1 W oe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

ها سُكارَى أفْرايِمَ يَفْتَخِرُونَ بِكِ جالِسَةً كَإكلِيلِ رَأسِ التَّلَّةِ المُطِلَّةِ عَلَى الوادي الخَصِيبِ. لَكِنَّ الخَمْرَ غَلَبَتْهُمْ، وَإكلِيلُكِ قَدْ ذَبُلَتْ زُهُورُهُ.

2 B ehold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

ها إنَّ الرَّبَّ سَيُرسِلُ رَجُلاً قَوِيّاً جَبّاراً، كَهُطُولِ البَرَدِ وَالمَطَرِ، كَعاصِفَةٍ تَسكُبُ فَيَضاناتٍ. هَكَذا سَيَطرَحُ بِيَدِهِ إكلِيلَ أفْرايِمَ إلَى الأرْضِ.

3 T he crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:

إكلِيلُ سُكارَى أفْرايِمَ الجَمِيلِ سَيُداسُ تَحتَ الأقدَامِ.

4 A nd the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

وَزَهرُ جَمالِهِ الذّابِلِ عَلَى قِمَّةِ الوادِي الخَصِيبِ، سَيَكُونُ مِثلَ التِّينِ الَّذِي يَنْضِجُ قَبلَ الصَّيفِ، فَكُلُّ مَنْ يَراهُ يَقطِفُهُ وَيَأكُلُهُ.

5 I n that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,

فِي ذَلِكَ الوَقتِ، سَيَكُونُ اللهُ القَدِيرُ كَإكلِيلِ جَمالٍ وَكَتاجٍ مَجدُولٍ مِنَ الزُّهُورِ لِلباقِينَ مِنْ شَعبِهِ.

6 A nd for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.

وَسَيُعطِي رُوحَ عَدلٍ لِلقُضاةِ، وَشَجاعَةً لِلمُدافِعِينَ عَنْ بَوّاباتِ المَدِينَةِ فِي الحَربِ.

7 B ut they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

أمّا أُولَئِكَ فَيَتَرَنَّحُونَ الآنَ مِنَ الخَمرِ، وَيَتَأرجَحُونَ مِنَ المُسكِرِ. الكَهَنَةُ وَالأنبِياءُ يَتَرَنَّحُونَ بِالمُسكِرِ، وَهُمْ مُشَوَّشُونَ مِنَ الخَمرِ. لِذا يُخطِئُ الأنبِياءُ عِندَما يَرَونَ رُؤَىً، وَالكَهَنَةُ عِندَما يُقَرِّرُونَ أحكاماً.

8 F or all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

كُلُّ المَوائِدِ مُغَطّاةٌ بِالقَيءِ، وَما مِنْ مَكانٍ نَظِيفٍ. رَغبَةُ اللهِ فِي مُساعَدَةِ شَعبِه

9 W hom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

وَيُقالُ: «أيَظُنُّنا أطْفالاً لِكَي يُعَلِّمَنا وَيُفَهِّمُنا بِهَذِهِ الطَريقَةِ؟ كَانَّنا فُطِمْنا وَأُخِذْنا لِلتَّوِّ عَنْ صُدُورِ أُمَّهاتِنا!

10 F or precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

فَكَلامُهُ لَنا: «أمْرٌ بَعْدَ أمْرٍ، أمْرٌ بَعْدَ أمْرٍ حُكمٌ بَعْدَ حُكمٍ، حُكمٌ بَعْدَ حُكمٍ قَليلٌ هُنا، قَليلٌ هُناكَ!»

11 F or with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

لأَنَّهُ بِشِفاهٍ مُتَلَعثِمَةٍ وَبِلُغَاتٍ أجنَبِيَّةٍ سَأُكَلِّمُ هَذا الشَّعبَ.

12 T o whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

تَكَلَّمَ فِي المَاضِي فَقَالَ لَهُمْ: «هَذَا مَكَانُ الرَّاحَةِ وَالسُّكُونِ. فَلْيَسْتَرِحِ المُتْعَبُونَ.» لَكِنَّهُمْ لَمْ يُطِيعُوا.

13 B ut the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

لِذَلِكَ سَيَكُونُ كَلامُ اللهِ لَهُمْ: «أمْرٌ بَعْدَ أمْرٍ، أمْرٌ بَعْدَ أمْرٍ حُكمٌ بَعْدَ حُكمٍ، حُكمٌ بَعْدَ حُكمٍ قَليلٌ هُنا، قَليلٌ هُناكَ!» لَكَي يَسَقُطُوا إِلَى الخَلْفِ وَيُكسَرُوا حِينَ يَمشُونَ. وَلِكَي يُمْسَكُوا بِالفَخِّ وَيُؤسَرُوا. تَحذِيرُ اللهِ لِيَهُوذا

14 W herefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

اسمَعُوا كَلِمَةَ اللهِ أيُّها المُتَعَجرِفُونَ الَّذِينَ تَحْكُمُونَ هَذا الشَّعبَ فِي مَدينَةِ القُدْسِ.

15 B ecause ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

قُلْتُمْ: «قَطَعْنا عَهداً مَعَ المَوتِ، وَاتِّفاقاً مَعَ الهاوِيَةِ. عِندَما يَأتِي العِقابُ الرَّهِيبُ سَيَعبُرُ عَنّا وَلَنْ يُؤذِيَنا، لأنَّنا جَعَلْنا الكَذِبَ مَلجأً لَنا، وَاختَبَأْنا وَراءَ الخِداعِ.»

16 T herefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

لِذَلِكَ يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ الإلَهُ: «ها إنِّي أضَعُ فِي صِهْيَوْنَ حَجَرَ أساسٍ، حَجَراً قَوِيّاً، حَجَرَ زاوِيَةٍ ثَمِيناً، وَأساساً مَتِيناً. وَالَّذِي يَثِقُ بِهِ لَنْ يَخزَى.

17 J udgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

سَأجعَلُ العَدلَ وَالبِرَّ مِقِياساً. وَسَيُحَطِمُ البَرَدُ مَلجَأهُمُ الَّذِي حَصَلُوا عَلَيهِ بِالكَذِبِ، وَسَتَغمُرُ المِياهُ مَخبأهُمْ.

18 A nd your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

سَيُلغَى عَهدُكُمْ مَعَ المَوتِ، وَاتِّفاقُكُمْ مَعَ القَبرِ لَنْ يَستَمِرَّ. وَعِندَما تَأتِي العُقُوبَةُ الغامِرَةُ سَتُداسُونَ تَحتَها.

19 F rom the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

وَكُلَّما مَرَّتْ سَتَأخُذُكُمْ، لأنَّها سَتَمُرُّ كُلَّ صَباحٍ، وَكَذَلِكَ فِي النَّهارِ وَفِي اللَّيلِ. وَيَكُونُ فَهمُ هَذا المَثَلِ رُعباً لَكُمْ:

20 F or the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

«قَصُرَ الفِراشُ عَنِ التَّمَدُّدِ، وَضاقَ الغَطاءُ عَنِ الالتِحافِ!»

21 F or the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

لأنَّ اللهَ سَيَقُومُ وَيُحارِبُ كَما فَعَلَ فِي جَبَلِ فَراصِيمَ، وَسَيَثُورُ غَضَبُهُ كَما حَدَثَ فِي وادِي جِبعُونَ، لِكَي يَعمَلَ عَمَلَهُ المُغايِرَ، وَيُتَمِّمَ فِعلَهُ الغَرِيبَ.

22 N ow therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.

وَالآنَ، لا تَستَهِينُوا بِهَذِهِ الأُمُورِ، لِئَلّا تُصبِحَ الحِبالُ الَّتِي حَولَكُمْ أقوَى. لأنَّنِي سَمِعْتُ أنَّ الإلَهَ القَدِيرَ حَكَمَ بِأنْ يُدَمِّرَ كُلَّ الأرْضِ. عِقابُ اللهِ العادِل

23 G ive ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

أنصِتُوا لِصَوتِي، وَانتَبِهُوا، وَاسْمَعُوا قَولِي.

24 D oth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

هَلْ يَحرُثُ الحارِثُ أرْضَهُ كُلَّ يَومٍ؟ هَلْ يَشُقُّ أرْضَهُ وَيُسَوِّيها كُلَّ يَومٍ؟

25 W hen he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?

ألا يُسَوِّي سَطحَها، ثُمَّ يَرُشُّ الشِّبِثَ، وَيَبذُرُ الكَمُّونَ، وَيَزرَعُ القَمحَ فِي أتلامٍ، وَالشَّعِيرَ فِي مَكانِهِ، وَالعَلَسَ عَلَى أطرافِ الأرْضِ؟

26 F or his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

إلَهُهُ يُعَلِّمُهُ وَيُرشِدُهُ إلَى الطَّرِيقَةِ الصَّحِيحَةِ.

27 F or the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

فَالمُزارِعُ لا يَدرُسُ الشِّبِثَ بِلُوحٍ كَبِيرٍ، وَلا يُدَحرِجُ مِدحَلَةً عَلَى حُبُوبِ الكَمُّونِ، بَلْ يَضرِبُ الشِّبِثَ وَالكَمُّونَ بِعَصاً صَغِيرَةٍ.

28 B read corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.

لا بُدَّ مِنْ طَحْنِ القَمحِ لِعَمَلِ الخُبزِ. لَكِنَّهُ لا يُطحَنُ تَماماً بِأنْ يُدرَسَ بِاللّوحِ بِلا تَوَقٌّفٍ، وَلا بِمِدحَلَةٍ تَجُرُّها الخَيلُ.

29 T his also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

هَذِهِ المَعرِفَةُ مِنَ اللهِ القَدِيرِ، العَجِيبِ فِي مَشُورَتِهِ، وَالعَظِيمِ فِي حِكمَتِهِ.