Kniha proroka Izaiáša

Biblia - Sväté písmo

(CPDV - Anglický - Catholic PD)

Iz 66, 1-24

1 Thus says the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What is this house that you would build for me? And what is this place of my rest? 2 My hand has made all these things, and all these things have been made, says the Lord. But upon whom will I look with favor, except upon a poor little one, who is contrite in spirit, and who trembles at my words? 3 Whoever immolates an ox, it is as if he slaughters a man. Whoever sacrifices a sheep, it is as if he is smashing the head of a dog. Whoever offers an oblation, it is as if he is offering swine’s blood. Whoever makes remembrance with incense, it is as if he is blessing an idol. All these things, they have chosen according to their own ways, and their soul has taken delight in their own abominations. 4 Therefore, I also will choose their illusions, and I will lead over them the things that they feared. For I called, and there was no one who would respond. I have spoken, and they have not listened. And they have done evil in my eyes; and what I did not will, they have chosen. 5 Listen to the word of the Lord, you who tremble at his word. Your brothers, who hate you and who cast you out because of my name, have said: “Let the Lord be glorified, and we will see by your rejoicing.” But they themselves will be confounded. 6 A voice of the people from the city! A voice from the temple! The voice of the Lord repaying retribution to his enemies! 7 Before she was in labor, she gave birth. Before her time arrived for delivery, she gave birth to a male child. 8 Who has ever heard of such a thing? And who has seen anything like this? Will the earth give birth in one day? Or will a nation be born all at once? For Zion has been in labor, and she has given birth to her sons. 9 Will I, who causes others to give birth, not also give birth myself, says the Lord? Will I, who bestows generation upon others, be barren myself, says the Lord your God? 10 Rejoice with Jerusalem, and exult in her, all you who love her! Rejoice greatly with her, all you who mourn over her! 11 So may you nurse and be filled, from the breasts of her consolations. So may you receive milk and overflow with delights, from every portion of her glory. 12 For thus says the Lord: Behold, I will turn a river of peace toward her, with an inundating torrent: the glory of the Gentiles, from which you will nurse. You will be carried at the breasts, and they will caress you upon the knees. 13 In the manner of one whom a mother caresses, so will I console you. And you will be consoled in Jerusalem. 14 You will see, and your heart will be glad, and your bones will flourish like a plant, and the hand of the Lord will be known to his servants, and he will be angry with his enemies. 15 For behold, the Lord will arrive with fire, and his four-horse chariots will be like a whirlwind: to render his wrath with indignation, and his rebuke with flames of fire. 16 For the Lord will divide with fire, and with his sword among all flesh, and those slain by the Lord will be many. 17 Those who were sanctified, who thought themselves to be clean in the gardens behind the inner gate, who were eating swine’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse: they will be consumed all at once, says the Lord. 18 But I know their works and their thoughts. I am arriving, so that I may gather them together with all nations and languages. And they will approach, and they will see my glory. 19 And I will set a sign among them. And I will send some of those who will have been saved to the Gentiles in the sea, to Africa, and to those who draw the bow in Lydia, to Italy and Greece, to islands far away, to those who have not heard of me, and to those who have not seen my glory. And they will announce my glory to the Gentiles. 20 And they will lead all of your brothers from all of the Gentiles as a gift to the Lord, on horses, and in four-horse chariots, and on stretchers, and on mules, and in coaches, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, in the same manner that the sons of Israel would carry an offering in a pure vessel into the house of the Lord. 21 And I will take from them to be priests and Levites, says the Lord. 22 For in like manner as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will cause to stand before me, says the Lord, so will your offspring and your name stand. 23 And there will be month after month, and Sabbath after Sabbath. And all flesh will approach, so as to adore before my face, says the Lord. 24 And they will go out, and they will view the carcasses of the men who have transgressed against me. Their worm will not die, and their fire will not be extinguished. And they will be a sight to all flesh even unto revulsion.

Verš 1

Thus says the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What is this house that you would build for me? And what is this place of my rest?

1Kr 8:27 - Is it, then, to be understood that truly God would dwell upon the earth? For if heaven, and the heavens of heavens, are not able to contain you, how much less this house, which I have built?

2Krn 6:18 - How then is it to be believe that God would dwell with men upon the earth? If heaven and the heavens of the heavens do not contain you, how much less this house that I have built?

Sk 7:48 - Yet the Most High does not live in houses built by hands, just as he said through the prophet:

Sk 17:24 - the God who made the world and all that is in it, the One who is the Lord of heaven and earth, who does not live in temples made with hands.

Verš 22

For in like manner as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will cause to stand before me, says the Lord, so will your offspring and your name stand.

Iz 65:17 - For behold, I create the new heavens and the new earth. And the former things will not be in memory and will not enter into the heart.

2Pt 3:13 - Yet truly, in accord with his promises, we are looking forward to the new heavens and the new earth, in which justice lives.

Zjv 21:1 - I saw the new heaven and the new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and the sea is no more.

Verš 4

Therefore, I also will choose their illusions, and I will lead over them the things that they feared. For I called, and there was no one who would respond. I have spoken, and they have not listened. And they have done evil in my eyes; and what I did not will, they have chosen.

Prís 1:24 - For I called, and you refused. I extended my hand, and there was no one who watched.

Jer 7:13 - And now, because you have done all these works, says the Lord, and because I have spoken to you from your morning rising, and because I was speaking, but you were not listening, and because I have called you, but you have not responded:

Iz 65:12 - I will number you with the sword, and you will all fall by slaughter. For I called and you did not respond; I spoke, and you did not listen. And you did what is evil in my eyes; and what I did not will, you have chosen.

Verš 5

Listen to the word of the Lord, you who tremble at his word. Your brothers, who hate you and who cast you out because of my name, have said: “Let the Lord be glorified, and we will see by your rejoicing.” But they themselves will be confounded.

Iz 5:19 - and who say: “Let him hurry, and let his work arrive soon, so that we may see it. And let the plan of the Holy One of Israel approach and arrive, so that we may know it.”

Verš 12

For thus says the Lord: Behold, I will turn a river of peace toward her, with an inundating torrent: the glory of the Gentiles, from which you will nurse. You will be carried at the breasts, and they will caress you upon the knees.

Iz 49:22 - Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles, and I will exalt my sign before the peoples. And they will carry your sons in their arms, and they will bear your daughters on their shoulders.

Iz 60:4 - Lift up your eyes all around and see! All these have been gathered together; they have arrived before you. Your sons will arrive from far away, and your daughters will rise up from your side.

Iz 66,1 - Boh pripomína Izraelitom v zajatí, že stavba nového chrámu, po ktorej túžia, nestačí. Veď on má nádhernejší chrám, než bol chrám jeruzalemský.

Iz 66,3 - Ani bezduchými obetami neurobia zadosť svojim povinnostiam k Bohu. Jemu predsa nemôže byť milá obeta človeka, ktorý síce obetuje vola, ale pritom sa dopúšťa aj vraždy; Bohu obetuje ovcu, ale aj pohanským bôžikom obetuje psa, prináša Pánovi potravinovú obetu, ale súčasne obetuje modlám nečistú bravčovú krv, páli Pánovi tymian, a pritom obetuje aj modlám.

Iz 66,5 - Modlárski Izraeliti sa posmievali nádejam svojich veriacich bratov.

Iz 66,7 - Prorok oznamuje, čo videl vo videní: Sion porodil svoje obyvateľstvo. Proroctvo sa dokonale splnilo na Turíce, po zoslaní Ducha Svätého, keď sa na slová apoštola Petra razom zrodil celý národ, tritisíc duší vstúpilo do Cirkvi. Boh sa zaručuje, že sa tento pôrod uskutoční (porov. 37,3).

Iz 66,14 - Ezechiel (hl. 37) prirovnáva zajatý národ k vyschnutým kostiam. Tieto kosti však znovu "vypučia", ožijú.

Iz 66,17 - Prorok sa obracia zas proti modlárstvu. Osnova je nejasná. Hovorí sa asi o nejakom pohanskom obrade, konanom v záhradách, kde zasvätenci kráčali v sprievode za "kýmsi", asi za nejakým pohanským kňazom, ktorý stál azda uprostred záhrady alebo uprostred zasvätencov. Títo modlári sa očisťovali kvôli pohanským obradom, ale nedbali na čistotu, ktorú predpisoval zákon (porov. 65,4; 66,3; o myšiach Lv 11,29).

Iz 66,19 - Taršiš pozri 2,16. – Národ menom Púl nepoznáme. Pravdepodobne je tu reč o akomsi africkom národe, zvanom Pút, ktorý sa spolu s Lúdom spomína aj na iných miestach Biblie (Jer 46,9; Ez 27,10; 30,5). Lúd boli podľa niektorých maloázijskí Lýdovia, podľa iných to bol tiež nejaký africký kmeň. Tubal bol asi národ, ktorý Gréci volali národom Tibarénov. Bývali juhovýchodne od Čierneho mora. Javan sú Jóni a Gréci vôbec.

Iz 66,21 - Kňazstvo bude v novom Božom kráľovstve prístupné všetkým, ktorých si vyberie Boh.

Iz 66,22 - O novom nebi a novej zemi pozri pozn. k 65,17.

Iz 66,23 - V novej Božej ríši budú ľudia prichádzať do chrámu často, nielen tri razy do roka, ako to bolo v Starom zákone. Tu už je celkom zrejmé, že prorok nemyslí na palestínsky Sion a Jeruzalem, veď by bolo nemožné, aby ľudia z celého sveta putovali mesačne, ba týždenne do Palestíny.

Iz 66,24 - Hriešnikov, keďže sa ani v týchto časoch milosti neobrátia, zastihne hrozný osud; večné zatratenie. Je pozoruhodné, že prorok, ktorého kniha obsahuje toľko utešených proroctiev, končí svoje dielo týmto hrozným pohľadom do večného zatratenia. Ale kniha obsahuje dostatok myšlienok a prisľúbení, ktoré sú zárukou veriacim, že dostanú prisľúbenú odmenu a oslavu v živote večnom.