Книга пророка Иеремии 34
1 Слово, еже бысть ко Иеремии от Господа, егда Навуходоносор царь Вавилонский и вси вои его, и вся земля власти его и вси людие воеваху на Иерусалим и на вся грады Иудины, глаголя:
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of it, saying:
2 тако рече Господь Бог Израилев: иди ко Седекии царю Иудину и речеши ему: тако рече Господь: преданием предастся сей град в руце царя Вавилонска, и возмет его и пожжет его огнем:
"Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Go, and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, "Thus says the LORD, 'Look, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:
3 и ты не уцелееши от руку его, и ят будеши, и в руце его предасися: и очи твои очи его узрят, и уста его со усты твоими соглаголют, и в Вавилон внидеши.
and you shall not escape out of his hand, but shall surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and your eyes shall see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with you mouth to mouth, and you shall go to Babylon.'
4 Но обаче слыши слово Господне, Седекие, царю Иудин! Тако глаголет Господь к тебе: не умреши от меча, но в мире умреши:
Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah: thus says the LORD concerning you, 'You shall not die by the sword;
5 и якоже плакаша отцев твоих царствовавших прежде тебе, восплачутся и тебе: увы, господи, и: увы, господи! Восплачутся и тебе, яко слово Аз соглаголах, рече Господь.
you shall die in peace; and with the burnings of your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so shall they make a burning for you; and they shall lament you, saying, "Ah Lord." for I have spoken the word,' says the LORD."'"
6 И глагола Иеремиа пророк ко Седекии царю Иудину вся словеса сия во Иерусалиме.
Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,
7 И сила царя Вавилонска воева на Иерусалим и на грады Иудины оставшыяся: на Лахис и на Азику, яко тии осташася во градех Иудиных грады тверды.
when the king of Babylon's army was fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these alone remained of the cities of Judah as fortified cities.
8 Слово бывшее ко Иеремии от Господа, повнегда скончати царю Седекии завет к людем, иже во Иерусалиме, еже нарещи им отпущение,
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them;
9 еже отпустити комуждо раба своего и комуждо рабыню свою, Евреанина и Евреаныню, свободны, да не работает муж от Израиля.
that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, go free; that none should keep a fellow Judean in bondage.
10 И обратишася вси вельможи и вси людие вступившии в завет еже отпустити комуждо раба своего и комуждо рабу свою свободны и ктому не владети ими. Слышаша убо и отпустиша.
And all the officials and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his male servant, and everyone his female servant, go free, that none should make bondservants of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:
11 И обратишася по сих вспять и удержаша паки рабы и рабыни своя, ихже отпустиша свободных, и взяша в рабы и рабыни.
but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
12 И бысть слово Господне ко Иеремии от Господа глаголя:
Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
13 тако рече Господь Бог Израилев: Аз завещах завет ко отцем вашым в день, в оньже избавих я от земли Египетския, из дому работы, глаголя:
"Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: 'I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,
14 егда скончаются шесть лет, да отпустиши брата своего Евреанина, иже продан есть тебе: и да делает ти шесть лет, и да отпустиши его свободна от себе. И не послушаша Мене отцы ваши, ни приклониша уха своего.
"At the end of seven years you shall let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you": but your fathers did not listen to me, neither inclined their ear.
15 И обратистеся вы днесь сотворити правая пред очима Моима, еже нарещи комуждо отпущение ближняго своего: и совершисте завет пред лицем Моим в дому, идеже наречеся имя Мое в нем:
You had now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and you had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
16 и отвратистеся, и осквернисте завет Мой, еже возвратити комуждо раба своего и комуждо рабу свою, ихже отпустисте свободны душею их: и покористе их, якоже быти у вас в рабы и в рабыни.
but you turned and profaned my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return; and you brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.
17 Того ради сице рече Господь: вы не послушасте Мене, нарещи отпущения кийждо брату своему и кийждо ближнему своему: се, Аз нарицаю отпущение вам на мечь и на смерть и на глад, и дам вы на разсыпание всем царствам земным:
Therefore thus says the LORD: "You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: look, I proclaim to you a liberty, says the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
18 и дам мужы преступившыя завет Мой и не хранящыя словес завета Моего, емуже соизволиша пред лицем Моим: телца егоже разсекоша на две части и ходиша между разделенными частьми его:
I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts;
19 князи Иудины и князи Иерусалимли, и вельможы и жерцы и вся люди земли ходящыя между разделеным телцем,
the officials of Judah, and the officials of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed between the parts of the calf;
20 и дам я в руки врагом их и в руки ищущих души их, и будут трупи их в ядь птицам небесным и зверем земным:
I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life; and their dead bodies shall be for food to the birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth.
21 и Седекию царя Иудейска и князи его дам в руце врагов их и в руку ищущих души их и в руку воинства царя Вавилонска, отбегающих от них.
And Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, who have gone away from you.
22 Се, Аз завещаю, рече Господь, и возвращу я в землю сию, и повоюют на ню, и возмут ю, и пожгут ю огнем и грады Иудины: и дам я в непроходны от живущих.
Look, I will command, says the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant."'"
