¹Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

¹O da bi dosti imel vode v glavi in oči da bi mi bile studenci solzá, da bi objokoval noč in dan prebodence ljudstva svojega hčere!

²Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

²O kdo bi me postavil v puščavo, v prenočišče popotnikov, da zapustim ljudstvo svoje in odidem od njih! Zakaj vsi so prešeštniki, skupščina nezvestnikov.

³And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.

³In jezik svoj napenjajo kakor lok za laž; v deželi so se utrdili, a ne v prid resnici, kajti od hudobije hite do hudobije in mene ne spoznajo, govori GOSPOD.

⁴Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

⁴Vsak se varuj svojega prijatelja in nobenemu bratu ne upajte, zakaj vsak hoče lokavo izpodriniti drugega in vsak prijatelj hodi z natolcevanjem.

⁵And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

⁵In vsak vara prijatelja svojega in resnice ne govore; jezik svoj uče govoriti laž, učijo se delati krivo.

⁶Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.

⁶Tvoje prebivališče je sredi zvijače; zaradi zvijače se branijo spoznati me, govori GOSPOD.

⁷Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

⁷Zatorej pravi tako GOSPOD nad vojskami: Glej, jaz jih bom topil in jih preizkušal; kajti kako naj bi drugače delal zavoljo hčere ljudstva svojega?

⁸Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

⁸Pšica moreča je njih jezik; zvijačo govore; z usti govori mir prijatelj s prijateljem, ali v srcu svojem preži nanj.

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

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

¹⁰For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

¹⁰Zavoljo teh gorá napravim jok in žalovanje in zavoljo pašnikov v puščavi tožbo; kajti požgani so tako, da nihče ne hodi mimo in ni slišati glasu živine: ptice nebeške in goveda so zbežala, odšla.

¹¹And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

¹¹In iz Jeruzalema naredim groblje, prebivališče šakalov, in iz mest Judovih naredim puščavo, da nihče ne bo prebival v njih.

¹²Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?

¹²Kdo je tisti modri mož, ki bi to razumel? in komu so govorila usta GOSPODOVA, da bi oznanjal to? Zakaj je ta dežela pokončana in požgana kakor puščava, da nihče ne hodi po njej?

¹³And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;

¹³In GOSPOD je rekel: Ker so zapustili postavo mojo, ki sem jo jim bil razložil, in niso poslušali glasu mojega in niso hodili po njej,

¹⁴But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

¹⁴ampak so šli po trmi srca svojega in za Baali, kar so jih učili njih očetje:

¹⁵Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

¹⁵zatorej pravi tako GOSPOD nad vojskami, Bog Izraelov: Glej, jaz jih bom, to ljudstvo, sitil s pelinom in jim piti dajal sok trobelični;

¹⁶I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.

¹⁶in razkropim jih med narode, ki jih niso ne sami, ne njih očetje poznali, in za njimi pošljem meč, dokler jih ne pokončam.

¹⁷Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:

¹⁷Tako pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami: Pazite in pokličite žene žalovalke, da pridejo, in k modrim ženam pošljite, da pridejo,

¹⁸And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

¹⁸in urno naj zaženo žalovanje o nas, da bi nam kapljale solze iz oči in s trepalnic naših tekla voda.

¹⁹For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.

¹⁹Kajti žalovanja glas se sliši s Siona: Kako smo opustošeni! silno smo osramočeni, zakaj bilo nam je zapustiti deželo, ker so nam podrli domovališča.

²⁰Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.

²⁰Poslušajte torej, žene, besedo GOSPODOVO in uho vaše naj sprejme besedo njegovih ust, in učite žalovati hčere svoje in druga drugo peti žalostinke.

²¹For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

²¹Zakaj smrt je k nam prilezla skozi okna, prišla je v palače naše, da pokonča otroke z ulic in mladeniče s trgov.

²²Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.

²²Govóri: Tako pravi GOSPOD: Trupla človeška bodo ležala kakor gnoj na polju in kakor snopki za ženjci, in nihče jih ne bo pobiral.

²³Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:

²³Tako pravi GOSPOD: Ne hvali se modri z modrostjo svojo, in ne hvali se mogočni z mogočnostjo svojo, tudi ne bogati z bogastvom svojim;

²⁴But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.

²⁴ampak s tem se naj hvali, kdor se hvali, da ume in spozna mene, da sem jaz GOSPOD, ki delam milost, sodbo in pravičnost na zemlji; kajti to mi je po volji, govori GOSPOD.

²⁵Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;

²⁵Glej, dnevi pridejo, govori GOSPOD, ko obiščem vse obrezane v njih neobrezi:Egipčane in Jude in Edomce in sinove Amonove in Moabce ter vse, ki so ostriženi ob krajih glave, ki prebivajo v puščavi; kajti vsi poganski narodi so neobrezani, vsa hiša Izraelova pa je neobrezanega srca.

²⁶Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

²⁶Egipčane in Jude in Edomce in sinove Amonove in Moabce ter vse, ki so ostriženi ob krajih glave, ki prebivajo v puščavi; kajti vsi poganski narodi so neobrezani, vsa hiša Izraelova pa je neobrezanega srca.