Wahayin Ishaya na Hallakar Babilon

Gustave Doré · 1866 (designs for La Sainte Bible, Tours); this printing 1873–1874
Ɗakin Karatu na Ƙasar Poland, Warsaw

Wannan hoto na Littafi Mai Tsarki ne da Gustave Doré ya zana domin mawallafin Tours, Alfred Mame, a 1866. Mai sassaƙa A. Gusmand, wanda ya sa hannu a ƙasa daga dama, ya sassaƙa shi a katakon da aka yanka ta kan itace. Wannan kwafi ya fito daga bugun Poland da aka buga a Warsaw a 1873–1874.

Wani annabi shi kaɗai, rigarsa tana kaɗawa cikin iska, yana tsaye a kan wani faɗaɗɗen dutse ya ɗaga hannunsa bisa birni matacce. Karyayyun ginshiƙai, jerin kujerun wani babban gidan wasan kwaikwayo mara kowa da dogayen hanyoyi masu baka-baka suna ɓacewa cikin magariba, tsuntsaye kuma suna kewayawa bisa matakala ƙarƙashin ratsin gajimare mai nauyi.

Daga rubutun

Babilon, “kayan daraja na mulkoki”, Allah zai kaɓantar da ita kamar Sodom da Gomorra (Ishaya 13:19)

“Ba za ƙara kasance da mazauna kuma ba ko a yi zama a cikinta dukan zamanai” (Ishaya 13:20)

Namun jeji za su zauna a gidajenta da fadodinta (Ishaya 13:21–22)

Na mai zanen kansa

An zana Babilon kamar rusasshen birnin Romawa, da jerin kujerun gidan wasan kwaikwayo da hanyoyi masu baka-baka, ba tubalin laka na Mesofotamiya ba

Annabin da kansa yana tsaye a cikin kufan; a nassin yana magana a kan abin da zai zo

Garken tsuntsaye maimakon jiminai, kuraye da diloli na ayoyin

Bayanai dalla-dalla

Annabin

Wani ƙaramin mutum sanye da riga mai kaɗawa ya ɗaga hannunsa bisa kufan.

Gidan wasan kwaikwayo mara kowa

Jeri bayan jeri na kujerun dutse, ba wanda ya rage ya zauna a kansu.

Tsuntsaye

Farin tsuntsaye suna kewayawa bisa matakala, kaɗai rayayyu a birnin.

Birnin can nesa

Gidaje masu launi mai sauƙi a kan tudu suna ɗaukar hasken ƙarshe ƙarƙashin gajimare.

Gustave Doré, French, 1832–1883. National Library of Poland (Biblioteka Narodowa), Warsaw — «Pismo Święte Starego i Nowego Testamentu», vol. 2, Warsaw: M. Glücksberg, 1874 (acc. 75.267 A) · Wood engraving after Gustave Doré’s design · National Library of Poland (Polona): the record of the volume gives the licence «Domena Publiczna» (Public Domain), «copyrightProtected»: false; the scan was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by the library itself («Polona Upload», GLAM-Wiki partnership: “This file was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as part of a GLAM-Wiki partnership between the National Library of Poland and Wikimedia Polska”), linking its Polona record.