¹Now when these things were completed, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, according to their abominations, [even] of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites;

¹A keď sa to vykonalo, pristúpili ku mne kniežatá a riekli: Neoddelil sa izraelský ľud ani kňazi ani Levitovia od národov zemí, ale robia podľa ich ohavností, podľa ohavností Kananejov, Hetejov, Ferezejov, Jebuzejov, Ammoncov, Moábov, Egypťanov a Amorejov;

²for they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, and have mingled the holy seed with the peoples of the lands; and the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this unfaithfulness.

²lebo si pobrali, sebe aj svojim synom, z ich dcér za ženy a smiešali sa, sväté semeno, s národami zemí, a ruka kniežat a vrchnostenských osôb bola prvá v tom prestúpení.

³And when I heard this thing, I rent my mantle and my garment, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down overwhelmed.

³Keď som počul tú vec, roztrhnul som svoje rúcho i svoj plášť a trhal som si vlasy z hlavy i z brady a sedel som zdesený.

⁴Then were assembled to me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the unfaithfulness of those that had been carried away; and I sat overwhelmed until the evening oblation.

⁴A shromaždili sa ku mne všetci, ktorí sa triasli pred slovami Boha Izraelovho pre také prestúpenie prestehovaných, a ja som tak sedel zdesený až do večernej obeti.

⁵And at the evening oblation I arose up from my humiliation; and with my mantle and my garment rent, I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Jehovah my God,

⁵A v čas večernej obeti som vstal od ponižovania sa majúc roztrhnuté svoje rúcho i svoj plášť a kľakol som na svoje kolená a rozprestrúc svoje ruky k Hospodinovi, svojmu Bohu,

⁶and said: O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God; for our iniquities are increased over [our] head, and our trespass is grown up to the heavens.

⁶riekol som: Môj Bože, hanbím sa a stydím pozdvihnúť, môj Bože, svoju tvár k tebe, lebo naše neprávosti sa rozmnožily tak, že sahajú až nad našu hlavu, a naše previnenie narástlo, že sahá až do neba.

⁷Since the days of our fathers, we have been in great trespass to this day; and for our iniquities we, our kings, our priests, have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, and to captivity, and to spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

⁷Odo dní svojich otcov sme vo veľkej vine až do tohoto dňa, a pre svoje neprávosti boli sme vydaní my, naši kráľovia i naši kňazi do ruky kráľov zemí, pod meč, do zajatia, na lúpež a v hanbu tvári, jako je tomu i dnes.

⁸And now for a little space there hath been favour from Jehovah our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

⁸A teraz na malú chvíľku stala sa nám milosť od Hospodina, nášho Boha, aby nám zanechal nejaký zbytok, ktorý unikol záhube, a aby nám dal kolík na mieste svojej svätosti, aby náš Bôh osvietil naše oči a aby nám dal trochu ožiť v našej porobe.

⁹For we are bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us before the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God and to repair the ruins thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

⁹Lebo sme boli sluhami, a náš Bôh nás neopustil v našej poddanskej službe, ale naklonil k nám milosť pred perzskými kráľmi, aby nám dal ožiť, aby sme vyzdvihli dom svojho Boha a aby sme postavili jeho pustiny, a aby nám dal plot v Judsku a v Jeruzaleme.

¹⁰And now, what shall we say, our God, after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,

¹⁰A teraz čo máme povedať, po tom po všetkom, náš Bože? Lebo sme opustili tvoje prikázania,

¹¹which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess [it], is an unclean land through the filthiness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations with which they have filled it from one end to another through their uncleanness.

¹¹ktoré si prikázal skrze svojich služobníkov prorokov povediac: Zem, do ktorej idete, aby ste ju zaujali dedične, je nečistá zem pre nečistotu národov tých zemí, pre ich ohavnosti, ktorými ju naplnili od jedného konca po druhý vo svojej nečistote.

¹²Now therefore give not your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity for ever; that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.

¹²Preto teraz nedávajte svojich dcér ich synom ani neberte ich dcér svojim synom za ženy a nehľadajte ich pokoja ani ich dobrého a tak až na veky, aby ste sa zmocnili a jedli dobré veci zeme a zanechali ju za dedičstvo svojim synom až na veky.

¹³And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities [deserve], and hast given us such deliverance as this,

¹³A či teraz, po tom po všetkom, čo prišlo na nás pre naše zlé skutky a pre naše veľké previnenie, lebo ty, náš Bože, si zdŕžal svoj prút a netrestal si nás tak, ako by boly zaslúžily naše neprávosti, a dal si nám takto aspoň vo zbytku uniknúť záhube;

¹⁴should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the peoples of these abominations? wouldest thou not be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor any to escape?

¹⁴nuž, či by sme tedy mali zase zrušiť tvoje prikázania a spriazniť sa s týmito ohavnými národami? Či by si sa potom nemal rozhnevať na nás tak, až by si nás docela zahladil, tak, že by nezostal nikto ani neuniknul?

¹⁵Jehovah, God of Israel, thou art righteous; for we are a remnant that is escaped, as [it is] this day. Behold, we are before thee in our trespasses; for there is no standing before thee because of this.

¹⁵Hospodine, Bože Izraelov, ty si spravedlivý, lebo sme pozostali iba uniklý zbytok, ako to dnes vidieť. Hľa, sme pred tebou vo svojom previnení, lebo nemožno preto obstáť pred tebou.