Nahum 2

¹Dağların üzerinde müjde getirenin ve barış duyuranın ayaklarına bakın! Bayramlarını kutla ey Yahuda, adaklarını yerine getir; çünkü artık senin içinden köhneleşip yok olmak üzere asla geçmeyecekler. Her şey nihayete erdi, o ortadan kaldırıldı.

²Sıkıntıdan kurtarılan biri olarak, senin yüzüne doğru fırtına estiren yükseldi; yolu gözle, belini sıkı tut, gücünü son derece artırarak yiğitleş.

³Çünkü Rab, Yakup'un kibrini tıpkı İsrail'in kibri gibi geri çevirdi; çünkü yağmacılar onları tamamen silkeleyip attılar ve asma dallarını mahvettiler.

⁴Onların hükümranlık silahlarını insanlar arasından yok ettiler; güçlü adamları ateş içinde oynaşıyor, O'nun hazırlandığı günde arabalarının dizginleri sarsılacak ve atlılar kargaşaya düşecek.

⁵Yollarda arabalar birbirine karışacak ve meydanlarda birbirine dolanacak; görünüşleri ateş meşaleleri gibi, hızla koşuşan şimşekler gibi olacak.

⁶Soyluları bunu hatırlayacak ve gündüz vakti kaçacaklar, yollarında zayıf düşecekler; onun surlarına doğru acele edecekler ve savunma siperlerini hazırlayacaklar.

⁷Nehirlerin kapıları açıldı ve saraylar yıkılıp çöktü.

⁸Onun varlığı açığa çıkarıldı ve o yukarı götürüldü; kadın hizmetçileri yüreklerinde inleyen güvercinler gibi feryat ederek götürülüyordu.

⁹Ninova'nın suları bir su havuzu gibiydi; ama onlar kaçıyorlar, durmuyorlar ve arkasına dönüp bakan kimse yok.

¹⁰Gümüşü yağmaladılar, altını yağmaladılar, onun ziynetinin sonu yoktu; onun bütün değerli kaplarının üzerine büyük bir ağırlık çöktü.

¹¹Yağma, yıkım ve kargaşa! Yüreklerin erimesi, dizlerin titremesi, bütün bellerde sancı ve herkesin yüzünün tencere isi gibi kararması var.

¹²Aslanların barınağı ve genç aslanların otlağı nerede şimdi? Oraya aslanın ve aslan yavrusunun girdiği ve onları korkutacak kimsenin olmadığı yer neresi?

¹³Aslan, yavrularına yetecek kadarını paraladı, dişi aslanları için boğdu; inini avla, barınağını kapıp getirdiği yağmalarla doldurdu.

¹⁴İşte, ben sana karşıyım, diyor Her Şeye Egemen Rab; senin kalabalığını duman içinde yakıp kül edeceğim, aslanlarını kılıç yiyip bitirecek, avını yeryüzünden yok edeceğim ve senin işlerin bir daha asla duyulmayacak.

¹ΙΔΟΥ ἐπὶ τὰ ὄρη οἱ πόδες εὐαγγελιζομένου καὶ ἀπαγγέλλοντος εἰρήνην· ἑόρταζε, ᾿Ιούδα, τὰς ἑορτάς σου, ἀπόδος τὰς εὐχάς σου, διότι οὐ μὴ προσθήσωσιν ἔτι τοῦ διελθεῖν διὰ σοῦ εἰς παλαίωσιν. - Συντετέλεσται, ἐξῇρται.

²ἀνέβη ἐμφυσῶν εἰς πρόσωπόν σου ἐξαιρούμενος ἐκ θλίψεως· σκόπευσον ὁδόν, κράτησον ὀσφύος, ἄνδρισαι τῇ ἰσχύϊ σφόδρα,

³διότι ἀπέστρεψε Κύριος τὴν ὕβριν ᾿Ιακώβ, καθὼς ὕβριν τοῦ ᾿Ισραήλ, διότι ἐκτινάσσοντες ἐξετίναξαν αὐτοὺς καὶ τὰ κλήματα αὐτῶν, διέφθειραν

⁴ὅπλα δυναστείας αὐτῶν ἐξ ἀνθρώπων, ἄνδρας δυνατοὺς ἐμπαίζοντας ἐν πυρί· αἱ ἡνίαι τῶν ἁρμάτων αὐτῶν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ἑτοιμασίας αὐτοῦ, καὶ οἱ ἱππεῖς θορυβηθήσονται

⁵ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς, καὶ συγχυθήσονται τὰ ἅρματα καὶ συμπλακήσονται ἐν ταῖς πλατείαις· ἡ ὅρασις αὐτῶν ὡς λαμπάδες πυρὸς καὶ ὡς ἀστραπαὶ διατρέχουσαι.

⁶καὶ μνησθήσονται οἱ μεγιστᾶνες αὐτῶν καὶ φεύξονται ἡμέρας καὶ ἀσθενήσουσιν ἐν τῇ πορείᾳ αὐτῶν καὶ σπεύσουσιν ἐπὶ τὰ τείχη αὐτῆς καὶ ἑτοιμάσουσι τὰς προφυλακὰς αὐτῶν.

⁷πύλαι τῶν ποταμῶν διηνοίχθησαν, καὶ τὰ βασίλεια διέπεσε,

⁸καὶ ἡ ὑπόστασις ἀπεκαλύφθη, καὶ αὕτη ἀνέβαινε, καὶ αἱ δοῦλαι αὐτῆς ἤγοντο καθὼς περιστεραὶ φθεγγόμεναι ἐν καρδίαις αὐτῶν.

⁹καὶ Νινευή, ὡς κολυμβήθρα ὕδατος τὰ ὕδατα αὐτῆς, καὶ αὐτοὶ φεύγοντες οὐκ ἔστησαν, καὶ οὐκ ἦν ὁ ἐπιβλέπων.

¹⁰διήρπαζον τὸ ἀργύριον, διήρπαζον τὸ χρυσίον, καὶ οὐκ ἦν πέρας τοῦ κόσμου αὐτῆς· βεβάρυνται ὑπὲρ πάντα τὰ σκεύη τὰ ἐπιθυμητὰ αὐτῆς.

¹¹ἐκτιναγμὸς καὶ ἀνατιναγμὸς καὶ ἐκβρασμὸς καὶ καρδίας θραυσμὸς καί ὑπόλυσις γονάτων καὶ ὠδῖνες ἐπὶ πᾶσαν ὀσφύν, καὶ τὸ πρόσωπον πάντων ὡς πρόσκαυμα χύτρας.

¹²ποῦ ἐστι τὸ κατοικητήριον τῶν λεόντων καὶ ἡ νομὴ ἡ οὖσα τοῖς σκύμνοις, οὗ ἐπορεύθη λέων τοῦ εἰσελθεῖν ἐκεῖ, σκύμνος λέοντος καὶ οὐκ ἦν ὁ ἐκφοβῶν;

¹³λέων ἥρπασε τὰ ἱκανὰ τοῖς σκύμνοις αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀπέπνιξε τοῖς λέουσιν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἔπλησε θήρας νοσσιὰν αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸ κατοικητήριον αὐτοῦ ἁρπαγῆς.

¹⁴ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐπὶ σέ, λέγει Κύριος παντοκράτωρ, καὶ ἐκκαύσω ἐν καπνῷ πλῆθός σου, καὶ τοὺς λέοντάς σου καταφάγεται ῥομφαία, καὶ ἐξολοθρεύσω ἐκ τῆς γῆς τὴν θήραν σου, καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀκουσθῇ οὐκέτι τὰ ἔργα σου. * The verse numbering for chapter

²follows the Alexandrian text (LXXa). Brenton’s text (LXXb) places verse 2:1 at the end of chapter

¹(as verse 1:15)

¹1* Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that brings glad tidings, and publishes peace! O Juda, keep thy feasts, pay thy vows: for they shall no more pass through thee to [thy] decay. It is all over with him, he has been removed,

²[one] who has been delivered from affliction has come up panting into thy presence, watch the way, strengthen [thy] loins, be very valiant in [thy] strength.

³For the Lord has turned aside the pride of Jacob, as the pride of Israel: for they have utterly rejected them, and have destroyed their branches.

⁴[They have destroyed] the arms of their power from among men, their mighty men sporting with fire: the reins of their chariots [shall be destroyed] in the day of his preparation, and the horsemen shall be thrown into confusion

⁵in the ways, and the chariots shall clash together, and shall be entangled in each other in the broad ways: their appearance is as lamps of fire, and as gleaming lightnings.

⁶And their mighty men shall bethink themselves and flee by day; and they shall be weak as they go; and they shall hasten to her walls, and shall prepare their defences.

⁷The gates of the cities have been opened, and the palaces have fallen into ruin,

⁸and the foundation has been exposed; and she has gone up, and her maid-servants were led [away] as doves moaning in their hearts.

⁹And [as for] Nineve, her waters [shall be] as a pool of water: and they fled, and staid not, and there was none to look back.

¹⁰They plundered the silver, they plundered the gold, and there was no end of their adorning; they were loaded [with it] upon all their pleasant vessels.

¹¹[There is] thrusting forth, and shaking, and tumult, and heart-breaking, and loosing of knees, and pangs on all loins; and the faces of all [are] as the blackening of a pot.

¹²Where is the dwelling-place of the lions, and the pasture that belonged to the whelps? where did the lion go, that the lion’s whelp should enter in there, and there was none to scare [him] away?

¹³The lion seized enough prey for his whelps, and strangled for his [young] lions, and filled his lair with prey, and his dwelling-place with spoil.

¹⁴Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord Almighty, and I will burn up thy multitude in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy lions; and I will utterly destroy thy prey from off the land, and thy deeds shall no more at all be heard of.