¹A štiriindvajseti dan tega meseca so se zbrali sinovi Izraelovi s postom in v žalni obleki in s prstjo na glavi.

¹And in the twenty and fourth day of this month have the sons of Israel been gathered, with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth upon them;

²In seme Izraelovo se je ločilo od vseh otrok tujcev, in ustopili so se in pripoznavali grehe svoje in očetov svojih kriva dejanja.

²and the seed of Israel are separated from all sons of a stranger, and stand and confess concerning their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers,

³In stali so na mesto svojem in so brali v knjigi postave GOSPODA, svojega Boga, četrti del dne. In drugi četrti del dne so pripoznavali in se poklanjali GOSPODU, svojemu Bogu.

³and rise up on their station, and read in the book of the law of Jehovah their God a fourth of the day, and a fourth they are confessing and bowing themselves to Jehovah their God.

⁴Nato stopijo na stopnice levitov Jesua, Bani, Kadmiel, Sebanija, Buni, Serebija, Bani in Kenani, in so vpili z velikim glasom h GOSPODU, svojemu Bogu.

⁴And there stand up on the ascent, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, Chenani, and they cry with a loud voice unto Jehovah their God.

⁵In leviti: Jesua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hasabneja, Serebija, Hodija, Sebanija in Petahija so dejali: Vstanite in hvalite GOSPODA, svojega Boga, od vekomaj do vekomaj! In hvaljeno bodi ime slave tvoje, ki je vzvišeno nad vsako hvalo in proslavo.

⁵And the Levites say, [even] Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, Pethahiah, `Rise, bless Jehovah your God, from the age unto the age, and they bless the name of Thine honour that [is] exalted above all blessing and praise.

⁶Ti si GOSPOD, ti edini! Ti si naredil nebo, nebesa nebes in vso njih vojsko, zemljo in vse, kar je na njej, morja in karkoli je v njih, in ti jim vsem vzdržuješ obstanek; in vojske nebeške te molijo.

⁶Thou [art] He, O Jehovah, Thyself — Thou hast made the heavens, the heavens of the heavens, and all their host, the earth and all that [are] on it, the seas and all that [are] in them, and Thou art keeping all of them alive, and the host of the heavens to Thee are bowing themselves.

⁷Ti si Jehova, Bog, ki si izvolil Abrama ter ga pripeljal iz Ura Kaldejcev, in dal si mu ima Abraham.

⁷`Thou [art] He, O Jehovah God, who didst fix on Abraham, and didst bring him out from Ur of the Chaldeans, and didst make his name Abraham,

⁸In našel si srce njegovo zvesto pred seboj ter sklenil ž njim zavezo, da mu daš deželo Kanaancev, Hetejcev, Amorejcev, Ferizejcev, Jebusejcev in Girgasejcev, da jo daš semenu njegovemu, in si vzdržal besede svoje, zakaj ti si pravičen.

⁸and didst find his heart stedfast before Thee, so as to make with him the covenant, to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give [it] to his seed. `And Thou dost establish Thy words, for Thou [art] righteous,

⁹Ti si videl nadlogo očetov naših v Egiptu in slišal njih vpitje ob Rdečem morju;

⁹and dost see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and their cry hast heard by the sea of Suph,

¹⁰in storil si znamenja in čudeže nad Faraonom in nad vsemi hlapci njegovimi in nad vsem ljudstvom dežele njegove, zakaj vedel si, da so prevzetno ravnali proti njim; in si sebi storil ime, kakor je današnji dan.

¹⁰and dost give signs and wonders on Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land, for Thou hast known that they have acted proudly against them, and Thou makest to Thee a name as [at] this day.

¹¹Razklal si morje pred njimi, da so šli sredi morja po suhem; njih preganjalce pa si vrgel v globočine, kakor kamen v silne vode.

¹¹And the sea Thou hast cleaved before them, and they pass over into the midst of the sea on the dry land, and their pursuers Thou hast cast into the depths, as a stone, into the strong waters.

¹²In vodil si jih v oblakovem stebru po dne in v ognjenem stebru po noči, da bi jim svetil na poti, ki so po njej šli.

¹²And by a pillar of cloud Thou hast led them by day, and by a pillar of fire by night, to lighten to them the way in which they go.

¹³In prišel si doli na goro Sinaj in govoril si ž njimi iz nebes ter jim dal pravične sodbe in zakone resnične ter dobre postave in zapovedi;

¹³`And on mount Sinai Thou hast come down, even to speak with them from the heavens, and Thou dost give to them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commands.

¹⁴in znano si jim storil sveto soboto svojo in jim zapovedal zapovedi in postave in zakon po Mojzesu, hlapcu svojem.

¹⁴And Thy holy sabbath Thou hast made known to them, and commands, and statutes, and law, Thou hast commanded for them, by the hand of Moses Thy servant;

¹⁵In kadar so bili lačni, si jim dajal kruha iz nebes in izpeljal si zanje vodo iz skale, ko so bili žejni, in si jim velel, naj gredo posest deželo, za katero si s povzdignjeno roko prisegel, da jim jo daš.

¹⁵and bread from the heavens Thou hast given to them for their hunger, and water from a rock hast brought out to them for their thirst, and dost say to them to go in to possess the land that Thou hast lifted up Thy hand to give to them.

¹⁶Ali oni, očetje naši, so ravnali prevzetno in postali so trdovratni in niso poslušali zapovedi tvojih

¹⁶`And they and our fathers have acted proudly, and harden their neck, and have not hearkened unto Thy commands,

¹⁷in so se branili poslušati in se niso spominjali čudovitih del tvojih, ki si jih storil med njimi, temuč v trdovratnosti svoji in v uporu svojem so si postavili glavarja, da bi se vrnili v sužnost svojo. Ali ti si Bog mnogega odpuščanja, milostiv in poln usmiljenja, počasen v jezi in obilen v milosti, ti jih nisi zapustil.

¹⁷yea, they refuse to hearken, and have not remembered Thy wonders that Thou hast done with them, and harden their neck and appoint a head, to turn back to their service, in their rebellion; and Thou [art] a God of pardons, gracious, and merciful, long-suffering, and abundant in kindness, and hast not forsaken them.

¹⁸Ko so si celo naredili ulito tele in rekli: To je tvoj Bog, ki te je izpeljal iz Egipta, in so počenjali grozno zasmehovanje Boga,

¹⁸`Also, when they have made to themselves a molten calf, and say, this [is] thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt, and do great despisings,

¹⁹ti jih vendar nisi zapustil v mnogoterem usmiljenju svojem v puščavi: oblakov steber se ni umaknil iznad njih po dne, da bi jih vodil po poti, ne ognjeni steber po noči, da bi jim svetil na pot, po kateri naj gredo.

¹⁹and Thou, in Thine abundant mercies, hast not forsaken them in the wilderness — the pillar of the cloud hath not turned aside from off them by day, to lead them in the way, and the pillar of the fire by night, to give light to them and the way in which they go.

²⁰Ti si tudi dal dobrega duha svojega, da jih poučuje, in njih ustom nisi odrekel mane svoje, in dajal si jim vode, ko so bili žejni.

²⁰`And Thy good Spirit Thou hast given, to cause them to act wisely; and Thy manna Thou hast not withheld from their mouth, and water Thou hast given to them for their thirst,

²¹Štirideset let si jih oskrboval v puščavi, da jim ničesar ni pomanjkovalo; njih obleka se ni razdrapala in njih noge niso otekle.

²¹and forty years Thou hast nourished them in a wilderness; they have not lacked; their garments have not worn out, and their feet have not swelled.

²²In dal si jim kraljestva in ljudstva in ta jim pridelil po posameznih pokrajinah; tako so posedli deželo Sihona, kralja hesbonskega, in deželo Oga, kralja v Basanu.

²²`And Thou givest to them kingdoms, and peoples, and dost apportion them to the corner, and they possess the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

²³In njih otroke si pomnožil kakor zvezde na nebu in si jih pripeljal v deželo, za katero si bil govoril njih očetom, da pridejo vanjo in jo posedejo;

²³And their sons Thou hast multiplied as the stars of the heavens, and bringest them in unto the land that Thou hast said to their fathers to go in to possess.

²⁴njih otroci so torej prišli vanjo in jo posedli, in ti si ponižal pred njimi prebivalce te dežele, Kanaance, in si jih dal njim v roke ž njih kralji in z ljudstvi vred v deželi, da so ž njimi storili po volji svoji.

²⁴`And the sons come in, and possess the land, and Thou humblest before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and givest them into their hand, and their kings, and the peoples of the land, to do with them according to their pleasure.

²⁵In zavzeli so utrjena mesta in mastno zemljo in dobili v last hiše, polne vsakršnega blaga, vodnjake izkopane, vinograde, oljkove vrte in sadnih dreves obilo: in jedli so in se nasitili in odebeleli, dobro živeč po veliki dobroti tvoji.

²⁵And they capture fenced cities, and fat ground, and possess houses full of all good, digged-wells, vineyards, and olive-yards, and fruit-trees in abundance, and they eat, and are satisfied, and become fat, and delight themselves in Thy great goodness.

²⁶Ali postali so nepokorni in se uprli zoper tebe in so vrgli zakon tvoj za hrbet svoj in pomorili proroke tvoje, ki so pričevali zoper nje, da bi jih zopet preobrnili k tebi, in so počenjali grozno zasmehovanje Boga.

²⁶`And they are disobedient, and rebel against Thee, and cast Thy law behind their back, and Thy prophets they have slain, who testified against them, to bring them back unto Thee, and they do great despisings,

²⁷Zato si jih dal v roke njih zatiralcem, ki so jih tlačili; ali ko so ob času nadloge vpili k tebi, ti si jih uslišal iz nebes in po svojem mnogoterem usmiljenju si jim dal rešitelje, ki so jih oteli iz roke njih zatiralcev.

²⁷and Thou givest them into the hand of their adversaries, and they distress them, and in the time of their distress they cry unto Thee, and Thou, from the heavens, dost hear, and, according to Thine abundant mercies, dost give to them saviours, and they save them out of the hand of their adversaries.

²⁸A komaj so imeli pokoj, so zopet delali hudo pred teboj. Zato si jih prepustil pesti njih sovražnikov, da so jim gospodovali; pa zopet so vpili k tebi, in slišal si jih iz nebes in mnogokrat si jih otel po mnogem usmiljenju svojem.

²⁸`And when they have rest, they turn back to do evil before Thee, and Thou dost leave them in the hand of their enemies, and they rule over them; and they turn back, and call Thee, and Thou from the heavens dost hear, and dost deliver them, according to Thy mercies, many times,

²⁹In pričeval si zoper nje, da bi jih izpreobrnil k postavi svoji, oni pa so se vedli prevzetno in niso poslušali zapovedi tvojih, ampak so grešili zoper pravice tvoje (katere kdor izpolnjuje, bo živel po njih) in pleča svoja umeknili izpod jarma tvojega; vdali so se trdovratnosti in niso hoteli poslušati.

²⁹and dost testify against them, to bring them back unto Thy law; and they — they have acted proudly, and have not hearkened to Thy commands, and against Thy judgments have sinned, — which man doth and hath lived in them — and they give a refractory shoulder, and their neck have hardened, and have not hearkened.

³⁰A veliko let si imel potrpljenje ž njimi in po duhu svojem si pričeval zoper nje, po svojih prorokih, a niso poslušali; zato si jih dal v roke ljudstvom dežel.

³⁰`And Thou drawest over them many years, and testifiest against them by Thy Spirit, by the hand of Thy prophets, and they have not given ear, and Thou dost give them into the hand of peoples of the lands,

³¹Vendar pa v mnogoterem usmiljenju svojem jih nisi docela pokončal, ne jih zapustil, zakaj ti, Bog mogočni, si milostiv in poln usmiljenja.

³¹and in Thine abundant mercies Thou hast not made them a consumption, nor hast forsaken them; for a God, gracious and merciful, [art] Thou.

³²In sedaj, o Bog naš, Bog mogočni, veliki, silni in grozni, ki hraniš zavezo in milost, naj se ti ne vidi majhna vsa tista težava, ki je zadela nas in kralje naše in kneze in duhovnike in proroke in očete naše in vse ljudstvo tvoje, od dni kraljev asirskih do tega dne.

³²`And now, O our God — God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful, keeping the covenant and the kindness — let not all the travail that hath found us be little before Thee, for our kings, for our heads, and for our priests, and for our prophets, and for our fathers, and for all Thy people, from the days of the kings of Asshur unto this day;

³³Ali ti si pravičen v vsem, kar je prišlo nad nas: zakaj ti si ravnal po resnici, mi pa smo delali krivično.

³³and Thou [art] righteous concerning all that hath come upon us, for truth Thou hast done, and we have done wickedly;

³⁴In naši kralji, knezi, duhovniki in očetje niso delali po postavi tvoji in niso pazili na zapovedi tvoje in pričevanja, s katerimi si pričeval zoper nje.

³⁴and our kings, our heads, our priests, and our fathers, have not done Thy law, nor attended unto Thy commands, and to Thy testimonies, that Thou hast testified against them;

³⁵Kajti niso ti služili v kraljestvu svojem in ob veliki dobroti tvoji, ki si jo jim podeljeval, in v tej postrani in mastni deželi, ki si jo jim bil izročil, in se niso preobrnili od hudih dejanj svojih.

³⁵and they, in their kingdom, and in Thine abundant goodness, that Thou hast given to them, and in the land, the large and the fat, that Thou hast set before them, have not served Thee, nor turned back from their evil doings.

³⁶Glej, hlapci smo danes, in dežela, ki si jo dal očetom našim, da uživajo njene sadove in dobrote – glej, v tej smo hlapci!

³⁶`Lo, we — to-day — [are] servants, and the land that Thou hast given to our fathers, to eat its fruit and its good — lo, we [are] servants on it,

³⁷In ona dohodke svoje množi kraljem, ki si jih nam postavil zavoljo grehov naših, in ti gospodujejo telesom našim in živini naši, kakor jim je drago, in v veliki smo nadlogi.A pri vsem tem narejamo in pišemo trdno zavezo, in vojvode naši, leviti in duhovniki naši, jo s pečati potrjujejo.

³⁷and its increase it is multiplying to the kings whom Thou hast set over us in our sins; and over our bodies they are ruling, and over our cattle, according to their pleasure, and we [are] in great distress.

³⁸A pri vsem tem narejamo in pišemo trdno zavezo, in vojvode naši, leviti in duhovniki naši, jo s pečati potrjujejo.

³⁸And for all this we are making a stedfast covenant, and are writing, and over him who is sealed [are] our heads, our Levites, our priests.`