Книга пророка Исаии 47
1 Сниди, сяди на земли, дево, дщи Вавилоня, вниди во тму, дщи Халдейска, яко не приложиши ксему прозыватися мягка и юна.
“Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.
2 Возми жерновы, мели муку, открый покрывало твое, открый седины, возсучи голени, прейди реки:
Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs, and wade through the rivers.
3 открыется студ твой, явятся укоризны твоя, праведное от тебе возму, ктому не предам человеком.
Your nakedness will be uncovered. Yes, your shame will be seen. I will take vengeance, and will spare no one.”
4 Рече Избавивый тя Господь Саваоф, имя Ему Святый Израилев:
Our Redeemer, the LORD of Armies is his name, is the Holy One of Israel.
5 сяди умилена, вниди во тму, дщи Халдейска, ксему не прозовешися крепость царства.
“Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you shall no longer be called the mistress of kingdoms.
6 Разгневахся на люди Моя, осквернила еси наследие Мое: Аз вдах я в руку твою, ты же не дала им милости, старчий ярем отягчила еси зело
I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.
7 и рекла еси: в век буду владычица: не помыслила еси сих в сердцы твоем, ниже помянула еси последних:
You said, ‘I will be a princess forever,’ so that you didn’t lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the results.
8 ныне же слыши сие, юная, седящая, уповающая, глаголющая в сердцы своем: аз есмь, и несть иныя, не сяду вдовою и не познаю сиротства.
“Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me. I won’t sit as a widow, neither will I know the loss of children.’
9 Ныне же приидут на тя два сия внезапу во един день, безчадие и вдовство внезапу приидет на тя, в волшебстве твоем и в крепости волхвов твоих зело,
But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day: the loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in their full measure, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.
10 в надеянии злобы твоея: ты бо рекла еси: аз есмь, и несть иныя: увеждь, яко смышление сих и блужение твое будет тебе срам: и рекла еси сердцем своим: аз есмь, и несть иныя.
For you have trusted in your wickedness. You have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you. You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’
11 И приидет на тя пагуба, и не увеси, пропасть, и впадеши в ню: и приидет на тя печаль, и не возможеши чиста быти: и приидет на тя внезапу пагуба, и не увеси.
Therefore disaster will come on you. You won’t know when it dawns. Mischief will fall on you. You won’t be able to put it away. Desolation will come on you suddenly, which you don’t understand.
12 Стани ныне с волхвы твоими и со многими чары твоими, имже научилася еси из юности твоея, аще возмогут ти помощи.
“Stand now with your enchantments and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have laboured from your youth, as if you might profit, as if you might prevail.
13 Утрудилася еси в советех твоих: да станут ныне и спасут тя звездочетцы небесе, смотряющии звезд, да возвестят ти, что имать на тя приити.
You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Now let the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators stand up and save you from the things that will happen to you.
14 Се, вси яко хврастие огнем погорят и не изимут души своея из пламене, понеже имаши углие огненное, сяди на них.
Behold, they are like stubble. The fire will burn them. They won’t deliver themselves from the power of the flame. It won’t be a coal to warm at or a fire to sit by.
15 Сии будут тебе помощь: трудилася еси в преложении от юности, человек сам в себе прельстися, тебе не не будет спасения.
The things that you laboured in will be like this: those who have trafficked with you from your youth will each wander in his own way. There will be no one to save you.
