¹لأنشدنّ عن حبيبي نشيد محبّي لكرمه. كان لحبيبي كرم على اكمة خصبة.

¹Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

²فنقبه ونقى حجارته وغرسه كرم سورق وبنى برجا في وسطه ونقر فيه ايضا معصرة فانتظر ان يصنع عنبا فصنع عنبا رديئا

²He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in its midst, and also cut out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

³والآن يا سكان اورشليم ورجال يهوذا احكموا بيني وبين كرمي.

³“Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.

⁴ماذا يصنع ايضا لكرمي وانا لم اصنعه له. لماذا اذ انتظرت ان يصنع عنبا صنع عنبا رديئا.

⁴What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

⁵فالآن اعرّفكم ماذا اصنع بكرمي. انزع سياجه فيصير للرعي. اهدم جدرانه فيصير للدوس.

⁵Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.

⁶واجعله خرابا لا يقضب ولا ينقب فيطلع شوك وحسك واوصي الغيم ان لا يمطر عليه مطرا

⁶I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”

⁷ان كرم رب الجنود هو بيت اسرائيل وغرس لذته رجال يهوذا. فانتظر حقا فاذا سفك دم وعدلا فاذا صراخ

⁷For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

⁸ويل للذين يصلون بيتا ببيت ويقرنون حقلا بحقل حتى لم يبق موضع. فصرتم تسكنون وحدكم في وسط الارض.

⁸Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

⁹في اذني قال رب الجنود ألا ان بيوتا كثيرة تصير خرابا بيوتا كبيرة وحسنة بلا ساكن.

⁹In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: “Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.

¹⁰لان عشرة فدادين كرم تصنع بثا واحدا وحومر بذار يصنع ايفة

¹⁰For ten acres literally, ten yokes, or the amount of land that ten yokes of oxen can plow in one day, which is about 10 acres or 4 hectares. of vineyard shall yield one bath, 1 bath is about 22 litres or 5.8 U. S. gallons and a homer 1 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels of seed shall yield an ephah. 1 ephah is about 22 litres or 0.6 bushels or about 2 pecks)—only one tenth of what was sown. ”

¹¹ويل للمبكرين صباحا يتبعون المسكر. للمتأخرين في العتمة تلهبهم الخمر.

¹¹Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

¹²وصار العود والرباب والدف والناي والخمر ولائمهم والى فعل الرب لا ينظرون وعمل يديه لا يرون.

¹²The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

¹³لذلك سبي شعبي لعدم المعرفة وتصير شرفاؤه رجال جوع وعامته يابسين من العطش.

¹³Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

¹⁴لذلك وسعت الهاوية نفسها وفغرت فاها بلا حد فينزل بهاؤها وجمهورها وضجيجها والمبتهج فيها.

¹⁴Therefore Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

¹⁵ويذل الانسان ويحط الرجل وعيون المستعلين توضع.

¹⁵So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;

¹⁶ويتعالى رب الجنود بالعدل ويتقدس الاله القدوس بالبر.

¹⁶but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

¹⁷وترعى الخرفان حيثما تساق وخرب السمان تاكلها الغرباء

¹⁷Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.

¹⁸ويل للجاذبين الاثم بحبال البطل والخطية كانه بربط العجلة

¹⁸Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope;

¹⁹القائلين ليسرع ليعجل عمله لكي نرى وليقرب ويأتي مقصد قدوس اسرائيل لنعلم.

¹⁹Who say, “Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!”

²⁰ويل للقائلين للشر خيرا وللخير شرا الجاعلين الظلام نورا والنور ظلاما الجاعلين المرّ حلوا والحلو مرّا.

²⁰Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

²¹ويل للحكماء في اعين انفسهم والفهماء عند ذواتهم.

²¹Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

²²ويل للابطال على شرب الخمر ولذوي القدرة على مزج المسكر.

²²Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;

²³الذين يبررون الشرير من اجل الرشوة واما حق الصدّيقين فينزعونه منهم

²³who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

²⁴لذلك كما يأكل لهيب النار القش ويهبط الحشيش الملتهب يكون اصلهم كالعفونة ويصعد زهرهم كالغبار لانهم رذلوا شريعة رب الجنود واستهانوا بكلام قدوس اسرائيل.

²⁴Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

²⁵من اجل ذلك حمي غضب الرب على شعبه ومد يده عليه وضربه حتى ارتعدت الجبال وصارت جثثهم كالزبل في الازقة. مع كل هذا لم يرتد غضبه بل يده ممدودة بعد

²⁵Therefore Yahweh’s anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them, and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.

²⁶فيرفع راية للامم من بعيد ويصفر لهم من اقصى الارض فاذا هم بالعجلة ياتون سريعا.

²⁶He will lift up a banner to the nations from far, and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth. Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.

²⁷ليس فيهم رازح ولا عاثر. لا ينعسون ولا ينامون ولا تنحل حزم احقائهم ولا تنقطع سيور احذيتهم.

²⁷None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

²⁸الذين سهامهم مسنونة وجميع قسيهم ممدودة. حوافر خيلهم تحسب كالصوان وبكراتهم كالزوبعة.

²⁸whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.

²⁹لهم زمجرة كاللبوة ويزمجرون كالشبل ويهرون ويمسكون الفريسة ويستخلصونها ولا منقذ.

²⁹Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.

³⁰يهرون عليهم في ذلك اليوم كهدير البحر. فان نظر الى الارض فهوذا ظلام الضيق والنور قد اظلم بسحبها

³⁰They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.