The Pillars of Three Faiths: Tanakh, Bible & Qu'ran. Various Authors

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СКАЧАТЬ the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh,Even unto Jahaz have they uttered their voice,From Zoar even unto Horonaim,A heifer of three years old;For the Waters of Nimrim alsoShall be desolate. ³⁵Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab,Saith the Lord,Him that offereth in the high place,And him that offereth to his gods.³⁶Therefore my heart moaneth for MoabLike pipes, and my heart moaneth like pipes for the men of Kir-heres;Therefore the abundance that he hath gotten is perished.³⁷For every head is bald,And every beard clipped;Upon all the hands are cuttings,And upon the loins sackcloth.³⁸On all the housetops of Moab and in the broad places thereofThere is lamentation every where;For I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure,Saith the Lord.³⁹'How is it broken down! ' wail ye!'How hath Moab turned the back with shame! 'So shall Moab become a derision and a dismayTo all that are round about him. ⁴⁰For thus saith the Lord:Behold, he shall swoop as a vulture,And shall spread out his wings against Moab.⁴¹The cities are taken,And the strongholds are seized,And the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that dayShall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.⁴²And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people,Because he hath magnified himself against the Lord.⁴³Terror, and the pit, and the trap,Are upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab,Saith the Lord.⁴⁴He that fleeth from the terrorShall fall into the pit;And he that getteth up out of the pitShall be taken in the trap;For I will bring upon her, even upon Moab,The year of their visitation, saith the Lord. ⁴⁵In the shadow of Heshbon the fugitivesStand without strength;For a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon,And a flame from the midst of Sihon,And it devoureth the corner of Moab,And the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.⁴⁶Woe unto thee, O Moab!The people of Chemosh is undone;For thy sons are taken away captive,And thy daughters into captivity.⁴⁷Yet will I turn the captivity of MoabIn the end of days, saith the Lord.

       Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

       49Of the children of Ammon.

      Thus saith the Lord:Hath Israel no sons?Hath he no heir?Why then doth Malcam take possession of Gad,And his people dwell in the cities thereof?²Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord,That I will cause an alarm of war to be heardAgainst Rabbah of the children of Ammon;And it shall become a desolate mound,And her daughters shall be burned with fire;Then shall Israel dispossess them that did dispossess him,Saith the Lord.³Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is undone;Cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth;Lament, and run to and fro among the folds;For Malcam shall go into captivity,His priests and his princes together.⁴Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys,Thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter?That didst trust in thy treasures:'Who shall come unto me?'⁵Behold, I will bring a terror upon thee,Saith the Lord God of hosts,From all that are round about thee;And ye shall be driven out every man right forth,And there shall be none to gather up him that wandereth.⁶But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children of Ammon,Saith the Lord.

       ⁷Of Edom.

      Thus saith the Lord of hosts:Is wisdom no more in Teman?Is counsel perished from the prudent?Is their wisdom vanished?⁸Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep,O inhabitants of Dedan;For I do bring the calamity of Esau upon him,The time that I shall punish him.⁹If grape-gatherers came to thee,Would they not leave some gleaning grapes?If thieves by night,Would they not destroy till they had enough?¹⁰But I have made Esau bare,I have uncovered his secret places,And he shall not be able to hide himself;His seed is spoiled, and his brethren,And his neighbours, and he is not.¹¹Leave thy fatherless children, I will rear them,And let thy widows trust in Me.

      ¹²For thus saith the Lord: Behold, they to whom it pertained not to drink of the cup shall assuredly drink; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink. ¹³For I have sworn by Myself, saith the Lord, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.

      ¹⁴I have heard a message from the Lord,And an ambassador is sent among the nations:'Gather yourselves together, and come against her,And rise up to the battle.'¹⁵For, behold, I make thee small among the nations,And despised among men.¹⁶Thy terribleness hath deceived thee,Even the pride of thy heart,O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock,That holdest the height of the hill;Though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle,I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.¹⁷And Edom shall become an astonishment;Every one that passeth by itShall be astonished and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.¹⁸As in the overthrow of Sodom and GomorrahAnd the neighbour cities thereof, saith the Lord,No man shall abide there,Neither shall any son of man dwell therein.¹⁹Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the thickets of the JordanAgainst the strong habitation;For I will suddenly make him run away from it,And whoso is chosen, him will I appoint over it;For who is like Me? and who will appoint Me a time?And who is that shepherd that will stand before Me?²⁰Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord,That He hath taken against Edom;And His purposes, that He hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman:Surely the least of the flock shall drag them away,Surely their habitation shall be appalled at them.²¹The earth quaketh at the noise of their fall;There is a cry, the noise whereof is heard in the Red Sea.²²Behold, he shall come up and swoop down as the vulture,And spread out his wings against Bozrah;And the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that dayShall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

       ²³Of Damascus.

      Hamath is ashamed, and Arpad;For they have heard evil tidings, they are melted away;There is trouble in the sea;It cannot be quiet.²⁴Damascus is waxed feeble, she turneth herself to flee,And trembling hath seized on her;Anguish and pangs have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.²⁵'How is the city of praise left unrepaired,The city of my joy?'²⁶Therefore her young men shall fall in her broad places,And all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day,Saith the Lord of hosts.²⁷And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus,And it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.

       ²⁸Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote.

      Thus saith the Lord:Arise ye, go up against Kedar,And spoil the children of the east.²⁹Their tents and their flocks shall they take,They shall carry away for themselves their curtains,And all their vessels, and their camels;And they shall proclaim against them a terror on every side.³⁰Flee ye, flit far off, dwell deep,O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the Lord;For Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you,And hath conceived a purpose against you.³¹Arise, get you up against a nation that is at ease,That dwelleth without care, saith the Lord;That have neither gates nor bars,That dwell alone.³²And their camels shall be a booty,And the multitude of their cattle a spoil;And I will scatter unto all winds them that have the corners polled;And I will bring their calamity from every side of them, saith the Lord.³³And Hazor shall be a dwelling-place of jackals,A desolation for ever; no man shall abide there,Neither shall any son of man dwell therein.

       ³⁴The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying:

      ³⁵Thus saith the Lord of hosts:Behold, I will break the bow of ElamThe chief of their might.³⁶And I will bring against Elam the four windsFrom the four quarters of heaven,And will scatter them toward all those winds;And there shall be no nation whither the dispersed of Elam shall not come.³⁷And I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies,And before them that seek their life;And I will bring evil upon them,Even My fierce anger, saith the Lord;And I will send the sword after them,Till I have consumed them;³⁸And I will set My throne in Elam,And will destroy from thence king and princes, saith the Lord.³⁹But it shall come to pass in the end of days,That I will bring back the captivity of Elam, saith the Lord.

       50The word that the Lord spoke concerning Babylon, concerning СКАЧАТЬ