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 call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Jehovah's hand double for all her sins."
3 Глас вопиющаго в пустыни: уготовайте путь Господень, правы сотворите стези Бога нашего:
The voice of one who calls out in the wilderness, "Prepare the way of Jehovah. Make his roads straight.
4 всяка дебрь наполнится, и всяка гора и холм смирится, и будут вся стропотная в право, и острая в пути гладки.
Every valley will be filled, and every mountain and hill will be made low, and the uneven will be made level, and the rough places a plain.
5 И явится слава Господня, и узрит всяка плоть спасение Божие, яко Господь глагола.
And the glory of Jehovah will be revealed, and all humanity will see the salvation of God together; for the mouth of Jehovah has spoken."
6 Глас вопиющаго: возопий. И рекох: что возопию? Всяка плоть сено, и всяка слава человеча яко цвет травный:
The voice of one saying, "Cry." And I said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
7 изсше трава, и цвет отпаде,
The grass withers, the flower fades, because Jehovah's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.
8 глаголгол же Бога нашего пребывает во веки.
The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of Jehovah stands forever."
9 На гору высоку взыди, благовествуяй Сиону, возвыси крепостию глас твой, благовествуяй Иерусалиму: возвысите, не бойтеся. Рцы градом Иудиным:
You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength. Lift it up. Do not be afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, "Look, 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:
Look, Jehovah will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Look, 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.
He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.
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, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
13 Кто уразуме ум Господень, и кто советник Ему бысть, иже научает Его?
Who has known the mind of Jehovah, or who has instructed 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?
From whom did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding? Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?
15 Аще вси языцы, аки капля от кади, и яко претяжение веса вменишася, и аки плюновение вменятся?
Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Look, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
16 Дубрава же Ливанова не доволна на сожжение, и вся четвероногая не доволна на всесожжение.
Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.
17 И вси языцы яко ничтоже суть, и в ничтоже вменишася.
All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
18 Кому уподобисте Господа, и коему подобию уподобисте Его?
To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?
19 Еда образ сотвори древоделатель, или златарь слияв злато позлати его, или подобием сотвори его?
A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.
20 Древо бо негниющее избирает древоделатель и мудре ищет, како поставит образ его, и да не поколеблется.
He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that will not be moved.
21 Не разуместе ли, не слышасте ли, не возвестися ли вам исперва? Не разуместе ли основания земли?
Haven't you known? Haven't you heard, yet? Haven't you been told from the beginning? Haven't you understood from 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 who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who 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.
who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges 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.
They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
25 Ныне убо кому Мя уподобисте, и вознесуся? Рече Святый.
"To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?" says 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 has created these, who brings out their host by number. He calls them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.
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, Jacob, and why do you assert, Israel, "My way is hidden from Jehovah, and the justice due me is disregarded 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,
And now, haven't you known? Haven't you heard? The everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the farthest parts of the earth, doesn't faint. He isn't weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
29 даяй алчущым крепость и неболезненным печаль.
He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.
30 Взалчут бо юнейшии, и утрудятся юноты, и избраннии не крепцы будут:
Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;
31 терпящии же Господа изменят крепость, окрылатеют аки орли, потекут и не утрудятся, пойдут и не взалчут.
But those who wait for Jehovah will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
