رُوما 9
| أَقُولُ ٱلصِّدْقَ فِي ٱلْمَسِيحِ، لَا أَكْذِبُ، وَضَمِيرِي شَاهِدٌ لِي بِٱلرُّوحِ ٱلْقُدُسِ: | ١ 1 |
I am speaking the truth as one in union with Christ; it is no lie; and my conscience, enlightened by the Holy Spirit,
| إِنَّ لِي حُزْنًا عَظِيمًا وَوَجَعًا فِي قَلْبِي لَا يَنْقَطِعُ. | ٢ 2 |
bears me out when I say that there is a great weight of sorrow upon me and that my heart is never free from pain.
| فَإِنِّي كُنْتُ أَوَدُّ لَوْ أَكُونُ أَنَا نَفْسِي مَحْرُومًا مِنَ ٱلْمَسِيحِ لِأَجْلِ إِخْوَتِي أَنْسِبَائِي حَسَبَ ٱلْجَسَدِ، | ٣ 3 |
I could wish that I were myself accursed and severed from the Christ, for the sake of my Brothers — my own countrymen.
| ٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ إِسْرَائِيلِيُّونَ، وَلَهُمُ ٱلتَّبَنِّي وَٱلْمَجْدُ وَٱلْعُهُودُ وَٱلِٱشْتِرَاعُ وَٱلْعِبَادَةُ وَٱلْمَوَاعِيدُ، | ٤ 4 |
For they are Israelites, and theirs are the adoption as Sons, the visible Presence, the Covenants, the revealed Law, the Temple worship, and the Promises.
| وَلَهُمُ ٱلْآبَاءُ، وَمِنْهُمُ ٱلْمَسِيحُ حَسَبَ ٱلْجَسَدِ، ٱلْكَائِنُ عَلَى ٱلْكُلِّ إِلَهًا مُبَارَكًا إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ. آمِينَ. (aiōn g165) | ٥ 5 |
They are descended from the Patriarchs; and, as far as his human nature was concerned, from them came the Christ — he who is supreme over all things, God for ever blessed. Amen. (aiōn g165)
| وَلَكِنْ لَيْسَ هَكَذَا حَتَّى إِنَّ كَلِمَةَ ٱللهِ قَدْ سَقَطَتْ. لِأَنْ لَيْسَ جَمِيعُ ٱلَّذِينَ مِنْ إِسْرَائِيلَ هُمْ إِسْرَائِيلِيُّونَ، | ٦ 6 |
Not that God’s Word has failed. For it is not all who are descended from Israel who are true Israelites;
| وَلَا لِأَنَّهُمْ مِنْ نَسْلِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ هُمْ جَمِيعًا أَوْلَادٌ. بَلْ «بِإِسْحَاقَ يُدْعَى لَكَ نَسْلٌ». | ٧ 7 |
nor, because they are Abraham’s descendants, are they all his Children; but — ‘It is Isaac’s children who will be called thy descendants.’
| أَيْ لَيْسَ أَوْلَادُ ٱلْجَسَدِ هُمْ أَوْلَادَ ٱللهِ، بَلْ أَوْلَادُ ٱلْمَوْعِدِ يُحْسَبُونَ نَسْلًا. | ٨ 8 |
This means that it is not the children born in the course of nature who are God’s Children, but it is the children born in fulfilment of the Promise who are to be regarded as Abraham’s descendants.
| لِأَنَّ كَلِمَةَ ٱلْمَوْعِدِ هِيَ هَذِهِ: «أَنَا آتِي نَحْوَ هَذَا ٱلْوَقْتِ وَيَكُونُ لِسَارَةَ ٱبْنٌ». | ٩ 9 |
For these words are the words of a promise — ‘About this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.’
| وَلَيْسَ ذَلِكَ فَقَطْ، بَلْ رِفْقَةُ أَيْضًا، وَهِيَ حُبْلَى مِنْ وَاحِدٍ وَهُوَ إِسْحَاقُ أَبُونَا. | ١٠ 10 |
Nor is that all. There is also the case of Rebecca, when she was about to bear children to our ancestor Isaac.
| لِأَنَّهُ وَهُمَا لَمْ يُولَدَا بَعْدُ، وَلَا فَعَلَا خَيْرًا أَوْ شَرًّا، لِكَيْ يَثْبُتَ قَصْدُ ٱللهِ حَسَبَ ٱلِٱخْتِيَارِ، لَيْسَ مِنَ ٱلْأَعْمَالِ بَلْ مِنَ ٱلَّذِي يَدْعُو، | ١١ 11 |
For in order that the purpose of God, working through selection, might not fail — a selection depending, not on obedience, but on his Call — Rebecca was told, before her children were born and before they had done anything either right or wrong,
| قِيلَ لَهَا: «إِنَّ ٱلْكَبِيرَ يُسْتَعْبَدُ لِلصَّغِيرِ». | ١٢ 12 |
that ‘the elder would be a servant to the younger.’
| كَمَا هُوَ مَكْتُوبٌ: «أَحْبَبْتُ يَعْقُوبَ وَأَبْغَضْتُ عِيسُوَ». | ١٣ 13 |
The words of Scripture are — ‘I loved Jacob, but I hated Esau.’
| فَمَاذَا نَقُولُ؟ أَلَعَلَّ عِنْدَ ٱللهِ ظُلْمًا؟ حَاشَا! | ١٤ 14 |
What are we to say, then? Is God guilty of injustice? Heaven forbid!
| لِأَنَّهُ يَقُولُ لِمُوسَى: «إِنِّي أَرْحَمُ مَنْ أَرْحَمُ، وَأَتَرَاءَفُ عَلَى مَنْ أَتَرَاءَفُ». | ١٥ 15 |
For his words to Moses are — ‘I will take pity on whom I take pity, and be merciful to whom I am merciful.’
| فَإِذًا لَيْسَ لِمَنْ يَشَاءُ وَلَا لِمَنْ يَسْعَى، بَلْ لِلهِ ٱلَّذِي يَرْحَمُ. | ١٦ 16 |
So, then, all depends, not on human wishes or human efforts, but on God’s mercy.
| لِأَنَّهُ يَقُولُ ٱلْكِتَابُ لِفِرْعَوْنَ: «إِنِّي لِهَذَا بِعَيْنِهِ أَقَمْتُكَ، لِكَيْ أُظْهِرَ فِيكَ قُوَّتِي، وَلِكَيْ يُنَادَى بِٱسْمِي فِي كُلِّ ٱلْأَرْضِ». | ١٧ 17 |
In Scripture, again, it is said to Pharaoh — ‘It was for this very purpose that I raised thee to the throne, to show my power by my dealings with thee, and to make my name known throughout the world.’
| فَإِذًا هُوَ يَرْحَمُ مَنْ يَشَاءُ، وَيُقَسِّي مَنْ يَشَاءُ. | ١٨ 18 |
So, then, where God wills, he takes pity, and where he wills, he hardens the heart.
| فَسَتَقُولُ لِي: «لِمَاذَا يَلُومُ بَعْدُ؟ لِأَنْ مَنْ يُقَاوِمُ مَشِيئَتَهُ؟» | ١٩ 19 |
Perhaps you will say to me — ‘How can any one still be blamed? For who withstands his purpose?’
| بَلْ مَنْ أَنْتَ أَيُّهَا ٱلْإِنْسَانُ ٱلَّذِي تُجَاوِبُ ٱللهَ؟ أَلَعَلَّ ٱلْجِبْلَةَ تَقُولُ لِجَابِلِهَا: «لِمَاذَا صَنَعْتَنِي هَكَذَا؟». | ٢٠ 20 |
I might rather ask ‘Who are you who are arguing with God?’ Does a thing which a man has moulded say to him who has moulded it ‘Why did you make me like this?’
| أَمْ لَيْسَ لِلْخَزَّافِ سُلْطَانٌ عَلَى ٱلطِّينِ، أَنْ يَصْنَعَ مِنْ كُتْلَةٍ وَاحِدَةٍ إِنَاءً لِلْكَرَامَةِ وَآخَرَ لِلْهَوَانِ؟ | ٢١ 21 |
Has not the potter absolute power over his clay, so that out of the same lump he makes one thing for better, and another for common, use?
| فَمَاذَا؟ إِنْ كَانَ ٱللهُ، وَهُوَ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يُظْهِرَ غَضَبَهُ وَيُبَيِّنَ قُوَّتَهُ، ٱحْتَمَلَ بِأَنَاةٍ كَثِيرَةٍ آنِيَةَ غَضَبٍ مُهَيَّأَةً لِلْهَلَاكِ. | ٢٢ 22 |
And what if God, intending to reveal his displeasure and make his power known, bore most patiently with the objects of his displeasure, though they were fit only to be destroyed,
| وَلِكَيْ يُبَيِّنَ غِنَى مَجْدِهِ عَلَى آنِيَةِ رَحْمَةٍ قَدْ سَبَقَ فَأَعَدَّهَا لِلْمَجْدِ، | ٢٣ 23 |
so as to make known his surpassing glory in dealing with the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared beforehand for glory,
| ٱلَّتِي أَيْضًا دَعَانَا نَحْنُ إِيَّاهَا، لَيْسَ مِنَ ٱلْيَهُودِ فَقَطْ بَلْ مِنَ ٱلْأُمَمِ أَيْضًا. | ٢٤ 24 |
and whom he called — even us — Not only from among the Jews but from among the Gentiles also!
| كَمَا يَقُولُ فِي هُوشَعَ أَيْضًا: «سَأَدْعُو ٱلَّذِي لَيْسَ شَعْبِي شَعْبِي، وَٱلَّتِي لَيْسَتْ مَحْبُوبَةً مَحْبُوبَةً. | ٢٥ 25 |
This, indeed, is what he says in the Book of Hosea — ‘I will call those my People who were not my People, and her my beloved who was not beloved.
| وَيَكُونُ فِي ٱلْمَوْضِعِ ٱلَّذِي قِيلَ لَهُمْ فِيهِ: لَسْتُمْ شَعْبِي، أَنَّهُ هُنَاكَ يُدْعَوْنَ أَبْنَاءَ ٱللهِ ٱلْحَيِّ». | ٢٦ 26 |
And in the very place where it was said to them — “Ye are not my People”, they shall be called Sons of the Living God.’
| وَإِشَعْيَاءُ يَصْرُخُ مِنْ جِهَةِ إِسْرَائِيلَ: «وَإِنْ كَانَ عَدَدُ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ كَرَمْلِ ٱلْبَحْرِ، فَٱلْبَقِيَّةُ سَتَخْلُصُ. | ٢٧ 27 |
And Isaiah cries aloud over Israel — ‘Though the Sons of Israel are like the sand of the sea in number, only a remnant of them shall escape!
| لِأَنَّهُ مُتَمِّمُ أَمْرٍ وَقَاضٍ بِٱلْبِرِّ. لِأَنَّ ٱلرَّبَّ يَصْنَعُ أَمْرًا مَقْضِيًّا بِهِ عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ». | ٢٨ 28 |
For the Lord will execute his sentence upon the world, fully and without delay.’
| وَكَمَا سَبَقَ إِشَعْيَاءُ فَقَالَ: «لَوْلَا أَنَّ رَبَّ ٱلْجُنُودِ أَبْقَى لَنَا نَسْلًا، لَصِرْنَا مِثْلَ سَدُومَ وَشَابَهْنَا عَمُورَةَ». | ٢٩ 29 |
It is as Isaiah foretold — ‘Had not the Lord of Hosts spared some few of our race to us, we should have become like Sodom and been made to resemble Gomorrah.’
| فَمَاذَا نَقُولُ؟ إِنَّ ٱلْأُمَمَ ٱلَّذِينَ لَمْ يَسْعَوْا فِي أَثَرِ ٱلْبِرِّ أَدْرَكُوا ٱلْبِرَّ، ٱلْبِرَّ ٱلَّذِي بِٱلْإِيمَانِ. | ٣٠ 30 |
What are we to say, then? Why, that Gentiles, who were not in search of righteousness, secured it — a righteousness which was the result of faith;
| وَلَكِنَّ إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَهُوَ يَسْعَى فِي أَثَرِ نَامُوسِ ٱلْبِرِّ، لَمْ يُدْرِكْ نَامُوسَ ٱلْبِرِّ! | ٣١ 31 |
while Israel, which was in search of a Law which would ensure righteousness, failed to discover one.
| لِمَاذَا؟ لِأَنَّهُ فَعَلَ ذَلِكَ لَيْسَ بِٱلْإِيمَانِ، بَلْ كَأَنَّهُ بِأَعْمَالِ ٱلنَّامُوسِ. فَإِنَّهُمُ ٱصْطَدَمُوا بِحَجَرِ ٱلصَّدْمَةِ، | ٣٢ 32 |
And why? Because they looked to obedience, and not to faith, to secure it. They stumbled over ‘the Stumbling-block.’
| كَمَا هُوَ مَكْتُوبٌ: «هَا أَنَا أَضَعُ فِي صِهْيَوْنَ حَجَرَ صَدْمَةٍ وَصَخْرَةَ عَثْرَةٍ، وَكُلُّ مَنْ يُؤْمِنُ بِهِ لَا يُخْزَى». | ٣٣ 33 |
As Scripture says — ‘See, I place a Stumbling-block in Zion — a Rock which shall prove a hindrance; and he who believes in him shall have no cause for shame.’
