¹Sedaj pa zberi čete svoje, o hči čet! oblego so napravili zoper nas; s palico bodo tepli po licu sodnika Izraelovega.

¹Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.

²In ti, Betlehem Efrata, premajhen, da bi bil med tisoči Judovimi: iz tebe mi pride tisti, ki ima biti vladar v Izraelu; njega izviri so od starodavnosti, od dni večnosti.

²But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come forth to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.

³Zato jih izroči stiskalcem do časa, ko porodnica porodi; in ostanek bratov njegovih se povrne k sinovom Izraelovim.

³Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.

⁴In bo stal in pasel čredo svojo v moči GOSPODOVI, v veličastju imena GOSPODA, Boga svojega. In bodo mirno prebivali; kajti sedaj bode velik do koncev zemlje.

⁴He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.

⁵In ta mož bode naš mir. Ko pride Asirec v deželo našo in ko stopi v palače naše, tedaj postavimo zoper njega sedem pastirjev in osem knezov med ljudmi.

⁵He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land, and when he marches through our fortresses, then we will raise against him seven shepherds, and eight leaders of men.

⁶In pasli bodo deželo Asirsko z mečem in deželo Nimrodovo med vrati njegovimi; in On otme nas Asircu, ko pride v deželo našo in ko stopi čez naše meje.

⁶They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in its gates. He will deliver us from the Assyrian, when he invades our land, and when he marches within our border.

⁷In ostanek Jakobov bode sredi mnogih narodov kakor rosa od GOSPODA, kakor dež na travo, kar ne čaka nikogar in ničesar ne pričakuje od otrok človeških.

⁷The remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples, like dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don’t wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men.

⁸In ostanek Jakobov bode med poganskimi narodi, sredi mnogih ljudstev kakor lev med živalmi v gozdu, kakor mlad lev med čredami ovac, ki jih, ko gre skozi nje, tepta in trga, in ni ga, ki bi otel.

⁸The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.

⁹Povzdignjena bodi roka tvoja nad tvojimi zatiralci in vsi sovražniki tvoji naj bodo iztrebljeni!

⁹Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all of your enemies be cut off.

¹⁰In zgodi se tisti dan, govori GOSPOD, da iztrebim konje tvoje izsredi tebe in uničim vozove tvoje.

¹⁰“It will happen in that day,” says Yahweh, “That I will cut off your horses out of the midst of you, and will destroy your chariots.

¹¹In razdenem mesta dežele tvoje in vse gradove tvoje razrušim.

¹¹I will cut off the cities of your land, and will tear down all your strongholds.

¹²In izničim vedeževanje iz roke tvoje in čarovnikov ne boš več imel.

¹²I will destroy witchcraft from your hand; and you shall have no soothsayers.

¹³In odpravim rezane podobe tvoje in poslikane stebre izsredi tebe, in ne boš se več klanjal rok svojih delu.

¹³I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars out of your midst; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.

¹⁴In izrujem Ašere, ki so sredi tebe, in pogubim mesta tvoja.In maščevanje izvršim v jezi in srdu nad poganskimi narodi, ki niso poslušali.

¹⁴I will uproot your Asherim out of your midst; and I will destroy your cities.

¹⁵In maščevanje izvršim v jezi in srdu nad poganskimi narodi, ki niso poslušali.

¹⁵I will execute vengeance in anger, and wrath on the nations that didn’t listen.”