Judith 3

DOUAI-RHEIMS	Библия Синодальный перевод
1 Then the kings and the princes of all the cities and provinces, of Syria, Mesopotamia, and Syria Sobal, and Libya, and Cilicia sent their ambassadors, who coming to Holofernes, said:	1 И послали к нему вестников с таким мирным предложением:
2 Let thy indignation towards us cease: for it is better for us to live and serve Nabuchodonosor the great king, and be subject to thee, than to die and to perish, or suffer the miseries of slavery.	2 вот мы, рабы великого царя Навуходоносора, повергаемся перед тобою: делай с нами, что тебе угодно.
3 All our cities and our possessions, all mountains and hills, and fields, and herds of oxen, and flocks of cheep, and goats, and horses, and camels, and all our goods, and families are in thy sight:	3 Вот перед тобою: и селения наши, и все места наши, и все нивы с пшеницею, и стада овец и волов, и все строения наших жилищ: употребляй их, как пожелаешь.
4 Let all we have be subject to thy law.	4 Вот и города наши и обитающие в них - рабы твои: иди и поступай с ними, как будет глазам твоим угодно.
5 Both we and our children are thy servants.	5 И пришли к Олоферну мужи и передали ему эти слова.
6 Come to us a peaceable lord, and use our service as it shall please thee.	6 Тогда он пришел в приморскую страну с войском своим, окружил высокие города стражею и взял из них отборных мужей в соратники себе.
7 Then he came down from the mountains with horsemen, in great power, and made himself master of every city, and all the inhabitants of the land.	7 А они и вся окрестность их приняли его с венками, ликами и тимпанами.
8 And from all the cities he took auxiliaries valiant men, and chosen for war.	8 Он же разорил все высоты их и вырубил рощи их: ему приказано было истребить всех богов той земли, чтобы все народы служили одному Навуходоносору, и все языки и все племена их призывали его, как Бога.
9 And so great a fear lay upon all those provinces, that the inhabitants of all the cities, both princes and nobles, as well as the people, went out to meet him at his coming.	9 Придя к Ездрилону близ Дотеи, лежащей против великой теснины Иудейской,
10 And received him with garlands, and lights, and dances, and tumbrels, and flutes.	10 он расположился лагерем между Гаваем и городом Скифов и оставался там целый месяц, чтобы собрать весь обоз своего войска.
11 And though they did these things, they could not for all that mitigate the fierceness of his heart:
12 For he both destroyed their cities and cut down their groves.
13 For Nabuchodonosor the king had commanded him to destroy all the gods of the earth, that he only might be called God by those nations which could be brought under him by the power of Holofernes.
14 And when he had passed through all Syria Sobal, and all Apamea, and all Mesopotamia, he came to the Idumeans into the land of Gabaa,
15 And he took possession of their cities, and stayed there for thirty days, in which days he commanded all the troops of his army to be united.