Dialogue with Trypho 69.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Archambault 1:336

Εἴρηται δὲ οὕτως· Εὐφράνθητι ἔρημος ἡ διψῶσα, ἀγαλλιάσθω ἔρημος καὶ ἐξανθείτω ὡς κρίνον. Καὶ ἐξανθήσει καὶ ἀγαλλιάσεται τὰ ἔρημα τοῦ Ἰορδάνου, καὶ ἡ δόξα τοῦ Λιβάνου ἐδόθη αὐτῇ καὶ ἡ τιμὴ τοῦ Καρμήλου. Καὶ ὁ λαός μου ὄψεται τὸ ὕψος κυρίου καὶ τὴν δόξαν τοῦ θεοῦ. Ἰσχύσατε χεῖρες ἀνειμέναι καὶ γόνατα παραλελυμένα. Παρακαλεῖσθε οἱ ὀλιγόψυχοι τῇ καρδίᾳ, ἰσχύσατε, μὴ φοβεῖσθε. Ἰδοὺ ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν κρίσιν ἀνταποδίδωσι καὶ ἀνταποδώσει· αὐτὸς ἥξει καὶ σώσει ἡμᾶς. Τότε ἀνοιχθήσονται ὀφθαλμοὶ τυφλῶν, καὶ ὦτα κωφῶν ἀκούσονται· τότε ἁλεῖται ὡς ἔλαφος ὁ χωλός, καὶ τρανὴ ἔσται γλῶσσα μογγιλάλων, ὅτι ἐρράγη ἐν ἐρήμῳ ὕδωρ καὶ φάραγξ ἐν γῇ διψώσῃ, καὶ ἡ ἄνυδρος ἔσται εἰς ἔλη, καὶ εἰς διψῶσαν γῆν πηγὴ ὕδατος ἔσται.

English · Claude translation

“It was spoken thus: ‘Rejoice, thirsty wilderness; let the wilderness be glad and blossom like the lily. And the deserts of the Jordan shall blossom and rejoice, and the glory of Lebanon was given to it, and the honor of Carmel. And my people shall see the height of the Lord and the glory of God. Be strong, you weak hands and feeble knees. Be comforted, you faint of heart; be strong, do not fear. Behold, our God renders judgment and will render it; he will come and save us. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall hear; then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be clear; for water has broken out in the wilderness, and a valley in a thirsty land, and the waterless ground shall become marshes, and in the thirsty land there shall be a spring of water.’

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:336 · Georges Archambault, ed., Justin: Dialogue avec Tryphon, 2 vols., Textes et documents pour l'étude historique du christianisme 8, 11 (Paris: Picard, 1909) · Greek text: G. Archambault, Justin: Dialogue avec Tryphon (Paris, 1909), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library and published by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0

Text

As printed in Archambault. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Archambault (1909); made independently of existing English translations.

Compare

Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

Scripture

Isa 35:1 · quotation, high confidence
Isa 35:2 · quotation, high confidence
Isa 35:3 · quotation, high confidence
Isa 35:4 · quotation, high confidence
Isa 35:5 · quotation, high confidence
Isa 35:6 · quotation, high confidence
Isa 35:7 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Archambault's printed text (wrong accent)): καὶ ἀγαλλιάσεται τά ἔρημα → καὶ ἀγαλλιάσεται τὰ ἔρημα; ἡ τιμή τοῦ Καρμήλου → ἡ τιμὴ τοῦ Καρμήλου; ὀφθαλμοί τυφλῶν → ὀφθαλμοὶ τυφλῶν; πηγή ὕδατος ἔσται → πηγὴ ὕδατος ἔσται.

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 69.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/69/5/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 69.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/69/5/).