Isaiah · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Isaiah 41 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 Σιωπάτε ενώπιόν μου, νήσοι· οι λαοί ας ανανεώσωσι δύναμιν· και ας πλησιάσωσι και τότε ας λαλήσωσιν· ας προσέλθωμεν ομού εις κρίσιν.
1 “Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let’s meet together for judgment.
2 Τις ήγειρε τον δίκαιον από της ανατολής, προσεκάλεσεν αυτόν κατά πόδας αυτού, παρέδωκεν εις αυτόν τα έθνη και κατέστησεν αυτόν κύριον επί τους βασιλείς; τις παρέδωκεν αυτούς εις την μάχαιραν αυτού ως χώμα, και εις το τόξον αυτού ως άχυρον ωθούμενον από ανέμου;
2 Who has raised up one from the east? Who called him to his feet in righteousness? He hands over nations to him and makes him rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the driven stubble to his bow.
3 Κατεδίωξεν αυτούς και διήλθεν ασφαλώς διά της οδού, την οποίαν δεν είχε περιπατήσει με τους πόδας αυτού.
3 He pursues them and passes by safely, even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.
4 Τις ενήργησε και έκαμε τούτο, καλών τας γενεάς απ' αρχής; Εγώ ο Κύριος, ο πρώτος και ο μετά των εσχάτων· εγώ αυτός.
4 Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”
5 Αι νήσοι είδον και εφοβήθησαν· τα πέρατα της γης ετρόμαξαν, επλησίασαν και ήλθον.
5 The islands have seen, and fear. The ends of the earth tremble. They approach, and come.
6 Εβοήθησαν έκαστος τον πλησίον αυτού· και είπε προς τον αδελφόν αυτού, Ίσχυε.
6 Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, “Be strong!”
7 Και ο ξυλουργός ενίσχυε τον χρυσοχόον και ο λεπτύνων με την σφύραν, τον σφυροκοπούντα επί τον άκμονα, λέγων, Καλόν είναι διά την συγκόλλησιν· και στερεόνει αυτό με καρφία, διά να μη κινήται.
7 So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smooths with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good;” and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.
8 Αλλά συ, Ισραήλ, δούλέ μου, Ιακώβ, εκλεκτέ μου, το σπέρμα Αβραάμ του αγαπητού μου,
8 “But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,
9 συ, τον οποίον έλαβον εκ των άκρων της γης και σε εκάλεσα εκ των εσχάτων αυτής και σοι είπα, Συ είσαι ο δούλός μου· εγώ σε εξέλεξα και δεν θέλω σε απορρίψει·
9 you whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from its corners, and said to you, ‘You are my servant. I have chosen you and have not cast you away.’
10 μη φοβού· διότι εγώ είμαι μετά σού· μη τρόμαζε· διότι εγώ είμαι ο Θεός σου· σε ενίσχυσα· μάλιστα σε εβοήθησα· μάλιστα σε υπερησπίσθην διά της δεξιάς της δικαιοσύνης μου.
10 Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
11 Ιδού, πάντες οι ωργισμένοι κατά σου θέλουσι καταισχυνθή και εντραπή· θέλουσιν είσθαι ως μηδέν· και οι αντίδικοί σου θέλουσιν αφανισθή.
11 Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.
12 Θέλεις ζητήσει αυτούς και δεν θέλεις ευρεί αυτούς, τους εναντιουμένους εις σέ· οι πολεμούντες κατά σου θέλουσι γείνει μηδέν και ως εξουθένημα.
12 You will seek them, and won’t find them, even those who contend with you. Those who war against you will be as nothing, as a nonexistent thing.
13 Διότι εγώ Κύριος ο Θεός σου είμαι ο κρατών την δεξιάν σου, λέγων προς σε, Μη φοβού· εγώ θέλω σε βοηθήσει.
13 For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I will help you.’
14 Μη φοβού, σκώληξ Ιακώβ, θνητοί του Ισραήλ· εγώ θέλω σε βοηθεί, λέγει ο Κύριος· και λυτρωτής σου είναι ο Άγιος του Ισραήλ.
14 Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
15 Ιδού, εγώ θέλω σε κάμει νέον κοπτερόν αλωνιστήριον όργανον οδοντωτόν· θέλεις αλωνίσει τα όρη και λεπτύνει αυτά, και θέλεις κάμει τους λόφους ως λεπτόν άχυρον.
15 Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff.
16 Θέλεις ανεμίσει αυτά και ο άνεμος θέλει σηκώσει αυτά και ο ανεμοστρόβιλος θέλει διασκορπίσει αυτά· συ δε θέλεις ευφρανθή εις τον Κύριον και θέλεις δοξασθή εν τω Αγίω του Ισραήλ.
16 You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17 Όταν οι πτωχοί και ενδεείς ζητήσωσιν ύδωρ και δεν υπάρχη, η γλώσσα δε αυτών ξηραίνηται υπό δίψης, εγώ ο Κύριος θέλω εισακούσει αυτούς, ο Θεός του Ισραήλ δεν θέλω εγκαταλείψει αυτούς.
17 The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
18 Θέλω ανοίξει ποταμούς εν υψηλοίς τόποις και πηγάς εν μέσω των κοιλάδων· θέλω κάμει την έρημον λίμνας υδάτων και την ξηράν γην πηγάς υδάτων.
18 I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the middle of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
19 Εν τη ερήμω θέλω εμφυτεύσει την κέδρον, το δένδρον της σίττης και τον μύρτον και την ελαίαν· εν τη ακατοικήτω γη θέλω βάλει την έλατον, την πεύκην και τον πύξον ομού·
19 I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness. I will set cypress trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert;
20 διά να ίδωσι και να γνωρίσωσι και να στοχασθώσι και να εννοήσωσιν ομού, ότι η χειρ του Κυρίου έκαμε τούτο και ο Άγιος του Ισραήλ εδημιούργησεν αυτό.
20 that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, that Yahweh’s hand has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.
21 Παραστήσατε την δίκην σας, λέγει Κύριος· προφέρετε τα ισχυρά σας επιχειρήματα, λέγει ο βασιλεύς του Ιακώβ.
21 Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob.
22 Ας πλησιάσωσι και ας δείξωσιν εις ημάς τι θέλει συμβή· ας αναγγείλωσι τα πρότερα, τι ήσαν, διά να στοχασθώμεν αυτά και να γνωρίσωμεν τα έσχατα αυτών· ή ας αναγγείλωσι προς ημάς τα μέλλοντα.
22 “Let them announce and declare to us what will happen! Declare the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.
23 Αναγγείλατε τα συμβησόμενα εις το μετέπειτα, διά να γνωρίσωμεν ότι είσθε θεοί· κάμετε έτι καλόν ή κάμετε κακόν, διά να θαυμάσωμεν και να ίδωμεν ομού.
23 Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together.
24 Ιδού, σεις είσθε ολιγώτερον παρά το μηδέν, και το έργον σας χειρότερον παρά το μηδέν· όστις σας εκλέγει, είναι βδέλυγμα.
24 Behold, you are nothing, and your work is nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.
25 Ήγειρα ένα εκ βορρά και θέλει έλθει· απ' ανατολών ηλίου θέλει επικαλείσθαι το όνομά μου· και θέλει πατήσει επί τους ηγεμόνας ως επί πηλόν και ως ο κεραμεύς καταπατεί τον άργιλον.
25 “I have raised up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name, and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay.
26 Τις ανήγγειλε ταύτα απ' αρχής, διά να γνωρίσωμεν; και προ του καιρού, διά να είπωμεν, αυτός είναι ο δίκαιος; Αλλ' ουδείς ο αναγγέλλων· αλλ' ουδείς ο διακηρύττων· αλλ' ουδείς ο ακούων τους λόγους σας.
26 Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? and before, that we may say, ‘He is right’? Surely, there is no one who declares. Surely, there is no one who shows. Surely, there is no one who hears your words.
27 Εγώ ο πρώτος θέλω ειπεί προς την Σιών, Ιδού, ιδού, ταύτα· και θέλω δώσει εις την Ιερουσαλήμ τον ευαγγελιζόμενον.
27 I am the first to say to Zion, ‘Behold, look at them;’ and I will give one who brings good news to Jerusalem.
28 Διότι εθεώρησα και δεν ήτο ουδείς, ναι, μεταξύ αυτών, αλλά δεν υπήρχε σύμβουλος δυνάμενος να αποκριθή λόγον, ότε ηρώτησα αυτούς.
28 When I look, there is no man, even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask, can answer a word.
29 Ιδού, πάντες είναι ματαιότης, τα έργα αυτών μηδέν· τα χωνευτά αυτών άνεμος και ματαιότης.
29 Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.
Cross references (29)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 1:18; Habakkuk 2:20; Zechariah 2:13; Psalm 46:10; Isaiah 41:6–7
- 2 Isaiah 45:1; 2 Samuel 22:43; Ezra 1:2; Isaiah 46:11; Isaiah 40:24
- 3 Isaiah 57:2; Job 5:24
- 4 Isaiah 48:12; Revelation 22:13; Revelation 1:17; Isaiah 46:10; Isaiah 44:6–7
- 5 Ezekiel 26:15–16; Psalm 67:7; Joshua 5:1; Psalm 65:8; Psalm 66:3
- 6 1 Samuel 4:7–9; Isaiah 35:4; Isaiah 40:19; Isaiah 44:12; Daniel 3:1–7
- 7 Isaiah 40:19–20; Daniel 3:1–7; Isaiah 44:12–15; Judges 18:24; Jeremiah 10:3–5
- 8 James 2:23; Exodus 19:5–6; Deuteronomy 14:2; 2 Chronicles 20:7; John 15:14–15
- 9 1 Samuel 12:22; Psalm 94:14; Deuteronomy 7:6–7; James 2:5; Joshua 24:2–4
- 10 Joshua 1:9; Isaiah 43:1–2; Romans 8:31; Deuteronomy 31:6–8; Philippians 4:13
- 11 Exodus 23:22; Isaiah 45:24; Revelation 3:9; Isaiah 54:17; Acts 16:39
- 12 Psalm 37:35–36; Job 20:7–9; Isaiah 17:14
- 13 Isaiah 41:10; Psalm 73:23; Psalm 63:8; Psalm 109:31; Isaiah 42:6
- 14 Isaiah 54:5; Isaiah 43:14; Psalm 22:6; Jeremiah 50:34; Job 25:6
- 15 Micah 4:13; 2 Corinthians 10:4–5; Zechariah 4:7; Habakkuk 3:12; Isaiah 21:10
- 16 Jeremiah 51:2; Isaiah 61:10–11; Isaiah 45:24–25; Habakkuk 3:18; Jeremiah 9:23–24
- 17 Isaiah 55:1; Isaiah 44:3; Isaiah 30:19; Matthew 5:6; Psalm 72:12–13
- 18 Isaiah 35:6–7; Psalm 107:35; Isaiah 58:11; Isaiah 30:25; Revelation 7:17
- 19 Isaiah 55:13; Isaiah 37:31–32; Isaiah 35:1; Isaiah 60:13; Isaiah 60:21
- 20 Job 12:9; Psalm 109:27; Isaiah 43:21; Isaiah 44:23; Exodus 9:16
- 21 Job 23:3–4; Job 38:3; Micah 6:1–2
- 22 Isaiah 45:21; Isaiah 46:10; Isaiah 44:7; Isaiah 48:14; Isaiah 42:9
- 23 John 13:19; Isaiah 42:9; Jeremiah 10:5; Isaiah 44:7–8; Isaiah 46:9–10
- 24 1 Corinthians 8:4; Psalm 115:8; Isaiah 41:29; Jeremiah 10:14; Jeremiah 10:8
- 25 Isaiah 41:2; 2 Samuel 22:43; Isaiah 10:6; Isaiah 46:10–11; Zechariah 10:5
- 26 Isaiah 44:7; Isaiah 41:22; Isaiah 45:21; Habakkuk 2:18–20; Isaiah 43:9
- 27 Isaiah 40:9; Isaiah 52:7; Isaiah 44:28; Nahum 1:15; Isaiah 48:3
- 28 Isaiah 63:5; Isaiah 50:2; Daniel 2:10–11; Isaiah 40:13–14; Daniel 5:8
- 29 Jeremiah 5:13; Isaiah 41:24; Isaiah 44:9–20; Psalm 115:4–8; Habakkuk 2:18
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