Книга пророка Иеремии 10
1 Слышите слово Господне, еже глагола Господь на вас, доме Израилев.
You people of Israel, listen to what Yahweh says:
2 Сия глаголет Господь: по путем языков не учитеся и от знамений небесных не страшитеся, яко их боятся языцы.
“Do not act like the people of [other] nations act, and do not be terrified by strange/unusual things that you see in the sky, even though they cause the [people of other] nations to be terrified.
3 Понеже законы языков суетни суть: древо есть от леса изсеченое, дело тектонское и слияние:
The customs of the people [of other nations] are worthless. [For example], they cut down a tree in the forest. Then a [skilled] worker/craftsman [cuts a section of it and] uses his chisel to carve an idol from that section.
4 сребром и златом украшена суть, и млатами и гвоздьми утвердиша я, да не движутся:
[Then] people decorate the idol with silver and gold. [Then] they fasten it securely with nails in order that it will not topple/fall over.
5 сребро изваяно есть, не глаголют, носими носятся, понеже ходити не возмогут: не убойтеся их, яко не сотворят зла, и блага несть в них.
[Then] the idol [stands there] like [SIM] a scarecrow in a field of cucumbers/melons! It cannot speak, and people must carry it, because it cannot walk. Do not be afraid of idols, because they cannot harm [anyone], and they cannot do [anything] good [to help anyone].”
6 Несть подобен Тебе, Господи: велик еси Ты и велико имя Твое в крепости.
Yahweh, there is no one like you. You [MTY] are great, and you are very powerful.
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.
You are the king of all the nations! Everyone should [RHQ] revere you, because that is what you deserve. Among all the wise people on the earth and in all the kingdoms where they live, (there is no one like you./who can compare with you?)
8 Купно буии и безумнии суть, учение суетных их древо есть:
Those people who [think that they are] very wise [IRO] are stupid and foolish [DOU]. The idols that they worship are only made of wood! Those idols certainly cannot teach them anything.
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.
People hammer into thin sheets silver from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz, and then they give those sheets of silver and gold to skilled workers/craftsmen to cover the idols. Then they put on those idols expensive purple robes that are made by skilled workers.
10 Господь же Бог истинен есть, Той Бог живый и Царь вечный, от гнева Его подвигнется земля, и не стерпят языцы прещения Его.
But Yahweh is the [only] true God; he is the all-powerful God, the king [who rules] forever. When he is angry, [all] the earth shakes/quakes; and [the people of] the nations cannot endure [what he does] when he is angry [with them].
11 Тако рцыте им: бози, иже небесе и земли не сотвориша, да погибнут от земли и от сих, иже под небесем суть.
[You Israeli people], tell this to those people: “Those idols did not make the sky and the earth, and they will disappear from the earth.”
12 Господь сотворивый землю во крепости Своей, устроивый вселенную в премудрости Своей, и разумом Своим простре небо.
But [Yahweh] made the earth by his power; he established it [firmly] by his wisdom and stretched out the sky by his understanding.
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.
When he speaks [loudly], there is thunder in the sky; he causes clouds to form over every part of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and releases the winds from his storehouses.
14 Буй сотворися всяк человек от ума (своего), постыдеся всяк златоделник во изваяниих своих, яко ложная слия, несть духа в них:
People are senseless and know very little [HYP]; those who make idols are always disappointed because their idols do nothing for them. The images/statues that they make are not real [gods]; they are lifeless.
15 суетна суть дела, смеху достойна, во время посещения своего погибнут.
Idols are worthless; they deserve to be ridiculed; there will be a time when they [all] will be destroyed.
16 Несть сицевая часть Иакову, яко Создавый вся Той есть, и Израиль жезл достояния Его, Господь Сил имя Ему.
But the God whom we Israelis worship is not like those idols; he is the one who created everything [that exists]; we, the tribe/people of Israel, belong to him; he is the Commander of the armies of angels.
17 Собра отвне имение, обитающее во избранных,
[Yahweh says this to the people of Jerusalem]: “The army of your enemies surrounds your city, so gather up your possessions [and prepare] to leave the city.
18 понеже тако глаголет Господь: се, Аз отвергу обитатели земли сея в скорби и смущу их, яко да обрящется язва твоя.
I will soon throw you out of this land and cause you to experience great troubles, with the result that you will have severe pain (OR, none of you will be left here).”
19 Горе во сокрушении твоем, болезненна язва твоя: аз же рех: воистинну сия болезнь моя (есть) и объят мя, жилище мое опусте, погибе:
[The people replied, “It is as though] we have been [badly] wounded, and we are very grieved; [It is as though] we have a very serious illness, and we must endure the pain.
20 скиния моя опусте, погибе, и вся кожи моя растерзашася: сынов моих и овец моих несть, несть ктому места скинии моей, места кожам моим:
[It is as though] our [great] tent is destroyed; the ropes [that held it up] have been cut; our children have gone away from us and will not return; there are no people left to rebuild our great tent.
21 понеже обуяша пастырие и Господа не взыскаша, сего ради не уразуме все стадо и расточено бысть.
Our leaders [MET] no [longer] have any sense; they no [longer] ask Yahweh [to (guide them/tell them what to do)], so they will no [longer] prosper, and all those over whom they rule [MET] will be scattered.
22 Глас слышания, се, грядет и трус велий от земли северныя, да положит грады Иудины в запустение и во обитание змием.
Listen! [Our enemies’ armies] in the north are making a [very] big noise/commotion [as they march toward us]. The towns in Judah will be destroyed, [and they will become] a place where jackals/wolves live.”
23 Вем, Господи, яко несть человеку путь его, ниже муж пойдет и исправит шествие свое.
Yahweh, I know that no person controls what will happen to him; no one is able to direct the events that he will experience.
24 Накажи нас, Господи, обаче в суде, а не в ярости, да не умаленых нас сотвориши.
[So] correct/discipline us, but do it gently. Do not correct/punish us when you are angry, because we would die if you did that.
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.
Punish [MTY] [all] the nations whose people do not acknowledge/say that you are God; punish all the nations whose people do not worship you, because they are completely destroying [DOU] [us people of] Israel and they are causing our land to soon be only a desert.
