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.
Run you to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man, if there be any that executes judgment, that seeks the truth; and I will pardon it.
2 Живет Господь, глаголют, сего ради не во лжах ли кленутся?
And though they say, The LORD lives; surely they 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, are not your eyes on the truth? you have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; 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.
Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment 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 get me to the great men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and 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.
Why a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goes out there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
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 shall I pardon you for this? your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.
8 кони женонеистовни сотворишася, кийждо ко жене искренняго своего ржаше.
They were as fed horses in the morning: 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? says the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
10 Взыдите на стены его и разорите, окончания же не сотворите: оставите подпоры его, яко Господни суть.
Go you up on her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for 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 Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, says the LORD.
12 Солгаша Господу своему и рекоша: не суть сия, ниже приидут на нас злая и меча и глада не узрим:
They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come on us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
13 пророцы наши быша на ветр, и слово Господне не бе в них, тако будет им.
And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done to 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.
Why thus says the LORD God of hosts, Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people 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):
See, I will bring a nation on you from far, O house of Israel, says the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you know not, neither understand what they say.
16 тул его яко гроб отверст, вси крепцыи и поядят жатву вашу
Their quiver is as an open sepulcher, they are all mighty men.
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 your harvest, and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat: they shall eat up your flocks and your herds: they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees: they shall impoverish your fenced cities, wherein you trusted, with the sword.
18 Обаче во днех онех, глаголет Господь Бог твой, не сотворю вас во истребление.
Nevertheless in those days, says the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.
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 it shall come to pass, when you shall say, Why does the LORD our God all these things to us? then shall you answer them, Like as you have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
20 Возвестите сия дому Иаковлю и слышано сотворите в дому Иудине (рекуще):
Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
21 слышите сия, людие буии и не имущии сердца, иже, имеюще очи, не видите, и ушы, и не слышите:
Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have 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.
Fear you not me? says the LORD: will you not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
23 Людем же сим бысть сердце непослушно и непокориво, и уклонишася и поидоша,
But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
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.
Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that gives rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
25 Беззакония наша уклониша сия, и греси наши отринуша благая от нас.
Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld 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: they lay wait, as he that sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
27 Аки клетка поставлена полна птиц, тако домы их полни лести: сего ради возвеличишася и обогатишася:
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
28 утыша и утолстеша и преступиша словеса Моя злейшии: прю вдовицы не судиша, суда сира не управиша и суда убогим не судиша.
They are waxen fat, they shine: yes, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
29 Еда сих ради не посещу? Рече Господь: или языку сицевому не отмстит душа Моя?
Shall I not visit for these things? says the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
30 Ужас и страшная содеяшася на земли:
A wonderful and horrible thing is committed 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 prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end thereof?
