1 آ هٍ عَلَى أرِيئِيلَ، المَدِينَةِ الَّتِي خَيَّمَ فِيها داوُدُ. فَلْتَمَضِ سَنَةٌ بَعْدَ سَنَةٍ. وَلِتَستَمِرَّ الأعيادُ فِي دَورَتِها.

Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;

2 ل َكِنِّي سَأجلِبُ ضِيقاً عَلَى أرِيئِيلَ، فَيَكُونُ فِيها نَوحٌ وَبُكاءٌ. وَسَتَكُونُ مَدِينَةُ القُدْسِ كَأنَّها أرِيئِيلُ لِي.

then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth.

3 س َأحشِدُ الجُيُوشَ حَولَكِ، سَأُحاصِرُكِ بِأبْراجٍ. وَأضَعُ حَولَكِ حَواجِزَ تُرابِيَّةً لِلهُجُومِ عَلَيكِ.

I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you.

4 س َتَهبِطِينَ إلَى الأسفَلِ، وَتَتَكَلَّمِينَ مِنَ الأرْضِ، وَتُتَمتِمِينَ بِكَلِماتِكِ مِنَ التُّرابِ. سَيَأتِي صَوتُكِ مِنَ الأرْضِ كَصَوتِ شَبَحٍ، وَمِنَ التُّرابِ سَتَهمِسِينَ بِكَلامِكِ.

You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.

5 س َيُصبِحُ أعداؤُكِ الكَثِيرُونَ كَالغُبارِ النّاعِمِ. وَشَعبُكِ القاسِي الكَبِيرُ سَيصِيرُ كَالتِّبنِ المُتَطايِرِ.

But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.

6 و َفَجأةً يَأتِي اللهُ القَدِيرُ بِرَعدٍ وَزَلزَلَةٍ وَضَجَّةٍ عالِيَةٍ وَعاصِفَةٍ وَرِيحٍ عاصِفَةٍ وَنارٍ تُحرِقُ وَتُدَمِّرُ.

She will be visited by Yahweh of Armies with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire.

7 ا لجَماهِيرُ الَّتِي تُحارِبُ أرِيئِيلَ، وَكُلُّ الَّذِينَ يُحارِبُونها وَيُهاجِمُونَ قِلاعَها وَيُضايِقُونَها، سَيَكُونُونَ كَحُلمٍ وَكَرُؤْيا فِي اللَّيلِ.

The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night.

8 ك َما يَحلُمُ الجائِعُ بِأنْ يَأكُلَ، وَيَستَيقِظُ فَإذا بِهِ ما يَزالُ جائِعاً. أوْ كَما يَحلُمُ العَطشانُ بِأنَّهُ يَشرَبَ، وَيَستَيقِظُ فَإذا هُوَ ما يَزالُ عَطشاناً وَذابِلاً مِنَ الجَفافِ. هَكَذا أيضاً يَحدُثُ للأُمَمِ الكَثِيرَةِ الَّتِي تُحارِبُ جَبَلَ صِهْيَوْنَ.

It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn’t satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that.

9 ا ندَهِشُوا وَتَفاجَأُوا، انذَهِلُوا وَتَعَجَّبُوا، اسكَرُوا، وَلَكِنْ لَيسَ مِنَ الخَمرِ! تَرَنَّحُوا، وَلَكِنْ لَيسَ مِنَ المُسكِراتِ!

Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

10 ق َدْ سَكَبَ اللهُ عَلَيكُمْ رُوحَ نَومٍ، وَأغمَضَ عُيُونَكُمْ – أي أنبِياءَكُمْ، وَغَطَّى رُؤُوسَكُمْ – أي أصحابُ الرُّؤَى بَينَكُمْ.

For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.

11 ص ارَتْ لَكُمْ هَذِهِ الرُّؤيا كَكَلامِ كِتابٍ مُغلَقٍ مَختُومٍ. إذا أُعطِيَ هَذا الكِتابُ لِمَنْ يَعرِفُ القِراءَةَ، وَقِيلَ لَهُ: «اقرَأْ،» فَإنَّهُ سَيَقُولُ: «لا أستَطِيعُ لأنَّهُ مَختُومٌ.»

All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, “Read this, please”; and he says, “I can’t, for it is sealed:”

12 أ وْ إذا أُعطِيَ الكِتابُ لِمَنْ لا يَعرِفُ القِراءَةَ، وَقِيلَ لَهُ: «اقرَأْ،» فَإنَّهُ سَيَقُولُ: «لا أعرِفُ القِراءَةَ.»

and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, “Read this, please”; and he says, “I can’t read.”

13 ي َقُولُ الرَّبُّ: «هَذا الشَّعبُ يَقتَرِبُ إلَيَّ بِفَمِهِ فَقَطْ. يُمَجِّدُنِي بِالكَلامِ فَقَطْ، أمّا قُلْبُهُ فَبَعِيدٌ عَنِّي. عِبادَتُهُ لَيسَتْ سِوَى وَصِيَّةٍ بَشَرِيَّةٍ يَتَعَلَّمُها.

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

14 ل ِذَلِكَ ها أنا أعمَلُ أُمُوراً مُدهِشَةً مَعَ هَذا الشَّعبِ، أُمُوراً مُدهِشَةً وَغَيرَ مُعْتادَةٍ. فَتَهلِكُ حِكمَةُ الحُكَماءِ، وَيَختَفِي ذَكاءُ الأذكِياءِ.»

therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”

15 ت َنَبَّهُوا يا مَنْ تُخَبِّئُونَ مُؤامَراتِكُمْ كَأنَّ اللهَ لا يَراها! يا مَنْ تَعمَلُونَ عَمَلَكُمْ فِي الظُّلمَةِ، وَتَقُولُونَ: «مَنْ يَرانا؟ مَنْ يَعرِفُ ماذا نَفعَلُ؟»

Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”

16 ت َقلِبُونَ الأُمُورَ، كَما لَو أنَّ الفَخّارِيَّ هُوَ الطِّينُ! هَلْ يُقُولُ المَصنُوعُ عَنْ صانِعِهِ: «لَمْ يَصنَعْنِي»؟ أوْ هَلْ يَقُولَ المَجبُولُ عَنْ جابِلِهِ: «لا يَفهَمُ»؟ أوقاتٌ أفضَلُ قادِمَة

You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me”; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

17 أ لَنْ يَتَحَوَّل لُبنانُ إلَى بُستانٍ بَعدَ فَترَةٍ قَصِيرَةٍ، وَيُصبِحُ البُستانُ غابَةً؟

Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?

18 ف ِي ذَلِكَ الوَقتِ، سَيَسمَعُ الصُمُّ كَلامَ الكِتابِ. وَبَعدَ العَتمَةِ وَالظَّلمَةِ، سَتُبصِرُ عُيُونُ العُمِي.

In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

19 س َيَفرَحُ الفُقَراءُ باللهِ مِنْ جَدِيدٍ، وَيَبتَهِجُ المَساكِينُ فِي أرْضِهِمْ بِقُدُّوسِ إسْرائِيلَ.

The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

20 ل أنَّ القُساةَ سَيَزُولُونَ، وَالمُتَكَبِّرُونَ لَنْ يَكُونُوا فِيما بَعْدُ، وَكُلُّ المُتَحَمِّسِينَ لِعَمَلِ الشَّرِّ سَيَفنُونَ.

For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—

21 إ نَّهُمْ يَتَّهِمُونَ الآخَرِينَ بِالشَّرِّ، وَيَضَعُونَ الفِخاخَ لِلمُدافِعِينَ عَنِ الظُّلمِ عِندَ البَوّابَةِ. يُنكِرُونَ حَقَّ البَرِيءِ بِحُجَجٍ فارِغَةٍ كاذِبَةٍ.

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

22 ل ِذَلِكَ فَإنَّ اللهَ الَّذِي فَدَى إبراهِيمَ يَقُولُ لِبَيتِ يَعقُوبَ: «لَنْ يَخزَى بَنُو يَعقُوبَ فِيما بَعْدُ، وَوُجُوهُهُمْ لَنْ تَصفَرَّ مِنَ الخَجَلِ مِنَ اليَومِ فَصاعِداً.

Therefore Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham, says concerning the house of Jacob: “Jacob shall no longer be ashamed, neither shall his face grow pale.

23 و َعِندَما يَرَوْنَ أولادَهُمُ – عَمَلَ يَدَيَّ – فِي وَسَطِهِمْ، فَإنَّهُمْ سَيُعلِنُونَ اسْمِيَ القُدُّوسُ، وَسَيُكرِمُونَ قُدُّوسَ إسْرائِيلَ، وَيَقِفُونَ بِمَهابَةٍ أمامَ إلَهِ إسْرائِيلَ.

But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the middle of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

24 و َسَيَفهَمُ الضّالُّونَ بأرْواحِهِمْ، وَالمُتَمَرِّدُونَ سَيَتَعَلَّمُونَ.»

They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction.”