¹Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.

¹Obletite ulice jeruzalemske in poglejte ter izvedite in iščite po trgih njegovih, ali najdete moža, ali je kdo, ki dela pravico, ki išče zvestobe: in odpustim mestu.

²And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.

²A čeprav pravijo: Kakor GOSPOD živi, vendar prisegajo po krivem. –

³O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

³O GOSPOD, ali se ne ozirajo oči tvoje v zvestobo? Tepel si jih, a ni jih bolelo, potrl si jih, a branili so se sprejeti nauk; obličje svoje so napravili trše od skale, nočejo se povrniti.

⁴Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.

⁴Tedaj sem rekel: Samo siromaki so taki; nespametno ravnajo, ker ne poznajo pota GOSPODOVEGA, ne pravice svojega Boga.

⁵I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

⁵Pojdem pa k prvakom in bom ž njimi govoril, zakaj oni poznajo pot GOSPODOV, pravico svojega Boga. Ali oni so vsi vkup zlomili jarem, raztrgali spone.

⁶Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

⁶Zato jih bo udaril lev iz gozda, večerni volk jih bo ugonobil, pard bo prežal po njih mestih: kdorkoli izmed njih pride na plano, ga raztrga zver; kajti premnogi so njih prestopki, mnogoštevilni njih odpadi. –

⁷How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

⁷Kako naj ti odpustim? Sinovi tvoji so me zapustili in prisegajo pri njih, ki niso bogovi. Kakor hitro sem jih nasitil, so prelomili zakon in v nečistničini hiši so se zbirali kupoma.

⁸They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.

⁸Kakor napaseni konji so, ko vstanejo zjutraj; vsak rezgeta proti bližnjega svojega ženi.

⁹Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

⁹Ali bi jih ne obiskal zavoljo tega? govori GOSPOD; in ali bi se nad takim narodom ne maščevala duša moja?

¹⁰Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD's.

¹⁰Splezajte na zidove njene in razgrajajte, a docela je ne pokončajte; potrebite odrastke njene, ker oni niso GOSPODOVI!

¹¹For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.

¹¹Zakaj zelo nezvesto so ravnali proti meni, hiša Izraelova in hiša Judova, govori GOSPOD.

¹²They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

¹²Zatajili so GOSPODA in govorili: „Njega ni; in ne zgodi se nam hudo in meča in gladu ne izkusimo;

¹³And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

¹³in tisti proroki preidejo kakor veter, in besede Božje ni v njih; njim samim se tako zgodi!“

¹⁴Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

¹⁴Zatorej pravi tako Gospod, Bog nad vojskami: Zato ker govorite to besedo, glej, storim besede svoje v tvojih ustih v ogenj, to ljudstvo pa v les, in ogenj ga pokonča.

¹⁵Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

¹⁵Glej, jaz pripeljem zoper vas narod od daleč, o hiša Izraelova, govori GOSPOD: narod močan, narod starodaven, narod, čigar jezika ne poznaš, in ne razumeš, kaj govori.

¹⁶Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

¹⁶Njih tul je kakor grob odprt, vsi so junaki.

¹⁷And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.

¹⁷In pojedó žetev tvojo in hrano tvojo, katero naj bi pojedli sinovi tvoji in hčere tvoje, pojedó črede tvoje in goveda tvoja, vinske trte in smokve tvoje, razdenejo z mečem trdna mesta tvoja, na katera se zanašaš.

¹⁸Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.

¹⁸Toda tudi v tistih dnevih, govori GOSPOD, vas docela ne pokončam.

¹⁹And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not your's.

¹⁹In zgodi se, ko porečete: Zakaj je nam storil GOSPOD, naš Bog, vse to? tedaj jim reci: Kakor ste me zapustili in ste služili tujim bogovom v svoji deželi, tako boste služili tujcem v deželi, ki ni vaša.

²⁰Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,

²⁰Oznanjujte to v hiši Jakobovi in proglašajte v Judi, govoreč:

²¹Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:

²¹Poslušajte zdaj to, ljudstvo neumno in brez srca, ki imajo oči, in ne vidijo, ki imajo ušesa, in ne slišijo.

²²Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

²²Mene li se ne bojite, govori GOSPOD, pred mojim li obličjem ne boste trepetali? ki sem naredil pesek morju v mejo, večno ograjo, ki je ne prestopi; čeprav se valovi zaletavajo, vendar ne premagajo, čeprav močno pljuskajo, vendar ne morejo preskočiti.

²³But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

²³Ali to ljudstvo ima srce trmasto in uporno; odstopili so in še dalje zahajajo.

²⁴Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

²⁴In ne govore v srcu svojem: Bojmo se zdaj GOSPODA, Boga svojega, ki daje dež zgodnji in pozni ob svojem času, nam hrani gotove tedne za žetev.

²⁵Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

²⁵Krivice vaše odvračajo to in grehi vaši odganjajo to dobro od vas.

²⁶For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

²⁶Kajti med ljudstvom mojim so brezbožni; preže kakor ptičarji, stavijo pogubne zanke, lové ljudi.

²⁷As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

²⁷Kakor ptičev polna ptičnica, tako so njih hiše polne zvijače, zato so veliki in bogati.

²⁸They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

²⁸Debeli, gladki so, da, stopajo predaleč v hudobnih dejanjih; ne potegujejo se za pravdo, pravdo sirotam, da bi jim šlo po sreči, in siromakom ne prisojajo pravice.

²⁹Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

²⁹Ali bi jih ne obiskal zavoljo tega? govori GOSPOD; ali bi se nad takim narodom ne maščevala duša moja?

³⁰A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;

³⁰Reč strahovita in grozna se godi v tej deželi:proroki prorokujejo lažnivo in duhovniki gospodujejo ž njih pomočjo, in ljudstvo moje vidi to rado. Kaj storite pa nazadnje?

³¹The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

³¹proroki prorokujejo lažnivo in duhovniki gospodujejo ž njih pomočjo, in ljudstvo moje vidi to rado. Kaj storite pa nazadnje?