Книга пророка Иеремии 4
1 Аще обратишися, Израилю, глаголет Господь, ко Мне обратися: и аще отимеши мерзости твоя от уст твоих, и от лица Моего убоишися,
“If you will return, Israel,” says the LORD, “if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you will not be removed;
2 и кленешися, живет Господь, во истине и в суде и в правде, и благословят в Нем языцы и в Нем восхвалят Бога во Иерусалиме.
and you will swear, ‘As the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in him.”
3 Сия бо глаголет Господь мужем Иудиным и обитателем Иерусалимлим: поновите себе поля и не сейте на тернии:
For the LORD says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and do not sow among thorns.
4 обрежитеся Богу вашему и обрежите жестосердие ваше, мужие Иудины и обитающии во Иерусалиме, да не изыдет яко огнь ярость Моя, и возгорится, и не будет угашаяй, ради лукавства начинаний ваших.
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
5 Возвестите во Иудеи, и да услышится во Иерусалиме: глаголите, воспойте трубою на земли, возопийте зело и рцыте: соберитеся, и внидем во грады тверды.
Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, ‘Blow the trumpet in the land!’ Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves! Let’s go into the fortified cities!’
6 Воздвигше (знамение) бежите в Сион, потщитеся, не стойте, яко злая Аз навожду от севера и сотрение велико.
Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Do not wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.”
7 Взыде лев от ложа своего, и погубляяй языки воздвижеся и изыде от места своего, да положит землю твою в пустыню, и гради твои разорятся, оставшии без обитателей.
A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations. He is on his way. He has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
8 О сих препояшитеся во вретища и плачите и рыдайте, яко не отвратися гнев ярости Господни от вас.
For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned back from us.
9 И будет в день той, глаголет Господь, погибнет сердце царево и сердце началников, и священницы ужаснутся, и пророцы удивятся.
“It will happen at that day,” says the LORD, “that the heart of the king will perish, along with the heart of the princes. The priests will be astonished, and the prophets will wonder.”
10 И рекох: о, Владыко Господи, еда обольстил еси люди сия и Иерусалима, рекий: мир будет вам? И се, пройде мечь даже до души их.
Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You will have peace;’ whereas the sword reaches to the heart.”
11 Во время оно речется людем сим и Иерусалиму: дух заблуждения в пустыни, путь дщере людий Моих, не ко очищению, ниже во святое:
At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind blows from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse.
12 дух исполнения от сих приидет Мне, и ныне Аз возглаголю суды Моя к ним.
A full wind from these will come for me. Now I will also utter judgments against them.”
13 Се, яко облак взыдет, и яко вихрь колесницы его, быстрее орлов кони его: горе нам, яко бедствуем.
Behold, he will come up as clouds, and his chariots will be as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.
14 Омый от лукавства сердце твое, Иерусалиме, да спасешися: доколе будут в тебе помышления бед твоих?
Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?
15 Глас бо возвещающаго от Дана приидет, и слышана будет болезнь от горы Ефремли.
For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim:
16 Рцыте языком: се, приидоша: возвестите во Иерусалиме: полцы идут от земли дальния и даша на грады Иудины глас свой,
“Tell the nations, behold, publish against Jerusalem, ‘Watchers come from a far country, and raise their voice against the cities of Judah.
17 аки стражы селнии быша над ним окрест: яко пренебрегл Мя еси, глаголет Господь.
As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,’” says the LORD.
18 Пути твоя и начинания твоя сотвориша тебе сия: сие лукавство твое, понеже горько, яко прикоснуся сердцу твоему.
“Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness, for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”
19 Чрево мое, чрево мое болит мне, и чувства сердца моего, смущается душа моя, терзается сердце мое: не умолчу, яко глас трубы услышала душа моя, вопль рати и беды:
My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
20 сотрение (на сотрение) призывается, понеже опустела вся земля, внезапу опусте жилище мое, расторгошася кожы моя.
Destruction on destruction is decreed, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains gone in a moment.
21 Доколе зрети имам бежащих, слышащь гласы трубныя?
How long will I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?
22 Понеже вождеве людий Моих Мене не познаша: сынове буии суть и безумни, мудри суть, еже творити злая, благо же творити не познаша.
“For my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they do not know how to do good.”
23 Воззрех на землю, и се, ничтоже, и на небо, и не бе света его.
I saw the earth and, behold, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light.
24 Видех горы, и трепетаху, и вси холми возмутишася.
I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth.
25 Воззрех, и се, не бе человека, и вся птицы небесныя ужасахуся.
I saw, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky had fled.
26 Видех, и се, Кармил пуст, и вси гради сожжени огнем от лица Господня, и от лица гнева ярости Его погибоша.
I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of the LORD, before his fierce anger.
27 Сия глаголет Господь: пуста будет вся земля, скончания же не сотворю.
For the LORD says, “The whole land will be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.
28 О сих да плачет земля, и да помрачится небо свыше: понеже глаголах, и не раскаюся: устремихся и не отвращуся от него.
For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black, because I have spoken it. I have planned it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.”
29 От гласа яздящих и напряженна лука побеже всяка страна: внидоша в разселины и в дубравы сокрышася и на камение взыдоша: вси гради оставлени суть, не обитает в них человек.
Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers. They go into the thickets and climb up on the rocks. Every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.
30 Ты же, запустелая, что сотвориши? Аще облечешися во багряницу и украсишися монисты златыми, аще намажеши стивием очи твои, всуе украшение твое: отринуша тя любовницы твои, души твоея ищут.
You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with makeup, you make yourself beautiful in vain. Your lovers despise you. They seek your life.
31 Глас бо яко родящия слышах стенания твоего: аки первородящия глас дщере Сиони истает, и опустит руце свои: горе мне, яко изчезает душа моя над убиенными.
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, “Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.”
