¹Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

¹Daj, da zapojem o ljubljencu svojem, ljubega svojega pesem o vinogradu njegovem: Vinograd je imel ljubljenec moj na griču prerodovitnem.

²And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

²Prekopal ga je in mu potrebil kamenje in ga posadil s plemenitimi trtami; in sezidal je stolp sredi njega in tudi tlačilnico je izdolbel v njem. In je čakal, da obrodi grozdje, toda rodil je viniko.

³And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

³Sedaj pa, prebivalci jeruzalemski in možje Judovi, sodite vendar med menoj in vinogradom mojim!

⁴What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

⁴Kaj bi se še storilo vinogradu mojemu, česar bi ne bil že storil v njem? Zakaj, ko sem čakal, da obrodi grozdje, je rodil viniko?

⁵And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:

⁵Sedaj torej naj vam naznanim, kaj bom storil vinogradu svojemu: ograjo njegovo odpravim, da se bo paslo po njem, obzidje mu razvalim, da bodo teptali po njem.

⁶And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

⁶Dam ga v opustošenje: ne bo se obrezaval ne okopaval, a grmovje požene v njem in trnje, vrhutega zapovem oblakom, naj ne izpuščajo dežja nanj.

⁷For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

⁷Vinograd GOSPODA nad vojskami je namreč hiša Izraelova in možje Judovi so rastlina radosti njegove. In ko je čakal pravoljubja, glej krvoprelitje, pravičnosti, a glej tožno vpitje!

⁸Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

⁸Gorje vam, ki stikate hišo s hišo, ki devate njivo k njivi, da ni več prostora za druge, in vi sami prebivate sredi dežele!

⁹In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

⁹Meni na ušesa je rekel GOSPOD nad vojskami: Res, mnoge hiše bodo opustošene, velike in lepe, da ne bode prebivalca.

¹⁰Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

¹⁰Zakaj deset oral vinogradov bo dalo le eno vedro in homer [Homer ima deset ef.] semena bo dal efo.

¹¹Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

¹¹Gorje jim, ki vstajajo rano zjutraj, da hodijo za pijačo opojno, ki sede pozno v noč, da jih vname vino!

¹²And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.

¹²Pri njih pojedinah so strune in harfe, bobnice in piščal in vino; ali dela GOSPODOVEGA ne gledajo in stvaritve rok njegovih ne premišljajo!

¹³Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

¹³Zato pojde ljudstvo moje v sužnost, ker nima spoznanja; in imenitniki njegovi bodo stradali in množica njegova bode suha od žeje.

¹⁴Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

¹⁴Zato poveča pekel [Hebr. šeol.] pohlepnost svojo in razširi žrelo svoje brezmerno, in vanj pade Jeruzalemcev dika in njih množica s hrupom svojim in kdor se raduje med njimi.

¹⁵And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:

¹⁵In pripognjen bo človek prostak in ponižan mož odličnjak in oči prevzetnih se ponižajo.

¹⁶But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.

¹⁶A povišan bo GOSPOD nad vojskami po sodbi, in Bog mogočni, Sveti, se izkaže svetega v pravičnosti. –

¹⁷Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

¹⁷In ovce se bodo ondi pasle kakor na pašniku svojem in tujci se bodo živili na opustošenih njivah bogatinov.

¹⁸Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

¹⁸Gorje jim, ki vlečejo za seboj krivico z vrvmi ničemurnosti, greh pa kakor z debelo žrdjo!

¹⁹That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!

¹⁹ki govore: Hiti naj, pospeši naj delo svoje, da bomo videli; in približa se naj in pride, kar je sklenil Svetnik Izraelov, da to spoznamo!

²⁰Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

²⁰Gorje jim, ki pravijo hudemu dobro in dobremu hudo, ki imajo temo za luč in luč za temo, ki delajo grenko za sladko in sladko za grenko!

²¹Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

²¹Gorje jim, ki so modri v svojih očeh in razumni sami pri sebi!

²²Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

²²Gorje jim, ki so junaki v pitju vina in vrli v mešanju pijače opojne;

²³Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

²³ki opravičujejo krivičnega zaradi daru in pravičnim jemljejo njih pravico!

²⁴Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

²⁴Zato kakor pokončuje strnišče ognja jezik in kakor gine suha trava od plamena, tako postane njih korenina kakor trhljad in njih cvet sprhne kakor prašek: ker so zaničevali postavo GOSPODA nad vojskami in zavrgli besedo Svetnika Izraelovega.

²⁵Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

²⁵Zato se je vnel srd GOSPODOV zoper ljudstvo njegovo, in je iztegnil roko svojo in ga udaril tako, da so se potresle gore, in njih trupla so bila kakor smetje po ulicah. Pri vsem tem se ne odvrne jeza Njegova, še je roka Njegova iztegnjena.

²⁶And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:

²⁶In povzdigne zastavo narodom iz daljave in jih sikajoč pokliče k sebi od kraja zemlje, in glej, hitro, urno pridejo.

²⁷None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

²⁷Nobeden ne bo pešal in nobeden se zadeval med njimi, nobeden ne bo dremal, ne spal, tudi se ne bo razvezaval pas ledja njegovega in ne bo se trgalo jermenje obuvala njegovega.

²⁸Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:

²⁸Njih pšice bodo preostre in vsi njih loki napeti; njih konj kopita bodo podobna skali in njih kolesa podobna vrtincu.

²⁹Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.

²⁹Njih rjovenje bo kakor levinje, rjoveli bodo kakor mladi levi; in rohneč bodo zgrabili plen in ga odnesli na varno, in nihče jim ga ne iztrga.In rohneli bodo nad Judo tisti dan, kakor ko besni morje; in če kdo pogleda na zemljo, glej, tema in stiska, in svetloba je otemnela vsled oblakov njenih.

³⁰And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

³⁰In rohneli bodo nad Judo tisti dan, kakor ko besni morje; in če kdo pogleda na zemljo, glej, tema in stiska, in svetloba je otemnela vsled oblakov njenih.