¹Povedzte mojim bratom: Ammi, a svojim sestrám: Rucháma.

¹`Say ye to your brethren — Ammi, And to your sisters — Ruhamah.

²Pravoťte sa so svojou materou, pravoťte! Lebo ona nie je mojou ženou, ani ja nie som jej mužom. A nech odstráni svoje smilstvá so svojej tvári a svoje cudzoložstvá zpomedzi svojich pŕs,

²Plead ye with your mother — plead, (For she [is] not My wife, and I [am] not her husband,) And she turneth her whoredoms from before her, And her adulteries from between her breasts,

³aby som ju nevyzliekol do naha a nepostavil ju takú, jaká bola v deň, v ktorý sa narodila, a učinil by som ju podobnou púšti a urobil by som ju podobnou vypráhlej zemi a umoril by som ju smädom.

³Lest I strip her naked. And have set her up as [in] the day of her birth, And have made her as a wilderness, And have set her as a dry land, And have put her to death with thirst.

⁴A nezľutoval by som sa ani nad jej synmi, pretože sú synmi zo smilstva.

⁴And her sons I do not pity, For sons of whoredoms [are] they,

⁵Lebo ich mater smilnila, hanebnosť páchala tá, ktorá ich počala, pretože povedala: Pojdem za svojimi milencami, ktorí mi dávajú môj chlieb a moju vodu, moju vlnu a môj ľan, môj olej a moje nápoje.

⁵For gone a-whoring hath their mother, Acted shamefully hath their conceiver, For she hath said, I go after my lovers, Those giving my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

⁶Preto hľa, opletiem tvoju cestu tŕnim a ohradím ju ohradou. A nenajde svojich chodníkov.

⁶Therefore, lo, I am hedging up thy way with thorns, And I have made for her a wall, And her paths she doth not find.

⁷A bude honiť svojich milencov, ale ich nedostihne, bude ich hľadať, ale nenajde. A povie: Pojdem ja a navrátim sa k svojemu prvému mužovi, lebo vtedy mi bolo lepšie ako teraz.

⁷And she hath pursued her lovers, And she doth not overtake them, And hath sought them, and doth not find, And she hath said: I go, and I turn back unto My first husband, For — better to me then than now.

⁸A ona nevie, že som to ja, ktorý som jej dával obilie a vínnu šťavu a olej a že ja som jej rozmnožil striebro a zlato, ktoré vynakladali na Bála.

⁸And she knew not that I had given to her, The corn, and the new wine, and the oil. Yea, silver I did multiply to her, And the gold they prepared for Baal.

⁹Preto zase poberiem svoje obilie v jeho čas a svoju vínnu šťavu v jej určenú dobu a vytrhnem svoju vlnu a svoj ľan, upotrebované na pokrytie jej nahoty.

⁹Therefore do I turn back, And I have taken My corn in its season, And My new wine in its appointed time, And I have taken away My wool and My flax, covering her nakedness.

¹⁰A tak teraz odkryjem jej mrzkosť pred očami jej milencov, a niktorý z nich ju nevytrhne z mojej ruky.

¹⁰And now do I reveal her dishonour before the eyes of her lovers, And none doth deliver her out of My hand.

¹¹A učiním prietrž všetkej jej radosti, jej sviatku, jej novmesiacu a jej sobote i každej jej výročnej slávnosti.

¹¹And I have caused to cease all her joy, Her festival, her new moon, and her sabbath, Even all her appointed times,

¹²A spustoším jej vinič a jej fík, o ktorých hovorí: To mi je mzda za smilstvo, ktorú mi dali moji milenci; obrátim ich v horu, a požerie ich poľná zver.

¹²And made desolate her vine and her fig-tree, Of which she said, A gift they [are] to me, That my lovers have given to me, And I have made them for a forest, And consumed them hath a beast of the field.

¹³A navštívim na nej dni všelijakých Bálov, ktorým kadila, a ozdobujúc sa svojimi náušnicami a svojimi náhrdelnými šperky chodila za svojimi milencami a na mňa zabudla, hovorí Hospodin.

¹³And I have charged on her the days of the Baalim, To whom she maketh perfume, And putteth on her ring and her ornament, And goeth after her lovers, And Me forgat — an affirmation of Jehovah.

¹⁴Preto hľa, ja ju prehovorím a vyvediem ju na púšť a budem hovoriť k jej srdcu.

¹⁴Therefore, lo, I am enticing her, And have caused her to go to the wilderness, And I have spoken unto her heart,

¹⁵A dám jej jej vinice až odtiaľ aj údolie Áchor za dvere nádeje, a tam odpovie ako za dní svojej mladosti a jako v deň, v ktorý išla hore z Egyptskej zeme.

¹⁵And given to her her vineyards from thence, And the valley of Achor for an opening of hope, And she hath responded there as in the days of her youth, And as in the day of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁶A stane sa toho dňa, hovorí Hospodin, že ma budeš volať: Íši, a nebudeš ma viacej volať: Báli.

¹⁶And it hath come to pass, in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah, Thou dost call Me — My husband, And dost not call Me any more — My lord.

¹⁷A odstránim mená Bálov z jej úst, ani sa nebudú viacej spomínať svojím menom.

¹⁷And I have turned aside the names of the lords from her mouth, And they are not remembered any more by their name.

¹⁸A učiním im smluvu v ten deň s poľnou zverou i s nebeským vtáctvom i so zemským plazom a polámem lučište, meč i vojnu a odpracem zo zeme a spôsobím to, aby líhali bezpečne.

¹⁸And I have made to them a covenant in that day, with the beast of the field, And with the fowl of the heavens, And the creeping thing of the ground, And bow, and sword, and war I break from off the land, And have caused them to lie down confidently.

¹⁹A zasnúbim si ťa na večnosť a zasnúbim si ťa v spravedlivosti a v súde, v milosti a v mnohom zľutovaní

¹⁹And I have betrothed thee to Me to the age, And betrothed thee to Me in righteousness, And in judgment, and kindness, and mercies,

²⁰a zasnúbim si ťa vo vernosti, a poznáš Hospodina.

²⁰And betrothed thee to Me in faithfulness, And thou hast known Jehovah.

²¹A stane sa toho dňa. že sa ohlásim, hovorí Hospodin, že sa ohlásim nebesiam, a ony sa ohlásia zemi,

²¹And it hath come to pass in that day, I answer — an affirmation of Jehovah, I answer the heavens, and they answer the earth.

²²a zem sa ohlási obiliu, vínnej šťave a olejú, a ony sa ohlásia Jizreelu.

²²And the earth doth answer the corn, And the new wine, and the oil, And they answer Jezreel.

²³A rozosejem si ju po zemi a zľutujem sa nad Ló-ruchámou a poviem Ló-ammimu: Ty si môj ľud, a on povie: Môj Bôh!

²³And I have sowed her to Me in the land, And I have pitied Lo-Ruhamah, And I have said to Lo-Ammi, My people thou [art], and it saith, My God!`