Книга пророка Иеремии 10
1 Слышите слово Господне, еже глагола Господь на вас, доме Израилев.
Hear ye the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning you, O house of Israel:
2 Сия глаголет Господь: по путем языков не учитеся и от знамений небесных не страшитеся, яко их боятся языцы.
Thus hath said the Lord, Do not habituate yourselves on the way of the nations, and at the signs of the heavens be ye not dismayed; although the nations should be dismayed at them.
3 Понеже законы языков суетни суть: древо есть от леса изсеченое, дело тектонское и слияние:
For the statutes of these people concern what is vanity; for it is but a tree which a man hath cut out of a forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4 сребром и златом украшена суть, и млатами и гвоздьми утвердиша я, да не движутся:
With silver and with gold do they ornament it; with nails and with hammers do they fasten it, that it move not from its place.
5 сребро изваяно есть, не глаголют, носими носятся, понеже ходити не возмогут: не убойтеся их, яко не сотворят зла, и блага несть в них.
As a wrought-out palm-like column are they, and cannot speak; they must needs be borne, because they cannot step along. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do any harm, so also to do any good is not in them.
6 Несть подобен Тебе, Господи: велик еси Ты и велико имя Твое в крепости.
Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Lord: thou [alone] art great, and great is thy name in might.
7 Кто не убоится Тебе, о, Царю языков! Твоя бо честь между всеми премудрыми языков, и во всех царствах их ни един есть подобен Тебе.
Who would not fear thee, O King of the nations? for to thee doth it appertain; because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, [they say] there is none like unto thee.
8 Купно буии и безумнии суть, учение суетных их древо есть:
But at once shall they be shown to be brutish and foolish: it is a doctrine of vanities, it concerneth but wood.
9 сребро извито от Фарсиса приходит, злато от Офаза, и рука златарей, дела вся художников: в синету и багряницу одеют их, дела умоделников вся сия.
The beaten out silver is brought from Tharshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the goldsmith: blue and purple is their clothing; the work of skilful men are they all.
10 Господь же Бог истинен есть, Той Бог живый и Царь вечный, от гнева Его подвигнется земля, и не стерпят языцы прещения Его.
But the Lord God is the truth, he is the living God, and the everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall quake, and nations cannot endure his indignation.
11 Тако рцыте им: бози, иже небесе и земли не сотвориша, да погибнут от земли и от сих, иже под небесем суть.
Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, shall perish away from the earth, and from under these heavens.
12 Господь сотворивый землю во крепости Своей, устроивый вселенную в премудрости Своей, и разумом Своим простре небо.
He made the earth by his power, he established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he stretched out the heavens.
13 Ко гласу Своему дает множество вод на небеси: и возведе облаки от последних земли, блистания в дождь сотвори и изведе ветр от сокровищ Своих.
At the sound when he giveth a multitude of waters in the heavens, and causeth clouds to ascend from the ends of the earth; when he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures:
14 Буй сотворися всяк человек от ума (своего), постыдеся всяк златоделник во изваяниих своих, яко ложная слия, несть духа в них:
Then standeth every man as brutish without knowledge; ashamed is every goldsmith because of the graven image; for falsehood is his molten work, and there is no breath therein.
15 суетна суть дела, смеху достойна, во время посещения своего погибнут.
They are vanity, the work of deception; in the time of their punishment shall they vanish.
16 Несть сицевая часть Иакову, яко Создавый вся Той есть, и Израиль жезл достояния Его, Господь Сил имя Ему.
Not like these is the portion of Jacob; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: The Lord of hosts is his name.
17 Собра отвне имение, обитающее во избранных,
Gather up thy wares from the ground, O inhabitress of the beleaguered city.
18 понеже тако глаголет Господь: се, Аз отвергу обитатели земли сея в скорби и смущу их, яко да обрящется язва твоя.
For thus hath said the Lord, Behold, I will cast forth as with a sling the inhabitants of the land at this time, and I will enclose them, in order that they may find them.
19 Горе во сокрушении твоем, болезненна язва твоя: аз же рех: воистинну сия болезнь моя (есть) и объят мя, жилище мое опусте, погибе:
Woe is me for my breach! my wound is painful; but I thought, This is but pain, and I shall be able to bear it.
20 скиния моя опусте, погибе, и вся кожи моя растерзашася: сынов моих и овец моих несть, несть ктому места скинии моей, места кожам моим:
[But now] my tent is laid waste, and all my cords are torn asunder; my children are gone away from me, and they are not [here]; there is no one to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
21 понеже обуяша пастырие и Господа не взыскаша, сего ради не уразуме все стадо и расточено бысть.
For the shepherds were brutish, and the Lord had they not sought; therefore have they not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.
22 Глас слышания, се, грядет и трус велий от земли северныя, да положит грады Иудины в запустение и во обитание змием.
Behold, the noise of the report is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to render the cities of Judah desolate, a dwelling for monsters.
23 Вем, Господи, яко несть человеку путь его, ниже муж пойдет и исправит шествие свое.
I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in his own power: it is not in man that passeth away to direct his own steps.
24 Накажи нас, Господи, обаче в суде, а не в ярости, да не умаленых нас сотвориши.
Correct me, O Lord, but with justice; not in thy anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
25 Излий гнев Твой на языки не знающыя Тя и на племена, яже имене Твоего не призваша, яко поядоша Иакова и потребиша его и пажить его опустошиша.
Pour out thy fury over the nations that know thee not, and over the families that have not called on thy name; for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his dwelling desolate.
