¹ويل للذين يقضون اقضية البطل وللكتبة الذين يسجلون جورا

¹Wo [to] those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness.

²ليصدّوا الضعفاء عن الحكم ويسلبوا حق بائسي شعبي لتكون الارامل غنيمتهم وينهبوا الايتام.

²To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.

³وماذا تفعلون في يوم العقاب حين تاتي التهلكة من بعيد. الى من تهربون للمعونة واين تتركون مجدكم.

³And what do ye at a day of inspection? And at desolation? — from afar it cometh. Near whom do ye flee for help? And where do ye leave your honour?

⁴اما يجثون بين الاسرى واما يسقطون تحت القتلى. مع كل هذا لم يرتد غضبه بل يده ممدودة بعد

⁴Without Me it hath bowed down In the place of a bound one, And in the place of the slain they fall. With all this not turned back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched out.

⁵ويل لاشور قضيب غضبي. والعصا في يدهم هي سخطي.

⁵Wo [to] Asshur, a rod of Mine anger, And a staff in their hand [is] Mine indignation.

⁶على امة منافقة ارسله وعلى شعب سخطي اوصيه ليغتنم غنيمة وينهب نهبا ويجعلهم مدوسين كطين الازقة.

⁶Against a profane nation I send him, And concerning a people of My wrath I charge him, To spoil spoil, and to seize prey, And to make it a treading-place as the clay of out places.

⁷اما هو فلا يفتكر هكذا ولا يحسب قلبه هكذا بل في قلبه ان يبيد ويقرض امما ليست بقليلة.

⁷And he — he thinketh not so, And his heart reckoneth not so, For — to destroy [is] in his heart, And to cut off nations not a few.

⁸فانه يقول أليست رؤسائي جميعا ملوكا.

⁸For he saith, `Are not my princes altogether kings?

⁹أليست كلنو مثل كركميش. أليست حماة مثل ارفاد. أليست السامرة مثل دمشق.

⁹Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?

¹⁰كما اصابت يدي ممالك الاوثان واصنامها المنحوتة هي اكثر من التي لاورشليم وللسامرة

¹⁰As my hand hath got to the kingdoms of a worthless thing, and their graven images, [Greater] than Jerusalem and than Samaria,

¹¹أفليس كما صنعت بالسامرة وباوثانها اصنع باورشليم واصنامها.

¹¹Do I not — as I have done to Samaria, And to her worthless things, So do to Jerusalem and to her grievous things?

¹²فيكون متى اكمل السيد كل عمله بجبل صهيون وباورشليم اني اعاقب ثمر عظمة ملك اشور وفخر رفعة عينيه.

¹²And it hath come to pass, When the Lord doth fulfil all His work In mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I see concerning the fruit of the greatness Of the heart of the king of Asshur. And concerning the glory of the height of his eyes.

¹³لانه قال بقدرة يدي صنعت وبحكمتي. لاني فهيم. ونقلت تخوم شعوب ونهبت ذخائرهم وحططت الملوك كبطل.

¹³For he hath said, `By the power of my hand I have wrought, And by my wisdom, for I have been intelligent, And I remove borders of the peoples, And their chief ones I have spoiled, And I put down as a mighty one the inhabitants,

¹⁴فاصابت يدي ثروة الشعوب كعش وكما يجمع بيض مهجور جمعت انا كل الارض ولم يكون مرفرف جناح ولا فاتح فم ولا مصفصف.

¹⁴And my hand as to a nest Getteth to the wealth of the peoples, And as a gathering of forsaken eggs All the earth I — I have gathered, And there hath not been one moving wing, Or opening mouth, or whispering.`

¹⁵هل تفتخر الفأس على القاطع بها او يتكبر المنشار على مردده. كأن القضيب يحرك رافعه. كأن العصا ترفع من ليس هو عودا

¹⁵— Doth the axe glorify itself Against him who is hewing with it? Doth the saw magnify itself Against him who is shaking it? As a rod waving those lifting it up! As a staff lifting up that which is not wood!

¹⁶لذلك يرسل السيد سيد الجنود على سمانه هزالا ويوقد تحت مجده وقيدا كوقيد النار.

¹⁶Therefore doth the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, Send among his fat ones leanness, And under his honour He kindleth a burning As the burning of a fire.

¹⁷ويصير نور اسرائيل نارا وقدوسه لهيبا فيحرق ويأكل حسكه وشوكه في يوم واحد

¹⁷And the light of Israel hath been for a fire, And his Holy One for a flame, And it hath burned, and devoured his thorn And his brier in one day.

¹⁸ويفني مجد وعره وبستانه النفس والجسد جميعا. فيكون كذوبان المريض.

¹⁸And the honour of his forest, and his fruitful field, From soul even unto flesh He doth consume, And it hath been as the fainting of a standard-bearer.

¹⁹وبقية اشجار وعره تكون قليلة حتى يكتبها صبي

¹⁹And the rest of the trees of his forest [are] few, And a youth doth write them.

²⁰ويكون في ذلك اليوم ان بقية اسرائيل والناجين من بيت يعقوب لا يعودون يتوكلون ايضا على ضاربهم بل يتوكلون على الرب قدوس اسرائيل بالحق

²⁰And it hath come to pass, in that day, The remnant of Israel, And the escaped of the house of Jacob, Do not add any more to lean on its smiter, And have leant on Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel, in truth.

²¹ترجع البقية بقية يعقوب الى الله القدير.

²¹A remnant returneth — a remnant of Jacob, Unto the Mighty God.

²²لانه وان كان شعبك يا اسرائيل كرمل البحر ترجع بقية منه. قد قضي بفناء فائض بالعدل.

²²For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, A remnant doth return of it, A consumption determined, Overflowing [with] righteousness.

²³لان السيد رب الجنود يصنع فناء وقضاء في كل الارض

²³For a consumption that is determined, The Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is making in the midst of all the land.

²⁴ولكن هكذا يقول السيد رب الجنود لا تخف من اشور يا شعبي الساكن في صهيون. يضربك بالقضيب ويرفع عصاه عليك على اسلوب مصر.

²⁴Therefore, thus said the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, `Be not afraid, my people, inhabiting Zion, because of Asshur, With a rod he doth smite thee, And his staff lifteth up against thee, in the way of Egypt.

²⁵لانه بعد قليل جدا يتم السخط وغضبي في ابادتهم.

²⁵For yet a very little, And the indignation hath been completed, And Mine anger by their wearing out.

²⁶ويقيم عليه رب الجنود سوطا كضربة مديان عند صخرة غراب وعصاه على البحر ويرفعها على اسلوب مصر.

²⁶And awaking for him is Jehovah of Hosts, A scourge like the smiting of Midian at the rock Oreb, And his rod [is] over the sea, And he hath lifted it in the way of Egypt.

²⁷ويكون في ذلك اليوم ان حمله يزول عن كتفك ونيره عن عنقك ويتلف النير بسبب السمانة

²⁷And it hath come to pass, in that day, Turned is his burden from off thy shoulder, And his yoke from off thy neck, And destroyed hath been the yoke, because of prosperity.

²⁸قد جاء الى عيّاث. عبر بمجرون. وضع في مخماش امتعته.

²⁸He hath come in against Aiath, He hath passed over into Migron, At Michmash he looketh after his vessels.

²⁹عبروا المعبر باتوا في جبع. ارتعدت الرامة هربت جبعة شاول

²⁹They have gone over the passage, Geba they have made a lodging place, Trembled hath Rama, Gibeah of Saul fled.

³⁰اصهلي بصوتك يا بنت جلّيم. اسمعي يا ليشة. مسكينة هي عناثوث

³⁰Cry aloud [with] thy voice, daughter of Gallim, Give attention, Laish! answer her, Anathoth.

³¹هربت مدمينة. احتمى سكان جيبيم.

³¹Fled away hath Madmenah, The inhabitants of the high places have hardened themselves.

³²اليوم يقف في نوب. يهز يده على جبل بنت صهيون اكمة اورشليم

³²Yet to-day in Nob to remain, Wave its hand doth the mount of the daughter of Zion, The hill of Jerusalem.

³³هوذا السيد رب الجنود يقضب الاغصان برعب والمرتفعو القامة يقطعون والمتشامخون ينخفضون.

³³Lo, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is lopping a branch with violence, And the high of stature are cut down, And the lofty are become low,

³⁴ويقطع غاب الوعر بالحديد ويسقط لبنان بقدير

³⁴And He hath gone round the thickets of the forest with iron, And Lebanon by a mighty one falleth!