¹Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

¹Gorje jim, ki sklepajo krivične postave, in pisateljem, ki spisujejo nadlogo,

²To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

²da izpodrinejo siromake iz pravde in da ugrabijo pravico ubožcem ljudstva mojega, da jim bodo vdove za plen ter da oropajo sirote!

³And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

³Kaj boste počeli ob dnevi obiskovanja in ob nevihti, ki pride iz daljave? h komu se zatečete za pomoč? in kam spravite bogastvo svoje?

⁴Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

⁴Nič drugega vam ne bo mogoče, nego sključiti se med ujetniki in pasti med ubitimi. Pri vsem tem se ne odvrne jeza Njegova, a še je iztegnjena Njegova roka.

⁵O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

⁵Gorje Asircu, ki je šiba jeze moje in palica v roki njegovi togota moja!

⁶I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

⁶Nad hinavski rod ga pošljem in zoper ljudstvo, s katerim se srdim, mu dam povelje, da naj pleni plen in da naj ropa rop in naj jih potepta kakor na ulicah blato.

⁷Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.

⁷On seveda ne meni tako in srce njegovo ne misli tako; pogubiti mu je le namera in potrebiti narodov ne malo.

⁸For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?

⁸Kajti govori: Niso li vsi knezi moji tudi kralji?

⁹Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

⁹Ni li Kalno kakor Karkemiš? ni li Hamat kakor Arpad? ni li kakor Damask Samarija?

¹⁰As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

¹⁰Kakor je roka moja dosegla kraljestva malikov, katerih rezane podobe so bile lepše od jeruzalemskih in samarijskih –

¹¹Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

¹¹ali ne bom, kakor sem storil Samariji in malikom njenim, enako storil Jeruzalemu in njegovim podobam?

¹²Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

¹²Zato se zgodi, ko Gospod dovrši vse delo svoje na gori Sionski in v Jeruzalemu, da bom kaznoval sad prevzetnega srca kralja asirskega in bahanje ponosnih oči njegovih.

¹³For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:

¹³Kajti govoril je: Z roke svoje krepkostjo sem storil to in z modrostjo svojo, ker sem razumen; in premaknil sem ljudstvom meje in uplenil sem njih zaklade in pahnil kot mogočnjak s prestolov nje, ki so na njih sedeli;

¹⁴And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.

¹⁴in roka moja je dosegla kakor gnezdo bogastvo ljudstev, in kakor bi pobiral jajca zapuščena, sem obral vso deželo, in ni ga bilo, da bi bil ganil s perutjo ali odprl usta ali začivkal. –

¹⁵Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.

¹⁵Se li more ponašati sekira proti njemu, ki seka ž njo? ali rezilo se poviševati proti njemu, ki ga rabi? kakor da bi šiba vihtela njega, ki jo dviga, kakor da bi privzdigovala palica človeka, ki ni od lesa!

¹⁶Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.

¹⁶Zato pošlje Gospod, Jehova nad vojskami, med debeluhe njegove sušico, in pod slavo njegovo se vname požar, podoben ognjenemu požaru.

¹⁷And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

¹⁷In luč Izraelova bode za ogenj in Svetnik njegov za plamen, ki zapali in požge grmovje in trnje njegovo en dan.

¹⁸And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.

¹⁸In pokonča slavo gozda njegovega in rodovitnih njiv njegovih z dušo in z mesom, da bode, kakor ko hira jetičnik.

¹⁹And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.

¹⁹In majhen bode ostanek drevja v gozdu njegovem, da ga bo deček mogel zapisati.

²⁰And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

²⁰In zgodi se tisti dan, da se ne bode ostanek Izraelov in kdor se ohrani hiši Jakobovi več opiral nanj, ki jih je tepel, marveč opiral se bo na GOSPODA, Svetnika Izraelovega, v resnici.

²¹The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.

²¹Ostanek se preobrne, ostanek Jakobov k mogočnemu Bogu.

²²For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

²²Kajti ko bi bilo ljudstva tvojega, Izrael, kakor peska morskega, le ostanek se preobrne iz njega. Določeno je pokončanje, ki razliva obilno pravičnost.

²³For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.

²³Zakaj pokončanje, in to določeno, dovrši Gospod, Jehova nad vojskami, sredi vse zemlje.

²⁴Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.

²⁴Zatorej pravi tako Gospod, Jehova nad vojskami: Ne boj se, ljudstvo moje, ki prebivaš na Sionu, Asirca! S šibo te bo tepel in palico svojo bo vzdignil zoper tebe, kakor se je v Egiptu godilo.

²⁵For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.

²⁵Kajti še malo, prav malo časa, potem bode konec srditosti in jeza moja se obrne nanje, da jih pokonča.

²⁶And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.

²⁶In GOSPOD nad vojskami zavihti zoper njega bič kakor v poboju Madiancev pri skali Orebski; in palica Njegova bode nad morjem in jo vzdigne, kakor jo je vzdignil nad Egiptom.

²⁷And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

²⁷In zgodi se v tistem času, da se razprta breme njegovo z rame tvoje in jarem njegov z vratu tvojega, da, jarem razpade spričo maziljenja [Ali: tolščobe; dobesedno: olja.].

²⁸He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:

²⁸Pride v Ajat, pojde skozi Migron, pri Mikmasu odloži prtljago svojo;

²⁹They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.

²⁹preidejo prelaz, veleč: v Gebi bo naše prenočišče! Rama trepeta, Gibea Savlova beži.

³⁰Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.

³⁰Glasno vpij, hči galimska! Poslušaj, o Lajsa! O ubožica Anatot!

³¹Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.

³¹Madmena beži, prebivalci gebimski so se zbrali, da pobegnejo.

³²As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

³²Še danes se ustavi v Nobu, že zavihti roko svojo proti gori hčere sionske, proti hribu jeruzalemskemu. –

³³Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.

³³Glej, Gospod, Jehova nad vojskami, poseka veje z grozno močjo, in tisti, ki so visoke postave, bodo posekani, in prevzetni bodo ponižani;in posekal bo gozdno goščavo z železom svojim, in Libanon pade po Veličastnem.

³⁴And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

³⁴in posekal bo gozdno goščavo z železom svojim, in Libanon pade po Veličastnem.