Книга пророка Иеремии 9
1 Кто даст главе моей воду и очесем моим источник слез? И плачуся день и нощь о побиенных дщере людий моих.
“Who will provide water for my head, and a fount of tears for my eyes? And then I will weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.
2 Кто даст мне в пустыни виталище последнее? И оставлю люди моя и отиду от них: понеже вси любодействуют, соборище преступников.
Who will provide me, in the wilderness, with a lodging place along the road? And then I will forsake my people, and withdraw from them. For they are all adulterers, a union of transgressors.
3 И налякоша язык свой яко лук: лжа и неверство укрепишася на земли, ибо от злых во злая произыдоша и Мене не познаша, рече Господь.
And they have bent their tongue, like a bow, to send forth lies and not the truth. They have been strengthened upon the earth. And they have gone from one evil to another. But they have not known me, says the Lord.
4 Кийждо от искренняго своего да стрежется, и на братию свою не уповайте, ибо всяк брат запинанием запнет, и всяк друг льстивно наскочит.
Let each one guard himself against his neighbor, and let him have no trust in any brother of his. For every brother will utterly overthrow, and every friend will advance deceitfully.
5 Кийждо другу своему посмеется, истины не возглаголют: научиша язык свой глаголати лжу, неправдоваша и не восхотеша обратитися.
And a man will deride his brother, and they will not speak the truth. For they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they have labored to commit iniquity.
6 Лихва на лихву и лесть на лесть: не восхотеша уведети Мене, рече Господь.
Your habitation is in the midst of deceit. In their deceitfulness, they have refused to know me, says the Lord.”
7 Сего ради тако глаголет Господь Сил: се, Аз разжегу их и искушу их: что бо ино сотворю от лица лукавства дщери людий Моих?
Because of this, thus says the Lord of hosts: “Behold, I will refine them, and I will test them. For what else can I do before the face of the daughter of my people?
8 Стрела уязвляющая язык их, льстивии глаголы уст их: приятелю своему глаголет мирная, внутрь же себе имеет вражду.
Their tongue is a wounding arrow; it has spoken deceit. With his mouth, he speaks peace with his friend, and then he secretly lies in ambush for him.
9 Еда на сих не посещу? Рече Господь: или людем таковым не отмстит душа Моя?
Shall I not visit upon them concerning these things, says the Lord? Or shall my soul not take vengeance on a nation of this kind?
10 На горах восприимите плачь и тужение и на стезях пустыни рыдание, яко оскудеша, за еже не быти человеком преходящым: не слышаша гласа обитания от птиц небесных и даже до скотов, ужасошася, отидоша.
I will take up weeping and lamentation over the mountains, and mourning over the beautiful places in the desert. For they have been scorched because no man is passing through them. And they have not heard the voice of any occupant. From the birds of the air, even to the cattle, they have migrated and withdrawn.
11 И дам Иерусалим в преселение и в жилище змием и грады Иудины положу в разорение, яко не будет обитающаго.
And I will make Jerusalem into piles of sand and into a lair for serpents. And I will make the cities of Judah desolate, so much so that there will be no inhabitant.
12 Кто муж премудр, и уразумеет сие? И к немуже слово уст Господних, да возвестит вам, чесо ради погибе земля, сожжена есть яко пустыня, еяже никтоже проходит?
Who is the wise man who understands this, and to whom a word from the mouth of the Lord may be given, so that he may announce this: why the land has perished, and has been scorched like a desert, so much so that no one passes through it?”
13 И рече Господь ко мне: понеже оставиша закон Мой, егоже дах пред лицем их, и не послушаша гласа Моего и не ходиша по нему,
And the Lord said: “It is because they have abandoned my law, which I gave to them, and they have not listened to my voice, and they have not walked by it.
14 но поидоша по изволению сердца своего лукаваго и вслед идолов, имже научиша их отцы их:
And they have gone after the depravity of their own heart, and after Baal, which they learned from their fathers.”
15 сего ради тако глаголет Господь Сил, Бог Израилев: се, Аз напитаю люди сия теснотами и в питие дам им воду желчную,
For this reason, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I will feed this people with absinthe, and I will give them the water of gall to drink.
16 и расточу их во языки, ихже не знаша тии и отцы их, и послю на них мечь, дондеже истлятся.
And I will disperse them among nations, which they and their fathers have not known. And I will send the sword after them, until they are consumed.”
17 Сия рече Господь Сил: призовите плачевниц, и да приидут, и ко женам премудрым послите, и да вещают
Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Consider and call upon the women mourners, and let them approach. And send to those women who are wise, and let them hurry.
18 и да приимут над вами плачь, и да изведут очи ваши слезы, и вежди ваши да излиют воду:
‘Let them hasten to take up a lamentation over us. Let our eyes shed tears, and our eyelids run with water.’
19 зане глас плача слышан бысть во Сионе: како бедни быхом, постыждени зело, яко оставихом землю и отринухом жилища наша?
For a voice of lamentation has been heard from Zion: ‘How is it that we have been devastated and greatly confounded? Our tabernacles have been thrown down because we have forsaken the land.’”
20 Темже слышите, жены, слово Господне, и приимите ушима вашима словеса уст Его, и научите дщери вашя рыданию, и каяждо искреннюю свою плачу:
“Therefore, listen, O women, to the word of the Lord! And let your ears take up the word of his mouth. And teach your daughters to lament. And let each one teach her neighbor to mourn:
21 понеже взыде смерть сквозе окна ваша и вниде в землю вашу погубити отрочата отвне и юношы от стогн.
‘For death has climbed through our windows. It has entered our houses to perish the little children from the outdoors, the youths from the streets.’”
22 (Глаголи: ) сия рече Господь: и будут мертвии человецы в пример на лицы поля земли вашея, яко сено созади жнущаго, и не будет собирающаго.
“Speak: Thus says the Lord: And the corpses of men will fall like manure over the face of the countryside, and like hay behind the back of the reaper, and there will be no one to gather it.”
23 Тако глаголет Господь: да не хвалится мудрый мудростию своею, и да не хвалится крепкий крепостию своею, и да не хвалится богатый богатством своим:
Thus says the Lord: “The wise man should not glory in his wisdom, and the strong man should not glory in his strength, and the rich man should not glory in his riches.
24 но о сем да хвалится хваляйся, еже разумети и знати, яко Аз есмь Господь творяй милость и суд и правду на земли, яко в сих воля Моя, глаголет Господь.
But he who glories should glory in this: to know me and to know me well. For I am the Lord, who accomplishes mercy and judgment and justice upon the earth. For these things are pleasing to me, says the Lord.
25 Се, дние грядут, глаголет Господь, и посещу на всех, иже обрезаную имут плоть свою:
Behold, the days are approaching, says the Lord, when I will visit upon all who are uncircumcised:
26 на Египет и на Идумею, и на Едом и на сыны Аммони, и на сыны Моавли и на всякаго остризающаго власы по лицу своему, обитающыя в пустыни, яко вси языцы необрезани плотию, весь же дом Израилев необрезани суть сердцы своими.
upon Egypt, and upon Judah, and upon Edom, and upon the sons of Ammon, and upon Moab, and upon all who have shaved off their hair, living in the desert. For all the nations are uncircumcised in body, but all the house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.”
