı, kokusu hiç bozulmadı.

¹²Bu yüzden işte, günler geliyor" diyor Rab, "ona kapları devirenleri göndereceğim; onu devirecekler, kaplarını ufalayacaklar ve boynuzlarını kıracaklar.

¹³İsrail halkı güvendiği Beytel ümidinden nasıl utandıysa, Moab da Kemoş’tan öyle utanacak.

¹⁴Nasıl 'Biz güçlüyüz, savaş için kuvvetli adamlarız' diyebilirsiniz?

¹⁵Moab mahvoldu, kenti yıkıldı; en seçkin gençleri boğazlanmaya gitti.

¹⁶Moab’ın günü yaklaştı, felaketi son derece hızlı geliyor.

¹⁷Onun çevresinde olanlar, onun adını bilenler, hepsi onun için yas tutsun! Şöyle deyin: 'O şanlı değnek, o azamet asası nasıl da kırıldı!'

¹⁸Ey Dibon’da oturan, görkeminden in de ıslak toprakta otur! Çünkü Moab’ı yıkan kişi sana karşı yürüdü, sığınaklarını yerle bir etti.

¹⁹Yol kenarında dur da gözle, ey Aroer’de oturan! Kaçan adama ve kurtulan adama sor: 'Ne oldu?' de.

²⁰Moab utandırıldı, çünkü parçalandı. Feryat edip haykırın! Moab’ın mahvolduğunu Arnon’da duyurun.

²¹Meisor toprağı üzerine, Holon, Yahsa ve Mofat üzerine yargı geliyor;

²²Dibon, Nebo ve Beyt-Divlatayim üzerine,

²³Karyatayim, Beyt-Gamul ve Beyt-Meon üzerine,

²⁴Keriot, Bosra ve uzak yakın bütün Moab kentleri üzerine yargı geliyor.

²⁵Moab’ın boynuzu kırıldı, kolu parçalandı.

²⁶Onu sarhoş edin, çünkü Rab’be karşı büyüklük tasladı. Moab kendi eliyle çırpınacak, kendisi de bir alay konusu olacak.

²⁷İsrail senin için bir alay konusu değil miydi? O hırsızlıkların arasında mı yakalandı ki, onunla savaşıyordun?

²⁸Ey Moab’da oturanlar, kentleri bırakıp kayalara sığının! Çukurun ağzındaki kayalarda yuva yapan güvercinler gibi olun.

²⁹Moab’ın kibrini işittim; o pek kibirlidir. Kibrini, gururunu ve yüreğinin yücelmesini biliyoruz.

³⁰'Ben onun işlerini bilirim' diyor Rab, 'ama onun gücü yeterli değildi, böyle yapmadı.'

³¹Bu yüzden Moab için her taraftan feryat edin, kuraklığın tıraş edilmiş adamları için haykırın.

³²Ey Sibma asması, senin için Yazer’in ağladığı gibi ağlayacağım. Dalların denizi aştı, Yazer’e dek ulaştı. Yaz meyvelerinin ve bağ bozunun üzerine yıkım çöktü.

³³Moab topraklarından sevinç ve coşku silindi, şırahanelerden şarap tükendi; artık ne sabah ne akşam üzüm ezilmiyor, bağ bozumu nidası yükselmiyor.

³⁴Heşbon’un feryadı Eleale’ye kadar ulaşıyor; Zoar’dan Horonayim’e ve üç yaşındaki bir düve gibi feryat eden Eglat-Şelişiya’ya kadar seslerini yükseltiyorlar. Çünkü Nimrim suları bile kuruyacak.

³⁵'Moab’da sunağa çıkanları ve ilahlarına buhur yakanları yok edeceğim' diyor Rab.

³⁶Bu yüzden yüreğim Moab için kavallar gibi sızlıyor, yüreğim tıraş edilmiş adamlar için kaval gibi sızlıyor; çünkü kazandıkları her şey yok oldu.

³⁷Her baş her yerde tıraş edilecek, her sakal kesilecek; bütün ellerde kesikler var, bütün beller çulla kaplanmış.

³⁸Moab’ın bütün damlarında ve meydanlarında feryat var; 'çünkü Moab’ı kimsenin istemediği bir kap gibi kırdım' diyor Rab.

³⁹Nasıl da yıkıldı! Nasıl sırtını döndü Moab! Utandırıldı ve Moab çevresindeki herkes için bir alay konusu ve öfke nesnesi oldu.

⁴⁰Çünkü Rab şöyle söyledi.

⁴¹Keriot ele geçirildi, kaleler zapt edildi.

⁴²Moab kalabalıktan ötürü yok olacak, çünkü Rab’be karşı büyüklük tasladı.

⁴³Ey Moab’da oturan, tuzak, korku ve çukur seni bekliyor.

⁴⁴Korkudan kaçan çukura düşecek, çukurdan çıkan tuzağa yakalanacak. Çünkü denetleme yılında Moab’ın üzerine felaket getireceğim.

¹(Μασ. ΜΗ´) Τῇ Μωάβ. - ΟΥΤΩΣ εἶπε Κύριος· οὐαὶ ἐπὶ Ναβαῦ, ὅτι ὤλετο· ἐλήφθη Καριαθαίμ, ᾐσχύνθη ᾿Αμὰθ καὶ ἡττήθη.

²οὐκ ἔστιν ἔτι ἰατρεία Μωάβ, γαυρίαμα ἐν ᾿Εσεβών· ἐλογίσαντο ἐπ’ αὐτὴν κακά· ἐκόψαμεν αὐτὴν ἀπὸ ἔθνους, καὶ παῦσιν παύσεται, ὄπισθέν σου βαδιεῖται μάχαιρα.

³ὅτι φωνὴ κεκραγότων ἐξ ᾿Ωρωναίμ, ὄλεθρος καὶ σύντριμμα μέγα·

⁴συνετρίβη Μωάβ, ἀναγγείλατε εἰς Ζογόρα,

⁵ὅτι ἐπλήσθη ᾿Αλὼθ ἐν κλαυθμῷ, ἀναβήσεται κλαίων ἐν ὁδῷ ᾿Ωρωναίμ, κραυγὴν συντρίμματος ἠκούσατε·

⁶φεύγετε καὶ σώσατε τὰς ψυχὰς ὑμῶν καὶ ἔσεσθε ὥσπερ ὄνος ἄγριος ἐν ἐρήμῳ.

⁷ἐπειδὴ ἐπεποίθεις ἐν ὀχυρώμασί σου, καὶ σὺ συλληφθήσῃ· καὶ ἐξελεύσεται Χαμὼς ἐν ἀποικίᾳ καὶ οἱ ἱερεῖς αὐτοῦ καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντες αὐτοῦ ἅμα.

⁸καὶ ἥξει ὄλεθρος ἐπὶ πᾶσαν πόλιν, καὶ πόλις οὐ μὴ σωθῇ, καὶ ἀπολεῖται ὁ αὐλών, καὶ ἐξολοθρευθήσεται ἡ πεδινή, καθὼς εἶπε Κύριος.

⁹δότε σημεῖα τῇ Μωάβ, ὅτι ἁφῇ ἀναφθήσεται, καὶ πᾶσαι αἱ πόλεις αὐτῆς εἰς ἄβατον ἔσονται· πόθεν ἔνοικος αὐτῇ;

¹⁰ἐπικατάρατος ὁ ποιῶν τὰ ἔργα Κυρίου ἀμελῶς, ἐξαίρων μάχαιραν αὐτοῦ ἀφ’ αἵματος.

¹¹ἀνεπαύσατο Μωὰβ ἐκ παιδαρίου καὶ πεποιθὼς ἦν ἐπὶ τῇ δόξῃ αὐτοῦ, οὐκ ἐνέχεεν ἐξ ἀγγείου εἰς ἀγγεῖον καὶ εἰς ἀποικισμὸν οὐκ ᾤχετο· διὰ τοῦτο ἔστη γεῦμα αὐτοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ, καὶ ὀσμὴ αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἐξέλιπε.

¹²διὰ τοῦτο ἰδοὺ ἡμέραι αὐτοῦ ἔρχονται, φησὶ Κύριος, καὶ ἀποστελῶ αὐτῷ κλίνοντας, καὶ κλινοῦσιν αὐτὸν καὶ τὰ σκεύη αὐτοῦ λεπτυνοῦσι καὶ τὰ κέρατα αὐτοῦ συγκόψουσι.

¹³καὶ καταισχυνθήσεται Μωὰβ ἀπὸ Χαμώς, ὥσπερ κατῃσχύνθη οἶκος ᾿Ισραὴλ ἀπὸ Βαιθὴλ ἐλπίδος αὐτῶν πεποιθότες ἐπ’ αὐτοῖς.

¹⁴πῶς ἐρεῖτε· ἰσχυροί ἐσμεν καὶ ἄνθρωπος ἰσχύων εἰς τὰ πολεμικά;

¹⁵ὤλετο Μωὰβ πόλις αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐκλεκτοὶ νεανίσκοι αὐτοῦ κατέβησαν εἰς σφαγήν·

¹⁶ἐγγὺς ἡμέρα Μωὰβ ἐλθεῖν, καὶ πονηρία αὐτοῦ ταχεῖα σφόδρα.

¹⁷κινήσατε αὐτῷ, πάντες κυκλόθεν αὐτοῦ, πάντες εἰδότες ὄνομα αὐτοῦ· εἴπατε· πῶς συνετρίβη βακτηρία εὐκλεής, ῥάβδος μεγαλώματος;

¹⁸κατάβηθι ἀπὸ δόξης καὶ κάθισον ἐν ὑγρασίᾳ, καθημένη Δαιβών· ἐκτριβήσεται, ὅτι ὤλετο Μωάβ, ἀνέβη εἰς σὲ λυμαινόμενος ὀχύρωμά σου.

¹⁹ἐφ’ ὁδοῦ στῆθι καὶ ἔπιδε, καθημένη ἐν ᾿Αροήρ, καὶ ἐρώτησον φεύγοντα καὶ σῳζόμενον καὶ εἰπόν· τί ἐγένετο;

²⁰κατῃσχύνθη Μωάβ, ὅτι συνετρίβη· ὀλόλυξον καὶ κέκραξον, ἀνάγγειλον ἐν ᾿Αρνών, ὅτι ὤλετο Μωάβ·

²¹καὶ κρίσις ἔρχεται εἰς τὴν γῆν Μεισὼρ ἐπὶ Χελὼν καὶ Ῥεφὰς καὶ Μωφὰθ

²²καὶ ἐπὶ Δαιβὼν καὶ ἐπὶ Ναβαῦ καὶ ἐπ’ οἶκον Δαιβλαθαὶμ

²³καὶ ἐπὶ Καριαθαὶμ καὶ ἐπ’ οἶκον Γαιμὼλ καὶ ἐπ’ οἶκον Μαὼν

²⁴καὶ ἐπὶ Καριὼθ καὶ ἐπὶ Βοσὸρ καὶ ἐπὶ πάσας τὰς πόλεις Μωὰβ τὰς πόρρω καὶ τὰς ἐγγύς.

²⁵κατεάχθη κέρας Μωάβ, καὶ τὸ ἐπίχειρον αὐτοῦ συνετρίβη.

²⁶μεθύσατε αὐτόν, ὅτι ἐπὶ Κύριον ἐμεγαλύνθη· καὶ ἐπικρούσει Μωὰβ ἐν χειρὶ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἔσται εἰς γέλωτα καὶ αὐτός.

²⁷καὶ εἰ μὴ εἰς γελοιασμὸν ἦν σοι ᾿Ισραήλ; ἢ ἐν κλοπαῖς σου εὑρέθη, ὅτι ἐπολέμεις αὐτόν;

²⁸κατέλιπον τὰς πόλεις καὶ ᾤκησαν ἐν πέτραις οἱ κατοικοῦντες Μωάβ, ἐγενήθησαν ὥσπερ περιστεραί νοσσεύουσαι ἐν πέτραις στόματι βοθύνου.

²⁹ἤκουσα ὕβριν Μωάβ, ὕβρισε λίαν ὕβριν αὐτοῦ καὶ ὑπερηφανίαν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ὑψώθη ἡ καρδία αὐτοῦ.

³⁰ἐγὼ δὲ ἔγνων ἔργα αὐτοῦ· οὐχὶ τὸ ἱκανὸν αὐτοῦ, οὐχ οὕτως ἐποίησε.

³¹διὰ τοῦτο ἐπὶ Μωὰβ ὀλολύζετε πάντοθεν, βοήσατε ἐπ’ ἄνδρας κειράδας αὐχμοῦ·

³²ὡς κλαυθμὸν ᾿Ιαζὴρ ἀποκλαύσομαί σοι, ἄμπελος Σεβημά, κλήματά σου διῆλθε θάλασσαν, ᾿Ιαζὴρ ἥψαντο· ἐπὶ ὀπώραν σου, ἐπὶ τρυγηταῖς σου ὄλεθρος ἐπέπεσε.

³³συνεψήθη χαρμοσύνη καὶ εὐφροσύνη ἐκ τῆς Μωαβίτιδος καὶ οἶνος ἦν ἐπὶ ληνοῖς σου· πρωΐ οὐκ ἐπάτησαν οὐδὲ δείλης, οὐκ ἐποίησαν αἰδάδ.

³⁴ἀπὸ κραυγῆς ᾿Εσεβὼν ἕως ᾿Ελεαλὴ αἱ πόλεις αὐτῶν ἔδωκαν φωνὴν αὐτῶν, ἀπὸ Ζογὸρ ἕως ᾿Ωρωναὶμ καὶ ᾿Αγλάθ-Σαλισία, ὅτι καὶ τὸ ὕδωρ Νεβρεὶν εἰς κατάκαυμα ἔσται.

³⁵καὶ ἀπολῶ τὸν Μωάβ, φησὶ Κύριος, ἀναβαίνοντα ἐπὶ τὸν βωμὸν καὶ θυμιῶντα θεοῖς αὐτοῦ.

³⁶διὰ τοῦτο καρδία μου, Μωάβ, ὥσπερ αὐλοὶ βομβήσουσι, καρδία μου ἐπ’ ἀνθρώπους κειράδας ὥσπερ αὐλὸς βομβήσει· διὰ τοῦτο ἃ περιεποιήσατο, ἀπώλετο ἀπὸ ἀνθρώπου.

³⁷πᾶσαν κεφαλὴν ἐν παντὶ τόπῳ ξυρηθήσονται, καὶ πᾶς πώγων ξυρηθήσεται, καὶ πᾶσαι χεῖρες κόψονται, καὶ ἐπὶ πάσης ὀσφύος σάκκος.

³⁸καὶ ἐπὶ πάντων τῶν δωμάτων Μωὰβ καὶ ἐπὶ ταῖς πλατείαις αὐτῆς, ὅτι συνέτριψα τὸν Μωάβ, φησὶ Κύριος, ὡς ἀγγεῖον, οὗ οὐκ ἔστι χρεία αὐτοῦ.

³⁹πῶς κατήλλαξε; πῶς ἔστρεψε νῶτον Μωάβ; ᾐσχύνθη καὶ ἐγένετο Μωὰβ εἰς γέλωτα καὶ ἐγκότημα πᾶσι τοῖς κύκλῳ αὐτῆς.

⁴⁰ὅτι οὕτως εἶπε Κύριος·

⁴¹ἐλήφθη ᾿Ακκαριώθ, καὶ τὰ ὀχυρώματα συνελήφθη·

⁴²καὶ ἀπολεῖται Μωὰβ ἀπὸ ὄχλου, ὅτι ἐπὶ τὸν Κύριον ἐμεγαλύνθη.

⁴³παγὶς καὶ φόβος καὶ βόθυνος ἐπὶ σοί, καθήμενος Μωάβ·

⁴⁴ὁ φεύγων ἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ φόβου ἐμπεσεῖται εἰς τὸν βόθυνον, καὶ ὁ ἀναβαίνων ἐκ τοῦ βοθύνου συλληφθήσεται ἐν τῇ παγίδι, ὅτι ἐπάξω ταῦτα ἐπὶ Μωὰβ ἐν ἐνιαυτῷ ἐπισκέψεως αὐτῆς. * In the Hebrew, Eglath-shelishiyah (shĕliyshiy

³years old, eglath relating to a calf) may be construed as equivalent to the Greek Ἀγλάθ-Σαλισία, translated in the Septuagint as “a heifer of three years old”. [Elpenor]

¹Thus has the Lord said concerning MOAB, Woe to Nabau! for it has perished: Cariathaim is taken: Amath and Agath are put to shame.

²There is no longer any healing for Moab, nor glorying in Esebon: he has devised evils against her: we have cut her off from being a nation, and she shall be completely still: after thee shall go a sword;

³for there is a voice of men crying out of Oronaim, destruction and great ruin.

⁴Moab is ruined, proclaim it to Zogora:

⁵for Aloth is filled with weeping: one shall go up weeping by the way of Oronaim; ye have heard a cry of destruction.

⁶Flee ye, and save your lives, and ye shall be as a wild ass in the desert.

⁷Since thou hast trusted in thy strong-hold, therefore thou shalt be taken: and Chamos shall go forth into captivity, and his priests, and his princes together.

⁸And destruction shall come upon every city, it shall by no means escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain country shall be completely destroyed, as the Lord has said.

⁹Set marks upon Moab, for she shall be touched with a plague-spot, and all her cities shall become desolate; whence shall there be an inhabitant for her?

¹⁰Cursed is the man that does the works of the Lord carelessly, keeping back his sword from blood.

¹¹Moab has been at ease from a child, and trusted in his glory; he has not poured out his liquor from vessel to vessel, and has not gone into banishment, therefore his taste remained in him, and his smell departed not.

¹²Therefore, behold, his days come, saith the Lord, when I shall send upon him bad leaders, and they shall lead him astray, and they shall utterly break in pieces his possessions, and shall cut his horns asunder.

¹³And Moab shall be ashamed of Chamos, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Baethel their hope, having trusted in them.

¹⁴How will ye say, We are strong, and men strong for war?

¹⁵Moab is ruined, even his city, and his choice young men have gone down to slaughter.

¹⁶The day of Moab is near at hand, and his iniquity moves swiftly to vengeance.

¹⁷Shake the head at him, all ye that are round about him; all of you utter his name; say ye, How is the glorious staff broken to pieces, the rod of magnificence!

¹⁸Come down from thy glory, and sit down in a damp place: Daebon shall be broken, because Moab is destroyed: there has gone up against thee one to ravage thy strong-hold.

¹⁹Stand by the way, and look, thou that dwellest in Aroer; and ask him that is fleeing, and him that escapes, and say, What has happened?

²⁰Moab is put to shame, because he is broken: howl and cry; proclaim in Arnon, that Moab has perished.

²¹And judgment is coming against the land of Misor, upon Chelon, and Rephas, and Mophas,

²²and upon Daebon, and upon Nabau, and upon the house of Daethlathaim,

²³and upon Cariathaim, and upon the house of Gaemol, and upon the house of Maon,

²⁴and upon Carioth, and upon Bosor, and upon all the cities of Moab, far and near.

²⁵The horn of Moab is broken, and his arm is crushed.

²⁶Make ye him drunk; for he has magnified himself against the Lord: and Moab shall clap with his hand, and shall be also himself a laughing-stock.

²⁷For surely Israel was to thee a laughing-stock, and was found among thy thefts, because thou didst fight against him.

²⁸The inhabitants of Moab have left the cities, and dwelt in rocks; they have become as doves nestling in rocks, at the mouth of a cave.

²⁹And I have heard of the pride of Moab, he has greatly heightened his pride and his haughtiness, and his heart has been lifted up.

³⁰But I know his works: is it not enough for him? has he not done thus?

³¹Therefore howl ye for Moab on all sides; cry out against the shorn men in a gloomy place. I will weep for thee,

³²O vine of Aserema, as with the weeping of Jazer: thy branches are gone over the sea, they reached the cities of Jazer: destruction has come upon thy fruits, and upon thy grape-gatherers.

³³Joy and gladness have been utterly swept off the land of Moab: and though there was wine in thy presses, in the morning they trod it not, neither in the evening did they raise the cry of joy.

³⁴From the cry of Esebon even to Ætam their cities uttered their voice, from Zogor to Oronaim, and their tidings as a heifer of three years old, for the water also of Nebrin shall be dried up. [*]

³⁵And I will destroy Moab, saith the Lord, as he comes up to the altar, and burns incense to his gods.

³⁶Therefore the heart of Moab shall sound as pipes, my heart shall sound as a pipe for the shorn men; forasmuch as what every man has gained has perished from him.

³⁷They shall all have their heads shaved in every place, and every beard shall be shaved; and all hands shall beat the breasts, and on all loins shall be sackcloth.

³⁸And on all the housetops of Moab, and in his streets shall be mourning: for I have broken him, saith the Lord, as a vessel, which is useless.

³⁹How has he changed! how has Moab turned his back! Moab is put to shame, and become a laughing-stock, and an object of anger to all that are round about him.

⁴⁰For thus said the Lord;

⁴¹Carioth is taken, and the strong-holds have been taken together.

⁴²And Moab shall perish from being a multitude, because he has magnified himself against the Lord.

⁴³A snare, and fear, and the pit, are upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab.

⁴⁴He that flees from the terror shall fall into the pit, and he that comes up out of the pit shall even be taken in the snare: for I will bring these things upon Moab in the year of their visitation.