Книга пророка Иеремии 3

1 Аще отпустит муж жену свою, и отидет от него и будет мужу иному, еда возвращающися возвратится к нему паки? Еда непорочна будет и неосквернена жена та? Ты же соблудила еси с пастырьми многими, и возвращалася еси и ко Мне, глаголет Господь.

“It is commonly said: ‘If a man has divorced his wife, and she departs from him, she will marry another man.’ So why would he return to her again? Is not that woman polluted and defiled? But you have fornicated yourself with many lovers. Even so, return to me, says the Lord, and I will accept you.

2 Воздвигни очи твои на правоту и виждь, где не смесилася еси? На путех сидела еси аки врана особящаяся и осквернила еси землю в любодеяниих и в лукавствех твоих,

Lift your eyes straight up, and see where you did not debase yourself. You were sitting in the roadways, waiting for them, like a robber in the wilderness. And you have polluted the land by your fornications and by your wickedness.

3 и имела еси пастырей многих в претыкание себе: лице жены блудницы бысть тебе, не хотела еси постыдетися ко всем.

For this reason, the rain showers were withheld, and there were no late season rains. You made your face like that of a promiscuous woman; you were not willing to blush.

4 Не аки ли домом Мене нарекла еси и Отцем и вождем девства твоего?

Therefore, at least from this moment on, call out to me: ‘You are my father, the guide of my virginity.’

5 Еда пребудет во век, или сохранится в победу? Сия глаголала еси, и сотворила еси злая, и возмогла еси.

Why should you be angry unceasingly? And will you continue in this to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done evil, for you were able to do so.”

6 И рече Господь ко мне во дни Иосии царя: видел ли еси, яже сотвори ми дом Израилев? Поидоша на всяку гору высоку и под всяко древо листвяно и соблудиша тамо.

And, in the days of king Josiah, the Lord said to me: “Have you not seen what the apostate Israel has done? She has brought herself up to every lofty mountain, and she has lain down under every leafy tree, and she has committed fornication there.

7 И рекох по внегда прелюбодействовати ему во всех сих: ко Мне обратися. И виде преступление его преступница Иудеа сестра его.

And when she had done all these things, I said: ‘Return to me.’ But she did not return. And her deceitful sister Judah saw this:

8 И видех, яко о всех (изобличен есть), в нихже ят бысть, в нихже любодействова дом Израилев: сего ради отпустих и и дах ему книгу распустную в руце его. Обаче не убояся преступница Иудеа (сестра его), но иде и соблудила есть и та:

that because the apostate Israel had committed adultery, I had dismissed her and had given her a bill of divorce. Yet her deceitful sister Judah was not afraid. But she, too, went and committed fornication herself.

9 и бысть ни во что блуд ея, и оскверни землю, и соблудила есть с каменем и со древом.

And by the act of her fornication, she defiled the land. For she committed adultery with that which is stone and wood.

10 И во всех сих не обратися ко Мне преступница сестра ея Иудеа от всего сердца своего, но во лжи, рече Господь.

And after all these things, her deceitful sister Judah has not returned to me with her whole heart, but with lies, says the Lord.”

11 И рече Господь ко мне: оправда душу свою отступница Израиль, паче преступницы Иудеи:

And the Lord said to me: “The apostate Israel has justified her own soul by comparing herself to the deceitful Judah.

12 иди, и прочти словеса та к северу, и речеши: обратися ко мне, доме Израилев, рече Господь: и не утвержду лица Моего на вас, яко милостив Аз есмь, рече Господь, и не прогневаюся на вы во веки.

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and you shall say: Return, O apostate Israel, says the Lord. For I will not avert my face from you. For I am holy, says the Lord, and I will not be angry forever.

13 Обаче веждь беззаконие твое, яко в Господа Бога твоего преступила еси, и расточила еси пути твоя чуждим под всяким древом листвяным, гласа же Моего не послушала еси, рече Господь.

So then, truly acknowledge your iniquity, that you have betrayed the Lord your God, and that you have spread your ways to strangers, under every leafy tree, and that you have not listened to my voice, says the Lord.

14 Обратитеся, сынове отступившии, глаголет Господь: яко Аз возобладаю вами и поиму вы единаго от града и двух от племене, и введу вас в Сион

Convert, O rebellious sons, says the Lord. For I am your leader. And so, I will take you, one from a city, and two from a family, and I will lead you into Zion.

15 и дам вам пастыри по сердцу Моему, и упасут вас разумом и учением.

And I will give you pastors according to my own heart. And they will feed you with knowledge and doctrine.

16 И будет, егда умножитеся и возрастете на земли, глаголет Господь, во дни оны не рекут ктому: кивот завета Святаго Израилева: не взыдет на сердце, ни воспомянется, ниже посетится, ниже сотворится ктому.

And when you have been multiplied and increased in the land in those days, says the Lord, they will no longer say: ‘The Ark of the covenant of the Lord!’ And it will not enter into the heart, and they will not call it to mind. It will neither be visited, nor made use of, any longer.

17 Во дни оны нарекут Иерусалима престол Господень, и соберутся к нему вси языцы во имя Господне во Иерусалим, и не пойдут ктому вслед похотей сердца своего злейшаго.

In that time, Jerusalem will be called: ‘The Throne of the Lord.’ And all the nations will be gathered to it, in the name of the Lord, in Jerusalem. And they will not walk after the depravity of their own most wicked heart.

18 Во днех тех приидет дом Иудин ко дому Израилеву, и пойдут вкупе от земли северныя и от всех стран к земли, юже дах в наследие отцем их.

In those days, the house of Judah will go to the house of Israel, and they will come from the land of the north, at the same time, to the land that I gave to your fathers.

19 Аз же рех: да будет, Господи, яко положу тя в чада и дам тебе землю избранную, достояние Бога Вседержителя языков: и рекох: отцем наречете Мя и от Мене не отвратитеся.

But I said: How shall I place you among the sons, and distribute to you a desirable land, the preeminent inheritance of the host of the Gentiles? And I said: You will call me Father, and you will not cease to walk after me.

20 Обаче якоже отвергается жена сожителя своего, тако отвержеся от Мене дом Израилев, рече Господь.

But, in the same way that a woman spurns her lover, so also has the house of Israel spurned me, says the Lord.”

21 Глас из устен слышан бысть плача и моления сынов Израилевых, яко беззаконноваша в путех своих, забыша Господа Бога святаго своего.

A voice has been heard in the highways, the weeping and wailing of the sons of Israel. For they have made their own ways sinful; they have forgotten the Lord their God.

22 Возвратитеся, сынове возвращаюшиися, и изцелю сокрушения ваша. Се, рабы мы будем Тебе, Ты бо еси Господь Бог наш.

“Convert, O rebellious sons! And I will heal your rebelliousness.” “Behold, we are returning to you. For you are the Lord our God!

23 Истинно лживи быша холми и множество гор, токмо Господем Богом нашим спасение Израилево.

Truly, the hills were liars, with the multitude of the mountains. Truly, the salvation of Israel is in the Lord our God.

24 Студ же пояде труды отец наших, от юности нашея, овцы их и телцы их, и сыны их и дщери их.

Confusion has devoured the labor of our fathers, from our youth, with their flocks and their herds, with their sons and their daughters.

25 Уснухом в постыдении нашем, и покры нас безчестие наше, яко Господу Богу нашему согрешихом, мы и отцы наши, от юности нашея даже до сего дне, и не послушахом гласа Господа Бога нашего.

We will sleep in our confusion, and our disgrace will cover us. For we have sinned against the Lord our God: we and our fathers, from our youth, even to this day. And we have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God.”