¹For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

¹Zakaj GOSPOD se usmili Jakoba in še enkrat izvoli Izraela, in jih postavi na domača tla; in tujci se jim pridružijo ter se bodo oklepali hiše Jakobove.

²And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

²In ljudstva jih vzemo pod svojo skrb ter jih pripeljejo na njih mesto; in hiša Izraelova si jih prisvoji v deželi GOSPODOVI, da bodo hlapci in dekle; tako bodo ujete peljali nje, katerim so bili prej ujetniki, in bodo gospodovali njim, ki so jih nekdaj tlačili.

³And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,

³In zgodi se tisti dan, ko ti GOSPOD podeli pokoj po trudu tvojem in po nepokoju tvojem in po trdi službi, v katero so te usužnjili,

⁴That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

⁴da boš pravil to zabavljico o kralju babilonskem, ter porečeš: Kako je preminil tlačilec, kako je minilo oderuštvo!

⁵The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.

⁵Zlomil je GOSPOD palico krivičnikov, žezlo gospodovalčevo,

⁶He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.

⁶ki je tepel ljudstva v togoti z udarci neprenehoma, ki je gospodoval v jezi narodom z zatiranjem brez zadržka.

⁷The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.

⁷Pokojna, mirna je zdaj vsa zemlja; nastalo je glasno petje.

⁸Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.

⁸Tudi ciprese se radujejo nad teboj, cedre na Libanonu: „Odkar si se zvrnil, ne hodi nihče sem gori, da bi nas posekal!“

⁹Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

⁹Pekel zdolaj se je vznemiril zaradi tebe, ker čaka prihoda tvojega: drami zavoljo tebe mrtve, vse mogotce zemlje, vsem kraljem narodov veli vstati s prestolov.

¹⁰All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?

¹⁰Vsi izpregovore tebi in poreko: „Tudi ti si brez moči kakor mi, nam si postal podoben?“

¹¹Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

¹¹V pekel je stopilo veličastvo tvoje in strun tvojih šum. Glist je polno pod teboj in črv te pokriva.

¹²How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

¹²Kako si padel z neba, o lucifer [Ali: sijajna zvezda, danica.], jutranje zarje sin! kako si posekan na tla, ki si poraze napravljal narodom!

¹³For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

¹³Ti si pač govoril v srcu svojem: V nebesa se dvignem, nad zvezde Boga mogočnega povišam prestol svoj, in sedel bom na gori zborovanja, na skrajnem severu.

¹⁴I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

¹⁴Dvignem se nad višave, ogrnjene z oblaki, enak bodem Najvišjemu.

¹⁵Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

¹⁵Ali pahnjen boš v pekel, v jamo najglobočjo.

¹⁶They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

¹⁶Kateri te vidijo, te natanko ogledujejo in se ozirajo v te, govoreč: „Je li ta tisti mož, ki je majal zemljo, ki je pretresal kraljestva?

¹⁷That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

¹⁷ki je delal iz naseljenega sveta puščavo in je podiral mesta ne njem, ki jetnikov svojih ni izpuščal domov?“

¹⁸All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.

¹⁸Vsi kralji narodov, kolikor jih je, so zaspali s častjo, vsak v hiši svoji;

¹⁹But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

¹⁹tebe pa so vrgli daleč od tvojega groba kakor ostuden izrastek. Pokrit si z ubitimi, s prebodenimi z mečem, ki so jih vrgli v jamo in zasuli s kamenjem, si kakor razteptano truplo.

²⁰Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.

²⁰Ne združiš se ž njimi v grobu, ker si ugonabljal deželo svojo, moril ljudstvo svoje. Hudobnikov seme se ne bo imenovalo vekomaj.

²¹Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

²¹Pripravite se, da pokoljete sinove njegove zaradi krivice njih očetov! Da ne vstanejo ter ne podedujejo dežele in površja zemlje ne napolnijo z mesti.

²²For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.

²²In vstanem zoper nje, govori GOSPOD nad vojskami, in iztrebim ime in ostanek Babilona, sina in vnuka, govori GOSPOD.

²³I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.

²³In naredim, da bode Babilon posestvo ježu in močvirje, in pometem ga z metlo pokončanja, govori GOSPOD nad vojskami.

²⁴The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

²⁴Prisegel je GOSPOD nad vojskami, rekoč: Gotovo, kakor sem se namenil, tako se zgodi, in kakor sem sklenil, tako ostane:

²⁵That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.

²⁵da zdrobim Asurja v deželi svoji in ga pogazim na gorah svojih. Tako se jim razprta jarem njegov in njegovo breme jim pade z rame.

²⁶This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.

²⁶To je tisti sklep, ki je storjen nad vso zemljo, in to je roka, ki je iztegnjena nad vsemi narodi.

²⁷For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

²⁷Zakaj GOSPOD nad vojskami je storil sklep, in kdo naj ga uniči? in roka njegova je iztegnjena, kdo naj jo odvrne?

²⁸In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.

²⁸V letu, v katerem je umrl kralj Ahaz, je bilo to prorokovanje:

²⁹Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

²⁹Ne raduj se, ti vsa Filisteja, ker je zlomljena šiba, ki te je tepla; kajti iz korenine kačje pride modras, in sad njegov bode ognjen leteč zmaj.

³⁰And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.

³⁰In prvenci siromakov bodo pasli in ubožni počivali brez skrbi; a tvojo korenino pokončam z lakoto in ostanek tvoj pomori zmaj.

³¹Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.

³¹Tulite, vrata, vpij, mesto, obup te zgrabi, vsa Filisteja; kajti od severa prihaja sovražnik kakor dim in presledka ni v četah njegovih.Kaj torej naj se odgovori poslancem narodovim? Da je GOSPOD ustanovil Sion in da ne njem dobé zavetje ubožci ljudstva njegovega.

³²What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

³²Kaj torej naj se odgovori poslancem narodovim? Da je GOSPOD ustanovil Sion in da ne njem dobé zavetje ubožci ljudstva njegovega.