Tanakh & Talmud. Various Authors

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СКАЧАТЬ for a man to stretch himself;And the covering too narrow when he gathereth himself up.²¹For the Lord will rise up as in mount Perazim,He will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon;That He may do His work, strange is His work,And bring to pass His act, strange is His act.²²Now therefore be ye not scoffers,Lest your bands be made strong;For an extermination wholly determined have I heard from the Lord, the God of hosts,Upon the whole land. ²³Give ye ear, and hear my voice;Attend, and hear my speech.²⁴Is the plowman never done with plowing to sow,With the opening and harrowing of his ground?²⁵When he hath made plain the face thereof,Doth he not cast abroad the black cummin, and scatter the cummin,And put in the wheat in rows and the barley in the appointed placeAnd the spelt in the border thereof?²⁶For He doth instruct him aright;His God doth teach him.²⁷For the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing-sledge,Neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the cummin;But the black cummin is beaten out with a staff,And the cummin with a rod.²⁸Is bread corn crushed?Nay, he will not ever be threshing it;And though the roller of his wagon and its sharp edges move noisily,He doth not crush it.²⁹This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts:Wonderful is His counsel, and great His wisdom.29Ah, 6Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped!Add ye year to year,Let the feasts come round!²Then will I distress Ariel,And there shall be mourning and moaning;And she shall be unto Me as a hearth of God.³And I will encamp against thee round about,And will lay siege against thee with a mound,And I will raise siege works against thee.⁴And brought down thou shalt speak out of the ground,And thy speech shall be low out of the dust;And thy voice shall be as of a ghost out of the ground,And thy speech shall chirp out of the dust.⁵But the multitude of thy foes shall be like small dust,And the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away;Yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly—⁶There shall be a visitation from the Lord of hostsWith thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise,With whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.⁷And the multitude of all the nations that war against Ariel,Even all that war against her, and the bulwarks about her, and they that distress her,Shall be as a dream, a vision of the night.⁸And it shall be as when a hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth,But he awaketh, and his soul is empty;Or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh,But he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite—So shall the multitude of all the nations be,That fight against mount Zion. ⁹Stupefy yourselves, and be stupid!Blind yourselves, and be blind!Ye that are drunken, but not with wine,That stagger, but not with strong drink.¹⁰For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep,And hath closed your eyes;The prophets, and your heads, the seers, hath He covered.

      ¹¹And the vision of all this is become unto you as the words of a writing that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying: 'Read this, I pray thee'; and he saith: 'I cannot, for it is sealed'; ¹²and the writing is delivered to him that is not learned, saying: 'Read this, I pray thee'; and he saith: 'I am not learned.'

      ¹³And the Lord said: Forasmuch as this people draw near,And with their mouth and with their lips do honour Me,But have removed their heart far from Me,And their fear of Me is a commandment of men learned by rote;¹⁴Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvellous work among this people,Even a marvellous work and a wonder;And the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,And the prudence of their prudent men shall be hid. ¹⁵Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord,And their works are in the dark,And they say: 'Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?'¹⁶O your perversity!Shall the potter be esteemed as clay;That the thing made should say of him that made it: 'He made me not';Or the thing framed say of him that framed it: 'He hath no understanding?'¹⁷Is it not yet a very little while,And Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field,And the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?¹⁸And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of a book,And the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.¹⁹The humble also shall increase their joy in the Lord,And the neediest among men shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.²⁰For the terrible one is brought to nought,And the scorner ceaseth,And all they that watch for iniquity are cut off;²¹That make a man an offender by words,And lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate,And turn aside the just with a thing of nought.

       ²²Therefore thus saith the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob:

      Jacob shall not now be ashamed,Neither shall his face now wax pale;²³When he seeth his children, the work of My hands, in the midst of him,That they sanctify My name;Yea, they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob,And shall stand in awe of the God of Israel.²⁴They also that err in spirit shall come to understanding,And they that murmur shall learn instruction. 30Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord,That take counsel, but not of Me;And that form projects, but not of My spirit,That they may add sin to sin;²That walk to go down into Egypt,And have not asked at My mouth;To take refuge in the stronghold of Pharaoh,And to take shelter in the shadow of Egypt!³Therefore shall the stronghold of Pharaoh turn to your shame,And the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your confusion.⁴For his princes are at Zoan,And his ambassadors are come to Hanes.⁵They shall all be ashamed of a people that cannot profit them,That are not a help nor profit,But a shame, and also a reproach.

       ⁶The burden of the beasts of the South.

      Through the land of trouble and anguish,From whence come the lioness and the lion,The viper and flying serpent,They carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses,And their treasures upon the humps of camels,To a people that shall not profit them.⁷For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose;Therefore have I called her arrogancy that sitteth still.⁸Now go, write it before them on a tablet,And inscribe it in a book,That it may be for the time to comeFor ever and ever.⁹For it is a rebellious people,Lying children,Children that refuse to hear the teaching of the Lord;¹⁰That say to the seers: 'See not',And to the prophets: 'Prophesy not unto us right things,Speak unto us smooth things, prophesy delusions;¹¹Get you out of the way,Turn aside out of the path,Cause the Holy One of IsraelTo cease from before us.'¹²Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel:Because ye despise this word,And trust in oppression and perverseness,And stay thereon;¹³Therefore this iniquity shall be to youAs a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall,Whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.¹⁴And He shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken,Breaking it in pieces without sparing;So that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherdTo take fire from the hearth,Or to take water out of the cistern. ¹⁵For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel:In sitting still and rest shall ye be saved,In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength;And ye would not.¹⁶But ye said: 'No, for we will flee upon horses';Therefore shall ye flee;And: 'We will ride upon the swift';Therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.¹⁷One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one,At the rebuke of five shall ye flee;Till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain,And as an ensign on a hill.¹⁸And therefore will the Lord wait, that He may be gracious unto you,And therefore will He be exalted, that He may have compassion upon you;For the Lord is a God of justice,Happy are all they that wait for Him. ¹⁹For, O people that dwellest in Zion at Jerusalem,Thou shalt weep no more;He will surely be gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry,When He shall hear, He will answer thee.²⁰And though the Lord give you sparing bread and scant water,Yet shall not thy Teacher hide Himself any more,But thine eyes shall see thy Teacher;²¹And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying:'This is the way, walk ye in it,When ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.'²²And ye shall defile thy graven images overlaid with silver,And thy molten images covered with gold;Thou shalt put them far away as one unclean;Thou shalt say unto it: 'Get thee hence.'²³And He will give the rain for thy seed, wherewith thou sowest the ground,And bread of the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous;In that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.²⁴The oxen likewise and the young asses that till the groundShall eat savoury provender,Which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.²⁵And there СКАЧАТЬ