¹The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

¹Prorokovanje o Damasku. Glej, Damask neha biti mesto in bode kup razvalin.

²The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

²Mesta aroerska so prazna, prepuščena čredam, ki bodo ondi ležale, in nihče jih ne bo plašil.

³The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.

³In konec bode trdnjavi v Efraimu in kraljestvu v Damasku, tudi ostanku Sirije: ž njimi bode kakor s slavo sinov Izraelovih, govori GOSPOD nad vojskami.

⁴And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.

⁴Zgodi se pa v tistem času, da se zmanjša slava Jakobova in shujša mesa njegovega tolšča.

⁵And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.

⁵In bode, kakor če kdo ob žetvi prijema žitna stebla in z ramo svojo žanje klase; bode, pravim, kakor če kdo pobira klasje v dolini Refaimov.

⁶Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.

⁶Vendar pa ostanejo paberki v njem, kakor ko se otrese oljka in dvoje ali troje jagod obvisi v vršiču drevesa, četvero ali petero na vejah rodovitnega debla, govori GOSPOD, Bog Izraelov.

⁷At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

⁷V tistem času se bo oziral človek v Stvarnika svojega in oči njegove bodo gledale na Svetnika Izraelovega.

⁸And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.

⁸In ne bo se oziral v oltarje, v delo rok svojih; tudi ne bo gledal tega, kar so storili prstje njegovi, ne Ašer, ne solnčnih stebrov.

⁹In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

⁹V tistem času bodo trdna mesta njegova podobna zapuščenim podrtinam v gozdu in na vrhu gorá, ki so jih zapustili Kanaanci pred sinovi Izraelovimi, in bode pustinja.

¹⁰Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:

¹⁰Ker si pozabil Boga zveličanja svojega in se nisi spominjal Skale moči svoje: zato si napravljaš prelepe nasade in jih obsajaš z inostranskimi trtami;

¹¹In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

¹¹v dan, ko jih sadiš, jih precej ogradiš, in zjutraj skrbiš, da se razcvete seme tvoje – a žetev ti izgine v dan bridkosti in smrtne bolečine.

¹²Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

¹²Gorje, upor ljudstev mnogobrojnih, ki šume kakor šume morja! in bučanje narodov, ki je kakor bučanje mogočnih vodá!

¹³The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

¹³Narodi buče kakor velike vode bučeče! A On se zadere nad njimi, in pobegnejo kar najdalje, in podili se bodo kakor pleva na gorah pred vetrom in kakor se prah vrtinči v nevihti.Ob času večernem, glej, smrtni strah! in preden nastane jutro, jih ni več. To je delež njih, ki nas plenijo, in usoda njih, ki naše siloma jemljejo.

¹⁴And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

¹⁴Ob času večernem, glej, smrtni strah! in preden nastane jutro, jih ni več. To je delež njih, ki nas plenijo, in usoda njih, ki naše siloma jemljejo.