Книга пророка Иеремии 22
1 Сия рече Господь: иди и вниди в дом царя Иудина и рцы тамо слово сие,
Thus says the Lord: “Descend to the house of the king of Judah, and there you shall speak this word.
2 и речеши: слыши слово Господне, царю Иудин, иже седиши на престоле Давидове, ты и дом твой, и раби твои и людие твои и входящии дверьми сими:
And you shall say: Listen to the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, who sits upon the throne of David: you and your servants, and your people, who enter through these gates.
3 сия глаголет Господь: творите суд и правду, и избавите силою угнетена от руку обидящаго и, и пришелца и сира и вдовицы не оскорбляйте, не угнетайте беззаконно, и крове неповинныя не изливайте на месте сем.
Thus says the Lord: Exercise judgment and justice, and free anyone who is oppressed by violence from the hand of a false accuser. And do not be willing to sadden the new arrival, or the orphan, or the widow, nor should you burden them unfairly. And you shall not shed innocent blood in this place.
4 Аще бо творяще сотворите слово сие, то внидут вратами дому сего царие седящии на престоле Давидове и вседающии на колесницы и на кони, тии и раби их и людие их.
For if you will indeed accomplish this word, then there will enter through the gates of this house kings from the stock of David, sitting on his throne, and riding on chariots and on horses: they, and their servants, and their people.
5 Аще же не послушаете словес сих, Сам Собою закляхся, рече Господь, яко в пустыню будет дом сей.
But if you will not listen to these words, I swear by myself, says the Lord, that this house will be in desolation.
6 Понеже тако глаголет Господь на дом царя Иудина: Галаад ты Мне, глава Ливанская, аще не поставлю тебе в пустыню, во грады необитанны,
For thus says the Lord about the house of the king of Judah: You are to me like Gilead, the head of Lebanon. Certainly, I will make you desolate, with uninhabitable cities.
7 и наведу на тя убивающа мужа и секиру его, и посекут избранныя кедры твоя и вергут на огнь.
And I will sanctify over you the destroying man and his weapons. And they will cut down your select cedars and throw them violently into the fire.
8 И пройдут языцы мнози сквозе град сей, и речет кийждо искреннему своему: вскую сотвори Господь тако граду сему великому?
And many nations will pass through this city. And each one will say to his neighbor: ‘Why has the Lord acted in this way toward this great city?’
9 И отвещают: сего ради, яко оставиша завет Господа Бога своего и поклонишася богом чуждим и послужиша им.
And they will answer: ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord their God, and they adored strange gods and served them.’
10 Не плачите мертваго, ниже рыдайте о нем: плачите плачем о исходящем, яко не возвратится ктому, ниже увидит земли рождения своего.
You should not choose to weep for the dead, nor should you mourn over them with tears. Lament for him who is departing, for he will return no more, nor will he see his native land again.
11 Понеже сия рече Господь к Селлиму сыну Иосиину царю Иудину царствующему вместо Иосии отца своего, иже изшел есть от места сего: не возвратится ктому семо,
For thus says the Lord to Shallum, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, who reigned in place of his father, who has departed from this place: He will not return here again.
12 но на месте том, аможе преведох его, тамо умрет и земли сея не узрит ктому.
Instead, he will die in the place to which I have transferred him, and he will not see this land anymore.
13 Горе созидающему дом свой с неправдою и горницы своя не в суде, у негоже ближний его делает туне, и мзды его не воздаст ему:
Woe to one who builds his house with injustice and his upper rooms without judgment, who oppresses his friend without cause and does not pay him his wages.
14 иже рече: созижду себе дом пространен, и горницы широки со отверстыми окнами и своды кедровыми, и расписаны червленцем.
And he says: ‘I will build a broad house for myself, with spacious upper rooms.’ He makes windows for himself, and he builds the roof out of cedar, and he paints it with red ocher.
15 Еда царствовати будеши, яко ты поощряешися о ахазе отце твоем? Не ядят, ниже пиют: лучше тебе было творити суд и правду благу.
Will you reign because you compare yourself to the cedar? Did your father not eat and drink, and act with judgment and justice, so that it would be well with him?
16 Не познаша, не судиша суда смиренных, ниже суда нища: не сие ли тебе есть, еже не знати тебе Мене, рече Господь?
He judged the case of the poor and the indigent for their good. Was this not because he knew me, says the Lord?
17 Се, не суть очи твои, ниже сердце твое благо, но к сребролюбию твоему и крове неповинныя пролиянию, и ко обидам и ко убийству, еже творити я.
Yet truly, your eyes and your heart are toward avarice and the shedding of innocent blood, and toward false accusations and the pursuit of evil deeds.
18 Сего ради сия рече Господь ко Иоакиму сыну Иосиину царю Иудину: горе мужу сему, не оплачут его: горе, брате! Ниже возрыдают о нем: увы мне, господине!
Because of this, thus says the Lord toward Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah: They will not mourn for him by saying, ‘Alas,’ to a brother, or, ‘Alas,’ to a sister. They will not make a noise for him and say, ‘Alas,’ to a master, or, ‘Alas,’ to a nobleman.
19 Погребением ослим погребется, влачимь извержен будет вне врат Иерусалима.
He will be buried with the burial of a donkey, having rotted and been thrown out of the gates of Jerusalem.
20 Взыди на Ливан и возопий, и в Васан даждь глас твой, и возопий на он пол моря, яко сотрени суть вси любовнии твои.
Ascend to Lebanon and cry out! And utter your voice in Bashan, and cry out to those passing by. For all your lovers have been crushed.
21 Глаголах к тебе в падении твоем, и рекл еси: не услышу. Сей путь твой от юности твоея, яко не послушал еси гласа Моего.
I spoke to you in your abundance, and you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, for you have not listened to my voice.
22 Всех пастырей твоих упасет ветр, и любовнии твои во пленение пойдут, и тогда постыдишися и посрамишися от всех любящих тя:
The wind will feed all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. And then you will be confounded, and you will be ashamed of all your wickedness.
23 иже седиши в Ливане и гнездишися в кедрех, возстенеши, егда приидут к тебе болезни, яко раждающия.
You who sit in Lebanon, and who nest in the cedars, in what way did you mourn when suffering came to you, like the suffering of a woman giving birth?
24 Живу Аз, рече Господь, аще будет Иехониа сын Иоакима царь Иудин, перстень на руце десней Моей, оттуду исторгну тя
As I live, says the Lord, if Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, were a ring on my right hand, I would remove him from there.
25 и предам тя в руки ищущих души твоея и в руки, ихже ты боишися лица, и в руки Навуходоносора царя Вавилонска и в руки Халдеом,
And I will deliver you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of those whose face you dread, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
26 и отвергу тя и матерь твою, яже роди тя, в землю чужду, в нейже несте рождени, и тамо умрете:
And I will send you, and your mother who conceived you, into a foreign land, in which you were not born, and there you shall die.
27 а в землю, в нюже тии желают душами своими возвратитися, не возвратятся.
And to the land about which they lift up their mind, thinking to return there, they shall not return.
28 Обезчестися Иехониа, аки сосуд непотребен, яко отриновен бысть той и семя его, и извержен в землю, еяже не ведяше.
Is this man, Jeconiah, a broken earthenware vessel? Is he a vessel which is entirely unpleasing? Why have they been cast out, he and his offspring, cast out even into a land that they have not known?
29 Земле, земле, земле, слыши слово Господне!
O earth, O earth, O earth! Listen to the word of the Lord!
30 Сия рече Господь: напиши мужа сего отвержена, мужа, иже во днех своих не предуспеет: ниже бо будет от семене его муж, иже сядет на престоле Давидове, и власть имеяй ктому во Иуде.
Thus says the Lord: Write: this man is barren; he is a man who will not prosper in his days. For there will not be a man from among his offspring who will sit upon the throne of David, or have authority in Judah, anymore.”
