¹And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.

¹In Zedekija, Josijev sin, ki ga je Nebukadnezar, kralj babilonski, postavil za kralja v deželi Judovi, je vladal kot kralj namesto Konija, sinu Jojakimovega.

²But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the prophet Jeremiah.

²Ali ni poslušal ne on, ne hlapci njegovi, ne ljudstvo v deželi besed GOSPODOVIH, ki jih je govoril po Jeremiju proroku.

³And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us.

³Poslal je bil pač kralj Zedekija Jehukala, sina Selemijevega, in Zefanija, Maasejevega sina, duhovnika, k Jeremiju proroku, da naj rečeta: Prosi vendar za nas GOSPODA, Boga našega!

⁴Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.

⁴Takrat je Jeremija prosto bival sredi ljudstva, ker ga še niso bili deli v ječo.

⁵Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem.

⁵In vojska Faraonova je šla iz Egipta; in Kaldejci, ki so oblegali Jeruzalem, so slišali glas o njih ter odšli od Jeruzalema.

⁶Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah saying,

⁶In prišla je beseda GOSPODOVA Jeremiju proroku, naj govori:

⁷Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.

⁷Tako pravi GOSPOD, Bog Izraelov: Tako recite kralju Judovemu, ki vas je poslal vprašat me za svet: Glej, vojska Faraonova, ki je vam hotela priti na pomoč, se vrne v deželo svojo, v Egipt.

⁸And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.

⁸In Kaldejci se vrnejo in bodo oblegali to mesto, in ga bodo vzeli ter sežgali z ognjem.

⁹Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.

⁹Tako pravi GOSPOD: Ne slepite sami sebe, govoreč: Gotovo pojdejo od nas ti Kaldejci! kajti ne pojdejo.

¹⁰For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.

¹⁰Da, ko bi pobili vsa krdela Kaldejcev, ki se bojujejo zoper vas, in bi ostalo od njih le nekoliko mož prebodenih, vstanejo vsak v svojem šatoru in požgo to mesto z ognjem.

¹¹And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,

¹¹In zgodi se, ko se je odpeljavala vojska Kaldejcev od Jeruzalema zavoljo vojske Faraonove,

¹²Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the people.

¹²da je šel Jeremija ven iz Jeruzalema, da bi popotoval med ljudstvo v deželo Benjaminovo, da prejme svoj delež odondod.

¹³And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.

¹³In ko je bil med vrati Benjaminovimi, kjer je stal poveljnik straže, po imenu Jerija, sin Selemija, sinu Hananija, zgrabi on Jeremija proroka, rekoč: H Kaldejcem hočeš uskočiti!

¹⁴Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.

¹⁴Jeremija pa reče: Ni res, nočem uskočiti h Kaldejcem! Vendar ga ni poslušal Jerija, ampak zgrabi Jeremija proroka in ga odpelje h knezom.

¹⁵Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

¹⁵Tedaj so se raztogotili knezi zoper Jeremija in so ga pretepli in vrgli v ječo v hiši Jonatana pisarja; kajti to so bili pripravili za ječo.

¹⁶When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

¹⁶In ko je prišel Jeremija v tisto luknjo in v izbice njene, kjer je ostal mnogo dni,

¹⁷Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.

¹⁷tedaj pošlje kralj Zedekija in ga pokliče, in vpraša ga kralj v svoji hiši na skrivnem, rekoč: Je li neka beseda od GOSPODA? In Jeremija reče: Je, namreč: V roko kralja babilonskega boš izdan.

¹⁸Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?

¹⁸Potem reče Jeremija kralju Zedekiju: Kaj sem grešil tebi ali hlapcem tvojim ali temu ljudstvu, da ste me deli v ječo?

¹⁹Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?

¹⁹Kje neki so proroki vaši, ki so vam prorokovali in govorili: Ne pride kralj babilonski zoper vas in zoper to deželo?

²⁰Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.

²⁰Zdaj pa poslušaj, prosim, gospod moj, kralj: Predte padam in te prosim, ne pošlji me nazaj v hišo Jonatana pisarja, da ne umrjem tam.Tedaj je zapovedal kralj Zedekija, da naj denejo Jeremija v vežo straže; in dajali so mu hleb kruha na dan iz ulice pekovske, dokler ni bil ves kruh použit v mestu. Tako je ostal Jeremija v veži straže.

²¹Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

²¹Tedaj je zapovedal kralj Zedekija, da naj denejo Jeremija v vežo straže; in dajali so mu hleb kruha na dan iz ulice pekovske, dokler ni bil ves kruh použit v mestu. Tako je ostal Jeremija v veži straže.