Книга пророка Иеремии 24

1 Показа мне Господь, и се, две кошницы полны смоквий поставлены пред храмом Господним, повнегда преведе Навуходоносор царь Вавилонский Иехонию сына Иоакимова, царя Иудина, и началников его и художников, и узников и богатых от Иерусалима, и преведе их в Вавилон.

The Lord shewed me: and behold two baskets full of figs, set before the temple of the Lord: after that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda, and his chief men, and the craftsmen, and engravers of Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

2 Кошница едина смоквий добрых зело, яко обычай смоквам быти первых времен, и кошница другая смоквий злых зело, ихже ясти не возможно за худость их.

One basket had very good figs, like the figs of the first season: and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, because they were bad.

3 И рече Господь ко мне: что ты видиши, Иеремие? И рекох: смокви, смокви добрыя, добры зело: и злыя, злы зело, ихже ясти не возможно за худость их.

And the Lord said to me: What seest thou, Jeremias? And I said: Figs, the good figs, very good: and the bad figs, very bad, which cannot be eaten because they are bad.

4 И бысть слово Господне ко мне, рекущее:

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

5 сия глаголет Господь Бог Израилев: якоже смокви сия благи, тако познаю преселеных Иудеев, ихже послах от места сего в землю Халдейску во благая:

Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Juda, whom I have sent forth out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for their own good.

6 и утвержу очи Мои на них во благая и преведу их паки в землю сию во благая: и возсозижду их и не разорю, и насажду их и не исторгну:

And I will set my eyes upon them to be pacified, and I will bring them again into this land: and I will be their God: and I will build them up, and not pull them down: and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

7 и дам им сердце, да уведят Мя, яко Аз есмь Господь, и будут Мне в люди, и Аз буду им в Бога: понеже обратятся ко Мне всем сердцем своим.

And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: because they shall return to me with their whole heart.

8 И якоже смокви злыя, ихже ясти не возможно за худость их, сия рече Господь, тако предам Седекию царя Иудина и началники его и останок от Иерусалима, иже осташа во граде сем и иже обитают во земли Египетстей,

And as the very bad figs, that cannot be eaten, because they are bad: thus saith the Lord: So will I give Sedecias the king of Juda, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that have remained in this city, and that dwell in the land of Egypt.

9 и дам их в расточение и озлобление всем царствам земным, и будут в поношение и в притчу, и в ненависть и в проклятие во всех местех, в няже извергох их:

And I will deliver them up to vexation, and affliction, to all the kingdoms of the earth: to be a reproach, and a byword, and a proverb, and to be a curse in all places, to which I have cast them out.

10 и послю на них мечь и глад и пагубу, дондеже изчезнут от земли, юже дах им и отцем их.

And I will send among them the sword, and the famine, and the pestilence: till they be consumed out of the land which I gave to them, and their fathers.