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:
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came with the armies of all the kingdoms that he ruled, and they fought against Jerusalem and the other towns [in Judah]. At that time, Yahweh gave me this message:
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:
“Go to Zedekiah the King of Judah, and say to him, ‘This is what Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis [worship], says: “I am about to enable the army of the King of Babylon to capture this city, and they will burn it down.
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.
You will not escape from them; they will capture you and take you to the king of Babylon. And [then] they will take you to Babylon.”’
4 Но обаче слыши слово Господне, Седекие, царю Иудин! Тако глаголет Господь к тебе: не умреши от меча, но в мире умреши:
But King Zedekiah, listen to this that Yahweh has promised: ‘You will not be killed in a battle [MTY];
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 will die peacefully. [When you die], people will burn incense to honor/remember you just as they did for your ancestors who were kings before you became king. They will mourn for you, crying, “We are very sad that our king is dead!” I, Yahweh, promise that will happen.’”
6 И глагола Иеремиа пророк ко Седекии царю Иудину вся словеса сия во Иерусалиме.
[So] I took that message to King Zedekiah.
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.
At that time the army of Babylonia had surrounded Jerusalem and Lachish and Azekah. Those [three] cities were the only cities in Judah that had high walls around them that still had not been captured.
8 Слово бывшее ко Иеремии от Господа, повнегда скончати царю Седекии завет к людем, иже во Иерусалиме, еже нарещи им отпущение,
King Zedekiah had decreed that the people must free their slaves.
9 еже отпустити комуждо раба своего и комуждо рабыню свою, Евреанина и Евреаныню, свободны, да не работает муж от Израиля.
[He decreed that] the people must free their Hebrew slaves, [both the] men slaves and the women [slaves]. No one would be allowed to force a fellow Jew to [continue to] be his slave.
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.
The officials and the rest of the people had obeyed [what the king decreed],
11 И обратишася по сих вспять и удержаша паки рабы и рабыни своя, ихже отпустиша свободных, и взяша в рабы и рабыни.
but later they changed their minds. They forced the men and women whom they had freed to become their slaves again.
12 И бысть слово Господне ко Иеремии от Господа глаголя:
[So] Yahweh gave me this message [to tell to them]:
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:
“I, Yahweh, the God whom you Israelis [say you belong to], (made an agreement with/gave this command to) your ancestors [long ago], when I rescued them from being slaves in Egypt.
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.
I told them that they must free all their Hebrew slaves after the slaves had worked for them for six years. But your ancestors did not pay any attention to what I said.
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:
Recently, you obeyed my command and stopped doing what was wrong and did what was right. You made a solemn agreement at my temple [that you would free your slaves], and [then] you freed them.
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 now you have disregarded what you solemnly promised, and you have shown contempt for what I [MTY] said by taking back the women and men whom you had freed and said they could live wherever they wanted to. [Now] you have forced them to be your slaves again.
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, this is what [I], Yahweh, say: ‘Because you have not obeyed me by freeing your fellow Israelis, I will free you to [be destroyed by] the swords [of your enemies] and by famines and diseases. All the nations of the earth will be horrified because of [what happens to] you.
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:
Because you have disregarded what I said in my agreement with you, I will do to you just like you did to the calves that you cut in half to show that you would surely do what you solemnly promised that you would do. I will [enable your enemies to] cut you into pieces, you officials of Judah and you officials of Jerusalem, and you officials in the palace, and you priests and all you common people. I will do that because you have disregarded what you solemnly promised [about freeing your slaves].
19 князи Иудины и князи Иерусалимли, и вельможы и жерцы и вся люди земли ходящыя между разделеным телцем,
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 enable your enemies to capture you, and they will kill you. And your bodies will be food for vultures and wild animals.
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.
I will enable the army of the king of Babylon to capture King Zedekiah and his officials. Although the king of Babylon and his army have left Jerusalem [for a short time],
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.
I will summon them back again. [This time], they will fight against this city and capture it and burn it down. I will make [sure] that all the towns in Judah are destroyed, [with the result that] no one will live there [any more].’”
