¹Gorje Arielu [T. j. Božji lev, ali: ognjišče Božje.], Arielu, mestu, v katerem si je David napravil stanišče! Pridenite leto k letu, vrsté naj se zaporedoma prazniki –

¹Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;

²vendar pripravim v stisko Ariela in bo v njem žalovanje in javkanje. In bode mi pravi Ariel.

²then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth or, Ariel .

³In napravim ostrog okoliinokoli zoper tebe in te tesno obkrožim z vojnimi stražami in naredim nasipe proti tebi.

³I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you.

⁴Tedaj boš ponižan govoril na tleh in iz prahu bo zamolklo šumel govor tvoj, in glas tvoj bode kakor kakega duha iz zemlje, iz prahu bo šepetal govor tvoj.

⁴You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.

⁵In kakor droben prah bode sovražnikov tvojih množica in kakor pleva mimo leteča silnikov množica, in zgodi se naglo, v trenotku.

⁵But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.

⁶Od GOSPODA nad vojskami pride obiskovanje z gromom in potresom in ropotom močnim, z vrtincem in nevihto in s plamenom požrešnega ognja.

⁶She will be visited by Yahweh of Armies with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire.

⁷In kakor sanje, prikazen ponočna, bode množica vseh tistih narodov, ki se vojskujejo zoper Ariela, in izginejo vsi, ki se bojujejo zoper njega in grad njegov ter ga stiskajo.

⁷The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night.

⁸Bode, pravim, kakor ko se lačnemu sanja, in glej, jé, ko se pa prebudi, je prazna duša njegova; ali kakor ko se sanja žejnemu, in glej, pije, ko se pa zbudi, glej, truden je in duša njegova čuti poželenje: tako bode množica vseh tistih narodov, ki se vojskujejo zoper goro Sionsko.

⁸It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn’t satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that.

⁹Osupnite in strmíte, zaslepite se in oslepite! Pijani so, ali ne od vina, opotekajo se, a ne od pijače opojne.

⁹Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

¹⁰Kajti oblil vas je GOSPOD z duhom trdnega spanja in je zatisnil oči vaše, proroke, in pokril glave vaše, vidce.

¹⁰For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.

¹¹Zato vam je vsaka prikazen podobna besedam zapečatenega pisma, katero dado branju veščemu človeku, rekoč: Beri, prosim, to! On pa reče: Ne morem, ker je zapečateno.

¹¹All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, “Read this, please”; and he says, “I can’t, for it is sealed:”

¹²In dado pismo neveščemu branju, veleč: Beri, prosim, to! pa reče: Brati ne znam.

¹²and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, “Read this, please”; and he says, “I can’t read.”

¹³In Gospod je rekel: Zato ker se mi bliža to ljudstvo in me časti z usti in z ustnami, srce pa obrača daleč od mene, in ker je njih strah do mene le zapoved človeška, kakor so se je naučili:

¹³The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

¹⁴glej, zato bom še dalje čudno ravnal s tem ljudstvom, čudno in čudovito; in modrost modrijanov njegovih mine in razumnost razumnikov njegovih se skrije.

¹⁴therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”

¹⁵Gorje jim, ki se zagrebajo globoko, da skrijejo svoje naklepe pred GOSPODOM, in katerih dela se vrše v temi in govore: Kdo nas vidi? in kdo nas pozna?

¹⁵Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”

¹⁶O vi popačenci! Lončar naj se šteje ilovici za enakega? da bi reklo delo za mojstra svojega: Ni me naredil! in tvorina za svojega tvorilca: Nima razuma!

¹⁶You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me”; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

¹⁷Ni li še malo časa, le prav malo, in izpremeni se Libanon v rodovitno njivo, in rodovitna njiva se bo štela za gozd?

¹⁷Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?

¹⁸In tisti dan bodo glušci slišali besede pisma, in iz mraka in teme bodo videle slepcev oči.

¹⁸In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

¹⁹In krotki bodo pomnožili veselje svoje v GOSPODU, in ubožni med ljudmi se bodo radovali v Svetniku Izraelovem.

¹⁹The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

²⁰Kajti konec bode silovitniku in zasmehovalec izgine, in iztrebljeni bodo vsi, ki se potegujejo za krivico,

²⁰For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—

²¹ki obsojajo človeka zaradi besede in stavijo zanko njemu, ki med vrati pravdo prisoja, in ki brez vzroka izpodrivajo pravičnega.

²¹who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

²²Zato pravi tako GOSPOD, ki je odrešil Abrahama, za hišo Jakobovo: Odslej ne bo več osramočen Jakob in obličje njegovo odslej ne obledi;

²²Therefore thus says Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: “Jacob shall no longer be ashamed, neither shall his face grow pale.

²³temuč ko bo videl, namreč otroci njegovi, rok mojih delo sredi sebe, bodo posvečevali ime moje, da, posvečevali bodo Svetnika Jakobovega in se bali Boga Izraelovega.In kateri so se v duhu motili, zadobe razsodnost, in godrnjači bodo dovzetni za nauk.

²³But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

²⁴In kateri so se v duhu motili, zadobe razsodnost, in godrnjači bodo dovzetni za nauk.

²⁴They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction.”