¹And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

¹In prišla mi je beseda GOSPODOVA, govoreč:

²Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?

²Sin človečji, prorokuj zoper pastirje Izraelove, prorokuj in reci tistim pastirjem: Tako pravi Gospod Jehova: Gorje pastirjem Izraelovim, ki pasejo sami sebe! Ni li pastirjem pasti črede?

³Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.

³Vi pa jeste tolstino ter se oblačite z volno, pitance koljete; črede ne pasete.

⁴The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.

⁴Slabotnih niste krepčali, bolnih niste zdravili, ranjenih niste obvezovali; njih, ki so zašle, niste nazaj pripeljavali; kar je bilo izgubljenega, niste iskali, temuč trdo in nemilo ste jim gospodovali.

⁵And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.

⁵In ovce so se razkropile, ker jim ni bilo pastirja, in so postale za jed vsem zverinam na polju, in bile so razkropljene.

⁶My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.

⁶Moje ovce tavajo po vseh gorah in po vseh visokih hribih, in po vsem površju zemlje so razkropljene ovce moje, in ni ga, ki bi po njih vprašal ali jih iskal.

⁷Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;

⁷Zatorej, pastirji, čujte besedo GOSPODOVO!

⁸As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;

⁸Kakor res živim, govori Gospod Jehova: Zato ker so bile moje ovce izročene plenjenju in ker so bile v jed vsem zverinam na polju, kajti ni bilo pastirja in moji pastirji ne vprašujejo po ovcah mojih, marveč pasejo sami sebe, a ne pasejo ovac mojih:

⁹Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;

⁹zato, pastirji, čujte besedo GOSPODOVO:

¹⁰Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.

¹⁰Tako pravi Gospod Jehova: Glej, jaz sem zoper tiste pastirje in zahteval bom ovce iz njih rok in jih odstavim, da ne bodo več pasli ovac, tudi ne bodo več pasli sami sebe, in otmem ovce svoje iz njih grla, da jim ne bodo več v užitek.

¹¹For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.

¹¹Zakaj tako pravi Gospod Jehova: Glej, jaz sam, jaz poiščem ovce svoje in jih vzamem v svojo skrb.

¹²As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

¹²Kakor pastir skrbi za ovce svoje v dan, kadar je med razkropljenimi ovcami svojimi, tako bom skrbel za ovce svoje in jih otmem iz vseh krajev, kamor so se porazgubile oblačnega in temnega dne.

¹³And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.

¹³In pripeljem jih izmed ljudstev ter jih zberem po deželah in jih privedem v njih zemljo ter jih bom pasel po gorah Izraelovih, po dolinah in ob vseh selih dežele.

¹⁴I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.

¹⁴Na dobri paši jih bom pasel in po visokih gorah Izraelovih bodo njih pašniki; tam, na gorah Izraelovih, bodo ležale v pokojnih stanih in uživale tolsto pašo.

¹⁵I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD.

¹⁵Jaz sam bom pasel ovce svoje in jaz jih vodil počivat, govori Gospod Jehova.

¹⁶I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.

¹⁶Izgubljene poiščem, razgnane pripeljem nazaj, ranjene obvežem in bolne pokrepčam; kar je pa debelo in močno zatrem; pasel jih bom, kakor je prav.

¹⁷And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.

¹⁷Vi torej, črede moje – tako pravi Gospod Jehova: Glejte, sodil bom med ovco in ovco, med ovni in kozli.

¹⁸Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?

¹⁸Je li vam malo, da najboljšo pašo popasete, treba li, da še poteptate ostanke paše? malo li, da pijete čisto vodo, da še kalite ostanek z nogami?

¹⁹And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.

¹⁹In mojim ovcam bodi za pašo, kar ste poteptali, in v pijačo, kar ste skalili z nogami svojimi?

²⁰Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.

²⁰Zato pravi tako Gospod Jehova: Glejte, jaz sam bom sodil med debelimi in medlimi ovcami.

²¹Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;

²¹Zato ker z boki in ramami odrivate in z rogovi bodete vse slabotne, dokler jih ne razkropite:

²²Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.

²²zato rešim ovce svoje, da vam ne bodo več v plen; in sodil bom med ovco in ovco.

²³And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.

²³in obudim jim Pastirja edinega, ki naj jih pase, hlapca svojega Davida: ta jih bo pasel in jim bode pastir.

²⁴And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it.

²⁴In jaz, Jehova, jim bodem Bog in hlapec moj David bode knez sredi njih. Jaz, GOSPOD, sem govoril.

²⁵And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

²⁵In sklenem ž njimi zavezo miru in iztrebim hude zveri iz dežele, da bodo varno prebivale v puščavi in spale v gozdih.

²⁶And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.

²⁶In storim nje in kar je okoli hriba mojega v blagoslov in dam, da bo dež prihajal ob svojem času, dež blagoslova bode.

²⁷And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.

²⁷In drevje na polju bo rodilo sad svoj in zemlja bo dajala prirastke svoje, in varni bodo v svoji zemlji. In spoznajo, da sem jaz GOSPOD, ko zlomim palice njih jarma ter jih otmem iz roke tistih, ki so si jih usužnjili.

²⁸And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid.

²⁸In ne bodo več v plen poganom, tudi zveri zemlje jih ne bodo žrle, ampak varno bodo prebivali in nihče jih ne bo plašil.

²⁹And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.

²⁹In obudim jim saditev v sloveče ime, in ne bo jih več morila lakota v deželi, tudi ne bodo več trpeli zasramovanja narodov.

³⁰Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord GOD.

³⁰In spoznajo, da sem jaz GOSPOD, njih Bog, ž njimi ter da so oni, hiša Izraelova, moje ljudstvo, govori Gospod Jehova.Ve pa, črede moje, ovce paše moje, ste ljudje, in jaz sem Bog vaš, govori Gospod Jehova.

³¹And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.

³¹Ve pa, črede moje, ovce paše moje, ste ljudje, in jaz sem Bog vaš, govori Gospod Jehova.