¹In prišla mi je beseda GOSPODOVA, govoreč:

¹The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

²Sin človečji, govori ljudstva svojega sinovom ter jim reci: Če pošljem meč nad deželo, ljudstvo dežele pa vzame koga izmed sebe in ga sebi postavi za čuvaja;

²Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;

³in če ta, videč meč prihajati nad deželo, zatrobenta in posvari ljudstvo:

³if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;

⁴kdorkoli bi slišal trobente glas, a se ne bi dal posvariti, njega pobere prišli meč, in njegova kri bodi na glavi njegovi.

⁴then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn’t take warning, if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be on his own head.

⁵Glas trobente je slišal, pa se ni dal posvariti: njega kri bodi nad njim samim; kajti ko bi bil sprejel posvarilo bi si otel dušo.

⁵He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn’t take warning; his blood shall be on him; whereas if he had taken warning, he would have delivered his soul.

⁶Ako pa čuvaj vidi meč prihajati, a ne zatrobenta in ljudstvo ne bo posvarjeno, meč pa pride ter pobere koga izmed njih: ta bo vzet v krivici svoji, ali kri njegovo bom zahteval iz roke čuvajeve.

⁶But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.

⁷Tebe torej, sin človečji, sem postavil hiši Izraelovi za čuvaja, da bi jih, čujoč besedo iz mojih ust, svaril v mojem imenu.

⁷So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

⁸Ako rečem brezbožnemu: Brezbožnik, moraš umreti! ti pa ne govoriš, da bi posvaril in odvrnil brezbožnega s poti njegove: tedaj umrje on, brezbožnik, zaradi krivice svoje, ali kri njegovo bom zahteval iz tvoje roke.

⁸When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand.

⁹Ako pa posvariš brezbožnega zavoljo poti njegove, da naj se obrne od nje, pa se ne obrne od poti svoje, on umrje zavoljo krivice svoje, ti pa si otel dušo svojo.

⁹Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn’t turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.

¹⁰Ti torej, sin človečji, govóri družini Izraelovi: Tako govorite in pravite: Prestopki naši in grehi naši leže na nas, in mi ginemo v njih; kako bi neki mogli živeti?

¹⁰You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: Thus you speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them; how then can we live?

¹¹Reci jim: Kakor res živim, govori Gospod Jehova, nikakor mi ni po volji smrt brezbožnikova, temuč da se brezbožnik obrne od svojega pota in živi. Obrnite se, obrnite se od hudobnih potov svojih! ker čemu bi hoteli mreti, o družina Izraelova?

¹¹Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Israel?

¹²Ti pa, sin človečji, govori ljudstva svojega sinovom: Pravičnost pravičnega ga ne reši v dan, ko se pregreši; in vsled krivičnosti svoje ne pade brezbožnik v dan, ko se izpreobrne od krivičnosti; pravični pa ne bo mogel živeti po pravičnosti svoji v dan, ko bo grešil.

¹²You, son of man, tell the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his disobedience; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall he who is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sins.

¹³Ko rečem pravičnemu, da bo gotovo živel, pa se zanaša na pravičnost svojo in počenja krivičnost: tedaj se ne bo spominjalo nobeno iz pravičnih del njegovih, temuč zaradi krivičnosti svoje, ki jo je storil, mora umreti.

¹³When I tell the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he has committed, therein shall he die.

¹⁴Ako pa rečem brezbožnemu: Moraš umreti! in se izpreobrne od greha svojega in streže pravici in pravičnosti,

¹⁴Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;

¹⁵tako da povrne zastavo, kar je po sili vzel, prinese nazaj, ravna po postavah življenja, ne delajoč nič krivičnega; gotovo bo živel, ne umrje;

¹⁵if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

¹⁶nobeden iz grehov njegovih, ki jih je zagrešil, se mu ne bo spominjal; pravici in pravičnosti je stregel: gotovo bo živel.

¹⁶None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.

¹⁷Toda ljudstva tvojega sinovi pravijo: Ni ravna pot Gospodova! ko vendar njih pot ni ravna.

¹⁷Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.

¹⁸Ko se odvrne pravični od pravičnosti svoje in počenja krivičnost, umrje zategadelj.

¹⁸When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.

¹⁹In ko se odvrne brezbožni od krivičnosti svoje in streže pravici in pravičnosti, bo živel zaradi tega.

¹⁹When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

²⁰A vi vendar pravite: Ni ravna pot Gospodova. Vsakega izmed vas bom sodil po potih njegovih, o družina Izraelova!

²⁰Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.

²¹In zgodilo se je v dvanajstem letu našega ujetništva, peti dan desetega meseca, da pride k meni ubežnik iz Jeruzalema in reče: Mesto je premagano!

²¹It happened in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city has been struck.

²²GOSPODOVA roka pa je prišla nadme zvečer, preden je ubežnik prišel; in odprl mi je usta, dokler ni prišel oni k meni zjutraj, in tako so bila usta moja odprta in nisem več molčal.

²²Now the hand of Yahweh had been on me in the evening, before he who was escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more mute.

²³In pride mi beseda GOSPODOVA, govoreč:

²³The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

²⁴Sin človečji, prebivalci tistih razvalin po zemlji Izraelovi govore in pravijo: Abraham je bil edinec in je dobil to deželo v posest; nas je pa veliko, nam je dežela dana v posest.

²⁴Son of man, they who inhabit those waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.

²⁵Zatorej jim reci: Tako pravi Gospod Jehova: Jeste meso s krvjo in obračate oči h grdim malikom svojim ter prelivate kri, in vi naj bi posedli deželo?

²⁵Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?

²⁶Zanašate se na svoj meč, gnusobe počenjate in oskrunjate ženo drug drugemu, in vi naj bi posedli deželo?

²⁶You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbor’s wife: and shall you possess the land?

²⁷Tole jim povej: Tako pravi Gospod Jehova: Kakor res živim, kateri bivajo v razvalinah, padejo pod mečem; in kdor je na polju, tega dam divjim zverinam v žrtje, in kateri so v trdnjavah in votlinah, pomrjejo za kugo.

²⁷You shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: As I live, surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword; and him who is in the open field will I give to the animals to be devoured; and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.

²⁸In storim deželo v puščavo in pustinjo, da preneha napuh moči njene; in opustošene bodo gore Izraelove, da nihče ne bo hodil po njih.

²⁸I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment; and the pride of her power shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, so that none shall pass through.

²⁹Tedaj spoznajo, da sem jaz GOSPOD, ko storim deželo v puščavo in pustinjo zaradi vseh njih gnusob, ki so jih počenjali.

²⁹Then shall they know that I am Yahweh, when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their abominations which they have committed.

³⁰Kar se pa tiče tebe, sin človečji, ljudstva tvojega sinovi se pogovarjajo o tebi ob zidovih in med hišnimi vrati in drug pravi drugemu, brat bratu: Pojdiva vendar in poslušajva, kakšna je beseda, ki prihaja od GOSPODA.

³⁰As for you, son of man, the children of your people talk of you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, everyone to his brother, saying, Please come and hear what is the word that comes forth from Yahweh.

³¹In hodijo k tebi, kakor ko se ljudstvo shaja, in sedé pred teboj kakor ljudstvo moje in poslušajo besede tvoje, pa ne delajo po njih; kajti ljubeznivo govore s svojimi usti, njih srce se pa žene za njih dobičkom.

³¹They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

³²In glej, ti si jim kakor pesem o ljubezni, kakor če kdo zna lepo peti in sladko gosti: poslušajo besede tvoje, a ne delajo po njih.In kadar pride to (glej, že prihaja!), tedaj spoznajo, da je bil prorok med njimi.

³²Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don’t do them.

³³In kadar pride to (glej, že prihaja!), tedaj spoznajo, da je bil prorok med njimi.

³³When this comes to pass, (behold, it comes), then shall they know that a prophet has been among them.