¹Nato pristopijo vsi vojaški poveljniki in Johanan, sin Kareahov, in Jezanija, sin Hosajev, in vse ljudstvo od najmanjšega do največjega

¹Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, came near,

²in reko Jeremiju proroku: Sprejmi milo prošnjo našo in prosi za nas GOSPODA, svojega Boga, za ves ta ostanek; kajti ostalo nas je malo od mnogih, kakor nas vidiš;

²and said to Jeremiah the prophet, Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes do see us:

³da nam pokaži GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, pot, po katerem naj hodimo, in reč, katero naj storimo.

³that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the thing that we should do.

⁴In reče jim Jeremija prorok: Slišal sem vas; glejte, prosil bom GOSPODA, vašega Boga, po vaših besedah; in katerokoli besedo vam odgovori GOSPOD, vam jo naznanim, ne zadržim vam nobene besede.

⁴Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray to Yahweh your God according to your words; and it shall happen that whatever thing Yahweh shall answer you, I will declare it to you; I will keep nothing back from you.

⁵In Oni reko Jeremiju: GOSPOD bodi zoper nas priča resnična in zvesta, če ne bomo ravnali po vsaki besedi, s katero te pošlje k nam GOSPOD, tvoj Bog.

⁵Then they said to Jeremiah, Yahweh be a true and faithful witness among us, if we don’t do according to all the word with which Yahweh your God shall send you to us.

⁶Bodisi dobro ali slabo, bomo poslušali glas GOSPODA, Boga svojega, ki te k njemu pošiljamo; da bi se nam dobro godilo, ko bomo poslušali glas GOSPODA, Boga svojega.

⁶Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of Yahweh our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of Yahweh our God.

⁷Ko pa je minilo deset dni, je prišla beseda GOSPODOVA Jeremiju.

⁷It happened after ten days, that the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah.

⁸Tedaj pokliče Johanana, sina Kareahovega, in vse vojaške poveljnike, ki so bili ž njim, in vse ljudstvo od najmanjšega do največjega,

⁸Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,

⁹in jim reče: Tako pravi GOSPOD, Bog Izraelov, ki ste me k njemu poslali, da padem predenj z vašo prošnjo:

⁹and said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before him:

¹⁰Če hočete ostati v tej deželi, vas bom zidal in ne podiral ter vas sadil in ne roval, ker mi je žal hudega, katero sem vam storil.

¹⁰If you will still live in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I grieve over the distress that I have brought on you.

¹¹Ne bojte se kralja babilonskega, ki se ga bojite; ne bojte se ga, govori GOSPOD, ker jaz sem z vami, da vas ohranim in vas otmem iz roke njegove.

¹¹Don’t be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid; don’t be afraid of him, says Yahweh: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.

¹²In izkažem vam usmiljenje, da se vas usmili in vam dovoli vrniti se na domača tla.

¹²I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land.

¹³Ako pa porečete: Ne ostanemo v tej deželi, in ne boste poslušali glasu GOSPODA, Boga svojega,

¹³But if you say, We will not dwell in this land; so that you don’t obey the voice of Yahweh your God,

¹⁴pa boste govorili: Nikar, ampak v deželo Egiptovsko pojdemo, kjer ne bomo videli nobene vojske, ne slišali glasu trobente, ne stradali kruha, in tam bomo prebivali –

¹⁴saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:

¹⁵zdaj torej čujte besedo GOSPODOVO, ostanek Judov! Tako pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami, Bog Izraelov: Če res obrnete obličje svoje, da bi šli v Egipt, in če pojdete tja prebivat,

¹⁵now therefore hear the word of Yahweh, O remnant of Judah: Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, If you indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to live there;

¹⁶zgodi se, da vas meč, ki se ga bojite, dojde tam v deželi Egiptovski; in lakota, katere vas je groza, vas bo preganjala tam v Egiptu, in tam umrjete.

¹⁶then it shall happen, that the sword, which you fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are afraid, shall follow close behind you there in Egypt; and there you shall die.

¹⁷In zgodi se, da vsi možje, ki so obrnili obličje svoje, da bi šli v Egipt in tam prebivali, pomrjejo od meča, lakote in kuge, in nihče ne preostane, tudi ne ubeži tisti nesreči, ki jo jaz pošljem nadnje.

¹⁷So shall it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to live there: they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring on them.

¹⁸Kajti tako pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami, Bog Izraelov: Kakor se je izlila jeza in togota moja nad prebivalce jeruzalemske, tako se izlije togota moja nad vas, ko pridete v Egipt; in bodete v preklinjanje in strmenje in v kletev in sramoto, in ne boste več videli tega kraja.

¹⁸For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath has been poured forth on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be poured forth on you, when you shall enter into Egypt; and you shall be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more.

¹⁹Govoril vam je GOSPOD, o ostanek Judov: Ne hodite v Egipt! Dobro vedite, da sem vam to danes resno izpričal.

¹⁹Yahweh has spoken concerning you, remnant of Judah, Don’t you go into Egypt: know certainly that I have testified to you this day.

²⁰Varate se namreč duši svoji v škodo. Zakaj poslali ste me h GOSPODU, Bogu svojemu, rekoč: Prosi za nas GOSPODA, našega Boga; in vse, karkoli zapove GOSPOD, naš Bog, nam natanko naznani, in storili bomo.

²⁰For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, Pray for us to Yahweh our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do it:

²¹In danes sem vam naznanil, a ne poslušate glasu GOSPODA, Boga svojega in vsega, za kar me pošilja k vam.Zdaj torej, vedite dobro, da umrjete od meča, lakote in kuge v kraju, kamor se vam hoče iti, da bi prebivali ondi.

²¹and I have this day declared it to you; but you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh your God in anything for which he has sent me to you.

²²Zdaj torej, vedite dobro, da umrjete od meča, lakote in kuge v kraju, kamor se vam hoče iti, da bi prebivali ondi.

²²Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place where you desire to go to live there.