Tanakh & Talmud. Various Authors

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      ²¹Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat ye flesh. ²²For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices; ²³but this thing I commanded them, saying: 'Hearken unto My voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be My people; and walk ye in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.' ²⁴But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in their own counsels, even in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward, ²⁵even since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day; and though I have sent unto you all My servants the prophets, sending them daily betimes and often, ²⁶yet they hearkened not unto Me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff; they did worse than their fathers.

      ²⁷And thou shalt speak all these words unto them, but they will not hearken to thee; thou shalt also call unto them, but they will not answer thee. ²⁸Therefore thou shalt say unto them:

      This is the nation that hath not hearkenedTo the voice of the Lord their God,Nor received correction;Faithfulness is perished,And is cut off from their mouth.

      ²⁹Cut off thy hair, and cast it away,And take up a lamentation on the high hills;For the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.

      ³⁰For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight, saith the Lord; they have set their detestable things in the house whereon My name is called, to defile it. ³¹And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded not, neither came it into My mind. ³²Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter; for they shall bury in Topheth, for lack of room. ³³And the carcasses of this people shall be food for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten them away. ³⁴Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall be desolate. 8¹At that time, saith the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves; ²and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped; they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth. ³And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the Lord of hosts.

      ⁴Moreover thou shalt say unto them: Thus saith the Lord:

      Do men fall, and not rise up again?Doth one turn away, and not return?⁵Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden backBy a perpetual backsliding?They hold fast deceit,They refuse to return.⁶I attended and listened,But they spoke not aright;No man repenteth him of his wickedness,Saying: 'What have I done?'Every one turneth away in his course,As a horse that rusheth headlong in the battle.⁷Yea, the stork in the heavenKnoweth her appointed times;And the turtle and the swallow and the craneObserve the time of their coming;But My people know notThe ordinance of the Lord.⁸How do ye say: 'We are wise,And the Law of the Lord is with us'?Lo, certainly in vain hath wroughtThe vain pen of the scribes.⁹The wise men are ashamed,They are dismayed and taken;Lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord;And what wisdom is in them? ¹⁰Therefore will I give their wives unto others,And their fields to them that shall possess them;For from the least even unto the greatestEvery one is greedy for gain,From the prophet even unto the priestEvery one dealeth falsely.¹¹And they have healed the hurt of the daughter of My people lightly,Saying: 'Peace, peace', when there is no peace.¹²They shall be put to shame because they have committed abomination;Yea, they are not at all ashamed,Neither know they how to blush;Therefore shall they fall among them that fall,In the time of their visitation they shall stumble,Saith the Lord. ¹³I will utterly consume them, saith the Lord;There are no grapes on the vine,Nor figs on the fig-tree,And the leaf is faded;And I gave them that which they transgress.¹⁴'Why do we sit still?Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities,And let us be cut off there;For the Lord our God hath cut us off,And given us water of gall to drink,Because we have sinned against the Lord.¹⁵We looked for peace, but no good came;And for a time of healing, and behold terror! '¹⁶The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan;At the sound of the neighing of his strong onesThe whole land trembleth;For they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it,The city and those that dwell therein.¹⁷For, behold, I will send serpents, basilisks, among you,Which will not be charmed;And they shall bite you, saith the Lord. ¹⁸Though I would take comfort against sorrow,My heart is faint within me.¹⁹Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my peopleFrom a land far off:'Is not the Lord in Zion?Is not her King in her?'—'Why have they provoked Me with their graven images,And with strange vanities?'—²⁰'The harvest is past, the summer is ended,And we are not saved.'²¹For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I seized with anguish;I am black, appalment hath taken hold on me.²²Is there no balm in Gilead?Is there no physician there?Why then is not the healthOf the daughter of my people recovered?²³Oh that my head were waters,And mine eyes a fountain of tears,That I might weep day and nightFor the slain of the daughter of my people! 9Oh that I were in the wilderness,In a lodging-place of wayfaring men,That I might leave my people,And go from them!For they are all adulterers,An assembly of treacherous men.²And they bend their tongue, their bow of falsehood;And they are grown mighty in the land, but not for truth;For they proceed from evil to evil,And Me they know not,Saith the Lord.³Take ye heed every one of his neighbour,And trust ye not in any brother;For every brother acteth subtly,And every neighbour goeth about with slanders.⁴And they deceive every one his neighbour,And truth they speak not;They have taught their tongue to speak lies,They weary themselves to commit iniquity.⁵Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit;Through deceit they refuse to know Me,Saith the Lord. ⁶Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts:Behold, I will smelt them, and try them;For how else should I do,Because of the daughter of My people?⁷Their tongue is a sharpened arrow,It speaketh deceit;One speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth,But in his heart he layeth wait for him.⁸Shall I not punish them for these things?Saith the Lord;Shall not My soul be avengedOn such a nation as this? ⁹For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing,And for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation,Because they are burned up, so that none passeth through,And they hear not the voice of the cattle;Both the fowl of the heavens and the beastAre fled, and gone.¹⁰And I will make Jerusalem heaps,A lair of jackals; And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,Without an inhabitant. ¹¹Who is the wise man, that he may understand this?And who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, that he may declare it?Wherefore is the land perishedAnd laid waste like a wilderness, so that none passeth through?¹² And the Lord saith:Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them,And have not hearkened to My voice, neither walked therein;¹³ But have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart,And after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them.¹⁴Therefore СКАЧАТЬ