¹Prorokovanje [Ali: breme.] o Babilonu, ki ga je v prikazni prejel Izaija, sin Amozov.

¹The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw:

²Na goli gori vzdignite zastavo, zaženite glas k njim, vihtite roko, da stopijo skozi vrata prvakov.

²Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

³Jaz sem ukazal posvečencem svojim, tudi sem poklical na jezo svojo junake svoje, ki se radujejo v moji veličasti.

³I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.

⁴Množice glas se čuje na gorah kakor obilega ljudstva, hrup kraljestev narodov, ki so se zbrali! GOSPOD nad vojskami pregleduje vojno krdelo.

⁴The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army for the battle.

⁵Prihajajo iz daljne dežele, od kraja nebes – GOSPOD in srda njegovega orodje – pogubit vso deželo Babilonsko.

⁵They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

⁶Tulite, ker blizu je dan GOSPODOV, prihaja kot razdejanje od Vsegamogočnega.

⁶Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

⁷Zatorej bodo omahovale vse roke in tajalo se bo vsako srce človeško;

⁷Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt.

⁸in izbegani bodo, krč in bolečine jih zgrabijo, kakor porodnica bodo imeli bolečine; vsak bo strmel ob bližnjem svojem, zaripljeno obličje bode njih obličje.

⁸They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.

⁹Glej, dan GOSPODOV prihaja, grozoviten, poln srda in goreče jeze, da izpremeni v puščavo to deželo, da iztrebi njene grešnike iz nje.

⁹Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.

¹⁰Kajti zvezde nebes in njih ozvezdja ne bodo dajala luči svoje; mračno bode solnce ob vzhodu svojem, in mesec ne bo svetil z lučjo svojo.

¹⁰For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

¹¹In izpokorim naseljeno zemljo za njih hudobnost in brezbožnike za njih krivico, in konec storim napuhu prevzetnih ter silovitnikov ponos ponižam.

¹¹I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the haughtiness of the terrible.

¹²Storim, da bode mož dražji mimo prečistega zlata in človek mimo zlata ofirskega.

¹²I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.

¹³Zato hočem potresti nebesa, in zemlja se gane s svojega mesta v togoti GOSPODA nad vojskami in v dan goreče jeze njegove.

¹³Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in the wrath of Yahweh of Armies, and in the day of his fierce anger.

¹⁴In godilo se jim bo kakor srni splašeni in kakor čredi, ko je nihče ne zbira: obrnejo se vsak k svojemu ljudstvu in zbeže vsakteri v svojo deželo.

¹⁴It will happen that like a hunted gazelle, and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.

¹⁵Vsak, kogar najdejo, bo preboden, in vsak, kogar zasačijo, pade od meča.

¹⁵Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

¹⁶In njih otročiče bodo razbijali pred njih očmi, njih hiše bodo plenili in njih žene oskrunjali.

¹⁶Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.

¹⁷Glej, obudim zoper nje Medce, ki ne bodo čislali srebra in ne radovali se samega zlata.

¹⁷Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.

¹⁸In njih loki bodo prestreljevali mladeniče, in smilil se jim ne bo sad telesa, otrokom ne bo prizanašalo njih oko.

¹⁸Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.

¹⁹In Babilon, dika kraljestev, s katerim so se ponašali prevzetni Kaldejci, bode podoben Sodomi in Gomori, ki ju je Bog razdejal.

¹⁹Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

²⁰Ne bo se vekomaj v njem prebivalo, nihče se v njem ne nastani od roda do roda, tudi Arabec ne postavi tam šatora, niti pastirjem ne bodo tam počivale črede.

²⁰It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.

²¹Ampak ležale bodo tam zverine puščave, in njih hiše bodo polne sov, in bivali bodo tam noji ter pošasti bodo tam skakale.In volkovi bodo tulili po njih opustošenih palačah in šakali po njih zabavnih gradovih. Skoraj pa pride čas njegov, in dnevi njegovi se ne podaljšajo.

²¹But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there.

²²In volkovi bodo tulili po njih opustošenih palačah in šakali po njih zabavnih gradovih. Skoraj pa pride čas njegov, in dnevi njegovi se ne podaljšajo.

²²Wolves will cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.