Isaiah · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Isaiah 37 Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
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- 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 Και ότε ήκουσεν ο βασιλεύς Εζεκίας, διέσχισε τα ιμάτια αυτού και εσκεπάσθη με σάκκον και εισήλθεν εις τον οίκον του Κυρίου.
1 When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.
2 Και απέστειλεν Ελιακείμ τον οικονόμον και Σομνάν τον γραμματέα και τους πρεσβυτέρους των ιερέων εσκεπασμένους με σάκκους, προς τον προφήτην Ησαΐαν, τον υιόν του Αμώς·
2 He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
3 και είπον προς αυτόν, Ούτω λέγει ο Εζεκίας· Ημέρα θλίψεως και ονειδισμού και βλασφημίας, η ημέρα αύτη· διότι τα τέκνα ήλθον εις την ακμήν της γέννας, πλην δύναμις δεν είναι εις την τίκτουσαν·
3 They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to give birth.
4 είθε να ήκουσε Κύριος ο Θεός σου τους λόγους του Ραβ-σάκη, τον οποίον ο βασιλεύς της Ασσυρίας ο κύριος αυτού απέστειλε διά να ονειδίση τον ζώντα Θεόν, και να υβρίση διά των λόγων, τους οποίους ήκουσε Κύριος ο Θεός σου· διά τούτο ύψωσον δέησιν υπέρ του υπολοίπου του σωζομένου.
4 It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”
5 Και ήλθον προς τον Ησαΐαν οι δούλοι του βασιλέως Εζεκίου.
5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 Και είπε προς αυτούς ο Ησαΐας, Ούτω θέλετε ειπεί προς τον κύριόν σας· Ούτω λέγει Κύριος· Μη φοβού από των λόγων, τους οποίους ήκουσας, διά των οποίων οι δούλοι του βασιλέως της Ασσυρίας με ωνείδισαν·
6 Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘Yahweh says, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7 ιδού, εγώ θέλω βάλει εις αυτόν τοιούτον πνεύμα, ώστε ακούσας θόρυβον θέλει επιστρέψει εις την γην αυτού· και θέλω κάμει αυτόν να πέση διά μαχαίρας εν τη γη αυτού.
7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”’”
8 Ο Ραβ-σάκης λοιπόν επέστρεψε και εύρηκε τον βασιλέα της Ασσυρίας πολεμούντα εναντίον της Λιβνά· διότι ήκουσεν ότι έφυγεν από Λαχείς.
8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he heard that he had departed from Lachish.
9 Και ο βασιλεύς ήκουσε να λέγωσι περί Θιρακά του βασιλέως της Αιθιοπίας, Εξήλθε να σε πολεμήση. Και ότε ήκουσε τούτο, απέστειλε πρέσβεις προς τον Εζεκίαν, λέγων,
9 He heard news concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “He has come out to fight against you.” When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
10 Ούτω θέλετε ειπεί προς Εζεκίαν, τον βασιλέα του Ιούδα, λέγοντες, Ο Θεός σου, επί τον οποίον θαρρείς, ας μη σε απατά, λέγων, Η Ιερουσαλήμ δεν θέλει παραδοθή εις την χείρα του βασιλέως της Ασσυρίας.
10 “Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
11 Ιδού, συ ήκουσας τι έκαμον οι βασιλείς της Ασσυρίας εις πάντας τους τόπους, καταστρέφοντες αυτούς· και συ θέλεις λυτρωθή;
11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered?
12 Μήπως οι θεοί των εθνών ελύτρωσαν εκείνους, τους οποίους οι πατέρες μου κατέστρεψαν, την Γωζάν και την Χαρράν και Ρεσέφ και τους υιούς του Εδέν, τους εν Τελασσάρ;
12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
13 Που ο βασιλεύς της Αιμάθ και ο βασιλεύς της Αρφάδ και ο βασιλεύς της πόλεως Σεφαρουΐμ, Ενά και Αυά;
13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?’”
14 Και λαβών ο Εζεκίας την επιστολήν εκ της χειρός των πρέσβεων ανέγνωσεν αυτήν· και ανέβη ο Εζεκίας εις τον οίκον του Κυρίου και εξετύλιξεν αυτήν ενώπιον του Κυρίου.
14 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh’s house, and spread it before Yahweh.
15 Και προσηυχήθη εις τον Κύριον ο Εζεκίας λέγων,
15 Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying,
16 Κύριε των δυνάμεων, Θεέ του Ισραήλ, ο καθήμενος επί των χερουβείμ, συ αυτός είσαι ο Θεός, ο μόνος, πάντων των βασιλείων της γής· συ έκαμες τον ουρανόν και την γην.
16 “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
17 Κλίνον, Κύριε, το ους σου και άκουσον· άνοιξον, Κύριε, τους οφθαλμούς σου και ιδέ· και άκουσον πάντας τους λόγους του Σενναχειρείμ, όστις απέστειλε τούτον διά να ονειδίση τον ζώντα Θεόν.
17 Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.
18 Αληθώς, Κύριε, οι βασιλείς της Ασσυρίας ηρήμωσαν πάντα τα έθνη και τους τόπους αυτών,
18 Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the countries and their land,
19 και έρριψαν εις το πυρ τους θεούς αυτών· διότι δεν ήσαν θεοί, αλλ' έργον χειρών ανθρώπων, ξύλα και λίθοι· διά τούτο κατέστρεψαν αυτούς.
19 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.
20 Τώρα λοιπόν, Κύριε Θεέ ημών, σώσον ημάς εκ της χειρός αυτού· διά να γνωρίσωσι πάντα τα βασίλεια της γης, ότι συ είσαι ο Κύριος, ο μόνος.
20 Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.”
21 Τότε απέστειλεν Ησαΐας ο υιός του Αμώς προς Εζεκίαν, λέγων, Ούτω λέγει Κύριος ο Θεός του Ισραήλ· Ήκουσα όσα προσηυχήθης εις εμέ κατά του Σενναχειρείμ, βασιλέως της Ασσυρίας.
21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,
22 Ούτος είναι ο λόγος, τον οποίον ο Κύριος ελάλησε περί αυτού· Σε κατεφρόνησε, σε ενέπαιξεν η παρθένος, θυγάτηρ της Σιών· οπίσω σου έσεισε κεφαλήν η θυγάτηρ της Ιερουσαλήμ.
22 this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
23 Τίνα ωνείδισας και εβλασφήμησας; και κατά τίνος ύψωσας φωνήν και εσήκωσας υψηλά τους οφθαλμούς σου; κατά του Αγίου του Ισραήλ.
23 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
24 Τον Κύριον ωνείδισας διά των δούλων σου και είπας, Με το πλήθος των αμαξών μου ανέβην εγώ εις το ύψος των ορέων, εις τα πλευρά του Λιβάνου· και θέλω κόψει τας υψηλάς κέδρους αυτού, τας εκλεκτάς ελάτους αυτού· και θέλω εισέλθει εις το ύψος των άκρων αυτού, εις το δάσος του Καρμήλου αυτού·
24 By your servants, you have defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field.
25 εγώ ανέσκαψα και έπιον ύδατα· και με το ίχνος των ποδών μου εξήρανα πάντας τους ποταμούς των πολιορκουμένων.
25 I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.”
26 Μη δεν ήκουσας ότι εγώ έκαμον τούτο παλαιόθεν και από ημερών αρχαίων εβουλεύθην αυτό; τώρα δε εξετέλεσα τούτο, ώστε να ήσαι διά να καταστρέφης πόλεις ωχυρωμένας εις ερειπίων σωρούς·
26 “‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.
27 διά τούτο οι κάτοικοι αυτών ήσαν μικράς δυνάμεως, ετρόμαξαν και κατησχύνθησαν· ήσαν ως ο χόρτος του αγρού και ως η χλόη, ως ο χόρτος των δωμάτων και ως ο σίτος ο καιόμενος πριν καλαμώση.
27 Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.
28 Πλην εγώ εξεύρω την κατοικίαν σου και την έξοδόν σου και την είσοδόν σου και την κατ' εμού λύσσαν σου.
28 But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.
29 Επειδή η κατ' εμού λύσσα σου και η αλαζονεία σου ανέβησαν εις τα ώτα μου, διά τούτο θέλω βάλει τον κρίκον μου εις τους μυκτήράς σου και τον χαλινόν μου εις τα χείλη σου, και θέλω σε επιστρέψει διά της οδού δι' ης ήλθες.
29 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
30 Και τούτο θέλει είσθαι εις σε το σημείον· το έτος τούτο θέλετε φάγει ό,τι είναι αυτοφυές· και το δεύτερον έτος, ό,τι εκφύεται από του αυτού· το δε τρίτον έτος, σπείρατε και θερίσατε και φυτεύσατε αμπελώνας και φάγετε τον καρπόν αυτών.
30 “‘This shall be the sign to you: You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from it; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
31 Και το υπόλοιπον εκ του οίκου Ιούδα, το διασωθέν, θέλει ριζώσει πάλιν υποκάτωθεν και θέλει δώσει επάνω καρπούς.
31 The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
32 Διότι εξ Ιερουσαλήμ θέλει εξέλθει το υπόλοιπον και εκ του όρους Σιών το διασωθέν· ο ζήλος του Κυρίου των δυνάμεων θέλει εκτελέσει τούτο.
32 For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and survivors will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.’
33 Όθεν ούτω λέγει Κύριος περί του βασιλέως της Ασσυρίας· δεν θέλει εισέλθει εις την πόλιν ταύτην, ουδέ θέλει τοξεύσει εκεί βέλος, ουδέ θέλει προβάλει κατ' αυτής ασπίδας, ουδέ θέλει υψώσει εναντίον αυτής πρόχωμα·
33 “Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
34 διά της οδού δι' ης ήλθε, δι' αυτής θέλει επιστρέψει και εις την πόλιν ταύτην δεν θέλει εισέλθει, λέγει ο Κύριος·
34 He will return the way that he came, and he won’t come to this city,’ says Yahweh.
35 διότι θέλω υπερασπισθή την πόλιν ταύτην, ώστε να σώσω αυτήν, ένεκεν εμού και ένεκεν του δούλου μου Δαβίδ.
35 ‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”
36 Τότε εξήλθεν ο άγγελος του Κυρίου και επάταξεν εν τω στρατοπέδω των Ασσυρίων εκατόν ογδοήκοντα πέντε χιλιάδας· και ότε εξηγέρθησαν το πρωΐ, ιδού, ήσαν πάντες σώματα νεκρά.
36 Then Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
37 Και εσηκώθη και έφυγε και επέστρεψε Σενναχειρείμ ο βασιλεύς της Ασσυρίας και κατώκησεν εν Νινευή.
37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there.
38 Και ενώ προσεκύνει εν τω οίκω Νισρώκ του θεού αυτού, Αδραμμέλεχ και Σαρασάρ οι υιοί αυτού επάταξαν αυτόν εν μαχαίρα, αυτοί δε έφυγον εις γην Αρμενίας· εβασίλευσε δε αντ' αυτού Εσαραδδών ο υιός αυτού.
38 As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.
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Adrammelech
A son of Sennacherib who with his brother Sharezer put their father to the sword in the temple of Nisroch and escaped to the land of Ararat.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 19:37; Isaiah 37:38
Esar-haddon
Sennacherib's son, who reigned in his father's place after Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 19:37; Ezra 4:2; Isaiah 37:38
Hezekiah
A great reformer who trusted God and saw Jerusalem delivered from Assyria.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 18-20; 2 Chron. 29-32; Isa. 36-39; Matt. 1:9-10
Tirhakah
King of Cush about whom Sennacherib was warned that he had set out to fight him.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 19:9; Isaiah 37:9
Cross references (37)
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- 1 2 Kings 19:1–37; 2 Kings 22:11; Isaiah 36:22–37:38; Ezra 9:5; Job 1:20–21
- 2 Isaiah 1:1; Joel 1:13; 2 Chronicles 20:20; 2 Kings 19:2; 2 Kings 18:18
- 3 Isaiah 66:9; Hosea 13:13; 2 Kings 19:3; Psalm 50:15; Isaiah 26:17–18
- 4 Isaiah 36:20; Isaiah 1:9; Psalm 106:23; Isaiah 10:22; Isaiah 8:7–8
- 6 Isaiah 7:4; Isaiah 35:4; Mark 5:36; 2 Chronicles 20:15–20; Isaiah 41:10–14
- 7 2 Chronicles 32:21; Isaiah 31:8–9; Job 15:21; Isaiah 17:13–14; 2 Kings 7:6
- 8 Joshua 10:29; Joshua 21:13; 2 Kings 8:22; Joshua 10:31–34; Joshua 15:39
- 9 Isaiah 18:1; 1 Samuel 23:27–28; Isaiah 20:5; Isaiah 37:7
- 10 Isaiah 36:15; 2 Kings 18:5; Psalm 22:8; 2 Chronicles 32:7–8; Matthew 27:43
- 11 Isaiah 36:18–20; 2 Kings 17:4–6; Isaiah 10:7–14; Isaiah 37:18–19; Isaiah 14:17
- 12 Genesis 11:31; 2 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings 18:11; Acts 7:2; 2 Kings 19:12
- 13 Jeremiah 49:23; Isaiah 10:9; 2 Kings 18:34; 2 Kings 17:24; 2 Kings 17:30–31
- 14 Psalm 123:1–4; 2 Kings 19:14; Psalm 62:1–3; Isaiah 37:1; Psalm 74:10
- 15 2 Chronicles 14:11; Daniel 9:3–4; 1 Samuel 7:8–9; 2 Chronicles 20:6–12; 2 Kings 19:15–19
- 16 Psalm 99:1; Exodus 25:22; Psalm 86:10; Isaiah 44:24; 1 Samuel 4:4
- 17 2 Chronicles 6:40; Psalm 17:6; 1 Peter 3:12; Psalm 74:22; Psalm 10:14–15
- 18 Nahum 2:11–12; 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings 17:24; 1 Chronicles 5:26
- 19 Psalm 115:4–8; Isaiah 40:19–21; Isaiah 10:9–11; Hosea 8:6; Exodus 32:20
- 20 Psalm 46:10; 1 Kings 18:36–37; Psalm 83:17–18; Isaiah 42:8; Malachi 1:11
- 21 Isaiah 65:24; Psalm 91:15; Isaiah 38:3–6; 2 Kings 19:20–21; Daniel 9:20–23
- 22 Job 16:4; Isaiah 1:8; Lamentations 2:13; Psalm 9:14; Zechariah 2:10
- 23 Ezekiel 39:7; Daniel 5:20–23; Daniel 7:25; Ezekiel 28:9; 2 Thessalonians 2:4
- 24 Isaiah 14:8; Isaiah 10:18; Isaiah 36:9; Daniel 4:30; Daniel 4:8–14
- 25 1 Kings 20:10; Deuteronomy 11:10; Isaiah 36:12; 2 Kings 19:23–24
- 26 Acts 4:27–28; Acts 2:23; Isaiah 46:10–11; 1 Peter 2:8; Isaiah 10:15
- 27 Psalm 129:6; Psalm 127:1–2; Jeremiah 37:10; Psalm 90:5–6; Isaiah 19:16
- 28 Revelation 2:13; Psalm 139:1–11; Jeremiah 23:23–24; Proverbs 5:21; Proverbs 15:3
- 29 Isaiah 10:12; Isaiah 37:34; Ezekiel 38:4; Isaiah 30:28; Ezekiel 29:4
- 30 2 Kings 19:29; Leviticus 25:4–5; Isaiah 7:14; 2 Kings 20:9; 1 Kings 13:3–5
- 31 Isaiah 27:6; 2 Kings 19:30–31; Psalm 80:9; Isaiah 1:9; Romans 11:5
- 32 Isaiah 9:7; 2 Kings 19:31; Joel 2:18; Zechariah 1:14; Isaiah 59:17
- 33 Isaiah 8:7–10; Ezekiel 21:22; Isaiah 10:32–34; 2 Kings 19:32–35; Isaiah 33:20
- 34 Isaiah 37:29; Proverbs 21:30
- 35 2 Kings 20:6; Isaiah 31:5; Isaiah 38:6; Isaiah 43:25; Jeremiah 23:5–6
- 36 Isaiah 10:12; 2 Kings 19:35; 1 Thessalonians 5:2–3; Isaiah 31:8; 2 Samuel 24:16
- 37 Jonah 3:3; Jonah 1:2; Nahum 1:1; Jonah 4:11; Genesis 10:11–12
- 38 Genesis 8:4; Jeremiah 51:27; Ezra 4:2; 2 Chronicles 32:21; 2 Kings 19:36–37
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“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).
"I will defend this city for my servant David's sake." And besides, on account of His favor towards him, He suffered not Solomon to fall from the kingdom, great as the sin was which he had committed.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)