¹Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.

¹Čujte to besedo, žalostinko, ki jo pojem nad vami, o hiša Izraelova!

²The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

²Padla je devica Izraelova, ne vstane več, vržena je ob tla, ni ga, ki bi jo vzdignil.

³For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.

³Kajti tako pravi Gospod Jehova: Mestu, iz katerega jih je hodilo tisoč, jih preostane sto, in njemu, iz katerega jih je hodilo sto, jih preostane deset za hišo Izraelovo.

⁴For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:

⁴Kajti tako pravi GOSPOD hiši Izraelovi: Iščite me, in boste živeli!

⁵But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.

⁵In ne iščite Betela in ne hodite v Gilgal in ne zahajajte v Bersebo; kajti Gilgal bo gotovo odpeljan v sužnost in Betel pride v nič.

⁶Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.

⁶Iščite GOSPODA, in boste živeli! Sicer pridere kakor ogenj v hišo Jožefovo in jo požre, in ne bo v Betelu nikogar, ki bi pogasil.

⁷Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

⁷Vi, ki prevračate pravico v pelin in teptate pravičnost,

⁸Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:

⁸iščite njega, ki je naredil gostosevce in rimščice, ki izpreminja smrtno senco v jutro in dan mrači v noč, ki kliče vode iz morja ter jih razliva po površju zemlje: Jehova je ime njegovo;

⁹That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.

⁹ki spravlja naglo potrtje nad močnega, da pokončevanje nastane v trdnjavi.

¹⁰They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

¹⁰Oni sovražijo njega, ki pravično razsoja med vrati, in studijo njega, ki govori o brezmadežnosti.

¹¹Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

¹¹Zatorej, ker teptate ubožca in od njega izterjavate davek od žita: sezidali ste hiše iz obdelanih kamenov, a ne boste prebivali v njih, zasadili ste krasne vinograde, a ne boste pili vina iz njih.

¹²For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

¹²Vem namreč, kako obilni so prestopki vaši in kako mnogoštevilni grehi vaši – da stiskate pravičnika, jemljete podkupila in krivite pravico revežev med vrati.

¹³Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

¹³Zato, kdor je moder, molči v tem času, ker čas je hud.

¹⁴Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.

¹⁴Iščite dobrega, ne pa hudega, da boste živeli; in tako bode z vami GOSPOD, Bog nad vojskami, kakor pravite.

¹⁵Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

¹⁵Sovražite hudo in ljubite dobro, uveljavite pravico med vrati; morda se usmili GOSPOD, Bog nad vojskami ostanka Jožefovega.

¹⁶Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

¹⁶Zatorej pravi tako Jehova, Bog nad vojskami, Gospod: Po vseh trgih bo plakanje; in po vseh ulicah bodo vpili: Gorje, gorje! in klicali bodo orača k žalovanju in izučene k žalovanju, naj plakajo;

¹⁷And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.

¹⁷in po vseh vinogradih bode plakanje. Kajti pojdem skozi tebe, pravi GOSPOD.

¹⁸Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.

¹⁸Gorje vam, ki želite dneva GOSPODOVEGA! Čemu naj vam bode dan GOSPODOV? Tema bode, ne pa luč.

¹⁹As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

¹⁹Bode, kakor če kdo beži izpred leva, pa ga sreča medved; in stopi v hišo ter se nasloni na steno z roko, in ga piči kača.

²⁰Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

²⁰Ne bode li dan GOSPODOV tema, ne pa luč? črn mrak, ne pa svetloba?

²¹I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

²¹Sovražim, zaničujem praznike vaše in slavnostna zborovanja vaša mi niso všeč;

²²Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.

²²ako mi tudi darujete žgalne in jedilne dritve, mi niso prijetne, in na mirovne daritve od vaše pitane živine se ne maram ozreti.

²³Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

²³Spravi izpred mene vrišč svojih pesmi, in brenkanja tvojih strun nočem poslušati.

²⁴But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

²⁴A naj se privali pravica kakor voda in pravičnost kakor vedno tekoč potok!

²⁵Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

²⁵Ali ste mi darovali v puščavi klalne in jedilne daritve štirideset let, o hiša Izraelova?

²⁶But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

²⁶Res, nosili ste šator svojega kralja [Ali: Moloha. Besedi „kralj“ (melek) in „Moloh“ sta si podobni.] in kip svojih malikov, zvezdo boga svojega, kar ste si naredili.Zato vas prepeljem v ujetništvo onostran Damaska, pravi GOSPOD, čigar ime Bog nad vojskami.

²⁷Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.

²⁷Zato vas prepeljem v ujetništvo onostran Damaska, pravi GOSPOD, čigar ime Bog nad vojskami.