Первая книга Царств 12

1 И рече Самуил ко всем мужем Израилевым: се, послушах гласа вашего о всех, елика ми ресте, и поставих над вами царя:

And Samuel said to all Israel, You see that I have given ear to everything you said to me, and have made a king over you.

2 и се, ныне царь предходит пред вами, аз же состарехся и седети буду, и сынове мои се с вами: и аз се, ходих пред вами от юности моея и даже до днешняго дне:

And now, see, the king is before you: and I am old and grey-headed, and my sons are with you: I have been living before your eyes from my early days till now.

3 се, аз, отвещайте на мя пред Господем и пред христом Его, еда у кого телца взях, или осля, или кого от вас насилствовах, или кого утесних, или от руку некоего приях мзду, или обущу? Извещайте на мя, и возвращу вам.

Here I am: give witness against me before the Lord and before the man on whom he has put the holy oil: whose ox or ass have I taken? to whom have I been untrue? who has been crushed down by me? from whose hand have I taken a price for the blinding of my eyes? I will give it all back to you.

4 И реша к Самуилу: не обидел еси нас, ниже насилствовал еси нам, ниже утеснил еси нас, ниже взял еси от руки чиея что.

And they said, You have never been untrue to us or cruel to us; you have taken nothing from any man.

5 И рече Самуил к людем: свидетель есть Господь в вас, и свидетель христос Его днесь в сей день, яко ничтоже обретосте в руку моею. И реша людие: свидетель.

Then he said, The Lord is witness against you, and the man on whom he has put the holy oil is witness this day that you have seen no wrong in me. And they said, He is witness.

6 И рече Самуил к людем, глаголя: свидетель Господь сотворивый Моисеа и Аарона и изведый от земли Египетския отцы нашя:

And Samuel said to the people, The Lord is witness, who gave authority to Moses and Aaron, and who took your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.

7 и ныне предстаните, и разсуждуся с вами пред Господем и возвещу вам вся оправдания Господня, яже сотвори вам и отцем вашым:

Keep your places now, while I take up the argument with you before the Lord, and give you the story of the righteousness of the Lord, which he has made clear by his acts to you and to your fathers.

8 егда вниде Иаков и сынове его во Египет, и смириша их Египтяне: и возопиша отцы наши ко Господу, и посла Господь Моисеа и Аарона, и изведе отцы нашя из Египта и всели их на месте сем:

When Jacob and his sons had come into Egypt, and were crushed by the Egyptians, the prayers of your fathers came up to the Lord, and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, who took your fathers out of Egypt, and he put them into this place.

9 и забыша Господа Бога своего, и вдаде я в руце Сисаре архистратигу Иавина царя Асорска, и в руки иноплеменничи, и в руки царя Моавска, и воеваша их:

But they were false to the Lord their God, and he gave them up into the hands of Sisera, captain of the army of Jabin, king of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the king of Moab, who made war against them.

10 и возопиша ко Господу и реша: согрешихом, яко оставихом Господа и поработахом Ваалиму и Дубравам, и ныне изми ны от рук враг наших, и поработаем Тебе:

Then crying out to the Lord, they said, We have done evil, because we have been turned away from the Lord, worshipping the Baals and the Astartes: but now, make us safe from those who are against us and we will be your servants.

11 и посла Господь Иероваала и Варака и Иеффая и Самуила, и изят вы из рук враг ваших окрестных, и обитасте уповающе:

So the Lord sent Jerubbaal and Barak and Jephthah and Samuel and took you out of the power of those who were fighting against you on every side, and made you safe.

12 и весте, яко Наас царь сынов Аммоних прииде на вы, и ресте: ни, но царь да царствует над нами: егда Господь Бог царствова над вами:

And when you saw that Nahash, the king of the Ammonites, was coming against you, you said to me, No more of this; we will have a king for our ruler: when the Lord your God was your king.

13 и се, ныне царь, егоже избрасте и егоже просисте: и се, даде Господь над вами царя:

Here, then, is the king marked out by you: the Lord has put a king over you.

14 аще убоитеся Господа и поработаете Ему, и послушаете гласа Его и не воспротивитеся устом Господним, и будете и вы и царь царствуяй над вами вслед Господа ходяще: то рука Господня не будет на вас:

If in the fear of the Lord you are his servants, hearing his voice and not going against the orders of the Lord, but being true to the Lord your God, you and the king ruling over you, then all will be well:

15 аще же не послушаете гласа Господня и воспротивитеся устом Господним, будет рука Господня на вас и на царя вашего:

But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord, but go against his orders, then the hand of the Lord will be against you and against your king for your destruction, as it was against your fathers.

16 и ныне станите и видите глаголгол сей великий, егоже сотворит Господь пред очима вашима:

Now keep where you are and see this great thing which the Lord will do before your eyes.

17 несть ли жатва пшеницы днесь? Призову Господа, и даст громы и дождь, и уразумеете и увидите, яко злоба ваша велика, юже сотвористе пред Господем, испросивше себе царя.

Is it not now the time of the grain cutting? My cry will go up to the Lord and he will send thunder and rain: so that you may see and be conscious of your great sin which you have done in the eyes of the Lord in desiring a king for yourselves.

18 И призва Самуил Господа, и даде Господь гром и дождь в той день: и убояшася вси людие зело Господа и Самуила,

So Samuel made prayer to the Lord; and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people were in fear of the Lord and of Samuel.

19 и реша вси людие к Самуилу: помолися о рабех твоих ко Господу Богу твоему, да не умрем: яко приложихом ко всем грехом нашым злобу, просяще себе царя.

And all the people said to Samuel, Make prayer for us to the Lord your God so that death may not overtake us: for in addition to all our sins we have done this evil, in desiring a king.

20 И рече Самуил к людем: не бойтеся: вы сотвористе всю злобу сию: токмо не уклонитеся от последования Господня и поработайте Господу всем сердцем вашим,

Then Samuel said to the people, Have no fear: truly you have done evil, but do not be turned away from the Lord; be his servants with all your heart;

21 и не преступите вслед ничтоже сущих, иже не пособствуют и не изимут, яко ничтоже суть:

And do not go from the right way turning to those false gods in which there is no profit and no salvation, for they are false.

22 понеже не отринет Господь людий Своих имене ради Своего великаго, яко кротце Господь прият вас Себе в люди:

For the Lord will not give his people up, because of the honour of his name; for it was the Lord's pleasure to make of you a people for himself.

23 и да никакоже ми согрешити Господу, оставити еже молитися о вас ко Господу, и поработаю Господеви и покажу вам путь благ и прав,

And as for me, never will I go against the orders of the Lord by giving up my prayers for you: but I will go on teaching you the good and right way.

24 токмо бойтеся Господа и работайте Ему во истине и всем сердцем вашим, яко видите яже великая сотвори Господь с вами:

Only go in the fear of the Lord, and be his true servants with all your heart, keeping in mind what great things he has done for you.

25 и аще злобою зло сотворите, то вы и царь ваш погибнете.

But if you still do evil, destruction will overtake you and your king.