¹Tedaj reče Elizej: Čujte besedo GOSPODOVO: Tako pravi GOSPOD: Jutri ob tem času bode mera bele moke po seklu in dve meri ječmena po seklu pri samarijskih vratih.

¹And Elisha saith, `Hear ye a word of Jehovah: thus said Jehovah, About this time to-morrow, a measure of fine flour [is] at a shekel, and two measures of barley at a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.`

²Nato odgovori vojvoda, na čigar roko se je kralj naslanjal, možu Božjemu in reče: Glej, ko bi GOSPOD odprl zatvornice na nebu, bi li moglo to biti? On pa reče: Glej, videl boš s svojimi očmi, a ne boš jedel od tega!

²And the captain whom the king hath, by whose hand he hath been supported, answereth the man of God and saith, `Lo, Jehovah is making windows in the heavens — shall this thing be?` and he saith, `Lo, thou art seeing it with thine eyes, and thereof thou dost not eat.`

³Bili so pa štirje gobavci pred vhodom v vrata Samarije; in reko drug drugemu: Kaj tu sedimo, dokler umrjemo?

³And four men have been leprous, at the opening of the gate, and they say one unto another, `What — we are sitting here till we have died;

⁴Ako bi rekli: Pojdimo v mesto, lakota je v mestu, in tam nam je umreti; ako pa ostanemo tu, moramo tudi umreti! Pojdimo torej, vrinimo se v vojsko Sircev! Ako nas ohranijo v življenju, bomo živeli, ako nas pobijejo, umrjemo.

⁴if we have said, We go in to the city, then the famine [is] in the city, and we have died there; and if we have sat here, then we have died; and now, come and we fall unto the camp of Aram; if they keep us alive, we live, and if they put us to death — we have died.`

⁵Vstanejo torej v mraku, da bi šli v tabor Sircev. In ko pridejo do skrajnega konca v taborišču Sircev, glej, ni tu nikogar.

⁵And they rise in the twilight, to go in unto the camp of Aram, and they come in unto the extremity of the camp of Aram, and lo, there is not a man there,

⁶Gospod je namreč dal sirski vojski slišati ropot voz in topotanje konj in hrup vojske velike; in rekli so drug drugemu: Glej, kralj Izraelov je najel zoper nas kralje Hetejcev in kralje Egipčanov, da pridero nad nas!

⁶seeing Jehovah hath caused the camp of Aram to hear a noise of chariot and a noise of horse — a noise of great force, and they say one unto another, `Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of Egypt, to come against us.`

⁷Zato so vstali in pobegnili v mraku, zapustivši svoje šatore in svoje konje in osle v taboru, kakor je bil, in so bežali, da si otmo življenje.

⁷And they rise and flee in the twilight, and forsake their tents, and their horses, and their asses — the camp as it [is] — and flee for their life.

⁸Ko torej pridejo oni gobavci na skrajni konec taborišča, stopijo v najbližji šator, jedo in pijejo in odneso odtod srebro, zlato in oblačil ter gredo in skrijejo to; in pridejo zopet in stopijo v drugi šator in pobero ravno tako, odneso in skrijejo.

⁸And these lepers come in unto the extremity of the camp, and come in unto one tent, and eat, and drink, and lift up thence silver, and gold, and garments, and go and hide; and they turn back and go in unto another tent, and lift up thence, and go and hide.

⁹Tedaj reko drug drugemu: Ne delamo prav. Ta dan je veselega poročila dan, in mi molčimo, ako počakamo do jutranjega svita, nas doleti kazen. Sedaj torej pridite, pojdimo in naznanimo to hiši kraljevi.

⁹And they say one unto another, `We are not doing right this day; a day of tidings it [is], and we are keeping silent; and — we have waited till the light of the morning, then hath punishment found us; and now, come and we go in and declare to the house of the king.`

¹⁰In pridejo in kličejo mestni straži, in povedo jim, rekoč: Prišli smo do tabora Sircev, in glej, ni bilo ondi nikogar, ne glasu človeškega, samo konji in osli privezani in šatori, kakor so bili.

¹⁰And they come in, and call unto the gatekeeper of the city, and declare for themselves, saying, `We have come in unto the camp of Aram, and lo, there is not there a man, or sound of man, but the bound horse, and the bound ass, and tents as they [are].`

¹¹In kličejo vratarjem, in ti povedo notri kraljevi družini.

¹¹and he calleth the gatekeepers, and they declare to the house of the king within.

¹²In kralj vstane po noči ter reče hlapcem svojim: Povem vam zdaj, kaj so nam naredili Sirci. Vedo, da trpimo lakoto, zato so šli ven iz tabora in se poskrili na polju, češ: kadar pridejo iz mesta, jih ujamemo žive in se spravimo v mesto!

¹²And the king riseth by night, and saith unto his servants, `Let me declare, I pray you, to you that which the Aramaeans have done to us; they have known that we are famished, and they are gone out from the camp to be hidden in the field, saying, When they come out from the city, then we catch them alive, and unto the city we enter.`

¹³Nato odgovori eden hlapcev njegovih in reče: Vzemimo petere ostale konje, ki so preostali v mestu (glej, godi se jim kakor vsej množici Izraelovi, ki je ostala v njem; glej, godi se jim kakor vsej množici Izraelovi, ki je poginila), te pošljimo in oglejmo!

¹³And one of his servants answereth and saith, `Then let them take, I pray thee, five of the horses that are left, that have been left in it — lo, they [are] as all the multitude of Israel who have been left in it; lo, they are as all the multitude of Israel who have been consumed — and we send and see.`

¹⁴Tedaj vzamejo dva, voza s konji, in kralj jih pošlje za sirsko vojsko, rekoč: Pojdite in oglejte!

¹⁴And they take two chariot-horses, and the king sendeth after the camp of Aram, saying, `Go, and see.`

¹⁵In šli so za njimi do Jordana, in glej, vsa pot je bila polna oblačil in orodja, ki so ga Sirci od sebe vrgli v naglici svoji. In poslanci se vrnejo in sporoče kralju.

¹⁵And they go after them unto the Jordan, and lo, all the way is full of garments and vessels that the Aramaeans have cast away in their haste, and the messengers turn back and declare to the king.

¹⁶Tedaj gre ljudstvo ven in opleni tabor Sircev. In bila je mera bele moke po seklu in dve meri ječmena po seklu, kakor je bil rekel GOSPOD.

¹⁶And the people go out and spoil the camp of Aram, and there is a measure of fine flour at a shekel, and two measures of barley at a shekel, according to the word of Jehovah.

¹⁷Kralj pa je postavil tistega vojvodo, na čigar roko se je naslanjal, da nadzoruje pri vratih; a ljudstvo ga je pogazilo med vrati, da je umrl, kakor je napovedal mož Božji v govoru svojem, ko je bil prišel k njemu kralj.

¹⁷And the king hath appointed the captain, by whose hand he is supported, over the gate, and the people tread him down in the gate, and he dieth, as the man of God spake, which he spake in the coming down of the king unto him,

¹⁸Kajti izpolnilo se je, kar je bil mož Božji povedal kralju, rekoč: Dve meri ječmena bosta po seklu in mera bele moke po seklu jutri ob tem času pri samarijskih vratih.

¹⁸yea, it cometh to pass, according to the speaking of the man of God unto the king, saying, `Two measures of barley at a shekel, and a measure of fine flour at a shekel are, at this time to-morrow, in the gate of Samaria;`

¹⁹In tisti vojvoda je odgovoril možu Božjemu in rekel: Pa glej, ko bi GOSPOD odprl zatvornice na nebu, bi li moglo to biti? On pa mu je rekel: Glej, videl boš s svojimi očmi, a ne boš jedel od tega!In tako se mu je zgodilo: kajti ljudstvo ga je pogazilo med vrati, in je umrl.

¹⁹and the captain answereth the man of God, and saith, `And lo, Jehovah is making windows in the heavens — it is according to this word?` and he saith, `Lo, thou art seeing with thine eyes, and thereof thou dost not eat;`

²⁰In tako se mu je zgodilo: kajti ljudstvo ga je pogazilo med vrati, in je umrl.

²⁰and it cometh to him so, and the people tread him down in the gate, and he dieth.