Книга Неемии 5
1 И бысть вопль людий и жен их велик на братию свою Иудеи.
And the cry of the people and their wives [was] great against their brethren the Jews.
2 И быша нецыи глаголюще: сынове наши и дщери нашя мнози суть нам, и да возмем (за цену) пшеницу и ядим и живи будем.
And some said, We [are] numerous with our sons and our daughters; so we will take corn, and eat, and live.
3 И быша нецыи глаголюще: села наша и винограды нашя и домы нашя мы да дадим в залог, и возмем пшеницу, и ясти будем.
And some said, [As to] our fields and vineyards and houses, let us pledge [them], and we will take corn, and eat.
4 И быша нецыи глаголюще: взаим взяхом сребро на дани царевы, дадим села наша и винограды нашя и домы нашя:
And some said, We have borrowed money for the king's tributes: —our fields, and our vineyards, and houses [are pledged].
5 и ныне якоже плоть братий наших, плоть наша, якоже сынове их, сынове наши: и се, мы порабощаем сыны нашя и дщери нашя в рабы, и суть от дщерей наших порабощены, и несть силы в руках наших (откупити) и села наша и винограды нашя у вельмож.
And now our flesh [is] as the flesh of our brethren, our children [are] as their children: yet, behold, we are reducing our sons and our daughters to slavery, and some of our daughters are enslaved: and there is no power of our hands, for our fields and our vineyards [belong] to the nobles.
6 И оскорбех зело, егда услышах вопль их и словеса сия.
And I was much grieved as I heard their cry and these words.
7 И усоветова сердце мое во мне, и воспретих державным и началным и рекох им: лихвы ли кийждо от брата своего истяжет, юже вы истязуете? И собрах противу им собрание велико
And my heart took counsel within me, and I contended against the nobles, and the princes, and I said to them, Should every man demand of his brother what you demand? And I appointed against them a great assembly,
8 и рекох им: мы искупихом братию нашу Иудеов, проданых языком, по силе нашей: вы же продасте братию вашу, и отдадутся нам? И умолчаша, и не обретоша что отвещати.
and I said to them, We of our free-will have redeemed our brethren the Jews that were sold to the Gentiles; and do you sell your brethren? and shall they be delivered to us? And they were silent, and found no answer.
9 И рекох: не добро дело, еже вы творите: тако не во страсе Бога нашего (ходяще) убежите ли от поношения языков врагов наших?
And I said, The thing which you do [is] not good; you will not so walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the Gentiles our enemies.
10 И аз и братия моя и знаемии мои взаим дахом им пенязи и пшеницу: оставим убо лихоимство сие:
Both my brethren, and my acquaintances, and I, have lent them money and corn: let us now leave off this exaction.
11 возвратите же им днесь села их и винограды их и маслины их и домы их, и от сребра пшеницу и вино и елей отдадите им.
Restore to them, I pray, as at this day, their fields, and their vineyards, and their olive yards, and their houses, and bring forth to them corn and wine and oil of the money.
12 И рекоша: отдадим и от них не взыщем, тако сотворим, якоже ты глаголеши. И призвах священников и заклях их сотворити по словеси сему.
And they said, We will restore, and we will not exact of them; we will do thus as you say. Then I called the priests, and bound them by oath to do according to this word.
13 И отрясох одежду мою и рекох: тако да истрясет Бог всякаго мужа, иже не исполнит слова сего, от дому его и от трудов его, и да будет тако оттрясен и тощь. И рече все множество: аминь. И восхвалиша Бога. И сотвориша людие по глаголу сему.
And I shook out my garment, and said, So may God shake out every man who shall not keep to this word, from his house, and from his labors, he shall be even thus shaken out, as an outcast and empty. And all the congregation said, Amen, and they praised the Lord: and the people did this thing.
14 От дне того, в оньже повеле (царь) мне быти вождем их в земли Иудине, от лета двадесятаго и даже до лета тридесять втораго Артаксеркса царя, лет дванадесять, аз и братия моя оброку их не ядохом.
From the day that he charged me to be their ruler in the land of Juda, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Arthasastha, twelve years, I and my brethren ate not [provision] extorted from them.
15 И оброков первых, имиже прежде мене отягчиша их, и прияша от них в хлебе и в вине, по сих сребра (на всяк день) дидрахм четыредесять: и служебницы их обладаша людьми. Аз же не сотворих тако ради страха Божия.
But as for the former acts of extortion wherein [those who were] before me oppressed them, they even took of them their last money, forty didrachmas for bread and wine; and the [very] outcasts of them exercised authority over the people: but I did not so, because of the fear of God.
16 И в деле стены сия созидах: и села не стяжах, и вси отроцы мои собрани бяху тамо на дело.
Also in the work of the wall I treated them not with rigor, I bought not land: and all that were gathered together [came] there to the work.
17 Иудей же и началников сто пятьдесят мужей, и приходящии к нам от язык, иже окрест нас, при трапезе Моей.
And the Jews, to [the number of] a hundred and fifty men, besides those coming to us from the nations round about, [were] at my table.
18 И бе уготовано мне на всяк день: телец един и овец шесть избранных и козел быша мне (и птицы), и между десяти дний всем вина много: и с сими хлеба господству моему не взысках, зане тяжка работа на людех сих.
And there came [to me] for one day one calf, and I had six choice sheep and a goat; and every ten days wine in abundance of all sorts: yet with these I required not the bread of extortion, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.
19 Помяни мя, Боже мой, во благо по всем, елика сотворих людем сим.
Remember me, O God, for good, [in] all that I have done to this people.
