Isaiah · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Isaiah 8 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 Και είπε Κύριος προς εμέ, Λάβε εις σεαυτόν τόμον μέγαν, και γράψον εν αυτώ διά γραφίδος ανθρώπου περί του Μαχέρ-σαλάλ-χας-βάζ·
1 Yahweh said to me, “Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher Shalal Hash Baz’;
2 Και παρέλαβον εις εμαυτόν πιστούς μάρτυρας, Ουρίαν τον ιερέα και Ζαχαρίαν τον υιόν του Ιεβερεχίου.
2 and I will take for myself faithful witnesses to testify: Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.”
3 Και προσήλθον προς την προφήτισσαν, ήτις συνέλαβε και εγέννησεν υιόν. Και είπε Κύριος προς εμέ, Κάλεσον το όνομα αυτού Μαχέρ-σαλάλ-χας-βαζ
3 I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then Yahweh said to me, “Call his name ‘Maher Shalal Hash Baz.’
4 διότι πριν μάθη το παιδίον να προφέρη, Πάτερ μου και μήτέρ μου, τα πλούτη της Δαμασκού και τα λάφυρα της Σαμαρείας θέλουσι διαρπαχθή έμπροσθεν του βασιλέως της Ασσυρίας.
4 For before the child knows how to say, ‘My father’ and ‘My mother,’ the riches of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried away by the king of Assyria.”
5 Και ελάλησεν έτι Κύριος προς εμέ, λέγων,
5 Yahweh spoke to me yet again, saying,
6 Επειδή ο λαός ούτος απέβαλε τα ύδατα του Σιλωάμ τα ρέοντα ησύχως, και χαίρει εις τον Ρεσίν και εις τον υιόν του Ρεμαλία,
6 “Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son;
7 διά τούτο, ιδού, ο Κύριος αναβιβάζει επ' αυτούς τα ύδατα του ποταμού, τα δυνατά και τα πολλά, τον βασιλέα της Ασσυρίας και πάσαν την δόξαν αυτού· και θέλει υπερβή πάντα τα αυλάκια αυτού και πλημμυρήσει πάσας τας όχθας αυτού
7 now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks.
8 και θέλει περάσει διά του Ιούδα, θέλει πλημμυρήσει και υπεραναβή, θέλει φθάσει μέχρι λαιμού και το εξάπλωμα των πτερύγων αυτού θέλει γεμίσει το πλάτος της γης σου, Εμμανουήλ.
8 It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through. It will reach even to the neck. The stretching out of its wings will fill the width of your land, O Immanuel.
9 Ενώθητε, λαοί, και θέλετε κατακοπή· και ακροάσθητε, πάντες οι εν τοις εσχάτοις της γής· ζώσθητε, και θέλετε κατακοπή· ζώσθητε, και θέλετε κατακοπή.
9 Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!
10 Βουλεύθητε βουλήν, και θέλει ματαιωθή· λαλήσατε λόγον, και δεν θέλει σταθή διότι μεθ' ημών ο Θεός.
10 Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”
11 Διότι ούτως ελάλησε Κύριος προς εμέ εν χειρί κραταιά, και με εδίδαξε να μη περιπατώ εν τη οδώ του λαού τούτου, λέγων,
11 For Yahweh spoke this to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
12 Μη είπητε, Συνωμοσία, περί παντός εκείνου, περί του οποίου ο λαός ούτος θέλει ειπεί, Συνωμοσία και τον φόβον αυτού μη φοβηθήτε μηδέ τρομάξητε.
12 “Don’t call a conspiracy all that this people call a conspiracy. Don’t fear their threats or be terrorized.
13 Τον Κύριον των δυνάμεων, αυτόν αγιάσατε και αυτός ας ήναι ο φόβος σας και αυτός ας ήναι ο τρόμος σας.
13 Yahweh of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.
14 Και θέλει είσθαι διά αγιαστήριον θέλει είσθαι όμως διά πέτραν προσκόμματος και διά βράχον πτώσεως εις τους δύο οίκους του Ισραήλ διά παγίδα και διά βρόχον εις τους κατοίκους της Ιερουσαλήμ.
14 He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.
15 Και πολλοί θέλουσι προσκόψει επ' αυτά και πέσει και συντριφθή και παγιδευθή και πιασθή.
15 Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.”
16 Δέσον την μαρτυρίαν, σφράγισον τον νόμον μεταξύ των μαθητών μου.
16 Wrap up the covenant. Seal the law among my disciples.
17 Εγώ δε θέλω περιμείνει τον Κύριον, όστις κρύπτει το πρόσωπον αυτού από του οίκου Ιακώβ, και επ' αυτόν θέλω είσθαι πεποιθώς.
17 I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
18 Ιδού, εγώ και τα παιδία, τα οποία μοι έδωκεν ο Κύριος, διά σημεία και τεράστια εις τον Ισραήλ παρά του Κυρίου των δυνάμεων, του κατοικούντος εν τω όρει Σιών.
18 Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.
19 Και όταν σας είπωσιν, Ερωτήσατε τους έχοντας πνεύμα μαντείας και τους νεκρομάντεις, τους μορμυρίζοντας και ψιθυρίζοντας, αποκρίθητε, Ο λαός δεν θέλει ερωτήσει τον Θεόν αυτού; θέλει προστρέξει εις τους νεκρούς περί των ζώντων;
19 When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter,” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?
20 Εις τον νόμον και εις την μαρτυρίαν εάν δεν λαλώσι κατά τον λόγον τούτον, βεβαίως δεν είναι φως εν αυτοίς.
20 Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
21 Και θέλουσι περάσει δι' αυτής της γης σκληρώς βεβαρημένοι και λιμώττοντες και όταν πεινάσωσι θέλουσιν αγανακτεί, και θέλουσι κακολογεί τον βασιλέα αυτών και τον Θεόν αυτών, και θέλουσιν αναβλέψει εις τα άνω.
21 They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse their king and their God. They will turn their faces upward,
22 Έπειτα θέλουσιν εμβλέψει εις την γην και ιδού, ταραχή και σκότος, θάμβωμα αγωνίας και θέλουσιν εξωσθή εις το σκότος.
22 then look to the earth and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Jeberekiah
Named only as the father of the Zechariah who witnessed Isaiah's scroll.
Cited in the guide: Isaiah 8:2
Maher-shalal-hash-baz
The son born to Isaiah and the prophetess, whom the LORD told him to name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
Cited in the guide: Isaiah 8:1; Isaiah 8:3
Zechariah
Zechariah son of Jeberekiah, appointed by the LORD as a trustworthy witness together with Uriah the priest.
Cited in the guide: Isaiah 8:2
Cross references (22)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 30:8; Isaiah 8:3; Job 19:23–24; Habakkuk 2:2–3; Revelation 21:17
- 2 2 Kings 16:10–11; 2 Kings 16:15–16; 2 Kings 18:2; 2 Corinthians 13:1; Ruth 4:10–11
- 3 Hosea 1:3–9; 2 Kings 22:14; Isaiah 7:13–14; Judges 4:4
- 4 Romans 9:11; 2 Kings 17:3; 2 Kings 16:9; Isaiah 10:6–14; 2 Kings 17:5–6
- 5 Isaiah 7:10
- 6 John 9:7; Nehemiah 3:15; Jeremiah 2:13; Jeremiah 2:18; Judges 9:16–20
- 7 Isaiah 17:12–13; Isaiah 7:20; Genesis 6:17; Amos 9:5; Amos 8:8
- 8 Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 30:28; Matthew 1:23; Isaiah 28:14–22; Isaiah 36:1–22
- 9 Isaiah 14:5–6; Proverbs 11:21; Psalm 37:14–15; 1 Kings 20:11; Joel 3:9–14
- 10 Lamentations 3:37; Romans 8:31; Job 5:12; Proverbs 21:30; Psalm 46:11
- 11 Ezekiel 3:14; Proverbs 1:15; Jeremiah 15:19; Jeremiah 20:7; Jeremiah 20:9
- 12 1 Peter 3:14–15; Luke 21:9; Psalm 53:5; Isaiah 51:12–13; Isaiah 30:1
- 13 Luke 12:5; Isaiah 26:3–4; Revelation 15:4; Matthew 10:28; Psalm 76:7
- 14 1 Peter 2:8; Romans 9:32–33; Isaiah 28:16; Luke 2:34; Ezekiel 11:16
- 15 Matthew 21:44; Isaiah 28:13; Luke 20:17–18; Romans 9:32; Matthew 15:14
- 16 Daniel 12:4; Hebrews 3:5; Revelation 19:10; Mark 4:10–11; 1 Corinthians 2:14
- 17 Hebrews 10:36–39; Habakkuk 2:3; Lamentations 3:25–26; Isaiah 25:9; Psalm 33:20
- 18 Hebrews 2:13–14; Luke 2:34; Zechariah 8:3; Isaiah 53:10; Psalm 71:7
- 19 1 Chronicles 10:13; Leviticus 20:6; 2 Chronicles 33:6; Psalm 106:28; Leviticus 19:31
- 20 2 Peter 1:19; 2 Timothy 3:15–17; Acts 17:11; Psalm 119:130; John 5:39
- 21 Proverbs 19:3; Isaiah 9:20; Jeremiah 14:18; 2 Kings 25:3; Jeremiah 52:6
- 22 Isaiah 5:30; Matthew 8:12; Matthew 22:13; Jeremiah 13:16; Proverbs 14:32
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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).
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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).
"For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, Father or mother, He shall receive the power of Damascus, and the spoils of Samaria, against the king of the Assyrians;" declaring, in a mysterious manner indeed, but emphatically, that the Lord did fight with a hidden hand against Amalek.
How is it then that the prophet said, "Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz?" Because, when he was born, there was a taking and dividing of spoils, therefore the event that took place in his time is put as his name.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
… beside the waters of comfort, He hath converted my soul:--that Angels also may share your joy, and Christ Himself the great High Priest, having accepted your resolve, may present you all to the Father, saying, Behold, I and the children whom God hath given Me.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
It is very shameful, and not only shameful, but very foolish, to take from things below a guess at things above, and from a fluctuating nature at the things that are unchanging, and as Isaiah says, to seek the Living among the dead. But yet I will try, for your sake, to give you some assistance for your argument, even …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Again, there are those who say, "He is a man, and who shall know him?" and, "I came unto the prophetess, and she bare a son, and His name is called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God;" and those [of them] who proclaimed Him as Immanuel, [born] of the Virgin, exhibited the union of the Word of God with His own …