¹Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:

¹Glejte, ni prekratka roka GOSPODOVA, da ne more rešiti, tudi uho njegovo ni gluho, da ne more slišati;

²But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

²ali krivice vaše so postale pregrada med vami in Bogom vašim, in grehi vaši so zagrnili obličje njegovo pred vami, da ne sliši.

³For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

³Zakaj roke vaše so oskrunjene s krvjo in prsti vaši s krivico, ustne vaše govore laži, jezik vaš golči krivičnost.

⁴None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

⁴Nihče ne kliče po pravičnosti in nihče se ne poteguje za pravdo v resnici; stavijo up na ničemurnost in govore laž, spočenjajo nadlogo in rode zlobo.

⁵They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

⁵Jajca modrasova vale in pajčevine tko; kdor jé njih jajca, umre, in če se katero stare, skoči iz njega gad.

⁶Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

⁶Njih tkanina ni za obleko in ni se mogoče odevati ž njih izdelki: njih dejanja so dejanja krivična in delo silovitosti je v njih rokah.

⁷Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

⁷Njih noge teko k hudemu in hite prelivat kri nedolžno; njih misli se pečajo z zlobo; razdevanje in podiranje je na njih cestah.

⁸The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

⁸Pota miru ne poznajo in nobene pravice ni po njih sledovih; steze svoje si kvarijo: kdorkoli stopi na katero izmed njih, nima miru.

⁹Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

⁹Zato je daleč od nas pravica in pravičnost ne prihaja do nas. Čakamo svetlobe, a glej: le tema! čakamo jasnega svita, a hodimo po črni temini!

¹⁰We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

¹⁰Kakor slepci otipavamo steno, tavamo kakor brez oči; zadevamo se prav opoldne kakor ob mraku; med zdravimi smo kakor mrtvi.

¹¹We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

¹¹Renčimo vsi kakor medvedje, žalostno grulimo kakor golobje. Čakamo pravice, ali ni je, rešenja, a daleč je od nas.

¹²For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;

¹²Kajti pomnožile so se pregrehe naše pred teboj in grehi naši pričajo zoper nas; zakaj pregreh svojih smo si v svesti in krivice svoje poznamo:

¹³In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

¹³da odpadamo od GOSPODA in ga tajimo in se obračamo, da ne bi šli za Bogom svojim; zatiranje govorimo in odpad, sprejemamo v se besede lažnive in jih iz srca govorimo.

¹⁴And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

¹⁴Tako je odvrnjena pravica, in pravičnost stoji oddaleč; zakaj resnica je padla na ulicah in poštenost ne more vstopiti.

¹⁵Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

¹⁵In resnica je redka reč, in kdor se ogiblje hudega, je drugim v plen. To je videl GOSPOD, in hudo je bilo v očeh njegovih, da ni nikake pravice.

¹⁶And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.

¹⁶In videl je, da ni nobenega moža, in se je zavzel, da ni nobenega posrednika. Zato mu je rešitev napravila rama njegova, in pravičnost njegova, ta ga je podpirala.

¹⁷For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.

¹⁷In oblekel je pravičnost kakor oklep in dejal si čelado zveličanja na glavo; oblekel je, pravim, maščevanja oblačilo in ogrnil se je z gorečnostjo kakor s plaščem.

¹⁸According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.

¹⁸Prav po dejanjih, prav po njih bo povračal, togoto nasprotnikom svojim, kazen sovražnikom svojim; še otokom bo plačal povračilo.

¹⁹So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

¹⁹In bali se bodo od zahoda imena GOSPODOVEGA in slave njegove od solnčnega vzhoda. Ko se kakor reka privali sovražnik, ga dih GOSPODOV zapodi v beg.

²⁰And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.

²⁰In Sionu pride odrešenik in njim, ki se odvračajo od pregrehe v Jakobu, govori GOSPOD.Jaz pa – to je moja zaveza ž njimi, pravi GOSPOD: Duh moj, ki je nad teboj, in besede moje, ki sem jih položil v usta tvoja, se ne umaknejo iz tvojih ust, ne iz zaroda tvojega ust, ne iz ust potomcev tvojega zaroda, pravi GOSPOD, od tega časa vekomaj.

²¹As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.

²¹Jaz pa – to je moja zaveza ž njimi, pravi GOSPOD: Duh moj, ki je nad teboj, in besede moje, ki sem jih položil v usta tvoja, se ne umaknejo iz tvojih ust, ne iz zaroda tvojega ust, ne iz ust potomcev tvojega zaroda, pravi GOSPOD, od tega časa vekomaj.