¹Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

¹Tolažite, tolažite ljudstvo moje, govori Bog vaš.

²Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.

²Govorite na srce Jeruzalemu in kličite mu, da je dopolnjena vojna služba njegova, da je poravnana krivica njegova, da je dobil dvojno iz roke GOSPODOVE za vse grehe svoje.

³The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

³Glas vpijočega v puščavi: Pripravljajte pot GOSPODU, ravnajte v pustinji cesto Bogu našemu.

⁴Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

⁴Vsaka dolina naj se dvigne in vsako goro in vsak grič znižajte, in kar je krivega, naj se poravna, in hribasto bodi ravnina!

⁵And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

⁵In razodene se slava GOSPODOVA in vse meso vkup jo bo videlo; kajti usta GOSPODOVA so govorila.

⁶The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:

⁶Glas govorečega: Oznanjaj! In vpraša: Kaj naj oznanjam? „Vse meso je trava in vsa milina njegova kakor cvetica na polju.

⁷The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

⁷Trava sahne, cvetica vene, ker veje nanjo dih GOSPODOV. Res, ljudstvo je trava!

⁸The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

⁸Trava sahne, cvetica vene, a beseda Boga našega ostane vekomaj!“

⁹O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!

⁹Idi na goro visoko, o Sion, ki oznanjaš veselo vest; povzdigni močno glas svoj, Jeruzalem, ki oznanjaš veselo vest; povzdigni ga, ne boj se, reci mestom Judovim: Glejte, Bog vaš!

¹⁰Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

¹⁰Glejte, Gospod, Jehova, prihaja kot mogočni in rama njegova gospoduje zanj; glejte, plačilo njegovo je pri njem in povračilo njegovo pred njim!

¹¹He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

¹¹Kakor pastir bo pasel čredo svojo, z roko svojo bo zbiral jagnjeta in jih nosil v naročju svojem, in doječe bo vodil rahlo.

¹²Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

¹²Kdo je izmeril z dlanjo svojo vode in s pedjo svojo premeril nebesa in vtlačil zemlje prah v merico in s tehtnico pretehtal gore in hribe na njenih torilih?

¹³Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?

¹³Kdo je vodil duha GOSPODOVEGA, in kdo mu je bil svetovalec ter ga je učil?

¹⁴With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?

¹⁴S kom se je posvetoval, da bi mu dodelil razuma in ga učil poti pravice in ga vadil v znanju in mu pokazal najvišje razumnosti pot?

¹⁵Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

¹⁵Glej, narodi so kakor kapljica v vedru in se čislajo kakor prašek na tehtničnem torilu; glej, otoke vzdiguje kakor trohico.

¹⁶And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.

¹⁶Tudi Libanona ne bi bilo dovolj za ogenj in živali njegovih ne bi bilo dovolj za žgalno daritev.

¹⁷All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

¹⁷Vsi narodi so kakor nič pred njim, manj nego nič in ničevost.

¹⁸To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

¹⁸Komu torej hočete primerjati Boga mogočnega? in kako podobo hočete postaviti poleg njega?

¹⁹The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.

¹⁹Podobo ulije umetnik in zlatar jo prevleče z zlatom in ji privari verižice srebrne.

²⁰He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.

²⁰Kdor je ubožen, da ne more toliko darovati, izbere les, ki ne trohni; poišče si spretnega umetnika, da mu napravi podobo, ki se ne omaja.

²¹Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

²¹Ali ne veste? ali ne čujete? ali se vam ne oznanja od začetka? ali ne umejete ustanovitve zemlje?

²²It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

²²On je, ki stoluje nad zemlje okrožjem, in prebivalci njeni so kakor kobilice, ki razprostira nebesa kakor tenčico in jih razpenja kakor šator v prebivanje;

²³That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

²³ki deva v nič kneze, sodnike na zemlji nareja kakor ničevo stvar.

²⁴Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

²⁴Komaj so zasajeni, komaj zasejani, komaj se ukorenini v zemlji njih deblo, že pihne on vanje, in posuše se in piš jih odnese kakor slamico.

²⁵To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.

²⁵Komu me torej hočete pripodobiti, da bi mu bil enak? pravi Sveti.

²⁶Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.

²⁶Povzdignite kvišku oči in glejte: Kdo je ustvaril vse te zvezde? On, ki vodi po številu njih vojsko, jih kliče vse po imenu; vsled presilne moči njegove in ker je mogočen v krepkoti, se niti ena ne pogreša.

²⁷Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

²⁷Zakaj praviš, o Jakob, in govoriš, Izrael: Skrita je pot moja pred GOSPODOM in pravda moja gre mimo Boga mojega?

²⁸Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

²⁸Ali ne veš? in nisi li slišal? GOSPOD je Bog večni, Stvarnik krajev zemlje; on ne opeša in se ne utrudi, nedoumna je razumnost njegova.

²⁹He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

²⁹Trudnemu daje krepkosti in onemoglemu podeljuje obilo moči.

³⁰Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

³⁰Pešajo res mladi in se utrujajo, in mladeniči se spotikajo in padajo;oni pa, ki čakajo GOSPODA, dobivajo nove moči, dvigajo se na perutih kakor orli, teko, a se ne utrudijo, hodijo, pa ne opešajo.

³¹But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

³¹oni pa, ki čakajo GOSPODA, dobivajo nove moči, dvigajo se na perutih kakor orli, teko, a se ne utrudijo, hodijo, pa ne opešajo.