¹How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.

¹Kako je otemnelo zlato, se izpremenilo odlično zlato! Kako je raztreseno kamenje svetišča po vseh voglih in ulicah!

²The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

²Sinovi Siona, predragi, ki bi jih bilo ceniti z zlatom najčistejšim, kako se čislajo za vrče prstene, za izdelek rok lončarjevih!

³Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

³Celo šakali ponujajo prsi, dojé mladiče svoje, ali ljudstva mojega hči je neusmiljena kakor noji v puščavi!

⁴The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.

⁴Jezik lepí dojenčku na nebesu od žeje; otročiči prosijo kruha, a ni ga, da bi ga delil.

⁵They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

⁵Oni, ki so jedli slaščice, premirajo po ulicah; oni, ki so bili vzrejeni v škrlatu, objemajo blato.

⁶For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.

⁶In hujša je krivda ljudstva mojega hčere nego krivda Sodome, ki je bila podrta nagloma, roke se niso utrudile ž njo.

⁷Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:

⁷Čistejši nego sneg so bili knezi njeni, bolj beli nego mleko, bolj rdeči po životu nego korale, gladki kakor safir.

⁸Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

⁸Temnejša od črnine je sedaj njih podoba, ne poznajo jih na ulicah; njih koža se je zrasla ž njih kostmi, suha je kakor les.

⁹They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

⁹Bolje je pomorjenim z mečem nego pomorjenim z lakoto, ker ti umirajo prebodeni s stradanjem, ker ni poljskega sadú.

¹⁰The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

¹⁰Roke žen usmiljenih so kuhale otroke svoje, za hrano so jim bili ob razdejanju hčere ljudstva mojega.

¹¹The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.

¹¹GOSPOD je dopolnil togoto svojo, srdito jezo svojo je izlil in ogenj zažgal na Sionu, ki je požrl podstave njegove.

¹²The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.

¹²Ne bi bili verjeli kralji zemeljski in vsi prebivalci vesoljnega sveta, da pride zatiralec in sovražnik v vrata jeruzalemska.

¹³For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,

¹³Zgodilo se je zavoljo grehov prorokov njegovih, krivic duhovnikov njegovih, ki so prelivali sredi njega kri pravičnih.

¹⁴They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

¹⁴Kakor slepci so tavali po ulicah, ognušeni so bili s krvjo, da se niso hoteli ljudje dotekniti njih oblačil.

¹⁵They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.

¹⁵„Umeknite se, nečisti!“ so vpili proti njim, „umeknite se, umeknite, ne doteknite se!“ Ko so bežali, so tudi tavali, in med narodi se je govorilo: Ne smejo več pri nas prebivati!

¹⁶The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.

¹⁶Srdito obličje GOSPODOVO jih je razkropilo, ne bo jih gledal več. Na duhovnike se niso ozirali, starčkom niso prizanašali.

¹⁷As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.

¹⁷Še nam oči hirajo v hrepenenju po prazni pomoči; z ogledovalnice svoje gledamo proti narodu, ki ne bo rešil.

¹⁸They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

¹⁸Lové stopinje naše, da ne moremo hoditi po ulicah svojih. Bliža se konec naš, dovršujejo se dnevi naši, da, konec naš je že prišel.

¹⁹Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

¹⁹Hitrejši so bili naši preganjalci nego orli pod nebom: po gorah so nas podili, v puščavi so nas zalezovali.

²⁰The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.

²⁰Dih življenja našega, maziljenec GOSPODOV, je bil ujet v njih jamah; o katerem smo rekli: V senci njegovi bomo živeli med narodi.

²¹Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.

²¹Veséli in raduj se, o hči Edomova, prebivalka v deželi Uzovi! Tudi k tebi pride čaša, upijaniš se in slečeš se do nagega.Končana je kazen krivde tvoje, o hči sionska! ne bo te več vodil v pregnanstvo. Ozre se v krivico tvojo, o hči Edomova, odkrije grehe tvoje.

²²The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.

²²Končana je kazen krivde tvoje, o hči sionska! ne bo te več vodil v pregnanstvo. Ozre se v krivico tvojo, o hči Edomova, odkrije grehe tvoje.