¹In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying,

¹V začetku kraljestva Jojakima, sinú Josijevega, kralja Judovega, je prišla ta beseda od GOSPODA, govoreč:

²Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD's house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD's house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:

²Tako pravi GOSPOD: Stopi na dvorišče hiše GOSPODOVE, da govoriš pred vsemi mesti Judovimi, ki se pridejo klanjat v hiši GOSPODOVI, vse besede, ki ti jih ukazujem govoriti jim; ne odtegni besede.

³If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.

³Morebiti bodo poslušali ter se odvrnili vsak s svojega hudobnega pota, da mi bode žal hudega, katero jim mislim storiti zavoljo hudobnosti njih dejanj.

⁴And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

⁴Zato jim porečeš: Tako pravi GOSPOD: Ako me ne boste poslušali, da bi hodili po moji postavi, ki sem vam jo postavil,

⁵To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;

⁵poslušajoč besede služabnikov mojih prorokov, ki jih jaz pošiljam k vam; od ranega jutra jih pošiljam, pa niste še poslušali:

⁶Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

⁶gotovo naredim to hišo podobno Silu in to mesto dam v prokletstvo pri vseh narodih na zemlji.

⁷So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.

⁷Slišali pa so duhovniki in proroki in vse ljudstvo Jeremija, govorečega te besede v hiši GOSPODOVI.

⁸Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.

⁸In zgodi se, ko je Jeremija nehal govoriti vse, kar mu je bil ukazal GOSPOD govoriti vsemu ljudstvu, da ga zgrabijo duhovniki in proroki in vse ljudstvo, rekoč: Umreti moraš.

⁹Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

⁹Zakaj si prorokoval v imenu GOSPODOVEM, govoreč: Podobna bode Silu ta hiša in to mesto bo razdejano, da ne bode nobenega prebivalca? In zbiralo se je vse ljudstvo okrog Jeremija v hišo GOSPODOVO.

¹⁰When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD's house.

¹⁰Ko so pa slišali knezi Judovi te besede, pridejo iz hiše kraljeve v hišo GOSPODOVO in sedejo pri vhodu novih vrat GOSPODOVIH.

¹¹Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.

¹¹Nato ogovore duhovniki in proroki kneze in vse ljudstvo, rekoč: Smrti vreden je ta mož, kajti prorokoval je zoper to mesto, kakor ste slišali na svoja ušesa.

¹²Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.

¹²Tedaj ogovori Jeremija vse kneze in vse ljudstvo in reče: GOSPOD me je poslal prorokovat zoper to hišo in zoper to mesto vse besede, ki ste jih slišali.

¹³Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.

¹³Sedaj torej naredite dobra svoja pota in dejanja in poslušajte glas GOSPODA, Boga svojega: in žal bode GOSPODU zla, katero je izrekel zoper vas.

¹⁴As for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you.

¹⁴Kar se pa tiče mene, glejte, v roki vaši sem, storite mi, kar se vidi dobro in pravo v vaših očeh.

¹⁵But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.

¹⁵Vendar vsekakor vedite, če me umorite, nedolžno kri naložite sebi in temu mestu in prebivalcem njegovim; zakaj v resnici me je GOSPOD poslal, govorit vam na ušesa vse tiste besede.

¹⁶Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.

¹⁶Tedaj so rekli knezi in vse ljudstvo duhovnikom in prorokom: Ta mož ni vreden smrti, ker nam je govoril v imenu GOSPODA, našega Boga.

¹⁷Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,

¹⁷In vstali so nekateri izmed deželnih starejšin in govorili vsemu zboru ljudstva, rekoč:

¹⁸Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

¹⁸Miha iz Moraste je prorokoval v dnevih Ezekija, kralja Judovega, in govoril je vsemu ljudstvu Judovemu takole: Tako pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami: Sion se bo oral kakor njiva in mesto jeruzalemsko bode groblja in gora te hiše bo z gozdom obrasten grič.

¹⁹Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.

¹⁹So li ga kar usmrtili Ezekija, kralj Judov, in ves Juda? Ali se ni bal GOSPODA in prosil blagovoljnosti GOSPODOVE? In žal je bilo GOSPODU hudega, kar je bil izrekel proti njim. Mi pa hočemo storiti veliko hudobnost zoper duše svoje!

²⁰And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.

²⁰(In bil je tudi mož, prorokujoč v imenu GOSPODOVEM, Urija, sin Semajev iz Kirjat-jearima; in prorokoval je zoper to mesto in zoper to deželo prav kakor Jeremija.

²¹And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;

²¹In ko je slišal kralj Jojakim besede njegove in vsi mogočniki njegovi in vsi knezi, ga je iskal usmrtiti kralj; to je slišal Urija in se zbal ter je pobegnil in prišel v Egipt.

²²And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt.

²²Ali poslal je kralj Jojakim nekatere v Egipt, Elnatana, sina Akborjevega, in druge može ž njim,

²³And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

²³ki so izpeljali Urija iz Egipta in ga pripeljali pred kralja Jojakima; ta ga je udaril z mečem in vrgel truplo njegovo na grobe preprostega ljudstva.)Toda roka Ahikama, sina Safanovega, je bila na strani Jeremiju, da ga niso izdali v roko ljudstva, da bi ga usmrtilo.

²⁴Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

²⁴Toda roka Ahikama, sina Safanovega, je bila na strani Jeremiju, da ga niso izdali v roko ljudstva, da bi ga usmrtilo.