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This is what the Lord says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.
Так говорит Господь: Делайте то, что справедливо и праведно. Помогайте обездоленному спастись от рук притеснителя. Не обижайте и не притесняйте чужеземцев, сирот и вдов и не проливайте в этом краю невинной крови.
For if you are careful to carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David’s throne will come through the gates of this palace, riding in chariots and on horses, accompanied by their officials and their people.
Если вы будете точно исполнять эти повеления, то через ворота этого дворца на колесницах и на конях будут въезжать цари, которые сидят на престоле Давида, — они сами, их приближенные и их народ.
For this is what the Lord says about the palace of the king of Judah: “Though you are like Gilead to me, like the summit of Lebanon, I will surely make you like a wasteland, like towns not inhabited.
Do not weep for the dead king or mourn his loss; rather, weep bitterly for him who is exiled, because he will never return nor see his native land again.
For this is what the Lord says about Shalluma son of Josiah, who succeeded his father as king of Judah but has gone from this place: “He will never return.
“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, his upper rooms by injustice, making his own people work for nothing, not paying them for their labor.
— Горе тому, кто строит свой дворец несправедливостью, его верхние комнаты — беззаконием, заставляя соплеменников трудиться даром, не давая им плату за работу;
He says, ‘I will build myself a great palace with spacious upper rooms.’ So he makes large windows in it, panels it with cedar and decorates it in red.
“Does it make you a king to have more and more cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He did what was right and just, so all went well with him.
Оттого ли ты царь, что более других строишь из кедра? Вспомни своего отца: он и ел, и пил, но делал то, что правильно и справедливо, и поэтому жил в благополучии.
Therefore this is what the Lord says about Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!’ They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my master! Alas, his splendor!’
The wind will drive all your shepherds away, and your allies will go into exile. Then you will be ashamed and disgraced because of all your wickedness.
“As surely as I live,” declares the Lord, “even if you, Jehoiachinc son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on my right hand, I would still pull you off.
— Верно, как и то, что Я живу, — возвещает Господь, — даже если бы ты, Иехония, сын Иоакима, царь Иудеи, был перстнем с печатью73 на Моей правой руке, Я сорвал бы тебя и оттуда.
This is what the Lord says: “Record this man as if childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime, for none of his offspring will prosper, none will sit on the throne of David or rule anymore in Judah.”
Так говорит Господь: — Запишите этого человека бездетным, человеком, которому не будет в жизни благополучия, у всех его потомков не будет благополучия: ни один не сядет на престол Давида и не будет править Иудеей.