¹Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel!

¹Počujte slovo, ktoré vám hovorí Hospodin, dome Izraelov!

²Thus says Yahweh, “Don’t learn the way of the nations, and don’t be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.

²Takto hovorí Hospodin: Neučte sa ceste pohanov a nedeste sa znamení nebies, lebo pohania sa ich desia.

³For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

³Lebo ustanovenia národov? To je márnosť! Lebo to vytne, strom z lesa, dielo rúk remeselníka, ukresané sekerou.

⁴They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.

⁴Okrášli to striebrom a zlatom, upevní to klincami a kladivami, aby sa to neklátilo!

⁵They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don’t speak: they must be carried, because they can’t go. Don’t be afraid of them; for they can’t do evil, neither is it in them to do good.”

⁵Sú jako palmový špalok tvrdý a nehovoria; musia ich nosiť, lebo nechodia! Nebojte sa ich, lebo neurobia zlého, ale nemôžu učiniť ani dobré.

⁶There is none like you, Yahweh; you are great, and your name is great in might.

⁶Nie, neni tebe podobného, Hospodine! Veľký si ty, a veľké tvoje meno v sile!

⁷Who should not fear you, King of the nations? For it appertains to you; because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like you.

⁷Kde kto by sa ťa nebál, Kráľu národov?! Lebo tebe to prichodí, pretože medzi všetkými mudrcami národov a v celom ich kráľovstve neni tebe podobného nikoho!

⁸But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

⁸(Ale všetci do jedného sú zhovädilí a sprostí. Naučenie čakať od márností, od dreva!

⁹There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are all the work of skillful men.

⁹Striebro, ubité na plech, donesené z Taršíša, a zlato z Ufaza, dielo remeselníka a rúk zlatníka; hyacintovomodrý postav a červený purpur je ich odev; to všetko je dielom umelcov.

¹⁰But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to withstand his indignation.

¹⁰Ale Hospodin je Bôh pravdy, je živý Bôh a večný Kráľ; pred jeho hnevom sa trasie zem, a národy neznesú jeho zúrivého hnevu.

¹¹You shall say this to them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.

¹¹Takto im poviete: Bohovia, ktorí neučinili nebies ani zeme, tí nech zahynú zo zeme a zpod týchto nebies!)

¹²He 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:

¹²Ty, ktorý činíš zem svojou silou, ktorý pevne staviaš okruh sveta svojou múdrosťou a svojím umom si roztiahol nebesia;

¹³when 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 lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

¹³keď vydáš hlas, povstane hučanie vôd na nebi, a pôsobíš to, aby vystupovali pary od konca zeme, činíš dažďu blesky a vyvodíš vietor zo svojich pokladov.

¹⁴Every man has become brutish and without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

¹⁴Zhovädnel každý človek natoľko, že nezná toho; hanbiť sa bude každý zlatník pre svoju rytinu, lebo jeho sliatina je lesť, a niet v nich ducha.

¹⁵They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

¹⁵Takí bohovia sú márnosť, dielom zvodov do bludu; v čase svojho navštívenia zahynú.

¹⁶The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

¹⁶No, nie ako títo údel Jakobov; lebo on je tvorcom všetkého, a Izrael je pokolením jeho dedičstva; Hospodin Zástupov jeho meno.

¹⁷Gather up your wares out of the land, you who live under siege.

¹⁷Sober ta preč svoj tovar zo zeme, ty, ktorá bývaš v pevnosti!

¹⁸For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel it.

¹⁸Lebo takto hovorí Hospodin: Hľa, tento raz už vyhodím obyvateľov zeme jako z praku a sovriem ich, aby to cítili.

¹⁹Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.

¹⁹Oj, beda mne pre moje skrúšenie! Moja rana je prebolestná. Ale ja som riekol: Doista je toto moja nemoc, a tak ju ponesiem.

²⁰My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth from me, and they are no more: there is none to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

²⁰Môj stán je spustošený, a všetky moje povrazy sú potrhané, moji synovia ma odišli, a niet ich; niet už nikoho, kto by zase roztiahol môj stán, a kto by povešal moje čalúny.

²¹For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Yahweh: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.

²¹Lebo pastieri zhovädneli a nehľadali Hospodina. Preto nerobili rozumne, a všetko stádo ich pastvy sa rozpŕchlo.

²²The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling place of jackals.

²²Hlas! Zvesť, hľa, ide, a veľký hrmot zo zeme severa obrátiť mestá Júdove na púšť, na príbytok šakalov.

²³Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

²³Viem, ó, Hospodine, že cesta človeka nie je v jeho moci, nie je v moci muža, ktorý chodí, jako ani to, aby pevne postavil svoje kroky.

²⁴Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.

²⁴Karhaj ma, Hospodine, avšak podľa milostivého súdu, nie vo svojom hneve, aby si neurobil zo mňa primálo.

²⁵Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name: for they have devoured Jacob, yes, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

²⁵Vylej svoju prchlivosť na národy, ktoré ťa neznajú, a na čeľade, ktoré nevzývajú tvojho mena, lebo zjedajú Jakoba, i zjedia a zničia ho a jeho obydlie spustošili.