¹Prišla je pa beseda GOSPODOVA Jeremiju v drugo, ko je bil še zaprt v veži straže, rekoč:

¹Moreover the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying,

²Tako pravi GOSPOD, ki to napravlja, GOSPOD, ki snuje in uresniči to, GOSPOD mu je ime:

²Thus says Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish it; Yahweh is his name:

³Kliči me, in odgovorim ti in pokažem ti velike reči in nedosežne, katerih ne poznaš.

³Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don’t know.

⁴Kajti tako pravi GOSPOD, Bog Izraelov, o hišah tega mesta in o hišah kraljev Judovih, ki jih podirajo v obrambo zoper nasipe in meč:

⁴For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down to make a defense against the mounds and against the sword;

⁵Gredo se sem bojevat zoper Kaldejce le zato, da napolnijo tiste hiše s trupli ljudi, ki sem jih udaril v svoji jezi in v srdu svojem in zavoljo katerih vse krivice sem skril obličje svoje temu mestu.

⁵while men come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hidden my face from this city:

⁶Glej, jaz ga pripravim v pravi stan in zdravje, ter jih ozdravim in jim razodenem obilost miru in resnice.

⁶Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

⁷In nazaj pripeljem ujetnike Judove in ujetnike Izraelove, in sezidam jih kakor poprej.

⁷I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.

⁸In očistim jih vse njih krivice, s katero so grešili zoper mene, in jim odpustim vse krivice, s katerimi so grešili zoper mene in s katerimi so se mi izneverili.

⁸I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, by which they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, by which they have sinned against me, and by which they have transgressed against me.

⁹In to mesto mi bode v ime, v veselje in hvalo in diko pri vseh narodih zemeljskih, ki bodo slišali vse to dobro, katero jim storim; in bali se bodo in tresli ob vsem tem dobrem in ob vsem tem miru, ki jim ga dodelim.

⁹This city shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do to them, and shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure to it.

¹⁰Tako pravi GOSPOD: Še se bo slišal v tem kraju, ki o njem pravite: „Opustošen je, da ni ne človeka, ne živali“, v mestih Judovih in po ulicah jeruzalemskih, opustošenih tako, da ni v njih človeka, ne prebivalca, ne živine,

¹⁰Thus says Yahweh: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, about which you say, It is waste, without man and without animal, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without animal,

¹¹slišal se bo glas veselja in radosti glas, glas ženina in neveste glas, glas govorečih: Hvalite GOSPODA nad vojskami, ker dober je GOSPOD, ker vekomaj traja milost njegova, glas njih, ki prinašajo žrtve v zahvalo v hišo GOSPODOVO. Zakaj nazaj pripeljem ujetnike te dežele, da bode kakor poprej, pravi GOSPOD.

¹¹the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever; who bring thanksgiving into the house of Yahweh. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first, says Yahweh.

¹²Tako pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami: Zopet bode v tem kraju, ki je opustošen, da ni v njem človeka ali živine, in v vseh mestih njegovih domovanje pastirjem, ki vodijo črede na počitek.

¹²Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Yet again shall there be in this place, which is waste, without man and without animal, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

¹³V mestih na gorah, v mestih v nižavi in v mestih na Jugu in v deželi Benjaminovi in v krajih okoli Jeruzalema in v mestih Judovih bodo zopet prehajale črede pod roko njega, ki jih šteje, pravi GOSPOD.

¹³In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks again pass under the hands of him who numbers them, says Yahweh.

¹⁴Glej, dnevi pridejo, govori GOSPOD, ko izpolnim tisto dobro besedo, ki sem jo obljubil za hišo Izraelovo in za hišo Judovo.

¹⁴Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will perform that good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah.

¹⁵V tistih dneh in v tistem času storim, da požene Davidu Odraslek pravičnosti, in izvrševal bo sodbo in pravičnost v deželi.

¹⁵In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.

¹⁶V tistih dneh bo rešen Juda, in Jeruzalem bo prebival na varnem, in to je ime, s katerim ga bodo imenovali: GOSPOD, pravičnost naša.

¹⁶In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is the name by which she shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.

¹⁷Zakaj tako pravi GOSPOD: Ne bo Davidu zmanjkalo moža, ki bo sedel na prestolu hiše Izraelove;

¹⁷For thus says Yahweh: David shall never want a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel;

¹⁸tudi duhovnikom, levitom, ne zmanjka moža izpred mojega obličja, ki bo daroval žgalno daritev in zažigal jedilni dar ter opravljal klalno daritev vse dni. –

¹⁸neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to burn meal offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.

¹⁹In beseda GOSPODOVA je prišla Jeremiju, govoreč:

¹⁹The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,

²⁰Tako pravi GOSPOD: Ako razveljavite zavezo mojo z dnevom in zavezo mojo z nočjo, da ne bode dneva in noči ob svojem času,

²⁰Thus says Yahweh: If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;

²¹bo tudi zaveza moja z Davidom, hlapcem mojim, razveljavljena, da ne bo imel sina, kraljujočega na prestolu njegovem, in z duhovniki, leviti, strežniki mojimi.

²¹then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.

²²Kakor se ne more šteti vojska nebeška in se ne more meriti pesek morski, tako pomnožim seme Davida, hlapca svojega, in levite, ki mi strežejo. –

²²As the army of the sky can’t be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites who minister to me.

²³Zopet je prišla beseda GOSPODOVA Jeremiju, govoreč:

²³The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,

²⁴Nisi li opazil, kaj govori to ljudstvo, ki pravi: „Tisti dve družini, ki ju je bil izvolil GOSPOD, je že zavrgel“? in tako zaničujejo ljudstvo moje, da ne velja več za narod v njih očeh.

²⁴Don’t consider what this people has spoken, saying, The two families which Yahweh chose, he has cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

²⁵Tako pravi GOSPOD: Ako ne velja zaveza moja z dnevom in z nočjo, ako nisem ustanovil postav nebesom in zemlji:zavržem tudi seme Jakoba in Davida, hlapca svojega, da jih ne vzamem več od semena njegovega, kateri naj gospodujejo semenu Abrahamovemu, Izakovemu in Jakobovemu. Zakaj jaz pripeljem nazaj njih ujetnike ter se jih usmilim.

²⁵Thus says Yahweh: If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

²⁶zavržem tudi seme Jakoba in Davida, hlapca svojega, da jih ne vzamem več od semena njegovega, kateri naj gospodujejo semenu Abrahamovemu, Izakovemu in Jakobovemu. Zakaj jaz pripeljem nazaj njih ujetnike ter se jih usmilim.

²⁶then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.