Joel · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Joel 3 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 Διότι, ιδού, εν ταις ημέραις εκείναις και εν τω καιρώ εκείνω, όταν επιστρέψω τους αιχμαλώτους του Ιούδα και της Ιερουσαλήμ,
1 “For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 θέλω συνάξει έτι πάντα τα έθνη και θέλω καταβιβάσει αυτά εις την κοιλάδα του Ιωσαφάτ, και θέλω κριθή μετ' αυτών εκεί υπέρ του λαού μου και της κληρονομίας μου Ισραήλ, τον οποίον διέσπειραν μεταξύ των εθνών και διεμοιράσθησαν την γην μου·
2 I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land,
3 και έρριψαν κλήρους διά τον λαόν μου· και έδωκαν παιδίον διά πόρνην και επώλουν κοράσιον διά οίνον και έπινον.
3 and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
4 Και έτι τι έχετε σεις να κάμητε μετ' εμού, Τύρε και Σιδών και πάντα τα όρια της Παλαιστίνης; θέλετε μοι ανταποδώσει ανταπόδομα; εάν σεις ανταποδώσητε εις εμέ, χωρίς αργοπορίας ταχέως θέλω επιστρέψει το ανταπόδομά σας επί την κεφαλήν σας.
4 “Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.
5 Διότι ελάβετε το αργύριόν μου και το χρυσίον μου, και τα εκλεκτά μου αγαθά εφέρετε εις τους ναούς σας.
5 Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,
6 Τους δε υιούς Ιούδα και τους υιούς Ιερουσαλήμ επωλήσατε εις τους υιούς των Ελλήνων, διά να απομακρύνητε αυτούς από των ορίων αυτών.
6 and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.
7 Ιδού, εγώ θέλω εγείρει αυτούς από του τόπου όπου επωλήσατε αυτούς, και θέλω επιστρέψει το ανταπόδομά σας επί την κεφαλήν σας.
7 Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your repayment on your own head;
8 Και θέλω πωλήσει τους υιούς σας και τας θυγατέρας σας εις την χείρα των υιών Ιούδα, και θέλουσι πωλήσει αυτούς εις τους Σαβαίους, εις έθνος μακράν απέχον· διότι ο Κύριος ελάλησε.
8 and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the men of Sheba, to a faraway nation, for Yahweh has spoken it.”
9 Κηρύξατε τούτο εν τοις έθνεσιν, αγιάσατε πόλεμον, διεγείρατε τους μαχητάς, ας πλησιάσωσιν, ας αναβαίνωσι πάντες οι άνδρες του πολέμου·
9 Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up.
10 σφυρηλατήσατε τα υνία σας εις ρομφαίας και τα δρέπανά σας εις λόγχας· ο αδύνατος ας λέγη, Εγώ είμαι δυνατός·
10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’
11 Συναθροίσθητε και έλθετε κυκλόθεν, πάντα τα έθνη, και συνάχθητε ομού· εκεί θέλει καταστρέψει ο Κύριος τους ισχυρούς σου.
11 Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves together.” Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Yahweh.
12 Ας εγερθώσι και ας αναβώσι τα έθνη εις την κοιλάδα του Ιωσαφάτ· διότι εκεί θέλω καθήσει διά να κρίνω πάντα τα έθνη τα κυκλόθεν.
12 “Let the nations arouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
13 Βάλετε δρέπανον, διότι ο θερισμός είναι ώριμος· έλθετε, κατάβητε· διότι ο ληνός είναι πλήρης, τα υπολήνια υπερεκχειλίζουσιν· επειδή η κακία αυτών είναι μεγάλη.
13 Put in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the wine press is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.”
14 Πλήθη, πλήθη εις την κοιλάδα της δίκης· διότι εγγύς είναι η ημέρα του Κυρίου εις την κοιλάδα της δίκης.
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near in the valley of decision.
15 Ο ήλιος και σελήνη θέλουσι συσκοτάσει και οι αστέρες θέλουσι σύρει οπίσω το φέγγος αυτών.
15 The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
16 Ο δε Κύριος θέλει βρυχήσει εκ Σιών και εκπέμψει την φωνήν αυτού εξ Ιερουσαλήμ· και οι ουρανοί και η γη θέλουσι σεισθή· αλλ' ο Κύριος θέλει είσθαι το καταφύγιον του λαού αυτού και η ισχύς των υιών Ισραήλ.
16 Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.
17 Ούτω θέλετε γνωρίσει ότι εγώ είμαι Κύριος ο Θεός σας, ο κατοικών εν Σιών, τω όρει τω αγίω μου· τότε η Ιερουσαλήμ θέλει είσθαι αγία και αλλογενείς δεν θέλουσι διέλθει δι' αυτής πλέον.
17 “So you will know that I am Yahweh, your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and no strangers will pass through her any more.
18 Και εν τη ημέρα εκείνη τα όρη θέλουσι σταλάξει γλεύκος και οι λόφοι θέλουσι ρέει γάλα και πάντες οι ρύακες του Ιούδα θέλουσι ρέει ύδατα και πηγή θέλει εξέλθει εκ του οίκου του Κυρίου και θέλει ποτίζει την φάραγγα του Σιττείμ.
18 It will happen in that day, that the mountains will drop down sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters; and a fountain will flow out from Yahweh’s house, and will water the valley of Shittim.
19 Η Αίγυπτος θέλει είσθαι ηρημωμένη και ο Εδώμ θέλει είσθαι έρημος άβατος διά τας εις τους υιούς Ιούδα αδικίας, διότι έχυσαν αίμα αθώον εν τη γη αυτών.
19 Egypt will be a desolation and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 Η δε Ιουδαία θέλει κατοικείσθαι εις τον αιώνα και η Ιερουσαλήμ εις γενεάς γενεών.
20 But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21 Και θέλω καθαρίσει το αίμα αυτών, το οποίον δεν εκαθάρισα· διότι ο Κύριος κατοικεί εν Σιών.
21 I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed, for Yahweh dwells in Zion.”
Cross references (21)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Zephaniah 3:19–20; Jeremiah 30:3; Ezekiel 39:25; Amos 9:14; Jeremiah 29:14
- 2 Zechariah 14:2–4; Isaiah 66:16; Zephaniah 3:8; Ezekiel 38:22; Joel 3:12
- 3 Nahum 3:10; Amos 2:6; Obadiah 11; Revelation 18:13; 2 Chronicles 28:8–9
- 4 Amos 1:6–10; Jeremiah 47:4; Isaiah 34:8; Isaiah 59:18; Ezekiel 25:12–17
- 5 2 Chronicles 21:16–17; 2 Kings 24:13; 2 Kings 16:8; 2 Kings 12:18; 2 Kings 18:15–16
- 6 Ezekiel 27:13; Joel 3:3; Joel 3:8; Deuteronomy 28:68; Deuteronomy 28:32
- 7 Isaiah 43:5–6; Jeremiah 23:8; 2 Thessalonians 1:6; Jeremiah 30:16; Jeremiah 30:10
- 8 Isaiah 60:14; Job 1:15; Judges 2:14; Isaiah 14:1–2; Judges 4:2
- 9 Jeremiah 46:3–4; Ezekiel 38:7; Isaiah 8:9–10; Jeremiah 31:10; Jeremiah 50:2
- 10 Zechariah 12:8; Micah 4:3; Isaiah 2:4; 2 Chronicles 25:8; Luke 22:36
- 11 Isaiah 13:3; Zephaniah 3:8; Revelation 19:19–20; Revelation 19:14; 2 Thessalonians 1:7
- 12 Joel 3:2; Isaiah 3:13; Psalm 98:9; Isaiah 2:4; Psalm 96:13
- 13 Revelation 14:15–20; Hosea 6:11; Mark 4:29; Jeremiah 51:33; Isaiah 63:3
- 14 Isaiah 34:2–8; Joel 3:2; Philippians 3:2; Revelation 16:14–16; Joel 1:15
- 15 Joel 2:10; Luke 21:25–26; Joel 2:31; Matthew 24:29; Isaiah 13:10
- 16 Amos 1:2; Joel 2:10–11; Jeremiah 25:30–31; Proverbs 18:10; Jeremiah 16:19
- 17 Joel 2:27; Nahum 1:15; Isaiah 52:1; Isaiah 4:3; Revelation 21:27
- 18 Isaiah 35:6; Ezekiel 47:1–12; Revelation 22:1–2; Zechariah 14:8; Amos 9:13–14
- 19 Isaiah 19:1–15; Zechariah 14:18–19; Jeremiah 51:35; Ezekiel 35:1–15; Amos 1:11–12
- 20 Ezekiel 37:25; Isaiah 33:20; Amos 9:15
- 21 Isaiah 4:4; Revelation 21:3; Ezekiel 36:25; Ezekiel 36:29; Ezekiel 48:35
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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).
… will have compassion upon us: He will destroy our iniquities, and will cast our sins into the depths of the sea." And again, specifying the place of His advent, he says: "The Lord hath spoken from Zion, and He has uttered His voice from Jerusalem." And that it is from that region which is towards the south of the inheritance …
And there are also some of them who say, "The Lord hath spoken in Zion, and uttered His voice from Jerusalem;" and, "In Judah is God known;" -- these indicated His advent which took place in Judea.