¹Beseda GOSPODOVA, ki je prišla Jeremiju proroku zoper poganske narode.

¹The word of Yahweh which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

²O Egiptu. Zoper vojsko Faraona Nekona, kralja egiptovskega, ki je bila v Karkemišu pri reki Evfratu, ki jo je udaril Nebukadnezar, kralj babilonski, v četrtem letu Jojakima, sinu Josija, kralja Judovega.

²Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah.

³Pripravite ščite male in velike ter bližajte se boju!

³Prepare the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle!

⁴Vprezite konje in zasedite jih, o konjiki! in postavite se v šlemih, gladite sulice, oblačite oklepe!

⁴Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.

⁵Zakaj jih vidim preplašene, zavrnjene? in njih junaki so pobiti in begoma beže in se ne ozirajo – strah je povsod, govori GOSPOD.

⁵Why have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and don’t look back: terror is on every side, says Yahweh.

⁶Ne ubeži, kdor je lehak, in ne otme se, kdor je mogočen; proti severu ob reki Evfratu se spotikajo in padajo.

⁶Don’t let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.

⁷Kdo je ta, ki vzhaja kakor Nil, kakor reke se vale vode njegove?

⁷Who is this who rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?

⁸Egipčan vzhaja kakor Nil in kakor reke se vale vode njegove; in govori: Gori pojdem, zemljo pokrijem, pogubim mesto in prebivalce njegove.

⁸Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he says, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities and its inhabitants.

⁹Dirjajte gori, o konji, in besno drdrajte, o vozovi; in pridejo naj junaki: Kuš in Put, ki sučeta ščit, in Ludimi, ki nosijo in napenjajo lok.

⁹Go up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow.

¹⁰Ali tisti dan bode Gospodu, Jehovi nad vojskami, maščevanja dan, da bi se maščeval nad svojimi sovražniki; in žrl bo meč in se sitil in napajal z njih krvjo. Zakaj Gospod, Jehova nad vojskami, ima klalno žrtev v severni deželi pri reki Evfratu.

¹⁰For that day is of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

¹¹Idi gori v Gilead in prinesi balzama, hči, devica egiptovska! Zaman rabiš mnoga zdravila, ni ozdravitve zate.

¹¹Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain do you use many medicines; there is no healing for you.

¹²Narodi so slišali o sramoti tvoji, in vpitja tvojega je zemlja polna; kajti junaka sta zadela drug ob drugega in oba sta padla skupaj.

¹²The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, they are fallen both of them together.

¹³Beseda, ki jo je govoril GOSPOD Jeremiju proroku o prihodu Nebukadnezarja, kralja babilonskega, da udari zemljo Egiptovsko:

¹³The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt.

¹⁴Oznanjujte v Egiptu in oklicujte v Migdolu, oklicujte tudi v Nofu in Tahpanhesu! Recite: Stoj in pripravljaj se! kajti meč pokončava vse kroginkrog tebe.

¹⁴Declare in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say, Stand forth, and prepare; for the sword has devoured around you.

¹⁵Zakaj so ob tla vrženi vsi junaki tvoji? Nobeden ni obstal, ker ga je zvrnil GOSPOD.

¹⁵Why are your strong ones swept away? they didn’t stand, because Yahweh pushed them.

¹⁶Storil je, da so se spoteknili mnogi, da, mož čez moža so padli, in rekli so: Vstanimo, da se povrnemo k ljudstvu svojemu in k rojstnim tlem svojim, iz strahu pred zatirajočim mečem.

¹⁶He made many to stumble, yes, they fell one on another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing sword.

¹⁷Vpijejo tam: Faraon, kralj egiptovski, je izgubljen; zamudil je ustanovljeni čas.

¹⁷They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by.

¹⁸Kakor res živim, govori Kralj, ki mu je ime Jehova nad vojskami: Kakor Tabor med gorami in kakor Karmel ob morju pride kralj babilonski!

¹⁸As I live, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.

¹⁹O hči, prebivalka v Egiptu! pripravi si svoje reči za selitev; kajti Nof postane puščava in požgan bo, da ne bo nihče v njem prebival.

¹⁹You daughter who dwells in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.

²⁰Telica prelepa je Egipt; a obad ji pride, pride od severa.

²⁰Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; but destruction out of the north has come, it has come.

²¹Tudi najeti vojaki njegovi sredi njega so kakor pitana teleta, tudi oni so se obrnili, bežali skupaj, niso se ustavili; kajti prišel je nadnje njih pogube dan, čas njih obiskovanja.

²¹Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they didn’t stand: for the day of their calamity has come on them, the time of their visitation.

²²Glas njegov je kakor kače šum, ko vstran hiti; kajti Kaldejci se bodo bližali s krdeli in prišli s sekirami nadenj kakor drvarji:

²²The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.

²³posekajo gozd njegov, govori GOSPOD, ker jih ni moči sešteti; zakaj več jih je nego kobilic in ni jim števila.

²³They shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it can’t be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

²⁴Osramočena bo hči egiptovska, dana v pest severnemu ljudstvu.

²⁴The daughter of Egypt shall be disappointed; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

²⁵Pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami, Bog Izraelov: Glej, jaz bom kaznoval Amona iz Tebena in Faraona in Egipt, njegove bogove in njegove kraljiče, da, Faraona in nje, ki upajo vanj.

²⁵Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him:

²⁶In dam jih v pest njim, ki jim strežejo po življenju, namreč v roko Nebukadnezarja, kralja babilonskega, in v roko hlapcev njegovih. Pozneje pa se bo zopet prebivalo v njem kakor v prejšnjih dnevih, govori GOSPOD.

²⁶and I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, says Yahweh.

²⁷Ti pa se ne boj, hlapec moj Jakob, in ne plaši se, o Izrael! zakaj, glej, jaz te ohranim iz daljave in zarod tvoj iz dežele sužnosti njegove; in povrne se Jakob in bo počival in mirno živel, in nihče ga ne bo strašil.Ti se ne boj, hlapec moj Jakob, govori GOSPOD, zakaj na strani sem ti. Kajti pokončanje napravim med vsemi narodi, kamor sem te pregnal; s teboj pa ne napravim pokončanja, ampak strahoval te bom zmerno, a te ne pustim čisto brez kazni.

²⁷But don’t you be afraid, Jacob my servant, neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.

²⁸Ti se ne boj, hlapec moj Jakob, govori GOSPOD, zakaj na strani sem ti. Kajti pokončanje napravim med vsemi narodi, kamor sem te pregnal; s teboj pa ne napravim pokončanja, ampak strahoval te bom zmerno, a te ne pustim čisto brez kazni.

²⁸Don’t you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; for I am with you: for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you; but I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.