Mika 4

¹Ve son günlerde Rab'bin dağı görünür olacak, dağların dorukları üzerinde kurulacak ve tepelerin üzerinde yükseltilecek; ve halklar ona doğru akın edecek.

²Ve birçok ulus gidecek ve şöyle diyecekler: "Gelin, Rab'bin dağına ve Yakup'un Tanrısı'nın evine çıkalım; bize O'nun yolunu gösterecekler ve biz O'nun patikalarında yürüyeceğiz." Çünkü yasa Siyon'dan ve Rab'bin sözü Yeruşalim'den çıkacak.

³Ve O, birçok halk arasında yargıda bulunacak ve uzaklardaki güçlü ulusları ikna edip yola getirecek; kılıçlarını sabanlara ve mızraklarını oraklara dövecekler. Ulus ulusa karşı artık kılıç kaldırmayacak ve artık savaşmayı öğrenmeyecekler.

⁴Ve herkes kendi asmasının altında ve herkes kendi incir ağacının altında dinlenecek ve onları korkutan kimse olmayacak; çünkü bunu Her Şeye Egemen Rab'bin ağzı söyledi.

⁵Çünkü bütün halklar kendi yollarında yürüyecekler, biz ise sonsuza dek ve ötesine Tanrımız Rab'bin adıyla yürüyeceğiz.

⁶O gün, diyor Rab, ezilmiş olanı toplayacağım, sürülmüş olanı ve kendimden uzaklaştırdıklarımı içeri kabul edeceğim.

⁷Ve ezilmiş olanı bir kalıntı yapacağım, reddedilmiş olanı ise güçlü bir ulus haline getireceğim; ve Rab, şimdiden sonsuza dek Siyon Dağı'nda onların üzerinde krallık edecek.

⁸Ve sen, ey sürünün kasvetli kulesi, Siyon kızı! Önceki egemenlik sana gelecek ve girecek, Babil'den gelen krallık Yeruşalim kızına ulaşacak.

⁹Ve şimdi, neden kötülükleri deneyimledin? Kralın yok muydu senin? Yoksa danışmanın mı yok oldu ki, doğuran bir kadın gibi seni sancılar sardı?

¹⁰Sancı çek, cesur ol ve yaklaş, ey Siyon kızı, doğuran bir kadın gibi! Çünkü şimdi kentten çıkacak, kırda konaklayacak ve Babil'e kadar varacaksın; Tanrın Rab seni oradan kurtaracak ve oradan, düşmanlarının elinden seni fidyeyle kurtaracak.

¹¹Ve şimdi, "Onun yıkımıyla coşalım ve gözlerimiz Siyon'a dikilsin!" diyen birçok ulus sana karşı toplandı.

¹²Fakat onlar Rab'bin düşüncesini bilmediler ve O'nun tasarısını anlamadılar; çünkü O, onları harman yerindeki demetler gibi topladı.

¹³Kalk ve onları harman et, ey Siyon kızı! Çünkü senin boynuzlarını demir, tırnaklarını tunç yapacağım; onlarla ulusları eriteceksin, birçok halkı un ufak edeceksin ve onların bolluğunu Rab'be, güçlerini tüm yeryüzünün Rabbi olan Rab'be adayacaksın.

¹⁴Şimdi Efrayim kızı bir çitle tamamen kapatılacak; üzerimize bir kuşatma tayin etti, değnekle İsrail oymaklarının yanağına vuracaklar.

¹ΚΑΙ ἔσται ἐπ᾿ ἐσχάτων τῶν ἡμερῶν ἐμφανὲς τὸ ὄρος Κυρίου, ἕτοιμον ἐπὶ τὰς κορυφὰς τῶν ὀρέων, καὶ μετεωρισθήσεται ὑπεράνω τῶν βουνῶν· καὶ σπεύσουσι πρὸς αὐτὸ λαοί,

²καὶ πορεύσονται ἔθνη πολλὰ καὶ ἐροῦσι· δεῦτε, ἀναβῶμεν εἰς τὸ ὄρος Κυρίου καὶ εἰς τὸν οἶκον τοῦ Θεοῦ ᾿Ιακώβ, καὶ δείξουσιν ἡμῖν τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ, καὶ πορευσόμεθα ἐν ταῖς τρίβοις αὐτοῦ· ὅτι ἐκ Σιὼν ἐξελεύσεται νόμος καὶ λόγος Κυρίου ἐξ ῾Ιερουσαλήμ.

³καὶ κρινεῖ ἀνὰ μέσον λαῶν πολλῶν καὶ ἐξελέγξει ἔθνη ἰσχυρὰ ἕως εἰς μακράν, καὶ κατακόψουσι τὰς ῥομφαίας αὐτῶν εἰς ἄροτρα καὶ τὰ δόρατα αὐτῶν εἰς δρέπανα, καὶ οὐκέτι μὴ ἀντάρῃ ἔθνος ἐπ᾿ ἔθνος ρομφαίαν, καὶ οὐκέτι μὴ μάθωσι πολεμεῖν.

⁴καὶ ἀναπαύσεται ἕκαστος ὑποκάτω ἀμπέλου αὐτοῦ καὶ ἕκαστος ὑποκάτω συκῆς αὐτοῦ, καὶ οὐκ ἔσται ὁ ἐκφοβῶν, διότι τὸ στόμα Κυρίου παντοκράτορος ἐλάλησε ταῦτα.

⁵ὅτι πάντες οἱ λαοὶ πορεύσονται ἕκαστος τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ, ἡμεῖς δὲ πορευσόμεθα ἐν ὀνόματι Κυρίου Θεοῦ ἡμῶν εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα καὶ ἐπέκεινα.

⁶ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ, λέγει Κύριος, συνάξω τὴν συντετριμμένην καὶ τὴν ἐξωσμένην εἰσδέξομαι καὶ οὓς ἀπωσάμην·

⁷καὶ θήσομαι τὴν συντετριμμένην εἰς ὑπόλειμμα καὶ τὴν ἀπωσμένην εἰς ἔθνος δυνατόν, καὶ βασιλεύσει Κύριος ἐπ᾿ αὐτοὺς ἐν ὄρει Σιὼν ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν καὶ ἕως εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.

⁸καὶ σὺ πύργος ποιμνίου αὐχμώδης, θύγατερ Σιών, ἐπὶ σὲ ἥξει καὶ εἰσελεύσεται ἡ ἀρχὴ ἡ πρώτη, βασιλεία ἐκ Βαβυλῶνος τῇ θυγατρὶ ῾Ιερουσαλήμ. -

⁹Καὶ νῦν ἱνατί ἔγνως κακά; μὴ βασιλεὺς οὐκ ἦν σοι; ἢ ἡ βουλή σου ἀπώλετο ὅτι κατεκράτησάν σου ὠδῖνες ὡς τικτούσης;

¹⁰ὤδινε καὶ ἀνδρίζου καὶ ἔγγιζε, θύγατερ Σιών, ὡς τίκτουσα· διότι νῦν ἐξελεύσῃ ἐκ πόλεως καὶ κατασκηνώσεις ἐν πεδίῳ καὶ ἥξεις ἕως Βαβυλῶνος· ἐκεῖθεν ρύσεταί σε καὶ ἐκεῖθεν λυτρώσεταί σε Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου ἐκ χειρὸς ἐχθρῶν σου.

¹¹καὶ νῦν ἐπισυνήχθησαν ἐπὶ σὲ ἔθνη πολλὰ οἱ λέγοντες· ἐπιχαρούμεθα, καὶ ἐπόψονται ἐπὶ Σιὼν οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ ἡμῶν.

¹²αὐτοὶ δὲ οὐκ ἔγνωσαν τὸν λογισμὸν Κυρίου καὶ οὐ συνῆκαν τὴν βουλὴν αὐτοῦ, ὅτι συνήγαγεν αὐτοὺς ὡς δράγματα ἅλωνος.

¹³ἀνάστηθι, καὶ ἀλόα αὐτούς, θύγατερ Σιών, ὅτι τὰ κέρατά σου θήσομαι σιδηρᾶ καὶ τὰς ὁπλάς σου θήσομαι χαλκᾶς, καὶ κατατήξεις ἐν αὐτοῖς ἔθνη καὶ λεπτυνεῖς λαοὺς πολλοὺς καὶ ἀναθήσεις τῷ Κυρίῳ τὸ πλῆθος αὐτῶν καὶ τὴν ἰσχὺν αὐτῶν τῷ Κυρίῳ πάσης τῆς γῆς.

¹⁴νῦν ἐμφραχθήσεται θυγάτηρ ᾿Εφραὶμ* ἐν φραγμῷ, συνοχὴν ἔταξεν ἐφ᾿ ἡμᾶς, ἐν ράβδῳ πατάξουσιν ἐπὶ σιαγόνα τὰς φυλὰς τοῦ ᾿Ισραήλ. * Where Brenton’s translation (LXXb) has restored “daughter [of Sion]”, the Alexandrine text (LXXa) reads “daughter of Ephraim” (Εφραιμ).

¹And at the last days the mountain of the Lord shall be manifest, established on the tops of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and the peoples shall hasten to it.

²And many nations shall go, and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and they shall shew us his way, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Sion shall go forth a law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

³And he shall judge among many peoples, and shall rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles; and nation shall no more lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn to war any more.

⁴And every one shall rest under his vine, and every one under his fig-tree; and there shall be none to alarm [them]: for the mouth of the Lord Almighty has spoken these [words].

⁵For all [other] nations shall walk everyone in his own way, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.

⁶In that day, saith the Lord, I will gather her that is bruised, and will receive her that is cast out, and those whom I rejected.

⁷And I will make her that was bruised a remnant, and her that was rejected a mighty nation: and the Lord shall reign over them in mount Sion from henceforth, even for ever.

⁸And thou, dark tower of the flock, daughter of Sion, on thee the dominion shall come and enter in, [even] the first kingdom from Babylon to the daughter of Jerusalem.

⁹And now, why hast thou known calamities? was there not a king to thee? or has thy counsel perished that pangs as of a woman in travail have seized upon thee?

¹⁰Be in pain, and strengthen thyself, and draw near, O daughter of Sion, as a woman in travail: for now thou shalt go forth out of the city, and shalt lodge in the plain, and shalt reach even to Babylon: thence shall the Lord thy God deliver thee, and thence shall he redeem thee out of the hand of thine enemies.

¹¹And now have many nations gathered against thee, saying, We will rejoice, and our eyes shall look upon Sion.

¹²But they know not the thought of the Lord, and have not understood his counsel: for he has gathered them as sheaves of the floor.

¹³Arise, and thresh them, O daughter of Sion: for I will make thine horns iron, and I will make thine hoofs brass: and thou shalt utterly destroy many nations, and shalt consecrate their abundance to the Lord, and their strength to the Lord of all the earth.

¹⁴Now shall the daughter [of Sion]* be completely hedged in: he has laid siege against us: they shall smite the tribes of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.