¹Hear the word that Jehovah speaketh unto you, house of Israel.

¹Počujte slovo, ktoré vám hovorí Hospodin, dome Izraelov!

²Thus saith Jehovah: Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of the heavens; for the nations are dismayed at them.

²Takto hovorí Hospodin: Neučte sa ceste pohanov a nedeste sa znamení nebies, lebo pohania sa ich desia.

³For the statutes of the peoples are vanity; for [it is] a tree cut out of the forest, worked with a chisel by the hands of the artizan;

³Lebo ustanovenia národov? To je márnosť! Lebo to vytne, strom z lesa, dielo rúk remeselníka, ukresané sekerou.

⁴they deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

⁴Okrášli to striebrom a zlatom, upevní to klincami a kladivami, aby sa to neklátilo!

⁵They are as a palm-column of turned work, and they speak not; they are carried, for they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

⁵Sú jako palmový špalok tvrdý a nehovoria; musia ich nosiť, lebo nechodia! Nebojte sa ich, lebo neurobia zlého, ale nemôžu učiniť ani dobré.

⁶There is none like unto thee, Jehovah; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.

⁶Nie, neni tebe podobného, Hospodine! Veľký si ty, a veľké tvoje meno v sile!

⁷Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? For to thee doth it appertain; for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.

⁷Kde kto by sa ťa nebál, Kráľu národov?! Lebo tebe to prichodí, pretože medzi všetkými mudrcami národov a v celom ich kráľovstve neni tebe podobného nikoho!

⁸But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock.

⁸(Ale všetci do jedného sú zhovädilí a sprostí. Naučenie čakať od márností, od dreva!

⁹Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artizan and of the hands of the founder; blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of skilful [men].

⁹Striebro, ubité na plech, donesené z Taršíša, a zlato z Ufaza, dielo remeselníka a rúk zlatníka; hyacintovomodrý postav a červený purpur je ich odev; to všetko je dielom umelcov.

¹⁰But Jehovah Elohim is truth; he is the living God, and the King of eternity. At his wrath the earth trembleth, and the nations cannot abide his indignation.

¹⁰Ale Hospodin je Bôh pravdy, je živý Bôh a večný Kráľ; pred jeho hnevom sa trasie zem, a národy neznesú jeho zúrivého hnevu.

¹¹Thus shall ye say unto them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.

¹¹Takto im poviete: Bohovia, ktorí neučinili nebies ani zeme, tí nech zahynú zo zeme a zpod týchto nebies!)

¹²He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

¹²Ty, ktorý činíš zem svojou silou, ktorý pevne staviaš okruh sveta svojou múdrosťou a svojím umom si roztiahol nebesia;

¹³When he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the end of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries.

¹³keď vydáš hlas, povstane hučanie vôd na nebi, a pôsobíš to, aby vystupovali pary od konca zeme, činíš dažďu blesky a vyvodíš vietor zo svojich pokladov.

¹⁴Every man is become brutish, bereft of knowledge; every founder is put to shame by the graven image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

¹⁴Zhovädnel každý človek natoľko, že nezná toho; hanbiť sa bude každý zlatník pre svoju rytinu, lebo jeho sliatina je lesť, a niet v nich ducha.

¹⁵They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

¹⁵Takí bohovia sú márnosť, dielom zvodov do bludu; v čase svojho navštívenia zahynú.

¹⁶The portion of Jacob is not like them; for it is he that hath formed all [things], and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.

¹⁶No, nie ako títo údel Jakobov; lebo on je tvorcom všetkého, a Izrael je pokolením jeho dedičstva; Hospodin Zástupov jeho meno.

¹⁷Gather up thy baggage out of the land, O inhabitress of the fortress.

¹⁷Sober ta preč svoj tovar zo zeme, ty, ktorá bývaš v pevnosti!

¹⁸For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will this time sling out the inhabitants of the land, and will distress them, that they may be found.

¹⁸Lebo takto hovorí Hospodin: Hľa, tento raz už vyhodím obyvateľov zeme jako z praku a sovriem ich, aby to cítili.

¹⁹Woe is me, for my wound! My stroke is hard to heal, and I had said, Yea, this is [my] grief, and I will bear it.

¹⁹Oj, beda mne pre moje skrúšenie! Moja rana je prebolestná. Ale ja som riekol: Doista je toto moja nemoc, a tak ju ponesiem.

²⁰My tent is despoiled, and all my cords are broken; my children are gone forth from me, and they are not; there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

²⁰Môj stán je spustošený, a všetky moje povrazy sú potrhané, moji synovia ma odišli, a niet ich; niet už nikoho, kto by zase roztiahol môj stán, a kto by povešal moje čalúny.

²¹For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not sought Jehovah; therefore have they not acted wisely, and all their flock is scattered.

²¹Lebo pastieri zhovädneli a nehľadali Hospodina. Preto nerobili rozumne, a všetko stádo ich pastvy sa rozpŕchlo.

²²The voice of a rumour! Behold, it cometh, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.

²²Hlas! Zvesť, hľa, ide, a veľký hrmot zo zeme severa obrátiť mestá Júdove na púšť, na príbytok šakalov.

²³I know, Jehovah, that the way of man is not his own; it is not in a man that walketh to direct his steps.

²³Viem, ó, Hospodine, že cesta človeka nie je v jeho moci, nie je v moci muža, ktorý chodí, jako ani to, aby pevne postavil svoje kroky.

²⁴Jehovah, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

²⁴Karhaj ma, Hospodine, avšak podľa milostivého súdu, nie vo svojom hneve, aby si neurobil zo mňa primálo.

²⁵Pour out thy fury upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name; for they have eaten up Jacob, yea, they have eaten him up and consumed him, and have laid waste his dwelling-place.

²⁵Vylej svoju prchlivosť na národy, ktoré ťa neznajú, a na čeľade, ktoré nevzývajú tvojho mena, lebo zjedajú Jakoba, i zjedia a zničia ho a jeho obydlie spustošili.