¹Ennustus Paabeli kohta, Jesaja, Aamotsi poja poolt nähtud:

¹The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw:

²Tõstke lipp lagedale mäele, hüüdke neile valjusti, viibake käega, et nad läheksid sisse suurte isandate väravaist!

²Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

³Ma olen andnud käsu oma pühitsetuile, olen juba oma vihale appi kutsunud sangarid, kes võivad suurustada minu suurusest.

³I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.

⁴Kuule! Mägedes on mürin, rahvahulkade kõmin. Kuule! Kuningriikide, kogunenud paganate lärm. Vägede Issand vaatab üle sõjaväge.

⁴The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army for the battle.

⁵Nad tulevad kaugelt maalt, taevarannalt, Issand ja tema sajatuse relvad, hävitama kogu maad.

⁵They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

⁶Ulguge, sest Issanda päev on ligidal, see tuleb kui hävitus Kõigeväeliselt!

⁶Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

⁷Seepärast lõtvuvad kõik käed ja kõik inimsüdamed löövad araks.

⁷Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt.

⁸Nad kohkuvad. Vaevused ja valud haaravad neid, nad vaevlevad otsekui sünnitaja. Üks vaatab teisele jahmunult otsa, nende palged on tulipunased.

⁸They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.

⁹Vaata, Issanda päev tuleb hirmsana, raevu ja tulise vihaga, et tühjendada maa ja hävitada sealt patused.

⁹Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.

¹⁰Sest taevatähed, nende hulgas Vardatähed, ei kiirga enam valgust, päike on tõustes pime ja kuu ei anna oma valget.

¹⁰For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

¹¹Mina tasun ilmamaale ta kurjuse ja õelatele nende süü, mina lõpetan ülbete kõrkuse ja alandan võimutsejate upsakuse.

¹¹I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the haughtiness of the terrible.

¹²Mina teen inimesed kallimaks puhtast kullast, inimlapse kallimaks Oofiri kullast.

¹²I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.

¹³Seepärast ma panen taevad vankuma ja maa vappub paigast vägede Issanda raevus tema tulise viha päeval.

¹³Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in the wrath of Yahweh of Armies, and in the day of his fierce anger.

¹⁴Ja otsekui peletatud gasell või kari, keda keegi ei aja kokku, pöördub igaüks oma rahva juurde ja põgeneb igaüks oma maale.

¹⁴It will happen that like a hunted gazelle, and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.

¹⁵Kõik, keda leitakse, torgatakse läbi, ja iga põgenik langeb mõõga ees.

¹⁵Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

¹⁶Nende lapsed rebitakse tükkideks nende eneste nähes, nende kojad rüüstatakse, nende naised teotatakse.

¹⁶Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.

¹⁷Vaata, ma kihutan nende vastu meedlased, kes ei hooli hõbedast ega himusta kulda.

¹⁷Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.

¹⁸Nende ammud purustavad poisse, neil ei ole halastust ihuvilja vastu, laste pärast nende silm ei kurvasta.

¹⁸Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.

¹⁹Ja Paabel, kuningriikide ehe, kaldealaste kõrk toredus, saab Soodoma ja Gomorra sarnaseks, mis Jumal segi paiskas.

¹⁹Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

²⁰Seda ei asustata enam iialgi ega elata seal põlvest põlve; ei löö sinna araablane telki üles ega puhka seal karjased karja.

²⁰It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.

²¹Vaid seal lebavad kurjad vaimud ja nende kojad on täis öökulle; seal asuvad jaanalinnud ja karglevad sikujalgsed paharetid.

²¹But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there.

²²Ta tornides uluvad kurjad vaimud ja lusthooneis ðaakalid. Tema aeg on liginemas ja tema päevi ei pikendata.

²²Wolves will cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.