1 H ow the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with a cloud in His anger! He has cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty and splendor of Israel and has not remembered His footstool in the day of His anger!

Как помрачил Господь во гневе Своем дщерь Сиона! с небес поверг на землю красу Израиля и не вспомнил о подножии ног Своих в день гнева Своего.

2 T he Lord has swallowed up all the country places and habitations of Jacob and has spared not nor pitied; He has demolished in His wrath the strongholds of the Daughter of Judah. He has cast down to the ground the kingdom and its rulers, polluting them and depriving them of their sanctity.

Погубил Господь все жилища Иакова, не пощадил, разрушил в ярости Своей укрепления дщери Иудиной, поверг на землю, отверг царство и князей его, как нечистых:

3 H e has broken off in His fierce anger every horn (means of defense) of Israel. He has drawn back His right hand from before the enemy. And He has burned amidst Jacob like a flaming fire consuming all around.

в пылу гнева сломил все роги Израилевы, отвел десницу Свою от неприятеля и воспылал в Иакове, как палящий огонь, пожиравший все вокруг;

4 H e has bent His bow like an enemy; He has stood with His right hand set like a foe and has slain all the delights and pride of the eye; on and in the tent of the Daughter of Zion He has poured out His wrath like fire.

натянул лук Свой, как неприятель, направил десницу Свою, как враг, и убил все, вожделенное для глаз; на скинию дщери Сиона излил ярость Свою, как огонь.

5 T he Lord has become like an enemy; He has destroyed Israel. He has destroyed all its palaces, has laid in ruins its strongholds, and has multiplied in the Daughter of Judah groaning and moaning and lamentation.

Господь стал как неприятель, истребил Израиля, разорил все чертоги его, разрушил укрепления его и распространил у дщери Иудиной сетование и плач.

6 A nd He has violently broken down His temple like a booth or hedge of a garden; He has destroyed the place of His appointed assembly. The Lord has caused the solemn appointed feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion and has spurned and rejected in the indignation of His anger the king and the priest.

И отнял ограду Свою, как у сада; разорил Свое место собраний, заставил Господь забыть на Сионе празднества и субботы; и в негодовании гнева Своего отверг царя и священника.

7 T he Lord has scorned, rejected, and cast off His altar; He has abhorred and disowned His sanctuary. He has given into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have raised a clamor in the house of the Lord as on a day of a solemn appointed feast.

Отверг Господь жертвенник Свой, отвратил сердце Свое от святилища Своего, предал в руки врагов стены чертогов его; в доме Господнем они шумели, как в праздничный день.

8 T he Lord purposed to lay in ruins the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He marked it off by measuring line; He restrained not His hand from destroying. He made rampart and wall lament; they languished together.

Господь определил разрушить стену дщери Сиона, протянул вервь, не отклонил руки Своей от разорения; истребил внешние укрепления, и стены вместе разрушены.

9 H er gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations; the law is no more; her prophets also obtain no vision from the Lord.

Ворота ее вдались в землю; Он разрушил и сокрушил запоры их; царь ее и князья ее--среди язычников; не стало закона, и пророки ее не сподобляются видений от Господа.

10 T he elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground keeping silent; they have cast dust on their heads, they have girded themselves with sackcloth. The maidens of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

Сидят на земле безмолвно старцы дщери Сионовой, посыпали пеплом свои головы, препоясались вретищем; опустили к земле головы свои девы Иерусалимские.

11 M y eyes fail from weeping, my emotions are deeply disturbed, my heart is poured out upon the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and nurslings faint in the streets of the city.

Истощились от слез глаза мои, волнуется во мне внутренность моя, изливается на землю печень моя от гибели дщери народа моего, когда дети и грудные младенцы умирают от голода среди городских улиц.

12 T hey keep crying to their mothers, Where is corn and wine ? as they faint like wounded men in the streets of the city, as their lives ebb away on their mothers’ bosom.

Матерям своим говорят они: 'где хлеб и вино?', умирая, подобно раненым, на улицах городских, изливая души свои в лоно матерей своих.

13 W hat is sufficient for me to remind you for your ? To what shall I liken you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? With what shall I compare you, that I may comfort you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your ruin is as measureless as the sea! Who can heal you?

Что мне сказать тебе, с чем сравнить тебя, дщерь Иерусалима? чему уподобить тебя, чтобы утешить тебя, дева, дщерь Сиона? ибо рана твоя велика, как море; кто может исцелить тебя?

14 Y our prophets have predicted for you falsehood and delusion and foolish things; and they have not exposed your iniquity and guilt to avert your captivity. But they have divined and declared to you false and deceptive prophecies, worthless and misleading.

Пророки твои провещали тебе пустое и ложное и не раскрывали твоего беззакония, чтобы отвратить твое пленение, и изрекали тебе откровения ложные и приведшие тебя к изгнанию.

15 A ll who pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city which was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?

Руками всплескивают о тебе все проходящие путем, свищут и качают головою своею о дщери Иерусалима, говоря: 'это ли город, который называли совершенством красоты, радостью всей земли?'

16 A ll your enemies have opened wide their mouths against you; they scornfully hiss and gnash their teeth. They cry, We have swallowed her up! Certainly this is the day we have looked for; we have it, we see it!

Разинули на тебя пасть свою все враги твои, свищут и скрежещут зубами, говорят: 'поглотили мы его, только этого дня и ждали мы, дождались, увидели!'

17 T he Lord has done what He planned; He has carried out and finished His word which He threatened and decreed in the days of old. He has demolished without pity; He has made the enemy rejoice over you and has exalted the might of your foes.

Совершил Господь, что определил, исполнил слово Свое, изреченное в древние дни, разорил без пощады и дал врагу порадоваться над тобою, вознес рог неприятелей твоих.

18 T he hearts cried to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; give yourself no rest, let not your eyes stop.

Сердце их вопиет к Господу: стена дщери Сиона! лей ручьем слезы день и ночь, не давай себе покоя, не спускай зениц очей твоих.

19 A rise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward Him for the lives of your young children, who faint from hunger at the head of every street.

Вставай, взывай ночью, при начале каждой стражи; изливай, как воду, сердце твое пред лицем Господа; простирай к Нему руки твои о душе детей твоих, издыхающих от голода на углах всех улиц.

20 B ehold, O Lord, and consider to whom You have done this. Should and shall women eat the fruit of their own bodies, the children whom they have tended and swaddled with their hands? Should and shall priest and prophet be slain in the place set apart of the Lord?

'Воззри, Господи, и посмотри: кому Ты сделал так, чтобы женщины ели плод свой, младенцев, вскормленных ими? чтобы убиваемы были в святилище Господнем священник и пророк?

21 T he young and the old lie on the ground in the streets; my maidens and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger, slaughtering them without pity.

Дети и старцы лежат на земле по улицам; девы мои и юноши мои пали от меча; Ты убивал их в день гнева Твоего, заколал без пощады.

22 Y ou called together, as on an appointed feast day of solemn assembly, my terrors (dangers) from every side. And there was not one in the day of God’s wrath who escaped or survived; those I have nursed and brought up, my enemy has destroyed.

Ты созвал отовсюду, как на праздник, ужасы мои, и в день гнева Господня никто не спасся, никто не уцелел; тех, которые были мною вскормлены и вырощены, враг мой истребил'.