¹Tako pravi GOSPOD: Glej, obudim podirajoč veter zoper Babilon in zoper nje, ki prebivajo v njem, srcu meni se upirajočih.

¹Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind.

²In pošljem v Babilon tujce, ki ga bodo vejali in izpraznili deželo njegovo; kajti oblegali ga bodo v dan nesreče.

²I will send to Babylon strangers, who shall winnow her; and they shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her around.

³Zoper njega, ki napenja, napenjaj strelec svoj lok in zoper njega, ki se vzdiguje v oklepu svojem; in ne imejte milosti do mladeničev njegovih, docela pokončajte vso vojsko njegovo!

³Against him who bends let the archer bend his bow, and against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail: and don’t spare her young men; utterly destroy all her army.

⁴In prebodeni bodo padali v deželi Kaldejski in presunjeni po ulicah njegovih.

⁴They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.

⁵Kajti Izrael in Juda nista kot vdova, zapuščena od Boga svojega, od GOSPODA nad vojskami; ker je njih dežela polna krivice proti Svetemu Izraelovemu.

⁵For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of Yahweh of Armies; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

⁶Bežite iz sredi Babilona in rešite vsak življenje svoje, ne bodite pokončani zavoljo krivice njegove; zakaj to je čas maščevanja GOSPODOVEGA: kar je zaslužil, mu povrača.

⁶Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; don’t be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.

⁷Zlata čaša je bil Babilon v roki GOSPODOVI, ki je upijanila vso zemljo; od vina njegovega so pili narodi, zato so zbesneli narodi.

⁷Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh’s hand, who made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

⁸Mahoma pade Babilon in bo potrt. Tulite nad njim, oskrbite mazilo za bolečino njegovo, če morebiti ozdravi!

⁸Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

⁹„Hoteli smo ozdraviti Babilon, a ni bil ozdravljen. Zapustite ga in pojdimo vsak v svojo deželo; kajti do nebes sega sodba njegova in vzdiguje se do najvišjih oblakov.“

⁹We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go everyone into his own country; for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

¹⁰Na dan je spravil GOSPOD pravičnost našo; pridite in pripovedujmo na Sionu delo GOSPODA, Boga našega.

¹⁰Yahweh has brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.

¹¹Le ostrite pšice, primite za ščite! GOSPOD je zbudil duha kraljev medskih, ker je zoper Babilon namera njegova, da ga pogubi: zakaj to je maščevanje GOSPODOVO, svetišča njegovega maščevanje.

¹¹Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance of his temple.

¹²Na zidovju babilonskem dvignite prapor, pomnožite stražo, postavite čuvaje, pripravite zasede! Kajti kakor se je namenil GOSPOD, tako izvrši, kar je rekel zoper prebivalce v Babilonu.

¹²Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

¹³O ti, ki prebivaš poleg mnogih vodá, bogat zakladov, prišel je konec tvoj, po meri dobičkaželjnosti tvoje.

¹³You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.

¹⁴GOSPOD nad vojskami je prisegel sam pri sebi: Čeprav sem te napolnil z ljudmi kakor s kobilicami, vendar zaženo zmagoslavno vpitje nad teboj!

¹⁴Yahweh of Armies has sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill you with men, as with the canker worm; and they shall lift up a shout against you.

¹⁵On je ustvaril zemljo s krepostjo svojo, ustanovil vesoljni svet z modrostjo svojo in z razumnostjo svojo razpel nebesa.

¹⁵He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:

¹⁶Ko se on oglaša, šum vodá na nebu vrši; on pripeljava sopare od kraja zemlje, dela bliske za dež in izpušča veter iz zakladov svojih.

¹⁶when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

¹⁷Nespameten je postal vsak, brez spoznanja; vsak zlatar se osramočuje s podobo; kajti lažniva je ulita podoba njegova in sape ni v njih nobeni.

¹⁷Every man has become brutish without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

¹⁸Ničemurnost so, delo, smeha vredno; tisti čas, ko bodo obiskani, poginejo.

¹⁸They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

¹⁹Njim ni podoben on, ki je Jakobov delež, kajti on je upodobil vse; in Izrael je rod posesti njegove: GOSPOD nad vojskami je ime njegovo.

¹⁹The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

²⁰Kladivo si mi, bojno orožje; in s teboj razbijem narode in s teboj pogubim kraljestva

²⁰You are my battle axe and weapons of war: and with you will I break in pieces the nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms;

²¹in s teboj zdrobim konja z jezdecem njegovim in s teboj raztrupam voz in njega, ki sedi na njem,

²¹and with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider;

²²in s teboj raztrupam moža in ženo in raztrupam s teboj starčka in dečka ter raztrupam s teboj mladeniča in devico

²²and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein; and with you will I break in pieces man and woman; and with you will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with you will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin;

²³in s teboj razkropim pastirja in čredo njegovo in s teboj raztrupam kmetovalca z volmi njegovimi v jarmu ter razbijem s teboj deželne poglavarje in namestnike.

²³and with you will I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; and with you will I break in pieces the farmer and his yoke; and with you will I break in pieces governors and deputies.

²⁴In povrnem Babilonu in vsem prebivalcem v Kaldeji vsa njih huda dela, ki so jih storili na Sionu, pred očmi vašimi, govori GOSPOD.

²⁴I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says Yahweh.

²⁵Glej, jaz sem zoper tebe, o gora pogubnica, ki pogubljaš vso zemljo, govori GOSPOD; in iztegnem roko zoper tebe in te zvalim s skalovja in te izpremenim v goro pogorišča,

²⁵Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain, says Yahweh, which destroys all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand on you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.

²⁶da ne dobé iz tebe kamena za vogel ali kamena za podzidje, kajti puščava bodeš vekomaj, govori GOSPOD.

²⁶They shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate for ever, says Yahweh.

²⁷Dvignite prapor v deželi, trobite na trobento med narodi, pripravite zoper njega narode, skličite proti njemu kraljestva Ararat, Mini in Askenaz! postavite zoper njega vojskovodjo, pripeljite konj gori kakor grozovitih kobilic!

²⁷Set up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker worm.

²⁸Pripravite zoper njega narode, kralje iz Medije, njene deželne poglavarje in namestnike in vso deželo njih gospostva!

²⁸Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies, and all the land of their dominion.

²⁹In potrese se zemlja in začuti bolečine; kajti izpolnijo se misli GOSPODOVE, da se opustoši dežela Babilonska, da nihče ne bo prebival v njej.

²⁹The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

³⁰Nehajo se bojevati korenjaki v Babilonu, sedeli bodo v trdnjavah, opeša jim moč, kakor ženske bodo; sovražniki zažgo prebivališča njegova, starejo zapahe njegove.

³⁰The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might has failed; they are become as women: her dwelling places are set on fire; her bars are broken.

³¹Tekač bo tekel tekaču naproti in oznanjevalec srečaval oznanjevalca, naznanit kralju babilonskemu, da je mesto njegovo vzeto od kraja do konca

³¹One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:

³²in da so celo tesni vhodi zasedeni; tudi luže so izsušili z ognjem, in vojščaki so izbegani.

³²and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened.

³³Kajti tako pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami, Bog Izraelov: Hči babilonska je kakor gumno ob času, ko se s topotanjem utrjuje; še malo, potem ji pride žetve čas.

³³For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.

³⁴Žrl me je, zatiral me je Nebukadnezar, kralj babilonski, naredil me je kakor prazno posodo, požiral me je kakor zmaj, napolnil si je trebuh z mojimi slaščicami, odpahnil me je.

³⁴Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.

³⁵Krivica, ki se je godila meni in mesu mojemu, pridi nad Babilon, govori naj prebivalka sionska; in kri moja pridi nad prebivalce kaldejske, govori naj Jeruzalem.

³⁵The violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

³⁶Zatorej pravi tako GOSPOD: Glej, jaz se potegnem za pravdo tvojo in izvršim maščevanje zate; in posušim morje njegovo in storim, da usahnejo studenci njegovi.

³⁶Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

³⁷In Babilon bode v kupe kamenja, prebivališče šakalov, v grozo in žvižganje brez prebivalca.

³⁷Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

³⁸Enako kakor mladi levi rjovejo, kriče kakor levov mladiči.

³⁸They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions’ cubs.

³⁹Ko se ugrejejo, jim napravim pitje in jih upijanim, da se bodo razveseljevali in potem zaspali večno spanje, in ne zbude se, govori GOSPOD.

³⁹When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says Yahweh.

⁴⁰Popeljem jih kakor jagnjeta v klanje, kakor ovne s kozliči. –

⁴⁰I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.

⁴¹Kako je vzet Šešak in zasedena vse zemlje hvala! Kako je postal Babilon predmet strmenju med narodi.

⁴¹How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

⁴²Zoper Babilon je prišlo morje, bučeči valovi njegovi so ga pokrili.

⁴²The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.

⁴³Mesta njegova so izpremenjena v puščavo, v suho deželo in samoto, v deželo, kjer ne prebiva nihče in preko nje ne hodi sin človekov.

⁴³Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.

⁴⁴In kaznoval bom Bela v Babilonu, in kar je požrl, potegnem iz ust njegovih; in ne bodo se več k njemu stekali narodi; tudi zid babilonski se zruši.

⁴⁴I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any more to him: yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

⁴⁵Pojdite ven iz njega, ljudstvo moje, in rešite vsak dušo svojo izpred goreče jeze GOSPODOVE!

⁴⁵My people, go away from the midst of her, and save yourselves every man from the fierce anger of Yahweh.

⁴⁶In ne oméči se srce vaše in ne bojte se zavoljo govorice, ki se bo slišala v deželi! kajti v tem letu pride ta govorica in potem drugo leto ona govorica, in silovitost bode v deželi, vladar zoper vladarja.

⁴⁶Don’t let your heart faint, neither fear for the news that shall be heard in the land; for news shall come one year, and after that in another year shall come news, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

⁴⁷Zato glej, pridejo dnevi, ko bom strahoval izrezane podobe babilonske, in vsa dežela njegova bo osramočena in vsi prebodeni njegovi padejo sredi njega.

⁴⁷Therefore behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment on the engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be confounded; and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

⁴⁸Tedaj bodo veselo pela nad Babilonom nebesa in zemlja in kar je na njih; kajti od severa pridejo k njemu razdejalci, govori GOSPOD.

⁴⁸Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come to her from the north, says Yahweh.

⁴⁹Kakor je Babilon povzročil, da so padli prebodeni Izraelovi, tako padejo ob Babilonu prebodeni vse zemlje. –

⁴⁹As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land.

⁵⁰O vi, ki ste ubežali meču, umeknite se, ne stojte! spominjajte se iz daljave GOSPODA in Jeruzalem vam pridi na misel! –

⁵⁰You who have escaped the sword, go, don’t stand still; remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

⁵¹Sram nas je, ker slišimo očitanje; nečast pokriva obličje naše, ker tujci so vdrli v svetinje hiše GOSPODOVE. –

⁵¹We are confounded, because we have heard reproach; confusion has covered our faces: for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh’s house.

⁵²Zato glej, pridejo dnevi, ko bom strahoval izrezane podobe njegove, in po vsej deželi njegovi bodo vpili prebodeni.

⁵²Therefore behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will execute judgment on her engraved images; and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

⁵³Tudi ko bi se Babilon vzdignil do neba, tudi ko bi nedostopno storil višino trdnjave svoje, od mene pridejo razdejalci zoper njega, pravi GOSPOD.

⁵³Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come to her, says Yahweh.

⁵⁴Čuj! vpitje od Babilona in velik poboj se sliši od dežele Kaldejcev sem!

⁵⁴The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

⁵⁵zakaj GOSPOD razdeva Babilon in preganja iz njega velike množice hrum; in bobne njih valovi kakor mnoge vode, razlega se šum njih glasú.

⁵⁵For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered:

⁵⁶Kajti pride zoper njega, zoper Babilon, razdejalec, ujeti bodo junaki njegovi, zdrobljeni vsi loki njegovi, zakaj Bog mogočni, ki obilo povrača, je GOSPOD, on gotovo povrne.

⁵⁶for the destroyer has come on her, even on Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for Yahweh is a God of recompenses, he will surely requite.

⁵⁷In upijanim kneze njegove in modrijane njegove, deželne poglavarje in namestnike in junake njegove; in spali bodo večno spanje in se ne prebude, govori Kralj, ki mu je ime GOSPOD nad vojskami.

⁵⁷I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.

⁵⁸Tako pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami: Zidovje Babilona preširoko bo docela razrušeno in visoka vrata njegova se požgo z ognjem. In tako se trudijo ljudstva za nič in narodi za ogenj, in pešajo.

⁵⁸Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.

⁵⁹Beseda, ki jo je ukazal prorok Jeremija Seraju, sinu Nerija, sina Mahsejevega, ko je šel z Zedekijem, kraljem Judovim, v Babilon v četrtem letu njegovega kraljevanja; bil je pa Seraja knez posteljnik.

⁵⁹The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief quartermaster.

⁶⁰In Jeremija je zapisal vse gorje, ki pride nad Babilon, v eno knjigo, vse te besede, ki so pisane zoper Babilon.

⁶⁰Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.

⁶¹In Jeremija je velel Seraju: Ko prideš v Babilon, pazi, da prečitaš vse te besede

⁶¹Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words,

⁶²in porečeš: O GOSPOD, ti si govoril zoper ta kraj, da ga pokončaš, tako da ne bode v njem prebivalca niti izmed ljudi niti izmed živali, temuč da bode puščava vekomaj.

⁶²and say, Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor animal, but that it shall be desolate forever.

⁶³Nato ko prečitaš to knjigo, ji priveži kamen in jo vrzi sredi Evfratain reci: Tako se pogrezne Babilon in se ne vzdigne spričo nesreče, ki jo pripeljem zoper njega; in opešajo. Dotlej besede Jeremijeve.

⁶³It shall be, when you have made an end of reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates:

⁶⁴in reci: Tako se pogrezne Babilon in se ne vzdigne spričo nesreče, ki jo pripeljem zoper njega; in opešajo. Dotlej besede Jeremijeve.

⁶⁴and you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.