¹Prorokovanje o morski puščavi. Kakor besné silni viharji na Jugu, tako pride poguba iz puščave, iz grozovite dežele.

¹The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.

²Prikazen trda se mi poroča: „Nezvestnik ravna nezvesto in pokončevalec pokončuje. Idi gori, Elam! oblezite ga, o Medi! Vsemu zdihovanju pred njim storim konec.“

²A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.

³Vsled tega so ledja moja polna bolečine, muke me popadajo kakor muke porodnice; krč me vije, da ne slišim, prestrašen sem, da ne vidim.

³Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I so am dismayed that I can’t see.

⁴Srce mi divje polje, groza me plaši; mrak, ki sem ga želel, mi je napravil trepetanje.

⁴My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.

⁵Pripravljajo mizo, postavljajo stražo, jedo, pijejo... „Vstanite, o knezi, mažite ščit!“ –

⁵They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!

⁶Kajti tako mi je velel Gospod: Pojdi, postavi pazuna; kar bo videl, naj naznani!

⁶For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.

⁷In videl je vozove, dvojne jahače, jezdece na oslih in jezdece na velblodih. In poslušal je napeto, z največjo pozornostjo,

⁷When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”

⁸in je zavpil kakor lev: Gospod, na stražnem stolpu vedno stojim po dnevi in pazeč postajam cele noči;

⁸He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

⁹in glej, v tem prihaja truma mož, dvojni jahači... In je izpregovoril, rekoč: „Padel je, padel Babilon, in vse izdolbene podobe bogov njegovih je treščil ob tla!“

⁹Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.

¹⁰O mlatev moja in žito gumna mojega! Kar sem slišal od GOSPODA nad vojskami, Boga Izraelovega, sem vam oznanil.

¹⁰You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.

¹¹Prorokovanje o Dumi. K meni kličejo iz Seira: Čuvaj, mine li skoraj noč? Čuvaj, mine li skoraj noč?

¹¹The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”

¹²Čuvaj pravi: Pride jutro, pa tudi noč. Če hočete vpraševati, vprašajte; vrnite se, pridite!

¹²The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.”

¹³Prokovanje o Arabiji. Po gozdih v Arabiji boste prenočevale, o potujoče čete Dedancev!

¹³The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of Dedanites.

¹⁴Prinesite žejnemu naproti vode! Prebivalci Temske pokrajine naj postrežejo s kruhom ubežniku!

¹⁴They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.

¹⁵Kajti beže zaradi mečev, pred potegnjenim mečem in pred napetim lokom in pred nadlogami vojne.

¹⁵For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.

¹⁶Zakaj tako mi je dejal Gospod: V enem letu, kakor so leta najemnikova, propade vsa slava kedarska.In preostalo število lokostrelcev junakov in sinov kedarskih bode neznatno; kajti Jehova, Bog Izraelov, je govoril to.

¹⁶For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,

¹⁷In preostalo število lokostrelcev junakov in sinov kedarskih bode neznatno; kajti Jehova, Bog Izraelov, je govoril to.

¹⁷and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”