¹Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.

¹Poslušajte me, otoki, in pazite, ljudstva iz daljave! GOSPOD me je poklical od materinega telesa, od osrčja matere moje se me je spominjal.

²And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;

²In naredil je usta moja kakor oster meč, s senco roke svoje me je zakril; in naredil me je za pšico izbrušeno, v tulu svojem me je skril.

³And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.

³In mi je rekel: Hlapec si moj, Izrael, po katerem se bom oslavljal. –

⁴Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.

⁴Jaz pa sem rekel: Brezuspešno sem se trudil, brezkoristno in za nič sem potratil moč svojo; vendar pa je pravica moja pri GOSPODU in plačilo moje je pri Bogu mojem.

⁵And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.

⁵Sedaj pa govori GOSPOD, ki me je izobrazil od materinega telesa za hlapca svojega, naj Jakoba nazaj pripeljem k njemu in da bodi Izrael zbran k njemu (ker sem slaven v očeh GOSPODOVIH in Bog moj je postal moja moč),

⁶And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

⁶govori, pravim: Malo je, da si mi hlapec, da bi povzdignil rodove Jakobove ter nazaj pripeljal ohranjence Izraelove; tudi te postavim za luč poganskim narodom, da bodeš zveličanje moje prav do konca zemlje.

⁷Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.

⁷Tako pravi GOSPOD, odrešenik Izraelov, Svetnik njegov, njemu, ki ga zaničuje vsakdo, ki je gnus narodov, hlapcu gospodovalcev: Kralji te bodo videli in spoštljivo vstali, knezi se bodo klanjali zaradi GOSPODA, ki je zvest, Svetnika Izraelovega, ki te je izvolil.

⁸Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;

⁸Tako pravi GOSPOD: Ob času milosti sem te uslišal in v dan zveličanja sem ti pomagal; in stražil te bom in te dal v zavezo ljudstvu, da povzdigneš deželo, da v posest razdeliš opustošene dediščine,

⁹That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

⁹da porečeš jetnikom: Pojdite ven! njim, ki sede v teminah: Pridite na svetlo! Po potih se bodo pasli in po vseh golih hribih imeli svojo pašo.

¹⁰They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.

¹⁰Lačni ne bodo, ne žejni, tudi zračna prikazen jih ne omami in solnce ne zadene; kajti njih milostnik jih bo vodil in poleg vrelcev vodá jih bo peljal.

¹¹And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.

¹¹In vse svoje gore naredim, da bodo prelazne, in moje ceste se bodo z nasipom povišale.

¹²Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.

¹²Glej, ti pridejo od daleč, in glej, ti od severa in od zahoda, in ti iz dežele Sinimcev.

¹³Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.

¹³Prepevajte, nebesa, in raduj se, zemlja, in pojoč bobnite, gore! zakaj GOSPOD je potolažil ljudstvo svoje in se je usmilil siromakov svojih.

¹⁴But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.

¹⁴A Sion je rekel: Jehova me je zapustil in Gospod me je pozabil.

¹⁵Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

¹⁵More li žena pozabiti dojenca svojega, da bi se ne usmilila sina telesa svojega? In ko bi tudi matere pozabile, jaz vendar ne pozabim tebe!

¹⁶Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.

¹⁶Glej, na obe dlani sem si te vdolbel; zidovi tvoji so vedno pred mano.

¹⁷Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

¹⁷Hiteli bodo k tebi otroci tvoji; podiralci tvoji in opustoševalci tvoji odidejo iz tebe.

¹⁸Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.

¹⁸Ozri se kroginkrog in glej: tisti vsi se zbirajo in prihajajo k tebi. Kakor res živim, govori GOSPOD, z vsemi tistimi se boš oblekla kakor z lepotičjem, obvezala si jih boš kakor nevesta.

¹⁹For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

¹⁹Zakaj, kar se tiče tvojih razvalin in podrtih mest tvojih in porušene dežele tvoje – sedaj bodeš res pretesna za prebivalce; in tisti, ki so te požirali, odidejo daleč.

²⁰The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.

²⁰Še poreko, da boš slišala, otroci osamljenja tvojega: Pretesno mi je to mesto; naredi mi prostora, da morem prebivati!

²¹Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?

²¹Tedaj porečeš v srcu svojem: Kdo mi je rodil tiste, ko sem bila brez otrok in nerodovitna, pregnana in sem se semtertja potikala? in kdo mi je vzredil téle? Glej, saj sem bila zapuščena samica, kje so bili tile?

²²Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

²²Tako pravi Gospod Jehova: Glej, proti narodom povzdignem roko svojo in proti ljudstvom postavim zastavo svojo, in prineso sinove tvoje v naročju in hčere tvoje bodo nosili sem na svojih ramah.

²³And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

²³In kralji bodo redniki tvoji in njih kneginje dojke tvoje; klanjali se ti bodo z obličjem do tal in prah tvojih nog bodo lizali. In spoznaš, da sem jaz GOSPOD: ne osramoté se, ki me čakajo.

²⁴Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?

²⁴Se li more velikanu odvzeti plen? ali se morejo oteti, ki so ujeti po pravici?

²⁵But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

²⁵Res, tako pravi GOSPOD: Tudi jetniki velikanovi se mu vzamejo in plen siloviteža se otme; kajti jaz se bom boril zoper tiste, ki se s teboj bore, in otroke tvoje rešim jaz.In storim, da bodo zatiralci tvoji jedli lastno svoje meso, in kakor z vinom se bodo upijanjali s svojo krvjo; in spozna vse meso, da sem jaz GOSPOD zveličar tvoj in odrešenik tvoj, Mogočni Jakobov.

²⁶And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

²⁶In storim, da bodo zatiralci tvoji jedli lastno svoje meso, in kakor z vinom se bodo upijanjali s svojo krvjo; in spozna vse meso, da sem jaz GOSPOD zveličar tvoj in odrešenik tvoj, Mogočni Jakobov.