Sirak 48

¹Ve İlyas peygamber ateş gibi ayağa kalktı ve onun sözü meşale gibi yanıyordu.

²Onların üzerine kıtlık getirdi ve Tanrısal gayretiyle onların sayısını azalttı.

³Rab'bin sözüyle göğü kapattı ve bu şekilde üç kez ateş indirdi.

⁴Ey İlyas, yaptığın harikalarla nasıl da yüceltildin! Övünmekte kim sana benzer olabilir?

⁵Yüceler Yücesi'nin sözüyle ölüyü ölümden ve Hades'ten dirilten sensin.

⁶Kralları yıkıma sürükleyen ve onurlu kişileri hastalık yataklarından aşağı indiren sensin.

⁷Sina'da ilahi azarlamayı ve Horev'de öç alma yargılarını işiten sensin.

⁸Karşılıklarını bulmaları için kralları ve kendisinden sonra ardılı olacak peygamberleri mesheden sensin.

⁹Ateş kasırgası içinde, ateşten atların çektiği bir arabayla yukarı alınan sensin.

¹⁰Gazap hiddete dönüşmeden önce öfkeyi yatıştırmak, babanın yüreğini oğula döndürmek ve Yakup'un oymaklarını yeniden kurmak için belirli dönemlerdeki azarlamalar için yazılmış olan sensin.

¹¹Seni görmüş olanlara ve sevgiyle donatılmış olanlara ne mutlu! Çünkü biz de kesinlikle yaşamla yaşayacağız.

¹²İlyas bir kasırgayla örtüldü ve Elişa onun ruhuyla doldu; onun yaşadığı günlerde hiçbir önder onu sarsamadı ve hiç kimse ona boyun eğdiremedi.

¹³Hiçbir mesele onu aşamadı ve ölüm uykusundayken bile bedeni peygamberlik etti.

¹⁴Yaşarken harikalar yaptı, ölümünde de işleri mucizeviydi.

¹⁵Bütün bunlara rağmen halk tövbe etmedi ve günahlarından dönmedi; sonunda topraklarından sürülüp yağmalandılar ve bütün yeryüzüne dağıtıldılar; geriye sadece az sayıda bir halk ve Davut soyundan bir önder kaldı.

¹⁶Onlardan bazıları makbul olanı yaptı, bazıları ise günahlarını çoğalttı.

¹⁷Hizkiya şehrini güçlendirdi ve şehrin ortasına su getirdi; demir aletlerle sarp kayayı kazdı ve sular için pınarlar inşa etti.

¹⁸Onun günlerinde Sanherib sefere çıktı ve Rabşake'yi gönderdi; Rabşake elini Siyon'a karşı kaldırdı ve kendi kibri içinde küstahça böbürlendi.

¹⁹O zaman yürekleri ve elleri titredi, doğum sancısı çeken kadınlar gibi acı çektiler.

²⁰Merhametli olan Rab'be yakardılar, ellerini O'na doğru açtılar; gökteki Kutsal Olan onların sesini hemen işitti ve onları Yeşaya'nın eliyle kurtardı.

²¹Rab Asurluların ordugahını vurdu ve O'nun meleği onları kırıp geçirdi.

²²Çünkü Hizkiya, Rab'bin gözünde makbul olanı yaptı ve babası Davut'un yollarında kararlılıkla yürüdü; görümünde büyük ve güvenilir olan peygamber Yeşaya'nın buyurduğu gibi yaptı.

²³Yeşaya'nın günlerinde güneş geriye gitti ve peygamber kralın ömrüne yaşam ekledi.

²⁴Yüce bir ruhla son günlerde neler olacağını gördü ve Siyon'da yas tutanları teselli etti.

²⁵Sonsuza dek olacakları ve henüz gerçekleşmeden önce gizli şeyleri gösterdi.

¹ΚΑΙ ἀνέστη ᾿Ηλίας προφήτης ὡς πῦρ, καὶ ὁ λόγος αὐτοῦ ὡς λαμπὰς ἐκαίετο·

²ὃς ἐπήγαγεν ἐπ᾿ αὐτοὺς λιμὸν καὶ τῷ ζήλῳ αὐτοῦ ὠλιγοποίησεν αὐτούς·

³ἐν λόγῳ Κυρίου ἀνέσχεν οὐρανόν, κατήγαγεν οὕτως τρὶς πῦρ.

⁴ὡς ἐδοξάσθης, ᾿Ηλία, ἐν τοῖς θαυμασίοις σου· καὶ τίς ὅμοιός σοι καυχᾶσθαι;

⁵ὁ ἐγείρας νεκρὸν ἐκ θανάτου καὶ ἐξ ᾅδου ἐν λόγῳ ῾Υψίστου·

⁶ὁ καταγαγὼν βασιλεῖς εἰς ἀπώλειαν καὶ δεδοξασμένους ἀπὸ κλίνης αὐτῶν·

⁷ὁ ἀκούων ἐν Σινᾷ ἐλεγμὸν καὶ ἐν Χωρὴβ κρίματα ἐκδικήσεως·

⁸ὁ χρίων βασιλεῖς εἰς ἀνταπόδομα καὶ προφήτας διαδόχους μετ᾿ αὐτόν·

⁹ὁ ἀναληφθεὶς ἐν λαίλαπι πυρὸς ἐν ἅρματι ἵππων πυρίνων·

¹⁰ὁ καταγραφεὶς ἐν ἐλεγμοῖς εἰς καιροὺς κοπάσαι ὀργὴν πρὸ θυμοῦ, ἐπιστρέψαι καρδίαν πατρὸς πρὸς υἱὸν καὶ καταστῆσαι φυλὰς ᾿Ιακώβ.

¹¹μακάριοι οἱ ἰδόντες σε καὶ οἱ ἐν ἀγαπήσει κεκοσμημένοι, καὶ γὰρ ἡμεῖς ζωῇ ζησόμεθα.

¹²᾿Ηλίας, ὃς ἐν λαίλαπι ἐσκεπάσθη, καὶ ᾿Ελισαιὲ ἐνεπλήσθη πνεύματος αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἐν ἡμέραις αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἐσαλεύθη ὑπὸ ἄρχοντος, καὶ οὐ κατεδυνάστευσεν αὐτὸν οὐδείς.

¹³πᾶς λόγος οὐχ ὑπερῇρεν αὐτόν, καὶ ἐν κοιμήσει ἐπροφήτευσε τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ·

¹⁴καὶ ἐν ζωῇ αὐτοῦ ἐποίησε τέρατα, καὶ ἐν τελευτῇ θαυμάσια τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ. -

¹⁵᾿Εν πᾶσι τούτοις οὐ μετενόησεν ὁ λαὸς καὶ οὐκ ἀπέστησαν ἀπὸ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν αὐτῶν, ἕως ἐπρονομεύθησαν ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς αὐτῶν καὶ ἐσκορπίσθησαν ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ. καὶ κατελείφθη ὁ λαὸς ὀλιγοστός, καὶ ἄρχων τῷ οἴκῳ Δαυίδ·

¹⁶τινὲς μὲν αὐτῶν ἐποίησαν τὸ ἀρεστόν, τινὲς δὲ ἐπλήθυναν ἁμαρτίας. -

¹⁷᾿Εζεκίας ὠχύρωσε τὴν πόλιν αὐτοῦ καὶ εἰσήγαγεν εἰς τὸ μέσον αὐτῆς ὕδωρ, ὤρυξε σιδήρῳ ἀκρότομον καὶ ᾠκοδόμησε κρήνας εἰς ὕδατα.

¹⁸ἐν ἡμέραις αὐτοῦ ἀνέβη Σενναχηρὶμ καὶ ἀπέστειλε Ῥαψάκην, καὶ ἀπῇρε· καὶ ἐπῇρεν ἡ χεὶρ αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ Σιὼν καὶ ἐμεγαλαύχησεν ἐν ὑπερηφανίᾳ αὐτοῦ.

¹⁹τότε ἐσαλεύθησαν καρδίαι καὶ χεῖρες αὐτῶν, καὶ ὠδίνησαν ὡς αἱ τίκτουσαι·

²⁰καὶ ἐπεκαλέσαντο τὸν Κύριον τὸν ἐλεήμονα ἐκπετάσαντες τὰς χεῖρας αὐτῶν πρὸς αὐτόν. καὶ ὁ ἅγιος ἐξ οὐρανοῦ ταχὺ ἐπήκουσεν αὐτῶν καὶ ἐλυτρώσατο αὐτοὺς ἐν χειρὶ ῾Ησαΐου.

²¹ἐπάταξε τὴν παρεμβολὴν τῶν ᾿Ασσυρίων. καὶ ἐξέτριψεν αὐτοὺς ὁ ἄγγελος αὐτοῦ.

²²ἐποίησε γὰρ ᾿Εζεκίας τὸ ἀρεστὸν Κυρίῳ καὶ ἐνίσχυσεν ἐν ὁδοῖς Δαυὶδ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ, ἃς ἐνετείλατο ῾Ησαΐας ὁ προφήτης, ὁ μέγας καὶ πιστὸς ἐν ὁράσει αὐτοῦ.

²³ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις αὐτοῦ ἀνεπόδισεν ὁ ἥλιος καὶ προσέθηκε ζωὴν βασιλεῖ.

²⁴πνεύματι μεγάλῳ εἶδε τὰ ἔσχατα καὶ παρεκάλεσε τοὺς πενθοῦντας ἐν Σιών·

²⁵ἕως τοῦ αἰῶνος ὑπέδειξε τὰ ἐσόμενα καὶ τὰ ἀπόκρυφα πρὶν ἢ παραγενέσθαι αὐτά.

¹Then stood up Elias the prophet as fire, and his word burned like a lamp.

²He brought a sore famine upon them, and by his zeal he diminished their number.

³By the word of the Lord he shut up the heaven, and also three times brought down fire.

⁴O Elias, how wast thou honoured in thy wondrous deeds! and who may glory like unto thee!

⁵Who didst raise up a dead man from death, and his soul from the place of the dead, by the word of the most High:

⁶Who broughtest kings to destruction, and honourable men from their bed:

⁷Who heardest the rebuke of the Lord in Sinai, and in Horeb the judgment of vengeance:

⁸Who anointedst kings to take revenge, and prophets to succeed after him:

⁹Who was taken up in a whirlwind of fire, and in a chariot of fiery horses:

¹⁰Who wast ordained for reproofs in their times, to pacify the wrath of the Lord’s judgment, before it brake forth into fury, and to turn the heart of the father unto the son, and to restore the tribes of Jacob.

¹¹Blessed are they that saw thee, and slept in love; for we shall surely live.

¹²Elias it was, who was covered with a whirlwind: and Eliseus was filled with his spirit: whilst he lived, he was not moved with the presence of any prince, neither could any bring him into subjection.

¹³No word could overcome him; and after his death his body prophesied.

¹⁴He did wonders in his life, and at his death were his works marvellous.

¹⁵For all this the people repented not, neither departed they from their sins, till they were spoiled and carried out of their land, and were scattered through all the earth: yet there remained a small people, and a ruler in the house of David:

¹⁶Of whom some did that which was pleasing to God, and some multiplied sins.

¹⁷Ezekias fortified his city, and brought in water into the midst thereof: he digged the hard rock with iron, and made wells for waters.

¹⁸In his time Sennacherib came up, and sent Rabsaces, and lifted up his hand against Sion, and boasted proudly.

¹⁹Then trembled their hearts and hands, and they were in pain, as women in travail.

²⁰But they called upon the Lord which is merciful, and stretched out their hands toward him: and immediately the Holy One heard them out of heaven, and delivered them by the ministry of Esay.

²¹He smote the host of the Assyrians, and his angel destroyed them.

²²For Ezekias had done the thing that pleased the Lord, and was strong in the ways of David his father, as Esay the prophet, who was great and faithful in his vision, had commanded him.

²³In his time the sun went backward, and he lengthened the king’s life.

²⁴He saw by an excellent spirit what should come to pass at the last, and he comforted them that mourned in Sion.

²⁵He shewed what should come to pass for ever, and secret things or ever they came.