Isaiah · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Isaiah 23 Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
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Notes on this text (2)
- The Old Testament is translated from the Hebrew, not from the Septuagint read in the Orthodox Church; there are no deuterocanonical books.
- Katharevousa (learned 19th-century Greek), as in the CrossWire module (text from theword.gr).
1 Η κατά της Τύρου όρασις. Ολολύζετε, πλοία της Θαρσείς· διότι εξωλοθρεύθη, ώστε να μη υπάρχη οικία μηδέ είσοδος· εκ της γης των Κητιαίων ανηγγέλθη τούτο προς αυτούς.
1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.
2 Σιωπήσατε, κάτοικοι της νήσου· συ, την οποίαν εγέμισαν οι έμποροι της Σιδώνος, οι διαβαίνοντες επί της θαλάσσης.
2 Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon that pass over the sea have replenished.
3 Και το εισόδημα αυτής είναι ο σπόρος του Σιώρ, το θέρος του ποταμού, φερόμενα διά πολλών υδάτων· και αύτη έγεινε το εμπόριον των εθνών.
3 On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations.
4 Αισχύνθητι, Σιδών· διότι η θάλασσα ελάλησε, το οχύρωμα της θαλάσσης, λέγουσα, Δεν κοιλοπονώ ουδέ γεννώ ουδέ ανατρέφω νέους ουδέ μεγαλώνω παρθένους.
4 Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, “I have not travailed, nor given birth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.”
5 Όταν ακουσθή εν Αιγύπτω, θέλουσι λυπηθή ακούοντες περί της Τύρου.
5 When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report of Tyre.
6 Διέλθετε εις Θαρσείς· ολολύξατε, κάτοικοι της νήσου.
6 Pass over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast!
7 Αύτη είναι η εύθυμος πόλις σας, της οποίας η αρχαιότης είναι εκ παλαιών ημερών; οι πόδες αυτής θέλουσι φέρει αυτήν μακράν διά να παροικήση.
7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel?
8 Τις εβουλεύθη τούτο κατά της Τύρου, ήτις διανέμει στέμματα, της οποίας οι έμποροι είναι ηγεμόνες, της οποίας οι πραγματευταί είναι οι ένδοξοι της γης;
8 Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?
9 Ο Κύριος των δυνάμεων εβουλεύθη τούτο, διά να καταισχύνη την υπερηφανίαν πάσης δόξης, να εξευτελίση πάντα ένδοξον της γης.
9 Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
10 Διαπέρασον την γην σου ως ποταμός, θυγάτηρ της Θαρσείς· δύναμις πλέον δεν υπάρχει.
10 Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any more.
11 Εξέτεινε την χείρα αυτού επί την θάλασσαν, έσεισε βασίλεια· ο Κύριος έδωκε προσταγήν κατά της Χαναάν, διά να καταστρέψωσι τα οχυρώματα αυτής.
11 He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered the destruction of Canaan’s strongholds.
12 Και είπε, δεν θέλεις αγάλλεσθαι πλέον, παρθένε κατατεθλιμμένη, θυγάτηρ της Σιδώνος· σηκώθητι, πέρασον προς τους Κητιαίους· ουδέ εκεί θέλεις έχει ανάπαυσιν.
12 He said, “You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there you will have no rest.”
13 Ιδού, η γη των Χαλδαίων· ούτος ο λαός δεν υπήρχεν· ο Ασσύριος εθεμελίωσεν αυτόν διά τους κατοικούντας την έρημον· ήγειραν τους πύργους αυτής, ύψωσαν τα παλάτια αυτής· και κατέστησεν αυτήν ερείπια.
13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people didn’t exist. The Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. They made it a ruin.
14 Ολολύζετε, πλοία της Θαρσείς· διότι ηρημώθη το οχύρωμά σας.
14 Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste!
15 Και εν εκείνη τη ημέρα η Τύρος θέλει λησμονηθή εβδομήκοντα έτη, κατά τας ημέρας ενός βασιλέως· μετά δε τα εβδομήκοντα έτη θέλει είσθαι εν τη Τύρω ως άσμα της πόρνης.
15 It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in the song of the prostitute.
16 Λάβε κιθάραν, περίελθε την πόλιν, πόρνη λησμονημένη, παίζε γλυκά, άδε πολλά άσματα, διά να σε ενθυμηθώσι.
16 Take a harp; go about the city, you prostitute that has been forgotten. Make sweet melody. Sing many songs, that you may be remembered.
17 Και μετά τα εβδομήκοντα έτη, ο Κύριος θέλει επισκεφθή την Τύρον· και αυτή θέλει επιστρέψει εις το μίσθωμα αυτής, και θέλει πορνεύεσθαι μετά πάντων των βασιλείων του κόσμου επί προσώπου της γης.
17 It will happen after the end of seventy years that Yahweh will visit Tyre. She will return to her wages, and will play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth.
18 Και το εμπόριον αυτής και το μίσθωμα αυτής θέλει αφιερωθή εις τον Κύριον· δεν θέλει θησαυρισθή ουδέ ταμιευθή· διότι το εμπόριον αυτής θέλει είσθαι διά τους κατοικούντας ενώπιον του Κυρίου· διά να τρώγωσιν εις χορτασμόν και να έχωσιν ενδύματα πολυχρόνια.
18 Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh. It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
Cross references (18)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Joel 3:4–8; Genesis 10:4; Amos 1:9–10; Jeremiah 25:22; Isaiah 2:16
- 2 Isaiah 47:5; Ezekiel 27:8–36; Ezekiel 28:2; Psalm 46:10; Isaiah 41:1
- 3 1 Chronicles 13:5; Jeremiah 2:18; Ezekiel 27:3–23; Isaiah 23:8; Joel 3:5
- 4 Revelation 18:23; Genesis 10:15; Jeremiah 47:3–4; Ezekiel 26:3–6; Hosea 9:11–14
- 5 Joshua 2:9–11; Exodus 15:14–16; Ezekiel 28:19; Ezekiel 27:29–36; Ezekiel 26:15–21
- 6 Isaiah 23:12; Isaiah 21:15; Isaiah 16:7; Isaiah 23:10; Isaiah 23:1–2
- 7 Isaiah 22:2; Joshua 19:29; Ecclesiastes 10:7; Isaiah 47:1–2; Isaiah 32:13
- 8 Ezekiel 28:2–6; Isaiah 10:8; Jeremiah 50:44–45; Deuteronomy 29:24–28; Isaiah 36:9
- 9 James 4:6; Isaiah 13:11; Job 40:11–12; Isaiah 2:11; Daniel 4:37
- 10 1 Samuel 28:20; Isaiah 23:14; Job 12:21; Psalm 18:32; Romans 5:6
- 11 Zechariah 9:3–4; Exodus 14:21; Mark 11:17; Hosea 12:7–8; Exodus 15:8–10
- 12 Revelation 18:22; Ezekiel 26:13–14; Isaiah 23:1–2; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 23:7
- 13 Habakkuk 1:6; Isaiah 13:19; Daniel 4:30; 2 Kings 20:12; Ezekiel 29:18
- 14 Isaiah 23:1; Ezekiel 27:25–30; Isaiah 2:16; Isaiah 23:6; Revelation 18:11–19
- 15 Jeremiah 25:22; Hosea 2:15; Jeremiah 27:3–7; Daniel 8:21; Jeremiah 29:10
- 16 Proverbs 7:10–12; Jeremiah 30:14
- 17 Nahum 3:4; Ezekiel 27:6–36; Revelation 19:2; Ezekiel 16:26; Jeremiah 29:10
- 18 Psalm 72:10; Deuteronomy 26:12–14; Philippians 4:17–18; Galatians 6:6; Deuteronomy 12:18–19
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
For in the Prophet Isaiah it is thus found: "Howl, ye ships of Carthage." But in Ezekiel by some interpreters the word is translated Carthage, by some Tarshish: and from this diversity it can be understood that the same which was called Carthage, is called Tharsus.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)