Книга Неемии 5

1 И бысть вопль людий и жен их велик на братию свою Иудеи.

And there is a great cry of the people and their wives, concerning 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.

yea, there are who are saying, 'Our sons, and our daughters, we — are many, and we receive 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 there are who are saying, 'Our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses, we are pledging, and we receive corn for the famine.'

4 И быша нецыи глаголюще: взаим взяхом сребро на дани царевы, дадим села наша и винограды нашя и домы нашя:

And there are who are saying, 'We have borrowed money for the tribute of the king, [on] our fields, and our vineyards;

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, as the flesh of our brethren [is] our flesh, as their sons [are] our sons, and lo, we are subduing our sons and our daughters for servants, and there are of our daughters subdued, and our hand hath no might, and our fields and our vineyards [are] to others.'

6 И оскорбех зело, егда услышах вопль их и словеса сия.

And it is very displeasing to me when I have 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 reigneth over me, and I strive with the freemen, and with the prefects, and say to them, 'Usury one upon another ye are exacting;' and I set 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 say to them, 'We have acquired our brethren the Jews, those sold to the nations, according to the ability that [is] in us, and ye also sell your brethren, and they have been sold to us!' and they are silent, and have not found a word.

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 say, 'Not good [is] the thing that ye are doing; in the fear of our God do ye not walk, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

10 И аз и братия моя и знаемии мои взаим дахом им пенязи и пшеницу: оставим убо лихоимство сие:

And also, I, my brethren, and my servants, are exacting of them silver and corn; let us leave off, I pray you, this usury.

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.

Give back, I pray you, to them, as to-day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive-yards, and their houses, and the hundredth [part] of the money, and of the corn, of the new wine, and of the oil, that ye are exacting of them.'

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 say, 'We give back, and of them we seek nothing; so we do as thou art saying.' And I call the priests, and cause them to swear to do according to this thing;

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.

also, my lap I have shaken, and I say, 'Thus doth God shake out every man, who doth not perform this thing, from his house, and from his labour; yea, thus is he shaken out and empty;' and all the assembly say, 'Amen,' and praise Jehovah; and the people do according to 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.

Also, from the day that he appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the thirty and second year of Artaxerxes the king — twelve years — I, and my brethren, the bread of the governor have not eaten:

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.

the former governors who [are] before me have made themselves heavy on the people, and take of them in bread and wine, besides in silver forty shekels; also, their servants have ruled over the people — and I have not done 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.

And also, in the work of this wall I have done mightily, even a field we have not bought, and all my servants are gathered there for the work;

17 Иудей же и началников сто пятьдесят мужей, и приходящии к нам от язык, иже окрест нас, при трапезе Моей.

and of the Jews, and of the prefects, a hundred and fifty men, and those coming in unto us of the nations that [are] round about us, [are] 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 that which hath been prepared for one day [is] one ox, six fat sheep, also fowls have been prepared for me, and once in ten days of all wines abundantly, and with this, the bread of the governor I have not sought, for heavy is the service on this people.

19 Помяни мя, Боже мой, во благо по всем, елика сотворих людем сим.

Remember for me, O my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.