1 “ Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

يَقُولُ اللهُ: «تَنَبَّهُوا أيُّها الأبناءُ الَّمُتَمَرِّدُونَ! أنتُمْ تُنَفِّذُونَ خُطَّةً لَيسَتْ هِيَ خُطَّتِي. وَتَعقِدُونَ تَحالُفاً بِخِلافِ مَشيئَتِي. فَتُضِيفُونَ خَطايا عَلَى خَطاياكُمْ.

2 w ho set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my advice; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!

وَيلٌ للَّذِينَ يَنزِلُونَ إلَى مِصرَ مِنْ دُونِ مَشُورَتِي، لِيَطلُبُوا حِمايَةَ فِرعَوْنَ، وَمَلجأً فِي ظِلِّ مِصرَ.

3 T herefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

«سَتَكُونُ حِمايَةُ فِرعَوْنَ لَكُمْ خِزياً، وَاللُّجُوءُ إلَى مِصرَ عاراً.

4 F or their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.

رُؤَساؤُهُ فِي صُوعَنَ، وَرُسُلُهُ فِي حانِيسَ،

5 T hey shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”

إلّا أنَّ الجَمِيعَ سَيَخجَلُونَ مِنْ شَعبٍ لا يَستَطِيعُ مُساعَدَتَهُمْ. فَمِصرُ لَنْ تُعِينُهُمْ أوْ تَنفَعَهُمْ، بَلْ سَتَأتِي بِالخِزيِ وَالعارِ.» رِسالَةُ اللهِ إلَى يَهُوذا

6 T he burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.

هَذِا وَحيٌّ حَولَ حَيواناتِ أرْضِ النَّقَبِ: فِي أرْضِ ضِيقٍ وَخَطَرٍ، فِي الأرْضِ المَلِيئَةِ بِاللَّبُواتِ وَالأُسُودِ وَالأفاعِي السّامَّةِ الخَطِرَةِ، سَيَحمِلُونَ ثَروَتَهُمْ عَلَى ظُهُورِ الحَمِيرِ، وَكُنُوزَهُمْ عَلَى أسنِمَةِ الجِمالِ، إلَى شَعبٍ لا يَستَطِيعُ مُساعَدَتَهُمْ.

7 F or Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I called her Rahab who sits still.

مَعُونَةُ مِصْرَ لا قِيمَةَ لَها، لِهَذا سَمَّيتُها: «رَهَبُ الَّتِي لا تَعْمَلُ شَيئاً.»

8 N ow go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.

اذْهَبِ الآنَ وَانحَتْ هَذا الكَلامَ عَلَى لَوحٍ أمامَهُمْ. اكتُبهُ فِي كِتابٍ، حَتَّى يَكُونَ شاهِداَ فِي المُستَقبَلِ وَإلَى الأبَدِ:

9 F or it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear Yahweh’s law;

هَذا شَعبٌ مُتَمَرِّدٌ. هُمْ كَالأولادِ الخَدّاعِينَ الَّذِينَ يَرفُضُونَ طاعَةَ تَعلِيمِ اللهِ.

10 w ho tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and to the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

يَقُولُونَ لأصْحابِ الرُّؤَى: «لا تَرُوا رُؤَىً،» وَلِلأنبِياءِ: «لا تَتَنَبَّأُوا لَنا بِما هُوَ صَحِيحٌ، بَلْ أخبِرُونا عَنِ الأُمُورِ النّاعِمَةِ، وَتَنَبَّأُوا لَنا بِالأوْهامِ.

11 G et out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”

ابتَعِدُوا عَنِ الطَّرِيقِ، لا نُرِيدُ أنْ نَسْمَعَ بِقُدُّوسِ إسْرائِيلَ فِيما بَعْدُ.» العَونُ مِنَ اللهِ فَقَط

12 T herefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it;

يَقُولُ قُدُّوسُ إسْرائِيلَ: «لأنَّكُمْ رَفَضتُمْ هَذا الكَلامَ وَوَثِقتُمْ بِالظُّلمِ وَالخِداعِ وَاتَّكَلْتُمْ عَلَيهِما.

13 t herefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.

لِذَلِكَ سَتَكُونُ هَذِهِ الخَطِيَّةُ لَكُمْ مِثلَ صَدعٍ فِي سُورٍ مُرتَفِعٍ عَلَى وَشَكِ السُّقُوطِ. يَتَحَطَّمُ فَجأةً فِي لَحظَةٍ واحِدَةٍ.

14 H e will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken piece a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”

وَيَكُونُ حُطامُهُ مِثلَ وِعاءٍ مِنْ فَخّارٍ يَتَحَطَّمُ إلَى شَظايا. فَلا تَجِدُ قِطعَةً كَبِيرَةً بِما يَكفِي لأخْذِ جَمرَةٍ مِنْ مَوقِدٍ، أوْ لِغَرفِ ماءٍ مِنْ حَوضٍ.»

15 F or thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,

لأنَّ هَذا هُوَ ما يَقُولُهُ الرَّبُّ الإلَهُ قُدُّوسُ إسْرائِيلَ: «بِالطَّمَأنِينَةِ وَالرُّجُوعِ إلَيَّ تَخلُصُونَ، بِالهُدُوءِ وَالثِّقَةِ بِي تُصبِحُونَ أقوِياءَ.» وَلَكِنَّكُمْ رَفَضْتُمْ

16 b ut you said, “No, for we will flee on horses”; therefore you will flee; and, “We will ride on the swift”; therefore those who pursue you will be swift.

وَقُلْتُمْ: «لا، بَلْ سَنَهرُبُ عَلَى الخَيلِ.» لِذَلِكَ سَتَهرُبُونَ. وَقُلْتُمْ: «سَنَركَبُ عَلَى خَيلٍ سَرِيعَةٍ.» لِذَلِكَ يَكُونُ الَّذِينَ يُطارِدُونَكُمْ سَرِيعِينَ.

17 O ne thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill.

ألفٌ مِنكُمْ سَيَهرُبُونَ مِنْ صَرخَةِ واحِدٍ، وَكُلُّكُمْ سَتَهرُبُونَ مِنْ صَرخَةِ خَمسَةٍ. وَتُترَكُونَ وَحدَكُمْ كَسارِيَةٍ عَلَى تَلَّةٍ، وَكَأثَرٍ عَلَى رابِيَةٍ. مَعُونَةُ اللهِ لِشَعبِه

18 T herefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

لِذَلِكَ يَنتَظِرُ اللهُ الوَقتَ لِيَتَرَأَّفَ عَلَيكُمْ، وَلِيَقُومَ فَيَرحَمَكُمْ. لأنَّ اللهَ إلَهٌ عادِلٌ، هَنِيئاً لِمُنتَظِرِي عَدلِهِ.

19 F or the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.

يا شَعبَ صِهْيَوْنَ السّاكِنِينَ فِي مَدينَةِ القُدْسِ، لَنْ تَبكُوا فِيما بَعْدُ، فَاللهُ سَيَتَحَنَّنُ عَلَيكُمْ عِندَما يَسمَعُ صَوتَ صُراخِكُمْ. فَعِندَ سَماعِهِ لِصَرخَتِكُمْ، سَيَستَجِيبُ لَكُمْ سَريعاً.

20 T hough the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;

فَمَعَ أنَّ الرَّبَّ يَجعَلُ لَكُمُ الضِّيقَ طَعاماً وَالشِّدَّةَ شَراباً، إلّا أنَّ مُعَلِّمَكُمْ لَنْ يَختَفِيَ، بَلْ سَتَرَوْنَهُ بِعُيُونِكُمْ.

21 a nd when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

عِندَما تَتَّجِهُونَ إلَى اليَمِينِ أوِ اليَسارِ، تَسمَعُونَ صَوتاً خَلفَكُمْ يَقُولُ: «هَذا هُوَ الطَّرِيقُ، سِيرُوا فِيهِ.»

22 Y ou shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, “Go away!”

سَتَرَوْنَ نَجاسَةَ تَماثِيلِكُمُ المُغَشّاةِ بِالفِضَّةِ، وَأصنامِكُمُ المُغَشّاةِ بِصَفائِحِ الذَّهَبِ. سَتُلقُونَها بَعِيداً كَمَلابِسَ قَذِرَةٍ. وَسَتَقُولُونَ لَها: «ابتَعِدِي عَنّا.»

23 H e will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.

ثُمَّ يُعطِي اللهُ مَطَراً لِحُبُوبِكَ الَّتِي تَبذُرُها فِي الأرْضِ. وَسَتَكُونُ غَلَّةُ الأرْضِ وافِرَةً. وَسَتَرعَى قُطعانُكَ فِي ذَلِكَ الوَقتِ فِي مَرعَىً واسِعٍ.

24 T he oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory feed, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.

وَسَتَأكُلُ ثِيرانُكَ وَحَمِيرُكَ الَّتِي تَحرُثُ الأرْضَ أفضَلَ أنواعِ العَلَفِ المُذَرَّى بِالمِذراةِ.

25 T here shall be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

يَومَ يُقتَلُ كَثِيرُونَ وَتَسقُطُ الأبراجُ، سَتَكُونُ هُناكَ جَداوِلُ مِياهٍ عَلَى كُلِّ جَبَلٍ عالٍ، وَعَلَى كُلِّ تَلَّةٍ مُرتَفِعَةٍ.

26 M oreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.

سَيَكُونُ نُورُ القَمَرِ كَنُورِ الشَّمسِ، وَنُورُ الشَّمسِ سَيَتَضاعَفُ سَبعَ مَرّاتٍ كَما لَو كانَ نُورَ سَبعَةِ أيّامٍ مَعاً. يَكُونُ ذَلِكَ فِي اليَومِ الَّذِي يُضَمِّدُ اللهُ فِيهِ جُرُوحَ شَعبِهِ، وَيَشفِي رُضُوضَ الضَّرَباتِ الَّتِي تَلَقُّوها.

27 B ehold, Yahweh’s name comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire.

ها إنَّ اسْمَ اللهِ سَيَأتِي مِنْ بَعِيدٍ. غَضَبُهُ يَشتَعِلُ كَنارٍ تُظَلِّلُها سَحابَةُ دُخانٍ ثَقِيلَةٌ. شَفَتاهُ مَملُوءَتانِ بِالغَضَبِ، وَلِسانُهُ كَالنّارِ المُلتَهِمَةِ.

28 H is breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.

نَفخَتُهُ كَالنَّهرِ المُتَدَفِّقِ الَّذِي يَصِلُ إلَى العُنقِ. إلَى أنْ يُغَرْبِلَ الأُمَمَ فِي غِرْبالِ الدَّمارِ، وَيُسَيطِرَ عَلَى الشَّعُوبِ بِلِجامٍ عَلَى أفواهِهِمْ.

29 Y ou will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock.

أمّا أنتُمْ فَسَتُغَنُّونَ كَأنَّكُمْ فِي لَيلَةِ عِيدٍ! سَتَفرَحُونَ مِنَ القَلبِ، كَمَنْ يَمشِي علَى أنغامِ النّايِ وَهُوَ صاعِدٌ إلَى جَبَلِ اللهِ ، صَخرَةِ إسْرائِيلَ.

30 Y ahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.

وَسَيُسمِعُ اللهُ كُلَّ واحِدٍ صَوتَهُ الجَلِيلَ. سَيُرِيهِمْ يَدَهُ القَوِيَّةَ وَهِيَ تَنزِلُ بِسَخَطٍ وَلَهِيبِ نارٍ مُدَمِّرَةٍ مِثلَ عاصِفَةٍ مَصحُوبَةٍ بِمَطَرٍ شَدِيدٍ وَبَرَدٍ.

31 F or through Yahweh’s voice the Assyrian will be dismayed. He will strike him with his rod.

لأنَّ أشُّورَ سَتَرتَعِبُ مِنْ صَوتِ اللهَ إذْ يَضرِبُ بِعَصاهُ.

32 E very stroke of the rod of punishment, which Yahweh will lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons.

كُلُّ مَرَّةٍ يُعاقِبُ بِها اللهُ أشُّورَ بِعَصاهُ، تُضْرَبُ الدُّفُوفُ وَتُعْزَفُ القِيثاراتِ. فَاللهُ يُلوِّحُ بَقَبْضَتِهِ ضِدَّ أشُّورَ.

33 F or his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh’s breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

لأنَّ وَادِيَ النّارِ مُعَدٌّ مُنذُ مُدَّةٍ لِلإلَهِ مُولِكَ. جُعِلَ عَمِيقاً وَواسِعاً، وَامتَلأَ ناراً وَخَشَباً. وَنَسمَةُ اللهِ تُشْعِلُهُ كَنَهرٍ مِنْ كِبرِيتٍ.