Isaiah · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Isaiah 59 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, η χειρ του Κυρίου δεν εσμικρύνθη, ώστε να μη δύναται να σώση, ουδέ το ωτίον αυτού εβάρυνεν, ώστε να μη δύναται να ακούση·
1 Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear.
2 αλλ' αι ανομίαι σας έβαλον χωρίσματα μεταξύ υμών και του Θεού υμών, και αι αμαρτίαι σας έκρυψαν το πρόσωπον αυτού από σας, διά να μη ακούη.
2 But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
3 Διότι αι χείρές σας είναι μεμολυσμέναι από αίματος και οι δάκτυλοί σας από ανομίας· τα χείλη σας ελάλησαν ψεύδη· η γλώσσα σας εμελέτησε κακίαν.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.
4 Ουδείς εκζητεί την δικαιοσύνην ουδέ κρίνει εν αληθεία· θαρρούσιν επί την ματαιότητα και λαλούσι ψεύδη· συλλαμβάνουσι κακίαν και γεννώσιν ανομίαν.
4 No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
5 Βασιλίσκου ωά επωάζουσι και ιστόν αράχνης υφαίνουσιν· όστις φάγη εκ των ωών αυτών, αποθνήσκει· και αν σπάσης κανέν, εξέρχεται έχιδνα.
5 They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
6 Τα πανία αυτών δεν θέλουσι χρησιμεύσει εις ενδύματα, ουδέ θέλουσιν ενδυθή από των έργων αυτών· τα έργα αυτών είναι έργα ανομίας, και το έργον της βίας είναι εν ταις χερσίν αυτών.
6 Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.
7 Οι πόδες αυτών τρέχουσι προς το κακόν και σπεύδουσι να χύσωσιν αίμα αθώον· οι διαλογισμοί αυτών είναι διαλογισμοί ανομίας· ερήμωσις και καταστροφή είναι εν ταις οδοίς αυτών.
7 Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
8 Την οδόν της ειρήνης δεν γνωρίζουσι· και δεν είναι κρίσις εις τα βήματα αυτών· αυτοί εις εαυτούς διέστρεψαν τας οδούς αυτών· πας ο περιπατών εν αυταίς δεν γνωρίζει ειρήνην.
8 They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.
9 Διά τούτο η κρίσις είναι μακράν αφ' ημών και η δικαιοσύνη δεν μας φθάνει· προσμένομεν φως και ιδού, σκότος· λάμψιν, και περιπατούμεν εν ζόφω.
9 Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
10 Ψηλαφώμεν τον τοίχον ως οι τυφλοί, και ψηλαφώμεν ως οι μη έχοντες οφθαλμούς· εν μεσημβρία προσκόπτομεν ως εν νυκτί· είμεθα εν μέσω των αγαθών ως νεκροί.
10 We grope for the wall like the blind. Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were twilight. Among those who are strong, we are like dead men.
11 Πάντες βρυχώμεθα ως άρκτοι και στενάζομεν ως τρυγόνες· κρίσιν προσμένομεν αλλά δεν υπάρχει· σωτηρίαν αλλ' είναι μακράν αφ' ημών.
11 We all roar like bears and moan sadly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.
12 Διότι αι παραβάσεις ημών επληθύνθησαν ενώπιόν σου, και αι αμαρτίαι ημών είναι μάρτυρες καθ' ημών· διότι μεθ' ημών είναι αι παραβάσεις ημών· και τας ανομίας ημών ημείς γνωρίζομεν αυτάς·
12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:
13 παρέβημεν και εψεύσθημεν προς τον Κύριον και απεμακρύνθημεν από όπισθεν του Θεού ημών· ελαλήσαμεν άδικα και στασιαστικά· συνελάβομεν και επροφέραμεν εκ της καρδίας λόγους ψεύδους.
13 transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14 Και η κρίσις εστράφη οπίσω και η δικαιοσύνη ίσταται μακράν· διότι η αλήθεια έπεσεν εν τη οδώ και η ευθύτης δεν δύναται να εισχωρήση.
14 Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter.
15 Ναι, εξέλιπεν η αλήθεια· και ο εκκλίνων από του κακού γίνεται θήραμα. Και είδε Κύριος και δυσηρεστήθη ότι δεν υπήρχε κρίσις·
15 Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
16 και είδεν ότι δεν υπήρχεν άνθρωπος, και εθαύμασεν ότι δεν υπήρχεν ο μεσιτεύων· όθεν ο βραχίων αυτού ενήργησεν εις αυτόν σωτηρίαν· και η δικαιοσύνη αυτού, αυτή εβάστασεν αυτόν.
16 He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor. Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness sustained him.
17 Και ενεδύθη δικαιοσύνην ως θώρακα και περιέθηκε την περικεφαλαίαν της σωτηρίας επί την κεφαλήν αυτού· και εφόρεσεν ως ιμάτιον τα ενδύματα της εκδικήσεως και ως επένδυμα περιενεδύθη τον ζήλον.
17 He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.
18 Κατά τα έργα αυτών, ούτω θέλει ανταποδώσει, οργήν εις τους εναντίους αυτού, ανταπόδοσιν εις τους εχθρούς αυτού· θέλει κάμει ανταπόδοσιν και εις τας νήσους.
18 According to their deeds, he will repay as appropriate: wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies. He will repay the islands their due.
19 Και θέλουσι φοβηθή το όνομα του Κυρίου από δυσμών και την δόξαν αυτού από ανατολών ηλίου· όταν ο εχθρός επέλθη ως ποταμός, το πνεύμα του Κυρίου θέλει υψώσει σημαίαν εναντίον αυτού.
19 So they will fear Yahweh’s name from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which Yahweh’s breath drives.
20 Και ο Λυτρωτής θέλει ελθεί εις Σιών και προς τους όσοι εκ του Ιακώβ επιστρέφουσιν από της παραβάσεως, λέγει Κύριος.
20 “A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,” says Yahweh.
21 Παρ' εμού δε αύτη είναι η προς αυτούς διαθήκη μου, λέγει Κύριος· το πνεύμά μου το επί σε και οι λόγοι μου, τους οποίους έθεσα εν τω στόματί σου, δεν θέλουσι λείψει από του στόματός σου ούτε από του στόματος του σπέρματός σου ούτε από του στόματος του σπέρματος του σπέρματός σου, από του νυν και έως αιώνος, λέγει Κύριος.
21 “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”
Cross references (21)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 32:17; Isaiah 50:2; Numbers 11:23; Isaiah 65:24; Genesis 18:14
- 2 Proverbs 15:29; Jeremiah 5:25; Micah 3:4; Isaiah 1:15; Deuteronomy 31:17–18
- 3 Isaiah 1:15; Ezekiel 13:8; Jeremiah 2:34; Isaiah 1:21; Jeremiah 2:30
- 4 Job 15:35; Micah 7:2–5; James 1:15; Jeremiah 7:4; Jeremiah 7:8
- 5 Matthew 3:7; Isaiah 14:29; Proverbs 23:32; Matthew 12:34; Job 8:14
- 6 Jeremiah 6:7; Revelation 3:17–18; Isaiah 57:12; Job 8:14–15; Habakkuk 1:2–4
- 7 Romans 3:15–17; Proverbs 6:17; Mark 7:21–22; Proverbs 1:16; Lamentations 4:13
- 8 Isaiah 57:20–21; Romans 3:17; Isaiah 5:7; Luke 1:79; Psalm 58:1–2
- 9 Isaiah 5:30; Job 30:26; Micah 1:12; Jeremiah 14:19; Lamentations 5:16–17
- 10 Deuteronomy 28:29; Job 5:14; Lamentations 3:6; John 12:40; Proverbs 4:19
- 11 Isaiah 38:14; Ezekiel 7:16; Isaiah 59:9; Jeremiah 9:1; Psalm 85:9
- 12 Ezra 9:6; Hosea 5:5; Jeremiah 14:7; Ezekiel 5:6; Hosea 4:2
- 13 Mark 7:21–22; James 3:6; Hebrews 3:12; Isaiah 5:7; Isaiah 48:8
- 14 Ecclesiastes 3:16; Habakkuk 1:4; Micah 3:9–11; Jeremiah 5:31; Isaiah 5:23
- 15 Micah 7:2; Hebrews 11:36–38; Jeremiah 7:28; 1 John 3:11–12; Romans 8:36
- 16 Ezekiel 22:30; Isaiah 64:7; Psalm 106:23; Psalm 98:1; Isaiah 63:3–5
- 17 Ephesians 6:17; Ephesians 6:14; 1 Thessalonians 5:8; Romans 13:12–14; Isaiah 11:5
- 18 Jeremiah 17:10; Isaiah 63:6; Romans 2:6; Matthew 16:27; Nahum 1:2
- 19 Daniel 7:27; Psalm 113:3; Zechariah 4:6; Revelation 12:15–17; Psalm 22:27
- 20 Romans 11:26–27; Titus 2:11–14; Ezekiel 18:30–31; Acts 3:19; Hebrews 12:14
- 21 Jeremiah 31:31–34; Hebrews 10:16; Ezekiel 36:25–27; Jeremiah 32:38–41; Hebrews 8:6–13
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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 while they remain, there remains in some sort enmity against God, and alienation from Him, which comes from what is evil in us; since Scripture does not speak falsely, which says, "Your sins separate between you and God." He does not then bestow on us His good things, except He take away our evil things.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
And again, I will pour My Spirit upon thy seed; and again, And now the Lord Almighty and His Spirit hath sent Me; and again, This is My covenant with them, saith the Lord, My Spirit which is upon thee; and again, The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me, and the rest; and …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
… Gentiles might enter in," in that other should happen what follows, "and so all Israel should be saved." For the Apostle too takes that testimony of Isaiah, where it is said, "There shall come out of Sion He who shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:" for the Jews, as it is here, "Who shall give salvation to Israel out of …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
"Our years are passed in thought like a spider." We were labouring in things corruptible, corruptible works were we weaving together: which, as the Prophet Isaiah saith, by no means covered us. "The days of our years are in themselves," etc.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)