Книга пророка Исаии 40
1 Утешайте, утешайте люди Моя, глаголет Бог:
“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.
2 священницы, глаголите в сердце Иерусалиму, утешайте и, яко наполнися смирение его, разрешися грех его, яко прият от руки Господни сугубы грехи своя.
“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”
3 Глас вопиющаго в пустыни: уготовайте путь Господень, правы сотворите стези Бога нашего:
A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.
4 всяка дебрь наполнится, и всяка гора и холм смирится, и будут вся стропотная в право, и острая в пути гладки.
Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill made low; the uneven ground will become smooth, and the rugged land a plain.
5 И явится слава Господня, и узрит всяка плоть спасение Божие, яко Господь глагола.
And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all humanity together will see it.
6 Глас вопиющаго: возопий. И рекох: что возопию? Всяка плоть сено, и всяка слава человеча яко цвет травный:
A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.
7 изсше трава, и цвет отпаде,
The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.
8 глаголгол же Бога нашего пребывает во веки.
The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”
9 На гору высоку взыди, благовествуяй Сиону, возвыси крепостию глас твой, благовествуяй Иерусалиму: возвысите, не бойтеся. Рцы градом Иудиным:
Go up on a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news. Raise your voice loudly, O Jerusalem, herald of good news. Lift it up, do not be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, “Here is your God!”
10 се, Бог ваш, се, Господь, Господь со крепостию идет, и мышца Его со властию: се, мзда Его с Ним, и дело Его пред Ним:
Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might, and His arm establishes His rule. His reward is with Him, and His recompense accompanies Him.
11 аки пастырь упасет паству Свою, и мышцею Своею соберет агнцы, и имущыя во утробе утешит.
He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.
12 Кто измери горстию воду и небо пядию и всю землю горстию? Кто постави горы в мериле и холмы в весе?
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?
13 Кто уразуме ум Господень, и кто советник Ему бысть, иже научает Его?
Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or informed Him as His counselor?
14 Или с ким советова, и настави И? Или кто показа Ему суд? Или путь разумения кто показа Ему? Или кто прежде даде Ему, и воздастся Ему?
Whom did He consult to enlighten Him, and who taught Him the paths of justice? Who imparted knowledge to Him and showed Him the way of understanding?
15 Аще вси языцы, аки капля от кади, и яко претяжение веса вменишася, и аки плюновение вменятся?
Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
16 Дубрава же Ливанова не доволна на сожжение, и вся четвероногая не доволна на всесожжение.
Lebanon is not sufficient for fuel, nor its animals enough for a burnt offering.
17 И вси языцы яко ничтоже суть, и в ничтоже вменишася.
All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.
18 Кому уподобисте Господа, и коему подобию уподобисте Его?
To whom will you liken God? To what image will you compare Him?
19 Еда образ сотвори древоделатель, или златарь слияв злато позлати его, или подобием сотвори его?
To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?
20 Древо бо негниющее избирает древоделатель и мудре ищет, како поставит образ его, и да не поколеблется.
To one bereft of an offering who chooses wood that will not rot, who seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple?
21 Не разуместе ли, не слышасте ли, не возвестися ли вам исперва? Не разуместе ли основания земли?
Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the foundation of the earth?
22 Содержай круг земли, и живущии на ней аки прузи: поставивый небо яко камару и простер е, яко скинию обитати:
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
23 даяй князи аки ничтоже владети, и землю аки ничтоже сотвори.
He brings the princes to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth meaningless.
24 Не насадят бо, ниже насеют, и не вкоренится в земли корение их: дхну на них ветр, и изсхоша, и буря аки стеблие возмет их.
No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.
25 Ныне убо кому Мя уподобисте, и вознесуся? Рече Святый.
“To whom will you liken Me, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.
26 Воззрите на высоту очима вашима и видите, кто сотвори сия вся: носяй по числу утварь Свою, и вся по имени прозовет от многия славы и в державе крепости Своея: ничтоже утаися и Тебе.
Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.
27 Еда бо речеши, Иакове, и что глаголал еси, Израилю: утаися путь мой от Бога, и Бог мой суд отя, и отступи?
Why do you say, O Jacob, and why do you assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my claim is ignored by my God”?
28 И ныне не уразумел ли еси ни ли слышал еси? Бог вечный, Бог устроивый концы земли, не взалчет, ниже утрудится, ниже есть изобретение премудрости Его,
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.
29 даяй алчущым крепость и неболезненным печаль.
He gives power to the faint and increases the strength of the weak.
30 Взалчут бо юнейшии, и утрудятся юноты, и избраннии не крепцы будут:
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.
31 терпящии же Господа изменят крепость, окрылатеют аки орли, потекут и не утрудятся, пойдут и не взалчут.
But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
