¹Tako pravi Gospod: Pojdi kupit lončen vrč od lončarja ter vzemi s seboj starejšin ljudstva in starejšin duhovnikov;

¹Thus said Yahweh, Go, and buy a potter’s earthen bottle, and take some of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

²in pojdi ven iz mesta v dolino sinú Hinomovega, ki je pred vhodom Čepinjskih vrat, ter oznanjaj tam besede, ki ti jih bom rekel,

²and go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell you;

³in reci: Poslušajte besedo GOSPODOVO, kralji Judovi in prebivalci jeruzalemski! Tako pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami, Bog Izraelov: Glej, jaz pripeljem nesrečo nad ta kraj; kdorkoli jo bo slišal, mu bo zvenelo po ušesih.

³and say, Hear the word of Yahweh, kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears shall tingle.

⁴Zato ker so me zapustili in so tuj storili ta kraj, ker so na njem kadili tujim bogovom, ki jih niso poznali ne oni, ne njih očetje in kralji Judovi, in so napolnili ta kraj s krvjo nedolžnih;

⁴Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, that they didn’t know, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

⁵in so sezidali višave Baalu, da bi z ognjem žgali otroke svoje v žgalne daritve Baalu, česar nisem bil zapovedal in ne govoril in kar mi ni prišlo na misel:

⁵and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal; which I didn’t command, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind:

⁶zato, glej, pridejo dnevi, govori GOSPOD, ko se ta kraj ne bo več imenoval Tofet ali dolina sinú Hinomovega, ampak Dolina moritve.

⁶therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter.

⁷In prazen naredim sklep Judov in Jeruzalemov na tem kraju in storim, da se zgrudijo od meča pred sovražniki svojimi in pod pestjo njih, ki jim strežejo po življenju; in njih trupla dam za jed pticam nebeškim in zverem zemeljskim.

⁷I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.

⁸In to mesto postavim za stvar strmenju in zasmehovanju; kdorkoli pojde mimo njega, bo strmel in žvižgal zavoljo vseh šib njegovih.

⁸I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

⁹In storim, da bodo jedli meso sinov svojih in hčer svojih meso, in vsak bo jedel prijatelja svojega meso, v obleganju in stiski, s katero jih bodo stiskali njih sovražniki in oni, ki jim strežejo po življenju.

⁹I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, shall distress them.

¹⁰Nato stareš tisti vrč pred očmi mož, ki pojdejo s teboj,

¹⁰Then you shall break the bottle in the sight of the men who go with you,

¹¹in jim porečeš: Tako pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami: Tako starem to ljudstvo in to mesto, kakor kdor stare lončarjevo posodo, ki se ne more več popraviti. In v Tofetu se bodo pokopavali, ker ne bode nobenega drugega kraja za pokopavanje.

¹¹and shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury.

¹²Tako storim temu kraju in njegovim prebivalcem, govori GOSPOD, in to mesto naredim podobno Tofetu.

¹²Thus will I do to this place, says Yahweh, and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth:

¹³In hiše jeruzalemske in hiše kraljev Judovih bodo kakor kraj Tofetov vse nesnažne: vse tiste hiše, na katerih strehah so kadili vsej vojski nebes in pitne daritve darovali tujim bogovom.

¹³and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.

¹⁴Nato se vrne Jeremija iz Tofeta, kamor ga je bil poslal GOSPOD prorokovat, in stopi v vežo hišo GOSPODOVE ter reče vsemu ljudstvu:Tako pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami, Bog Izraelov: Glej, jaz pripeljem zoper to mesto in zoper vsa mesta njegova vso tisto nesrečo, ki sem jo izgovoril zoper njega, ker so postali trdovratni, da niso poslušali mojih besed.

¹⁴Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of Yahweh’s house, and said to all the people:

¹⁵Tako pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami, Bog Izraelov: Glej, jaz pripeljem zoper to mesto in zoper vsa mesta njegova vso tisto nesrečo, ki sem jo izgovoril zoper njega, ker so postali trdovratni, da niso poslušali mojih besed.

¹⁵Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it; because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.