¹Ti pa, sin človečji, si vzemi opeko, jo položi predse in zariši na njej mesto, Jeruzalem.

¹You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem:

²In napravi oblego proti njemu in postavi obležne utrdbe zoper njega in zgradi obzidje okoli njega, in zasadi zidolome zoper njega kroginkrog.

²and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around.

³In vzemi zase železno ponev in jo postavi kot železen zid med seboj in mestom; in vpri obličje svoje vanj, da bodi obleženo in da ga ti oblegaš. To bodi znamenje hiši Izraelovi.

³Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

⁴Dalje lezi na svojo levo stran in deni nanjo krivico hiše Izraelove: kolikor dni boš ležal na njej, boš nosil njih krivico.

⁴Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; according to the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.

⁵Zakaj jaz sem ti premenil leta njih krivice v število dni: tristo in devetdeset dni; in tako boš nosil hiše Izraelove krivico.

⁵For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days: so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

⁶In potem, ko jih dopolniš, lezi na desno stran svojo in nosi krivico hiše Judove štirideset dni; dan sem ti določil za leto, dan, pravim, za leto.

⁶Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it to you.

⁷In vpri obličje z odkrito ramo svojo proti oblegi Jeruzalema in prorokuj zoper njega.

⁷You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.

⁸In glej, jaz denem vrvi nate, da se ne boš mogel obrniti s strani na stran, dokler nisi dopolnil dni obleganja svojega.

⁸Behold, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege.

⁹Tudi si vzemi pšenice in ječmena in boba in leče in prosa in pirjevice ter deni to v eno posodo in si pripravi iz te zmesi toliko hlebov, kolikor dni boš ležal na svoji strani: tristo in devetdeset dni boš jedel to.

⁹Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make bread of it; according to the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, you shall eat of it.

¹⁰In tvoja jed, ki jo boš užival, bodi odtehtana, po dvajset seklov na dan; od roka do roka jo boš jedel.

¹⁰Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time you shall eat it.

¹¹Tudi vodo boš pil na mero, šesti del hina; od roka do roka jo boš pil.

¹¹You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time you shall drink.

¹²In jedel jih boš kakor ječmenove kolače in pekel pred njih očmi s človeškim blatom.

¹²You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.

¹³In GOSPOD je rekel: Tako bodo morali sinovi Izraelovi jesti nečisti kruh svoj med poganskimi narodi, kamor jih razženem.

¹³Yahweh said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.

¹⁴Jaz pa sem rekel: Ah, Gospod Jehova! Glej, duša moja ni nikdar bila ognušena, kajti od mladosti svoje pa do zdaj nisem jedel mrline ali od zveri raztrganega in nikoli ni prišlo nečisto meso v usta moja.

¹⁴Then I said, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

¹⁵Tedaj mi reče: Glej, dovolim ti govejaka namesto človeškega blata, da na njem pripraviš kruh svoj.

¹⁵Then he said to me, Behold, I have given you cow’s dung for man’s dung, and you shall prepare your bread thereon.

¹⁶Še mi reče: Sin človečji, glej, jaz potarem podporo kruha v Jeruzalemu – jedli bodo kruh na tehto in v skrbi in vodo pili na mero in strmeč –zato da bi jim zmanjkalo kruha in vode in da bi strmo gledali drug ob drugem in ginili v krivici svoji.

¹⁶Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:

¹⁷zato da bi jim zmanjkalo kruha in vode in da bi strmo gledali drug ob drugem in ginili v krivici svoji.

¹⁷that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.