Книга пророка Исаии 40
1 Утешайте, утешайте люди Моя, глаголет Бог:
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith 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 ye [comfort] to the heart of Jerusalem, and call out unto her, that her time of sorrow is accomplished, that her iniquity is atoned for; for she hath 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 calleth out, In the wilderness make ye clear the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for God.
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 raised, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the crooked shall be made a straight path, and the rough places a plain:
5 И явится слава Господня, и узрит всяка плоть спасение Божие, яко Господь глагола.
And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed; and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
6 Глас вопиющаго: возопий. И рекох: что возопию? Всяка плоть сено, и всяка слава человеча яко цвет травный:
A voice saith, Proclaim; and he saith, What shall I proclaim? all flesh is grass, and all its goodliness is as the flower of the field:
7 изсше трава, и цвет отпаде,
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; because the breath of the Lord hath blown upon it; surely the people is grass.
8 глаголгол же Бога нашего пребывает во веки.
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God will stand firm for ever.
9 На гору высоку взыди, благовествуяй Сиону, возвыси крепостию глас твой, благовествуяй Иерусалиму: возвысите, не бойтеся. Рцы градом Иудиным:
Upon a high mountain get thee up, thou that bringest good tidings to Zion; lift up with strength thy voice, thou who bringest good tidings to Jerusalem; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold, [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 Eternal will come with might, and his arm ruleth for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
11 аки пастырь упасет паству Свою, и мышцею Своею соберет агнцы, и имущыя во утробе утешит.
Like a shepherd will he feed his flock: with his arm will he gather the lambs, and in his bosom will he carry them, will he lead gently those that suckle their young.
12 Кто измери горстию воду и небо пядию и всю землю горстию? Кто постави горы в мериле и холмы в весе?
Who hath measured in the hollow of his hand the waters, and meted out the heavens with the span, and comprised in a measure the dust of the earth, and weighed in the scale-beam the mountains, and the hills in balances?
13 Кто уразуме ум Господень, и кто советник Ему бысть, иже научает Его?
Who hath meted out the Spirit of the Lord? and [who was] his counsellor that he could have given him information?
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?
With whom took he counsel, that he gave him understanding, and taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and caused him to know the way of understanding?
15 Аще вси языцы, аки капля от кади, и яко претяжение веса вменишася, и аки плюновение вменятся?
Behold, nations are as a drop out of a bucket, and as the small dust of the balance are they accounted: behold, isles are like the flying dust.
16 Дубрава же Ливанова не доволна на сожжение, и вся четвероногая не доволна на всесожжение.
And Lebanon is not sufficient for burning, and its beasts do not suffice for burnt-offering.
17 И вси языцы яко ничтоже суть, и в ничтоже вменишася.
All the nations are as naught before him; less than nothing, and vanity are they accounted to him.
18 Кому уподобисте Господа, и коему подобию уподобисте Его?
To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
19 Еда образ сотвори древоделатель, или златарь слияв злато позлати его, или подобием сотвори его?
The graven image the artificer hath cast and the goldsmith hath overspread it with gold, and fabricated [on it] silver chains.
20 Древо бо негниющее избирает древоделатель и мудре ищет, како поставит образ его, и да не поколеблется.
He that is skilled in the choice chooseth a wood that will not rot; he seeketh unto himself a skilful workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
21 Не разуместе ли, не слышасте ли, не возвестися ли вам исперва? Не разуместе ли основания земли?
Know ye not? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not paid attention to the foundations of the earth?
22 Содержай круг земли, и живущии на ней аки прузи: поставивый небо яко камару и простер е, яко скинию обитати:
[It is he] that dwelleth above the circle of the earth, while its inhabitants are as grasshoppers; that stretched out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;
23 даяй князи аки ничтоже владети, и землю аки ничтоже сотвори.
That bringeth princes to naught; rendering the judges of the earth as vanity.
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.
Yes, they were not yet planted; yea, they were not yet sown; yea, their stem had not yet taken root in the earth: when he but breathed upon them, and they withered, and the storm-wind carrieth them away as stubble.
25 Ныне убо кому Мя уподобисте, и вознесуся? Рече Святый.
To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be equal to? saith 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, and see who hath created these? he that bringeth out their host by number; that calleth them all by name; from the Mighty One not one escapeth.
27 Еда бо речеши, Иакове, и что глаголал еси, Израилю: утаися путь мой от Бога, и Бог мой суд отя, и отступи?
Why wilt thou say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from the Lord, and my cause hath passed from the cognizance of 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,
Dost thou not know? hast thou not heard? The God of everlasting is the Lord, is the Creator of the ends of the earth; he will not be faint and weary; unsearchable is his understanding.
29 даяй алчущым крепость и неболезненным печаль.
He giveth to the faint strength; and to the powerless he imparteth much might.
30 Взалчут бо юнейшии, и утрудятся юноты, и избраннии не крепцы будут:
Though youths should grow faint and be weary, and young men should utterly stumble:
31 терпящии же Господа изменят крепость, окрылатеют аки орли, потекут и не утрудятся, пойдут и не взалчут.
Yet they that wait upon the Lord shall acquire new strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk, and not become faint.
