7- نبوات سبت لعازر: من سفر إشعياء 40: على جبل عال اصعد

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A reading from Isaiah the prophet, may his blessings be with us. Amen.

~Ebol'en Hca`iac pi`provhthc> `erepef`cmou `eqouab ]wpi neman `amhn efjw `mmoc.

من أشعياء النبي، بركته المقدسة تكون معنا. آمين.

Isaiah 40:9-31

أشعياء ٤٠ : ٩ - ٣١

O thou that bringest glad tidings to Zion, go up on the high mountain; lift up thy voice with strength, thou that bringest glad tidings to Jerusalem; lift it up, fear not; say unto the cities of Juda, Behold your God! Behold the Lord! The Lord is coming with strength, and his arm is with power: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. He shall tend his flock as a shepherd, and he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and shall soothe them that are with young. Who has measured the water in his hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the earth in a handful? Who has weighed the mountains in scales, and the forests in a balance? Who has known the mind of the Lord? and who has been his counsellor, to instruct him? Or with whom has he taken counsel, and he has instructed him? or who has taught him judgment, or who has taught him the way of understanding; since all the nations are counted as a drop from a bucket, and as the turning of a balance, and shall be counted as spittle? And Libanus is not enough to burn, nor all beasts enough for a whole-burnt offering: and all the nations are as nothing, and counted as nothing.

على جبل عال اصعد يا مبشر صهيون. ارفع صوتك بقوة يا مبشر أورشليم. ارفع ولا تخف. قول لمدن يهوذا هوذا إلهك هوذا الرب يأتي بقوة وذراعه متسلطة. هوذا أجرته معه وعمله قدامه. كراع يرعى قطيع غنمه وبذراعه يجمع الحملان ويعزي الحبالى. من كال الماء بيده وقاس السماء بشبره والأرض كلها بقبضته، ومن وزن الجبال بالمثقال والآكام بالميزان. من علم قلب الرب أومن كان معه مشيراً فعلمه. من استشاره وعلمه أومن علمه أومن أراه الحكم أوطريق الفهم من عرفها له. أومن سبق فأعطاه حتى عوضه. إنما الأمم كلها عنده مثل نقطة ماء تنقط من قادوس ومثل ميلان الميزان حسبوا. وجميعهم كالبصاق يعدون. وخشب لبنان لا يعد للحريق وجميع البهائم لا تعد شيئاً للمحرقة. جميع الأمم لديه كلا شيء وعنده كالعدم حسبوا.

To whom have ye compared the Lord? and with what likeness have ye compared him? Has not the artificer made an image, or the goldsmith having melted gold, gilt it over, and made it a similitude? For the artificer chooses out a wood that will not rot, and will wisely enquire how he shall set up his image, and that so that it should not be moved. Will ye not know? will ye not hear? has it not been told you of old? Have ye not known the foundations of the earth? It is he that comprehends the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants in it are as grasshoppers; he that set up the heaven as a chamber, and stretched it out as a tent to dwell in: he that appoints princes to rule as nothing, and has made the earth as nothing. For they shall not plant, neither shall they sow, neither shall their root be fixed in the ground: he has blown upon them, and they are withered, and a storm shall carry them away like sticks.

فبمن شبهتم الرب وبأي مثل مثلتموه. هل بصورة صنعها النجار وصفحه الصائغ بالذهب وركب فيه الذهب شبهه يتلف. إنما خشبة لا تسوس اختارها النجار وبحكمة يطلب كيف يقيم تمثالاً لا يتحرك. ألا تعلمون ألا تسمعون ألم تخبروا منذ البدء أما علمتم أسس الأرض. وأن القابض على كرة الأرض بأسرها والسكان فيها كالجراد. الذي ينشر السماء كالقبضة ويبسطها كالخيمة ليسكن فيها. الذي يجعل الآراخنة كلا شيء والأرض التي خلقها كخواء أنهم لم يغرسوا ولم يتأصل في الأرض ساقهم. فنفخ عليهم فيبسوا وحملهم العاصف كالقش.

Now then to whom have ye compared me, that I may be exalted? saith the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high, and see, who has displayed all these things? even he that brings forth his host by number: he shall call them all by name by means of his great glory, and by the power of his might: nothing has escaped thee.

والآن بمن تشبهونني فأتعالى يقول القدوس. ارفعوا عيونكم إلى العلاء وانظروا من خلق هذه كلها. الذي يخرج زينتها عدداً ويدعو كلها بأسماء كثيرة ومن كثرة مجده وعزة قوته لا ينسى شيئاً منها.

For say not thou, O Jacob, and why hast thou spoken, Israel, saying, My way is hid from God, and my God has taken away my judgement, and has departed? And now, hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? the eternal God, the God that formed the ends of the earth, shall not hunger, nor be weary, and there is no searching of his understanding. He gives strength to the hungry, and sorrow to them that are not suffering. For the young men shall hunger, and the youths shall be weary, and the choice men shall be powerless: but they that wait on God shall renew their strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not hunger.

فلماذا تقول يا يعقوب ولماذا تتكلم يا إسرائيل. قد اختفت طريقي عن الله قد نزع قضائي فمضى. الآن أما علمت ولم تسمع. أن الله الأبدي الله الذي خلق أقطار الأرض لا يتعب ولا يعيا ولا حد لعلمه. الذي يهب للجياع قوتاً والمعطي وجع القلب للذين لم تحترق قلوبهم. جاءت الغلمان وتعبت الشبان. والمختارون يصيرون غير أقوياء. أما منتظرو الرب يجددون قوة وتنبت لهم أجنحة كالنسور يسرعون ولا يتعبون ويمشون ولا يجوعون.