Bilingual reading

He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the LORD’s angel, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.

The LORD said to Satan, “The LORD rebuke you, Satan! Yes, the LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?”

Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.

He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, “Take the filthy garments off him.” To him he said, “Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich clothing.”

I said, “Let them set a clean turban on his head.” So they set a clean turban on his head, and clothed him; and the LORD’s angel was standing by.

The LORD’s angel solemnly assured Joshua, saying,

“The LORD of Armies says: ‘If you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by.

Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you, for they are men who are a sign; for, behold, I will bring out my servant, the Branch.

For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua: on one stone are seven eyes; behold, I will engrave its inscription,’ says the LORD of Armies, ‘and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

In that day,’ says the LORD of Armies, ‘you will invite every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.’”

وأَراني يَشوعَ الكاهِنَ العَظيمَ واقِفًا أَمامَ مَلاكِ الرَّبّ، والشَّيطانَ واقِفًا عن يَمينِه لِيَتَّهِمَه

فقالَ الرَّبُّ لِلشَّيطان: «زَجَرَكَ الرَّبُّ، يا شَيطان، زَجَرَكَ الرَّبُّ الَّذي ٱخْتارَ أُورَشَليم. أَلَيسَ هٰذا شُعلَةً مُنتَشَلَةً مِنَ النَّار؟»

وكانَ يَشوعُ لابِسًا ثِيابًا قَذِرَةً وهو واقِفٌ أَمامَ المَلاك

فأَجابَ وكَلَّمَ الواقِفينَ أَمامَه قائِلًا: «إِنزِعوا عَنه الثِّيابَ القَذِرَة». وقالَ لَه: «أُنظُرْ! إِنِّي قد أَجَزتُ إِثمَكَ عنكَ. فلْتُلبَسْ ثِيابًا فاخِرة»

وقُلتُ: ليُجعَلْ تاجٌ طاهِرٌ على رأسِه. فجَعَلوا التَّاجَ الطَّاهِرَ على رَأسِه وأَلبَسوه الثِّيابَ ومَلاكُ الرَّبِّ واقِف

فحَذَّرَ مَلاكُ الرَّبِّ يَشوعَ قائِلًا

«هٰكذا قالَ رَبُّ القُوَّات: إِن سِرتَ في طُرُقي وحَفِظتَ أَحْكامي، فأَنتَ أَيضًا تَحكُمُ على بَيتي وتُحافِظُ على دِياري، فأُعْطيكَ سَبيلًا إِلى وَسَطِ أُولٰئِكَ الواقِفينَ هُنا»

فٱسمَعْ، يا يَشوعُ الكاهِنُ العَظيم، أَنتَ وأَصْحابُكَ الجالِسونَ أَمامَكَ، فإِنَّهم رِجالٌ بُشَراء. هاءَنَذا آتٍ بِعَبدِيَ «النَّبْت»

فهُوَذا الحَجَرُ الَّذي جَعَلتُه أَمامَ يَشوع. على هٰذا الحَجَرِ الواحِدِ سَبعُ عُيون. وهاءَنذا أَنقُشُ نَقْشَه»، يَقولُ رَبُّ القُوَّات، وأُزيلُ إِثمَ هٰذه الأَرضِ في يَومٍ واحِد

في ذٰلك اليَوم، يَقولُ رَبُّ القُوَّات، يَدْعو كُلُّ واحِدٍ قَريبَه إِلى تَحتِ الكَرمَةِ وإِلى تَحتِ التِّينة»