¹Elisha said, “Hear the word of Yahweh. Thus says Yahweh, ‘Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’”

¹Elizej reče tada: "Čuj riječ Jahvinu! Ovako veli Jahve: 'Sutra će u ovo doba na vratima Samarije biti mjera finoga brašna za šekel, a dvije mjere ječmenog brašna za šekel.'"

²Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?” He said, “Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it.”

²Dvorjanik, o čiju se ruku kralj oslanjao, odgovori čovjeku Božjemu: "I kad bi Jahve načinio okna na nebu, bi li to moglo biti?" A Elizej odgovori: "Vidjet ćeš svojim očima, ali nećeš jesti."

³Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said one to another, “Why do we sit here until we die?

³A pred gradskim vratima bijahu četiri gubavca; rekoše oni jedan drugome: "Zašto stojimo ovdje i očekujemo smrt?

⁴If we say, ‘We will enter into the city,’ then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die.”

⁴Ako odlučimo ući u grad, glad je u gradu te ćemo ondje umrijeti; ako ostanemo ovdje, opet ćemo umrijeti. Hajde! Pobjegnimo i prijeđimo u aramejski tabor: ako nas ostave na životu, živjet ćemo; ako nas ubiju, pa dobro: umrijet ćemo!"

⁵They rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians. When they had come to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no man there.

⁵U sumračje, ustavši, krenuše odande u aramejski tabor. Stigoše do ruba tabora, i gle - ondje nikoga!

⁶For the Lord The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” had made the army of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great army: and they said one to another, Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come on us.

⁶Jer je Jahve učinio te se u taboru aramejskom čula buka kola i konja, buka goleme vojske. I govorili su među sobom: "Eto, kralj Izraela najmio je protiv nas kraljeve hetitske i kraljeve egipatske da krenu protiv nas."

⁷Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.

⁷Digli su se i pobjegli u sumraku: ostavili su svoje šatore, konje i magarce, sav tabor kakav bijaše. Pobjegli su da iznesu živu glavu.

⁸When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drink, and carried there silver, and gold, and clothing, and went and hid it. Then they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried there also, and went and hid it.

⁸Kad su gubavci, dakle, došli do ruba tabora, uvukoše se u jedan šator. Pošto su se najeli i napili, uzeše odande srebro, zlato i haljine pa odoše da ih sakriju. Vratiše se onda pa uđoše u drugi šator: uzeše plijen iz njega te odoše i sakriše ga.

⁹Then they said one to another, “We aren’t doing right. This day is a day of good news, and we keep silent. If we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come, let us go and tell the king’s household.”

⁹Rekoše tada jedan drugome: "Ne smijemo tako raditi. Današnji je dan pun dobrih vijesti, a mi šutimo. Ako dočekamo jutro, bit ćemo krivi. Zato pođimo! Javimo dvoru novost."

¹⁰So they came and called to the porter of the city; and they told them, saying, “We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were.”

¹⁰I vratiše se, pozvaše gradsku stražu i javiše: "Otišli smo u tabor aramejski, a ondje nigdje čovjeka ni ljudskoga glasa; samo konji privezani i magarci, a šatori ostavljeni kakvi jesu."

¹¹He called the porters; and they told it to the king’s household within.

¹¹Stražari viknuše i dojaviše u unutrašnjost dvora.

¹²The king arose in the night, and said to his servants, “I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry. Therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.’”

¹²Kralj ustade noću i reče svojim časnicima: "Ja ću vam objasniti što su nam učinili Aramejci. Kako znaju da smo gladni, izišli su iz tabora i sakrili se u polju, misleći: već će oni izići iz grada, a mi ćemo ih žive pohvatati i ući u grad."

¹³One of his servants answered, “Please let some take five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city. Behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel who are left in it. Behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel who are consumed. Let us send and see.”

¹³A jedan između njegovih časnika odgovori: "Neka se uzme ipak pet od preostalih konja. S njima će biti kao sa svim mnoštvom Izraelovim koje je ovdje preostalo. Pošaljimo ih pa ćemo vidjeti."

¹⁴They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the king sent after the army of the Syrians, saying, “Go and see.”

¹⁴I uzeše dva konja kolska i kralj posla ljude za aramejskim taborom govoreći: "Idite, izvidite!"

¹⁵They went after them to the Jordan; and behold, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, and told the king.

¹⁵Išli su za njima do Jordana; put bijaše sav prekriven haljinama i stvarima koje su Aramejci pobacali u bijegu. Glasnici se vratiše i obavijestiše kralja.

¹⁶The people went out, and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of Yahweh.

¹⁶I narod iziđe i uze pljačkati aramejski tabor: i bijaše mjera finoga brašna za šekel, a dvije mjere ječmenoga za jedan šekel, prema riječi Jahvinoj.

¹⁷The king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to be in charge of the gate: and the people trod on him in the gate, and he died as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him.

¹⁷Kralj je postavio na gradska vrata onoga dvorjanika o čiju se ruku oslanjao; a narod ga izgazi na vratima i on umrije, prema riječi što ju je rekao Božji čovjek kad mu kralj bijaše došao.

¹⁸It happened, as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, “Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria”;

¹⁸Dogodilo se kako je čovjek Božji rekao kralju: "Sutra u ovo doba na vratima Samarije bit će dvije mjere ječmenoga brašna za šekel i mjera finoga brašna za šekel."

¹⁹and that captain answered the man of God, and said, “Now, behold, if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be?” and he said, “Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it.”

¹⁹Dvorjanik je odgovorio Elizeju: "Pa da Jahve načini i okna na nebu, bi li moglo biti što kažeš?" Elizej mu je odgovorio: "Vidjet ćeš svojim očima, ali nećeš jesti."

²⁰It happened like that to him; for the people trod on him in the gate, and he died.

²⁰I doista, tako mu se dogodilo: izgazio ga narod na vratima te on umrije.