Книга пророка Иезекииля 17
1 И бысть слово Господне ко мне глаголя:
The LORD’s word came to me, saying,
2 сыне человечь, повеждь повесть и рцы притчу на дом Израилев,
“Son of man, tell a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;
3 и речеши: сия глаголет Адонаи Господь: орел великий, великокрилый, долгий протяжением, исполнь ногтей, иже имать повеление внити в Ливан, и взя избранныя кедра,
and say, ‘The Lord GOD says: “A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers which had various colours, came to Lebanon and took the top of the cedar.
4 и верхи мягкости острога, и принесе я в землю Хананейску, во граде огражденнем положи я:
He cropped off the topmost of its young twigs, and carried it to a land of traffic. He planted it in a city of merchants.
5 и взя от семене земнаго и даде е на поли плодне, (да утвердит корение) над водами многими, видено учини е:
“‘“He also took some of the seed of the land and planted it in fruitful soil. He placed it beside many waters. He set it as a willow tree.
6 и прозябе и бысть в виноград немощен и мал величеством, еже являтися лозию его на нем, и корение его под ним бяше: и бысть в виноград, и сотвори розги, и простре отрасли своя.
It grew and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned towards him, and its roots were under him. So it became a vine, produced branches, and shot out sprigs.
7 И бысть орел другий велик, великокрилный, мног ногтьми, и се, виноград сей оплетаяся об нем: и корение его к нему, и лозие свое испусти ему, еже напаяти себе со грудием сада своего.
“‘“There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. Behold, this vine bent its roots towards him, and shot out its branches towards him, from the ground where it was planted, that he might water it.
8 На поли добре, на воде мнозе питается той, еже сотворити прозябения и приносити плод, еже быти в виноград велик.
It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might produce branches and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a good vine.”’
9 Сего ради рцы: сия глаголет Адонаи Господь: еда исправится? Не корение ли мягкоты его и плод изгниет? И изсхнут вся леторасли его, и не мышцею ли великою, ни людьми многими еже исторгнути его из корения его?
“Say, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Will it prosper? Won’t he pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, that it may wither, that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? It can’t be raised from its roots by a strong arm or many people.
10 И се, тыет: еда успеет? Не абие ли, егда коснется ему ветр знойный, посхнет сухотою? Со грудием прозябения своего изсхнет.
Yes, behold, being planted, will it prosper? Won’t it utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It will wither in the ground where it grew.”’”
11 И бысть слово Господне ко мне глаголя:
Moreover the LORD’s word came to me, saying,
12 сыне человечь, рцы ко дому прогневляющему мя: не весте ли, что суть сия? Рцы им: се, грядет царь Вавилонск на Иерусалим, и возмет царя его и князя его, и отведет я к себе в Вавилон:
“Say now to the rebellious house, ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took its king, and its princes, and brought them to him to Babylon.
13 и поймет от племене царска, и завещает с ним завет, и введет его в клятве, и старейшины земли возмет,
He took one of the royal offspring, and made a covenant with him. He also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land,
14 еже быти в царство немощно, еже весьма не возноситися, (но) хранити завет его и стояти в нем:
that the kingdom might be brought low, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.
15 и отвержется от него посылая послы своя во Египет дати ему кони и люди многи: еда исправит? Спасется ли творяй сопротивная? И преступаяй завет спасется ли?
But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the covenant, and still escape?
16 Живу Аз, глаголет Адонаи Господь, аще не на месте, идеже царь воцаривый его, иже похули клятву Мою и иже преступи завет Мой, с ним среде Вавилона скончается.
“‘As I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the middle of Babylon he will die.
17 И не в силе велицей, ниже в народе мнозе сотворит с ним фараон брань во острозе и в сограждении стрельниц, еже изяти душы многи.
Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company won’t help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts to cut off many persons.
18 И похули клятву, еже преступити завет, и се, даде руку свою и вся сия сотвори ему: не спасется.
For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things. He won’t escape.
19 Сего ради рцы: сия глаголет Адонаи Господь: живу Аз, аще не клятву Мою, юже похули, и завет Мой, егоже преступи, дам на главу его:
“Therefore the Lord GOD says: ‘As I live, I will surely bring on his own head my oath that he has despised and my covenant that he has broken.
20 и простру мрежу Мою нань, и ят будет во одержании ея: и приведу его в Вавилон и разсуждуся с ним тамо о неправде его, еюже неправдова ко Мне:
I will spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgement with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.
21 и вси избегшии его и вси избраннии со всеми ополчении его мечем падут, и вся оставшая их разсею по всему ветру, и увесте, яко Аз Господь глаголах.
All his fugitives in all his bands will fall by the sword, and those who remain will be scattered towards every wind. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken it.’
22 Сего ради сия глаголет Адонаи Господь: и возму Аз от избранных кедра высокаго от верха и дам от главы отраслей его, сердца их остружу и насажду аз на горе высоце:
“The Lord GOD says: ‘I will also take some of the lofty top of the cedar, and will plant it. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.
23 и повешу и в горе высоце Израилеве и насажду и, и прорастит отрасль и сотворит плод и будет в кедр велик: и почиет под ним всяк зверь, и под сению его почиет всяка птица, и лозие его паки устроятся:
I will plant it in the mountain of the height of Israel; and it will produce boughs, and bear fruit, and be a good cedar. Birds of every kind will dwell in the shade of its branches.
24 и увесть всяко древо полевое, яко Аз Господь смиряяй древо высокое и возносяй древо смиренное, и изсушаяй древо зеленое и проращаяй древо сухое: Аз Господь глаголах и сотворю.
All the trees of the field will know that I, the LORD, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree flourish. “‘I, the LORD, have spoken and have done it.’”
