Bilingual reading

The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?

You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town, your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.

All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.

Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity from the Lord, GOD of Armies, in the valley of vision, a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.”

Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.

Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.

He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.

You saw the breaches of David’s city, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

You counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.

You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who planned it long ago.

In that day, the Lord, GOD of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;

and behold, there is joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”

The LORD of Armies revealed himself in my ears, “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,” says the Lord, GOD of Armies.

The Lord, GOD of Armies says, “Go, get yourself to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say,

‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!”

Behold, the LORD will overcome you and hurl you away violently. Yes, he will grasp you firmly.

He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you disgrace of your lord’s house.

I will thrust you from your office. You will be pulled down from your station.

It will happen in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,

and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open.

I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house.

They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers.

“In that day,” says the LORD of Armies, “the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give way. It will be cut down and fall. The burden that was on it will be cut off, for the LORD has spoken it.”

قَولٌ على وادي الرُّؤيا: ما لَكِ قد صَعِدتِ كُلُّكِ إِلى السُّطوح؟

أَيَّتُها المُمتَلِئَةُ جَلَبَةً المَدينَةُ العَجَّاجَةُ البَلدَةُ المُبتَهِجَة. لَيسَ قَتْلاكِ قَتْلى السَّيف ولا مَوتى القِتال

جَميعُ قُوَّادِكِ هَرَبوا مَعًا وأُسِروا دونَ أَن يَرموا بِالقَوس وأُسِرَ مَعًا كُلُّ مَن وُجِدوا وهم مُنهَزِمونَ بَعيدًا

فلِذٰلك قُلت: «تَحَوَّلوا عنِّي فأَبكِيَ بُكاءً مُرًّا. لا تُلِحُّوا في تَعزِيَتي عن دَمارِ بِنتِ شَعْبي»

هُوَذا يَومُ هَزيمةٍ وٱنسِحاقٍ وبَلبَلَة مِن لَدُنِ رَبِّ القُوَّات. في وادي الرُّؤيا قُوِّضَتِ الأَسْوار وصُرِخَ إِلى الجِبال

إِنَّ عَيلامَ قد حَمَلَ الجَعبَة في مَركباتٍ بِرِجالٍ وفُرْسان وجَرَّدَ قيرٌ التُّروس

فنُخبَةُ أَودِيَتِكَ مَلْأى بِالمَركَبات والفُرسانُ مُصطَفُّون أَمامَ الباب

قد رُفِعَت حِمايةُ يَهوذا. في ذٰلك اليَومِ ٱلتَفَتِّ إِلى سِلاحِ بَيتِ الغابة

ورأَيتُم ثُلَمَ مَدينَةِ داوُدَ قد تَكاثَرَت وجَمَعتُم مِياهَ البِركَةِ السُّفْلى

وَعَدَدْتُمْ بُيُوتَ أُورُشَلِيمَ وَهَدَمْتُمُ الْبُيُوتَ لِتَحْصِينِ السُّورِ.

وصَنَعتُم بُحَيرةً بَينَ السُّورَين لِمِياهِ البِركَةِ العَتيقة ولم تَلتَفِتوا إِلى الَّذي فَعَلَ ذٰلك ولا نَظَرتُم إِلى الَّذي كَوَّنَه مِن زَمَنٍ بَعيد

في ذٰلك اليَومِ دَعا السَّيِّدُ رَبُّ القُوَّات إِلى البُكاءِ والنَّحيب وحَلْقِ الشَّعَرِ والتَحَزُّمِ بِالمِسْح

وإِذا بِالفَرَحِ والسُّرور وذَبحِ البَقَرِ ونَحرِ الغَنَم وأَكْلِ اللَّحمِ وشُربِ الخَمْر: «لِنَأكُلْ ونَشرَبْ فإِنَّنا غَدًا نَموت»

فأَوحى إِلى أُذُني رَبُّ القُوَّات: «لن يُكَفَّرَ عنكم هٰذا الإِثمُ حتَّى تَموتوا» يَقولُ السَّيِّدُ رَبُّ القُوَّات

هٰكذا قالَ السَّيِّدُ رَبُّ القُوَّات: إِذهَبْ فٱدخُلْ إِلى ذٰلك الوَكيل إِلى شَبْنا قَيِّمِ البَيت

وقُلْ: «ما لَكَ هُنا ومَن لَكَ هنا حتَّى نَحَتَّ لَكَ قَبرًا هُنا؟» أَيُّها النَّاحِتُ لَه قَبرًا رَفيعًا الحافِرُ في الصَّخرِ مَسكِنًا لَه

هُوَذا الرَّبُّ، يا رَجُلُ، يَقذِفُ بِكَ قَذفًا ويَقبِضُ علَيكَ قَبضًا

يُدَحرِجُكَ دَحرَجَةَ الكُرَة إِلى أَرضٍ واسِعَةِ الأَطْراف. هُناكَ تَموتُ وهُناكَ تَكونُ مَركَباتُ مَجدِكَ يا عارَ بَيتِ سَيِّدِكَ

وأَطرُدُكَ عن مَنصِبِكَ وعن مَقامِكَ تُخلَع

وفي ذٰلك اليَومِ أَدْعو عَبْدي أَلْياقيمَ بنَ حِلقِيَّا

وأُلبِسُه حُلَّتَكَ وأَشُدُّهُ بِزُنَّارِكَ وأَجعَلُ سُلْطانَكَ في يَدِه فيَكونُ أَبًا لِساكني أُورَشَليمَ ولِبَيتِ يَهوذا

وأَجعَلُ مِفْتاحَ بَيتِ داوُدَ على كَتِفِه يَفتَحُ فلا يُغلِقُ أَحَد ويُغلِقُ فلا يَفتَحُ أَحَد

وأَغرِسُه وَتِدًا في مَكانٍ مَتين فيَكونُ عَرشَ مَجدٍ لِبَيتِ أَبيه

ويُعَلِّقونَ عليه كُلَّ مَجدِ بَيتِ أَبيه، الأَبْناءَ والأَحْفادَ وجَميعَ الآنِيَةِ الصَّغيرة، مِن آنِيَةِ الكُؤُوسِ إِلى جَميعِ آنِيَةِ الجِرار

في ذٰلك اليَوم، يَقولُ رَبُّ القُوَّات، يُنزَعُ الوَتِدُ المَغْروسُ في المَكانِ المَتين، ويَنكَسِرُ ويَسقُط، فيُبادُ الحِملُ الَّذي علَيه، لِأَنَّ الرَّبَّ قد تَكَلَّم