¹A Hospodin mi riekol: Vezmi si veľkú knihu a napíš do nej písmom človeka: Maher šalal, chaš baz!

¹And Jehovah saith unto me, `Take to thee a great tablet, and write upon it with a graving tool of man, To haste spoil, enjoy prey.`

²A vzal som si verných svedkov, kňaza Uriáša a Zachariáša, syna Jeberechiášovho.

²And I cause faithful witnesses to testify to me, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.

³A potom som sa priblížil prorokyni, a počala a porodila syna. A Hospodin mi riekol: Daj mu meno: Maher šalal, chaš baz.

³And I draw near unto the prophetess, and she conceiveth, and beareth a son; and Jehovah saith unto me, `Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz,

⁴Lebo prv ako bude vedieť chlapča zavolať: Môj otče, a: Moja matko, ponesú imanie Damašku a korisť Samárie pred kráľom Assýrie.

⁴for before the youth doth know to cry, My father, and My mother, one taketh away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria, before the king of Asshur.`

⁵A ešte i toto mi povedal Hospodin a riekol:

⁵And Jehovah addeth to speak unto me again, saying:

⁶Pretože tento ľud zavrhol ticho tečúce vody Siloam a má svoju rozkoš v Recínovi a v synovi Remaliášovom,

⁶`Because that this people hath refused The waters of Shiloah that go softly, And is rejoicing with Rezin and the son of Remaliah,

⁷preto hľa, Pán dovedie hore na nich vody rieky, mohutné a veľké, kráľa Assýrie a všetku jeho slávu, a vystúpi nad všetky svoje riečištia a pojde ponad všetky svoje brehy.

⁷Therefore, lo, the Lord is bringing up on them, The waters of the river, the mighty and the great, (The king of Asshur, and all his glory,) And it hath gone up over all its streams, And hath gone on over all its banks.

⁸A dovaliac sa do Judska zaplaví a prejde; dosiahne až po hrdlo a bude mať roztiahnuté svoje krýdla na celú šír tvojej zeme, ó, Immanuelu!

⁸And it hath passed on into Judah, It hath overflown and passed over, Unto the neck it cometh, And the stretching out of its wings Hath been the fulness of the breadth of thy land, O Emmanu-El!

⁹Len sa vztekajte, národy, a buďte zdrtené! A pozorujte ušima, všetky ďaleké kraje zeme! Prepášte sa a buďte zdrtené; prepášte sa a buďte zdrtené!

⁹Be friends, O nations, and be broken, And give ear, all ye far off ones of earth, Gird yourselves, and be broken, Gird yourselves, and be broken.

¹⁰Dajte radu poradiac sa, ale bude zrušená; hovorte slovo, avšak nebude stáť, lebo immanu El.

¹⁰Take counsel, and it is broken, Speak a word, and it doth not stand, Because of Emmanu-El!`

¹¹Lebo takto mi povedal Hospodin silou svojej božskej ruky a vyučoval ma, aby som neišiel cestou tohoto ľudu, a riekol:

¹¹For thus hath Jehovah spoken unto me with strength of hand, and instructeth me against walking in the way of this people, saying,

¹²Nehovorte všetkému sprisahanie, čomu hovorí tento ľud sprisahanie, a toho, čoho sa on bojí, sa nebojte ani sa nestrachujte.

¹²`Ye do not say, A confederacy, To all to whom this people saith, A confederacy, And its fear ye do not fear, Nor declare fearful.

¹³Ale Hospodina Zástupov posväcujte, jeho sa bojte a jeho sa strachujte.

¹³Jehovah of Hosts — Him ye do sanctify, And He [is] your Fear, and He your Dread,

¹⁴A bude svätyňou, ale kameňom úrazu a skalou klesnutia obom domom Izraelovým, smečkou a osídlom obyvateľom Jeruzalema.

¹⁴And He hath been for a sanctuary, And for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of falling, To the two houses of Israel, For a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

¹⁵A klesnú zpomedzi nich mnohí a padnú a budú skrúšení a zapletúc sa budú lapení.

¹⁵And many among them have stumbled and fallen, And been broken, and snared, and captured.

¹⁶Zaviaž svedoctvo, zapečať zákon medzi mojimi učeníkmi!

¹⁶Bind up the testimony, Seal the law among My disciples.

¹⁷A budem očakávať na Hospodina, ktorý skrýva svoju tvár pred domom Jakobovým, a budem sa nadejať na neho.

¹⁷And I have waited for Jehovah, Who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob, And I have looked for Him.

¹⁸Hľa, ja a deti, ktoré mi dal Hospodin na znamenia a na zázraky v Izraelovi od Hospodina Zástupov, ktorý prebýva na vrchu Sione.

¹⁸Lo, I, and the children whom Jehovah hath given to me, [Are] for signs and for wonders in Israel, From Jehovah of Hosts, who is dwelling in Mount Zion.

¹⁹A keby vám riekli: Spýtajte sa veštcov, duchárov, alebo vedomcov, ktorí šepcú a mrmlú, poviete: Či sa ľud nemá pýtať svojho Boha? Ale za živých sa pýtať mŕtvych!

¹⁹And when they say unto you, `Seek unto those having familiar spirits, And unto wizards, who chatter and mutter, Doth not a people seek unto its God? — For the living unto the dead!

²⁰K zákonu sa obráťte a k svedoctvu! Istotne povedia podľa tohoto slova, istotne povie ten, kto nebude mať svitu rannej zory.

²⁰To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.`

²¹A prejde ňou, zemou, utrápený a hladný. A stane sa, keď bude hladný, že sa bude zlostiť a bude zlorečiť svojmu kráľovi a svojmu Bohu a pozrie hore.

²¹— And it hath passed over into it, hardened and hungry, And it hath come to pass, That it is hungry, and hath been wroth, And made light of its king, and of its God, And hath looked upwards.

²²A pohliadne na zem, a hľa, súženie a tma, temno úzkosti, a bude zahnaný do hustej tmy.

²²And unto the land it looketh attentively, And lo, adversity and darkness! — Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, But not the dimness for which she is in distress!