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Слово Вечного[a], которое было к Иоилю, сыну Петуила.

Нашествие саранчи

Слушайте, старцы,
    внимайте, все жители этой страны!
Случалось ли что-либо, подобное этому, в ваши дни
    или в дни ваших отцов?
Расскажите об этом вашим детям,
    они же пусть перескажут это своим,
    а те пусть передадут следующему поколению.
Стая за стаей налетела саранча,
    пожрала всё на своём пути.
Что оставалось после одной стаи,
    уничтожала следующая.[b]

Пробудитесь, пьяницы, и плачьте,
    причитайте, пьющие вино,
оплакивайте молодое вино,
    потому что оно отнято от уст ваших!
На мою землю вступил народ,
    сильный и бесчисленный.
Его зубы – зубы льва,
    а клыки – как у львицы.
Он разорил мою виноградную лозу,
    обломал мой инжир.
Обнажил, ободрав его кору, и бросил;
    белыми стали его ветви.

Плачьте, как девушка, что облачилась в рубище
    и оплакивает своего возлюбленного.
Хлебные приношения и жертвенные возлияния
    прекратились в доме Вечного;
    скорбят священнослужители Вечного.
10 Опустошено поле,
    и высохла земля;
уничтожено зерно,
    засох молодой виноград,
    и увяла маслина.
11 Сокрушайтесь, земледельцы,
    о пшенице и ячмене,
    потому что погиб урожай на полях.
Рыдайте, виноградари,
12     потому что засохла виноградная лоза
    и завял инжир;
гранат, пальма и яблоня –
    все деревья на поле засохли;
потому и прекратилось веселье
    у всего народа.

13 Облекитесь в рубище, священнослужители, и плачьте,
    рыдайте, служащие перед жертвенником.
Придите, служители моего Бога,
    и проведите ночь в рубищах,
потому что хлебные приношения и жертвенные возлияния
    прекратились в доме вашего Бога.
14 Объявите священный пост,
    созовите собрание,
пригласите старцев
    и всех жителей страны
в дом Вечного, вашего Бога,
    и взывайте к Нему.

День Вечного

15 О, этот день!
    Близок день Вечного,
    несёт он разрушение от Всемогущего.

16 Не на наших ли глазах
    отнимается пища,
а радость и веселье уходят
    из дома нашего Бога?
17 Истлели зёрна под глыбами земли,
    разрушены кладовые,
опустели амбары,
    потому что нет больше зерна.
18 О, как стонет скот!
    Уныло бродят стада,
потому что нет для них пищи;
    даже отары овец несут наказание.

19 Я взываю к Тебе, о Вечный,
    потому что огонь спалил степные пастбища
    и пламя пожрало все деревья в поле.
20 Даже дикие животные взывают к Тебе,
    потому что высохли источники воды
    и огонь спалил степные пастбища.

Footnotes

  1. Иоиль 1:1 Вечный – на языке оригинала: «Яхве». Под этим именем Всевышний открылся Мусо и народу Исроила (см. Исх. 3:13-15). См. пояснительный словарь.
  2. Иоиль 1:4 В этом стихе на языке оригинала для обозначения саранчи использованы четыре слова. Эти слова могут быть либо просто синонимами, либо терминами, которые отражают четыре стадии развития саранчи. То же в 2:25.

The word of the Lord that came(A) to Joel(B) son of Pethuel.

An Invasion of Locusts

Hear this,(C) you elders;(D)
    listen, all who live in the land.(E)
Has anything like this ever happened in your days
    or in the days of your ancestors?(F)
Tell it to your children,(G)
    and let your children tell it to their children,
    and their children to the next generation.(H)
What the locust(I) swarm has left
    the great locusts have eaten;
what the great locusts have left
    the young locusts have eaten;
what the young locusts have left(J)
    other locusts[a] have eaten.(K)

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!
    Wail, all you drinkers of wine;(L)
wail because of the new wine,
    for it has been snatched(M) from your lips.
A nation has invaded my land,
    a mighty army without number;(N)
it has the teeth(O) of a lion,
    the fangs of a lioness.
It has laid waste(P) my vines
    and ruined my fig trees.(Q)
It has stripped off their bark
    and thrown it away,
    leaving their branches white.

Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth(R)
    grieving for the betrothed of her youth.
Grain offerings and drink offerings(S)
    are cut off from the house of the Lord.
The priests are in mourning,(T)
    those who minister before the Lord.
10 The fields are ruined,
    the ground is dried up;(U)
the grain is destroyed,
    the new wine(V) is dried up,
    the olive oil fails.(W)

11 Despair, you farmers,(X)
    wail, you vine growers;
grieve for the wheat and the barley,(Y)
    because the harvest of the field is destroyed.(Z)
12 The vine is dried up
    and the fig tree is withered;(AA)
the pomegranate,(AB) the palm and the apple[b] tree—
    all the trees of the field—are dried up.(AC)
Surely the people’s joy
    is withered away.

A Call to Lamentation

13 Put on sackcloth,(AD) you priests, and mourn;
    wail, you who minister(AE) before the altar.
Come, spend the night in sackcloth,
    you who minister before my God;
for the grain offerings and drink offerings(AF)
    are withheld from the house of your God.
14 Declare a holy fast;(AG)
    call a sacred assembly.
Summon the elders
    and all who live in the land(AH)
to the house of the Lord your God,
    and cry out(AI) to the Lord.(AJ)

15 Alas for that(AK) day!
    For the day of the Lord(AL) is near;
    it will come like destruction from the Almighty.[c](AM)

16 Has not the food been cut off(AN)
    before our very eyes—
joy and gladness(AO)
    from the house of our God?(AP)
17 The seeds are shriveled
    beneath the clods.[d](AQ)
The storehouses are in ruins,
    the granaries have been broken down,
    for the grain has dried up.
18 How the cattle moan!
    The herds mill about
because they have no pasture;(AR)
    even the flocks of sheep are suffering.(AS)

19 To you, Lord, I call,(AT)
    for fire(AU) has devoured the pastures(AV) in the wilderness
    and flames have burned up all the trees of the field.
20 Even the wild animals pant for you;(AW)
    the streams of water have dried up(AX)
    and fire has devoured the pastures(AY) in the wilderness.

Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:4 The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain.
  2. Joel 1:12 Or possibly apricot
  3. Joel 1:15 Hebrew Shaddai
  4. Joel 1:17 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

The word of the Lord that came to Joel son of Pethuel.

An invasion of locusts

Hear this, you elders;
    listen, all who live in the land.
Has anything like this ever happened in your days
    or in the days of your ancestors?
Tell it to your children,
    and let your children tell it to their children,
    and their children to the next generation.
What the locust swarm has left
    the great locusts have eaten;
what the great locusts have left
    the young locusts have eaten;
what the young locusts have left
    other locusts[a] have eaten.

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!
    Wail, all you drinkers of wine;
wail because of the new wine,
    for it has been snatched from your lips.
A nation has invaded my land,
    a mighty army without number;
it has the teeth of a lion,
    the fangs of a lioness.
It has laid waste my vines
    and ruined my fig-trees.
It has stripped off their bark
    and thrown it away,
    leaving their branches white.

Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth
    grieving for the betrothed of her youth.
Grain offerings and drink offerings
    are cut off from the house of the Lord.
The priests are in mourning,
    those who minister before the Lord.
10 The fields are ruined,
    the ground is dried up;
the grain is destroyed,
    the new wine is dried up,
    the olive oil fails.

11 Despair, you farmers,
    wail, you vine growers;
grieve for the wheat and the barley,
    because the harvest of the field is destroyed.
12 The vine is dried up
    and the fig-tree is withered;
the pomegranate, the palm and the apple[b] tree –
    all the trees of the field – are dried up.
Surely the people’s joy
    is withered away.

A call to lamentation

13 Put on sackcloth, you priests, and mourn;
    wail, you who minister before the altar.
Come, spend the night in sackcloth,
    you who minister before my God;
for the grain offerings and drink offerings
    are withheld from the house of your God.
14 Declare a holy fast;
    call a sacred assembly.
Summon the elders
    and all who live in the land
to the house of the Lord your God,
    and cry out to the Lord.

15 Alas for that day!
    For the day of the Lord is near;
    it will come like destruction from the Almighty.[c]

16 Has not the food been cut off
    before our very eyes –
joy and gladness
    from the house of our God?
17 The seeds are shrivelled
    beneath the clods.[d]
The storehouses are in ruins,
    the granaries have been broken down,
    for the grain has dried up.
18 How the cattle moan!
    The herds mill about
because they have no pasture;
    even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

19 To you, Lord, I call,
    for fire has devoured the pastures in the wilderness
    and flames have burned up all the trees of the field.
20 Even the wild animals pant for you;
    the streams of water have dried up
    and fire has devoured the pastures in the wilderness.

Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:4 The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain.
  2. Joel 1:12 Or possibly apricot
  3. Joel 1:15 Hebrew Shaddai
  4. Joel 1:17 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

Mourning and Repentance in Judea

Chapter 1

The Countryside Is Ravaged.[a] This is the word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel:

Hear this, you elders!
    Listen to me, all you inhabitants of the land!
Has anything like this ever happened in your days
    or in the days of your ancestors?
Tell your children about it,
    and let them relate it to their children,
    and their children to the next generation.
What the cutting locust left,
    the swarming locust has eaten.
What the swarming locust left,
    the hopping locust has eaten.
And what the hopping locust left,
    the destroying locust has eaten.
Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!
    Lament, all you winedrinkers!
For the juice of the grape
    will be snatched from your mouth.
For a nation has invaded my land,
    powerful and too vast to count,
possessing teeth like those of a lion,
    and the fangs of a lioness.
It has laid waste my vines
    and destroyed my fig trees,
stripping off their bark
    and leaving their branches white.
Lament like a virgin garbed in sackcloth
    grieving for the betrothed of her youth.
Grain offerings and drink offerings are cut off
    from the house of the Lord.
The priests, the ministers of the Lord,
    are in mourning.
10 The fields are destroyed;
    the earth mourns.
The grain has been ruined;
    the wine has dried up;
    the oil has failed.
11 Despair, you farmers,
    and wail, you vinedressers,
over the wheat and the barley;
    the harvest of the fields is lost.
12 The vine has withered;
    the fig tree droops.
The pomegranate, the palm, and the apple tree—
    all the trees of the field have dried up.
And the joy of the people
    has also withered away.

Announce a Holy Fast; Proclaim a Solemn Assembly[b]

13 Put on sackcloth and lament, you priests!
    Wail, you ministers of the altar!
Come, pass the entire night in sackcloth,
    you ministers of my God!
For the house of your God is deprived
    of grain offerings and libations.
14 Announce a holy fast;
    proclaim a solemn assembly.
Summon the elders
    and all the inhabitants of the land
to the house of the Lord, your God,
    and cry out to the Lord.
15 Woe to us on that day!
    For the day of the Lord[c] is near,
    coming as destruction from the Almighty.
16 Has not the food been cut off
    before our very eyes?
Have not joy and gladness disappeared
    from the house of our God?
17 The seed has shriveled under the clods;
    the storehouses are empty,
and the granaries are deserted
    because the grain has dried up.
18 How loudly the cattle groan!
    The herds of oxen are bewildered
because they have no pasture;
    even the flocks of sheep are wasting away.
19 To you, O Lord, I cry,
    for fire has consumed the open pastures
    and flames have destroyed every tree in the countryside.
20 Even the beasts of the field
    cry out to you.
For the streams of water have dried up,
    and fire has devoured the open pastures.

Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:1 The prophet convokes the ancients, the chiefs of the villages. In some harrowing images, he evokes the disaster without compare: an invasion of locusts, which wreaks more devastation than an invasion by an army.
  2. Joel 1:13 In the midst of stupor and distress, one turns toward God; for in the eyes of the prophet and his contemporaries, suffering a calamity was a sign of heaven’s wrath. May everyone take part in a grand liturgy: mourning, fasting, and praying must prepare hearts for a true conversion.
  3. Joel 1:15 The day of the Lord is that of a judgment: which one often imagines under the form of a general catastrophe preceding the reestablishment of the reign of God. Almighty: i.e., an ancient biblical name for God (El-shaddai) used here because of its play on words in Hebrew.