¹Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;

¹Beda zákonodarcom, ktorí vydávajú nespravedlivé zákony a pisateľom, ktorí píšu veci na ťarchu ľuďom,

²to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

²aby odtisli núdznych od súdu a olúpili súd chudobných môjho ľudu; aby boly vdovy ich korisťou, a siroty plienia.

³What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

³Nuž čože urobíte v deň navštívenia a za búrky, ktorá prijde z ďaleka? Ku komu sa utečiete o pomoc a kde zanecháte svoju slávu?

⁴They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

⁴Nepozostane iba zohnúť sa medzi väzňami, a padnú medzi pobitými. Pri tom pri všetkom neodvráti sa jeho hnev, a ešte vždy bude jeho ruka vystretá.

⁵Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

⁵Beda Assúrovi, prútu môjho hnevu, a palicou je on v ich ruke, palicou môjho rozhnevania.

⁶I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

⁶Pošlem ho na podlý národ pokrytecký: prikážem mu o ľude svojej prchlivosti, aby bral korisť a plienil plen a aby spôsobil to, že by šliapali po ňom ako po blate ulíc.

⁷However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.

⁷Ale on tak nedumá, a jeho srdce to tak nemyslí; ale v jeho srdci je myseľ zahladiť a vyplieniť národov nie málo.

⁸For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings?

⁸Lebo hovorí: Či nie sú moje kniežatá všetky dovedna kráľmi?

⁹Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?”

⁹Či nie je Kalno jako Karchemiš? Či nie je Chamat ako Arpad? A či nie je Samária ako Damašek?

¹⁰As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

¹⁰Ako našla moja ruka kráľovstvá modiel, ktorých rytiny boly predsa nad rytiny Jeruzalema a Samárie,

¹¹shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

¹¹či tedy, jako som učinil Samárii a jej modlám, neučiním tak i Jeruzalemu a jeho obrazom?

¹²Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his haughty looks.

¹²A stane sa, keď dokoná Pán všetko svoje dielo na vrchu Sione a v Jeruzaleme, tak hovorí: Navštívim aj ovocie vysokomyseľnosti srdca kráľa Assýrie a nádheru vysokosti jeho očí.

¹³For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.

¹³Lebo hovorí: V sile svojej ruky som to vykonal a vo svojej múdrosti, lebo som rozumný a odstránil som hranice národov a ich poklady som zraboval a strhol som ako mocný dolu s prestolov tých, ktorí sedeli na nich.

¹⁴My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, have I gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”

¹⁴Áno, moja ruka našla bohatstvo národov ako hniezdo, a jako sbierajú zanechané vajcia, tak som ja sobral celú zem, a nebolo nikoho, kto by bol pohnul čo len krýdlom, alebo kto by bol otvoril ústa alebo zapišťal.

¹⁵Should an axe brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

¹⁵Či sa bude honosiť sekera povyšujúc sa nad toho, kto ňou seká? Či sa bude velebiť píla nad toho, kto ju ťahá? Jako keby prút povznášal tých, ktorí ho zdvíhajú! Ako keby palica zdvíhala toho, kto nie je drevom!

¹⁶Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.

¹⁶Preto pošle Panovník Hospodin Zástupov na jeho tučných vychudlosť, a pod jeho slávou sa zapáli cele iste, že bude horieť ako požiar;

¹⁷The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.

¹⁷lebo svetlo Izraelovo bude ohňom, a jeho Svätý bude plameňom, ktorý zapáli a strávi jeho bodľač i jeho tŕnie, a to jedného dňa!

¹⁸He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.

¹⁸I slávu jeho lesa i jeho úrodného poľa, od duše až do tela, všetko vyhubí, a bude, jako keď sa neduživý rozplýva a mizne.

¹⁹The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number.

¹⁹A ostatku stromov jeho lesa bude taký malý počet, že ich chlapča spíše.

²⁰It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

²⁰A stane sa toho dňa, že ostatok Izraela a to, čo unikne záhube z domu Jakobovho, nebude sa viacej spoliehať na toho, kto ho bije, ale sa spoľahne na Hospodina, Svätého Izraelovho, v pravde.

²¹A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

²¹Ostatok sa navráti, ostatok Jakobov, k silnému Bohu, Udatnému Hrdinovi.

²²For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

²²Lebo keby bolo tvojho ľudu, Izraelu, jako morského piesku, len ostatok sa navráti z neho. Usúdená záhuba zaplaví spravedlivosťou jako povodeň.

²³For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will make a full end, and that determined, in the midst of all the earth.

²³Lebo záhubu, a to pevne usúdenú, učiní Pán Hospodin Zástupov prostred celej zeme.

²⁴Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, says “My people who dwell in Zion, don’t be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Egypt did.

²⁴Preto takto hovorí Pán Hospodin Zástupov: Neboj sa Assúra, môj ľude, ktorý bývaš na Sione, keď ťa bude biť prútom a pozdvihne na teba svoju palicu na spôsob Egypta;

²⁵For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”

²⁵lebo už len čosi málo, máličko, a bude koniec zúreniu, a môj hnev sa obráti na ich zkazu.

²⁶Yahweh of Armies will stir up a scourge against him, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up like he did against Egypt.

²⁶Hospodin Zástupov zobudí na neho bič a porazí ho, jako porazil Madiana na skale Orébovej, a pozdvihne svoju palicu na more, a pozdvihne ju, ako kedysi na Egypt.

²⁷It will happen in that day, that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.

²⁷A stane sa toho dňa, že uhne jeho bremeno s tvojho pleca a jeho jarmo s tvojej šije, a bude zničené jarmo pre svätý olej.

²⁸He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage.

²⁸Prijde proti Ajjatu, prejde cez Migron do Michmasu, kde složí svoju batožinu.

²⁹They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled.

²⁹Prejdú priechodom; Geba, povedia, bude nám nocľažišťom. Strachom sa bude triasť Ráma; utečie Gibea Saulova.

³⁰Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!

³⁰Nariekaj hlasne, dcéro Gallima! Pozoruj ušima Laišo! Úbohý Anatót!

³¹Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.

³¹Madmena sa dá na útek; obyvatelia Gebima budú ratovať a utekať.

³²This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

³²Ešte dnes v Nobe zastáť! Pohrozí svojou rukou vrchu dcéry Siona, pahrbku Jeruzalema.

³³Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.

³³Hľa, Panovník, Hospodin Zástupov oklestí zelené vetvi strašnou silou, a tie, ktoré sú vysokého vzrastu, budú zoťaté, a tie, ktoré sú vysoké, budú snížené.

³⁴He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.

³⁴A vyseká do okola hustú krovinu lesa železom, i Libanon padne od Veleslávneho.