Isaiah · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Isaiah 50 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 Ούτω λέγει Κύριος· Που είναι το έγγραφον του διαζυγίου της μητρός σας, δι' ου απέβαλον αυτήν; ή τις είναι εκ των δανειστών μου, εις τον οποίον σας επώλησα; Ιδού, διά τας ανομίας σας επωλήθητε, και διά τας παραβάσεις σας απεβλήθη η μήτηρ σας.
1 Yahweh says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.
2 Διά τι, ότε ήλθον, δεν υπήρχεν ουδείς; και ότε εκάλεσα, δεν υπήρχεν ο αποκρινόμενος; Εσμικρύνθη ποσώς η χειρ μου, ώστε να μη δύναται να λυτρώση; ή δεν έχω δύναμιν να ελευθερώσω; Ιδού, εγώ με την επιτίμησίν μου εξήρανα την θάλασσαν, έκαμα έρημον τους ποταμούς· οι ιχθύες αυτών εξηράνθησαν δι' έλλειψιν ύδατος και απέθανον υπό δίψης.
2 Why, when I came, was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish stink because there is no water, and die of thirst.
3 Εγώ περιενδύω τους ουρανούς σκότος και θέτω σάκκον το περικάλυμμα αυτών.
3 I clothe the heavens with blackness. I make sackcloth their covering.”
4 Κύριος ο Θεός έδωκεν εις εμέ γλώσσαν πεπαιδευμένων, διά να εξεύρω πως να λαλήσω λόγον εν καιρώ προς τον βεβαρυμένον· εγείρει από πρωΐ εις πρωΐ, εγείρει το ωτίον μου, διά να ακούω ως οι πεπαιδευμένοι.
4 The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
5 Κύριος ο Θεός ήνοιξεν ωτίον εν εμοί και εγώ δεν ηπείθησα ουδέ εστράφην οπίσω.
5 The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear. I was not rebellious. I have not turned back.
6 Τον νώτόν μου έδωκα εις τους μαστιγούντας και τας σιαγόνας μου εις τους μαδίζοντας· δεν έκρυψα το πρόσωπόν μου από υβρισμών και εμπτυσμάτων.
6 I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.
7 Διότι Κύριος ο Θεός θέλει με βοηθήσει· διά τούτο δεν ενετράπην· διά τούτο έθεσα το πρόσωπόν μου ως πέτραν σκληράν και εξεύρω ότι δεν θέλω καταισχυνθή.
7 For the Lord Yahweh will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I won’t be disappointed.
8 Πλησίον είναι ο δικαιόνων με· τις θέλει κριθή μετ' εμού; ας παρασταθώμεν ομού· τις είναι η αντίδικός μου; ας πλησιάση εις εμέ.
8 He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
9 Ιδού, Κύριος ο Θεός θέλει με βοηθήσει· τις θέλει με καταδικάσει ιδού, πάντες ούτοι θέλουσι παλαιωθή ως ιμάτιον· ο σκώληξ θέλει καταφάγει αυτούς.
9 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.
10 Τις είναι μεταξύ σας ο φοβούμενος τον Κύριον, ο υπακούων εις την φωνήν του δούλου αυτού; ούτος, και αν περιπατή εν σκότει και δεν έχη φως, ας θαρρή επί το όνομα του Κυρίου και ας επιστηρίζεται επί τον Θεόν αυτού.
10 Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.
11 Ιδού, πάντες σεις, οι ανάπτοντες πυρ και περικυκλούμενοι με σπινθήρας, περιπατείτε εν τω φωτί του πυρός σας και διά των σπινθήρων τους οποίους εξήψατε. Τούτο σας έγεινεν υπό της χειρός μου, εν λύπη θέλετε κοίτεσθαι.
11 Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves, walk in the flame of your fire, and among the torches that you have kindled. You will have this from my hand: you will lie down in sorrow.
Cross references (11)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Deuteronomy 32:30; Jeremiah 3:8; Matthew 18:25; 2 Kings 4:1; Nehemiah 5:5
- 2 Isaiah 59:1; Isaiah 66:4; Numbers 11:23; Joshua 3:16; Genesis 18:14
- 3 Revelation 6:12; Psalm 18:11–12; Exodus 10:21; Matthew 27:45
- 4 Luke 21:15; Jeremiah 1:9; John 7:15–17; Exodus 4:11–12; Proverbs 25:11
- 5 John 14:31; Hebrews 5:8; Philippians 2:8; Isaiah 35:5; John 8:29
- 6 Matthew 26:67; Mark 14:65; Mark 15:19; Luke 22:63–64; Matthew 27:30
- 7 Hebrews 13:6; Ezekiel 3:8–9; John 16:33; Isaiah 42:1; Romans 1:16
- 8 Romans 8:32–34; Revelation 12:10; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 41:21; Isaiah 43:26
- 9 Job 13:28; Hebrews 1:11–12; Psalm 102:26; Isaiah 41:10; Psalm 39:11
- 10 John 12:46; Isaiah 26:3–4; Micah 7:7–9; John 8:12; Psalm 23:4
- 11 Jeremiah 17:5–7; Romans 1:21–22; John 8:24; Romans 10:3; Matthew 15:6–8
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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).
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