¹They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.

¹Rekel je Gospod: Ako bi kdo odslovil ženo svojo in ona bi šla od njega in se omožila z drugim, ali bi se povrnil zopet k njej? Ali bi se s tem silno ne oskrunila tista dežela? Ti pa, čeprav si nečistovala z mnogimi prijatelji, se vendar povrni k meni! govori GOSPOD.

²Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

²Povzdigni oči tja na gole višine in glej: Kje nisi bila oskrunjena? Poleg potov si jim sedela kakor Arabec v puščavi, in omadeževala si deželo z nečistovanjem svojim in s svojo hudobnostjo.

³Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

³Zaradi tega se je zadrževalo deževje in ni bilo poznega dežja; toda ti si imela čelo kurbje in nisi hotela zardeti.

⁴Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?

⁴Ne boš li vsaj od tega časa me klicala: Oče moj, voditelj mladosti moje si ti!

⁵Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.

⁵Ali hoče jezo hraniti vekomaj, jo li bo hranil brez konca? Glej, tako govoriš, pa delaš hudo in se ne daš braniti.

⁶The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.

⁶Rekel mi je še GOSPOD v dnevih kralja Josija: Ali si videl, kaj je storila odpadnica Izrael? Šla je na vsako visoko goro in pod vsako zeleno drevo, in ondi je nečistovala.

⁷And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

⁷In rekel sem: Ko je storila vse to, se povrne k meni. A ni se povrnila. In to je videla nezvesta sestra njena Juda.

⁸And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.

⁸In videl sem: čeprav sem odslovil odpadnico Izrael, ker je prešeštvovala, in ji dal ločitno pismo, vendar se ni bala nezvesta sestra njena Juda, ampak šla je in nečistovala tudi ona.

⁹And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

⁹In tako je prišlo, da je od glasu nečistovanja svojega oskrunila deželo; in prešeštvovala je s kamenom in lesom.

¹⁰And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.

¹⁰In vendar po vsem tem se ni povrnila k meni nezvesta njena sestra Juda iz vsega srca svojega, ampak samo lažnivo, govori GOSPOD.

¹¹And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

¹¹In rekel mi je GOSPOD: Odpadnica Izrael se je pravičnejša izkazala nego nezvesta Juda.

¹²Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.

¹²Pojdi oznanjat te besede proti severu, govoreč: Vrni se, odpadnica Izrael, govori GOSPOD; ne bom vas jezno gledal, kajti dobrotljiv sem, govori GOSPOD, ne držim jeze vekomaj.

¹³Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.

¹³Samo spoznaj krivico svojo, da si odpadla od GOSPODA, Boga svojega, in na vse strani si tekala k tujcem pod vsako zeleno drevo, in glasu mojega niste poslušali, govori GOSPOD.

¹⁴Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

¹⁴Povrnite se, sinovi verolomni, pravi GOSPOD, kajti jaz sem vam soprog; in sprejmem vas, po enega iz mest in po dva iz rodbin, in vas pripeljem na Sion.

¹⁵And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

¹⁵In dam vam pastirjev po svojem srcu, in pasli vas bodo z vednostjo in razumnostjo.

¹⁶And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.

¹⁶In zgodi se, ko se boste množili in bodete rodovitni v tej deželi v tistih časih, govori GOSPOD, ne bodo več pravili: „Skrinja zaveze GOSPODOVE“, in ne pride jim na misel, ne bodo se je spominjali, ne je obiskovali, tudi je ne bodo več napravljali.

¹⁷At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.

¹⁷Tisti čas bodo Jeruzalem imenovali prestol GOSPODOV, in tja se bodo zbirali vsi poganski narodi zaradi imena GOSPODOVEGA v Jeruzalemu; in ne bodo več hodili po trmi hudobnega srca svojega.

¹⁸In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.

¹⁸V tistih dnevih pojde hiša Judova s hišo Izraelovo; skupaj prideta iz dežele severne v deželo, ki sem jo v dediščino dal očetom vašim.

¹⁹But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.

¹⁹Jaz pa sem rekel: Kako te hočem postaviti med sinove in ti dati deželo zaželjeno, dediščino, ki je najlepša lepota narodov! In dejal sem: Kličite me: Oče moj! in hodeč za menoj, ne krenete od mene.

²⁰Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.

²⁰Res, kakor ženska nezvesto zapušča prijatelja svojega, tako ste nezvesto ravnali proti meni, o hiša Izraelova, govori GOSPOD.

²¹A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.

²¹Glas se čuje po golih višinah, jok in moledovanje sinov Izraelovih, zato ker so spačili svojo pot, pozabili GOSPODA, Boga svojega.

²²Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.

²²Povrnite se, sinovi verolomni, poravnal bom nezvestobe vaše. „Glej, prihajamo k tebi, ker ti si GOSPOD, naš Bog.

²³Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.

²³Res, le v prevaro je pomoč, ki je čakamo s hribov, hrup množice na gorah; gotovo v GOSPODU, Bogu našem je rešenje Izraelovo!

²⁴For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

²⁴Kajti tista sramota požira trud očetov naših od naše mladosti, njih drobnico in goveda, njih sinove in hčere.Ležati nam je v sramoti svoji in nečast naša nas pokriva, zakaj grešili smo zoper GOSPODA, Boga svojega, mi in očetje naši, od svoje mladosti prav do današnjega dne; in poslušali nismo glasu GOSPODA, Boga našega.“

²⁵We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.

²⁵Ležati nam je v sramoti svoji in nečast naša nas pokriva, zakaj grešili smo zoper GOSPODA, Boga svojega, mi in očetje naši, od svoje mladosti prav do današnjega dne; in poslušali nismo glasu GOSPODA, Boga našega.“