¹The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying,

¹Slovo, ktoré sa stalo od Hospodina k Jeremiášovi, kým Nabuchodonozor, babylonský kráľ, i všetko jeho vojsko i všetky kráľovstvá zeme, panstvo to jeho ruky, i všetky národy bojovali proti Jeruzalemu a proti všetkým jeho mestám, povediac:

²Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:

²Takto hovorí Hospodin, Bôh Izraelov: Iď a povieš Cedekiášovi, judskému kráľovi, a povieš mu: Takto hovorí Hospodin: Hľa, vydám toto mesto do ruky babylonského kráľa a spáli ho ohňom.

³And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.

³A ty neujdeš jeho ruke, ale budeš istotne chytený a budeš vydaný do jeho ruky a tvoje oči uvidia oči babylonského kráľa, a jeho ústa budú hovoriť s tvojimi ústami, a prijdeš do Babylona.

⁴Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword:

⁴Avšak počuj slovo Hospodinovo, Cedekiášu, judský kráľu: Takto hovorí Hospodin o tebe: Nezomrieš mečom.

⁵But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD.

⁵Zomrieš v pokoji. A jako pálievali tvojim otcom, drievnym kráľom, ktorí boli pred tebou, tak budú páliť aj tebe, a budú kvíliť nad tebou: Ach, pane! Lebo ja som hovoril slovo, hovorí Hospodin.

⁶Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,

⁶A prorok Jeremiáš hovoril Cedekiášovi, judskému kráľovi, všetky tie slová v Jeruzaleme,

⁷When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah.

⁷keď bojovalo vojsko babylonského kráľa proti Jeruzalemu a proti všetkým mestám Júdovým, ktoré boly ešte pozostaly, proti Lachišu a proti Azéke, lebo tie boly pozostaly z miest Júdových, ohradené mestá.

⁸This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;

⁸Slovo, ktoré sa stalo od Hospodina k Jeremiášovi, keď bol učinil kráľ Cedekiáš smluvu so všetkým ľudom, ktorý bol v Jeruzaleme, aby im vyhlásil slobodu,

⁹That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.

⁹aby každý prepustil svojho sluhu a každý svoju dievku, Hebreja a Hebrejku, slobodných, aby si niktorý neslúžili nimi, Židom, svojím bratom.

¹⁰Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.

¹⁰A poslúchli všetky kniežatá i všetok ľud, ktorí boli vošli v smluvu, že prepustia každý svojho sluhu a každý svoju dievku slobodných, aby si viacej neslúžili nimi, poslúchli tedy a prepustili.

¹¹But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

¹¹Ale potom zase navrátili sluhov a dievky, ktorých boli prepustili slobodných, a podmanili si ich za sluhov a za dievky.

¹²Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

¹²Preto stalo sa slovo Hospodinovo k Jeremiášovi od Hospodina povediac:

¹³Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,

¹³Takto hovorí Hospodin, Bôh Izraelov: Ja som učinil smluvu s vašimi otcami toho dňa, ktorého som ich vyviedol z Egyptskej zeme, z domu sluhov, povediac:

¹⁴At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.

¹⁴Po siedmich rokoch prepustíte každý svojho brata Hebreja, ktorý by sa ti predal a slúžil by ti šesť rokov, a prepustíš ho slobodného od seba, ale nepočúvali vaši otcovia na mňa ani nenaklonili svojho ucha.

¹⁵And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:

¹⁵A vy ste sa boli obrátili dnes a učinili ste to, čo je spravedlivé v mojich očiach, vyhlásiac každý svojmu blížnemu slobodu a učinili ste smluvu pred mojou tvárou v dome, nad ktorým je menované moje meno;

¹⁶But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

¹⁶ale obrátiac sa poškvrnili ste moje meno navrátiac každý svojho sluhu a každý svoju dievku, ktorých ste boli prepustili slobodných podľa žiadosti ich duše, a podmanili ste ich, aby vám boli sluhami a dievkami.

¹⁷Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

¹⁷Preto takto hovorí Hospodin: Vy ste ma neposlúchli, aby ste boli vyhlásili slobodu každý svojmu bratovi a každý svojmu blížnemu, preto hľa, vyhlasujem vám slobodu, hovorí Hospodin, k meču, moru a hladu a vydám vás za postrk všetkým kráľovstvám zeme.

¹⁸And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,

¹⁸A vydám mužov, ktorí prestúpili moju smluvu, ktorí nedodržali slov smluvy, ktorú učinili pred mojou tvárou, aby boli jako to teľa, ktoré rozťali na dvoje a prešli pomedzi jeho diely.

¹⁹The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;

¹⁹Kniežatá Júdove a kniežatá Jeruzalema, dvoranini a kňazi a všetok ľud zeme, ktorí prešli pomedzi diely teľaťa,

²⁰I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.

²⁰vydám ich do ruky ich nepriateľov a do ruky tých, ktorí hľadajú ich dušu, a ich mŕtve telo bude za pokrm nebeskému vtáctvu a zemskej zveri.

²¹And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from you.

²¹Aj Cedekiáša, judského kráľa, i jeho kniežatá vydám do ruky ich nepriateľov a do ruky tých, ktorí hľadajú ich dušu, a do ruky vojska babylonského kráľa, ktorí odtiahli od vás hore.

²²Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.

²²Hľa, rozkážem, hovorí Hospodin, a navrátim ich na toto mesto, a budú bojovať proti nemu a vezmú ho a spália ho ohňom, i mestá Júdove dám, aby boly obrátené na púšť, tak čo nebude obyvateľa.