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Thus says the Lord: “Execute[a] judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong and do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor 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 indeed do this thing, then shall enter the gates of this house, riding on horses and in chariots, accompanied by servants and people, kings who sit on the throne of David.
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 thus says the Lord to the house of the king of Judah: “You are Gilead to Me, The head of Lebanon; Yet I surely will make you a wilderness, Cities which are not inhabited.
For thus says the Lord concerning Shallum[c] the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, who went from this place: “He shall not return here anymore,
“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness And his [d]chambers by injustice, Who uses his neighbor’s service without wages And gives him nothing for his work,
— Горе тому, кто строит свой дворец несправедливостью, его верхние комнаты — беззаконием, заставляя соплеменников трудиться даром, не давая им плату за работу;
Who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house with spacious [e]chambers, And cut out windows for it, Paneling it with cedar And painting it with vermilion.’
“Shall you reign because you enclose yourself in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, And do justice and righteousness? Then it was 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 thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: “They shall not lament for him, Saying, ‘Alas, my brother!’ or ‘Alas, my sister!’ They shall not lament for him, Saying, ‘Alas, master!’ or ‘Alas, his glory!’
The wind shall eat up all your [g]rulers, And your lovers shall go into captivity; Surely then you will be ashamed and humiliated For all your wickedness.
— 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.
and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of those whose face you fear — the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the hand of the [k]Chaldeans.
“Is this man [l]Coniah a despised, broken idol — A vessel in which is no pleasure? Why are they cast out, he and his descendants, And cast into a land which they do not know?
Thus says the Lord: ‘Write this man down as childless, A man who shall not prosper in his days; For none of his descendants shall prosper, Sitting on the throne of David, And ruling 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.