¹In Zedekija, Josijev sin, ki ga je Nebukadnezar, kralj babilonski, postavil za kralja v deželi Judovi, je vladal kot kralj namesto Konija, sinu Jojakimovega.

¹Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.

²Ali ni poslušal ne on, ne hlapci njegovi, ne ljudstvo v deželi besed GOSPODOVIH, ki jih je govoril po Jeremiju proroku.

²But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, listened to the words of Yahweh, which he spoke by the prophet Jeremiah.

³Poslal je bil pač kralj Zedekija Jehukala, sina Selemijevega, in Zefanija, Maasejevega sina, duhovnika, k Jeremiju proroku, da naj rečeta: Prosi vendar za nas GOSPODA, Boga našega!

³Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now to Yahweh our God for us.

⁴Takrat je Jeremija prosto bival sredi ljudstva, ker ga še niso bili deli v ječo.

⁴Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people; for they had not put him into prison.

⁵In vojska Faraonova je šla iz Egipta; in Kaldejci, ki so oblegali Jeruzalem, so slišali glas o njih ter odšli od Jeruzalema.

⁵Pharaoh’s army had come forth out of Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, they broke up from Jerusalem.

⁶In prišla je beseda GOSPODOVA Jeremiju proroku, naj govori:

⁶Then came the word of Yahweh to the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

⁷Tako pravi GOSPOD, Bog Izraelov: Tako recite kralju Judovemu, ki vas je poslal vprašat me za svet: Glej, vojska Faraonova, ki je vam hotela priti na pomoč, se vrne v deželo svojo, v Egipt.

⁷Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, You shall tell the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me: Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.

⁸In Kaldejci se vrnejo in bodo oblegali to mesto, in ga bodo vzeli ter sežgali z ognjem.

⁸The Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.

⁹Tako pravi GOSPOD: Ne slepite sami sebe, govoreč: Gotovo pojdejo od nas ti Kaldejci! kajti ne pojdejo.

⁹Thus says Yahweh, Don’t deceive yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us; for they shall not depart.

¹⁰Da, ko bi pobili vsa krdela Kaldejcev, ki se bojujejo zoper vas, in bi ostalo od njih le nekoliko mož prebodenih, vstanejo vsak v svojem šatoru in požgo to mesto z ognjem.

¹⁰For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yes would they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.

¹¹In zgodi se, ko se je odpeljavala vojska Kaldejcev od Jeruzalema zavoljo vojske Faraonove,

¹¹It happened that, when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army,

¹²da je šel Jeremija ven iz Jeruzalema, da bi popotoval med ljudstvo v deželo Benjaminovo, da prejme svoj delež odondod.

¹²then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to receive his portion there, in the midst of the people.

¹³In ko je bil med vrati Benjaminovimi, kjer je stal poveljnik straže, po imenu Jerija, sin Selemija, sinu Hananija, zgrabi on Jeremija proroka, rekoč: H Kaldejcem hočeš uskočiti!

¹³When he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are falling away to the Chaldeans.

¹⁴Jeremija pa reče: Ni res, nočem uskočiti h Kaldejcem! Vendar ga ni poslušal Jerija, ampak zgrabi Jeremija proroka in ga odpelje h knezom.

¹⁴Then Jeremiah said, It is false; I am not falling away to the Chaldeans. But he didn’t listen to him; so Irijah laid hold on Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.

¹⁵Tedaj so se raztogotili knezi zoper Jeremija in so ga pretepli in vrgli v ječo v hiši Jonatana pisarja; kajti to so bili pripravili za ječo.

¹⁵The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.

¹⁶In ko je prišel Jeremija v tisto luknjo in v izbice njene, kjer je ostal mnogo dni,

¹⁶When Jeremiah had come into the dungeon house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

¹⁷tedaj pošlje kralj Zedekija in ga pokliče, in vpraša ga kralj v svoji hiši na skrivnem, rekoč: Je li neka beseda od GOSPODA? In Jeremija reče: Je, namreč: V roko kralja babilonskega boš izdan.

¹⁷Then Zedekiah the king sent, and fetched him: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from Yahweh? Jeremiah said, There is. He said also, You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.

¹⁸Potem reče Jeremija kralju Zedekiju: Kaj sem grešil tebi ali hlapcem tvojim ali temu ljudstvu, da ste me deli v ječo?

¹⁸Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, Wherein have I sinned against you, or against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?

¹⁹Kje neki so proroki vaši, ki so vam prorokovali in govorili: Ne pride kralj babilonski zoper vas in zoper to deželo?

¹⁹Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?

²⁰Zdaj pa poslušaj, prosim, gospod moj, kralj: Predte padam in te prosim, ne pošlji me nazaj v hišo Jonatana pisarja, da ne umrjem tam.Tedaj je zapovedal kralj Zedekija, da naj denejo Jeremija v vežo straže; in dajali so mu hleb kruha na dan iz ulice pekovske, dokler ni bil ves kruh použit v mestu. Tako je ostal Jeremija v veži straže.

²⁰Now please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication be presented before you, that you not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.

²¹Tedaj je zapovedal kralj Zedekija, da naj denejo Jeremija v vežo straže; in dajali so mu hleb kruha na dan iz ulice pekovske, dokler ni bil ves kruh použit v mestu. Tako je ostal Jeremija v veži straže.

²¹Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.