Книга пророка Исаии 36
1 И бысть во четвертоенадесять лето царствующу Езекии, взыде Сеннахирим царь Ассирийск на грады тверды Иудейски и взя оныя.
And it happened that, in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib, the king of the Assyrians, went up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and he seized them.
2 И посла царь Ассирийск Рапсака от Лахиса во Иерусалим ко царю Езекии с силою великою, и ста у водоважды купели вышния на пути села Кнафеова.
And the king of the Assyrians sent Rabshakeh from Lachish into Jerusalem, to king Hezekiah, with a great force, and he stood near the aqueduct of the upper pool, at the road to the fuller’s field.
3 И изыде к нему Елиаким сын Хелкиев домостроитель, и Сомнас книгочий, и Иоах сын Асафов памятописец.
And those who went to him were Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna, the scribe, and Joah, son of Asaph, the historian.
4 И рече им Рапсак: рцыте Езекии: сия глаголет царь великий, царь Ассирийск: на что уповаеши?
And Rabshakeh said to them: “Tell Hezekiah: Thus says the great king, the king of the Assyrians: What is this faith in which you believe?
5 Еда советом и словесы устными битва бывает? И ныне на кого уповаеши, яко не покаряешися мне?
And by what counsel or strength would you prepare to rebel? In whom do you have faith, so much so that you would withdraw from me?
6 Се, уповаеши на жезл тростян сокрушенный сей, на Египет, на негоже аще опрется муж, внидет в руку его и прободет ю: тако есть фараон царь Египетский, и вси уповающии на него:
Behold, you are trusting in Egypt, in that broken staff of a reed. But if a man were to lean against it, it would enter his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to all who trust in him.
7 аще же глаголете, на Господа Бога нашего уповаем: не сей ли есть, егоже разори Езекиа высокая и требища его, и заповеда Иуде и Иерусалиму: пред олтарем сим поклонитеся?
But if you answer me by saying: ‘We trust in the Lord our God.’ Is it not his high places and altars that Hezekiah has taken away? And he has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar.’
8 Ныне соединитеся господину моему царю Ассирийску, и дам вам две тысящы коней, аще можете дати вседающыя на них:
And now, hand yourselves over to my lord, the king of the Assyrians, and I will give you two thousand horses, and you will not be able to find riders for them on your own.
9 и како можете отвратити лице воеводы единаго? Раби суть, иже уповают на Египтян, на коней и всадников:
So how will you withstand the face of the ruler of even one place, of even the least of my lord’s subordinates? But if you trust in Egypt, in four-horse chariots and in horsemen:
10 и ныне еда без Господа приидохом на страну сию, воевати на ню? Господь рече ко мне: взыди на землю сию и погуби ю.
do I intend to go up against this land to destroy it without the Lord? But the Lord said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’”
11 И рече к нему Елиаким и Сомнас книгочий и Иоах: глаголи к рабом твоим сирски, разумеем бо мы, а не глаголи к нам иудейски: и вскую глаголеши во ушы человеком седящым на стене?
And Eliakim, and Shebna, and Joah said to Rabshakeh: “Speak to your servants in the Syrian language. For we understand it. Do not speak to us in the Jewish language, in the hearing of the people, who are upon the wall.”
12 И рече к ним Рапсак: еда ко господину вашему, или к вам посла мя господин мой глаголати словеса сия? Не к человеком ли седящым на ограде, да ядят мотыла и пиют мочь с вами вкупе?
And Rabshakeh said to them: “Has my lord sent me to your lord and to you in order to speak all these words, and not even more so to the men who are sitting on the wall, so that they may eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”
13 И ста Рапсак, и возопи гласом велиим иудейски и рече: слышите словеса царя великаго, царя Ассирийска:
Then Rabshakeh stood up, and he cried out with a loud voice in the Jewish language, and he said: “Listen to the words of the great king, the king of the Assyrians.
14 сия глаголет царь: да не прельщает вас Езекиа словесы, не может избавити вас:
Thus says the king: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. For he will not be able to rescue you.
15 и да не глаголет вам Езекиа, яко избавит вы Бог, и не предастся град сей в руце царя Ассирийска:
And do not let Hezekiah cause you to trust in the Lord, saying: ‘The Lord will rescue and free us. This city will not be given into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.’
16 не слушайте Езекии: сия глаголет царь Ассирийский: аще хощете благословени быти, изыдите ко мне и ядите кийждо виноград свой и смокви, и пийте от потока вашего,
Do not listen to Hezekiah. For the king of the Assyrians says this: Act with me to your own benefit, and come out to me. And let each one eat from his own vine, and each one from his own fig tree. And let each one drink water from his own well,
17 дондеже прииду и поиму вы в землю, яже аки ваша земля, земля пшеницы и вина и хлебов и виноградов:
until I arrive and take you away to a land which is like your own: a land of grain and of wine, a land of bread and of vineyards.
18 да не прельщает вас Езекиа, глаголя: Бог ваш избавит вы: еда избавиша бози язычестии, кийждо страну свою от руки царя Ассирийска?
But you should not let Hezekiah disturb you, saying, ‘The Lord will deliver us.’ Have any of the gods of each of the nations delivered their land from the hand of the king of the Assyrians?
19 Где есть бог Емафов и Арфафов? И где бог града Сепфарима? Еда возмогоша избавити Самарию от руки моея?
Where is the god of Hamath and of Arpad? Where is the god of Sepharvaim? Have they freed Samaria from my hand?
20 Кто от богов всех языков сих, иже избави землю свою от руки моея, яко избавит Бог Иерусалима от руки моея?
Who is there, among all the gods of these lands, who has rescued his land from my hand, so that the Lord would rescue Jerusalem from my hand?”
21 И умолкоша, и никтоже отвеща ему словесе, повеления ради царева, да никтоже отвещает.
And they remained silent and did not answer a word to him. For the king had commanded them, saying, “You shall not respond to him.”
22 И вниде Елиаким сын Хелкиев домостроитель, и Сомнас книгочий силы, и Иоах сын Асафов памятописец ко Езекии в растерзаных ризах и поведаша ему словеса Рапсакова.
And Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna, the scribe, and Joah, son of Asaph, the historian, entered to Hezekiah with their garments rent, and they reported to him the words of Rabshakeh.
