Книга пророка Иеремии 5
1 Обыдите пути Иерусалимския и воззрите, и познайте и поищите на стогнах его, аще обрящете мужа творящаго суд и ищуща веры: и милосерд буду ему, глаголет Господь.
Go about through the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and consider, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can fins a man that executeth judgement, and seeketh faith: and I will be merciful unto it.
2 Живет Господь, глаголют, сего ради не во лжах ли кленутся?
And though they say: The Lord liveth; this also they will swear falsely.
3 Господи, очи Твои (зрят) на веру: бил еси их, и не поболеша, сокрушил еси их, и не восхотеша прияти наказания: ожесточиша лица своя паче камене и не хотеша обратитися.
O Lord, thy eyes are upon truth: thou hast struck them, and they have not grieved: thou hast bruised them, and they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than the rock, and they have refused to return.
4 Аз же рех: негли убози суть (и буии), того ради не возмогоша, яко не уведаша пути Господня и суда Бога своего.
But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know not the way of the Lord, the judgement of their God.
5 Пойду ко державным и возглаголю им, тии бо познаша путь Господень и суд Бога своего. И се, единодушно сии сокрушиша иго, расторгоша узы.
I will go therefore to the great men, and I will speak to them: for they known the way of the Lord, the judgement of their God: and behold these have together broken the yoke more, and have burst the bonds.
6 Сего ради порази их лев от дубравы, и волк даже до домов погуби их, и рысь бдяше над градами их: вси исходящии от них будут яти, яко умножиша нечестия своя, укрепишася во отвращениих своих.
Wherefore a lion out of the wood hath slain them, a wolf in the evening, hath spoiled them, a leopard watcheth for their cities: every one that shall go out thence shall be taken, because their transgressions are multiplied, their rebellions are strengthened.
7 О чем от сих милосерд буду тебе? Сынове твои оставиша Мя и кляшася теми, иже не суть бози: насытих их, и прелюбодействоваша и в домех блудниц обиташа,
How can I be merciful to thee? thy children have forsaken me, and swear by them that are not gods: I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and rioted in the harlot’s house.
8 кони женонеистовни сотворишася, кийждо ко жене искренняго своего ржаше.
They are become as amorous horses and stallions, every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
9 Еда о сих не посещу? Рече Господь: или языку сицевому не мстит душа Моя?
Shall I not visit for these things, sayeth the Lord? and shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation?
10 Взыдите на стены его и разорите, окончания же не сотворите: оставите подпоры его, яко Господни суть.
Scale down the walls thereof, and throw them down, but do not utterly destroy: take away the branches thereof, because they are not the Lord’s.
11 Преступлением бо преступил есть на Мя дом Израилев и дом Иудин глаголет Господь.
For the house of Israel, and the house of Juda have greatly transgressed against me, saith the Lord.
12 Солгаша Господу своему и рекоша: не суть сия, ниже приидут на нас злая и меча и глада не узрим:
They have denied the Lord, and said, It is not he: and the evil shall not come upon us: we shall not see the sword and famine.
13 пророцы наши быша на ветр, и слово Господне не бе в них, тако будет им.
The prophets have spoken in the wind, and there was no word of God in them: these things therefore shall befall them.
14 Сего ради тако глаголет Господь Сил: занеже глаголали есте слово сие, се, Аз даю словеса Моя во уста твоя огнь, и люди сия древа, и пояст их.
Thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: Because you have spoken this word, behold I will make my words in thy mouth as fire, and this people as wood, and it shall devour them.
15 Се, Аз наведу на вас язык издалеча, доме Израилев, рече Господь, язык сильный, язык старый, егоже языка не увеси, (ни уразумееши, что глаголет):
Behold I will bring upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: a strong nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou shalt not know, nor understand what they say.
16 тул его яко гроб отверст, вси крепцыи и поядят жатву вашу
Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all valiant.
17 и хлебы вашя, и поядят сынов ваших и дщерей ваших, и снедят овец ваших и телцев ваших, и поядят винограды вашя и смокви вашя и масличия ваша, и сокрушат грады вашя твердыя, на нихже вы уповасте, мечем.
And they shall eat up thy corn, and thy bread: they shall devour thy sons, and thy daughters: they shall eat up thy flocks, and thy herds: they shall eat thy vineyards, and thy figs: and with the sword they shall destroy thy strong cities, wherein thou trustest.
18 Обаче во днех онех, глаголет Господь Бог твой, не сотворю вас во истребление.
Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will not bring you to utter destruction.
19 И будет, егда речете: почто сотвори Господь Бог наш нам сия вся? И речеши к ним: яко остависте Мя и послужисте богом чуждим в земли вашей, тако послужите богом чуждим в земли не вашей.
And if you shall say: why hath the Lord our God done all these things to us? thou shalt say to them: As you have forsaken me, and served a strange god in your own land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not your own.
20 Возвестите сия дому Иаковлю и слышано сотворите в дому Иудине (рекуще):
Declare ye this to the house of Jacob, and publish it in Juda, saying:
21 слышите сия, людие буии и не имущии сердца, иже, имеюще очи, не видите, и ушы, и не слышите:
Hear, O foolish people, and without understanding: who have eyes, and see not: and ears, and hear not.
22 Мене ли не убоитеся? Рече Господь: или от лица Моего не устыдитеся? Иже положих песок предел морю, заповедь вечну, и не превзыдет его, и возмутится и не возможет: и возшумят волны его, и не прейдут того.
Will not you then fear me, saith the Lord: and will you not repent at my presence? I have set the sand a bound for the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which it shall not pass over: and the waves thereof shall toss themselves, and shall not prevail: they shall swell, and shall not pass over it.
23 Людем же сим бысть сердце непослушно и непокориво, и уклонишася и поидоша,
But the heart of this people is become hard of belief and provoking, they are revolted and gone away.
24 и не рекоша в сердцы своем: убоимся Господа Бога нашего, дающаго нам дождь ранний и поздный во время исполнения повеления жатвы и хранящаго нам.
And they have not said in their heart: let us fear the Lord our God, who giveth us the early and the latter rain in due season: who preserveth for us the fullness of the yearly harvest.
25 Беззакония наша уклониша сия, и греси наши отринуша благая от нас.
Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
26 Яко обретошася в людех Моих нечестивии, и сети поставиша, еже погубити мужы, и уловиша.
For among my people are found wicked men, that lie in wait as fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men.
27 Аки клетка поставлена полна птиц, тако домы их полни лести: сего ради возвеличишася и обогатишася:
As a net is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit: therefore are they become great and enriched.
28 утыша и утолстеша и преступиша словеса Моя злейшии: прю вдовицы не судиша, суда сира не управиша и суда убогим не судиша.
They are grown gross and fat: and have most wickedly transgressed my words. They have not judged the cause of the widow, they have not managed the cause of the fatherless, they have not judged the judgement of the poor.
29 Еда сих ради не посещу? Рече Господь: или языку сицевому не отмстит душа Моя?
Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? or shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation?
30 Ужас и страшная содеяшася на земли:
Astonishing and wonderful things have been done in the land.
31 пророцы пророчествоваша неправедная, и священницы восплескаша руками своими, и людие Мои возлюбиша таковая. И что сотворите в последняя сих?
The prophets prophesied falsehood, and the priests clapped their hands: and my people loved such things: what then shall be done in the end thereof?
