¹Gorje jim, ki sklepajo krivične postave, in pisateljem, ki spisujejo nadlogo,

¹Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;

²da izpodrinejo siromake iz pravde in da ugrabijo pravico ubožcem ljudstva mojega, da jim bodo vdove za plen ter da oropajo sirote!

²to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

³Kaj boste počeli ob dnevi obiskovanja in ob nevihti, ki pride iz daljave? h komu se zatečete za pomoč? in kam spravite bogastvo svoje?

³What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

⁴Nič drugega vam ne bo mogoče, nego sključiti se med ujetniki in pasti med ubitimi. Pri vsem tem se ne odvrne jeza Njegova, a še je iztegnjena Njegova roka.

⁴They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

⁵Gorje Asircu, ki je šiba jeze moje in palica v roki njegovi togota moja!

⁵Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

⁶Nad hinavski rod ga pošljem in zoper ljudstvo, s katerim se srdim, mu dam povelje, da naj pleni plen in da naj ropa rop in naj jih potepta kakor na ulicah blato.

⁶I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

⁷On seveda ne meni tako in srce njegovo ne misli tako; pogubiti mu je le namera in potrebiti narodov ne malo.

⁷However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.

⁸Kajti govori: Niso li vsi knezi moji tudi kralji?

⁸For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings?

⁹Ni li Kalno kakor Karkemiš? ni li Hamat kakor Arpad? ni li kakor Damask Samarija?

⁹Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?”

¹⁰Kakor je roka moja dosegla kraljestva malikov, katerih rezane podobe so bile lepše od jeruzalemskih in samarijskih –

¹⁰As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

¹¹ali ne bom, kakor sem storil Samariji in malikom njenim, enako storil Jeruzalemu in njegovim podobam?

¹¹shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

¹²Zato se zgodi, ko Gospod dovrši vse delo svoje na gori Sionski in v Jeruzalemu, da bom kaznoval sad prevzetnega srca kralja asirskega in bahanje ponosnih oči njegovih.

¹²Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his haughty looks.

¹³Kajti govoril je: Z roke svoje krepkostjo sem storil to in z modrostjo svojo, ker sem razumen; in premaknil sem ljudstvom meje in uplenil sem njih zaklade in pahnil kot mogočnjak s prestolov nje, ki so na njih sedeli;

¹³For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.

¹⁴in roka moja je dosegla kakor gnezdo bogastvo ljudstev, in kakor bi pobiral jajca zapuščena, sem obral vso deželo, in ni ga bilo, da bi bil ganil s perutjo ali odprl usta ali začivkal. –

¹⁴My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, have I gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”

¹⁵Se li more ponašati sekira proti njemu, ki seka ž njo? ali rezilo se poviševati proti njemu, ki ga rabi? kakor da bi šiba vihtela njega, ki jo dviga, kakor da bi privzdigovala palica človeka, ki ni od lesa!

¹⁵Should an axe brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

¹⁶Zato pošlje Gospod, Jehova nad vojskami, med debeluhe njegove sušico, in pod slavo njegovo se vname požar, podoben ognjenemu požaru.

¹⁶Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.

¹⁷In luč Izraelova bode za ogenj in Svetnik njegov za plamen, ki zapali in požge grmovje in trnje njegovo en dan.

¹⁷The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.

¹⁸In pokonča slavo gozda njegovega in rodovitnih njiv njegovih z dušo in z mesom, da bode, kakor ko hira jetičnik.

¹⁸He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.

¹⁹In majhen bode ostanek drevja v gozdu njegovem, da ga bo deček mogel zapisati.

¹⁹The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number.

²⁰In zgodi se tisti dan, da se ne bode ostanek Izraelov in kdor se ohrani hiši Jakobovi več opiral nanj, ki jih je tepel, marveč opiral se bo na GOSPODA, Svetnika Izraelovega, v resnici.

²⁰It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

²¹Ostanek se preobrne, ostanek Jakobov k mogočnemu Bogu.

²¹A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

²²Kajti ko bi bilo ljudstva tvojega, Izrael, kakor peska morskega, le ostanek se preobrne iz njega. Določeno je pokončanje, ki razliva obilno pravičnost.

²²For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

²³Zakaj pokončanje, in to določeno, dovrši Gospod, Jehova nad vojskami, sredi vse zemlje.

²³For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will make a full end, and that determined, in the midst of all the earth.

²⁴Zatorej pravi tako Gospod, Jehova nad vojskami: Ne boj se, ljudstvo moje, ki prebivaš na Sionu, Asirca! S šibo te bo tepel in palico svojo bo vzdignil zoper tebe, kakor se je v Egiptu godilo.

²⁴Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, says “My people who dwell in Zion, don’t be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Egypt did.

²⁵Kajti še malo, prav malo časa, potem bode konec srditosti in jeza moja se obrne nanje, da jih pokonča.

²⁵For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”

²⁶In GOSPOD nad vojskami zavihti zoper njega bič kakor v poboju Madiancev pri skali Orebski; in palica Njegova bode nad morjem in jo vzdigne, kakor jo je vzdignil nad Egiptom.

²⁶Yahweh of Armies will stir up a scourge against him, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up like he did against Egypt.

²⁷In zgodi se v tistem času, da se razprta breme njegovo z rame tvoje in jarem njegov z vratu tvojega, da, jarem razpade spričo maziljenja [Ali: tolščobe; dobesedno: olja.].

²⁷It will happen in that day, that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.

²⁸Pride v Ajat, pojde skozi Migron, pri Mikmasu odloži prtljago svojo;

²⁸He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage.

²⁹preidejo prelaz, veleč: v Gebi bo naše prenočišče! Rama trepeta, Gibea Savlova beži.

²⁹They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled.

³⁰Glasno vpij, hči galimska! Poslušaj, o Lajsa! O ubožica Anatot!

³⁰Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!

³¹Madmena beži, prebivalci gebimski so se zbrali, da pobegnejo.

³¹Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.

³²Še danes se ustavi v Nobu, že zavihti roko svojo proti gori hčere sionske, proti hribu jeruzalemskemu. –

³²This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

³³Glej, Gospod, Jehova nad vojskami, poseka veje z grozno močjo, in tisti, ki so visoke postave, bodo posekani, in prevzetni bodo ponižani;in posekal bo gozdno goščavo z železom svojim, in Libanon pade po Veličastnem.

³³Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.

³⁴in posekal bo gozdno goščavo z železom svojim, in Libanon pade po Veličastnem.

³⁴He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.