¹Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.

¹Poslušajte me vi, ki hodite za pravičnostjo, ki iščete GOSPODA! Glejte na skalo, iz katere ste izsekani, in v votlino jame, iz katere ste izkopani!

²Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

²Glejte na Abrahama, očeta svojega, in na Saro, ki vas je rodila: kajti poklical sem ga, ko je bil edinec, in sem ga blagoslovil in ga pomnožil.

³For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

³Zakaj GOSPOD je potolažil Sion, potolažil je vse razvaline njegove in je naredil puščavo njegovo kakor raj in samoto njegovo kakor vrt GOSPODOV; veselje in radost bo na njem, zahvala in psalmov glas.

⁴Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.

⁴Poslušajte me, ljudstvo moje, in narod moj, obrnite ušesa v me! kajti postava pride od mene, in pravico svojo postavim ljudstvom za svetlobo.

⁵My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.

⁵Blizu je pravičnost moja, izšlo je zveličanje moje, in roke moje bodo sodile ljudstva, v meni bodo imeli upanje otoki in čakali bodo rame moje.

⁶Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

⁶Povzdignite proti nebesom oči in glejte zemljo spodaj! zakaj nebesa izginejo kakor dim in zemlja se postara kakor obleka, in prebivalci njeni pomrjo enako. Ali zveličanje moje bode vekomaj in pravičnost moja se ne okruši.

⁷Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.

⁷Poslušajte me vi, ki poznate pravičnost, ljudstvo, ki ima postavo mojo v srcu svojem: Ne bojte se zasramovanja smrtnega človeka in ne plašite se njih preklinjanja!

⁸For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.

⁸Zakaj kakor sukno jih razje molj in kakor volno jih razgrize črvič; pravičnost moja pa bode vekomaj in zveličanje moje od roda do roda.

⁹Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?

⁹Zbudi se, zbudi, obleci moč, o rama GOSPODOVA! Zbudi se kakor v starih časih, pri nekdanjih rodovih! Ali nisi ti tista, ki je razdrobila Egipt [Hebr. Rahab.], ki je presunila morskega velikana?

¹⁰Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

¹⁰Ali nisi ti tista, ki je posušila morje, velikega brezna vode, ki je naredila morske globočine za pot, po katerem naj preidejo odkupljeni?

¹¹Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

¹¹In odrešenci GOSPODOVI se vrnejo ter pridejo na Sion s petjem, in večna radost bode nad njih glavo; veselje in radost jih objame, a žalovanje in zdihovanje pobegne.

¹²I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;

¹²Jaz, jaz sam sem tolažitelj vaš. Kdo si ti, da se bojiš človeka, ki umrje, in sina človekovega, ki izgine kakor seno?

¹³And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

¹³in da zabiš GOSPODA, stvarnika svojega, ki je razpel nebo in ustanovil zemljo, in si v strahu vedno, vsak dan, zaradi togote stiskalčeve, ko se pripravlja, da bi pogubil? In kje je togota stiskalčeva?

¹⁴The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

¹⁴Hitro bo izpeljan v prostost tisti, ki je sključen v okovih, in ne umre in ne pade v jamo, tudi ne bo pogrešal kruha svojega.

¹⁵But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.

¹⁵Zakaj jaz sem GOSPOD, Bog tvoj, ki razburjam morje, da bučé njegovi valovi; GOSPOD nad vojskami je ime njegovo.

¹⁶And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.

¹⁶In položil sem besede svoje v usta tvoja in zakril sem te z roke svoje senco, da zgradim nebesa in ustanovim zemljo ter rečem Sionu: Ljudstvo si moje.

¹⁷Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.

¹⁷Zbudi se, zbudi, vstani, jeruzalemska hči, ki si iz roke GOSPODOVE pila togote njegove čašo; kupo, čašo omotno si pila, izsrebala.

¹⁸There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.

¹⁸Nikogar ni bilo, da bi jo bil vodil, izmed vseh otrok, ki jih je rodila, ne enega, ki bi jo bil prijel za roko, izmed vseh sinov, ki jih je vzredila.

¹⁹These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

¹⁹Tisto dvoje se ti je prigodilo, kdo bi te miloval? –: razdejanje in podrtje, lakota in meč. Kako naj te potolažim?

²⁰Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.

²⁰Otroci tvoji so onemogli, leže po vseh ulicah in voglih kakor jelen v mreži; polni so togote GOSPODOVE, grožnje Boga tvojega.

²¹Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

²¹Zato čuj vendar, o ponižana in pijana, a ne vina:

²²Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:

²²Tako govori Gospod tvoj, Jehova, in Bog tvoj, ki se poteguje za pravdo ljudstva svojega: Glej, iz roke tvoje jemljem čašo omotno, čašo togote svoje: ne boš je več pila.Ampak dam jo v roko njih, ki te ponižujejo, ki so govorili duši tvoji: Vrzi se na tla, da pojdemo čeznjo! In ti si naredila kakor tla hrbet svoj in kakor cesto čezenj gredočim.

²³But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

²³Ampak dam jo v roko njih, ki te ponižujejo, ki so govorili duši tvoji: Vrzi se na tla, da pojdemo čeznjo! In ti si naredila kakor tla hrbet svoj in kakor cesto čezenj gredočim.