¹Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind;

¹Tako pravi GOSPOD: Glej, obudim podirajoč veter zoper Babilon in zoper nje, ki prebivajo v njem, srcu meni se upirajočih.

²And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.

²In pošljem v Babilon tujce, ki ga bodo vejali in izpraznili deželo njegovo; kajti oblegali ga bodo v dan nesreče.

³Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.

³Zoper njega, ki napenja, napenjaj strelec svoj lok in zoper njega, ki se vzdiguje v oklepu svojem; in ne imejte milosti do mladeničev njegovih, docela pokončajte vso vojsko njegovo!

⁴Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.

⁴In prebodeni bodo padali v deželi Kaldejski in presunjeni po ulicah njegovih.

⁵For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

⁵Kajti Izrael in Juda nista kot vdova, zapuščena od Boga svojega, od GOSPODA nad vojskami; ker je njih dežela polna krivice proti Svetemu Izraelovemu.

⁶Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.

⁶Bežite iz sredi Babilona in rešite vsak življenje svoje, ne bodite pokončani zavoljo krivice njegove; zakaj to je čas maščevanja GOSPODOVEGA: kar je zaslužil, mu povrača.

⁷Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

⁷Zlata čaša je bil Babilon v roki GOSPODOVI, ki je upijanila vso zemljo; od vina njegovega so pili narodi, zato so zbesneli narodi.

⁸Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

⁸Mahoma pade Babilon in bo potrt. Tulite nad njim, oskrbite mazilo za bolečino njegovo, če morebiti ozdravi!

⁹We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

⁹„Hoteli smo ozdraviti Babilon, a ni bil ozdravljen. Zapustite ga in pojdimo vsak v svojo deželo; kajti do nebes sega sodba njegova in vzdiguje se do najvišjih oblakov.“

¹⁰The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.

¹⁰Na dan je spravil GOSPOD pravičnost našo; pridite in pripovedujmo na Sionu delo GOSPODA, Boga našega.

¹¹Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.

¹¹Le ostrite pšice, primite za ščite! GOSPOD je zbudil duha kraljev medskih, ker je zoper Babilon namera njegova, da ga pogubi: zakaj to je maščevanje GOSPODOVO, svetišča njegovega maščevanje.

¹²Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.

¹²Na zidovju babilonskem dvignite prapor, pomnožite stražo, postavite čuvaje, pripravite zasede! Kajti kakor se je namenil GOSPOD, tako izvrši, kar je rekel zoper prebivalce v Babilonu.

¹³O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.

¹³O ti, ki prebivaš poleg mnogih vodá, bogat zakladov, prišel je konec tvoj, po meri dobičkaželjnosti tvoje.

¹⁴The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.

¹⁴GOSPOD nad vojskami je prisegel sam pri sebi: Čeprav sem te napolnil z ljudmi kakor s kobilicami, vendar zaženo zmagoslavno vpitje nad teboj!

¹⁵He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.

¹⁵On je ustvaril zemljo s krepostjo svojo, ustanovil vesoljni svet z modrostjo svojo in z razumnostjo svojo razpel nebesa.

¹⁶When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.

¹⁶Ko se on oglaša, šum vodá na nebu vrši; on pripeljava sopare od kraja zemlje, dela bliske za dež in izpušča veter iz zakladov svojih.

¹⁷Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

¹⁷Nespameten je postal vsak, brez spoznanja; vsak zlatar se osramočuje s podobo; kajti lažniva je ulita podoba njegova in sape ni v njih nobeni.

¹⁸They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

¹⁸Ničemurnost so, delo, smeha vredno; tisti čas, ko bodo obiskani, poginejo.

¹⁹The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name.

¹⁹Njim ni podoben on, ki je Jakobov delež, kajti on je upodobil vse; in Izrael je rod posesti njegove: GOSPOD nad vojskami je ime njegovo.

²⁰Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

²⁰Kladivo si mi, bojno orožje; in s teboj razbijem narode in s teboj pogubim kraljestva

²¹And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;

²¹in s teboj zdrobim konja z jezdecem njegovim in s teboj raztrupam voz in njega, ki sedi na njem,

²²With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;

²²in s teboj raztrupam moža in ženo in raztrupam s teboj starčka in dečka ter raztrupam s teboj mladeniča in devico

²³I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.

²³in s teboj razkropim pastirja in čredo njegovo in s teboj raztrupam kmetovalca z volmi njegovimi v jarmu ter razbijem s teboj deželne poglavarje in namestnike.

²⁴And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD.

²⁴In povrnem Babilonu in vsem prebivalcem v Kaldeji vsa njih huda dela, ki so jih storili na Sionu, pred očmi vašimi, govori GOSPOD.

²⁵Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.

²⁵Glej, jaz sem zoper tebe, o gora pogubnica, ki pogubljaš vso zemljo, govori GOSPOD; in iztegnem roko zoper tebe in te zvalim s skalovja in te izpremenim v goro pogorišča,

²⁶And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.

²⁶da ne dobé iz tebe kamena za vogel ali kamena za podzidje, kajti puščava bodeš vekomaj, govori GOSPOD.

²⁷Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.

²⁷Dvignite prapor v deželi, trobite na trobento med narodi, pripravite zoper njega narode, skličite proti njemu kraljestva Ararat, Mini in Askenaz! postavite zoper njega vojskovodjo, pripeljite konj gori kakor grozovitih kobilic!

²⁸Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.

²⁸Pripravite zoper njega narode, kralje iz Medije, njene deželne poglavarje in namestnike in vso deželo njih gospostva!

²⁹And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.

²⁹In potrese se zemlja in začuti bolečine; kajti izpolnijo se misli GOSPODOVE, da se opustoši dežela Babilonska, da nihče ne bo prebival v njej.

³⁰The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.

³⁰Nehajo se bojevati korenjaki v Babilonu, sedeli bodo v trdnjavah, opeša jim moč, kakor ženske bodo; sovražniki zažgo prebivališča njegova, starejo zapahe njegove.

³¹One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,

³¹Tekač bo tekel tekaču naproti in oznanjevalec srečaval oznanjevalca, naznanit kralju babilonskemu, da je mesto njegovo vzeto od kraja do konca

³²And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

³²in da so celo tesni vhodi zasedeni; tudi luže so izsušili z ognjem, in vojščaki so izbegani.

³³For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.

³³Kajti tako pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami, Bog Izraelov: Hči babilonska je kakor gumno ob času, ko se s topotanjem utrjuje; še malo, potem ji pride žetve čas.

³⁴Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.

³⁴Žrl me je, zatiral me je Nebukadnezar, kralj babilonski, naredil me je kakor prazno posodo, požiral me je kakor zmaj, napolnil si je trebuh z mojimi slaščicami, odpahnil me je.

³⁵The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

³⁵Krivica, ki se je godila meni in mesu mojemu, pridi nad Babilon, govori naj prebivalka sionska; in kri moja pridi nad prebivalce kaldejske, govori naj Jeruzalem.

³⁶Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

³⁶Zatorej pravi tako GOSPOD: Glej, jaz se potegnem za pravdo tvojo in izvršim maščevanje zate; in posušim morje njegovo in storim, da usahnejo studenci njegovi.

³⁷And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

³⁷In Babilon bode v kupe kamenja, prebivališče šakalov, v grozo in žvižganje brez prebivalca.

³⁸They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.

³⁸Enako kakor mladi levi rjovejo, kriče kakor levov mladiči.

³⁹In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.

³⁹Ko se ugrejejo, jim napravim pitje in jih upijanim, da se bodo razveseljevali in potem zaspali večno spanje, in ne zbude se, govori GOSPOD.

⁴⁰I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.

⁴⁰Popeljem jih kakor jagnjeta v klanje, kakor ovne s kozliči. –

⁴¹How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

⁴¹Kako je vzet Šešak in zasedena vse zemlje hvala! Kako je postal Babilon predmet strmenju med narodi.

⁴²The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

⁴²Zoper Babilon je prišlo morje, bučeči valovi njegovi so ga pokrili.

⁴³Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

⁴³Mesta njegova so izpremenjena v puščavo, v suho deželo in samoto, v deželo, kjer ne prebiva nihče in preko nje ne hodi sin človekov.

⁴⁴And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

⁴⁴In kaznoval bom Bela v Babilonu, in kar je požrl, potegnem iz ust njegovih; in ne bodo se več k njemu stekali narodi; tudi zid babilonski se zruši.

⁴⁵My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.

⁴⁵Pojdite ven iz njega, ljudstvo moje, in rešite vsak dušo svojo izpred goreče jeze GOSPODOVE!

⁴⁶And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

⁴⁶In ne oméči se srce vaše in ne bojte se zavoljo govorice, ki se bo slišala v deželi! kajti v tem letu pride ta govorica in potem drugo leto ona govorica, in silovitost bode v deželi, vladar zoper vladarja.

⁴⁷Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

⁴⁷Zato glej, pridejo dnevi, ko bom strahoval izrezane podobe babilonske, in vsa dežela njegova bo osramočena in vsi prebodeni njegovi padejo sredi njega.

⁴⁸Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD.

⁴⁸Tedaj bodo veselo pela nad Babilonom nebesa in zemlja in kar je na njih; kajti od severa pridejo k njemu razdejalci, govori GOSPOD.

⁴⁹As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.

⁴⁹Kakor je Babilon povzročil, da so padli prebodeni Izraelovi, tako padejo ob Babilonu prebodeni vse zemlje. –

⁵⁰Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

⁵⁰O vi, ki ste ubežali meču, umeknite se, ne stojte! spominjajte se iz daljave GOSPODA in Jeruzalem vam pridi na misel! –

⁵¹We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house.

⁵¹Sram nas je, ker slišimo očitanje; nečast pokriva obličje naše, ker tujci so vdrli v svetinje hiše GOSPODOVE. –

⁵²Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

⁵²Zato glej, pridejo dnevi, ko bom strahoval izrezane podobe njegove, in po vsej deželi njegovi bodo vpili prebodeni.

⁵³Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.

⁵³Tudi ko bi se Babilon vzdignil do neba, tudi ko bi nedostopno storil višino trdnjave svoje, od mene pridejo razdejalci zoper njega, pravi GOSPOD.

⁵⁴A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:

⁵⁴Čuj! vpitje od Babilona in velik poboj se sliši od dežele Kaldejcev sem!

⁵⁵Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:

⁵⁵zakaj GOSPOD razdeva Babilon in preganja iz njega velike množice hrum; in bobne njih valovi kakor mnoge vode, razlega se šum njih glasú.

⁵⁶Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.

⁵⁶Kajti pride zoper njega, zoper Babilon, razdejalec, ujeti bodo junaki njegovi, zdrobljeni vsi loki njegovi, zakaj Bog mogočni, ki obilo povrača, je GOSPOD, on gotovo povrne.

⁵⁷And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

⁵⁷In upijanim kneze njegove in modrijane njegove, deželne poglavarje in namestnike in junake njegove; in spali bodo večno spanje in se ne prebude, govori Kralj, ki mu je ime GOSPOD nad vojskami.

⁵⁸Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.

⁵⁸Tako pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami: Zidovje Babilona preširoko bo docela razrušeno in visoka vrata njegova se požgo z ognjem. In tako se trudijo ljudstva za nič in narodi za ogenj, in pešajo.

⁵⁹The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.

⁵⁹Beseda, ki jo je ukazal prorok Jeremija Seraju, sinu Nerija, sina Mahsejevega, ko je šel z Zedekijem, kraljem Judovim, v Babilon v četrtem letu njegovega kraljevanja; bil je pa Seraja knez posteljnik.

⁶⁰So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.

⁶⁰In Jeremija je zapisal vse gorje, ki pride nad Babilon, v eno knjigo, vse te besede, ki so pisane zoper Babilon.

⁶¹And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;

⁶¹In Jeremija je velel Seraju: Ko prideš v Babilon, pazi, da prečitaš vse te besede

⁶²Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.

⁶²in porečeš: O GOSPOD, ti si govoril zoper ta kraj, da ga pokončaš, tako da ne bode v njem prebivalca niti izmed ljudi niti izmed živali, temuč da bode puščava vekomaj.

⁶³And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:

⁶³Nato ko prečitaš to knjigo, ji priveži kamen in jo vrzi sredi Evfratain reci: Tako se pogrezne Babilon in se ne vzdigne spričo nesreče, ki jo pripeljem zoper njega; in opešajo. Dotlej besede Jeremijeve.

⁶⁴And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

⁶⁴in reci: Tako se pogrezne Babilon in se ne vzdigne spričo nesreče, ki jo pripeljem zoper njega; in opešajo. Dotlej besede Jeremijeve.