¹Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.

¹Prosite GOSPODA dežja ob času poznega deževja, GOSPODA, ki dela bliskavice; in da vam obilo dežja, vsakemu zelenjavo na polju.

²For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.

²Kajti hišni maliki so govorili prazne reči in vedeževalci so videli laži; in govore lažnive sanje, tolažijo brezuspešno. Zato so zbežali kakor čreda, potlačeni so, ker jim ni pastirja.

³Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle.

³Nad pastirji se je vnela jeza moja, in kozle bom kaznoval; kajti GOSPOD nad vojskami obišče čredo svojo, hišo Judovo, in jo enako stori svojemu krasnemu konju v bitki.

⁴Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together.

⁴Iz Jude pride vogelni kamen, iz njega šatorov klin, iz njega bojni lok, iz njega vsi čiherni oblastniki.

⁵And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.

⁵In bodo kakor junaki, ki v boju gazijo blato po cestah, in bojevali se bodo, ker GOSPOD je ž njimi, in v sramoto spravijo jezdece na konjih.

⁶And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them.

⁶In okrepim hišo Judovo in rešim hišo Jožefovo, in dam jim mirno prebivati; kajti njih sem se usmilil in bodo, kakor bi jih ne bil zavrgel. Zakaj jaz sem Jehova, njih Bog, in nje uslišim.

⁷And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.

⁷In Efraim bode kakor junak, in njih srce se bo veselilo kakor od vina; in njih otroci se bodo, videč to, radovali; njih srce se bo veselilo v GOSPODU.

⁸I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased.

⁸Zažvižgam jim in jih zberem, ker sem jih odrešil; in razmnože se, kakor so se prej razmnožili.

⁹And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again.

⁹In sejal jih bom med ljudstva, a v daljavi se bodo mene spominjali; in bodo živeli z otroki svojimi in se povrnili.

¹⁰I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not be found for them.

¹⁰Pripeljem jih nazaj tudi iz Egipta in jih zberem iz Asirije in jih privedem v deželo Gileadsko in na Libanon, in jim ne bo dosti prostora.

¹¹And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.

¹¹In pojde skozi morje stiske in udari morske valove, in posuše se vse globočine Nila; in potlačena bo prevzetnost Asirije in žezlo Egipta se umakne.In okrepim jih v GOSPODU, da bodo hodili v njegovem imenu, govori GOSPOD.

¹²And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the LORD.

¹²In okrepim jih v GOSPODU, da bodo hodili v njegovem imenu, govori GOSPOD.