Книга пророка Иоиля 1
1 Слово Господне, иже бысть ко Иоилю сыну Вафуилеву.
The word of the Lord which came to Joel the son of Bathuel.
2 Слышите сия, старцы, и внушите, вси живущии на земли: аще быша сицевая во днех ваших или во днех отец ваших?
Hear these [words], you elders, and listen all you that inhabit the land. Have such things happen in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
3 О сих чадом своим поведите, а чада ваша чадом своим, а чада их роду другому:
Tell your children concerning them, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation.
4 останок гусениц поядоша прузи, и останок пругов поядоша мшицы, и останок мшиц поядоша сиплеве.
The leavings of the caterpillar has the locust eaten, and the leavings of the locust has the palmerworm eaten, and the leavings of the palmerworm has the cankerworm eaten.
5 Утрезвитеся, пиянии, от вина своего и плачитеся: рыдайте, вси пиющии вино до пиянства, яко отяся от уст ваших веселие и радость.
Awake, you drunkards, from your wine, and weep: mourn, all you that drink wine to drunkenness: for joy and gladness and removed are from your mouth.
6 Понеже язык взыде на землю Мою крепок и безчислен: зубы его (якоже) зубы львовы, и членовныя его якоже львичища:
For a strong and innumerable nation is come up against my land, their teeth are lion's teeth, and their back teeth those of a [lion's] whelp.
7 положи виноград Мой в погубление и смоквы Моя в сломление: взыскуя обыска и и сверже, обели лозие его.
He has ruined my vine, and utterly broken my fig-trees: he has utterly searched [my vine], and cast it down; he has peeled its branches.
8 Восплачися ко мне паче невесты препоясаныя во вретище по мужи своем девственнем.
Lament to me more than a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
9 Извержеся жертва и возлияние из дому Господня: плачитеся, жерцы, служащии жертвеннику Господню,
The meat-offering and drink-offering are removed from the house of the Lord: mourn, you priests that serve at the altar of the Lord.
10 яко опустеша поля. Плачися, земле, яко пострада пшеница, и изсше вино, умалися елей,
For the plains languish: let the land mourn, for the corn languishes; the wine is dried up, the oil becomes scarce;
11 посрамишася земледелателе. Плачитеся, села, по пшенице и по ячмени, яко погибе обымание от нивы,
the husbandmen are consumed: mourn your property on account of the wheat and barley; for the harvest has perished from off the field.
12 виноград изсше, и смоквы умалишася: шипки, и финикс, и яблонь, и вся древа польская изсхоша, яко посрамиша радость сынове человечи.
The vine is dried up, and the fig-trees are become few; the pomegranate, and palm tree, and apple, and all trees of the field are dried up: for the sons of men have have abolished joy.
13 Препояшитеся и бийтеся, жерцы, плачитеся, служащии жертвеннику: внидите, поспите во вретищих, служащии Богу, яко отяся от дому Бога вашего жертва и возлияние:
Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, you priests: mourn, you that serve at the altar: go in, sleep in sackcloths, you that minister to God: for the meat-offering and drink-offering are withheld from the house of your God.
14 освятите пост, проповедите цельбу, соберите старейшины вся живущия на земли в дом Бога вашего и воззовите ко Господу усердно:
Sanctify a fast, proclaim a [solemn] service, gather the elders [and] all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God, and cry earnestly to the Lord,
15 увы мне, увы мне, увы мне в день! Яко близ есть день Господень, и яко беда от беды приидет:
Alas, Alas, Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and it will come as trouble upon trouble.
16 яко пред очима вашима пищи взяшася и от дому Бога вашего веселие и радость.
[Your] meat has been destroyed before your eyes, joy and gladness from out of the house of your God.
17 Вскочиша юницы у яслей своих, погибоша сокровища, раскопашася точила, яко посше пшеница.
The heifers have started at their mangers, the treasures are abolished, the wine presses are broken down; for the corn is withered.
18 Что положим себе? Восплакашася стада волов, яко не бе пажити им, и паствы овчия погибоша.
What shall we store up for ourselves? the herds of cattle have mourned, because they had no pasture; and the flocks of sheep have been utterly destroyed.
19 К Тебе, Господи, возопию, яко огнь потреби красная пустыни, и пламень пожже вся древа польская,
To you, O Lord, will I cry: for fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness, and a flame has burnt up all the trees of the field.
20 и скоти польстии воззреша к Тебе, яко посхоша источницы воднии, и огнь пояде красная пустыни.
And the cattle of the field have looked up to you: for the fountains of waters have been dried up, and fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness.
