¹Prorokovanje o Damasku. Glej, Damask neha biti mesto in bode kup razvalin.

¹The burden of Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.

²Mesta aroerska so prazna, prepuščena čredam, ki bodo ondi ležale, in nihče jih ne bo plašil.

²The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

³In konec bode trdnjavi v Efraimu in kraljestvu v Damasku, tudi ostanku Sirije: ž njimi bode kakor s slavo sinov Izraelovih, govori GOSPOD nad vojskami.

³The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says Yahweh of Armies.

⁴Zgodi se pa v tistem času, da se zmanjša slava Jakobova in shujša mesa njegovega tolšča.

⁴“It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.

⁵In bode, kakor če kdo ob žetvi prijema žitna stebla in z ramo svojo žanje klase; bode, pravim, kakor če kdo pobira klasje v dolini Refaimov.

⁵It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.

⁶Vendar pa ostanejo paberki v njem, kakor ko se otrese oljka in dvoje ali troje jagod obvisi v vršiču drevesa, četvero ali petero na vejah rodovitnega debla, govori GOSPOD, Bog Izraelov.

⁶Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree,” says Yahweh, the God of Israel.

⁷V tistem času se bo oziral človek v Stvarnika svojega in oči njegove bodo gledale na Svetnika Izraelovega.

⁷In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.

⁸In ne bo se oziral v oltarje, v delo rok svojih; tudi ne bo gledal tega, kar so storili prstje njegovi, ne Ašer, ne solnčnih stebrov.

⁸They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the incense altars.

⁹V tistem času bodo trdna mesta njegova podobna zapuščenim podrtinam v gozdu in na vrhu gorá, ki so jih zapustili Kanaanci pred sinovi Izraelovimi, in bode pustinja.

⁹In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.

¹⁰Ker si pozabil Boga zveličanja svojega in se nisi spominjal Skale moči svoje: zato si napravljaš prelepe nasade in jih obsajaš z inostranskimi trtami;

¹⁰For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

¹¹v dan, ko jih sadiš, jih precej ogradiš, in zjutraj skrbiš, da se razcvete seme tvoje – a žetev ti izgine v dan bridkosti in smrtne bolečine.

¹¹In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

¹²Gorje, upor ljudstev mnogobrojnih, ki šume kakor šume morja! in bučanje narodov, ki je kakor bučanje mogočnih vodá!

¹²Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!

¹³Narodi buče kakor velike vode bučeče! A On se zadere nad njimi, in pobegnejo kar najdalje, in podili se bodo kakor pleva na gorah pred vetrom in kakor se prah vrtinči v nevihti.Ob času večernem, glej, smrtni strah! in preden nastane jutro, jih ni več. To je delež njih, ki nas plenijo, in usoda njih, ki naše siloma jemljejo.

¹³The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

¹⁴Ob času večernem, glej, smrtni strah! in preden nastane jutro, jih ni več. To je delež njih, ki nas plenijo, in usoda njih, ki naše siloma jemljejo.

¹⁴At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.