Isaiah · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Isaiah 42 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 Ιδού, ο δούλός μου, τον οποίον υπεστήριξα· ο εκλεκτός μου, εις τον οποίον η ψυχή μου ευηρεστήθη· έθεσα το πνεύμά μου επ' αυτόν· θέλει εξαγγείλει κρίσιν εις τα έθνη.
1 “Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.
2 Δεν θέλει φωνάξει ουδέ θέλει ανακράξει ουδέ θέλει κάμει την φωνήν αυτού να ακουσθή εν ταις οδοίς.
2 He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street.
3 Κάλαμον συντεθλασμένον δεν θέλει συντρίψει και λινάριον καπνίζον δεν θέλει σβύσει· θέλει εκφέρει κρίσιν εν αληθεία.
3 He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.
4 Δεν θέλει εκλίπει ουδέ θέλει μικροψυχήσει, εωσού βάλη κρίσιν εν τη γή· και αι νήσοι θέλουσι προσμένει τον νόμον αυτού.
4 He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice on the earth, and the islands wait for his law.”
5 Ούτω λέγει ο Θεός ο Κύριος, ο ποιήσας τους ουρανούς και εκτείνας αυτούς· ο στερεώσας την γην και τα γεννώμενα εξ αυτής· ο διδούς πνοήν εις τον λαόν τον επ' αυτής και πνεύμα εις τους περιπατούντας επ' αυτής·
5 God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:
6 Εγώ ο Κύριος σε εκάλεσα εν δικαιοσύνη, και θέλω κρατεί την χείρα σου και θέλω σε φυλάττει και θέλω σε καταστήσει διαθήκην του λαού, φως των εθνών·
6 “I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations,
7 διά να ανοίξης τους οφθαλμούς των τυφλών, να εκβάλης τους δεσμίους εκ των δεσμών, τους καθημένους εν σκότει εκ του οίκου της φυλακής.
7 to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
8 Εγώ είμαι ο Κύριος· τούτο είναι το όνομά μου· και δεν θέλω δώσει την δόξαν μου εις άλλον ουδέ την αίνεσίν μου εις τα γλυπτά.
8 “I am Yahweh. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images.
9 Ιδού, ήλθον τα απ' αρχής· και εγώ αναγγέλλω νέα πράγματα· πριν εκφύωσι, λαλώ περί αυτών εις εσάς.
9 Behold, the former things have happened and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up.”
10 Ψάλλετε εις τον Κύριον άσμα νέον, την δόξαν αυτού εκ των άκρων της γης, σεις οι καταβαίνοντες εις την θάλασσαν και πάντα τα εν αυτή· αι νήσοι και οι κατοικούντες αυτάς.
10 Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the islands and their inhabitants.
11 Η έρημος και αι πόλεις αυτής ας υψώσωσι φωνήν, αι κώμαι τας οποίας κατοικεί ο Κηδάρ· ας ψάλλωσιν οι κάτοικοι της Σελά, ας αλαλάζωσιν εκ των κορυφών των ορέων.
11 Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains!
12 Ας δώσωσι δόξαν εις τον Κύριον και ας αναγγείλωσι την αίνεσιν αυτού εν ταις νήσοις.
12 Let them give glory to Yahweh, and declare his praise in the islands.
13 Ο Κύριος θέλει εξέλθει ως ισχυρός· θέλει διεγείρει ζήλον ως πολεμιστής· θέλει φωνάξει, μάλιστα θέλει βρυχήσει, θέλει υπερισχύσει κατά των πολεμίων αυτού.
13 Yahweh will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies.
14 Από πολλού εσιώπησα· θέλω μείνει ήσυχος; θέλω κρατήσει εμαυτόν; τώρα θέλω φωνάξει ως η τίκτουσα· θέλω καταστρέψει και καταπίει ομού.
14 “I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.
15 Θέλω ερημώσει όρη και λόφους και καταξηράνει πάντα τον χόρτον αυτών· και θέλω καταστήσει τους ποταμούς νήσους και τας λίμνας θέλω ξηράνει.
15 I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
16 Και θέλω φέρει τους τυφλούς δι' οδού την οποίαν δεν ήξευρον, θέλω οδηγήσει αυτούς εις τρίβους τας οποίας δεν εγνώριζον· το σκότος θέλω κάμει φως έμπροσθεν αυτών και τα σκολιά ευθέα. Ταύτα τα πράγματα θέλω κάμει εις αυτούς και δεν θέλω εγκαταλείψει αυτούς.
16 I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
17 Εστράφησαν εις τα οπίσω, κατησχύνθησαν οι θαρρούντες επί τα γλυπτά, οι λέγοντες προς τα χωνευτά, σεις είσθε οι θεοί ημών.
17 “Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, ‘You are our gods,’ will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.
18 Ακούσατε, κωφοί· και ανοίξατε τους οφθαλμούς σας, τυφλοί, διά να ίδητε.
18 “Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.
19 Τις τυφλός, παρά ο δούλός μου; ή κωφός, παρά ο μηνυτής μου, τον οποίον απέστειλα; τις τυφλός, παρά ο τέλειος; και τις τυφλός, παρά ο δούλος του Κυρίου;
19 Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as Yahweh’s servant?
20 Βλέπεις πολλά αλλά δεν παρατηρείς· ανοίγεις τα ώτα αλλά δεν ακούεις.
20 You see many things, but don’t observe. His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen.
21 Ο Κύριος ευνόησε προς αυτόν ένεκεν της δικαιοσύνης αυτού· θέλει μεγαλύνει τον νόμον αυτού και καταστήσει έντιμον.
21 It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law and make it honorable.
22 Πλην αυτός είναι λαός διηρπαγμένος και γεγυμνωμένος· είναι πάντες πεπαγιδευμένοι εν σπηλαίοις και κεκρυμμένοι εν ταις φυλακαίς· είναι λάφυρον και δεν υπάρχει ο λυτρόνων· διάρπαγμα, και ουδείς ο λέγων, Επίστρεψον αυτό.
22 But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become captives, and no one delivers, and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’
23 Τις από σας θέλει δώσει ακρόασιν εις τούτο; θέλει προσέξει και ακούσει εις το μετά ταύτα;
23 Who is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
24 Τις παρέδωκε τον Ιακώβ εις διαρπαγήν και τον Ισραήλ εις λεηλατιστάς; ουχί ο Κύριος, αυτός εις τον οποίον ημαρτήσαμεν; διότι δεν ηθέλησαν να περιπατήσωσιν εν ταις οδοίς αυτού ουδέ υπήκουσαν εις τον νόμον αυτού.
24 Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn’t Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.
25 Διά τούτο εξέχεεν επ' αυτόν την σφοδρότητα της οργής αυτού και την ορμήν του πολέμου· και συνέφλεξεν αυτόν πανταχόθεν αλλ' αυτός δεν ενόησε· και έκαυσεν αυτόν αλλ' αυτός δεν έβαλε τούτο εν τη καρδία αυτού.
25 Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle. It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know. It burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.”
Cross references (25)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Matthew 12:18–21; Luke 3:22; Isaiah 52:13; Isaiah 61:1; Isaiah 43:10
- 2 Matthew 12:16–20; 2 Timothy 2:24; 1 Peter 2:23; Matthew 11:29; Luke 17:20
- 3 Ezekiel 34:16; Jeremiah 31:25; Psalm 147:3; Matthew 11:28; Isaiah 40:11
- 4 Isaiah 53:2–12; Isaiah 55:5; Genesis 49:10; Psalm 22:27; Isaiah 52:13–15
- 5 Isaiah 40:22; Isaiah 45:12; Jeremiah 10:12; Zechariah 12:1; Isaiah 48:13
- 6 John 8:12; Luke 2:32; Isaiah 26:3; Acts 13:47; Isaiah 49:8
- 7 Ephesians 1:17–18; Isaiah 61:1; Isaiah 49:9; Isaiah 35:5; 2 Timothy 2:26
- 8 Isaiah 48:11; Isaiah 43:11; Exodus 34:14; Exodus 20:3–5; Psalm 83:18
- 9 Isaiah 43:19; Isaiah 46:9–10; John 13:19; 2 Peter 1:19–21; Isaiah 44:7–8
- 10 Psalm 33:3; Isaiah 42:4; Psalm 40:3; Romans 15:9–11; Psalm 98:1–4
- 11 Isaiah 32:16; Isaiah 60:7; Psalm 72:8–10; Isaiah 41:18–19; Psalm 120:5
- 12 Romans 15:9–11; Psalm 117:1–2; Isaiah 66:18–19; Revelation 7:9–12; Isaiah 42:4
- 13 Exodus 15:1–3; Psalm 78:65; Isaiah 59:16–19; Amos 1:2; Psalm 110:5–6
- 14 Psalm 83:1–2; Luke 18:7; Jeremiah 44:22; 2 Peter 3:9–10; 2 Peter 3:15
- 15 Isaiah 50:2; Nahum 1:4–6; Isaiah 44:27; Isaiah 2:12–16; Revelation 20:11
- 16 Isaiah 30:21; Luke 3:5; Isaiah 35:8; Isaiah 60:19–20; Luke 1:78–79
- 17 Psalm 97:7; Isaiah 1:29; Isaiah 44:11; Isaiah 45:16–17; Isaiah 44:17
- 18 Isaiah 43:8; Mark 7:34–37; Isaiah 29:18; Proverbs 20:12; Isaiah 35:5
- 19 2 Corinthians 4:4; Ezekiel 12:2; Jeremiah 5:21; Romans 2:17–23; Matthew 15:14–16
- 20 Deuteronomy 29:2–4; Acts 28:22–27; Isaiah 1:3; Isaiah 58:2; John 11:37–50
- 21 Hebrews 8:10; Romans 3:31; Romans 7:12; Matthew 5:17–20; Isaiah 42:4
- 22 Psalm 102:20; Jeremiah 50:17; Isaiah 51:23; Isaiah 24:22; Psalm 50:22
- 23 Acts 3:22–23; Isaiah 48:18; Leviticus 26:40–42; Matthew 21:28–31; Deuteronomy 4:29–31
- 24 Isaiah 59:1–2; Judges 10:7; Lamentations 1:14; Jeremiah 25:8–9; Lamentations 1:18
- 25 Isaiah 57:11; Hosea 7:9; Ezekiel 7:8–9; Malachi 2:2; Revelation 16:1–21
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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 the Lord hath spoken." And again: "Thus saith the Lord God, who made the heaven, and stretched it out; who established the earth, and the things in it; and who giveth breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them who walk therein."
He shall shine and shall not be broken, until He sets judgment in the earth: and the nations shall hope in His name." The Hebrew has not "Jacob" and "Israel;" but the Septuagint translators, wishing to show the significance of the expression "my servant," and that it refers to the form of a servant in which the Most High humbled …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
A bruised reed shall He not break, and smoking flax shall He not quench, till He send forth judgment unto victory. And in His name shall the Gentiles trust." The prophet celebrates His meekness, and His unspeakable power, and opens to the Gentiles "a great door and effectual;" he foretells also the ills that are to overtake the Jews, and …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
… it seeth Him not,...but ye know Him; for he dwelleth with you." And so says Isaiah;--"He that spread forth the earth and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and Spirit to them that trample on it"; for they that trample down earthly things and rise above them are borne witness …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)
… in a more gentle manner; and the Lord's advent as a man was pointed out, that it should be subsequent to that law which was given by Moses, mild and tranquil, in which He would neither break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax. The mild and peaceful repose of His kingdom was indicated likewise.